HONGKONG - LEGISLATIVE that the site of the wharf is approved,
COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. ni the Council Chamber.
The following were present:-
18 EXCELLENCY: THE GOVERNOR, BIB Frandia Bendy May, K.C.M.G.
H1B EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. H. KELLY, O.B. (General Officer Command ing. Troops).
Hon. Mr. CLAUD BAYERN (Colonial Begrotary),
Hon. Mr. J. H. KEMP (Attorney General).
(Colonial
Hon. Mr. A. M. THOMSON Treasurer).
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 25rH, 1915.
shall have ban fleugd. By this mean our final liabilities on account of the rail way will bo definitely known, and the state of the Colony's finances will be shown more clearly than has been the case
ROAD WORKS. Two thousand one huuäred and twenty dollars (32,120) m aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Com- munications, Roads, Conoral Works.
The CHARMAN-This sum is required
This case fulfils-these conditions, and the Government has accordingly arranged to dredge at the expense of the Company two berths alongside the proposed wharf to a depth of 30 feet at lowest spring tide, and hitherto. I beg to nove, Sir, that the owing to the taking over of two private
the
to defray, out of the public funds, cost of dredging an area of 231,600 square -yards-to-the-same depth, in order to pro- vide access-to-this particular wharf, The cast of dredging the berths is estimated at $12,000, and the Government has under taken to do the work for that sam. The cost of dredging the approaches is esti mated at 825,000. The presont vote of 22,800 is for putting the dredger St. noch into repair to enable her to under- Lake the work. This dredger was' OC-
„account be referred jų „th. Finazor Com-
mittee,
The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and. this was agreed to
POST OFFICE OILDINANCE The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled, "An Ordi- nance to amend the Post Office Ortlinanes,
1000.”
The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read's first time,
The Objects and Reasons stated that the objects of this Bill ore (a) to cuable
lanes on the East Praye, namely, Amcy Street and Swaton Street, and the total sum required for surfacing, chommelling, and draining those two lanor is $1,210, and the Government, according to the of the sam, that is, 82,120. They becom ordinary terms in similar cases, pays half public
streets, and the sumes to Amor Street and Swatow notice will appear in to-morrow's Gazette changing Street.
The role was agreed to.
HILL DISTRICT SCHOOL Eight thousand ight hundred dollars (5,800) in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Buildings,
Hoa, Mr. W. CHATHAM, O.M.G. (Director/quired for the dredging of the trench searches to be made for postal articles, as Hill District School.
of Public Works).
(Captain
Hon. Mr. O. Mol. MESSE Superintendent of Police).
Hon. Mr. 8. B. C. Ross (Secretary for Chinese Affairs),
Hon. str. Wei Yuz, C.M.G.. Hon. Mr. E. A. Hawer, C.M.G:
løn, Mr. D. LANDALE.
for the Mongkokteti Harbour of Refuge, and the Government hope to utilise her at no distance date in connection with the Praya East reclaination.
THE WIRELESS STÁTION: 16—EXCELLENCY-Tliero is another matter I should like to mention to the Council. It is one that they have taken considerable interest in; and that is in connection with the wireless station-com- Mr. A. G. M. FLETORER (Clerk of Coun-mercial wireless station we may now call cila).
Hon. Mr. E. SHALLIM.
Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak.
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MINUTES.
itat Cape D'Aguilar. It is hoped that the station will be open for business early The intantos of the previous meeting next month, The site of the Wireless were confirmed.
FINANCIAL MINÜTÉS.
The COLONIAL SBOBETARY, by command of this Excellency the Governor, laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos 20 to 27, and moved that they be referred to the
Finance Committee, c
The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and
the motion was agreed to.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid on
the table the report of the Finance Com mittee held on May 27th, and moved that it be adopted.
Station is at Cape' D'Aguilar, not far from the existing Signalling Station. Tenders for the creation of the station
defined in the Bill, in respect of which there may be reason to believe that an offence has been or is about to be com- mitted, (3) to provide that no letters may be sent out of the Colony except through the Post Offiec, () to give power to extend the Postmaster General's privilege to newspapers whore desirable, exclusive
and (d) to increase the penalties for con- traventions of section 8 of the Principal Ordinance.
