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GOVT EXCHANGE LOSSES
DEPRECIATION OF STERLING SECURITIES.
FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING TO-DAY.
The following items of supple montary expenditure will be present- od to therrow for the consideration of the Finance Committee of the Legislativo Council-
Estimates; "1981, Depreciation of Starling
Securities
3144,930 The cost price of the Trustee Stock held on account of surplus funds was £101,008. 13:19,
Tho market value as at 31st December," 1937, wie £94,001 4.1, the deprecia tion at that, data being therefore. £10,000.0 which a6 81-1/4.8/16: amounts to 8144,8spris and has to be written off. A vote for this sum is
necassary
AMONG EUROPEANS OUT
EAST
DESERVING AND KUNDESERVING" CASES DESCRIE
IN MISSION TO SEAMEN REPORT!
PLIGHT OF ELDERLY OFFICERS
AND RATINGS.
Thas poverty and destitution are pa the increase among certain Europeans out est le re lested in the report for 1932 of Sailors Home and Mission to Semons drawn up by the Chaplain, the Rev. G. T Waldegrave.
The position of a number of elderly officers, engineers, and sea- menmen of worthy type-is extremely pathetic and their causO should commend itself to the Conscience of the community.
The Home is being rebuilt, and, meanwhile, is carrying on its admirable work among officers and men of the merchant service.
NEW PREMISES BEING BUILT.
The report states inter-alia. - The erection of the now Sailors Home and Seamen's Institute was began in July.
her while she was laying alongside a whart She was for four days under repair.
The Launch has as usual" been much in demand, specially by orewe of H. M. Vescola refitting in the hot season.
I will stand on the now water Loss of Sale of Stock ... 66,708 front of the Fraye East Reclama
Of the holding of £290,000 nominal tion. on the west corner of Glous value of Newcastle Corporation custan Road and Fenwick St., as the Our Chinese Staff has horved us 1948/80, 43 per cent stock for which end of which street, close alongside as well and as loyally as ever ned £19,200 was paid for account of the building is a very convenient there, have been few changes: Wo |surplus-balancer the Crown Agents publio pier.
deeply regret the death of George. Hor the Colonies sold one half reali-
The main entrance will face the Wong our old No. 1, who had been sing £8,137.2.0 d loss of 8482 180 Harbour, but there will be another with us for many years, was ax- which at 1/4.0/10 56,707.88 The entrance from Fenwick Street, lead-tremely capable and reliable. £9;137.2.0 was, reinvested in Deceming to the Restaurant and Concert The Institute was for a time a ber, 1981, in London County Could Hall, and by a staircase to the com
com, Guard Post for a platoon of regu oil 1945/55, 4 por cont stock at modious Chapel on the first floor, lets acting as protection for the face value of £10,137.14.01 Thor has therefore been a slight incronis
On, the ground floor will be the many Japanese residing in the vic in the nominal value and the offices, Seamen's billiard room,uity of the building, and later Rus yearly interest will also be slightly library available for all tanks, sesian Anti-Piracy Guards took their
A vote is requested to cover
mon's reading room and public re- place. the difference between the original staurant, etc.
Financially the year has not been. price and the sale price.
more..
On the first floor will be the good The drop of the Dollar in Loss on Exchange $385,989 offfeors" lounge, billiard Exchange value coinciding with Photos on axchange for 1982 dining room, study and lecture room Reveral extra expenses has caused
room,.
amounted to: 8395,081.21.
Of
sism $200,732 was due to the reduced for officers and engineers reading serious deficit instead of a profe dollar value of sterling securities for their tickets," Chaplain's such as we had last year, owing to the rise in exchange
An Appeal
0
during the year. The balance of office, vestry, chapel and ante-room 8188,240 is the last incurred owing and a waiting room for ladies. to the rise in the dollar on
We are making no appeal for our oni. The second door is entirely devot-huilding expenses, and we short term investments in the Jointed to sleeping accommodation for know that at the present time re welt Colonial Fund and to other minor eighty seamon, except for two duction of expenditure is cssential adjustments. In 1980 it will beomfortable rooms for the European both private and public, but we. recollected that owing to the heavy fall. "in the dollar the sum 81480,500 was carried to Revenue. Newspapers and Periodi
of
$1,298 Provision made in
Estimates
$8,500 Provision made by
Vote
Supplementaty
Total
$1,800
2810,400 The supplementary Vote, proved to be insufficient. Final figures for the year show a deficit of, 97,258.00 and a voto for this sum is request. edi
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steward.
There will be four dormitories, one bring for, the use of the very few Asiatic sommen, who may need ac commodation, and 38 cabins,
The third floor provides well-lit and airy bedrooms for 4 officers and engineers, on the fourth floor.
There will be one passenger lift and ono baggage lift, in addition to four staircasCH/
It is interesting to note that the firm of contractora happens to be the same which erected the present Seamen's Institute 22 years ago.
