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Chan Pik Chan, Li Wing Kong, Kong E Sun,
183 HONGKOLEG DAILY PREPO, FRIDAY, JULY 2718, 1928
KARLIEN QUARTERS YOU INUTAN POLICE. The Governor recommended the Council to vote 8,000 in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, New Territories, Married Police.
H.E. The GovernoŘ On behalf of around at Aberdeen, that at Cantau the Kowloon Peninsula to be occupied as a the Government I desire to express my White Cloud Barial Ground is situnted burial place, and that wo should not appreciation of what Mr. Holyunk has more than 3 miles from the City, whilst oppose this development which is suggest said. Aspersions have been passed on Chinese dying at Maeno (unless Christed in the letter I have read. Agning this Government and more especially on inm) are buried side of the barriers y Sir, if the Goverriet pushes Buildings, (0) Quniters for Indian the Colonial Secretary, personally, which, in Chiness territory. We have the with this work now I can mily my with it was impossible to meet at the time, honour to be, Sir. Your abedient servants, reluctance that I must vote against it. .I owing to the fact that proceedings were
think (sd.) F. P. de V. Soares.
The 'CHAIRMAN: This heading is in is mistaken policy: I think it pending before the Court. We have
is block to the development of Kowloon correct. There is a vate this year of taken the earliest opportunity, when the
Peninsula which is or in sight, and a $8,000 for two blocks of quarters for Court matter was out of the way, of
distinct block to the gentlemen who are Indian married polico in the New publishing this statement, which I am
ready and willing to spend a consider Territory. It is proposed to build six glad to think the Honourable Member
abe sum of money in the development of more blocks for the married Weihaiwei regard as incontrovertible, as I do my.
This part of the Peninsula for building police, each block containing two tene self. There is one serious emission in this Report, which due to the fact that it is signed by the Colonin! Segre tary himself. In the course of it the: Colonial Secretary, speaking for the Government, expresses the Government's appreciation and thanks to various mem bers of the community who rendered
H. C. Wong,
Chan Yne Ting.
Mok Kon Sang,
Won Hay Fong. Mok Rok Ming,
P. Goeg Chun
Lo Chung Kwan,
Leung Shu Tong by ais attorney Long
Chi Hao.
PUITPONEN
The CHAIRMAN: This question, gentle
ments.
Hon. Mr. POLLOCK : How many police an, has been discussed through and are there from Weihaiwei }. through, but I will reiferates briefly the The CHALUMAN arguients for and against the use of this there were fifty, in the second sixty and In the first draft site for cemetery purposes. The Gover the third seventy-five.
And they have
ment holds un briet either way. It is
Hen. Mr. Lasa
them I
concerned in seeing that all land! available in divert to the best possible pur-brought their wives and families with ps. I do not know how many of you kow, the areas it is quite extraordinary to discover the very few people who have been there The Kowlom Residents' Also cintion sent in a protest some time ago,
The CHAIRMAN: We allow a certain proportion of Sergeants to bring their wires with them,
is
The signatories In- goal servics it connection with the end to tries to this letter. Sir, Shipping Contro. The document having 87,0x0,000 in developing this site in the been prepared by the Colonial Secretary, very centre and heart of Kowloon Penin himself, it was impossible for him to sala, for the benefit partly of British and conclude, as it would have concluded, if Portuguese residents, and also partly for I had written the document, with an the benefit of the Chinese working classes
Hon. Mr. LANG: And they are quite" expression of the very highest appre- These signatories are, say, & sufficient who it was decided that this be willing to bring them down here? ciation of the work Mr. Fletcher put into guarantee that this proposed expenditure apart; but when their representative
The CHAIRMAN: Yes, it is at their own this business himself. I was not here of $1,500,000 will be carried out. When came to see I found, after putting myself at that time, but I bave spent it was originally suggested, Sir, as part questions to him, that be had over seen; request. unny hours in looking through the files of the town planning of Kowloou Poin the site and did not know where it was. Approved. of papers on this question to see if there sula, to set apart this piece of land in suggested to the Association that their
KOWLOON-CANTON "ROLWAY: PRESEXT Was y justification for the remarks the very centre of the Peninsula as a Committee should accompany me over the
DIFFICULTIES OF JOINT WORKING. ale in Shanghai, and in the course of cemetery. I do not think anybody could ground, and over all other possible sites,
The Governor recommended the Council my perusal of these voluminus doen have foreseen the extraordinarily rapid with the result that they agreed m
to vote 850,000 on account of Kowloon- ments I have been struck by the ability, building development which has taken animously that this was the best site. industry, zeal and desire to do justice place during the last twelve months, and ander consideration and they dil exact's Wagons.
