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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1980.
BUDGET DEBATE IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCILI
(Continued from Page 3).
.83 cents
It only works out of 83 a day, and it must be a pretty poor business which does nal produce sumcient profit to cover such a smibil levy,
A little crude
Expenditure.
The
Was
The
recommendation
·prospect of Hong Kong eventually Implemented - In: the¦obininingą a larger share this year "As regards the proposal that new Pensions Ordinance, No. 50 than hitherto of the available rich a review of the whole question of 1049, but, as was explained in has made possible Government's of Government expenditure on the Objects and Reasons to the decision to extend the rationing Education should be under Bill, and further emphasised by system to include all persons with taken,
preferably by experts The Attorney General in introdie- one year's residence in the Colony. from, England, Government *14.fox
fax the Bill, the innovation This will bring the rationed popu sympathetic towards this re
to be regarded as axlation up to a Lotal of 1,750,000.
qlest but would first Ilkajto oblĮpelet med and it has been made The extension will come into force
Education. This will 'beidǝne.
10
inents this year. p. respect of ver of children still, seeking, ad. 6th this Colony 35 02-Pisen in price has been_over-|
we now
our.
"This, form of taxation is n He crude, bit. It would in fact
minimum constitute a
profits
tain the views of the Director of clear 'do' officers in the service on April 1. tax. It would produce a fairly
Education and or, the "Board of that there may be a reversion "During the recent increase ip substantial revenue but it would
the previously existing age-limit rice prices public attention has not cover the Budget deffelt,
the experiment does not prove been focussed almost entirely on which has now
rison to
the prices of Chinesu rice and thif Dr. S. N., Chau, urged, that satisfactory by June, 1931. $8,899,603 for owing to the im- greater efforts should be made
the introduction of the fact that Government rice has not possibility of completing pay further to reduce the large nlim-i
io retire
tire before reaching looked. the Kal Tak comperisation on mission to schools. No ofe could the normal age of retirement have "Government has, in its recone the 'trale originally contémplated,
|éxpatriate | negotiations with Siaun, stressed which, was partly due to perve more in agreement with tileko been received, 22 from exp
ain, but Ini dio) and 13 from local officers. Retire-the need for 'better quality rlee remarks, than sons who had agreed to take land in exchange suddenly de- Brst place tliere la a limit Both
cases, but of these nine hind reach- Colony hitherto, „"An improve- Apr.elling to take cash, Select Com to the rale or building and also act has been approved in 25 than has been allocated to this
to', the number of childreu,
for ed milec have had no alternative whom we should provide Blacon 50 age of 60.and could havement in the rationed i rico can}
retired under the
therefore be expected. previous legisla but to recommend the re-vote
"It is probable that
tion which
"On "the one hand the freo retirement permitted of a further $1,395,310 for these
have "places for tall our real re- between 60 and 55. The net effect market in local iries is becoming payments.
sidents, but, obviously the more of the Introduction of retirement of lees consequence in "There is also our contribution places, we provide the more pro at 45 is, therefore, that 10 officers economy, and may th-fact dis- towards the cost of the reinforce-ple will come Into the Colony to have taken advantage of it 55 for appear nitogether, while on Din
of the garrikon" to Be take advantago.of then
the proposed while,
is admitted that there and 10 cases are under considera-other, and Government is doing everything possible to extend tion. I can, assure that the situa business registration, fee would is a Talde number (probably tion will be closely watched, rationing and to improve the require augmentation on quite a 50,000 or noru) not in school, pending a review in the first half quality of rationed rice. I must considerable scale, perhaps by ais probable that there is no very of next year.
stress again that the maintenance modification of Government's great number of these who wish
of adequate day-to-day rice sup- original proposal. This, however, to go to school for whom there Work on airport
plies and of rice reserves for this will require further examina
Colony is of the utmost Import- ure no places. tion.
"Preliminary work in conneq.c
ance-vital importance-and” that! tion with the new airport har auch supplies and reserves can started and * Burvey Party only be maintained by Govern- now investigating conditions on
The sluation. In 1030 in auto the site. This survey is likely different from what it was in 1641, and we connot--we daro: "Meanwhile, a
á number of fi- portant and intricate technical leave such a vital matter in problems are being studied and in the hands of private enterprise. this we are receiving much valu- No objection able assistance and advice from authorities in the United King- dom. Future progress on this great project depends on the results of the survey whith alone cah de-
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ment
considered,
TO
Ense,
It is estimated that there are "Government still holds the 200,000 children of 5-14 years of view that we should aim at aage "bilt that, at least 30,000 of revenue for the coming year there are working and would not uf at least $204 million, and come to school in any is proposed to increase the Ro- There are nearly 150,000 children venue Total to this gure in the in
-school.
schools uto "Two terslonai final print of the Estimates.
educationally unsound and this is "As I have
explained, Gov-fully realwed by Government. ernment will give further con- The Director of Education is put
itional s12 Cinding a 10-year plan, which is which this additional $12 million designed to meet this situation should be produced, and in doing and the shortage of places, before the views expressed by the Board of Education at its next
sideration to
012
to take six-months.
