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HONGKONG POST OFFICE ORDINANCE.
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS:
The draft of a Bill of "41 sections amending the law colating to Post Office is published in the current issue of the Government Gazette. It is proposed to introduce the Bill in the Legislative Council shortly.
MONDAY APRIL" STB. 1925
RUBBER PROSPECTS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
MALAYAN CHINESE PLANTER'S. VIEWS.
Mr. Chew Woon Pah, Chairman di the Jeram Kuantan Rubber Co. (which paid 40 per cent, în dividands for 1925), in the course of his speech at the annual meet- ing of shareholders in Singapore last week said: I ask your indulgence while I give you my views on the subject of the industry generally. You have all heard or read of the proposed planting pre- grammes in Liberia and the Philippines These, I gather, have forced many com- panies, even those with ample resources at their disposal, to hesitate or to curtail the opening up for further areas. Whils in Manila recently, I had the privilege of pernaing the tentative programine of rubber planting to be adopted by the Farmer's Congress in the Philippines,
I need not divulge the detailed pro Clause 10 gives power to open postal posals of the Philippine Government, packets which cannot be despatched or but what I wish all capitalists to which cannot be delivered. The disposal
The Attorney-General, in his statement of tha "Objecta and Reasons" of the Bill says: It has long been recognised that the Post Office Ordinance, 1900, is in certain respects defective and out of data. This bill is an attempt to remedy the defects and omissions of the present law and to bring it up to date. The table of correspondence which precedes the Objects and Reasons should be consulted for cases in which this bill omits pro- visions of the Post Office Ordinance, 1900, Following are extracts from the state ment of Objects and Reasons";- OPENING AND DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN POSTAL
PACKETS.
of such packets is dealt with in clause 14. remember is that, rabber is not like
Clause 11 gives the Postmaster General
discretion to return to the sender any wheat or sugar crop. It takes six to mature and con- postal packet which has been posted by, seven years to fnistake or which has been posted with
ditions of the north regarding soil, wrong or deficient contenta Such cases frequently occur, but under the existing climate and labour are less favourable law no correspondance can be returned to than in Maloys and you may safely the sender without a warrant signed by
the Governor. This means delay, and the ignore all the development schemes which delay frequently involves the missing of are on the tapia. None of them çan, effect a mail. Clause 11 has no precédent in
the Post Office Act, 1608, "but paragraph us to any extent before 1934.
industry is assured if our Government
I of Article 45 of the Convention of} I feel quite sure that the future of the Stockholm, 1994, lays down "that" The sender of a postal packet can have it withdrawn from the post. 80 docs not allow the present system of con- long as the article has not been delivered trol to rust. The companies operating to the addresses." Such a provision as
QUEEN
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TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7:15 9.15
CARL LAEMMLE
PRESENTS
NORMAN KERRY
AND
PATSY RUTH MILLER
IN
"LORRAINE OF THE LIONS'
STORY
OF LOVE AND ADVENTURE A SOUTH SEAS ISLAND
At 5.15 & 9:15
D. J. DIMOFF
"KING OF THE BALALAIKA""
WILL APPEAR.
THE STAR
TO-DAY
AT 5.30 & 9.15
HOOT GIBSON
#TAMING THE "WEST."-
is contained in clause 11 is bound to be here have the opportunity between now of great convenience in any plage, such and 193 to build up reserves to meet any as Hongkong, where a large part of the commercial correspondence is with dis competition which may arise and at the tant places reached by mails which are same time to push on with new planting. Frequently despatched at intervals of To maintain our position as genera several days. The discretion will be producers the Malayan Government easily exercised here, though it might be should afford better facilities in the Wbarres difficult in a place like London. There is matter of granting land. for a large Watsons an objection to clause 11, ..., that it may planted area.
Hotels confict with part of the decision in Henthorn r. Fraker (1899) 8 Ch. 27, and
It this is done I am sure that with the Ferries
it might caable the sender to withdraw very favourable natural conditions pre- Dairy Farms an acceptance of a contract when he vailing here we can compete successfully
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must also be pointed out that Article 11general to-day, I think you will agres of the Final Protocol of the Convention with me that Malaya provides excellent lays down that "The provisions of security, for Investment and if our Gor- Article 45 of the Convention do not apply ernment will only encourage enterprise to Great Britain and to the British there will be no lack of capital flowing Dominions. Colonies and Protectorates, into this country in the near future. of which the internal legislation does not permit the withdrawal of correspondence at the request of the sender." In spite of these objections the clause is inserted because of its general convenience and because of the provision in Article 45 of the Stockholm Convention referred to above.
