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THE JURY'S RECOMMEN- DATION,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1926.

obligation to make them put their wifes nador ground.

Referring to the guard wires, Mr. Turner was of the opinion that they would not bo of much use as the telephone wire might break at any 'junction and in recoiling come in An admission that the China Light contact with the electric wires

In conclusion. Mr. Turner naked and Power Co. Ltd., had not com

find that the necident | plied with the Ordinance, in its the jury to entirety, was made by Mr...could not have reasonably been ex- Strafford, assistant works manager,pected to have occurred. in giving evidence boforo Mr. J.H.B. Nihill and a jury at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday after- noon in connection with the resumed enquiry into the deaths of two pedestrians who were electrocuted in Shanghai Stroot on the morning of September 7 when a typhoon was at its height,

Safe System.

Mr. Lewis commenting on the ovidence of Mr. Tolian said that the latter had believed and he had no ronsons to disbelieve that the system was safe, They were entitled to presume as the Government had presumed that all the precautions necessary had been carried out.

It had been suggested by Mr Turner tlist the guard wires would have made no difference. Mr. Tol- Mr. Turner called Mr. Strafford, lan agreed to that. theory but Mr. who stated that he had never heard Cryan had disagreed Whore doc of an accident where the telephone tors disagreed, it was not for him wires had fallen onto the Chinn (Mr. Lewis) to stop in. Ho sub- Light, and Power Co.'s mains. For mitted that the system was per- the last few years the Company hadfectly safe. The Government had

Mr. D. J. Lewis represented the Hongkong Telephone Company and Mr. M. H. Turner, the China Light and Power Company Ltd.

hisen puting all the mains under

ground, although there was nothing in the Ordinances obliging them to do so. In due course the lines which caused the fatality would bare heca pút under ground also,

In normal conditions the overhead liges would be quite safe to the general publia Witnose agreed that the accident was caused by current from the Ching Light and Power Company's wires. In a ty phoon the overhead wires might be dangerous if any foreign mattor in were blown on them and game contact with the maine,

The possibility of such an acci- dont never come to witness mind, prior to the Shanghai Street inci dont The majority of the overhead wires had rubber covering under the braiding.

carried out their cables in the enme way the Telephone had done. They had acted as they were perfectly entitled to assume as if everything had been in order...

The Coroner summed up at length and said that during the course of the enquiry a great deal had been said about the statutory obligations of the two companies involved, Both were utility companies and the way they conducted their under- takings was of interest to the public. It was laid down in low what they had to do and what they were not to do.

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Bir Strafford had frankly admit ANDERSON'S

ted that that his Company had not been following in its entirety the statutory obligations that have been laid down. It had been said on many occasions that the accident had been inevitable and'a gimilar Same as Government Wires. ond had never occurred before.

That was

paint which the jury Replying to Mr. Lewis, witness said that there were no guard wirehad to consider. They would pro fixed to their mains or even the ably name with him that the sec tion relating to guard wires had Government's wires. The Govers been inserted and passed by legia- ment system of overhead wire was Inture as a precantion. It was trad identical to that of the Chine Light that from the evidence that neither and Power Company with no greater the Government nor the Chion or less precautions made by either. Light and Power Company had en-

Answering the Court, witness, saidtirely complied with that section that he was cognisant with the Ordinance governing the Company. The Company had not complied in ite entirety with Section 13 Subsec- tion 10 which in part states: In the ense of all overhead lines. in which the pressure exceeds 110 volta guard wires shall be provided by the com- pany owning such lines...

The Coroner: What precautions have been taken by your company to prevent other wires or metal coming into contact with your wires

Witness: In the ease of high tension lines we invariably instal guard wires or oradlon..."

The mains in question were of low tension? Yes.

The only precaution as far a low tension wires are concerned will be the Insulation?—Yes.

The

Verdict.

With regard to Mr. Cryan's evi- donce about what he called a de- fective insulation of the Power mains, Mr. Turner had pointed out that there was no statutory of liga- tion for them to entirely insulate their wires

It was for the jury to consider whether the guard wires would have Provented the accident and whether guard wires would provent the pos- sibility of a similar accident in the future.

The jury found that the two de- censed met their deaths by electro- cution caused by the Telephono with the China Light and Power. Company's wires coming in contact

wires, from which the current gen- orated,

Answering a further question Mr. Strafford 'said that he did not agree-

They added the recommendation: entirely with Mr, Cryan, when the that in future special precautions. latter stated that the braiding should be afforded at all places the Company's wires was not in where telephone wires crusted. sulating. During a typhoon it was They also auggested that the China possible that they would become Light and Power should always have fruity.

reliable inspections of their wires Thore being no further witnesses made from time to time and keep to be called, the Coroper said that them in such condition as would both the companies were involved provide the proper protection to the in the accident, he thought it would public.

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