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Summary Of Despatches On Municipal Council
There must be many people who have either not
read the published despatches botwoon Sir Mark Young, former Governor of this Colony (and the originator of the present scheme for the setting up of a Municipal Council) and Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
There must also be a large number among those who did read the despatches, who retain little memory of the details..
Prices
The following is an unbinsed (2) In the anime statement in House of Comment, Mr. These are the facts. Toe precist. Let this serve as a corrective [Unech Jones announced his e- of Sir Mark Young's ortance understatements against misinformed comments about proposal for a modification in the of the Lekislative Her viltution a matter, the importance of Council, so as to secure on that which, to the immediate as to pay a more direct and propor- well-etely increased representation the far-distant future being of this Colony control of the unofficial community, AL crint, undicial members, not he overstressed,
eight in number, are *x༢ ༣༥༠ཎ}iརྟvt
of posted by the Governor
me is customarily there eight, recommended by the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerzu une by the Unomemt ist es of the Pence t
was Sie Mark's proposal that of recommendation e practier Despatch
of unofficial members by public lle beches which hus no legal nu- Bority-shouirt be legallsed, and! extended
that (wo further ༥་ members could be recommended the new Municipal Couńell.
of the interchange of despateties Constitutional
Oll
the propNET obumiges in Hong Kong.
A. DOCUMENTATION.
Of Hong Kong Despatch No 143, dated October 22, 1946 treven melosum)
Colorunl Ofice No. H K 22, dated July 3, 1947 B. DESPATCHES.
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(1) In his statement, made i the love of Cummen of March
Mr Creech Jones at- 5, 1947. Hounced his agreement with the Su Brit. Terommetadations
lack Young for the establish ment of a Municigial Council, i
salalay base the wide Possibly, which would grobally at the present Delarue as many functions of the Central Gazern- ment as can appropriately be as- rignot to , and would embrace The In its Administrative forex whole Island of Hong Kong, the Kowloon reded territory and
the New Temitopes pinr! known as New Kowloon. (The Forthern Boundary of New Kuw Joon follows the 500 faol contour foothills. of the Kowloon dropping down to the sea, to thế at Lyemun, and to the hat- bau, to the West, at anelukuki The remainder of the area the New Territories, being ruscat 1. character, is not considered suitable for immediate inelacion,
of
and
M
V
members
Fifteen Members
Thira, the proposed new Council would in Legislative future consist of seven official two of the present nine losing their seals on the transfer of their departmente to the Municipal Councity and eight unofficial members. After
megaurc this change, a only be carried against unàn). mous opposition by the uns. cial members by the Governor exercising bath and his casting vote.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1949.
CORRESPONDENCE
The Editor takes no responsiblity for views expressed lettare by correspondents, and by no means necessarily wplih them.
mny
Wishful Thinking
world
and,
in
dgreei
Fireworks Dealer Fined $2,700
The fire at No. 35 Staunton Street on February 14 and the dooth of a foki of the shop, named Wong Shoa-kun, werd tho súbjects of an inquiry at Central yesterday with Mr. F. X. d'Almada sitting as Coroner.
Inspector Simpson conducted
for the Fire Brigade, Mr. H. the inquiry and Mr. Brooks Capstick for the owner, Wong Chna Ken Firm.
The Coronor returned a verdict
Immediately after the Inquiry, of death due to the firo, Wong Chan, owner of the Wong
My syntially, however, snoti gavo place to a very different Sir-With the publleation of a Joint manifesto by Mao Tse-tung feeling engendered by the us and his satellite parties leaders rominent businessman in this
Colony,"
"revented being that in the event of a Husso lectured to by Such a Person." American war, Ching under their
What
follows may seem a little leadership
Vie will fight for
mennt in Krenilin, the world should de- Personal, but it is finitely give up the wishful think-friendly spirit and believe the "China Mail" is sumelently an ing that China'n teds are nation-the site of the "little man" to let
Chau Kee Firm, through his law alists and agrarian reformers,
Uulear England and the United it pass.
A police constable, Pui Yuen-yer Mr. Capstick pleaded guilty I wender whether Mr. Lee ro-
of storing freworks States are prepared to surrender,
without Teence, storing of pro- their supremacy in the interna-ally thinks that, Just because he kai said that 10.25 am, un Feb to the charges
fireworks and of C- tonal power polities, they must has been lartunnte enough to re-ruary 4 he was on duty and saw
coining out of No. 33 lbited change their China policy im talo or acquire a afstantial in-smoke
at -time when Indit or Staunton Street. He immediately mitting a public misellet.
