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RENTS POSITION."
Local Facts: Sequel to Decontrol.
CHANGES SINCE JULY 1.
Peculiarities of Restriction Problem.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1926. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
TYPHOON COMING?
ANOTHER FORMING OUT IN PACIFIC.
COMING TOWARDS COAST.
if the
KOWLOON 'BUSES.
Leyland "Lions" Now on Order.
OF BRITISH MAKE.
New Vehicles To Arrive In December,
and!
!!
This morong; another typhoon was spotted," this one being likely to cause had weather in the neigh- bourhood of Hongkong, if no worse. It is out in the Pacific, but By now it is posible to sacertain it is coming westwards.
Á start has now been made extent of
strike the coast to the south-west vehicles of modern design contain- old motor byses in Kowloon with crentals, as a result of decentral-on
jul Hongkong.
But unless it fling features tending to passenger July 1.
jup or swerves northwards then bad weather by Monday is not impro- bable.
The
TRADE LOAN."
DRAFT OF BILL PUBLISHED IN GAZETTE.".
CHARGE ON COLONY.
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The following B. which it 14 proposed to introduce into thei Legislative Council shortly, published for general information;! A Bill intituled an Ordinance to charge a certain lean upon Colony of Hongkong.
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HARBOUR FERRIES,
For Motor And Lorry Transport?
SCHEME REVIEWED.
Question To Be Brought Up In Council.
Is the time not far distant when
changes in local direction is not changed, it with towards gradually replacing the general revenue and assets of the there will be an efficient service!
A perint has elapsed in which Aucturally all warry who wanted
comfort.
The Kowloon 'Bus Companies are required to order British made vehicles and first choice has fallen 600Leyland, Lancs. Six of their new on the Leyland Motors Ltd. of
10 send out notiers, have been able The position given at 10:45 a.m. to du se Hitherto landlords were in 126 miles). This is about
was Eat. 19 S. Long, 125 E. (with -aisallowed from raising reate, in
ke-imiles or so. from Hongkong. eratiy penking, and from demande!
Meanwhite the typhoon 724
range of passenger modela known na Leyland "Lions" are now on or- der and should, arrive in time to be completed and ready for the road in
my possession of premises within Hainan Island has gone to the N.W. the scope of the Restriction Orion-fand in filing-up. There is no news
about the one which re-curved cast. December. wards near Forrnova.
A fairly reliable estimate is that Just about half, og der er end, at any rate, there is favourable For the first part of the week. ery in the Colony, has been forecast. Fuented. This figure is given pe heneding to numbers
Ti non to-morrow, the predi. of buildings tions i-SE. or variable winds, fan is not based on valdes..
On the other hand. "the "hinal
moderate to Hight; Ane Mail" has received concrete exi Benze of the owners of a block in tenements in town refuging series of tempting offers."
the
Suburban Advantages. Rents on these houses are same as ten years age, leave alonej the "standard camount", at the end
1994. "The 15 per cent. inerense permitted last year was not avail wded. Old tenants remain to-day in spite of suggestions, by "com! !petitors" to pay more for occupa-
tion.
There has been a gradual migra-i im frens the crowded central dis rriet to what "may be called the !suburbs.
Communications are such to-day hat there is little disadvantage fo living out in the "districts." Ati hamshuipo and ewhere, hitherto empty flats are being occupied by
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higher rents in the city.
These
moving tenants may or may not up- preciate the wider streets and more mamice) surroundings in the recent-
y developed area.
Shops and Cubicles, Kennedy Town and the more re- rate parts of Wanchal have also come in for favourable considern- tion.
At 10.30 a.m. the Observatory res |porter-
Pressure Has decreased moder- ately from Busco to Manila and slightly over Formosa, the Loochoos and Tonkin. It has increased slightly over central Japan and is
STAN HILL
SANITARY DEPT.