The Town Planning Committee had it Canton Railway, Special Experilitare, to everybody which actuated the Colonial Sir, it seems likely to continue to take the same thing. We again went over to The CHAIRMAN Secretary throughout. I am glad to place at all events, for somis months to
I think, perhaps. take the opportunity of making these enaw. The result is that this site, which Kowloon and examines these various areas members will be interested in a short Temarks because, for the reasons I have was set apart by the Government for a again the decision was unanimous, account regarding the situation which, as stated, it has been impossible to neknew, cemetery, is now being surrounded by
The place is ringed mind with hills and far as the carrying of goods on the rail- ledge those services in the public doen. building schemes upon every side, is so intensely hot that when it was way is concerned, is very far from antis ment-(Applause.)
fact, spun looking at the map of the Town proposed to have a football ground there factory. The Chinese section has not The Council then adjourned until Flaming Committee, one Ends that there it was decided at once that it was out of supplied its quota of rolling stock, with Thursday, the 9th August, nt 2.30 p.m.
is development on all sides and that this the question for recreation generally. It the result that this Colony is called upon site is left us a very bail ons very very low and there is a big hill facing to pay considerably higher charges in undesirable oasis I submit, right in the the Cement Works, entirely between it respect of capital and maintenance than very heart of Kowloon. These grutlemen, all samuner breezes, I am second to is its fair proportion, with the con- Sir, who propose this scheme for this cone in my reengnition of Me. Soares's sequence that our ratio with regard to scleration of the Government, have evi- ciated with him in the Homuntin scheme in proportion to our capital, while the enthusiasm in this matter. I was asso the division of through bookings dverenses dently thought things well out. They do not suggest for one single moment that he nut taitiated the Kowloon Tong Chinese ratio is increasing. this site as it at present exists is alto-cheme; and he has continually pressed me not had their fair capital expenditure They have gether an ideal site for linding houses, go on with this scheme for laying out in respect of the share they get in the They realise that it is necessary to make the cemetery land, largely beats it a total earnings.
In addition to this a good deal of levelling and cutting dores Homuntin and would form, in his shortage, which is considerable, of rolling The Governor recommended the Council There are hils to the cast and to the gard to these alterative sites i have the handling cargo at Canton are entirely
view, & convenient extension, With
the line, the fami.ities for to vote a sum of $15,000 on account of south, and these hills will havesty be ent Public Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon, down and filled in as part of the scheme before me and End that site "A" is inadequate, They cannot get the goods Buildings, Sexton Quarters, Kowloon wider consideration. As regards by dingin Kowloon City on the Rifle Range, ne te ene Cemetery.
in the near future fifty Bogtos are to be Christian ermetery. Site B is behind There is not sufficient space for the goods That is already set apart as a Chinese for wagons to turn round and come back. very long time The Hon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK: Sir, I put up for prapation by British or Government will grant a postponementenetery site which is near the Hunpunti
is proposed to erect on the part of the Site" in uear Laichikok and has been that while there is a large quantity of excellent buildings facing Lyecmus Pas. for further sideration of this matter extensión. Other houses it is proposed to suggested as a possible flare for a military goods offering we are able at present I must oppose the passing this vote
cantonment. Site "D" is near Hammer to carry then. However, we realise that put up at a later dat are Chimme tene-
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
A tueting of the Finance Committes followel, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presid.
ing.
