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THE HONGKONG DAILY. PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 25TH, 1920.
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIE.
The questions ander reply refer to the
undoubted dissatisfaction which still exista (amongst several classes of the Service as a result of the Secretary of State's deci sion. It appears to be the case. as regards the European Subordinate Officers that
THE REVISED SALARIES FOR=CIVIL |the main ground of discontent lies in the
SERVANTS.
A SLIDING SCALE OF EXCHANGE,
GOVERNMENT BUILDING" LỖÀN
POLICY.
IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS.
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A meeting of the Legislative Council The Commission recommended that daty was held in the Council Chamber, at poo, pay, personal allowances, and other pre Jesterday. There were present;
ferred payments should be abolished, and this recommendation has been adopted
HIS EXCELLANCY' THE GOVERNOR (Bir „REGINALD EDWARD STUES. K:C.M:G.).
The Commission recommended the grant of free quarters on a slightly more libers) scale than that which has been adopus. The Government has in this matter, ad C.B. Ehered to its established practice of grant
Major-General F..VESTRI, C.B.. (General Offices Commanding Troops in China).
Hon. Mr. A. G. M: FLATOR (Colonial Segretary).
ing frequarters "only, to subordinate C.B.E. -offerrs and to officers, such as the Medical Officer in charge of a hospital, who are required to live in proximity to the place
Hon. Mr. J. H. KEMP, KC. (Attorney-General).
Hau, Mr. D. W. TRATHAN (Colonial Treasurer).
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where they work, v
Hu__Mr E R. Hutter S
The Commission recommended the fixing (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).
of exchange at 9/-, on the ground that Hon Mr. E. A. Inving (Director of this rate was adopted by the leading com- Education).
mercial firms in the Colony, and the rate
Hon Mr. P. Honsor HOLYDAX.
Hon. Mr. E. V. 1). PAR
Hon. Mr. Ho Foox.
Hon. Mr. A. R. Lowe.
Mr. W. 3. CARRIE (Clerk of Councils).
ABSENT.
|has been fixed accordingly,~~-
The question of leave of absence is not settled, but the arrangements will be at least as favourable as those recommended by the Commission.
in
Free passages have been granted "G.M.G..cordance with the recommendations of
the Commission.
Hon.
Mr. W. CHATHAM (Diretor of Públic Work").
Hon Mr. JonY JOHNSTONE. Hon. Mr. Lav (ne Pax. “PRESENTATION OF A MILITARY
CROSS,
The salaries approved for the senior -officers are in some cases lower than those
recommended
by the Commission. There
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KOWLOON'S HOSPITALS.
The Hon. Mr. A. R. Lowe also asked: Puw
pasients resident in Kowloon have been inmates of the Government and other hospitals in Victoria during 1916 and what steps, if any, have been taken to inther & scheme for a general and
maternity hospital at Kowlohi
The COLONIAL SECRETARY replied: The number is Europeans 34, Asiaticy; 287.
fact that the proportionate increase, is much greater in the case of Police salaries than it is 'elsewhere, and mòn, have com- plained that they have resigned from the Police to better, themselves only to find
A preliminary plag for a hospital Fat that they would have been as well or better Kowloon has been prepared, but the ques- of it they had remained where they werton cf a site is not settled. On the 31st
The fact that a number of applications
March the Public Works "Committee in- have regently been received from men in the Nary and Army for posts as Prisonspected two agens, one on the hill-side to the north-west of King's Park and one to Warders points to the conclusion that the conditions for unskilled labour are not leathe Borth of Chak Un in the neighbour- nutractive locally than they are in the hood of Kowloon Chy. They neommend- As regards skilled d that the latter aren should be selected, United Kingdom.
As the matter is one primarily affecting labour and more especially professional men the rates at home are at the present residents of Kowloon it was referred to time very high, but it must be remembered the Kowloon Roxidents Association, who that the supply of trained men was inter-have orwarded to the Government a re rupted during the war, and it is possible pace by ews Medical Practitionery The that, when the supply again meets the demand, the rate of remuneration will fall The Government is watching the situation very carefully, in the light of its present experience in engaging, men from home to All vacant posts, and various readjust ments may be found necessary. As is stated in the questions, the emoluments of: the Service are defrayed out of ravney provided by the tax-payers, and it is the aim of the Government, as guardian of that money, to expend it is such a manner as to ensure, on the one hand that efelejcy is not sacrificed to economy, and on the other that there is no waste; the measure of its ultimate success being found in the tandard of public service which is main
taiped.
.
I may add that since the foregoing reply
from the Secretary of State for the was written a telegram has been received
Colonies to the effect that he is prepared, in view of the recent violent fuctuations is, however, the counterbalancing factor in exchange, to consider proposal for & H.E. THE GOVERNOR: Before "we pro been adopted throughout the service, time, he agrees to an increase of 7 per cent. that a system of annual increments has sliding scale of exchange. In the menu. seed to the business of the meeting I have whereas the Commision recommended in on sterling salaries, or in other words to "k" pleasant duty to perform in presenting many cases triennial or biennial 'increments.