Three of the vehicles are for the three for the Kowloon Motor Bus China Motor Bus Co. Ltd., and
. Co., Ltd. In the case of the latter eompany they have specifted for the buses to be painted in attractive colours to distinguish them from the others, while the route number will also be shown at night on a green xround.
stringency:
of the Government of the Colony the transport of lorries; and moter Whereas the Governor on behalf cross the harbour providing ter Hongkong has recently harrowed cars as well as passengers? making loans ng security approved ment wrote to the Chamber of Cone certain moneys for the purpose I) When, in March 1925, the Govern-
during a certain period of financial tien of a vehicular ferry across the merchants and otders in the Colony merce that it regarded the institu-
y him or ander his authority tel
Pharbour as a work of considerables And whereas although the de-urgency and the then Colonial mand for such loans has now prac tically ceased it is possible that the Secretary stated that the Govern-. Governor on behalf of the Government hoped to proceed with the may desire to borrow certain other tierpated that a year would see the ment of the Colony of Hongkong work at, once. it was generally an- moneys for the said purpose;
scheme well in hand. any principal moneys so borrowed who made enquiries
And whereas it is desirable that!" A "China Mall" representative |
to how o to be borrowed and the interest; matters stood to date was inform- thereon shall be charged upon the fed that a certain amount of work general revenue and assets of the had been done in connection witir Colony:
the scheme and the Government in-f tended pressing on with it at the earliest possible moment. As a question is to be naked at next) Council meeting and a full report will then be submitted, it ia not pos sible at the moment to
go into particulars as to what work has been put in hand and what he it is intended to accomplish in the Inmediate future
To Seat 30 Each.
Be it therefore enacted by the According to specification, the Governor of Hongkong, with the new 'buses will have room for about advice and consent of the Legisk 30 passengers and have two en-tive Council thereof, as follows:
IN HONGKONG FOR KEEPS.
THE
"ASHES"
(HONGKONG VERSION)
Not so with that section of the business community known as the shopkeeperss To retain enatom. they muat needs stay where they have built up their establishment., Shops in the more popular areas are not getting bigger turnovers inj these times but the landlords have! raised rents in a good many in-
No. "the figure on the right is not Horseshoe Collins, with his bit of the Oval 'wicket. It is one of the S.D. stances, only in judicious propor- coolies in the Colony (whose name is Logion), with the "Ashes" and unmyth ical urn.
tion.
Then again there is one curioux!
1926.
factor which baffles investigation.early stationary from" Hongkong
It is the large number of vacantto Chefoo. cubicles in the city--that is, large)
in ratio to the number of empty north of Hongkong.. fat and the almost entire absence o empty houses.
The typhoon is Alling up to the
Chinese Look to K.R.A.
Another has formed to the east of the Balintang Channel. It ap pears to be moving westwards.
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Jubilec-Jordan Roads.
The Importance of the proposed scheme, however, justifies a brief review of the suggestions which have been put forward in the past. Schemes of harbour development submitted as long ago ab 1923, pro- vided for the provision of ferries) capable of carrying lorries and motors, these to run from Jordan Road Kowloon. to Jubilee Rond, Hongkong. The then Assistant) Colonial Secretary stated that t was intended to provide for largel vessels capable of carrying at least! ten lorries each. He personally favoured the transit of passengers:
free on such a ferry as he thought
it was to the public interest to havel
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a frge ferry just as one had a freeAITHFUL SERVICES
road.
The scheme as advanced origin- ally (and it is believed that the recommendations then put forward All stand) provided for the con- struction of a wharf at each end: with concourse area to avold great congregation of ricshas wait ing to take passengers from one wharf to another. A passenger | would be able to go from one ferry
to another without leaving the wharf. The Jubilee Street site had been chosen as the Chinese día ndi This Ordinance may be cited
wish to go further East thun
In as the Trade Loan Ordinance, 1926. Jubilee Street; neither was it de sirable to bring lorries close to the Ordinance, Trade loan," means the aggregate for the the town. Jordun Roud had been hig office buildings in the centre of time being of any moneys hitherto chosen as The Leyland "Lion" is a single borrowed, or hereafter to be boment of the district was in that It has been generally conceded
the principal develop-j deck saloon bus of entirely new
rowed, by the Governor or behalf vicinity. Kowloon Point had been that "investor" landlords have been reasonable. Increases of rent that
design, and it is claimed that, with
of the Government of the Colony ruggested but this was a mile from rome within the enterory of un-1
its progressive springs, its pneu-ferred to in the first recital of the inent of Chinese traffic; had to be of Hongkong, for the purpose re-i Yaumati and the immense develop matic tyres, its low and stable con preamble of this Ordinance, toge taken into consideration. reasonable are attributed to spe
struction, an appeal is made to the ther with any interest on the said culators who were caught by the slump.
eye which is completely substan- There was another armed rob-vibrationless transit ensured for
Type of Ferries. Mortgagees of house property bery at 1a.m. on Friday night, in the passengere by the smooth and
tiated by the physical comfort and Principal moneys due or to become
due under the terms of the agree-Commerce.