Unofficial Members in the course meeting 'N Chou suggested that termine whether the site is suit-
of the debate will receive full consideration,
S.
give further con-able.
**Some legislation will unded from expatriate, Is, a further period of about six
btedly be necessary, and Honour-as able Members will have a fur-civil servants, ther opportunity for debate wheh this is introduced."
MR. TODD
to the housing of local," "If it is suitable, as we think it
months will be required to pre-. "It is perhaps not generally pare the first accurate estimates recognised that out of a total of of the ultimate cost of the airport, rome 31,300 Government servants and these estimates will require (including approximately 1,000 consideration by Government expatriate officers, 3,300 tempor- ury officers and 4,367 daily palli employees) we provide accdin- "The problem of an over-large modation för atout 4,500, or ane prison population, with consequent Afth of the total, and that of these over-crowding, continues to be 3,400 are local smeers on month- with us. Preliminary examinationly or daily pay. shows that the problem to be overcome is mainly one of reduc-
Mr. Todd said:
ing the number of short-term
sentences served in default of the of lines for offences payment against pubile health, unlicensed hawking, etc.
די
ment.
"Provided wa are satisfied that the measures. "which Government is taking for, the procurement of rice will main ? tain adequate day-to-day sup plies, at a reasonable price, and an adequate Faserive, there would be no objection "to the private Importers entering tho! purchasing field in Blam with a view to the importation of certain grades of rice which ans nut the subject of agreement between this Government and While a very rough guers of
the Blamède Government, 4,000,000, has been made, 1 can- not attach any reliability, to This
"One thing is certain and that gure, nor, I regret, Is it possible is that the quantiles of rice which
would be available would be. at this stage to say when the new limited, Government is giving this airport may be in operation, but It will not be before 1052,
matter careful
consideration and "Mr. Watson has stated that the further statement will be made
in the near future. of the Government continuance
"The maximum amount of rien "The position so far as the monopoly in rice is contrary to the which could be produced in the Police это concerned 'con.
and he advocates a Ic fraction of the Colony's require tinues to
turn do free trade tin
this completion of new stations and commodity.
key
mietits in, thir commodity that But in maintaining Government would pre the erection of blocks of mar the purchase and importation of courag
prefer to To
rice
Police stations
thiprave with the roles of English mercantic New Territories is euch a minute.
Fled
provide
quasters.
on an inter-Governmental Courage the production of more quarters for the remaining 17. basis Hong Kong does not stand les rather than rice. This 000 would be prohibitively ex-
It is doing through the Govern- xnione.
Wholesale ment
Marketing pensive, nor is there any cer-
"The export trade in rice from Schemea scheme which has boen tainty that local Government serventi would
continue to Siam and Burma is still firmly in much erilized but, one which the hands of the govertiments of Government considers should ba want quarters provided at a sen-
time of high construction coate those countries and we are follow continued and ane witch can and if the present over-crowdinging a polley which is in line with will be improved and by the
small "A
inter-departmental committee, under the chairman- ship of the Solleftor-General, is now sitting to Investigate meu- gurta which might be taken to effect a reduction in the number of persons serving prison tepces, having regard both for the need for economy and for the desirability of ensuring that re- spect for law and order is fully maintained.
Prison tabour camp
be
mers. E.
Torry
In the Colony were to be eased. that of every otfity rice-import- supply of fertilisers to the for- "The present demand may only ing country, in the Fur East.
and thereafter the "It is true that since the end of temporary
Gov- Invited saddict with 1949 the International Emergency ernment's attention to the publi- taxpayer might be a large number of blocks of quar- Food Committee Has no longer city recently given to alleged ters for whom no occupants could been allocatistice on a world exorbitant rent demands which "If the committee is of the be found. On previous occasions, basis. But the decision to end al-are being made on farmers in the many years ago in the location by International agree New Territories, and pointed out opinion that additional, prison uneteen twentles, when Government was taken during the sum the harmful effect such demands
odnilitedily accommodation is required, It in empowered to consider whether men rented one or two blocks mer of 1049 when food prospects would have on the efforts to make of quarters for Chinese clerical in the Far East looked much the Colony, self-supporting in a might be made
hey did not they
as brighter than they do today. In the type or accommodatlott, popular as might
vegetables and to reduce the cost "be"
and
to the consumer. for, Instance a prison labour the came, provided for presons Im recht was abandoned.