Major Eric Carew Hudson, of the
The salaries of the European Clericaturi'ng, while the dollar is between 7, 40. an exchange rate of $10.50 to the pound Machine Gun Corps, the Military Cross. Staff-are-in-one-case somewhat lower friented for services in France and than these recommended by the' Commis- Salonika.
sinn.
Members of the Council remained stand. ing while HIS EXCELLENCY pinned the medal on Major Hudson's breast,
The anluries of the Wuring Staff are flow recommended by the Commission, with the exemption that the incremental |
LOANS FOR HOUSE-BUILDING. The Hop, Mr Lowe further asked: what financial assistance they are prepat Will the Government state on broad lines
end to make to assist applicants desiring to
report condemns the Chuck Un sile on the ground of its inaccessibility, it bring stated that a hospital five miles distant from the centre at Kowloon offers little, if any, advantage over hospitals in Hongkong; and it is also considered a serious dis advantage that patients should be so far removed from their own doctors. A site to the cast of "Yarmati Railway Station is recommended, as fulfilling certain tial conditions which the report predicates, namely, accesibility, levation, quietness, and space. The Director of Public Work has been asked to forward a report re garding this site.
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The question of admitting maternity cases to the Kowloon hospital bas nut Been decided,
FINANCE The COLONIAL SECRETARY by command of HE the Governor, laid upon the table Financial Minutes Nox. 31 to 54. and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.
The COLONIAL TREASURER mcended and. the motion was agreed to,
The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command tall the Report of the Finance Commit
L BE the Governor, laid upon the
to (N513)....
PAPERS.
table the following Departmental Reports The COLONIAL, SELETARY. by command of HE the Governor. Iaid on the for the year 1918: Report of the Directar
Forestry Department; and the Report an of Education: Report on the New Terri- toties: Report on the Botanical and
the Assment of the Colony for the year 1920-1921-
TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE,
Ordinance to amend the Trade Marks second reading of a Bill intitaled an The ATTORNEY GENERAL, in moving the
Ordinance, 1909, aid:This Bill belongs rate of increase in the case of Nursing build houses for their own echipation, and to the class of temporary post-war legis,a- tion-in other words, it has been rendered Sisters is more rapid than that recom- also how many of such applications have necessary by circumstances arising out of Hon. Mr. A. R., Lown asked the follow-mended by the Commission.
the war and will have only a temporary been received to date, specifying, how ing questions in accordance with notice The sadarias of subordinate officers in
operation. It contains two substrative many of such have been necepted or re-clauses. One relates to the German and given by him at the previous meeting of
THE EMOLUMENTS OF THE
·GOLŐNY'S PUBLIC SERVICE.
the Council rey
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the Public Works Department, Sanitary fused or with which they are still in Austro-Hungarian trade marks and the
Department, Ipports and Exports Depart troaty? In view of the fact that a strong local ment, Supreme Court, Harbour Depart Commission, appointed by the Officer Adment, Medical Department, Volunteers ministering the Government, reported in and Railway Department aro in almost or about March, 1919, their findings re- very case tho recommended by the Com- garding the emoluments of the public, ser mission, with the exception that in some vic of the Colony, and having regard to instance the incremental rate of increase is the fact that such emelaments are defray- better than that recommended by the Com
mission d-out of local revenue and not out of Tinparini Funds, will the Government lay on the table the following documents, viz, the Report of the Commissioners; the despatches from the Secretary of State dealing with such raporti
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50c.. and $1 per tin.
WELSH RAREBIT
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other is general. Clause refers to the Austro-Hungarian marks and denis, with Committee which was appointed on the nationals of these two States which have The COLONIAL SECRETARY replied:-The the practical difficulty which has arisen in connection with marks belonging to the 28th March reported on the 5th May, expired and have not been renewed. The They received
present law requires that, before a time- thirty-two applications, expired trade mark is removed from the twenty-three of which were in respect of Register the Registrar una send out private residences; and they recommendag notices to the owner of his intention to that these laster applications should be the not paid, and to advertise the fact of the remove the mark, if the removal fees are
subject of careful enquiry by the Govern
The time for giving these The salaries of the European Police are meat and that awistance should he given possible, as before the war, to give bac
non-Rayment notices has now expired, very much better than those recommended where circumstances warranted it. They to the cacy Arms. It would have beca by the Commission, the largest increase drew attention to eartain difficulties, the futile to send with a notice to the Hong- over the Commision's figures being 60 per providing of sites, the question of repay-nddreises of the owners in Germany were address of the former owner and the cent., in the case of the initial salary of meat, the risk that the borrower might whether notices would ever reach addresses
not always known, and Will the Government, having regard to.
a Sub-Inspector.
