ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB...
THE NIGHTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be lushi (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY an SATURDAY, 11 JUNE, 1939, com mending at 1.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be Rung st 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Mombers are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
Badge admitting
No One without & Badge will be admitted to the Mombers' Enclosure,
Non-Members to sha Membora Enclosure and Oil Rooms at $5.00 for Gontieaon and $3.00 for Ladies (Both nolading Faz MTA obtainably through the SECRETARY apoa Introduction
by ሴ -Mombe such Mombor to be responsible for Payment of all Ohits, etc.
Badges huiting to Members Enclosure will NOT be on sale at the Race Course,
On No Pratext will Chillzen be pormitted in other Enclosure during Cha Meeting.
Ts are obtainable it the Club House provided they are ordered from the No. Boy in advance. Telephonu 21920...
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE,
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The Pries of Admission to the Public Enclosure a 32.00 maluding Tax, for Persona, including Ladies, and is allpayable at the date.
Soldier and Sailors is Uniform aro admitted Half Prica,
Bookmaker, Tin Tac Moo. uto..... will not be permitted to apunte with- in the Precincts of The Hong KONG JOCKEY CLUB inring the Race Meeting. Tiding will be obtainable in the Res taurant in the Public Enclosure.
By Order,
8. A. SLEAP,
Acting Secretary, Yong Kong, Bth June, 1932.
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in the Service cannot fail to be al boriofit and economy to the tax- payera. These are just the men whose retention the Governor in Council is likely to approve; but confes 1 expect to find them the
exception rather than the rule. The
Hon. member's plea for considerätä treatment, while it cannot be ac empted as an argument for retain ing "officers beyond the period of their full asininess, is unlikely to be overlooked when the Clovernor in Council is dealing with cases of It may be of in- special merit. terest to Hon. Members to know that in the six years 1924-1920 thora werp only eleven officors (two of who wore Europeans) who appear to have remained in service till tha age of 30, out of 91 retirements shown in the 1929 Blue Books.
In the 1030 Blue Book, it is shown that of 30 locally recruited officers, who retired during the five years, 1026-1030, the average age was just under 51.
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The Bill passed ruseling.
The House then went into Com- mitte to consider the 3i clauso by alnase.
The amendments foreshadowed by The Attorney General during the second roading stage were adopted, The Attorney General said that the BR!
as amended would be published in to-day's Government Guzette and the third reading taken some future meeting of the Council.
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FINANCE
COSTS MORE!
INCREASED DUTY: FRAUD
DETECTED...
The report of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports for the SA, 1981 states that the, natyr. venus collected was. 82,416,808.u- compared with 81,890,048.12 for
1930.
The increase to a great ux- tant was due to duty on importet liquor being collected on a sterling basis, the "dotlar "being taken, as equivalent to one shilling and eight
peace.
Bogus Exports.
AND CHILDREN.
THE FAR EASTERN COMMISSION.
RECENT RECOMMENDATIONS.
The Longue of Nations Travelling Commission of Enquiry, inte Traile in Women and Children' in the East !'
has returned to Cioner after sigu
teen months' absence, visiting tho var countries of Asia.
A similar enquiry was enrried out is Europe, the Mediterranean badin And the Americas during the years
1924-25 by a body of experts ap Part of the increase on European pointed by the League of Nations.
The Commission for the East type of liquor was due to the pre-which was instructed to take into account the special Conditions, and vention of a long continued Trand referred to below,
custom prevailing in Eastern coun tries, visited Siam, Indo-China, Hong Kong, Macao, the Philip pine Islanda, Japan, the Nothor Inads East Indies, the Straita Settlements and the Federated and Unfederated Malay States, India, Pondicherry, Ceylon, Persia, Iraq, Syrin and the Lebanon and Pates:
A sérious fraud was discovered in January, 1987; which "ansistoÀ in drawing out of bond, without payment of duty, wines and spirits which were ostensibly to be expor: ed, but which actually never left the Colony. Suspicion has attach- ed to cartais transactions of this kind for a long time but all efforts to detect the offenders failed until this year. It is believed that these frauds have been going on for my years and may have cost the res venue nearly $200,000 a year. Steps have been taken to provent, similar frauda in future.
