The Registrar:—"If you do not register, the consular officials might not extend protection to you while you are not registered. The proper procedure rests with you. All I can say {is that an offence against the Order-in-Council has been committed, and I am asked to inflict a penalty; then 1 am finished. If you neglect to register, you will not be entitled to recognition o protection as a British subject in China."
Mr. Findiey:—"When I got the summons, I went to register, and he Gir. Heiney) refused to have anything to do with me!"
Mr. Heaney:—"In such a case we} would desire the defendant to resister afler this court action. We would certainly not refuse. We only refused In the first case because this court action was pending"
The Registrar advised Mr, Findley to take the matier up with the consular authorities, and ned tim $17.
Mr. H, H. Goff was not present in Court to answer a charge of falling fo register in respect of the years 1934, 1935 and 1996, Mr. J.J. Dawe, usher, called to prove service of the summons, said he delivered it to Mr. Gott on November 13. "He has £0 gotten it; he meant to come, I know.
Mr, Heaney:—"Our case is that Mr. Goff last registered here as a British subject on January 11, 1933. We have made enquiries, and he Is at present Shanghai, We have been unable fo secure any evidence that he has been away during that period.
An adjournment of a week was granted in order that evidence to this effect could be secured and brought before the court.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.