THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3RD, 1909.
HONGKONG
LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Commeil was held yesterday in the "Connell Chamber.
The following were present rim *** EXCELLENOT THE GOVERNOR, SIB FREDERICK Тони DEALTRY LUGARD, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL & G C.B. A.D.C. (General Offer Sir F. MAY, EC.M.G. (Colonial
Territories.".
the frof the contractor and to scoslerate the complotion -6. $0.50 coats a gallon with the addition er duty well belgi.
aight oenta forterery one per centum above 55lise the impropriety of making star macadam Diasion of Pabllo Works weld that this qua- of the structures. It is of vital importance, affect per cent, of alcohol by weight on any native actor tappeto the entrance to Government tion-the third of arrini--was af by ing variously the financial state of the Colany Liquer containing above 55 per cent. of Bicohol by weight
House Why, then, upon the thrukhald of the the answer venghuated, to the second....... Am I would go further than the lover of the 6. $0.05 per gallon on all native liquor dis Colony ? This is a glaring instance of that want able to see that the answer to the second resolution, who has referred to the bay factory. tilled in the New Territories, not including of a proper sense of the fitness of things, con- ction had any relation to the third at all. On at least two different occasions, spreading New Kowloon, for consumption in the said cerning which there is justigable public com- They Hon. the Director of Public Works did over many weeks during the last sighteen Farther resolved that on xative wines and plaint. The Praya opposite Royal Square in the ostoh the drift of the latter question. If he months, practically the whole section of the spirits declared or labelled as belonging to any city's front doorstep. It should be kept clean had he would have foreseen that it could not band-not only the block action of the of the above divisions the appropriate daty and swept clear. It is no more suitable for kuch ho no smelly disposed of that it was certain to herein laid down shall be paid except that on purposes than is the front doorstep of privato Fap again, as it has done in the resolution any native liquor however declared or labelled house suitable for cooking the dinner. Walking The fact that he understood, the question to found by the Government Analyst or each person
refer only to the improper occupation of from time
on round that part of the plot snclosed by a as the Governor may
to time appoint in that behalf to contain more alcohol than palisade the stranger would wonder why the the workshots as tenements argued an im declared or labelled as Daging the sidewalk, old cart wheels, and stone read the ousados, and I have therefore fort, con- shall be in which the amount of alcohol found has rollers, drain pipes and logs of wood. And from trained to refer to it again, and to indloste the
paid the appropriate delonging, there placed it; each division, in ench onse shall re- what he saw on turning to the right, he might, which underlay the original question, of presont native liquor of the limit of i
and on definition or description of such
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tar has been turned into autory HIGH What the connection between the Law Courts
SeaBed Mr. F. A. HAZELAND (Attorney.is permitted in the division to which it to lesson is allowed to leave about, outside on Perfect realization of the far larger sapoet of work is not poufined to the area set aside for
Hon.
General)
Hon. Mr. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial Tree wurer)
Hon. Mr. P. N. H. JoREs (Director of Public Works).
and the List Offee is with a manufactory of bir mesdam I do not know. Anyway, the that purpose by the Government, but has been extended into the street. I saw two, three, and at one time four tur beilers, not on the try in cornection with road-making being time has now arrived to improve matters. It heaps of stone mincndam out Hon. Mr. F. J. BADELEY (Capt. Buperinten any native wines and spirite not declared or carried on from the encloure, but also the does not seem to me to be unreasonable to ex: | business of a laundry. He would have noticed peat this. I have no wish to add to the work dangling on bamboos above the weed-grown and worries of any hard-pressed ufficial. To heaps of bricks, which top the palisade on the man overwhelmed with the numbers of files sast, numbers of old conts and pants, and that hep thamaalves upon his office desk when he me round to the west, another awaiting minutos, it may seem hard to be assortiment of similar raga flaunting bezado responsible for what is happening on the hind the status of His Majesty the King. If Prays. But it la not the public's fault if the
Hon. Mr. A. W.BERWIN (Registrar-General), alcohol therein stated and th in reasonably appose that not only was an indas. Ending the Government willing to admit that the sidewalk, but out on the band. Itself, with
dent of Police).
Hon. Dr. Ho Kar, M.B., C.M.G.
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Hon. Mr. E. OsnoRNE.
Hon. Mr. E..A. HEWETT.
Hon. Mr.. MURRAT STEWART
Hon. Mr. W. J. GRESSON,
Hon. Mr. WNA TO, C.M.G.
Mr. C. CLEMENTI (Clerk of Councila).
and confirmed.
