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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 20,

1938.

ENGINEERS TO MAKE BIG PAY

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DEMANDS TO GOVERNMENT

8s. A Week Increase, 14 Days Paid Holiday

London, May 1.

Demands are to be tubled for big improvements in pay and working conditions of more than 20,000 engineers in Government dockyards, arsenals and acro works.

Chief among them will be a flat-rate increase of 8s., or more, a week for all engineers involved.

They will also claim 14 days' paid holiday each and payment for Bank Holidays.

Other demands will be:

Revision of overtime arrangements to obtain unifor- mity throughout Government establishments; and

Uniformity of treatment for men on sick leave. The powerful Amalgamated Engineering Union, "key" or- ganisation in arms production, is behind the demanda, which were discussed at a meeting of its Executive and 40 delegates from Government establishments in Manchester yesterday,

Long Drought In Britain Ends

£10,000,000 LOSS Heavy Rainfall At

Week-end

London, May 30

Delegates represented workers con- trolled by the Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry, Post Office and Office of Works

To-day the conference will resume to draw up fuller details of the pro-1 gramune, and it may be decided fol Hrow over the existing negotiating machinery of

industrial The Joint Courvil and deal direct with Govern- ment Departments

After yesterday's talks Mr. J. ( Little, president of the A.EU, denied to the News Chronicle that the armıs With the new derryatids.

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FIGHTS LOUIS JUNE 22

Max Schmeling, German heavyweight boxer, waves a greet- ing as he arrives in New York for his bout with Joe Louis, at the Yankee Stadium, New York, on June 22. The big Teuton, who bent Joe in 1936, was confident he could do it again and regain the championship Ulir. "He taay not know it, but he'n afraid of me, deep down inside," said Mux of Joe.

SHOT

MAJOR'S £50,000 INSURANCE

Contract Not Enforceable: Verdict In Lords

self in a taxicab shortly before Ave policies of assurance for £50,000 would have lapsed,

"In ther just oppiilentions have been. Cattle have had to be fed as oi- made 1 half

Though they found that an, de in Pour Beresford, niece and ad- euke because there is no spring gLINGS various departments, and there have

ministrix of Major Charles Williat: furthers in most courses the hy been complaints about the time taken insurance company agreed to St. John Howlandson, who shot him-

And the to make a reply. We have had to pay on life policies for £50,000 crop las perished utterly frost which has returned togh! after wat months Even a year has gone cloudless night bus chesteryet

the by and then the reply has been un-after the expiration of one year, even if the assured committed fruit blossom and withered up the favourable

suicide while of sound mind, the House of Lords last week held that such a contract was not enforceable.

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opens on fury sent our many appeals. Thursday, was wrecked by the gate. ( One was prevented from landing It was replica of a paper built 482 passengers at Plymouth and had by King Henry VIII and 100 work- to contunte Southampton, says men took thire months to buil

Reuter.

This was because of the recognised cannot have principle that a man recourse to a court of law to claim benefit from his crime.

The court necordingly dismissed, with costs. an appeal of Mrs. Ames

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The append was against a judgment of the Court of Appeal reversing the deision of the late Mr. Justice Swift, who had entered judgment for Mrs. Beresford for €40,76, with costs.

AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY The respondents to the appeal were the Royal Insurance Company. Ltd.. and the arguments were heard by Lord Atkin, Lord Thankerton, Lord Russell of Killowen, and Lord Mac- millan.

The special jury in Mr. Justice Swift's court found that the major was of sound mind when he shot him- self, and the Court of Appeal based their judginent on the ground that suicide by a sane person is a crime, and that it is against public policy that any person should benefit from the commission of a crime.

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There was a provision in the policies WHY TAKE RISKS

that if the major dled by his own hand, whether sane or insane, within one year from the beginning of the assurance, the policies were to be vold. They had been running for about ten years at his death.

Lord Atkin, giving judgment, said that the only relevant defence plead- ed was that Major Rowlandson died by his own hand, whereby the policies became void,.

In June 1934 the major was insoly- ent. He had borrowed more than £10,000.

He was unable to pay the insurance premium, and obtained extensions of time. The Anel extension was 3 p.m. on Aug. 3; at about 2.57 p.m. on that day he shot himself.

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On ordinary principles of English law an insured person could not, by his own deliberate could not, by his own deliberate act, cause the event on which insurance money was pay- nble.

In the present case there was no doubt that the insurance company had agreed to pay, on the death of Major Rowlandson, the sum assured, if he died by his own hand, whether sane or Insane.

But the contract was not enforce- nble in law. Another question was whether the principle of public policy applled where the criminal was dead and his personal representative was seeking to recover a benefit.

He (Lord Afkin) could not think the principle was so narrow as not to include the increase of the criminal's esinio among the benefits which he was deprived of by his crime.

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