As the result of this traud (sip ported by the discovery that one al the licensed warehouses had a se erat sliding panel in the warehouse wall, by which admission. would be gained when the warehouse was se foured by a revenue lock, and by another case in which an export of 70 jars of alloged high strength spirit was found to be pure water), the Executive Council advised the abolition of the system of private COMMITTEE.icensed warehouses. In the new
COST. OF LAYING NEW
WATER PIPES...
Liquor Ordinarke passed in De comber this advien was given effect to. The proposal aroused the ex- pected apposition from the trade. Finally the lovernment granted an extension of private warehousing VOTE FOR $60,000 ASHED FOR privileges for six months from January 1, 182. Most of the pre .sent premises are unsuitable from the fact that the entrances are not on public thoroughfares.
AND APPROVED.
Votes totalling $58,023 were ap- proved at a aubsequent meeting of the Finance Committee,
A pro- visional vote of 880,000 in conace- tion with the laying of the new pipes for the extra street fountain service was also approved.
In connection with an item for $12,000 for a Venereal Diseases
Less Drinking: Less Revenue.. An unexpected increase was shown under most heads, especially in the more expensive and highly taxed Basses, due wholly to these dis. coveries. The increase in price due to the fall in exchange, the general
The CHINA LAUNDRY Co. Cine at Kowloon, the Honourable depression, and the increase of duty
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The Colonial Secretary: Yes. Mr. Brugn: Would it nos be more economical, instead of a temporary building to put up a permanent one 1
The Colonial Secretory: It is a temporary building of a nature that will last for years.
Mr. Brugn: We are more or long committed to this sam a total sum fon, the building. It would not be fuch a charactor that it will have to be pulled down after a few years and put up again somewhere else.
Hon. Mr. Cronsy: You It is more or less permanent.
Hon. Mr. Paterson: Possilily, neie that the League of Nations is in- terested in this problem, Tis Maiesty's Goverment hopes there will be no more venereal disense. (Laughter.)
Street Fountains. The Colonial Secretary: Ap a previous meeting of this Committee you approved of the expenditure of $25,000 for certain extra work, arising out of the water shortage, for the distribution of water. The 923,000 on further examination was found to be insufficient and I will nak the Director of Public Works to explain the position.
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result of the collection being put on a sterling basis, would n
considerablut turally have led to decrease in the amount of duty cal lected." This notually happened in the case of the cheaper liquors such as beer, claret and vermouth, heer losing 13 per cent, and claret los ing 3 per cent. Against this the more heavily taxed spirite showed again of 12 per cent, and even the highest duty class champagne and liqueurs showed a slight in- crease. A beller result still would have been shown had not Christmas sales been exceptionally dull and duty-paid stocks been kept excep tionally low, owing to an imped- ing reduction in duty due to the rise in exchange.
Tobacco.
Duties collected amounted · «to 83,304,522.13 net. 9 against *2,020.474.17 net for last year. No true comparison can however be nunde, because the collection of duties was placed on a sterling basis in February, and the duties them selves were raised in September.
There was a great deal of smiggl- ing" of Chinese made tobaren, and seizures increased considerably. A large amount of this smuggling was across the Sham Chun River" inter the New Territories, and many seizures were made there by "the Police, The local cigaretto factories were fully employed,
Motor Spirit.
Hon. Mr. Creasy: The provision nl amount originally approved by the Financs Committee for the in- stallation of the pow group street fountains was $25,000. After this The collection on motor spirit rel scheme was introduced it was realiz,} mained steady at. $425,268,05. - Thự ed that many additional exjensions | duty was increased by ten cents per were necessary to provide a better gallon in September. The installn- distribution of fountains clear of tion of the Texng Oil Co. at Tsun the main lines of traffic. This in- Wan was wmplated during the volved additional lengths of piping year. more particularly in the "Kowloon
Peninsula. The value of stores
foiping, taps and fitting) drawh
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What We Drink.