KOWLOON CEMETERY AREA.
COLONIAL SECRETARY DEFENDS THE KITE
SELECTED
stock on
I very minch regret to say that unless the Portuguese. residents, and those hopes i£f Samshaipo, where we are laying out some to be properly handled and the result is
No. 2. Liberty Avenue, New Garden City, Hommitin.
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AMPONTS AND EXPORTS DEPARTMENT EXPENSES.
I should like to read to the Comcil ament houses, and the period suggested fo, Hill, and may be used for gael quarters the Chinese scetion, is suffering from mis-! letter which was spot to you, Sir, on the the completion of the whole lot of Chil and for a police school for which it is fortunes which are entirely outside its | 20th of inst month lry Mr. F. P. de V. nesi bausės, amounting to 500 houses in- Very suitable. All the buildings on the control, and it seeths to be the far-sight. Soares and a number of influential Chi- cluding the fifty already mentioned, is 1 gentlemen.
sites will face, outwards to the summer policy for this Colony to buy a con- That latter reads as within a period of in years. It is necessit, & quite ruling that in the present against the day when affairs will be follows:
breezes. With regard to this cemetery siderable quantity more rolling stock sary, Sir, to have a certain lapse of time, boom the Chinese will build anywhere. I quieter over the border, and also with because, as is well known by merabers of have discussed the matter in detail with a view to possible junction of the Kew- this Council, a certain nagler of Chinese Mr. Starts who quite agreed thas que Joon-Canton Railway with the Hankow have been buried inside this site and there. The Honourabl
Hongkong, 28th June, 10. fore it would be cesary for consider would have to cut down an enormous Railway. This vote is for fifty wagons. COLONIAL SECRETARY,
able period of time to, elapse before i mount of hill and fili, making a very commencement on the building of these SIR-We desire to respectfully lay of all those who are now buried there self as entirely willing to transf his
wou'd be pedible to remme the remains oft foundation and a very heavy increase bodies will be made now and this frames before the Government the following We suggest, Sir, that this site in the whole scheme and capital to other fand in
is the ent of building. He expressed him will be ordered from England.
Approved. scheme for the development for the purre of Kowloon should be reserved for the the neighbourhood which is as he admits, pose of erecting new buildings un new be fit of the living, and that the reme far better situated from the point of view grennd on the land in the centre of the tery should be put further out. They also of breeze and sunlight. An ular deman Kowloon Peninsula. which is at present suggest that in the present demand for stration is much more satisfactory, and set aside as a cemetery site,"
housing accommodation it would be a very it hon. members would azrez come out bad policy for the Government to turn down a scheme like this, a scheme which view these sites I should be very glad
chun frun which the Government will fnvolves the expenditure of $7,500,000, a
indeed to explain the situation on the altinutely derive considerable benefit in the way of rates and taxes.nl Crown god thing in the present housing short. rents, We have been told, Sir, that it is
to get more houses, and yo houses and yet agaia more uses. The well-known gentlemen whose unes appea to put up this sum of $7,500,000 and they at the back of the home are prepared desire to expend it on the site in question.
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We desire to. enter into agreement with the Government purchase the site for the development for building of the whole of that area, together with the surrounding chain of hills which is estimated 'to. amount to ten million square feet. Out of that area we beg leave to suggest that three million square feet should be set aside for roads or other public - purposes.
mor
being
Soares at the same time?
The Hon. Mr. HoLYOAK: And meet Mr.
The CHAIRMAN: Certainly. The Hon. Mr. POLLOCK: "I think it is a very good idea. ]
to rate $7,500 in aid of the following votes:-Imports and Exports Depart
The Governor recommended the Council
ment. Other charges.
