Mr, Marden raised a question hether the dumping occurred harbour limits, so Supt. Woodfiekt, of the River' Police, gave evidence that, although the normal police patrol did not go to Woosung,, the Harbour Master had control all the way down to Woosung and if it were necessary to enforce any of his instructions, witness, under} his direction, would go all the way to Woosuny Mr, Marden produced a map attached to the Harbour Regulations, fon which were marked upper and lower limits, and asked the witness} if, in ordinary conversation, he would -consider only that part of! the river between those limite as "the harbour." Witness said _he would, but seme further explanation was necessary. It depended on the! subject of the moment. For instance, there wore anchorages shove the upper limit and he did not fee! bound by the stated limits. He enforced Harbour Regulations both above and below them, under ths) direction of the Huirbour Master.
The Registrar said that would be against the company if the defence were based on the so-called limits, because the harbour obviously meant more than that. Obviously a person could not do just a9 he pleased outside the upper} und lower limits.
Mr, Marden said that he did not! press the point It' was only an' altern He also admitted that} wlarbage wae dumped in the river, but he wished to make a statement in explanation. He produced and started to read a long typewritten statement, to which Mr. Master cb-Jectod on' the ground that the force hed boo proved and admitted.
The Registrar said that the ment apparently was in miti and therefore he would permit Chinese Obstruction Mr. Marden therefore proceed: interposing several letters whic had passed between his firm and various officials and public bodies. He said that he understood there had been complaints of previous pondent on February 1, 1902. A son was born in 1902 and a daughter in 1912. Her husband was in the Chinese Maritime Customs and received a salary of Haikuan Tls. 475 per month. His mother died last March and left him between £1400 and £1,600. The daughter was living with the son, who recently had been paying for: her maintenance.
Tae Judge made a separation enver, the petitioner to have custody of the daughter, and it was directed that the question of alimony ard the maintenance of the daughter should be adjourned for further application. contractors dumping garbage: in the stiver. When his firm took over the contract they leased some land on the Pootung side for the purpose dumping and proceeded to do so. Then the owner of the land raised an objection and they leased otiaer land adjoining. Whilst they were operating on this they were visited by a person who said he was the leader of a gang of hooligans in the strict and they must be paid a fee or the company's employees would be assaulted. There followed articles in Chinese papers and the Chinese police ordered the company's men to ccace work, Later on a uniformed and armed party of Paoshan Volunteers seized 2 fleet of garbage boats atncacred in the river off the Tungkow Creek, after threatening the crews with pistols and bayonets. The crews were prisoned and though some were released after fines had been imposed, the rest were held as hostages. The Harbour Master declared
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