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MOTOR CAR REGULATIONS.
understanding that now regulations would not be brought into force until 1st July, ;
1012.
The question of night riding" and (To the Editor vy" (he "Crisa Mun."speed limits was under discussion for several months, and on the 17th May we Dear Sir, We have been requested had the honour to address the Acting ask you to puldish the enclosed correspon-Colonial Secretary fully on the subject, dence,
Land made several suggestions with a view to preventing the legitimate use of the public carriage highways at night from bemning a nuisance to residents.
The letter from the Colonial Secretary dated yesterday shows that tile Government propneem bo reopen the Caine Rond Route, and the Jubilee Road Route, which were A reference to our letter of that late 816s suddenly and arbitrarily closed by the ↑ will shine thas the question of closing the
Excentive Council on the 4th June; tha Caine Roud route and the Tubilee Rond- the prohibited hours are to be altered from had n heen even suggested to us, nor
between midnight and 9 a.m." "to be did it ever occur to ourselves or our tween 1 a.m, and 6 s.m."; that the speed clients that any new regulations would limis of ten miles an hear is to be robe brought into fores before the expiry impered for the City of Victoria, and that of the current licores on the 30th June, the ridiculous wording of regulation 18 as in fart the writer was informed by Mr.
Clementi size woonths ago that the inten singinary truthc which might be on a pad, is replaced by a rule the first part of [tion of the Government was to mainten which is taken almost verbatim from the the status quo until that date." Motor Car Act, 110, low in force in Eng. luid.
JUT.CE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the HALF YEARLY ORDINARY MENTING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the CITT | HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 17th day of August, 1912, at Noos, for the purpono of recuiving the Report of the Cuore of Directors together with A Sixe- ment of Accounts to 30th June, 1912.
The REGISTER of SHARES of the Corporation will be CLOSED from MON. DAY, the 5th August, to SATURDAY, the 17th August, 1912, (both days inclu sive), during which perind no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Churt of Directors,
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manager. Hongkong. August 1, 1912.
HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.
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X accordance with the Provisions of
No. 104 of the Articles of Asancistion the General Managers have This Day deciarel an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half-year ended 30th Jane, 1912, of
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Yours faithfully,
Dessys and Bowley,
4 Comisaught Bowl Centra'; Hongkong, 18th July, 1912.
MOTOR CAR REGULATIONS. -
Sir-Referring to the Acting Colonial Secretary's letter, of the 10th ultimo (5802/1911 ) and to previou correspondence we have the honour to request that you will be good en ugh to lay the wlane utter of the Motor Car Rewalutions foro Hi Excellency the Governor in Council for re- consideration.
„Before April 1911 there were to specifl regulations relating to Motor Cars, which had up to that time been regarded as on. the same ting to curiages drawn hy
We submit therefore that, the motor car owners have good ground to complain of the arbitrary action of the Government
in the following three matters ----
(1) Prohibiting motoring between mid- nigui und 6 a.m. during the currency of the then existing licences, and without any notice or warning to the Trawers.
(2) Syúddenly closing the oldest motor route in the Colong the Cain Ton- zontei without any notice or warns ing, and without (as we submit) any. justification whatever.
40 Similar action with regard to the
Jubilee Hond alter on the solitary :
plaint of three horsemen (who have now left the Colony), and in face of the fact that the rond, was constructed by public anhseription for the use by the public as 'n earringe rond.
| TWO DOLLARS PER SHARE.
DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be
It is significant that this action was obtained on application at the Office of the horses.
taken diring the absence from the Colony Company on and after FRIDAY, 16th Motor mus hai, however, beg in us For Dr. J. W. Noble, the pioneer motorist
in the Colony for many years without of the Colony: and also during the ab The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Comeausing any buonvenience to the public, sence of Mr. Lefferts Knox who has used Fay will be CLOSED frou: 10th instant and how or tune well-known residents the Caine Road consistently and without to 15th instant, both days inclusive.
one is unbetunately dead) nevident for a number of years. JARDINE. MATHESON & Co., LTD..
General Managers. -
won in the habit of driving ears, prin- It is believed that the Officer Adminis 1002cipally along the Gunday Road, Alberttering the Government and the members
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Rod and Caine Roud route to the Pokin of his Council had not the airantage of PATELL & CO.
lat, Road, and as soon as the Jubilee
was opened, along that read flo
the advice of a single motor driver with Join' experience when the dreision was so
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N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONEden on the Pokfulam Road and his that the fact that licences allowing these routes and permitting night riding were current was not brought to the price of the Executive Council at the time.
Six months ending 30th Jung, 1912, will office near the Hongkong Hotel, and of be payable on WEDNESDAY, the 14th using D'Aguilar Street, Wellington August, 1912, on which date Dividend Str, Lyndhurs Terrace and Arbuthnot Warrants may be obtained at the Coul
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The Caine Bond route is the historic terriage mute of the Colony us is well
Wo venture to suggest that is Excel- lency should obtain the opinion of Dr. Noble on the subject of the Caine Road and Jubiles Roud, and we hazard a fore.
General Merchants
and
karowa to uil til residents, and the Tubi- emet that Tir. Noble will do is Commission Agents
les Bond was ennstrneted for the express Excellency that those roads are the safest jf driving.
in the dog for motoring.
CANTON,
SHANGHAI AND
HANKOW.
Early in 1ft the introduction into the With regard tonight riding" wo Colony of sale or be reckless drivers who think on reensideration His Excellency HONGKONG, usest paul and paths suitable for will come to the conclusion that, the | motoring and drose-to the publie danger, | restriction is unnecessarily harsh as it (daw attention to the need for further stands, as it prevents the orflinory pence- regulations, and after discussion, with ful citizen, who lives in the suburbs, from The lewding, motorists the regulations of ¦ driving home after an evening of the Cluh April 1011 were drawn up.
or the Theatre, or after a concert or a dance, and we suggest that the prohibited
The routes inserted in those regulations were those already in use by motor cars and generally recognised a suitable for the purpose, and it in lieved that the regulations would have been founi genere! why sutisfactory had not the practice of night riding, with the necompanyling poisy behavior of the occupants of the ears, becarne common, and, through the inaction of the police who did not in- voke their powers of suppressing dis orderly conduct and preventing unneces- cary noise at night, this practice ruined general hostility in the minds of the public against motorisis, and the inno cent, careful and considerate driver us.
More in literature, has beent & teacher
R LI HON FAN, a Chinese graduate her made to suffer.
When the frat set of regulations waş to Europian officials and merchants in this published it was recognised that they Colony for over ten years.
no provision way.
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He has a good method of training Earo were emplge, as peans to pass In the Chinese examination, and made, for the use of horns or sirens, for is possessed of a first rate certificate as B metore, and no provisiori had ever been Chinese teacher. He has also a good kanw|made for the use of balls on bicycles.. It' idge of Mandarin and Hakka.
was therefore understood that, the regula Thon who intend learning the Clunestions were more or less experimental and language aro" requested to write care of. China Mail office or direct to St. Holly temporary, but as licences for care and drivers were isnted for one year espiring Hongkong, May 17, 1912,
876 on 30th June, 1912, there was an implicit
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