J.
The CHAIRMAN: One refers to a new system of weighing Chinese wine. In regard to "opiam fuel," the cost of charcoal has gone up very largely.
Approved,
RESUMPTIONS AT THE BACK OF THE PENINSULA.
The CHAIRMAN: Will Monday 5 pm. atto vote 30,000 in aid of the vote Public The Governor, recomiended the Council Kulon suit hon. members?
Works, Extraordinary, Compensation and Resumptions.
The members signised that it would. PDDITIONAL PUMPING PHANT.
The CHAIRMAN: The vote is $20,000, The Governor recommended the Council but the layout is proceeding as rapidly Public Works, Extraordinary, Pokfulam considerable quantity of agricultural to vote a sum of 84,000 on account of as possible. We have had to take in a Road Station, Extension to Engine House land at the back of the Kowloon Tenin- to accommodate additional pumping plant, suin.
The CHAIRMAN: This is a re-vote, It
Approved. was carried forward from last year.
Approved.
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LANDBLIDE ON THE RAILWAY.
IMPROVEMENT AT WEST POINT,
The Governor recommended the Council td. vote 8.500% on account of Public
The Governor recommended the Council Works, Extraordinary, Covering over of
Canton Railway. Special Expenditure, Taui. to vote $4,000 ou account of Kowloon the Nullah in Hill Road, Shek Tong
Accident, Mile 104.
pared to spend $7,500,000, which we Upon the neer in question we are pre estimate would be sufficient to cut down the surrounding hills for the purpose of general levelling and also for the pur placed at a more distant part of the Penin
With regard to the cemetery pose of opening the site, which is at cula, as we are reminded in the last present much enclosed to the cooling in paragraph of the letter I have read, here fluence of the winds. As regards the in Hongkong island the main cemetery number of houses to be erected we should for Chinese is far distant from the City be prepared to erect five hundred (500) of Victoria, being gituted round in Aber houses at least within a period of teu deen; at Canton the White Cloud- burial (10) years; this period being mentioned grogul is, outside the walls of the city, in order for the removal of the boner a distance of some miles, and Chinese who from the Chinese graves at present in die at Macao, unless they are Christinas, side the area. Should sites be required are buried outside the barrier, namely the to deposit earth from excavations of the Chines territory. I think, Sir, it would above hills, the Government will provide a great mistake if the Government. Gain on the nearest area of the sur- because it has once been considered that rounding land.
this ite will be suitable for burial pur We should, however, be prepared to the altered conditions of building develor
poser, should nähere to that decision in erect as early as possible, on sites whichment which have arisen during the Ins. are capable of speedy formation, at least few months, nad also in the face of this for preliminary expenses in moving the Afty (50) hous suitable for occupation letter which I have read out to the Coun-engine by British of Portuguese residents. On it. As I pointed out just now, by the the Eastern portion of the site, which building of these hou the Government will require much longer to level and will receive an annual increment in Crown The Governor recommended the Council develop, we are prepared to put Chinese rents and taxes. This cemtery site to vote $1,500 un houses of four or five storeys of the ual certainly not a very pleasing i to, if- Canton Railway, Special Expenditure. acount of Kowloon tenement type for the Chinese working news, either from Huntin or from the New Block Operators Office, Hunghom. classes. This development on the east Kowloon Hospital, and of course we all side of the cemetery site would, we hope, know that funerals must be accompanied erns various sets of lines and a man The CHAIRMAN: These both refer to
The CHAIRMAN: The operator hay Affairs, Personal Emoluments.
of the vots Secretariat for Chinese fit in with any plans which the Govern- by a certain amount of processions and killed there recently. We consider it betts Inspectors-Inspector Mead and Miss ment may have formed for development noise and so on. It seems to me it.is er to move the office across to the other in the neighbourhood of Hok Un Village, a'together an unsuitable site in this reside. and will enable ground. in the very centre of the Kowloon Peninsula to be posed his development which is pro
on the eastern side of the site, when,
The CHAIRMAN: There is considerable The CHAIRMAN: This is the train which traffic of cars, rickshas, and pedestrians, was swept off the ling by a landslip about in the neighbourhood of the restaurants three weeks agu. The total cost will be fand the police have asked that the work very much higher. I am afraid. This is be put in hand as an urgent matter.
