SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1926.
HOPES FOR FUTURE.
GOVERNOR ON POLITICAL SITUATION.
Budget Day References."
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WHY INDUSTRIAL LOAN WAS OFFERED.
The present political sitnation was reviewed by H.E." the Governor in a speech which preceded the introduction of the Budget at yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council.
The sincerity of Hong Kong's wish to let bygones be bygones, to forget the unproftonble past and reach forward to a happier future was referred to, also to the "growing abomination in China of all
has Bolshevism means,
H.E. the Governor also further explained the motives which led Hong Kong to offer Canton, an in-
dusetal loan.
lows:--
LIQUOR DUTIES.
Increases On Native Products.
BUDGET FORECAST.-
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Abolishing Preferential Taxes in Territories.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ne change has been made in the aubies on the more heavily "baxed Equors..
LOYAL SERVICE,
COUNCIL TRIBUTE TO "LATE. MEMBER."
MR. HO FOOK'S WORK.
one of the founders of the District
on which h
I would hasten to add that this is from no special regard for the pockets of those who drink. these more expensive forms of Hquor, but! Founase the Government is adviser that this type of liquor already
References were made In Council Penas e high-a daty as enn in pre yesterday to the services to the *n* circumstances be proper Colony of the late Mr. Ho Fook. charged upon it and that this duty
H.E. the Governor, at the com-»" works out far more heavily in prmencement of the meeting, said:- portion than the duty charged upon
Before the Council takes up thei E rudition to raising a loan on the so-called-Chinese wines..
order of the day it is fitting that the Shing Mun scheme it is pro- The only alteration in what are we should commemorate the ser- posed further to augment revenue termed European type iquors is vices to Hong Kong of our faic during 1927 by revising the the abolition of the special concre colleague. Mr. Ho Pook, through duties on intoxicating liquors to alam of 50 cents a gallon on wine whose recent death the Colony has provide for $600,000 additional imported in wood.
lost one of its most prominent I am informed that, the bott ingeftizens. Mr. Hs Fook was a member revenue. Young China. Young China nowadays is prone
The duties refer more particu-Industry is very small one, that this Council from 1917 to 1991: to neglect the classic lore of An-larly to Chinese spirits, the tax on the differentiation has given rise but his services to Hong Kong date cient China. Nevertheless the which is increased and there will difficulties in the collection of from long before that. He became His Excellency spoke as fol-rival War Lords would do well to no longer be favourable trent-the duty, that the purchasing publica Justice of the Peace at the early remember the words of Sun Tzu, ment as regards taxes on spirits has shown a growing distaste for Before the Colonial Secretary a writer on war in the 6th, cen-distilled in the New Territories eally bottled wines, and that thee of 26, and a year later he was moves the first reading of next tary BC that "there is no in-(for consumption there), the differentiation is no longer advis-watch Committee. year's Supply Bill, it is proper to stance of country benefited existence of a favourable tariff on able and can be abolished with ad-served for more than 20 years. He suite that the circumstances from prolonged warfare." Men, which has led to extensive smug-etage to the Revende and no dewas an orginal member of the Ad
iment to lexitimate trade.
visory Committee" of the Tung Wa under which the budget was cius at a time when China was as ging.
Unsatisfactory System.
Hospital, a member of the ..per- drafted differ considerably from now divided into many warning I is noteworthy that the new
The present system of duties on manent Committee of the Po Loung those in which it is introduced, satrapies is still more emphatic duties are payable on intoxicating antive wines and spirits has proved Ruk, at originis member of the The budget was drafted at a time He said: "There are men who liquors heretofore or hereafter satisfactory and it is now propos- Permanent, Committee for Chinese when this Colony was for no say-I am skilled in warfare. imported into.. distilled, made ord to drop the elaborate differentia- Cemeteriga and a life member of fault of its own subject to an antium skilled in battle. They are prepared in the Colony."
tion into classes which have been the Court of the Hong Kong Uni British Boxeost, Instigated by Bot-great criminals. Those who are
Hound in some enses meaningless,versity, to which he made gener European Type Liquor. shevik intrigues and conducted in skilled in battle shot bh suffer ex
and in some mislending, and tous benefactions. On a quaeurs, and on alle the duties on the more sciv open defiance will not say of emplary punishment." The old! Trenties-But of the most elemen-philosopher Lao Tzu wrote: champagnes and other sparkline method of calculation by
ing wines, $10 per gallon bary principles upon which civis "Where the soldiers march, thene
Falcoholic strength throughout." In the
On a Bynndy, gin, rum,f Native liquor bens at present ised society is based an as a the thorn-brake grows. "kind of gerrilla warlarg.
rear of the gront army comes in whisky and other spirituousory light burden of taxation, and evitably the year of famine." liquors. $6 per gallon. Reasonable Hope."
