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that the community is leading REFUSE IN THE SEA. RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
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lives more virtuous than it was lending before the white glove Incidence, and it does not appear that our police, torce, our very efficient police force has much upon which to congratulate itself. 17 challenged upon these two points we are perfectly willing to turn up in our fles a few tasty Disposal of refuse by dumping itQuestions asked by lrg J, Po affairs that have happened in in the sea, the possibility of its being Braga at yesterday's meeting of' Hong Kong of late and which carried back to the harbour, the the,Sanitary Board and the replies would have most likely resulted in danger of pollution, and the infed on thelial of the Government by trials at the Criminal Sessions tion of the external car at bathing Mr.W. J. Carrie (Head of the Sani- had the culprits been caught beaches were among the topics tary Department) are given be An empty Sessions List, in one dealt with at yesterday's meeting low: sense, is indicative of nothing; in of the Sanitary Board, another It may be indicative of a mighty lot,
The driver of a hand-truck, died at Kowloon Hospital yesterday.. as the result of a collision between a motor lorry and the truck at a jude tion of Navy-street and Austin-road.
The attendance comprised:Mr. | W. J.-Carrie - (Head of the Sanitary Department) President, Dr. G. W. Pope (Medical Officer of Health), Dr. S. W. Tao, G.B.E, LL.D. Dr. W. V. M. Koch, Dr. S. C. Ho, Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Mr. J. P. Braga and Mr. J. Watson (secretary).
Pursuant to notice, a number of questions were asked by Mr. Braga. These are given below together with There was another bag-matching the replies of Mr. Carrie, the Gov. ||Incident at Nathan-road: - yesterday ernment spokesman. *
evening, in which Mrs. Withers, roAt the conclusion Mr. Braga siding at Gun Club Hill, Kowloon, thanked Mr. Carrie for the time and wws the victim. The thief succeed patience devoted to securing the in- ed in bolting with the handbag which formation disclosed. contained $15.50.
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For removing earth from a vacant piece of ground at the junc tion of, Kanau-street and Nathan- road, without a permit from the Public Works Department, an earth coolie was fined $6, by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. Mr. A. C. Burford, land bailiff, prosecuted."
HE the Officer Administering the Government, the Hon. Mr. W., T. Southern, C.M.G.. accompanied by crushing and apparently com- Mrs. Southorn and friends, was pre-
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BATHERS TROUBLE. Quesion: Has it been brought to the notice of the Medical Om- cer of Health that several cases of acute infection of the external ear have recently oc- curred among bathers in some of the most popular bathing beaches of Hong Kong? Answer: The answer to the first question is in the negative....., |Question: Is there any connection
between these cases of Infec- tion and the pollution by pre- ventable means of the sea water in the best frequented bathing
the grounds of Colony 7- which culminated in the hasty the Queen's Theatre yesterday to see
Answer: It is highly probable exit of the Fengticnese from the great jungle film "Chang." After
the performance His Excellency that pollution of the sea water dock Chihli, it is somewhat surprising said he had greatly enjoyed the pfc- tend to raise the incidence of in- It is to find the ex-Shantung Tuchun ture, which he thought was a splen-fections of this nature.
doubtful, however, whether this making any
kind of stand this did production.
pollution is preventable. aide of the Great Wall.,, Quite
BEACHES & POLLUTION. clearly it is but a forlorn hope, as Leung Wal, a Chinese fugitive, nat only has he the Nationalists who was "wanted" by the Canton Question:
authorities, for kidnapping an aged to his rear but his advance villager from Mao Yuen Fong, Sun- wal district, was committed: for, ex-
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Ara the bathing. beaches of the Colony, subject to pollution by the existing methods of disposal of city re- fuse by the Sanitary Depart- ment?
Question:With reference to
the leading article appearing * in the South China Morning: Post" of the 22nd August last regarding the development of: suburban sites in the Colony, will the President please In- form the Board, A (1) What are the Government's In
tentions as to the reservation of Crown land, in the vicinity of Prince Edward-road as an ex- clusive residential area? Answer: Land in the locality " under reference is disposed of ex- clusively for residential purposes. (2) Will the Government endeavour
to prevent the disfigurement of that area by refusing, parmis- alon for the erection of "pigeon-hole blocks" in the' midst of rural surroundinge?" Answer: The answer is in the affirmative, past,
Question:Will the Government
stipulate as a "special condi tlon" in the general conditions of sale of Crown innd abutting ~- on Prince Edward-road that--. (8) no houses will be permitted of a height greater than 35 feet; and,
(b) that open space must be reserved for the Inying out of lawns or small garden patches attached to auch houses?
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Question (answered jointly, with preceding one)-With a view esthetic securing the amenities of the Kowloon Tong garden city, will the intention of the Government be ascertained whether it is pre- pared to introduce early légia- lation In order to ensure that. houses erected in the vicinity of the Kowloon Tong, district : shall conform to the type of European residential houses of “ A maximum height of 35' fest with the exception of build- logs for colleges and similär Institutions 7
Answer: The points mentioned are always considered before land is put up to auction and any neces- sary special requirements are In- eluded in the Conditions of Sale.
should he be able to advance-ia being more or less effectually tradition. At yesterday's hearing. Mr. R.E: Lindsel! informed the ac- impeded by the Manchurians,
AnswerIt is impossible to give cused that the course was available now allied with the Nationalists.for him of lodging an appeal Within a categorical reply to this question.
But strange
ange events have always fifteen days to the Supreme Court There is a general opinion among taken place in China, and it through habeas corpus proceedings. officers of the Department that the reply is in the negative. I regret would therefore be even stranger
that. I cannot wholly subscribe to A fine of $5 was imposed on four that bellef. On the 18th May, if they did not take place now. The only statement that might fishing boat mistresses at the Mirine 1926, this Board appointed a Com
Court this morning, defendantsmittee consisting of the President, with some degree of certainty be being charged with dredging, the air. Smith, the Vice-President, Mr.
