1927-08-20 — Page 6

40 Years of Progress

Synopsis of 1926 Report

New Insurance written -G$ 70,630,396,

Insurance in Force

Assets

Dividends to be paid

Policyholders in 1927.

361,166,647.

67,643,709.

SALIENT FEATURES

Record Volume of New Business. Bonuer Gain in Insurance in Force.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFH,

THE CHINA FASHION. WAR.

OFFENDERS:IN SILK"

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SATURDAY,

"SELLING THEIR SOUL FOR GAIN.”

TRAFFICKING IN INSURANCE POLICIES.

Women's fashions have become

I appeal for thorough going an important issue in the upside- Trade Unionism on industrial down Chinese revolution. Civil lines in our own ranks, exclaimed war has bred short skirts and Mr. W. T. Brown, in his presiden- bobbed hair. The new Mussolinitial address. last month to the Na- of North China, Chang Tso-Intional Federation of Insurance (the Peking dictator) regards Workers at its conference at Bris- them as symbols of Bolshevism tol. and has relegated them-on paper to the scrap-heap of obgolote feminine modes.

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There being no other official to whom the superintendent of police could hand on this mythical sym- bol of evasion, he gloomily evolved a list of regulations for rebellious womankind.

Ours is a national business- national in all its departments. It is dealt with by the legislature, not as a business conducted by this company or that this friend- ly society or that, but as a whole. The time le approaching when we may have to take some action with unions outsido the Federation. We have in the past agreed to meet with them at the joint con- ference and on other bodies. It is almost like giving a non-union member the benefits of Trade Union membership.

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Referring to the work of the industrial assurance commissioner Mr. Brown said:--I think we can take hold of the report and use it as proof of the argument we have often put forward-that notwith- They were warned by this standing allegations, made often police edict that the parading of in ignorance, the industrial as- "queer clothes" was first intro-surance business is conducted duced by females of evil reputa- well, and in as clean a fashion, tion. Dresses that revealed the as they other business in the arma above the elbow and the fegs country. above the ankle were stigmatised as "unbody véástments. Silk stock- ings, by reason of their thinness, were equally Larred unless cover ed by a skirt.

There are bound to be some de linquents in every business. As Trade Unionists, we should I think, deprecate strongly the Offenders were told that no ex-trafficking in policy holders' in- terests in the matter of the agent cuse would be accepted 1or viola- of one ehce secking to steal the tion of these rules of. dress. First offenders would be fined, business from a colleague repre senting another office. There and if they persisted in their would appear to be some difficulty, immoral ways they would be sent in determining when, or how, to prison.

such transactions come under the The result, as might be expect transfer clause of the 1923 Act. ed, is nil. There are just as many Evasions appear to be possible. shapely Chinese female legs-But an individual who for his and others not so shapely to be lown benefit, seeks to persuade a seen in the resorts favoured by client to allow the business with a semi-Europeanised members of the upper social circles.

Policemen who were informed of the new crusade, ostentatiously Took the other way. Uncovered legs and elbows travel with im- punity in the express trains be tween Peking and Tientsin and Mukden. The owners smoke garettes, and use powder puffs in public, and otherwise assert their full and free independence-Sir Percival Phillips in the Daily Mail.

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Once again, this time by Mr. Justice McCardie, at Birmingham Assizes, the legal obligation of the medical witness to divulge profes- sional information of a confidential character has been insisted upon. writes Barrister-at-Law in a Lon- don paper.

The medical profession has al- ways contested this point; but in law a doctor atands in exactly the same position as the layman when he enters the witness-box.

The position of the clerical wit- ness with regard to confessions is not so clear. Sir James Stephen takes the view that clergymen and priests have no privilege. One or two lesser authorities hold the other view. But the matter has never yet been decided by a court of law.

When Constance Kent, many years after her acquittal, confess- ed to Father Wagner, of Brighton, the murder of her little brother, the truth was revealed by that priest only with the consent of his penit- ent. Had Father Wagner been called upon to reveal the secrets of his confessional in the witness-box he would undoubtedly have refused, and we should have had the matter decided definitely one way or the other.

Certain persons, however, are privileged. witnesses. Thus a solicitor is not only privileged as to all communications made to him. by his client, but is definitely for bidden to divulge anything without his client's consent. This privilege has no time limit.

From it naturally flows the right. of a witness to refuse to disclose awhat has passed between himself and his legal adviser. There is an important exception to this rule, however. It does not protect the criminal or criminally minded.

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Trustees and mortgagees also privileged in certain cases to refuse the production of documents in their possession. Bankers are privileged so far as their books are concerned where they are not party to the proceedings and are called merely as witnesses. But a judge may order copies of entries in a banker's books to be made for the purpose of evidence.

No husband can be compelled to disclose any communication made to him by his wife since their mer- riage, and vice versa. And no witness need answer any question if the answer would, in the opinion of the judge, expose the witness to a criminal charge.

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