Teave the Colony in the course of his em- in Germany or Austria. Al these marke The emoluments of the Indian Poliés the desire of the taxpayers that the public
ployment; and they advised that no ad in the custodian of Enemy Property and ver, under the Ordinance of 1917, vestex are better than thônë recommended servants should be remunerated
by the afnir and reasonable basis only, and in Commission, except in the case of these should be made in respect of a it was equally futile Dr him to bend such no means of com-- private residence, the cost of building notices because he had Inspectors.
municating which would exceed $20,000, or to any per had no funds or sithority to pay the with the forher owners and be existing amongst several „classed of such The salaries of the Chinese Police are a son who had not been continuously resident renewal fees In view of these facts the servants na right of the Secretary of little better than those recommended by in the Colony during the five years imme that neither omission on the part of the object of this clause is to provide expressly Btate's decision, lay on the table a state the Commisafon.
diately preceding the date of his applica- | Registrar to send the prescribed notice, tiori
nordon-receipt of such notice" by the Owong to great pressure of work in the registered owner, shall be any bar to the Secretariat no application in respect of a belonging to German or Austro-Hungarian removal of any such marks formerly private residence has as yet been dealt gwners, which have expired and have not with, it being considered advisable to pre-been renewed by the owners within one ceed in the first instance with the Commit-year infter the ratification of the Treaty of
housing accommodation Arrangements power to the Governor-in-Council to make buildings designed to provide considerable Bill is a general one, intended to give
have been made for léans contingent upon regulations, if necessary, for the purpose regulations in and wing of 18 flats and ten houses; of giving, affect to certain and termp have been offered for the ad the Treaty of Versailles, Articls 207 of Ace of a considerable sam for the bait the Treaty provides that a minimum of kinds; and it would seem that the Coming of a private hotel.
pakt one year after the
into of the The policy which is being adopted in Treaty must be accorded to the automa broadly as follows:--
Troy Frs of the patious belligerents to do any facta- (a) Interest on advance isnt the rate which may be necessary for the purpose
- of 5 per cent.
of presizing trade mark rights which they (h) The cost, design, and materiale of were not previously able to do on account
"view of the undoubted dissatisfaction still
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mens showing in what respect the recom: The salaries of the European Police mendations of Ule Commission differ from were formerly much lower than those of the directions of the Secretary of State officers of similar standing in other depart The COLONG SECRETARY read the ments; with the result that men were con following answer to the two questions: tinually secking transfer in order to get
Certain matters connected with the revi- better pay elsewhere. The relative posi. the recommendations regarding blocks of Versailles. The other clause (3) of the alon of entaries still form the subject of tions of the Police and of officers in other correspondence with the Secretares of departments had been more or less equalis, Stute for the Culonic and the Governed by the grant of a number of allowances ment is not at present in a position to lay to the Police for special duties of variour any papers on the table,
t
building must be approved,
of circumstances arising out of the war. It is not known at present whether ans for an extension of time has
(e) Advances are made by instalmantap will be received, but if they are
The general recommendations of the missioners, in making their recomanda Commission have for the most part, been tiong, did not appreciate the extent to accepted, and, where they have boan modi, which the emoluments of the men would fied, the modifications have as a rule born be affected by the cessation of the allow in the advantage of the officers concerned. ances, which they proposed to abolish. The approved arrangement sa regarda The Folies Live now been brought into rent of Government quarters, that the
line with other departments as regards oficer pays at the rate of 6 per cent of substantive salary, on the understandinging and please pegelions of the Treaty which have, in his salary, in considerably more favourable that special payments and allowances of than that recommended by the Comms all kinds are abolished, with the exception rion. The question of the rent allowances of those for Fire Bri in respect of houses not belonging to the medals
language, and
Government is not settled, but the existing The galanes of the European arrangement, which continues in force for Warders are better than the recommend the time going, leave the civil servant ined by the Commissor
a better position than be would be intiff. The salarice of the Indian Pri -the-Commission's proposals were adopted, are not yet settled.
as the, building, progres (d) Advances are, repayable by instal this usewill give power to the Governor
ments
inLocneil to decide such applications Wo (e) Advances are secured the build-ar ponad, of course, to carry out the
(f) The get real may not exceed the shokolosy and throughout the Empire
sum required to give a not return generally, the force of law,
of a per cont on capital outley THE COLONIAL SECRETARY Recorded and The Hon. Mr. Lown:- Arising out of the Bill was read a second time man the answer to the last question how is the Council then went into Committee to con capital amount arrived art Is the outsider the Bill-clause by claus There: of the land taken at the valuation of the boing no amendments, Council resumed and moment, or the original cost when it was the Attorney-General moved that the Bin bought from the Governmen
be road, a third time
The COLONIAL SECRETARY hon of the land at the present
The valus
se für an can be ascertained.
The COLONIAL Secretary reconded vand the Bill was read a third time and passed.
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