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HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE. -CLOSING QUOTATIONS. -
Araiz 1er; 1926, Hangrong Bank.....$1,065 buy. 1,0572 KB, Do.. London Elza nom. whom, the obligation lies. Clause 17 of Chartered Bank.......
Do the bill requires reasonable notice in Mercano, Bank, A. & B... 290 bay. writing in every case," and it parti- P. & O. Back....... cularises the persons by whom the notice East Asia Back is to be given. It also attempts to give Canten Insurance .................
‚$1.95 buy. 2 sa, Clause 2 gives power to open and delay an indication of what is meant by a Chins Underwriters.
North China Insuranca
Tla. 1457
6. FOLL any postal packet, which is reasonably reasonable notice.
of the bill, which Union Insurance" "
$281 bay. suspected of having been posted in con- Under clause 18
32 of the Post Office Yangtese Insurance ..............8k) nom. travention of the law, or of containing follows section nny thing" with respect to which, or by Ordinance, 1000, and section 26 of the Chins Fire Insurance ... $170 buy. ...$350 buy. means of which, any offence is being com Post Office Act, 1908, the master of a ship Hongkong Fire Insurance...
$28 nom. mitted or attempted..
is bound to accept postal packets intend-Donghae Under the present law the Postmastered for transmission to places outside the HK, O. & M. Stramboara...324) bay.
Hongkong
$21 nom. "fret) ...... General has no power even to delay the Colony. Clause 20 of the bill imposes
Indo-China
38 nom. .840 nom. transmission of correspondence, much less on every master of a ship to whom any
delivered all Transports
(Def), to open correspondence, without an such postal packeta.are
.87/buy. Star Ferred.......
303 bay. express warrant under the band of the statutory contract that he will duly de- Governor, except in the particular cases liver them at their destination outside waterbos......... dealt with in sections 12A, 17 and 18 of the Colony, and fixes 8500 as liquidated Oriental Navigations
$250 nom. 2 고고 the Post Office Ordinance, 1900, and sub- damages for any breach of this statutory China Bugar
Bugars section (2) of section 19 of that Ordinance contract: The legislation takes this form Mabon seems to indicate that the warrant of the because of the territorial limitations to Bagnets........... Governor must be for some specified the powers of the local legislature. The Kain Mining Ad.
(contained) article or correspondence and cannot be bill here merely follows section 29 of the Langkats
Jo... (single). general. Clause 13 of the bill gives a Post Office Ordinance, 1900:
Section 28 of the Post Office Ordinance, Shangha plorations.. general, nower, and it enables the Post-.
Loans master General to delay a postal packet 1900, is out of date na regards the rates shanghai for the purposes of obtaining a warrant of gratuities payable to ships for carry. Res to open it. In these two respects it is ing mails. It is also out of date in pro- wider than the existing law. It is na hibiting the payment of gratuities for HR. & K. Whadda, rower because it restricts these powers to mails in transit. Clause 19 of the bill postal packets posted in the Colony or leaves the rates of gratuities to be pre received for delivery in the Colony. The scribed by regulation. "inviolability of letter maila passing through the Colony is therefore streng- thened in the bill, while full powers are given for dealing with letters which either originate here or are to be delivered Clause 14 provides for the disposal of postal packets opened under the nuthority of sections 10, 12 or 13 Sub ject to any regulations which may be made under the Ordinance, the Governor is given full discretion in this matter. postcards Subject to his direction, any postal Clause 22 is taken from section 19 of nackets required for any criminal or the Straits Ordinance. It gives the Post-Cementa (combined)..... $162 mo forfeiture proceedings may be kept for master General the right to withhold any
$15 buy. (old) Du that purpote Subject to the above, the postal packets from any person who has China Buses..........
(new).......$5 buy. postal packet is to be forwarded to the refused. or neglected to pay any postage Uhin Lights (combined) $21 buy
dim. 10 mel. addressee if it can läwfully be so for-
(old) ire Do. warded, and if it cannot be forwarded or other sump which he is legally bound
to pay to the Post Officer it is to be returned to the sender.