The return of European liquor from stocks at the Government duty collected during the year 1931, Store was approximately $43,000. states that duty was collected as In addition some 86.000 was expend- follows:- el ou local purchases, making a total of $40,000. The revised estimate for the work (including labour, etc.) is now #00,000.
17,927 108;8087 22.732 912,771 13,287
123,492
tine.
Oficial Help.
cials of the Police and Passport Almost everywhere the chief -
Departments, Immigration and Heath Officials and Judges of various courts have given evidenen. Commission obtained valuable in- before the Commission, and the
formation from the beads of re- ligious communities, from organisa- tions, prominent among which were women's associations, in the coun- tries visited.
The Commission's report is now being drafted and, after submission the Governments concerned and the appropriats League bodies, will
onde available for the public.
How the Work is Done.. The Lengua Committer on Trafic Children and the Committee on Child Welfare met in April.
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Rub Zain-Buk into your toes, soles, and insteps to ease the aching muscles and tendons. Use it regularly to soothe raw places; to heal open sores; to stop suppuration and blood-poison; to grow firm new skin; and to soften corus and other hard growths. Rub Zam-Buk into your feet to-night |
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despite repented representations, Conventions of 1910 and 1924. Une fourteen Sintes had not yet ratified der those Conventions, traffic in wo the 1021 Convention. The majority men over the age of 21 is mishablo of these are" Latin-American coununly if the trafficker's employ hand or violauce. Thirty Governments Have already Informed the Secre thrint. that they are willing to make the traffic punishable ever in the case of women over he age of
tries.
Repatriation of Prostitutes.
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A problem with which the W.. men's International Organisations have felt great concern in the patriation of foreign prostitutes, who give their free consent... Dr. Luis (Uruguay), Vice-Clair Only one State has signified t Each of the Committees is com an of the Committee condemned willingness. The Committee their posed of ten Government delegates compulsory repatriation of for fore asked the Council of the Lea and a number of navessors, some eign prostituten. Re pointed gue to approach the Governament of whom represent portant see out... that expulsion
with a view to obtaining the neces frequent- tions of public opinion, such na the ly meant that prostitutes were sary legislation to make tho, traffic Women's International, Organis abandoned on the frenties with no punishable in all cases. tions and the International Auveau means of support: rapasriation for the Suppression of Tate in I could not be considered without ex- Women and Children, while others | amining how the repatriated person sit in a private capacity." might be helped to earn a respect
able living in her own country,
The Secretariat reported a number| of fresh ratifications of the three! Conventions of 1904, 1910 and 1921. It was forced, however, to note, that,
The most important resolution passed by the Committen deals with eliminating the age-limit from inc
A draft Protocol for the punish ment of Houtenéura háự bom an
favourably received by the inajority of the Governmenss which have conumented on it. The answers (in- dicate that it would be very diffi- euit at the moment to reach tarna. tional agreement.
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Instant approval is given to the extra refine→ ments in this popular model. The new "Twin Top" silent gear box gives speed and accelera- tion on steep hills with half the strain on engine and transmission. Wider track and the new ̈ ̈ chassis frame make for more room and better road holding qualities.
Coupe and Saloon models have Pytchley sliding heads and Triplex Safety glass all round, including window louvres.
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· AMOUNT GALLONS. OF DUTY
COLLECTED.
Ale, Beer, Cider
It should however he understood and Stout..... 338,550 $206,380 |that after the wally entergeney Brandy period, stores (piping, ste.) to the Whilky" value of at least 840,000 will be Gin and Cocktail returned to store, and will be avail- † Rum able for insus on other works. Thus Champagne and the total sum chargeable to the Sparkling Wine Water Emergency vote will Claret ultimately be approximately 820.000, Port Wine which is well within the amount the Sherry, Madeira
1,817
16,815
3,298.
50,513
2,872.7
· 5,358.
13,321 32,000
2,210
13,683
asked to approve,
Vermouth
4,831 22,300
1,870 20,304
2,705
Liquor
for the 400,000 will put forward- Miscellaneous at a later date.
The provisional vote proved.
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Total
43,230
1,335 21,400 4,050
416,775::81|015,833
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