BOMBS IN SCOTLAND
BOMBS WERE DROPPED AT TWO PLACES ON THE NORTH- EAST COAST. OF SCOTLAND YESTERDAY MORNING; STATES AN AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE.
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Some damage wis done buildings and there was a small number of casualties:
A few bombs were dropped near the East Anglian coast but did little damage and nobody waş Seriously hurt.-Reuter.
GAVE HER CAKE TO LONELY SOLDIER
It was the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Alec Townsend, of the Greyhound Inn, Brighton, but their iced cake was eaten Instead by half a dozen lonely R.A.S.C. drivers
in a billet miles from home.
Mrs. Townsend had treasured say how regrettable is that we have the icing sugar she had saved for
sures to relieve the present situation and 1 believe that such measures will meet with success.
Before I resume my seat I wish to
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and all shipping generally and not to Cause any obstruction or inconvenience that can be possibly avoided." In spite
found it necessary to cut down a good of this assurance there have been many The position of firewood in the domes
deal of Public Works Extraordinary complaints against
te afe of the Chinese community is not so much as a I gather from the Financial Secretary
the administration
desire to balance the From the general' second in importance to that of rice
budget but as A11 ffort 10 conserve. that he is quite satisfied with the yield of this department.
publie these complaints have been | The situation has of the Property-tax, the Salaries Tax
Zone from bad to although in a very small way, the much worse during the last few months. This needed foreign currency mainly directed against the difficulty
and tonnage and the Corporation. Tax Indeed Cor- potations Tax alone 's expected to bring in obtaining the necessary forms, the might have been caused by seasonal for the successful prosecution of the
FIB the Chinese New no less than $5,500,000 against an usual delay in issuing certificates and demands such
realise that the tendency to Year but I have no doubt that it has day is for Government to play a more estimated return of $6,000,000 frmat the The insistence that photographs
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been astrovated by the activities of pronounced parl Tu The social and fate Taxes imposed by the War
been It has Venue Ordinance Ax fur as I can see the shipping concerns they have been unscrupulous profitems.
economie Nfe of the community and to connected with the undue delay in the proved that the east of frewood Im-shoulder increased responsibilities and the Financial Secretary's main disup pontment 15
1 hope that with the EIT connection with Qu examination of passengers' papers and ported into Hong Kong including freight additional duties. smallness in The return of the Profil
the absence of posting Inmmigration and all landing charges is for below return of peace it would be possible
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officers on buurd ships to facilitate such the prevailing market price demanded for this Colony to go forward with such Winch in expected to produce a
of $900,000 only
examination It should.
I understand increased responsibilities and additional The Chinese member on by exorbitant dealers. The Executive Council as well as my that Goverpment are now taking mea- dutles. however, he remembered that the War Revenue Ordinance has only been La operation for less than AYCHE that
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It is quite true that busiDESNES clude all non-corpuration firmas and professional men. who tho
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salaries Tax, but I must not be over- looked that the majority of these non- corporation Hrus consists mainly of small shop keepers whose capital, os a Tule is small If there
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evasion and unfair incidence, I venture to think that the remedy is to amend the War Revenue Ordinance,
Your Excellency has already recon- stituted the War Revenue Committee i order that the Committer
may res examine and advise Government on the exising measures of war taxation in the light of the Colony's present finan- cial position and the actual receipts from the four taxes imposed by the War Revenue Ordinance. It is the task of this Committee to find somne prac. eul solution and to give Government advice as l the best means of raising revenue to meet War expenditure under prevailing conditions. I will therefore abstain from making further comments,
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With regard to the provisions for the daily collection of nightself to be un- dertaken by Government I understand that such provisions would not be car- ried out if there were no sign of any Improvement 13 the Colony's finance I do not think that i is quite correct to say that the Urban connell, of which 1 am a member, has definitely sug- nested to Government to put 11 1:1- CHEBBE of one per cent. on rates b order to meet expenditures
this undertaking. As a matter of fact when this mutter was brought up for con- sideration, the question of finance had not been discussed. I consider that t is not fair to place the entire burden on property owners without regard to the fact that some of the tenements have water Blush systems, I wish tu point out that this responsibility of daily collection of nightsoil, if undertaken by Government, is a service rendered to particular class of the community
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and that class should pay for it.
My Chinese colleague the Hon. Mr. Tan has spoken very fully on this subject, While I agree that the scheme sponsored by the Urban Council is an Improvement, I feel that unless Gov. ernment Is in a position to carry out that scheme in full, the alternative method mentioned by Mr. Tam in deal- ing with the existing system appears to be a practical one,
Primary Education
In the matter of education I welcome the provision for a new subsidy code for vernacular schools which makes generous provisions for subatdies to schools on the basis of approved ex- penditures on salaries of teachers and rent of school buildings. As a mem- ber of the Board of Education I firmly believe that in the educational system of this Colony it is Chinese primary education, which urgently needs develop- ment. At the present time the develop- ment of Chinese primary education is left almost entirely in the hands of pri- vate enterprises and I do not think that a satisfactory systein can, be achieved without Government taking a leading part in its development. I wish there- fore to urge · Governmont that, as soon as the financial position permits. it should proceed With the programme for the 'development of Chinese primary education. This programme has', been carefully considered by the Board of. Education and submitted to "Göyü‡n- ment by the Director of Education with: the full and unanimous support of its
· members. I. ventúre to think that "thío programme is not an extravagant one and does not call for heavy expendj», ture which will be spread over for a number of years.
I consider that, of all expenditures on 'social services, expenditure on Chi- nese primary education should receive frat,consideration. If we were able to
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her cake.
Then she heard of a lonely sol- dier with nobody to make him a cake for his twenty-fourth birth- day, which be had planned to | celebrate in his billet with Army
pals.
Mrs. Townsend brought out the icing sugar, made the birth. Jay cake and
15lb. packed a parcel for the party. "I just saved a little of the le- ing sugar for a cake to celebrate when my own son Terry gets his first leave," Mrs. Townsend said.
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