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FRIDAY, JAN. 15, 1926.

THE MINING PROBLEM..

(Continued from Page 1)"

correct.

cf the Company 7-Correct.

In addition to the deposit in the Asia, did Mr. May give any ins- tructions relative to these securi- ties and to yourself?-He ad is dressed a letter late to the manager of the Asia Bank request- And the stub of your paying in ing them to allow me to make the The Taikoo Club is holding its book, did it show nothing except exchange at any time, annual ball to-night.

the total paid in?--The total in Mr. Zoitlyn remarked that it was cash and the total in cheques, und unfortunate that owing to the both were totalled up. I was in-closing down of this bank they ha! terested in the main total.

not the latter with them.

Sir Henry Gollan, in comment-

noarest overseas coal markets. MEN, RATHER THAN WHAT YOU Britain's iron and steel man. CAN MAKE THEM DO FOR YOU.your paying-in book?-That ufactures are rapidly passing Broké Herford, from coke.to electricity, and overy effort of the modern scientist and inventor is directed to economis. ing coal and the production' of

The weather forecast for to morrow isN.E. winds, mode- cheaper and cloaner and vastly rate; fine to cloudy. more effective agencies for rais-

siyem ing power, light and heat.

The problem to be faced is one of the first magnitude. The miners claim that the industry ought to be nationalisod so as to eliminate, much of the prosent wasteful expenditure and upkeep

Further examination by Mr.

| Zeitlyn was by way to showing on this, said that It was in- It is understood that Sir James that Atherley did not know of advisable to mention a letter Jamieson, British Consul General the amounts of specified cheques which could not be produced in at Canton, is going Home on paid into his accounts. He was special leave, and that his place only concerned with the total of will be taken by Mr. J. T. Pra,

C.M.G.

H.M.S. Calliopa (Capt. M. Brock Birkett, D.S.O.) is due to arrive at Hongkong with reliefs on Jan. W, Isaacson) is due with reliefs

these amounts paid into his accounts and consequently did not concern. hiniself with the several amounts which made up that total. Atherley was then re-examined

falsified entries having been in-

the Court.

Mr. Zeitlyn:-The securities thus deposited with the Asia Bank remained with them until you took them out? Yes.

on mines that should be closed 1st. H.M.S. Yarmouth (Capt. B. on the allegation of a system of Asia (Bank?-Chartered Bank.

down, and also to provide for the

| equalisation of rates and condi- on the same date.

tions. They contend that the

Blanosburgh.

p...

troduced into the account booke of the Company by the compradore,

clear.

Where did you deposit them when you took them out. of the

His Lordship-Again?—Yes. Did you deposit them yourself in the Chartered Bank?-Yes.

Now, then, while they were sof

he was not think you told us Mr. Wong sald

International?--Yes.

A most effective calendar, bear-in regard to which he reiterated ownors gel too much money outing a finely coloured feminine/what he had already told the deposited in the Chartered Bank I of the Industry. On the other stuly, has boon issued by the prosecution--that hand, tho owners declare that the British American Tobacco Co. aware of the existence of such a he wanted to effect an exchange?-- mines are being ran at a loss on Express" cigarettes.

advertising the popular "State system. The monies lent; to him, Yes.

which were said to have been the When he told you he wanted to present production and that high

cause of this falsification, were effect an exchange, did you take wages and freight rates inako the Thoso interested in horticulture from the compradore, and accused them out of the Chartered Bank1- cost of coal so high as to limit its are invited to the annual meeting maintained that this was purely Yes.

of the Hongkong Horticultural natter of account between himself And you deposited them with the to the lowest possible Society, which is to take place and the compradore. That was

Given lower costs on the 28th instant, at 5.30 quantity.