MINUTES.
FINANCIAL MINUTES,
on the road, and practically the whole of that section. from Queen's Statue to the road running in front of the Club almost blocked to traffic for weeks at a time. The whole thing had no doubt beon a gross abuse. The Government, in order to facilitate public work, allowed the contractor to make use of a piece of land for public work,
Department imposed upon the Government and eroated a gross nuisance which need not have existed The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- in which I hold a share or two, and I am slightly
labelled as belonging to any division there shall be paid the duty appropriate to the division in which the amount of alcohol found by the Government Analyst or such person as the Governor may from time to time appoint on that behalf has placed it,
Further resolved that still in the New Territorios (not including New Kowloon) shall be prohibited from sending liquor pro- The minutes of the last meeting were raad ducod in these atilia to Hongkong or to Now he had been with me one day recently he wouldyetem on which the Department is worked and either the contractor or the Public Works Kowloon: provided that any licencos of a dis. have seen the crew of a junk, evidently mistak calls for improvements which would evable tillery who desires to send such liquor to Honging the land on which the statuo stands for the Hon. the Director of Public Works to use permit to do be, upon payment of the duties kong or New Kowloon be s charged in Hongkong or New
Now Kowloon, Further resolved that on intoxicating liquors, other than spirits of wine, arrack and native wines and spirits, imported into, distilled, made or prepared in the Colony above proof strength there shall be paid an additional duty of 4 cents for every degree above proof in the case of brandy, 3 cents for overy degres above proof in the case of whisky, and 2 ount for every degree above, in the case of any other liquor.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table Financial Minutes (Nos, 52 to 54), and moved that they be referred to the Finance Com
mitteo.
FINANCIAL
The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on the table the report of the Finance Committee (No. 18) and moved ita adoption.
The COLONIAL TREASURER KOconded, and the motion was agrond to..
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PAPER.
UNSIGHTLY GOVERNMENT LAND.
Hon. Mr. MURRAY' STEWART—I riss to move that in the opinion of this Council in
interested in their finance—set aside two very valuable blocks of land worth lakhs of dollars, which might have been covered by valuable buildings, to the advantage of the financial position of the bank, adding thereby considerably to the revenue of the shareholders. That hand was permanently set aside for the public use and for beautifying our city, which ought to bo one of the most beautiful in the world, as wonderful effects can be obtained with very
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The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of suediate stops should be taken to abate the His cicerous might not be able to tell him,sualy there is no necessity for renewing the light tronble with the semi-tropical vegetation remain there till the officers whin use it can be
H. E. the Governor, laid on the table a mom orandum on the Licensing of Public Houses in Hongkong..
- BYELAWS.
and the resolution was carried.
LIQUORS ORDINANCE BEBULU FION. The COLONIAL SECRETARY—Sir, I rise to
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proprieties of city government, and so imperfect satisfied. And consequently it was hoped
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waste land, using it as a place to spread and his pen Iss and, his eyes more. But this ons mend their sails. If he had been with mes day a larger question. I desire to confine the dis later, he would have seen the Monarch's cassion to the plot in question. Barely, now it effley closely inverted, up to the steps of the might be possible to abste the nuisance orented pedestal, by ramparts of large iron pipes. Often by its present condition. The Post Office is he might have seen, since the beginning of the built up to the top storey. The stifice awaits only N.E. monsoon, smoke from the coal-tar factory its roof and the tower which is to crown it. If pouring over it, or perhaps from the kitchen- as I understand, the only work connected with chimneys in rear. The stranger might have the building of the Post Office now being car questioned the propriety of erecting this staueried on in the yard is the swing by hand
tion Offlos boing put on that site. And I am until it could be treated with proper respect. He of timber-a mothed somewhat antiquated in