CERTIFICATES OF ORIGIN. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL Moved the first reading of a Bill intituled, "An Ordi- nance to amend the Cortificates of Origin Ordinamos 1015.”
The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.
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The CHAIRMAN-This is in connection with the Peak School, and the original put to certain new items which have been vete is not increased.. This same will ho at in, one for what is called the open air classroom. That has been made into found to be necessary, at a cost of 81,200. ordinary class room, which was
g2,100. I think that is really caused by The original estimate of the building, 336,311, has been execeded by a sum of furniture for the quarters, 1,500, and cer- tain extras, such as additional walling, and fencing in the countyard owing to alterations in the position of the building, necesitated by the shape and difficult nature of the site. It was a very really it was not known where it would difficult site to put a building on, und go until the site was made. The total required over and above the sums voted (680,821.08) is 87,586, and to that has to be added $1,200 for the new class-room, so this sum of 88,800 is asked for..
The vote was agreed to...
A RAILWAY VOTE. -Nine thousand three hundred dollars
(80,300) in aid of the vote Kowlood Cars
Structures, (2) Repairs of Staff Quarlors, Maintenance of Way, Works and Stations, IV-Repairs of Station Buildings and
quarters were called for in August,
The Objects and Reasons set out that 1914, but were go excessive in amount that the object of this Bill is to introduce none of them could be accepted. The certain provisions of the Customs (War lowest, was 853,726. A sonder was sub- Powers) Act, 1916, with regard to the ton Railway, Abstract A, Engineering, requently obtained from a firm of co-origin. It is also provided that in any seizure and forfeiture of goods of enemy tractors who were executing work in Tytam Bay, amounting to 837,845, and this was accepted in December. Messrs. Marconi's representative arrived in the Colony on the 31st December, 1914, and
the erection of the masts and installation The COLONIAL TREjBURER seconded, and of the apparatus were proceeded with in Thẹ motion was agreed to.
PAPERS.
the early part of this year. The apparatus was tested by Lieut.-Comman- The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by com. der Gascoigne, IL.N., on the 13th instant, mand of His Excellency the Governor, and was certified as complying with the teste prescribed under the contract with laid on the table the following annual re ports: On the Assessment for the year the Marconi Co. The Station is a low 1915-10; Medical and Sanitary Reports, power one, as you know (5 kilowatts), 1914; Report of the Becretary for Chinees and has a minimum guaranteed range by Affairs, 1014; Report on the New Torri-day over open water of 350 nautical miles tories, 1014; and Bessional capas day was being an estimate of expenditure account recently at night. I am informed that during 1915 of the Kowloon-Canton Rail- Nagasaki was reached. It is hoped that it will be possible to bring the station way (British Section).
into operation early in July..
DEPENDENTS OF PRISONERS OF WAR.
Regarding financial minute 23, in which the Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $14,000 for the maintenane of the wires and families of prisoners of
war,
KOWLOOK-CAXTON, RAILWAY.
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proceedings involving any question under the proposed Ordinance or under the Principal Ordinance any certificate of British customs or consular officer shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters stated therein
Council was then adjourned until Friday next.
FINANCE COMMITTEE. A meeting of the Finance
COLONIAL followed, the presiding.
POLICE BICYCLES.
Committee SECRETARY
The CHAIRMAN This sum is to be spent on the house occupied by the Manager of thing, has happened. The house was the Railway, to which a most unfortunate found to be infested with ticks, and two verdans have a tendency to fall inwards. The house, when bought in 1912
examined and, so far as we were con- cerned, it was found to be in good order. In fact, only the tiling of the roof was put in order, but now not only do white ants swarm in the place, but there are these ticks, which are worse. A thorough examination of the pren sea shows that a thorough overhauling of the whole premises, is neccssery, end the substitution of concrete for woodwork, and the filling
The Governor recommended the Council in of the skirting and all those kind of places which harbour white ants. The to vote the following sums
only possible thing to do is to make a
Ten thousand eight hundred dollars
TOADS IN SE TERRITORI
($10,800) in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary. New Territories, Com manications, Roads, Tai Po to Fan Ling, including bridging river.
Police and Prison Departments, Special and six conte (8556.00) in aid of the rote Expenditure, A.-Police Bicycles.
The vote was agreed to..