Henry F. Slough, 40, an engineer, Dr. Koch and Dr. ventured at present is that harbour in the Central Fairway. Creasy, General Chang Tsung-chang is in They denied the charge and said Macgown "to enquire into and rewas struck on the head and killed by a moving car belonging to a ma.. a very precarious position, one that they were only fishing The port on the question of Refuse chine known as the Gilders.at the
Kursaal, Southend-on-Sea, coal was discovered on boʻri, the Its adoption in this Colony." They police officer in evidence, zaid that Dest-action and the possibility of defendants' boata. An order was obtained expert opinion on various. also made for the confiscation of ints and their report was adopt the tackle and nets.
ed by the Board on the 10th August, 1926. This report is inter- esting and is available for anyone who may wish to read it. The fol- lowing opinions were expressed by
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1928. that leaves little doubt of his speedy, and complete collapse One of these fine days soon we shall hear that he is an exile in Japan or elsewhere or that, tired of warring against the Kuomin
THE FIGHTING IN NORTH CHINA.
As a precautionary measure the evacuation of foreignerstag, he has thrown in his lot with them. The only mildly from, Peitaiho, and Shanhaiwan distressing point in the situation is unquestionably a wise step
MANSION HOUSE. LORD MAYOR'S VISION OF A
50-STOREY BUILDING,
a
the witnesses examined by this: Committee-
Enfield (Middlesex) Bench held. that a monomark on a dog's collar did not fulf! the requirements of the law in respect of the address of the animal's owner.
up for about twenty-four hours but (1) At least 50 per cent. of the this will not invalidate the whole refuse sinks at once and after experiment. It has been suggested twenty-four hours less than 16 to me alea that instead of wooden floats which might prove useful as per cent is still floating.
fira wood portions of the refuse The refuse is dumped off Kau likely to float should be treated with I,Chau, 4 miles from the various dyes. These detalls can be centre of Victoria. The site worked out later..
severe reverse on 10,000 Man-But in fifty years' time," added churians on the 16th instant." the Lord Mayor, "it is possible that This victory will no doubt hearten my successors may be living in the the ex-Tuchun of Shantung and House Make
fiftieth storey of a rebuilt Mansion his army and probably, prolong the fighting that has do unexpectedly recurred Chiklis, ¡b
at present is in the announcement who may have to rise each morn "I shudder for my successors, and one that was rendered that "Car-loads of Manchurian ing at the Mansion House and see perative so long as there was the
wounded" have been passing skyscraper across the road," ·· sald slightest reason to believe that through Chingwantao en route to the Lord Mayor of London (Sir (2) these places were within the war Manchuria, which seems, very at the Connaught Rooms by the In- Charles Batho) at a luncheon'given zone. It is by no means the first conclusively, to verify the reports stitute of structural Engineers for time that Peitatho holiday from Shanghai that "General the presentation of the Dorman- makers have received such a Chang Tsung-chang, with his Long Scholarship of 2300 and the shock. This popular holiday re-back to the wall, inflicted a Deane presided.
inst tution's gold medal. . MrH, J. sort seems to be unfortunately situated, being as it is near the Shantung coast, which, doubtless, along with the rest of the pro- vince of Shantung, is the prin
The scholarship competition, a cipal objective of General Chang
re-design of the Royal Exchange as Tsung-chang, so long the Tuchun
a modera steel-frame building in of the province. Evidently, the
mere corporating the old features, but providing for additional storays, redoubtable General Chang is
ly a sort of flash in the pan," a was won by Mr. George Caddell, of making a
sort of final, stand, final gesture on the part of the Liverpool, the ascond award going much in the nature of 4 forlord defeated Shantung general and to Mr.J. N. Liversage. The pur- pose of the scholarship was to en- hope, it seems to us, to regain his sturdy followers before they
abla tha successful candidates to supremacy in his old quarters. inevitably fall to the all-conquer-make a foreign tour of study. His hopes are of the flimsiest, asing Nationalists.
he has not the slightest chance of regaining what has been lost her in Shantung or in any other part of Northern Chins. There is
lity, therefore, that Chie
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was carefully chosen-many I regret having to make such a years ago after consultation diffuse reply to a simple question with the Harbour Master. but the only reply can make to Floats were released at all question 3 is that I personally am states of the tide and only two still in doubt. were recovered, one at Ken- nedy Town and one at Cheung Sha Wan
The refuse occasionally seen floating near the beaches comes from Junks and ships. Many ships retain their refuse, accumulated during their stay in harbour, until they are out- -aida, harbour Imits which is just beyond Green Island and then dump it, often near Cheung Chau.
CONSIDERED 20 YEARS AGO, Question: Will the Goyerament consider the advisability of substituting the present me thod of refuse disposal by the erection of a Befuse, Destruc "tor, thus minimising the dan
gers of pollution of the waters of the Colony, within, harbour limits, by the drifting, thereto of floating matter containing, the germs of infection ?? Answer: The question of Refuse. Destructors has frequently been considered by the Government dure As a result of this report furthering the last twenty years. The Replying to the chairman's toast experiments with foats were car Committee of the Board in 1926 of The Visitors, Lord Rudell ried out from November 18 to made certain suggestions which are proposed "London and fa Historic December 16, 1926. Fifty floats now being followed up The late | Bulldings" "The Lord Mayor res were released under European. Mr. Jackman, during his absence on
ling, said that to the structural supervision each morning and each leave in 1926, made careful investi
eers wat
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