afraid the Prays Reclamation Office will have to might eak-How did this state of matters begin those days of bandsaws outting teak like butter nnisauce created by the condition of the plot of Only an eli resident could give him an idea. louse? The contractor will say there is no Government land between the new Law Courts Here I might come in My recollection would other place to saw it. But if he were to receive blocks of land were set aside ou the distinct removed to the buildings which are being pre be that the Public Works Department did tomorrow three months' notice to quit, in that understanding that at the earliest possible pared for them as an adjnnot to the P. W. D. and the Prays." Perhaps the best way to realise the nuisance referred to is to put oneself not start the nuisance now complained of time I think he could find a way. Where there's moment the Hongkong Government would make offices. That can now be done, as the buildings The COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the ap. in the position of a stranger. Any observant They have only incressad and intensified will there's always one. And if the Public garden on the other side of the square, so that are completed, but it could not be done before, proval of the Council to the byelaws under the and interested stranger landing on the Prays, it of late yours. Higher powers in the Govern Works Department had he will they could Statue Square should become not only one of the because there was no zoom in the P.W.D. Then Public Health and Buildings Ordinances, 1903 opposite Queen Victoria's statue, and looking ment began it. I can't remember exact dates and a way to do without the drawing office sights of the Colony, but one of the sights of the portion of the plot nearest the Club was used 09: (a) Depots of Cattle, Pigs, Sheep and first to his right front and then to his left but I recall the circumstances. I remember and the tar factory on the ses front. The, the Empire, for as your Excellency, in the to house the police while an extra storey was be Goste; (b) Comstery Byslaw No. 6, 10 would mark a striking contrast. On his right one who can recall local ovente far longer than I erasure of the drawing office, the removal of speech which you made the other day, stated, ing put on the Central Police Station. I know care to realite. But one need not confess to have the road surface factory, and an issue of there is probably no British colony which can of no other site where the police could possibly and 11 (0) Cemetery Byelaw No. 12. In he would note with pleasure a well-kept grass doing so, he said:-The only alteration in plot bordered with flowers and enclosed by ing taken a continuous Interest in this parti maraling orders to the woodyard, these are show such magnificent works of art representing have been accommodated, as it was necessary our Royal Family as we have in Hongkong for them to be in a central position in the the first Byelaw is an alteration of fossa handsome railing. On his left he would onlar matter for more than a decade. Only the immediate steps called for ander the air. rendered necessary by opening the Mutakok seen rightly conglomeration of ram. then did the question arise What is to sumstances, and this is the meaning of the to-day. If there had been a little delay in city. Then the lot was used by the Volunteers with the plot of Government word abate the meaning which it carries it laying out this land, one could have said nothing, while their Headquarters were being reconstruct- depot. The only material alterations in the shackle and tattered matsheds, piles of
land between the site fixed for the new law when coupled with the word nuisance, but here it goes on year after year. One arousa Cemetery Byelaws were Nos. 10 and 11, which rotting poles, odds and ends of eld timbers were new and, which explained themselves, untidy heaps of granite clippings, weed-grown Law Coarte and the Praya? In those days Thus strengthened it is the equivalent of is made after another. I think the time has have been conveniently placed except on that site.
now arrived when the community at large One hon. member has made the usual by O
a delay in the construction of t Cemetery Byslaw No 12 is the result of recent stacks of bricka; rook-houses-other outhouses Hongkong as prosperons. She occupied a abolish; and thus I intend it to be read in
Office. I think some misunderstanding has legislation in connection with the Cemetery-all the stagnant squalor which collects in a dominating position as a docking centre. She the resolution which I now move. In should call upon the Govend kan
builder's yard. The fact that the tattered mat still held her own as a mart and distributing spealing to it I have hard a far as promise it made and to lay out the square så a for Christian religion.
The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS seconded, sheds are in the occupation of a cartsin Chinese Centre. We were all filled with pride and tain possible to repress feelings of irritation part up proper contre for the magnificent works placed arisen in connection with this, for I find that contractor is advertised in large letters over glory. And when we discussed the question for years. They are not directed against there by the privato enterprise of this Colony, the contract for the superstructure was let in years from that date. It ought, therefore, to be the entrance to them, and the observant of what ought to be done with the plot in any particular office kolder, during those have only to add, sir, that I think the use of August, 1905, and that it was a contract of four I attack 30 individuals, this ground has been abused, and it is only completed by the end of this year, it will prob. stranger, noticing this, might imagine that here question, some of us maintained that the Gov-years or now.