Brooks rak mediately. Such la
Prosecuting Mi change may come
Fire Bridge arid China's millions have been re- telephoned the
that the Fire Brigade takes a be re
yel too late.
duced to the borders of starva- Central Police Station. There was The English-speaking
crowd
outside the very serious view of the case. It of people
been for the ludiscri their potential tion and when university pre- 05 find
lullars shop
ang
was under the mit hnd not
minute storing of the Barworks, enemies one fourth of the popu Censors get a hundred
a month, (Hans Kom)
he is pression that all the fokis bud
the boy's life might have been Jation on cartlı.
saved. It is useless to blame Bolshe- entitled to a greater degree of left the shop.
say, teacher Inspector Penfold of the Em- vian and its viclous propaganda politeness than, ntone. Anglo-American diplo- whose salary brackets him with ergency Unit said when he went telephone operator who to the address with the Emergency macy, under the ativice of "Old
Mr. Lee's dre
Unit, he saw #moke cumming out rosted China Hands," has been alming at
fline. Fire- Politeness is always a desirable but there was no the erushing of pro-Anglo-Ame~
since ality, but I fail to see way the crackers were exploding at the in China rican influe
of it is even more reprehen- rear of the premises,
S.1. Fleming took the jos pa Tuan Shih-kai was granted the sible when exhibited towards "a With the conclusion of this Loan, towards anybody else? Mr. It's way
prominent businessman" than pers and threw Democracy based on Anglo-Ame- knowledge of English, excellent He went back to the pollee yan After that there to get an axe. įrican Idealogy propagated by Dr.
entity. Sun Yat-sen was forever a hostile though it appears, is not perlups
a terrifc explosion and quile sufficient for him to realise was Sun that "person", used as he used everything in the shop burst into The retallations by Dr.
explosion the) Yat-sen's Kuomintang in opposit was n terin employer in the flames. After the
rigid class distinction) Emergency Unit emuld not do any-
There is no reason for pen- Tion to China's participation in a
by manservants wishing to indicate thing but waited for the arrival of
simism concerning business Central Powers] war coinst the in 1P17, in the Durenteged seizure or other Ineked the means to dress
to their mastern that some caller the Fire Brigade.
Young Wing-kam, n shop fok conditions in the East today, foreign-controlled Chinese Maritime Customs in 1923, and in hoved a "lady" or "genti-testined that he saw the docensed according to Mr. Paul Rykens flour of the base of Lever Brothers and Unilever Where the cuplayinent of Chiang Kal- Is" of the period and, therefate, sweeping the
there were a case Brothers, Limited, of London. has become a peculiarly deroga- thek and Wang Ching-wel, z
Mr.
who
patted Rykens. I cannot, however, of firecrackers and some juss pa- tory term, parded as othing but Red" unti
that Yeung said
ites saw through Hong Kong yesterday night over by Shanghai's Tat- altogether rid myself of the feel- pern pans and compradores, did noting that that is just how Mr. Lee the deceased smoking a cigarette en roule to Bangkok, hans visiteri
and inter
Smoke rominu, Malaya, FDW
Infunestu,
the inove "Old China Honda" a bit.
If in some future order of so- out of the basement.
Philippine Islands in the past few elety, even politeness is regiment-
weeks. He is making a survey ed and graded according to the
of business
conditions for his birth of the recipient, it would
Reorganisatien
Loan
1013.
lack
dinys t
mant it.
i
would businessman
into the rond-
He Want Back
Chiang Kai-shek was alded in staughter the masses, Japan was permitted to grab and bold Man
lie shouted for the deceased to churia, could
Anglo-Amerienu ship-
be interesting to discover whether run. The dercased ran but went ments constituted 50 per cent of
*prominent the tonnage to carry the Mikado's be entitled to a greater or lesser back to let this packet and after that he was not seen again. of China degree of that valuable convnodity forces in the invasion
Wong Chau, owner of the Wong made use than teachers, hospital orderlica his original until the Shogunates
of American bombers to destroy
America and ethers who devote their lives Chatt Kes Finh, said that he had Pearl Harbour
WC been in paper and crackers rich
to the service of the community business for 30 years, both as a Preifle Fleet.
hope of any of the sub-wholesale dealer and retailer. without hope States Lock United Then the
Cross-examined by Mr. Brooks, over the leadership from Great slantini rewards frequently enjoy-
ed by "prominent businessman." ong admitted that prior to the itain in the Chinese situation.