I think those securities remain- there would be increased con- in Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and. CUSTODY OF Books,

ed with the International for some- Mr Zeitlyn:-Were there not time in August, 1924-Yes. sumption 'suflicient to absorb the Canipany's mard room:

two sets of books, one kept by the In August, 1924, did Mr. Park- out-of-work miners. These op- The following appointments compradore under his agreement, hurst arrive the Colony. Park-, posing contentions, together with were made by the Admiralty on and the other under your chilrol? hurst, if I remember correctly, was the complex problems of future December 14th-Commdr. I B.We shall deal with the hooka under General Manager for China?--Yes. T. Miles, to Hollyhock, add. your control. What were these Did Parkhurst know these se prospects, are pow receiving the January 12th), and in comniand books kept in your department?-curities deposited with the Inter- considération of a Royal Com-tundated). Cond. Ginner W. The cash book (Exhibit ), national Bank? mission provided aver by Lord Johnston, to Ambrose (December Bills Payable Book (Exhibit "P) Mr. Jeukin at this point jumped

17th

and the Ledger and Journal. Exp and interrupted:Mr. Zeitlyn it goes almost

cept that they were in your departs putting right in the mouth of without saying that the whole The death occurred in hospitalment ever which you were respon Atherley that Parkhurst remained |nation is eagerly looking forward at Singapore, last week, following sible, and you did not shirk this hore in August, 1924.. I was direc- to the report, because it will be managing director of Messrs. hooks? My Chinese book-keeper, this and he told me specifically an operation, of Mr. H. T. White, responsibility, who kent thoning my question to Atherley on One of the greatest problems tai

upon the discovery of some Robinson & Co., Ltd., at the age be faced by British statesmen formula accoptable to both sides of 59. He had been in Singapore First of all we will take the cash tember, 1924. Now Mr. Zeitlyn is And how are your books posted?] that Parkhurst was here in Sop- during the next few months is the that the nightmare of a nation-

for nearly thirty yours, and was book? The books of the Company putting in his mouth another future of the coal-mining industry, wide industrial dispute will pass Cotony.

one of the keenest golfers in the were posted from the deposit slipe month, August. and Router's telegrams of the

prepared by the compradore's de- Mr. Zeitlyn:For the purpose past two days on the proceedings

what want to lead to, News has just been received in partment, and the counterfoll et of of the Coal Commission give an The Fire Brigade.

whether it was Canton Trem France that Miss the Company's bank paying in I don't care

September, October or Novembar, early. indication: of the When the enquiry into the Leung To Ching, former student book (Exhibit "]").

Under whose custody wax Hongkong Hotel disaster takes of St. Hilda's, Great East Road,

Mr. Jenkin looked up the ques- fundamentally different view- place, we may

SIFC that holder of a Canton Government bank paying-in book-Under the tion from his notes, and said that points that will struggle for something will be said in regard Scholarship at the University of compradore's, except that during what he actually put o Atherley supremacy in the deciding to the perfonnel of the Fire Bri Lyons, France, has gained the the time that the bookkeeper would at the time was "Did anyone The opinion has been certificate, in her medical course, post his books for me, or rather know you had taken these securi- tribunals. The owners plead for freely expressed of late--both in Physics. Chomistry, Zoology, his cash books.

Hes out of the Chartered Bank and before the big Holel blaze, and Botany, and Osteology:

It is clear, is it not, that Exhibit put them into your bank" and inco-that there is 11 distinct

"H" was a book which containerAtherley had said "No." need for a much larger proportion

Mr. Zeitlyn (to Atherley):-You went told us that nobody knew when you

3ank. You mean that it was not

the retention of royalties, for the

| reduction of railway freights so

that lower costs to the consumer will stimulate the demand, and for lessened absenteeism on the

nway.

gade,

the

Q.

of Europeans in our fire-fighting the N. C. D. Nes un December count which to that extent