And there is a grin play on words But on the auspicious "Double at the present time in the verse of Tonth." five days ago, the Canton | Ts'o Taung, a poet of the Tong #overnment declared this boycett dynasty:-The. Menching bones: „to be at an end, and alt armed of a grind men make the fame
strike pickets were withdraw of a single général. Brom the frontiers of this Colony Therefore, when lip-service is no and from Canben. The informa-longer pad te Bolshevik tenets by them at present in my possession any dominant section of the, Can- weanddi pood justify a statement that tonese, when asti-British mank ani-Bitish manifestations infestations.cense, when civil war 50| Kwang ung have cease, and the mager mages, and so soon as ever" position at Swator appens to a stable and peaceful conditions less satisfactory thin at Canton, are restored in Kwangtung, we ing But it is certain that a very de Hong Kong will be the first tol finite step has been taken by the pledge is Government our Sull Canton Government to curb the support in all that makes for the
activities lawless
of strike beneficial development of the pro pickets, and we may reasonably vince. hope that a determined eflost, wild
The Loan Offer. now be made by the Caniorese
Our offer of an industrial loan) authorities to re-establish Tawy Inst July was not meant in ang and order in the territory whichny as an attempt to buy of the the conseof and to stamp out anti-British boyect. The loan piracy and brigandage.
Our "Ardent Desire."
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fiad of course. to Be conditional upon the cessation of the hoycott, Because plainly British money enuld not be ventured in a pro- vince which, however superficial
I think I may safely say that this Colony's most ardent desire is to see law and order re-estab ished, if possible in China as a Britain as an "enemy." But our ly and artificially, treated Great; whole, but at least in the Liang real object was to assist in the Kuang provinces. There how see the downfall of the Mancha development of Kwangtung, be Empie been enough, and more
cause in our opinion the harbour's
two provinces“ Civil
war has
Pirates have infested the coast,
The scale is
On all port, sherry madeira, $t per gallon.
im al other still wines, per gallen.
For a Gunster of a century, Mr. Fbok was compradore of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Company and he in connection with the late Mr. Lau Chu-pak, also ad member the new duties have been calculated this Founcil, founded the Chi- and with a view to a considerable ic-
We
reuse in the present Very inadeese General Chamber of Commerce
and the Fonfucian. Society. $ate revenue derived from such as # afford the loss of so public-
jaques
spirited, so capable and so ioyak al On beer, poster, cider,, perry Even with the new duties, e axolleague, and more that there and stout. $0.40 per gallon. on Chinese spirits will be far les entered in our minutes 2 record of en all intoxicating liquors prop in than on the European high appreciation of services above the strength of 18ype Henon. I would sbperve that rendered to this felony by the tube degrees under proof for every the is called Bative wines are Mr. Ho Fook, of our sense of the degree above. Such strength, infant ad spit produced by distilla Flora which Hong Kong has sustain addition to the appropriate duty tion and therefore properly ad by his teath... and of our sym- as above, $.07 per gallon. assesseban the "alcokolic strengthpathy with his family in thris
-Chinese Type Liquor. like inported spiritet
enumerated.
Discussion Facilities.
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as he may
present revenue
of
the "variona spectat. liquors Territories to 99,132 gallons on which it is impossible to enumerate Individually and while this has which the duty would be $19,827.
been properly placed at the highest
On a Chinese type spirits The day which we now propose. The Honour Mr. A. O. Lang, on containing not more than 25 t Teva, is based on a norma behalf of Upoffeigh members and per cent. of alcohol by weight, falkoholle strength of 35 per cent. the Hon. Sie Shou-son Chow, $1.20 per gallon.
by weiht, the duty on which will behalf of the Chinese community. For every one per cent. of be $1.29 per gallon, and 6 cens associated themselves with His Ex- additiona/alcoholic strength by per gallon will be added for every elleney's tribute and the Counel? weight, $.06 per gallont
additional per cent of alcohole stood in silence to the memory of strength by weighi III-Japanese Type Liquor.
the fate member. On all sake containing not
Native Liquors. more than 25 per cent, of alco- The present rates on mathe
His Excellency the Governos has hol by weight, $1.20 per gallon.quor brought in about $800,000 in given his agent, in the name and For every one per cent. of 1934, the last normal year, and on behalf of His Majesty the King, additional alecholic strength by about $685,000 in 1926, I wish to the following Ordinances passed deal first with native liquors other by the Legislative Council-Or- weight, $0.05 per gallon. IV Other Liquors.
than New Territories Hquor duti-dinance No. 14 of 1926-An Or-; On any intoxicating liquor ble at the special rate of 20 perdinance to enable the Governor to which is not specifically men-cent. gallon. The consumption of appoint such person tioned or referred to in the fore-these liquors in 1925. apart, of lense to be Registrar of Mar going Parts I, II, III. $10 per course, from smuggled liquor, was ages; Ordinance No. 15 of 1925. gallon.