Surplus tice “dröp considerable expansion in prisoned in default of payment the number of Government of a fine or for other short-ters for exe
exparecessitated by the
officers term prisoners.
class
of person had nowhere to live
rse to
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"Sir Man-kam Lo made some remarks in his speech last Wed-, nesday, about the relative cost to Government of pupils in Grant-- not
I
in-Ald and in subsidised, schools, the Administration...would have coming to the conclusion that the broken
Walsing Eco for this area is very grave,
Exaggerated Voporti
the
Last summer It looked as though rice supplled in the Par "The District Commissioner East Would Be sufficient to meat| stated that, in his view and that the requirements of all natione: or his "Diatrics Officers, the re
"ports' of farmers being exploited; Today, dus to undottled condi tions In Burma and Indo-China;
by
their landlords are, greatly! South East Asia's exportable
exaggerated; in, fact, no-com- wurplus of res has d
"dropped trons plaints had reached his office
regarding rent incrðnuts, as a result of, who- In 1950 f Unitkely to us more
5,000,000 tons pra-War to wh
"Rents in the New Territories cost of the former is five times the lesale resignations. But the local
White China,
are paid in kind rather than in cost of the latter.
atait are in a. different position.
alwaysdencianoy territory In
cash, so
so that, generally sponklag. "On the figures quoted the They all have somewhere to live,
rice, in faced with what has where It is alleged that repta bave mathematical result arrived at is though in many cases that sc-
bed as possibly one been raised,
·been described correct, but it fails to take into commodation, is inadequate or
enhanced prices famines in her hia of rice or vegetables are the cause of the worst fan account certain factors which the far too expetisive.
tory. figures themselves do not show. In↑
of the Hong
"The need to secure supplies of and not the effect of the so-caTICE
increase in rent.. the first place, Grant-in-Ald cover kong the whole difference between aparat step in the direction and in a few months it may be of the high local cost of living.
"Lastly, I
to this question proved expenditure and income tackling the problem as a whole, from tuition fees whereas the and it is hoped that this will be desperate. Government would be Government agrees that the policy
.by
similar falling in its duty if in these cir- of meeting Increases in the cast, Subsidy is not less than half the followed
Fother schemes, Proposals" ére
it took the slightest of difference.
under cumstances edrisideration for devoling
Teoding the pot "Were all schools subsidised 100 of the Valance of Hong Kong
ig part ik where
Koby
is concerned. per cent the cost would be $2,800,
becomes more THERE is "no doubt that it m 000
Instead of $2,300,000. In the allocation from Colonial Develop
self-supporting - In second place, the Grant Aladament And Welfare Funds to a
chools
Engilsh and Vom- housing Scheme for the lower and were permitted, to Import vegetables and as the Vegetable teach in
members of the community rice freely from Slam and Burma Wholesale Marketing Schentre Is ploy expatriate star for Whomine Director of Public Works the price of what is called free improved, it is hoped to reduce
of vegetables, higher
It cheme capable, of considérable ly. But ook further ahe. While the focul still also rectly expansion, it the need for Tercas-alk months with free trade in grave cordeer the high-price or 50 per cent higher salaries thaned accommodation continues.
there would finve been over-
local fresh dish, which is bes Qiefr fellow tebelters in 'imibsidised
lleved to be due to the skirtätiợp schools.
Rofilöthent dee countries would have sold what
of a of buyers who secure they had; the cupboard would be
control of
the man that “Rr. (M::M. Watson is permire, foth here and in Shim and turbed "by what is heara resivertinn.
population allow on
can
result in an
"As the monetary
more
pauges did Iëve die necessary, in already at work on a bio market rich would fäll gignißcont=| the povernment, Vows with?
And whose salariés fre
Were these yanked Ve forflite Picrcaso, to
* Increased est,
alpvnnco the thuc, Wo
nearly $3,600,000.
2ng and the stapplying||
by auction at the Wholesale Fish Markét.
garding the rule that GovernIt is essential piút We Should
"A committed is being appointed mant-officals may "retire at the receive a glamitée, le the shape to devise ways and means of activities of this
children as "against "35,00,000. Jaja söf, 45 "Kris take their pan- of a contract with the exporting soimatto ulging Hown the brica
Grant Schools For 13,750 Chlidren, Jalóni..
Umes as pluch "In paragraph 163 of the Ro-untry for our minimum require and en the bird place, in the fort of the Salaries, Commission ments of rice. This, I am glad to of fish
on sayy fee for the
has alreadyferent Siamese
Our
gahools be per cent 33947, the Commies ment should confice is already burity in the flesh and that they
pect
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"Mr. Casildy said the other day, var for in another place, that many mer Lavoured of tho pupils are receiving the leo that
johants find (price'controt ä secondary education asamipst have power to call upon
"FTO primary education in the sub-officer to retire at 45 or hereafter
and good
it in 20 neo die! that of think
Jiko and that offloors should have the sidised schools.
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aties rice should be
in Hong Kong.utrering public vida. and a half times be grouss the Mangy
herth cost in a Government Primary | Fyny za kuo
Approval by hele hcm cly the navicial burden in the merchants ba
hi chamo baholating to frany millions of
buld like this chongof School Compared in this way to saugo wh
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royaingly been instructed to maks. which the Hon. Member would manure of dislocation of the
Price Controller has ac public servies „swould produit * Bellove, se po
many; dübers made » usordt táir!
fuller use of, his bowery wilhje view to stopping this toodancy to exploit-barçonsumer
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