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JUBILEE ROAD

MURDER

SECOND MAN CHARGED AT SESSIONS

Submitting that the evidence was inadmissible and suggesting had and violence that threats been used to make accused con- fcns, Mr. R. C. H. Lim yesterday afternoon closely cross-examined the principal Chinese detective of Police Central Headquarters in murder cane, in which Lam Fook- loong appeared on a capital chargo..

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1933.

AUSTRALIA'S SHEEP INDUSTRY.

INTERESTING ADDRESS TO

H.. ROTARY CLUB

does the work better than with! blade shears, and more woot is taken off by the machines. Owing! to labour and other conditions the sheep owners engage & alcaring] contractor, such as myself, to take the, responsibility of finding suit- able men and conducting the shear-

owner

Some interesting facts concerning operations,

The employees of the ing the sheep industry of Australin were told by Rotarian Reginald bring the woolly sheep to the shear Walker, a director of the Adelaide Ing shed where up to a hundred (Australia) Rotary Club, in the men may be working. The con- course of an address to members tractor has the sheep shorn and the of the Hongkong Rotary Club at their tiffin at the Gloucester Build-

YOUR SAFEGUARD connexion with the Jubilee Road ing yesterday.

in EVANS' Andorpila Throat Pastilos. They keep ende si boy and giro rollel in cases of Cough, Catarch, Broa chitis, dla

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Yo Chelyke everyo where. Made in jesstand 10 A TUFTED' them kayacpook Threat lioELIAL

A Most Beautiful

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THE CRAHAM & SEDAN

wool pressed, weighed and branded rendy for transport by rail or water. The ahorn sheep are then Hon. Mr. S. W. Ts'o presided, returned to their respectivo pad-. and the following guests wore wel docks. Those paddocks are about comed.-Rotarians G. Boffa, of 10 square miles in area but the size Torino, Italy; S. R. Hawthorne of depends on the local conditions and arena Manila; Dr. C. W. Sanders; Capt. carrying

capacity. Some Whittaker, of India; Mesara, A. carry over one sheep to the acre, Bianconi, Consul-General for Italy; others less than thirty sheep to the K. G. Blair, C. Mycock; M. Sander-square mile. son, of London; J. W. Fisher, A. L. Landsbert: F. W. Vincent, of Port- land, Oregon: G. Haigh and A. Bates.

Over 100,000,000 Shorn Annually. After conveying the best wishes of the Adelaide Rotary Club to the Rotarians present,

Accused pleaded not gulity, and Mr. France outlined the case for the Crown. Ho said that the murdered man, Lam Kam-chuen was found dead on September 28

Rabbit and Blowfly Pests. laat year. Accused was arrested or November 8, following upon

The boundary fences are wire enquiries into hia movements

netted to keep out the rabbits prior to that date. It was dis-

which are one of the greatest posts. covered that he left his place of

About ten rabbits will eat as much abode at the Man Hing Cheong

as one sheep, and rabbits are in A hot, tullor shop, Queen's Road West,

Mr. Walker million in a good season. on the night of the murder, re- turned for a short time the fol- dealt with the geographical position dry summer will clean them up to lowing day and then disappeared of the continent and the climatic a certain extent. Another awful into the country. He came back conditions. He then said, in part:est is the blowfly, and a fortune The Industry I am interested in awaits the man who can free Aus- Home time later and worked t

Is the gastoral industry, sheep and trufla of the dreadful pest.

The shearing contractor can ar the shop until his arrest. The case for the Crown depended al-wool. Over 100,000,000 sheep are

shorn in Australia every year. The range almost continuous employ- most entirely on staten.ents made

usual methods of taking off the ment for his men, as sheep shear- by the accused to a witness be

fleece are by hand-power withing commences early in the year in fore his arrest, and an important

blade shears or by mechutical the north of Australia and Anishes point of the defence was an ob

means with shearing machines. To- late in December in the South and shearing tenm we do not use the former in Tasmania. A day jeetlon to this evidence.

method, except on small holdings or may be over 400 miles from a rail- or telegraph, but they are where valuable stud sheep are to way

picked and reliable men under the be shorn,

control of a competent overseer. They have their own cook and live everything. on the very beat of The cook could earn up to £15 per week and the rheurer up to £20 per week, before the depression, when against 29/3 he got 12/- per 100

pressero Aro to-day. The wool highly paid, but the work is hard and must be done properly.