405,113 gallons imported on which An Ordinance to amend the Provided that it shall be law-duty recovered was $390,390, and volunteer Ordinance, 1920.
1890,260 gallons, locally produced than enough, bloodshedi in these / of Hong Kong and of Canton are ful for the Superintendent of Im-duty recovered $242,556, a total of not rivals, but are complementary Ports and Exports, in his discre
$632,946. raged almost incessantly through to each other, and because the tion, to assess the duty on any
The new, duties on these liquore $684,000 on the construction of harbour works at such intoxicating liquor at such out their length and breadth. Canton and of a kopp line railway lower rate as is provided in Parts are estimated to bring in an addi- from all native liquors.
Six Lakhs Increase. Fround Canton connecting the, and III above for the final $484.000 being $210,000 on
With the improved conditions the delta and the principal inland Kowloon-Canton with the Canton-liquor which the Superintendent imports and $174,000 on local pre-
hoped for next year, the Govern-) waterways, Brigands have been Hankow railway cannot fail to im- shall deem to approximate most
Secondly, as regards the specialment feels justified, if the proposals A constant danger to the high-prove trade conditions at Canton nearly to such intoxicating liquor rated New Territories liquors the now put forward are approved, in roads, the villages and even to
On all spirits distilled within to produce of which we have anticipating a total increase large cities.
and consequently also in Hong: Trade and travel Kong. We are still ready and will the boundaries of the Colony of record was, in 1926, 165,137 gallons sume $600,000 in the revenue from have become hazarious. Life
Liquor Duties over and above the itself is nowhere safe. From alling to co-operate in any indus. Hong Kong there shall be allow-on,which the duty was $33.027. these horrors, the Colony of Hong trial schemes mutually advan-e a deduction of ten cents per From this must be deducted 26,004 Agure of $1,200,000 inserted in the Kong was a secure haven of retageous to the province and the gallon from the duties heretofore gallons exported to urban districts, draft estimates now before the
Colony.
The figure should be Fuge and it, therefore, prospered
quantity which I am ad-Council Sincerity of Purpose.
Resolutions which are set outvised exceedingly. But prosperity due
cannot well be less than amended to $1,300,000.. I crave the indulgence of the on pages 440, 441 and 442 of the 40,000 gallons smuggled into A new provision has been insert- so such causes cannot last. Trug and enduring prosperity for this Council if in my last words Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844- those same districts, which would ed to cover unenumerated liquors, Colony can only be founded upon speak less impersonally than 1925 under the heading "Rasolu reduce the consumption in the Newe. Hourishing trade with the Liang hitherto, I am surrounded at tion of the Legislative Council Knang provinces. Trade nannot his table, by Councillors whose shall cease to have effect on the
Extensive Smuggling.. Bourish in those provinces unlessives have been spent in China coming into operation of the fore.
In the existing tariff these, New rate you will notice that to avoid law and order are maintained; and and mostly among the Cantonese, going resolution.]
Territories liquors are rated at the hardship, power has been given to the maintenance of law and order 1, too, began my official life in
Elaborating the manner of ap-very low duty of 20 cents a gallon the Superintendent of Imports and postulates the existence
China and have learned to know of A strong and stable government the Cantonese better than the na-kation of the duties, the Colonial for consumption in the New Ter-Exports to classify auch liquors ac
Secretary sald:-1 should first like ritories whatever their alcholic cording to the classes to which they Therefore, above all else, the tives of the other provinces.
the Council that strength.
properly belong. Colony of Hong Kong desires to have lived in Canton both in the explain to
walled city (as it used to be) and though for obvious
It is proposed to place spirita see in Kwangtung and Kwangsi a
Under the existing classification strong, stable and enlightened as a house holder in the Westerntier could be given of this metio distilled in the New Territories every unenumerated liquor is en- Guvernment.