ernment should here erect a building to serve I combat idea the idea that the reasonable now to ask your Excellency to be move the resolution under section 3 (1) of the was a flagrant case of private ownership in tand the purposes of a Town Hall, a noble granite Hon the Director of Public Works is. 4 law good enough to take the matter into your/ably be a year late, but you have to take Ligbors Ordinance; 1909. The duties on
resulting in publis wrong, "Here,” he might
made for adding to its clock tower, native wines and spirits, as set ont in this say, "is a case where it would obviously be right building in the classic style, worthy of the most auto himself and that his enbordinates personal consideration and to see that the land into account, sir, that arrangements were resolution, have been arrived at after careful for the State to step in and to force the owner of beautifully situated city in the King's Domi- and Béontractora in carving out Government promised us, to match the sacrifics made by the 1. would also like to say, air, in defence consideration, and with the advice on the this prominently situated play either to put ittenious. That dream will some day, I hope,work are free to display indifference towards Bank, may became a reality,
The COLONIAL SECRET EX-git, I think of the Public Works Department, that
in congestion with this building the "Gov some less unseemly use or submit to a forced come true, though it asems further off now than considerations which it should be their pride to
we all sympathise with the never of the real-ernment made a new departure, vary often subject of the senior unofficial member and sale." He might sontend, without going all the then. But even then, in the days of prosperity, advance. I sppeal to powers in the fovera
tion and those who have supported him in advocated in this Coumail Chamber and outside, his Chinese colleague, and I understand that these duties are acceptable to the Chinese way with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that we saw that it could not be realised untilment overruling this department to put an
no rights of private ownership should easy with the new Law Courts and Post Office had and, on the plot of ground in question, to desiring that the plot of land to which reference and pat up for public competition the design of the building, the successful architects being after. persons engaged in the trade. The last paragraph them such an utter want of consideration for the been built and the claims of waterworks ondition of things which has grown to be has been made should be tidied up, but I think, of the resolution, sir, refers to an increased
disaritable to the Administration as a whole. air, that the hon. members who hare spokes wards responsible for providing the working Hon. Mr. OSBORNE I beg to second this have not realised the difficulties which arise to drawings for the use of the contractor. Now hon. duty upon all spirits with the exception of a sense of the fitness of things, as to lose and expected that, in the meantime, the arrack, on spirits of wine, nutive wine and out for such a purpose land adjoining a public Government would clear and maintain as resolution. It will no doubt be contended by rapidly growing Colony like this and in a city members complain of the delay. I assort that spirits if they are overproof. This innovation, Square. If the stranger, as well as being no open space the plot in question, as well those who are responsible for the retention of where there is a very little nobuilt-on space the delay in this case is not attributable to say sir, is partly to protect the revenue, and observant and interested, happened also to be as the 75 feet to the west of it. This last, these unsightly structures that they are neces left available for providing for the necessities deficiencies on the part of the Public Works partly to predule undue preference to those distinguished, and had bean met and taken the Government, filled with emulation by the sary for construction wark on the new Post of carrying on works in connection with, not Department. Ono hon. member, sir, complained engaged in the local trade of bottling spirits, as charge of on landing by an omissary of the example set on the other side of Queen Offies. That the site in question is a conveni- the Post Office only, but, let me remind them, of want of continuity in the policy of this Government in connection with batting opart against those engaged in importing spirits in Government, say, by the Hon. the Director of Victoria's Status, actually proposed to do, ent and economical one for the contrastors, the Law Courts also. These two buildings are
Public Works, how could it be satisfactorily just eight years ago. But this Colony suffers Messrs. Sang Lee & Co., is no doubt correct, but by far the largest buildings the constraction of the areas corresponding to what are known as from lack of continuity, the word which to contend that work for the Past (fies can which this Government has over undertakes the Bank Gardens. I say, sir, there has been explained that these wall-kopt gardens were
