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FATAL LANDSLIDE AT WEST POINT.

P.W.D. OFFICIAL DEPOSES TO INSPECTOR

Telephone 24071;

the next instant came intoimatones, and it was in the records mediate contact with danger as that three years before, in 1929, earth fall and blocked up the door-some small boulders had been re- way of the kitchen.

moved, the work showing that after

1 escaped through the window this was done the hillside was in of the kitchen," witness said, "and a fairly satisfactory condition.. sought for the boy immediately

History Repeated. after I had got outside, but could Going further back, to 1927, it

not find him.”

and

The houses in Yat Fu Lane were

The recent fatal fall of earth at

Mr. L. E. Longbottom, of the was also in the records that in that West Point was further investigat Public Works Department, pro-year a boulder became dislodged ed at the Central Magistracy yea duced plans of the site. He said and crashed into the rear of No. 17 terday afternoon, when the inquest that No. 12 was built in two por Yat Fu Lane. That probably was an isolated boulder and no further * rectangular on Taong Tack-hol, a 16-year-old tions, schoolboy, who was killed, waa con triangular portion. Information action was taken. tinued.

was received that the body of the Tseng Sin, the mother of the lad, lad was in the triangular portion, and mistress of a brothel at No. 12, and by mid-day of the following Yat Fu Lane, said that on the Sunday, suficient shoring was put up day afternoon in qucation she was to enable the earth to be removed. out worshipping at a near-by hill-

The body was recovered in the side shrine, leaving her young son triangular portion, to which access at their home at No. 15, Yat Fu was obtained from within the Lane, at his books, and her husband rectangular part.

on a sick bed.

40 years old. They would probably last for another ten years, but were in a very old condition, and three had bean actually rebullt.

"Under our present laws," gald witness, we should not allow. houses to be built within such close proximity to the hillside."

Further questions by Mr. T. M. A Previous Fall,

Hazlerigg, Assistant Crown On her return, the inmates in-

(appearing for Referring to Departmental re-Solicitor formed her that there had been a

Bon was cords, witness found that the last Military authorities), elicited the collapse and that her missing. She saw her husband inspection of the hillside was made fact that some of the houses in the being taken away to Hospital In only two days prior to the mishap, lane were built practically flush this being as the result of a fall of against the hillside, and in some an ambulance.

the

Lam Pui, who described himself earth which occurred in July at the cases actually formed retaining as a goldsmith, living at No. 13, back of No. 574; Queen's Road walls to a height, at one point, of aald ho saw the boy run out on the West. On that previous occasion, ten feet.

Witness agreed that the con- first signs of 'danger to warn his the Assistant Director of Public mother in the brothel next door. Works got into communication with clusion was made absolute that the China Individual vio originally formed The boy had disappeared within the the Headquarters of the doorway when the earth came down Military Command, within and blocked up that end of the lane. He himself retreated within the kitchen, together with other inmates, and escaped through window.

Paid Seant Attention.

whose the site for those houses, had cut property was located the starting into the tol of the hill, point of the slide.

WAS At that inspection, witness

a accompanied by Colonel Marsden,

Nobody to Blame.

After the Coroner had summed

R. E. The inspection started from up the evidence, the jury (compria- No. 574 and was carried out along ing Mesara. E. Docherty, foreman, the whole top of the hillside, the P. M. Jack and Shuk-chuen), re-

Pat Sam, on amah employed in result being that they had no ap- turned a verdict of "Death by the brothel at No. 12, claimed to prehension of any further fall then. Misadventure."

They added the following rider. have seen the last of the lad as he The spot overlooking Yat Fu Lane came into the kitchen and said that was also included, and considered We consider that all precautions She not to be in any immediate danger. were taken previous to the slip, and the hillside was coming down.

The hillside above Yat Fu Lane that it was unforeseen. Wo paid scant notice, telling him to "go out first as I have to boil tea," and was a natural slope of earth and sider no-one is to blame."

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