An Ichang correspondent of Payments to the Company's force. Those in charge of the 31, says: Sir Matthow. Nathan, the discharge of the compra leposited them in the International Brigade make the best use they ate Governor of Queensland and dore?—Yes, sir,

can of the material at their comformerly Governor of Hongkong, And with the exception of such 'nown at the time?-Yes. It was part of miners. Mr. Willams, formand, but this material is not al-has been very ill here, but is now occasions, when the bookkeeper known after they had been deposit. the owners, has evon gone so far together what it might be a cir- convalescent. He came up to required his paying-in book fed in the International Bank? as to declare that the unrest in cumstance which is hardly in bevisit the Gorgos, but unfortunate-making up the Company's cash. By whom was it known 7-About the industry is the result of a wondered at when we consider ly has not been able to carry out book that Exhibit "II" was always August, 1924, it was known to Mr. deliberate attempt by the miners little more than the wage of a good soon be able to return to Shang- is correct.

that many of the firemen get that part of his itineary. He will kept by the compradore?-That Parkhurst.

Atherley went on to state, in lenders to prevent the reconstruc-cook-boy. Apart, however, from hai

Coming to the question of the reply to his counsel;-It was known tion of the industry as a private the necessity of atructing a better

securities, Mr. Zeitly asked:to Mr. Parkhurst when he was enterprise. The miners, on the there is the equally important] type of Chinese to the Brigade,

Mr. T. G. Stokes, of Canton, You know that these securities checking up the office, and in the other hand, claim that royalties issue of a bigger leavening of the bus been installed Worshipful were deposited In the Chartered course of this checking up I pre- should be nationalised, and that Force by Europeans. In the old Master of Lodge Star of Southern Bank. You told us you tried to duced the receipt for these securi- days; many of the European China. The other officers are:-take these from the Chartered es. He requested that I should there should be no reduction in members of the Police force also J. P. M. Wor. Bro. J. L. Harvey, Bank for the purpose of enabling ret the securities from the bank the ratos" of pay now in force. did duty as fireman, and although S. W., Bro. A. V. Farmer; J. W., Mr. Wong (one of the guarantorso he could inspect them personally. Meanwhile, the nation is bearing this had its distinct disadvanta-Bro. W. R. Farmer; Chaplain of the compradore) to make an

After he had examined them we vent to the Chartered Bank and the cost of an enormous subsidy ges as a system (since no man can Bro. De Hoog: Treasurer, Wor exchange. You falled to do so; satisfactorily serve two masters), Bro. A. G. Hogg: Secretary Wor. you also tried to effect this pur-

hile there we left. these securities in the hope that the demand for it did mean there was a much Bro. C. FI. M. Rustomjee; D. of rose by means of another gentle or deposit. coal will increase before the more effective measure of control Wor. Bro. C. E. Watson: S. D., man? Did that gentleman go to Spring and thus allow of over the native fremen, especialis Bro. T. Wawson; J. D. Bro, A. the Chartered Bank to try to gelhartered Bank at the request of

since many of the police-fireinen Hoffmeister: Organist, Wor. Bro, those securities? Who was he?

I. Parkhurst?No. Neither had settlement between the owners were able to give directions in J. W. Bumbury; I. G. Bro: C. A. Mr. Blake of Wilkinson and Grist Parkhurst raised the

slichtest and the men or the old economic Chinese. Wo think the time has Dudden; Tyler, Bro. V. G. Mur tho Company's solicitors. Mr.

objection to my having deposited basis. But the main fact to become when the whole question of rell. Mr. Stokes has also beon Blake did not succed.

At what period of time was it

These with the International Bank. faced is that the demand is not will have to be thoroughly gone Bearer of District Grant Lodge that you and Mr. Blake made these the receipt which accused declared

the man-power of the Brigade invested District Grand Standard

Mr. Zeitlyn then re-introduced increasing in the catio hoped, for. | into, and if this is dono it will no of Hongkong and Southern China. Borts to get possession of the had no chop on it when he signed

The

serious and thought-doubt be found advisable to in- compelling fact is that Britian, add many more European fireman United

erease the personupl and also to

authorities to considor.

Preas

correspondent

securities from the Chartered Bank-Early in 1923.