Of such Govern Suburb. I have travelled much for if notice had been given to whether distilled there or not on pitied to entry at 10 cents a gallon ment we should gladly he close in Kwangtung and Kwangsi; and clear that opportunities would have the same level as other Chinese and it may well be that liquor which
farinen for evading the duty, the liquors,
The present system has fought properly to pay a high rate from long experience I am in- bued with a very sincere affection Government has no desire to stifle given rise, to extensive smuggling comes in too cheaply by the for Curse of Bolshevism
for the Cantonese criticism, and although I trust the and however honest the distiller tuitous circumstance that it has not Another matter which is near people.
may be he cannot say what his pur- been expressly enumerated. So are also, as I well our hearts is to see the curse of know, my colleagues in this Coun- so that it can come into force chaser will do with the liquor pur- Local Spirit Duty,
forthwith, the Government, will be Bolshevism removed from Chihu.cil. Is it. then, too much to ask prepared to give all reasonable
Finally I come to the last new The idens permeating Bolshevism that the Canton Government and facilities for a full discussion of
Undoubtedly large quantities of provision, viz., a reduction of 10) are wholly alien to the Chinese the inhabitants of Kwangtung the proposals at an early date is the low, taxed spirit have found cents a gallon in favour of locally mind; and a moment's thought should believe that we in Hong any member, after considering the their way into the urban districts distilled spirits. Spirits of the should suffice to convince the Ca Kong are sincerely anxious to re-effects of
by train, motor cår, lorry and truck Chinese type manufactured in the the changes at hij tonese authorities that in the deepe with them normal and tra- leisure, feels it incumbent on him to the detriment of the Revenue, Colony are subject to Excise super- velopment of the Liang Kan ditional relations of amity, to let to give notice of a mation for their and in defiance of the law.
vision and restriction which, while | provinces by the peaceful and, or- bygones be bygones, to forget the mollification.
When the lower duty in favour they result in a superior article. Arst undoubtedly tend to increase the durly processes of trade and com-unprofitable pust and to reach for
In my remarks on the introdue-of the New Territories was merce Great Britain and the Bri-ward to a happier future? The tion of the Supply Bill, I made re-imposed there was no railway and cost of production.
Distilleries situated outside our tish Colony of Hong Kong can old order in China is changing and ference to the need for additional there were no motor roads, and the give more effective and lasting the times are sadly out of joint, revenue and I mentioned that the New Territories distilleries have borders are not subject to these Assistance than can" the Russian Put we, no less than our friends Government hoped to raise this removed out into the New Territories restrictions and it is thought Soviet. We uphold ideals which at Canton are animated by an venue in part from certain minor and there are comparatively few equitable that the local product The should not be penalised in this way are dear to the Chinese mind, earnest desire to see throughout changes extimated to bring in about left or Hong Kong Island. peace, good government, commer-China good government instead of | $188,000.
standard of living has risen con-without some compensating advant. cial enterprise, learning and chaos, peace instead of civil war, It was obvious however, that this aiderably in the New Territoriosage. I think this small concession literature, loyalty to the honour- prosperity instead of havoz, comh-kura was insufficient for our needs, and it is felt that there will be to the local producer will meet with ed traditions of the past and an or-mercial security instead of piracy and I referred to certain measuree little hardship in raising the duties the approval of Hon. Members.
I am afraid I have delayed Coun- derly advance towards all that and brigandage.
We are
very which I should lay before you later, to a parity with those of the rest
Fall far too long, but I wish to make the future promises. But the close neighbours of Canton. We After careful consideration the of the Colony. Bolshevik record is at present a wish also to be very close friends. Government has decided to recom- In view of the greatly improved the intentions of the Government blood-stained page of revolution,
mend to this Council the raising of methods of communication. it has as clear as possible. I now form- some of the Liquor Duties whereby become almost impossible to pre-ally move the resolution which I war. The civilised mind recoils
we hope to increase our Revenue vent emuggling from the New Ter have already read and would merely with horror from its contempla- A further announcement appears by about $800,000 next year and ritories to the rest of the Colony and remind Hon. Membara that while tion; and throughout China, I am in this issue by the Chinese Mari-ponsibly a little more when condi-two rates of duty for the same the Government regards it as im- "thankful to say, there is now a time Customs on the subject of sur-tions have returned fully to the article in what is really one Terri-portant that the rosolution should
normal. growing abomination of all that tax for famnine relief..
tery can no longer be defended.be passed to-day, ample opper- Bolshevism means. It is our
Expensive Liquora.
The increased rates should protunity will be given if desired for earnest hope that the Chinese Hong Kong's quarantine T8-| An opportunity has been taken duce a revenue of about $120,000 subsequent discussion.
The Hon Colonial Treasurer strictions imposed against arrivals to recast the form of the reaolu an increase of roughly $100,000 on from Tsingtao on account of tion Imposing the quor duties, the liquor consumed in the New seconded and the resolution was cholera have been removed. but I would point out at once that Territories, and a total increase of adopted without discussion,
friends and staunch supporters.
terrorism, anarchy and intestine
people may pluck out this evil by the roots and cast it from their country.
and esteem
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