The Chairman of the Chambér of Pave also been blamed for putting which seven men, who had four silent running power unit, the principal moneys were or shall be that the idea he had was to pro- ments under which the respective which considered the scheme sald Shipping Committee! up rents here and there, to ensure revolvers and a mauser pistol be- smoothly operating plate clutch, borrowed: Provided that such prin- vide ferries along the following a safe return on outlay in loans.
Curiously a great many Chinese Shum
them, entered a house at the flexible couplings to the silent cipal moneys, whether already borines: tenants are looking to the Kowloon Island, and after ransacking the brakes,
Wat Village, at Lan Tau transmission, and the powerful shall have been acknowledged by would be equal-ended vessels of
rowed or hereafter to be borrowed; Residents' Association for a lead in house, kidnapped a girl 15 years of
"The type of ferries suitable action towards retrieving control age
the Secretary of State on behalf of or semi-control..
the Government of Hongkong, in a
about 150 feet long by 491 The robbers threatened the a
dressed or delivered to the respec- ing a speed to give an eight, to tea letter or some other document nd
feet beam. driven by
provisions of this Ordinance.
steam tive lenders, as coming within the
ur possibly motors and hav
tween
and
A Fair Rente Board is accepted eapants with their weapons us the best solution, same to be bound their hands, and feet with a based on the working of similar rope. tribunals in the Far East rather shan those of further parts of the house, the robbers left with $200 After staying two hours in the world,
in nah, three pairs of gold rattan bangles, and thirty articles of
"Middleman" Evil.
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4-Cylinder Engine.
The height of the frame from the
three million pounde sterling. loan shall not exceed the sum of
(Continued on Page 12.).
What is known as the Leyland power direct from the road wheels Spherical Thrust" transmits the to the chassis without the inter- vention of the springa.
The Residents' Protective A-clothing.
ground (no, more than 2 ft. In has resulted in great ease of accons ciation-casentially Chinese-hag
for the passengers without "ascri done little in public after that last this, kidnapped the girl who was working parts and without reducing The robbers, not contented with ficing the accessibility of important petition. A committee meeting is later released near the Chu Tam, the ground clearance. contemplated but what policy enn Tui. O, Lantau Island. they adopt? In the eyes of Chinese: confidence has rather been lost when she returned home, and reR.A.C. rating 28 bh.p., developing detrimental effects of frame
The girl released her companions dors, bore 4% in streke 5% in.. through the real tenant not being ported the case to the police at Tal separated from the principal ten-0.
49.5 b.h.p. at 1,000 rpm and 58 tortion and add materially to their bh.p. at 1,800 rp.m. The valves life. are of overhead type, contained in the cylinder head, and operated by: the camshaft through push-rods and a simple ronkor gear.
The new engine. bar four cylin
minutes' service.
Instead of the
The aggrogate for the time Present system of wide berthing being of the principal moneys out they should berth end on in a standing and included in the trade entrance of the same form as the
vessel. On the lower deck accom modation should be provided for 32 to 16 motor vehicles (passenger, truck or ambulance) with a barri unde on each side and the remain ing space on deck would carryi
dis-The upper deck would accommodate "about 250 passengers when the fuli complement of ears was carried about 300 passengers with a good percentage of covered-in space fer A new design of stearing gear bad weather." which is to increase tyre life, to bly refer to the transport of goods has been adopted," the effect of
The turtles mentioned presun eliminate wheel wobble," and to across the harbour, the rovision) the amount paid by the sub-tenant. Central Magistracy this morning In designing the chusals, special
minimise steering effort
of facilities for which would In view of the Government's re- with embezzling $264.
A bright and even illumination obviate a good deal of wasteful licence, and the facts as recorded months ago the prisoner embezzl-retaining the maximum accenaltion of an improved system incor
Six consideration has been given to has been obtained by the Introduc-handling ubove, it is still a moot question asted the sum of $110.90 for which bility to all working parts. Other parating a special electric dynamo, to whether restriction is still do- he was forgiven. He was sen- new features, such as the thres erect-driven from the engine, and sirable, in the best interests, co-tenced to three months' hard point engine and gear box suspen-provided with self-regulating
labour
sion eliminate from theke unite the device.
Azt
The last named has come. in
again for criticism. Where owners
ve notified increases, principal|
tenants have in turn, it is alleged, A clerk employed by Messrs, tacked on their own percentage to Kwon Hing was charged at the Bright Illumination.
day,
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
The closing rate of the dollar, on demand to-day was 2/1 15/16/
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