Beachcombers.
should be very glad to hear of any friends who are willing to furnish a bedroom or cabin, or make some other gift of up to the Institute în memory of someone whom they may. wish to commemorate,
Problem of Unemployed,
The question of expenses brings causing us great anxiety. As is us to mention a problem which is well-known, there are thousands of unemployed seafarers of the best type all over, the World," and pos sibly Hong Kong is better placed in this respect than most ports of similar importance. Nevertheless there are several officers and en-
Newspapers and periodicals pur chased through the Crown Agenti It would seem advisable for the gineers who either owing to ill cont: £418.10.02% or 88,318.04 of which Authorities to amend in some way health, old age, or the laying up #79.527 or 81,249:04 was spent in four local ordinances dealing with of their vessels have been out of Dctober and these figures were not the discharge of seamen and cases work for a considerable period and to hand when the first supplemen of ship-desertion. There are many are now practically penniless. We tary vote was prepared.
professional beachcombers who work cannot keep then for an indefinite their way from port in the East period on the chance of their being Estimates, 1982,
following the warm or cool weather ablo some time to pay off their debts Sino-Japanese Conflict. $10,000 according to taste, and exist on the specially as many of them already A sum of $10,000 is requested to charity of the men of the Merchant owe considerable sums elsewhere. most expenses in connection with Service and Navy, whom ingident There is no fund in the Colony or the Sino-Japanese conflict owing ally they are really disgracing, and any Home of Rest for these men to the necessity for maintaining than not the offers of the ships problem as one which cally for cave of focal organizations. More often and we seriously put forward this special precautions in the Colony The undernoted expenges, have to concerned are glad to see the last ful consideration and action, not of them and nothing is therefore only by the Guilds and Companies Pay for Police Reserves.
said to the Authorities. Their Con- but also by the powers, that, be it Cost of buses standing by during als will have nothing to do with has been suggested that there should Chinese New Year festivities a
them long as they have oven be permanent accommodation for
be rett-
e precaution against further anti-o little as a single dollar in their such in the new. Home and Insti- Japanese demonstrations.
pockets they cannot be arrested for tute, but for very many reasons Bourd and lodging for members vagrancy, and cases have been this is quite not of the question. It of E contingent at Sailors known of such men, when arrested may be as well to say that even if Home Wanchai, for protection of and placed in the House of Deten- such were given paunges. Homo it residebees and shops.
tion, returning at the end of the would be no real solution and in Purchase of House No. 396,
our hours freedom allowed them some casca practically n deptli The Peak
The future for 848,000 daily in order to look for work with sentence.
them Purchase of the above house for Ave or ten dollars in their pocket. would be at best parish relief or the Use a Senior Officer's Quarters at This sum having secured their re- workhouse.
1. cost of 848,000 plus $2,000 for lease and served its purposes de Statistics tot 1932. fitting
Purchase of Broadcast Trang
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MOTHER FINED FOR SONS THEFT.
by whom it was lont and the man Number of Visita paid to 9.801 continues to be a pest until some-
Ships A sum of $87,960 was provided how monas are found to ship him for the purchase of
67 broadcast Away or he considers it is well to Number of Visits to Hospitals transmitter.
move on elsewhere. Such men hang Number of Services hold in The Electrical Engineer reports about the vicinity of the Institute, Seamen's Institute that it was not possible to complete Naval Canteen, Sailors' and Number of Services taken by the ortation and installation by Boldiers' Home and similar places, the Chaplain in H.M. Ships. the end of the your br
with pitiful and quite antrue Attendance of Seafarers at
Bervices in Institute Number of Social Events of
A vote equal to the unexponded stories of misfortune, and give balance on last year's vote is endless trouble to those responsible therefore requested to complete the for running these Institutions as well as to the men froin whom they
shamelessly cadge.
Rant of Broadcasting Studio 84,513 Owing to the unsuitability of the Post Office Building for broad-cast- ing it was docided to remove the
Faithful servants.
The Motor Launch
studio to the 2nd floor (Island site) was very nearly
of Gloucester Building. The above up by a large
sum represents the rent of the pre-"
mise from 16th March to 31ste Decembar, 1932, at 8475 per month.
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YOUNG INCORRIGIBLE IN KOWLOON COURT.
not looked after him properly i have done my best. I have ent
Faent: him to school, but he always runs away. I have locked him up. have done everything I could think of, but he is still the same pak your Worship to deal with him
You'll have to do better am/
all sorts arranged by the Booisty locally, dandon Attendians "a 5 Social Events
Concerts, Dances, Tennis, :: What is possibly the first convice, afraid. "When he was convicted the Pienics, etc.)
tion at the Kowloon Magistracy last time, you, signed & bond ring" Total number:
under the Juvenile Offenders' Or keep him eat of mischief, and in the
dinance was recorded yesterday be has done it again—I then a Chinese Tad of twelve was work and I cannot look after him charged before Mr. Fraser for theft all the time.
The rooms vacated in Post Office of the Police Reserve Emerginby Building will relieve overarowding Unit.
suitable van permanently attached of clothing stran
Why don't you send him to the pantà, the unit would, greatly increase After defondant had been convict-country 1- have been doing that
ipiancy
The amount, required in mndeed, Inspector Clark informed his but bi and his way back fo las followerados
Worship that the defendant had Kong all by himself. (Cómo of Chasis
-82;500,00 | several previous convictions for"] I must holdsson veepas
880000 thott
in the Radio Dapartment and pro 16 has been the vido accommodation for the new phat to bite buses, (which are that Infant Welfare Ofiber:
able and expensive to hire) for the Police. Hasärve Motor Emar.. | ponvéyahca” of Folled Romývány Art
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His Worship (to defondante o 82,800.00 ther)Your son har been convicted illyar you $90,
several timer béfoze." Why have you, Fard labour,