no want of continuity. Those areas will, with the outward and visible sign of public spirit, Lord Kitchener left as a legacy to the Indian be done nowhere else than in Royal Square is The contractor for the Post Office when he & vestige entered into his contract endeavoured to rent a displayed by privats citizens, and that the Army. A new ruler the plea of necessity an shaardity; for there is not hideous spectacle of disorder lying to the alleged by a Director of Public Works, able of material prepared there, nor an atom of piece of ground upon which to carry on the left was created and maintained by the govern- an engineer, but apparently lacking in artistic material stored upon the ground, which could necessary work in connection with the building ing powers? The Government apologist, re-perception, and so, instead of a garden, a draw." zot squally well be accommodated on any piece and to store some of his material. He tried to calling certain answers to recent questions, ing office, and a matshed for some Indian polion of waste land outside the City limits. If the would say that the nuisance was necessary to whose quarters had to be re-built. Then, when Government, sir, is beat upon continuing this Port Offee, which these were completed, the rebuilding of the nuisance, to the disregard of public sentiment, the work on the new
Volunteer Headquarters was decided upon, and, then let it at least mitigate the offenco by building would be pointed out in the dis tance, possibly with pride, as one whose four the matahoda vacated by the police were utilised interposing a suitable soreen so that we may storys it had taken five years to raise. Passing as temporary headquarters. The public indulg-be spared the indignity of behobling this status along the Prays towards the Club the strangered a hope that it would not be for long. But of our King embroidered as it is. by workmen's would first note a aquat bungalow. He would upon the completion of the Volunteer Head shaatios, by a lumber yard, and by a tar be told that it is a special drawing offles fornew quarters s new reason was found for delay. macadam factory. Post Office plans, the building boing now up. The contractor who had undertaken the build-
Hon. Mr. HEWETT-Your Exoolleney, the Ho would make a mental note that such an ugly ing of the Post Office induced the Government proposer of this resolation spoke of himself as stracture ought never to have been erested in a to let the plot to him. There was then little an old resident boro and that he had giyon prominent position on the sea front. Next his realisation of the length of time it would take something like a decade to the consideration of pany. Their contractor succeeded in coming to in question. (Hear, bear.) In fact, it is pro- this resolution terme with the P. & O. Coy., and he rented the posed at the present time to move them curiosity would be aroused by the sight of to orest the edifice, and no notion that for five this nuisance of which four lean and rusty iron chimneyi stleking up or six years this use of the plot would be an formas the basis, I have given consideration very piece of land which the Government con back fifteen feet from Chater Road, and as corners of a small snclosure immediately in rear there beer, diasatisfaction would have been more two decades we know perfectly well the whole his work, at varying angles, one out of each of the four alleged nosessity of its eventual existence. Had to Hongkong for three decades. For over tractor offered to rent from them to carry on regards the bricks on the strips next the Club required in connection with the Law
of the ugly bungalow. He would look in and see widespread and more cutspoken. Ever sizes so frontage of Hongkong has been more or
Courts, it is proposed to tidy them so that they shall not appear above this level of the 1. $0.15 cents a gallon on the native liquors that each of these chimneys rose out of a then the condition of the plot has been an eye. less of a workshop from the time of the com-
fence, and to remove the polas complained of known as Lis Fan and Sheung Ching and brick oven He would see Band lying about Bore, At Arst, there was no surrounding mencement of that valuable work, the Praga-to offer. on the following sweetened, prepared and and small stones in heaps. He would well coal palisade. The Hongkong public owes the Roolamation scheme, until now, but there is no The COLONIAL SECRETARY-The point of More than that cannot be done without interfer- medicated wines :- No Mai Tsan, Hak No Mui, Meu Kan, tar. He might oven taste it. He would if we improvement due to the erection of these reason why the confusion and inartistic effect my remarks, sir, is to show that some area is ing with the contractor and increasing the cost
Yuk Lan, Ning Man Tsan, Taing Mai, imagine him to have landed before notion of this palisades to the Garter Mission to the visit should be carried on unduly. In order to show absolutely necessary. One hon. member aug. Muk Kwa, San Pang, Wu Tan, Shut rosolation was given. Two simmering caul- paid to the Colony by His Royal Highness you how the Government of that day considered gested that it was quite an easy thing to relegate Courts are completed. When it and the Law L., Bam Kat, Lang Ba Tau, Terons stood out in the roadway smoking over the Princo Arthur of Connaught. I remember the that the work of the Post Offee and presumably the contractor to areas of waste land outside the Courts are completed there does not seem any Kuk, Sam Pin, Tit Ta, Fang Shap and passer-by. Our stranger might have recognised zeal displayed by the Public Works Depart❘ the Law Courts should be more promptly com- city. Of course you can do that, sir, but it immediate prospect of the Gurerament requiring hitherto been used No doubt, sir, the plot of All such liquer shall contain not more than the process of tarring macadam and wondered ment in tidying things up on the eve of his pleted your Excellency's prodocessor, Sir means a very large increase in the cost of your the plot of land for the purpose for which it has 25 per cent. of alcohol by weight.