Approved.
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A. RAILWAY IMPROVEMENT.
Approved.
COST OF THE INSANE
developed for the benefit of the living. the bills are cut down a bit and levelled,
As regards the price to be paid for the will form in very suitable addition to the The Governor recommended the Council land we beg leave to suggest, for con- Chinese tenement houses, which, under the to vs $1,000 in aid of the vote Charit sideration, as we are proposing to under Town Planning scheme, the Governmental Services, Grant in aid of Charitab's take the very expensive work of levelling is proposing to put up at Hok Un. It Institution: John C. Krry Hospital, Can and laying out the proposed aren, that will be advantageous from the hint of ton.
of the Hamuntin Extension, ie, 15 centa
Approved,
FACTORY INSPECTORS' CONVEYANCH ALLOWANCE
to vote 570 in aid of the vole Secre
The Governor recommended the Council
Conveyance Allowance and 20,410 in aid tariat for Chinese Affairs, Other Charges,
Irving who have been appointed In- pectors of children in factories.
Approved.
· FANS IN BAILWAY QUARTERS. The Governor recommended the Council
to vote 2500 on account of Rowloch- Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, Installation of Ceiling fans,
such price should be the same as that for the railway, and therefore more re bare sent rather more insane patients to ceiling fan in each set of quarters That
view that it will afford more passengers
The CHAIRMAN: It is the practice în The CHAIRMAN: The vote is 83,000. We the Government Service to allow one per square foot payable as per condition venue to the Government. In fact, Sir, the hospital this year than usual, (B) in the Honourable Mr. Jackman's there are a whole number of points in
Approved.
was not carried out in the case of the letter of the 6th June, 1922, No. 1531. We vour of the scheme which should be DAMAGE TO BAILWAY COACH BY WHITE ANTS. [asked for it,
railway quarters and they “have, pow would also beg leave to suggest the same
mentioned, but I think, it will be sufficient.
*... rate of Crown Bont, ie, 8500.00 per mentioned.
to rely upon those which I have already The Governor recommended the Council
Approved. noro (subject to reduction as per, con the Covernment, should not lightly turn votes:-Kowloon Cauton
I do submit, however, that to vote $10,594. in aid of the following
VOLUNTEERS' RIFLE RANGE. dition (d) in said letter), and the same down the scheme, but that they should ringes: 82,500.00, Additional Machines to voto 15,300 in aid of the vote Public Railway, Car The Governor.recommended the Council term of years, žet, 15 yearų renewable.
accept it. It has very influential backing for Workshpe: 80,024.00; Total $10,524.00. Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong Volun As regards sites suitable for a Chinese and it is a genuine scheme, which I sub- -
The CHAIRMAN: The meringes vote was toer Defence Corps Headquarters, Hile cemetery, in lieu of the present area, mit should receive the Government's.. $12,000. There has been a heavy expendi Range. we beg leave to suggest the following ort, Alternative sites. For the cemetery ture of $1,000 on one each which whito four (4) sites marked A, B, C, and D have les neceted in the plan enclosed at damaged very badly, Seano new bat from last year. The estimate was $15.000 for the consideration of the Government, the for referred to, I mit teries onder last year did not come until
that those sites are quite neubie, this year. The same thing occurred with and the expenditure $14,980--very class,
and would beg leave to point out that,
T
in Hongkong Irland itself, the main think we should make a great mistakes regard to olditional machines, Cemetery for Chinese is situated right if we allow this very centre of the Approved.
The CHAMAN: - This is carried over
Approved,
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