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3. Approximate figures. Exact figures would take over a month to work out, as the recorded consumption through every meter would have to be taken.
Future revenue will be adversely affected by the water restrictions now in force. The rates for the various districts were modified subsequently to the publication of Sessional Paper No. 4 of 1938.
REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
5. The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee
(No. 6), dated 28th July, 1938, and moved its adoption.
The Financial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
MOTIONS.
6. The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the following
resolutions:
Resolved that the First Volume of the new edition of the Ordinances, and the First Volume of the new edition of the Regulations of the Colony, which have been prepared under the authority of the Ordinances and Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 Edition) Ordinance, 1936, and which have this day been laid before this Council for approval, be approved.
Resolved pursuant to section 3 of the Public Officers (Changes of Style) Ordinance, 1937, that the style of the offices of "Superintendent of Prisons" be changed to that of "Com- missioner of Prisons" and of "Assistant Superintendent of Prisons" to "Superintendent of Prisons" for all purposes, and that the following addition be made to the Schedule to the said Ordinance:
Old style of officer, office or department.
Superintendent of Prisons.
New style of officer, office or department.
Commissioner of Prisons.
Assistant Superintendent of Superintendent of Prisons.
Prisons.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
7. Female Domestic Service Amendment Bill.—The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the First reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923.”
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to. Bill read a first time.