Was it not that these securities

his

Did you deposit them in the

it. The word "received" was also that the word "received" was not added afterwards. It was plain on the receipt in the first place since. It could not be found on the

carbon copy,

"Were the charges at the Police Court numergys Wad Mr. Zeitlyn's next question:"

Accused: Yes..

as an industrial nation, is faced to the strength. As to the ways at Belgrado, and dulled from were ultimately laken out of the with the chronic decline of one and means of effecting these a recent exchange: Work Chartered Bank?-Sumetime about of its main industries. The reforms, that is a matter for the has been started on a monument April, 1923,

to the assassin whose shot started The block of securities which was heavy, persistent unemploy-

the world war. A national cam-en standing in the Chartered Bank

POWER OF ATTORNBY. ment in the coal industry has

War Memories-Wise and

paign was conducted all over was standing in the name of Gets said that his power of attorney Accused in answer to his counsel Otherwise:

Jugo Slavia to raise money for Brotheye. You got the amount in been largely responsible for the big increase in the country's development of sentiment this scription and sufficient funds Mr. R. A. May then Vice-President Company at their bank.

There has been a romarkable the monument by popular sub-April or thereabouts? Yes, when gave Hurts right to draw on let- ters of credit established by the unemployment figcres, and there past your against the continued were obtained to pay for anf the Company arrived here. are to-day very many chronically celebration of war anniyorsaries, elaborate marble. The assassin

and some people (a distinct min was Gabrilovitch who shot and President of the Company.

What is Mr. A. May now?draw on those letters of credit for Mr. Zeitlyn-And did you ever unemployed miners where, in ority) have even gone so far as to killed Apchduke Ferdinand un

your own purposes?—No," former years, there wore a fow deprecate the Armistice „Day June 28, 1914, and is considered

How was Mr. May able to get those securitie? Undor spasmodically unemployed. It is observance. Whether or not this by Serbians as the most important becoming more and more evident during 1926 remains to be seon war the Serbs omerged as the do- from, the Charter Bank, was

idea will gain a greater following shot of the whole war. From the Power of attorney

Having obtained those securities that the coal trade is declining There is mugh to be said for a minating race in the kingdom of

The four chargés now against and will continue to decline assano remembrance of our dead, the Serbe, Croats and Slovenes the exchange made with Mr.

Wong?--Yes.

you were drawn after the day fix- the years go by. Mr. F. H. Rose, fars might be kept green, but owe Gabrilovitch a great dobt once a year, not only that thair and they puturally feel that they

And the exchang was then ed for this hearing? Yes,

Mr. Jenkins-The charges stated M.P., an expert on the subject, also in order that we might pon-According to prosent plans, the elected of which My Wong was recently wrote that in a com-der the results of war and the monument will be unveiled with trying from early 1937-Correct, to be numerous, your, Lordship, paratively few years' time coal blessings of peace. But there is great ceremony on June 28 of After the exchange was made were six.

Mr. Zeltlyn: Embodying forty- certainly everything to be said this year, the twelfth anniversary where wore those aguritice taken mining would cease to be a major against resurrecting war meni-of the shot hoard round the to-The Asia Baking Corpora- industry in England and elso, pries which can only lead to world." Some war remembrancas tion.

Mr. Jankin:-Thore were six charges, where. The rapid development bitterpose and fan the fros of are distinctly unwise, and in that

By whom?-By M May, I ac-j

Mr. Zeitlyn (to witness) And of the motor ship and motor intor-racial antagonisms. One category we would fain place the companying him. tractor are not entirely account-following itom of lows, telethe Sarajevo tragedy. It were bet had the consent and active support advice of your solicitors?--Yes.

hardly knows how to take the observance of the anniversary of Was it not that the exchang. you reserved your defence on the able, for ho use of hydrographed a week ago by a ter to forget it entirely,

Mr. May, then Vre-President (Continued on Pads 7)

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