what this had to do with the work on the Post arrival. The same zoal was once again display Matthew Nathan, four years ago asked me to building if you do. The mover of the resolution and will be made as tily as possible then, pead- 2.80.20 cents a gallon on the native liquor Office. It would have had to he explained thated when His Royal Highness the Duke make a three years' contract for a piece of complained of tar being boiled on the site. It
known as Sam Ching, containing not more this macadam factory is the Public Works Connaught subsequently spent a day or two ground in which I was interested for the was for the construction of the tar road on ing the further dispoest of it by the Government. than 35 per cent. of alochol by weight,
a gallon on the native liquor known Department's separate contribution to the in the Colony. As Hongkong has not since purpose of piling and storing the material Kennedy Road, anch them was no other place undertake absolutely that so nuisance as de Peau and on the following tokens, chaos, for which it cannot be claimed that the boca darosted-out four-togalty routred for the Post Office, became sisemine unless the far should be boiled on the fnod by the hon. members shall ever odeur Renén – prepared or medicated wines:
it is covered by any sort of necessity the entition of the plot in question has believed the Post Ofies would be oncapleted in read itself, which would have created a greater hocane aparently they call anything a primace Ng Ka Pei. Mai Kwai Lo, Sz Kwek Kung, whatever. I do not see how any apologist of been uninterruptedly declining from bad to that time. Those three years have passed, and we nuisance and obstruction than on the premises that is unsightly. But I think the Government
Fa Krat Mak Fa, Yan Chan Lo, and the Government can even exenge it. I suppose word Ko Lenng Kon
Are we faced with the prospect have yet to learn that the Post Office will be som where it was boiled. The occupation of this lot All such liquor shall contain not more than it will be said that, as the Post Office of this process continuing until the Post Offee pleted within the next twelve months. I merely otherwise than as a garden has been complained an undertake to bear in mind and to have due
of alchel by weight. 4. $0.35 gallon on the native liquor knoWN ES
contractor had already made an unsightly xoss, is completed This question was asked at our mention this to show that in my opinion it of by her members. Let me just trace, sir, regard for the feelings of the community in per cent.. Fan Tasu, if containing 50 per cent, ox there was no particular harm in making it last meeting. My aim in asking it was toas justifies the resolution brought forward today the objects for which it has been so occupied. this connection. (Hear, hear.) I cannot, sir, sit down without turning the tables in a small under of alcohol by weight with the ed-
Bat muraly the officials of the Pablic certain, possible, whether the Government re that this public work has been unduly prolonged In the first place, there
manner upon the mover and seconder of the dition of two cents for every one per Works Department should restrain, not lead, atised the extent of, and recognised reasons for, and that the ground has been improperly used Reclamation, a atupendous work for which centum between 50 per cent, and 55 per disorder. They own this duty to the public, growing impatience over the long continued us for other purposes than those for which it was it was necessary to have separate offices. resolution. The mover in his usual elegant style cent, of alcoliol by weight.
{ To their inediate superiors they recognise of this particular piece of public land for the originally set aside, namely, to facilitate the work That is the reason for the Prays Reclams made reference to the particular spot where this
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bottle.
The COLONIAL TREASURED secondod, Hon. Mr. STEWART-Is it contemplated that Casos of whisky should be broken into and the whisky examined to see what proof it is P
The COLONIAL SECRETARY-I don't think, sir, that any extensive system of examination of bottles imported will be necessary. It will be occasionally necessary to examine a sample of a consignment, but it is not considered that trade will be interfered with, or that an additional staff will be necessary to carry out the work
Hou. Mr. HETETT-I anderstand, air, that overproof splrite are over imported from Europe, except in cask. It is not a question of opening cases.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY-That is so. Hon. Mr. HEWETT That, I think, meets the objection raised by the hon. meraber who represents the Justices of the Peace
The COLONIAL SECRETARY-Spirits might
be imported overproof in bottles.
Hon. Mr. HEWETT--That is so. The resolution was as follows
and spirits referred to in Section 3 of the said Resolved that the duties on all native wines Ordinance be repealed and the duties following be substituted therefor : ----
Wai Shang.
1.25 +
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worse.
the sanction of the Secretary of Stata, be set
apart and converted into gardens is BOON LE
over the Law Courts are Anished and that ares
rent a piece of ground belonging to the P. & O. can be tidied up; and as soon as the Praya Be a olemistion Office in vacated and that sias can be Coy.
Hon. Mr. HEWETT-Quite true.
tidied up. I have no doubt, sir, that the time THE COLONIAL SECRETARY-He did not will not be so very long distant now. (Hear, succeed in coining to an arrangement with hear.) Regarding the plot itself, sir, which was them, and then turned to the Government, and the subject of the question put by the hon. asked them if they would rent him a piece of member, the interpretation of which he com- land. It is necessary for every contractor to have plained of, E can only say that with the progress some area as close to the building sa posable of work in the Post Offer and as the raaterial of carpentry and joinery is pat available for such work as is being carried on on this dte. I may instance the offices recently into place it will be possible to decrease put up by Mosers, Jardino, Matheson and Com- the size of the matahods
Hor. Mr...HEWETT-He paid a sum double the price the Government contractor was willing
was the Praya
아프 the lot
of the work until the Post. Offico and Law
I don't think, sir, that the Government can.