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CINEMA ATTRACTIONS.. CURRENT PROGRAMMES AT LOCAL
THEATRES, DES
The Hongkong Amusements Ltd, have arranged some very attractive pro grammas at the local cinemas this week. Yesterday at the Queen's Theatre a picture which is quite out of the ordinary. was shown and will be screened again at all performancen to-day. This picture is entitled Lorraine of the Lions," a Carl Laemmle production: The story concerns a beautiful girl marooned on a South Sen island, where she reigns as Queen of the beasts in her jungle home protected by a great gorilla, watched over by elephants, and guarded by lions. This tigerish little beauty creates a turmoil of passion and jealousy when she makes her entrance into society, and fall who visit the Queen's will be in- terested and amazed at this weird love story. The pieture stars Patsy Ruth Miller, and Norman Kerry,
-An additional attraction at the 5.15 and .15 performances yesterday was the appearance of Mon: D. J. Dimoff, who provided a balalaika interlude. 12/1210.tributing Liszt's Rhapsody No. 2, Gillet's Pizzicato and a Russian Folk Song, with variationale
42/- buy ........ Tis. 23 buy. T 12 bay,
The 7 nom. $6 buy.
Hanghaw New Engineerings..
Docks, Shanghai H.K.4. Hotels Clause 3 of the bill is an attempt Hongkong Lands to deal fully with the question of liability Hongkong Realtys (ap. for payment of postage Sub-clause (1) BB. Territorials (f.p.).... is taken from Article 36 of the Stockholm Humphreys Estates...... Convention. In that sub-clause post-Prince's Building.... cards are not mentioned because they are Hural Lands included in the.. term letter, unless of Ewo Cottons course where, as in the regulations pre Orientals scribing rates of postage, there is an in Shanghai Cottons (uld) dication that the term does not include
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Tls. 1624 buy. $ buy, 214, 106 bar. *$101 buy. “
.867 88.
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BOTA,
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$100
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UR. 28 buy.
Mr. 81 bay, 10 Tis. 66 buy.
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Clause 5 applies sections 12, 13 and POSTAL PACKETS DELIVERED AT HOTELS, ETC. 14 to all postal articles tendered to the Clause of the bill provides that if post office whether such articles are postal packets are delivered at hotels or Der & Wing (Ep.)..... izanamissible by post or not.
shipping offices, and are not claimed or Hongkong Electrica forwarded, they shall be returned to the Micio Electrion Section 30 of the Post Office Ordinance, post office and treated as dead letters K. Developmaante 1900, is defective in that it only requires A, postal packet pasted in the Colony K.K. Ropes (combined)
(old) the first intimation" of the proposed must be returned within two weeks, and despatch of a vessel to be given to the postal packet posted outside the Colony Postmaster General. When an owner must be returned within two months. Hongkong Telophuss has failed to give any intimation to the The Postmaster General has power to Hongkong Tramways Postmaster General it is not possible to extend these periods. This provision is Tana Urawfordis.
adapted from the New Zealand Post and | Mack exact any penalty unless the Postmaster
Peak Tram (old) General is in a position to prove that Telegraph Act, 1903, section 21
Do some" intimation "had" been' given "to
Bincese someone else. This makes the section. In clauzes 25 to 34 of the bill, both Tari rather useless in case of default. An inclusive, an attempt has been made to United Asbestos other difficulty in the section is that it classify and improve the arrangement ↑ Watsons (old) is not very clear about the person on of the various offences relating to the
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For to-morrow and Wednesday, - ́ ́ Thís. Woman," a Warner Bros. Classic will be shown, and among the artists appear." 'ing-in ore Louise Fazenda, Clara Bow..
Ricardo Cortez and Marc McDermott.
From Thursday to Saturday (inclusive) Buster Keaton will be starred in a high- class comedy "The Navigator." This will be exceptionally amusing, and sure to please.
THE STAR THEATRE.
At the Star Theatre, Kowloon, to-day Hoot Gibson is featured in "Taming the
West, a picture in which East meets the Wild West. The film has been adapted from the story "The Range -Dwellers- by B. M. Bower
For to-morrow and Wednesday, “Bab. bitt," another Warner Bros, classic, will be shown. An all-star cast is featured, including Willard Louis. The picture is based on the successful book "Babbitt " by Sinclair Lewis'
From Thursday to Saturday, Fay. Compton and Jack Buchanan will be.. screened in The Happy Ending,” taken from, the story by Ian Hay (author of "The Sport of Kings).
VOTUNE ATTRACTIONE,
Futare attractions in the picture lins include The Shooting of Dan. MeGrew," from the stirring poem on the North- West by Eobert W. Service. Barbara La Marr portrays the “lady known as Lou while Lew Cody is Dangerous Dan McGrew Wild Oranges," from the novel by Joseph Hergesheimer is also coming to the Colony, May Murray will soon be seen here in “The French Doll““
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