Wong Lau, principal. Chinese detective at Central Police Sta- tion, anid he took accused into custody on November 8. He wan acting on the Instructions of the C.D., who required him to ques tion accused regarding the mur- der of Lam Kam-chuen.

but witness made a statement, did not take it down in writing it was not material to the

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Accused

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Witness left for Liffin, and next. that #aw accused, at 3 o'clock same afternoon, when he caution-

Some of our station properties are over 3,000 square miles is area (one-eighth of the area of Ceylon) and carry over 100,000 sheep in a good season. In the early days men employed in the shearing in dustry usually travelled on horse back or by buggy and they had some fine horses. After horse transport came the push-bike, then the motor-eyele and row the motor, car or lorry Is the means of getting across the country. Recently an port is reflected in the number of sheep a man can put through in a season, as no sconer Is one shearing shed finished than the men dash off to another several miles away and they will travel ali night to get through. Some men travel over 2,000 miles in a season..

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CLERK SENTENCED.

MAKING FALSE ENTRIES

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He asked accused a few ques tions and the man made a state- ment which witness took down,

read over to him and then gave to accused to rend over. The state- ment was not made continuously na witness was several times called away to attend 'to other business,

Threats Alleged.

In cross-examination by Mr. Lim, who Is appearing for the defendant, witness sald he could not remember which part of the in reply to his statement was questions.

Mr. Lim.-la It usual for Chinese detective to take a state meat

without * murder on a European inspector?--would not have done so only in this case I was instructed to do so by the C.D.1.

Did you not threaten accused uld take hold of his arm in the offer?- did not.

The Fuisne Judge (Mr. Justice Wood)-Are you putting these questiona on instructions?

Mr. Lim. Yes, your Lordship.

In reply to another question witness denied that he touched accused.

Mr. Lim-You gave accused a knock on the arm with a piece of ket a ¿cle docuita wood?Where could I

piece of wood to hit him on the arm. Where I sat was quite clone to the A. S. P.'a office with only a partition dividing us. would not even put my hands on any accused for $10.

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Did you give him a blow on the forehend before taking him into the European detectives' room?- No, I did not.

Dld you leave him in somebody cise's charge when you went away to timn-I did.

Do you know whether anyone of those in charge carried out this Assault on accused?--I do not.

Do you know if anybody else questioned the accused?-I do not know.

Were not the interferences in your examination of the accused made with the intention of giving him time to answer your ques- tions? That is not so.

Did you say to the defendant "You had better tell the truth

Aand accused nobody?"—I did not

ush the word "better."

The Puisno Judge pointed out that witness admitted he used the word "must." He also intimated to Mr. Lim that he somewhat held the view that the evidence was

Tinadmissible, but he would have

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In hear the rest of the Crown evidence and the references in law which Mr. Fraser had to make on tho point before deciding.

Mr. Fraser then quoted his authorities in suppert of the evi- VOIMAX 242 denco being admissible, and the

CABD was adjourned.

Payment by Results

IN CASH BOOKS Sentence of six months' hard labour was passed on Lee Chuen- Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage people pasting through the pru Company, by Mr. Butters at the perties are always welcomed in the Kowloon Magistracy, real Australian manner, providing afternoon, they are worthy of that attention.

yesterday

when defendant was charged on four counts of making The workers. "out back" are faise entries in the accounts of the naturally far away from police Kowloon depot. supervision and have every chanco

Mr. R. A: Wadeson appeared for to indulge in the favourite gem-1

explaining bling game of "two up," and sume-the prosecution. In times a lot of money changes hands, how the accounts were kept, Mr. defendant The great feature of our shear-I have seen two men get their cha Wadeson alleged that ing industry is payment by reques after six weeks hard work had tampered with the accounts of sults. This is remarkable in Aus- and one toss of the coin decided the lung Cheong and On Lee com- tralia, as picco work is not. per-who takes both cheques. Nowa-pradores for the last six months, mitted in any other industry, We

sensible and usually bank their being $100 and the other $90..

Defendunt pleaded guilty to all could never get the work done by however, the men are more the sum involved in the former case

A fast shearer wit earnings or send it back to their

counts. day labour.

eight families. shear

200 sheep in over.

Strange as it

may seem, black;

Sentence of six months on each hours, or about five sheep while one

sheep do not produce as much wool count was passed, the terms to run man shaves.

The woal must be taken off Im-ns white sheep. In an average concurrently. mediately after the coldest weather flock sheep will produce 10 lbs. of has passed and before the grass wool per head, and in 1928 this read, dust and sand can collect wool was at a great price.

Un-

in the fleeces. In drought time. fortunately values have fallen and over 90 per cent, which on a large however, the sand is there all the we await a return to higher values. holding may represent thousands

3 fair of lambs. time.

In a good reason with

Mr. Walker was thanked on the The advantage of the machine leverage rainfall. the natural in- shearing is that the average man crease in our flerks is sometimes motion of Mr. M. F. Key.

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