war there was a ire at the same The ghosts of "Old China Hands," whose services, to say the least,
can hardly be considered greater. the ghosts at those spokesmen for
May
I suggest to Me, Ler that the Treaty Port Talpuns and Com- politeness I memis consideration for pradores, were however still pre-others coupled with certain dominant. Chiang Kai-shek, like gentlemanly humility and that if Yuan Shih-kal, WOS picked up he were to show such considera- and
armed
butcher to
Chinese
tion to
without en- everybody, masses in general and pro-Anglo- quiring too closely into the finan-shooting up to the first and second On arrival, he found the dames American ideologists in particular. cial and social status of the re-
Between March 5. when Creech Jones made hi.. Best Staten ent f
IN Parliament. and Juls 3. 1947, when he signed his
Curther coll detatch, he gave "sideration to the despatch of Sir Mark found. and what follows combines the effective points of buth papers.
C. THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
(1) There 10
single Jaunielpal body. That part of the
Nove Territories situated to
in the North of the Northern boundary of New Kowloon will be adminis
Officer tered under the District leer system, unless and to #1 is shown desirable that it be brought within the area of the Municipal
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Premises when over a dozen lives were lost.
Mr. Copstick said that his client been in the business for over 30 years. The Breworks wera re- Jurned to him after the Chinese New Year and ho had Intended to send them back to Macuo
Was $2.700 by Mr. d'Almachu,
WAN [4] ${n! of
NO REASON FOR PESSIMISM
Bros,
M Rykeng
Mr.
found conditions more upset in Indonesia than in any of the other countries he bad visited. However, he commented that trouble in Malaya was dis- rupling
business, too.
Unilever Brothers plan to build a factory in Kuala Lumpur seme time in the next two years. The land has already been purchased, The company has factories How in. Slam. the Philippine Istands and Indonesla,
After a short slay in langkok,
Civing evidence, M. Brooks std that the Fire Brigade receiver. Hykens will be returning to
ed អ
that are had London, message broken out in Staunton Street.
With the murders of Professora cipients, he would probably AurtПoors of the buil
Yang Chieu, Li Kung-puh and himself amply rewarded, in kind. Wen I-tao by Chinng Kai-shek's
JOHN BLOFELD. Gestapo financed by American moncy, Anglo-American govern- ments already lost their war and ully in
ns Russia was concerned,
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The successes of Chinese Com- munists were not so much due to their superiority in warfare and
FOOD AND FUEL PRICES
They broke open a wire netting to the basement and found the body of a Chinese boy inside a large drum in a.disused lavatory In the yard.
Fireworks
"The indiscrimate storing of the
Food Bay fiel costs compiled by the fireworks added considerably to the rapid aproad of the fire, which possibly started from the
Labour Offer for the work ended March 2
Hice and Flour .... Vegetables Bult Cabbage
1 The Commeil would. from it's inception, lake over the pre- sent responsibilities of the Urban Counell--maintenance of public government as due to the fallow:- health in relation to food, control hatred entertained by Chinese of lawn cleansing. conservancy,
for fam } masses
the Kuomintang's nuisances and domestic sanita- tits, and the licencing of certain and Wall Street.
Gestapo supported by Washington on To
these premises and trades.
The exodus of respectable Anies wohl be added, forthwith. the
the rican-returned students Bre brigade, parks, 'gardens and Red area is the prima facie evid- This informative booklet describe the recreation grounds, the licensing
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Note:-Mr. Creech Jones points
to
The first line of Anglo-Ameri- can defence in Asia should be the Yellow River valley if not Manchuria. Now the Reds have come down to the Yangtse.
Are White House and Downing Street going to find out some new remedies?
"A.D. WOODENHEAD".
Telephone, Complaints Sir-1 Began to rear very put that, in respect of such mat-sympathetically Mr. T.Y. Lee's ters as town planting, education, letter in Tuesday's "China. Mall" social welfare and, in particular, concerning the alleged rudeness of public works, not only will the telephone operator, especially as definition of the delegated res- amyself have frequently had rea- ponsiblilty need to be very clear, son to deplore the manners of but action on these, subiccis, by many people in Hong Kong. the Municipal Council will need to be in strict conformity with general polley laid down by the Central Government.
Delegation Process
(3) Mr. Creech Jones suggests The study reaalses but that the process of handing over dimo. and the moderate le pute this of functions by the Central Gov- waique Course within the reach of 27877-ernment to the Municipal Coun-
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annual the effect of its past ne- tions...
(Continued on Page 11)
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Fish Vurk
Totat
2.2 rattles #44100 | basament," concluded Mr. Brooka. [
130 .1460
3.3900
coa
2027
.0320
10
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.7000
$12.3870
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for Lever Brothers, Limited.
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