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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933.

TO-MORROW

H. E. The Governor of HONGKONG

will open the

BRITISH EMPIRE

FAIR

at 12 NOON.

Peninsula Hotel

The public are requested to use only the Hankow Road entrance from 11.30 a.m. til 1 p.m. after when all entrances will be thrown open.

Issued by the Empire Fair Committee.

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NOISY COOLIES

SHOP OWNER SUMMONED BY EUROPEAN

Lat Po, the owner of a Chinese rattan factory in the Cheung Sha Wan district, was fined $20 by Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, when he was found guilty on a charge of creat- ing noise sufficient to disturb his neighbours.

Mr. J. B. Prentia appeared for the defendant.

The complainant. Mr. W. B. Curtis, in evidence sald that he had a house and a penell factory at 60, Cheung Sha Wan Road, facing defendant's rattan .factory. On the night of May 6, a large quantity of rattan furniture was brought out on the road and olovon edolies, with a great deal of chattering and polse, started to pack them into bundlen, Witness telephoned for the police at 11.30 p.m. but the Coolien saw him doing so and im mediately cleared the furniture into the ground floor of a nearby house. When the police sergeant arrived twenty minutes later, he had to search for the coolies.

Witness said that he had summoned this rattan company on the same charge last year.

Mr. Proatia: Are you sure the defendant. Lai Po, was convicted on a summons last year?- I do not know,

Mr. Curtis said that the Hong- kong Chinese were the noisfest he had ever met. Perhaps this was due to their Hakka dialect, he thought, or perhaps it was just a habit.

Witness: They talk like wild people.

Mr. Prentis: Were these eleven coolics wilder than normal?--I cannot say.

Mr. Prentis: Suppose in your factory you received a contract to be executed by the next morning, would you work all night to Anish 1t7-I should attempt to fulfill the contract as quietly as possible.

Mr. Butters: Is the manu- facture of pencils a noisy occupa- tion? No. (Laughing).

Mr. Prentis pointed out that few Europeans lived in that area, and

conversation between: cleven coolles would not disturb a Chinese neighbour.

that

any

Mehar Singh, a private watch- man employed by Mr. Curtis, gave evidence that the coolies from the rattan factory had packed the the road near a furniture out on

lamp-post,

Mr. Prentls submitted that there was no case and that ordinary talk- ing cannot be called a noiso calculated to disturb. He thought that if a European lived in a Chinese neighbourhood and factories, he must be prepared to put up with the same noise us a Chinese would do.

near

Mr. Butters decided that the de- fendant had a case to answer.

Defendant then gave evidence that he had received a contract on the afternoon of May 6 which had to be executed by the next morning. His coolies, however, finished work at 10 p.m.

Mr. Prentis: Was there any noise 7-No.

Mr. Curtis: Do you always stop work at 10 p.m.?--Yes.

Mr. Butters then decided that defendant was guilty, and fined kim $20.

COMPANY REPORT.

PEAK TRAMWAYS TO PAY TEN PER CENT.

The Directors of the Peak Tram- ways Company, Ltd., will recommend the following allocation of profits for the year ended April 30, 1933, at the forthcoming annual meeting of share- holders:

Pay a dividend of 10% on

26,000 shares fully paid

**** $25,000 up Pay n dividend of 10% on

50,000 share $5 paid up 26,000 Transfer to Reserve Fund 0,130.70 And carry forward

12,406.03

$71.004.73

Transfer the amount at credit of Forfeited Shares Account, viz., $800.30 to Reserve Fund, thus mak

to bo ing a round sum of $10.000 transferred to this account.

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