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Phone No. 34008.

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Penang

Proprietress.

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Modern throughout and beautifully Situated

Kunnymede Hotel

Malaya's Premier Hotel

Food and Winos especially good

AFTER-DINNER DANOT

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1931.

The International Tourist Trophy Race over the Arda · Circult, near Belfast, waL

man Black, whore M. G. Midget car is soon passing the finishing post.

FREE PURCHASE

SCHEME.

DEFINED BY POLICE AS A LOTTERY.

SINCERE'S PLEA.

won by Mr. Nor.

BANK-NOTE.

one entirely dependent upon chance. UTTERING A FORGED But where the matter was depen- dent on ekill-judgment. foresight, or discretion, or containing an ele ment of dend certainty, it was not #lottery. He was not going to YOUNG CHINESE SENTENCED

нау that the scheme at issue called for a lot of skill, but he was going to

AT KOWLOON.

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enli evidence that, for the clistomers An admission by the defendant of the Sincere Company, the matter shortened the proceedings at was one dependent on their dis-the Kowloon Magistracy bo- cretion, judyment or foresight. He fore Mr. Fraser yesterday after- Of consideratite interest to bus would even say that it came a noon when a young Chinese, Kwan

certainty.

Chuis, was ngnin produced on the ness circles was the case which matter of dend

Speaking of the scheme, which charges of feloniously uttering came before Mr. Williams at the he said was an important one, as it forged one-dollar Straits Settlement Centrul Magistracy yesterday involved sales amounting to tens note and possessing two other forg afternoon when the Manager o the Sincere Company appeared to of thousands of dollars in a day, ed Straits Settlement, notes.

It will be recalled that the defen- answer a summons alleging that and was unique in the history of between the dates of Auguts 26 parterertal stores, counsel delined dant bought a pair of shoes and September 1 he caused to be it as follows: The board of direc- September 6, tendering a

forged 90 cents receiving

In printed or published an announce.tors gave permissio.. to his client note and

AR change. ment relative to a lottery, this to choose 14 days as the period of Hongkong currency

healthy condition Section 9, of the cheap sale. One of these 14 days This note was subsequently found being contrary Gambling Ordinance. No. 2 of was to be declared, by an absolutely to be forged, and Inter inquiries 1891.

fair procers, as a free purchase day, made by the Police revealed that The total cush takings from old the defendant had two other notes Bir. Somerset Fitzroy, Public Prosecator, apps ared for the Police, and new customers on these four-in his possession.

In admitting the charges yeater- with Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P. The teen days were to be added up for defence was conducted by Mr. Hin-the purpose of arriving at a fair day, defendant said the notes hail shing Leander instructions from average, and the day on which the been given him by a relation who

cash takings they necessarily had returned from Singapore. Messrs. Lyson & Hall.

His Worship remarked that he approached the average taken would take into consideration the led from day to day most close- would be declared a free purchase defendant's age and the fact that day. The benefit for the customer he had now made a clean-breast of from this one free purchase day the

first matter. It was his would of course be additional to the offence and his Worship did not usual discount of ten per cent, want to be too hard on him. allowed for cheap sales of which the

with the circumstances under which In his opening. Mr. Fitzroy dealt the Police took, action in ita defendant, quoted legal cita- tions

to the holding of a lottery within the meaning of Section of the Gambling Ordinance, wh

which held a person to have committed an offence who printed or pablished, or caused to be printed or published, an announcement relative to the holding of a lottery.

Mrs. Barrett, of the Hmphong Daily Press, who was called as a

present was one.