The CHAIRMAN This principally is caused by the change of policy on the part of the Government ainee this road When the rond waa was first undertaken. originally undertaken it was compara tirely the same width as the other roads were, 14ft. I think, P
The DraecTOR OF PUBLIC Wonks- Sixteen feet, sir.
The CHAIRMAS-Since then the policy has been changed to make all roads in the Now Territories of 20ft, formation on the top, and varying degrees of metalling ste required. This applies chicly to the widening of the section between Sha Tau Kok Light Railway, where the rosds ends, The and also to various other places, expenditure to be made in 1975 an account of these changes is $16,764, and the amount. provided is only $0,000, so a sum of $10.800 is required.
INTIMATIONS
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(ESTABLISHED 1840)..
(TELEPHONE 1741).
FOR ALL KINDS OF
BAGS
LADIES LEATHER HAND-BAGS.
SILK VANITY BAGS.
HOLDALLS.
LINEN
GENT'S
KIT BAGS
BAGS.
COLLAR BOXES. COLLAR BAGS.
-SUIT CASES,
BAGS.
CADDY
HAT CASES, CRICKET BAGS. TENNIS BALL NETS, ETC., ETC. ALL BRITISH MADE.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
WE
ARE OFFERING FOR ONE
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SPECIAL LINE
DRAB
IN
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COAT AND TROUSERS $7.50.
Tho CHAIRMAN This sum is in the nature of a re-vetc.. A number of bicycles were ordered for the Police last The COONIAL SECRETARY then pro-year, and they were on the ship named pored the "ollowing resolution: "It the Ben Mohr, which was sunk by the Sum of Emden, and so they had to be ordered is hereby resolved that
ninety-agalo. The insurance money where Six hundred and Dallars HIS EXCELLENCY Baid At the time that a number of German and Austrian thousand nine hundred and eventy covered by the Crown from the National two (8601,072) be advanced out of funds War Risk Inguratice Office, and credited But there was no residents were interned as prisoners of
time to utilise it, so the money has to of the Kowloon-Canton war the wives and families of some of in the custody of the Government for the to the vote last year, them were unable to leave the Colony for Railway (British Section) during the spent this year. Hare you got the various reasons. These were, therefore,
The HON. CAPTAIN-SUPERINTENDENT OF placed in a Concentration Camp in the year 1915." In doing so he said-In accord machines, Mr. Cap ain Superintendent? ance with the arrangement arrived as
POLICH-Yes, sir. married quarters of the barracks at Chun last December the estimate of the amount Club H, and I offered on behalf of the
to be spent on capital account during Colony that the cost of the maintenance this year is brought before the Council of those women and children should be
at the earliest date possible. The See members will observe that the approved borne from Colonial Funds, retary of Blate for the Colonies has expenditure to the end of 1914 (3)—gus approved this suggestion, and 1 feel spreescended by a sum of $135,731.89, bus that honourable members will vote the that is more than accounted for by the The number of wives Item Loss on Exchange. Before moving.
The CHATEMAN-A vole was put LONDON CUTTER. necessary funds.
The CHAIRMAN-Last year $1,701, this veas for rounding off the corners of was originally 18 and of children 18 that this stateracnt be referred to the
WAS not spent owing the Taipo road, but that is suspended. I Some have since left the Colony and the Finance Committee, I wish to draw attenancy voted,
considerable sun was put in this year's women and 13tion to two matters in connection with to certain orders not being executed by have not got the estimate here, but a That is the Railway accounts. I stated in Council the end of the year. There was a sum of estimates for that purnése, on the 24th December that it was anti- 31,680,81, Special Expenditure, which simnly for work at Fanling village,
The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS Regarding a voto of $22,800 for
cipated that the additional land required could not be utilised, and in addition 10,000 was voted for calling off the public works, recurrent, repairs to dred-for the extension to the Engine Bled and there was $160 for certain work done by corners, but it has been held up, and the For St. Enoch
xumbers &IO children.
now 2
A DREDGING VOTE.
Hon.
NEW INSTRUMENT FOR THE OBSERVATORY.
One thousand six hundred and eighty dollars ($1,660) in aid of the following votes:-
ROYAL OBSERVATORY.