Defendant was sentenced to one month's hard labour, and in addi- that if there was an

Continuing. Counsel remarkedf

find surety of element of tion, ordered to chance in the case, there was also three months, making four months $250, or to serve a further term of

Sincere Company was out to give an element of dead certainty, The in all.

unconditionally, one whole

witness, deposed to an advertise- y's takings in those 14 days. The

ment

Li Shok, a police sergeant, stated that on August 27 he went to the Sincere Departmental Stores and there obtained two handbills, one in English and another in Chinese, which he later handed over to Mr. Murphy.

al

amouncement

The

ment relative to the free day purgineure Company, he was instruct-/pointed out that there was no aug- chase scheme published in thated to say, was one of the largest gestion of fraud on the part of the journal, and to certain account stor

storca of its kind in Hongkong and prosecution. The documents relative to this advertise posibly in the Far Enst He was was an invitation for people t; go instructed to any that it started as throughout the period of the sale departmental store in 1900 with and not confine their parchases to a very small capital, amounting to the beginning and to the end. $30,000, Ever since that date, the rebate was thus about seven per business had grown tremendously cent, while customers were given 10 per cent on the day of the par- that now it was trading with cupital which had grown to ten chase at the store. millions, having principal branches in Canton and Shanghai. Its or

anization included ilirectors who re leading business men of the Colony, and an uninterrupted spell of prosperity had been its record.

In indicating the lines of his de- fence, Mr. Lo dealt with the Public Prosecutor's reference to certain conditions which had been argued

having a bearing on the issue, but his own submission, he said, I would be that before they could find the scheme as a lottery within the legal meaning, they had first to dis certain if it had not for its object the carrying on of legitimate busi NOTS. Two points, consequently, had to be examined, firstly, whether the scheme was published by his client, and, secondly, whether the scheme thus published constituted a lottery within the meaning of the

ordinance.

After quoting various cases on

what constituted gambling, Mr. Lo mentioned that in the present case there was the absence of any ele- chance. ment of uncertainy or There had to be a loss to the com- petitor and gain to the promoter, the competitor in the present case and the pro- being the customer

The moter the Sincere Company. public had to be demoralised-by-the- scheme, before it constiluted n lottery.

Mr. Lo, before concluding, com- niented upon the high standing and rapid expansion of the Sincere Com pany and remarked that from a capital of $30,000 the company had grown to a firm of $10,000,000 in 20 years. This was due to the con- scientious and upright directors of the company.

Stood to Lose Nothing. Before putting by client into the box, Mr. Lo said that the witness would admit publication of the scheme, but that he would say that the scheme was a bona fide invita- lion to buy goods within a period in which there would be benefit to something like a 17 per cent, dis- count. The customers in any event stand to lose nothing whatever.

Mr. David Chen See, Manager of Counsel referred to the surround the Sincere Company, in the wit Ing circumstances of the case as leading to the conclusion that theness-box, explained the scheme, and case for the Police was one that bore out the remarks of Counsel re-

garding the benefits it conferred on In making his Worship to dismiss involved a matter of policy rather the customers.

the summons, -Mr.-Lo said that the than a breach of law. He pointed In reply to Mr. Fitzroy witness ingredients of a lottery were totally out that an incorporated company said that the particular free day absent and the advertisement was like the Sincere Company could not was not fixed day nor had it ever a bona fide invitation to the cus be prosecuted for such an offence.been fixed. The principle of deter- tomur. There was no cloak or blind

The Main Point.

mining the day was to total up the to cover up the nature of the trans. takings for the fourteen days and action. There was no suggestion On his advice, his client had ad-after taking the average, fix the that the company was defrauding mitted publication and all that the day which was nearest the average. the public. There was an element Police had depused to with regard Mr. Fitzroy: Unless you are a of sincerity in their intentions as to the conduct of the sale, in order canoy Scotsman and bought every they offered customers a further ten to get the main point at issue quick-} day you have a 13/1 chance against per cent discount 11 300 na the "Tree day purchase" had to be aban- by disposed of. Quoting from legal you? nuthorities, counsel argued that a Witness: Yes, but It's your fault doned. lottery was one governed by a dia- if you don't come every day.

His Worship reserved his de- tribution of chances or by lot, or Addressing the Bench, Mr. Loeision until next Thursday.

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