Other charges, incidental expenses...8 150 Special oxpenditure, pw instruments 1,630
Total
HON. MR. LANDALE-Is this amoant independent of the road going across the hiil from Kowlcen to Taipo
The CHAIRMAX-That is quite another item:
Hoy. MR. LANDALE-Well, thist road is tho not wide enough, especially at
Corners.]
$1,660
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Hongkong, 14th June, 1915.
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the Loca. Yard could be acquired by the Telephone Company. This is also, as corners have not been cut rot..
The CHAIRMAN That, has been kept BEFORE LEAVING FOR HOME
exchango of Orown Izad, but I regret to you will see, really in the nature of a
The vote was agreed to.
ELECTRIC.LIGHTS. Thirty-five dollars ($35) in aid of the vote Fublic Works, Extraordinary, Mis- cellaneous, Installing Electric Lights n
HIR EXCELLENCY said-In Septem her, 1913, Sir Paul Chater represented to say that that procedure has not been re-voba the Colonial Government that the Hong found possiblo, and it will be accesatry kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown to acquire the six lots required by pur- Co. had in contemplation the building of chase. The second matter to which I wish a new wharf to be over 650 feet long for to refer is the closing of the Railway the berthing of ocean steamers of increas-Capital Account. I can unable to speak ing draught, but that the Company was definitely on the subject at the mouent, Shaukiwan and Tsat Tiz Mui Police deterred from the undertaking owing to but it is proposed to close the Capital Stations and Shaukiwan and Sai Wan Ho the fact that the depth of water at Account of the Railway at the figure Markets.
in approaches to the proposed wharf which appeared in Column VII. of the
insufficient to admit of vessels of a greater draught than 28 feel making ity
It is pos over with many other items. sible that some of them will be dere at other parts of the vene, but it depends or the late of the framera. The vote was agreed to. ^-
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. The CHAIRMAN--We Tow come to the Government is asking for a sury of matter dealt with in my resolution. The 9991,792 during the year 1913, and the is in the hands of her members, and details are set out in the statement which The CumÙMan-Cartain excesses were if any hon. member wishes to make question regarding any of these items 1 statement which was put before the incurred in connection with the lighting shall be pleased to awer him. They are
Concil in December last, Council in December That total was of Shaukiwan, principally due to the really only a continuation of the items his amount of
the station?
Hos. MR. BHSLIM-This The CHAIRMAN The amount required
by $185,000 is that final? Will it complete will find echopsaing that. you smount with Columns 5 and 7 of the That comes to statements before you. $213,000 odd. The $185.000 includes the quarters to be erected at Hunghont
HO ME. SHELL-Then it is not final? In the state. up till April of next year.
The CHAIRMAN-No, the contract is not
The Secretary of State for the $15,197,554, but there is a peasible addi. unforeseen difficulties in ongoing labour contained in the statement hid before the| Colonies, consulted me at the time white tion of about $120,000 for the purchase during the day. Owing to inability to of the six lots mentioned. Up to the end get labour while the markets were ope,
of it;
overtime.
The vote was agreed to.
of the present year the expenditure is workmen had to work a certain amount or estimated to amount to the tat of Columns IV: and VII. of that statement, that is, a sum of $14,005,820 plus $691,972, or $14,697,301, leaving a balance of
MAINTENANCE OF WIVES AND FAMILIES OF PRISONERS OF WAR. Fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000) in aid of the vote Miscellaneous Bervices,
I was in England, and I expressed the opinion that it was a question whether thes Hongkong Government might not find 4+ to the interest of the Colony to devote public funds to deepening the approaches to the wharf in the event of the Company ihearting the expouse of deepening the $199,653 to be expended next year. It is
The Sec further proposed to show this mura in the Maintenance of the wives and families of ment of last Decembes 898,000 was spent berths alongside the wharf. retary of State approved of this principle Colonial Estimates for 1916, and to meet it Prison of on the understanding that the Governout of the Colonial balancer, making the wens istisfied that the additional necessary adigstuet when the loan berthing accommodation is needed, and authorised under Ordinance No. 3 of 1913
on this station. The cca of the station
The CHARMAN-HE, the Governor has been estimated at $250,000, and 3 amount of 850,000 or $60,000 has to h spent next year. has already explained this to the Council
The vote was agreed to.
The Committee approved of the vote,
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