HONG KONG DAILY PRESE, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1932.
THE NEW BISHOP OF THE COLONY'S MOTOR
VICTORIA,
"A BIG MAN FULL OF
IDEAS AND VISIONS."
The good news of the nomination of the new Bishop of Victoria came just too late for inclusion in our Inst issue, says St. John's Review. All information received goes to
• show that we are indeed fortunate to be able to look forward to lender. ship from such a man as the Rev. R. O. Hall. His record is one of scholarship, efficiency, couruge,
wide sympathies, and, spirituality -all qualities for which there wil be the widest scope in the work to which he has been called.
An officer now in the Hong Kong, Garrison tells us that he served with R. O. Hall in France during the Great War, and that as Bri gade Major he was greatly loved
BUS SERVICE
LICENCES TO BE OFFERED FOR THE NEXT FIFTEEN YEARS.
NO COMPETING SERVICES TO BE
ALLOWED.
The Government Gazette of last Friday publishes the eagerly awaited details of Tendars for Road Passenger Transport.
Lipence, for fifteen years, either for the whole Colony, or for the Mainland, or for the Island, will be granted.
Buses must be of British make, and the person or persons ob- taining the licencs must be British subjects,
No double deckers will be allowed on the Island. The licence is to be granted from June 11, 1995. Faros as fixed will be for the next three years, when revision, according to circumstances will be made.
Points in the terms for tender of public interest are as follows:
SERVICE OF ALL-BRITISH VEHICLES.
and admired by all who had to deal Time for Tendering and Subjest opinion the motor vehicles and or with him,
Matter.
His sympathies with all the best aspirations of the Chinese were The tenders will be received at clearly shown by his attitude and the Colonial Secretary's Office until work during the short time he spent noon on Wednesday, the 30th day
ganization for the service ar ser
General Provisions as to Tenders.
The Governor in Council shall not bo bound to accept the highest or any tender.RA
CHINESE ARMY DESERTERS.
BOAT.
ARRESTED ON ARRIVAL YESTERDAY.
No tender will be accepted unless GIVE TROUBLE ON BRITISH the tenderer represents. if an in dividual, that he is a British sub- ject and, if a firm or company, that; the majority of the partners or directorate aro British subjects, and in any case that the manage ment and the administrative staff! or an effective majority thereof, to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, are or will bo British sub- jects; that the control will be within the Colony and carentially British; that at all times and in all circumstances (including any and every emergency) the Governnientasier (Capt. O. H. Farrar) and the ship's ofloors, but they also may be assured that the service;
decided to travel free of charge to this port.
will be duly and loyally maintain
od; and that the situation na shove will continue and be observed with the utmost good faith during the subsistence of the licence and any and overy extension thereof if granted to the tenderer. Such re-
Forty-three deserters from the 19th Route Army, who boarded the Douglas Lapraik Company's 8.8. Hatching in Amoy for Hong Kong, thought they could behave just as they like during the voyage.
Not Guly were they insolent to the
idea's about it so when the ship Capt. Fraser, of corse, had other
massage to the Hong Kong office to was in Swatow he sent a wireless the effect that there was trouble on board, and asked them to arrange
for the police to meet the vessel
presentations (including the under vices are sufficient and ready to takings contained therein) shall bo when she came in. allow of such commencement.
Aa
At present advised the
the basis of any licence that may be granted, and if it shall at any tima appear to the Governor-in-
in China 500 years ago when con-of November, 1932, and will be for Governor-in-Council will not apCouncil that any such representathe Japanese during the recent sulting with Christian Students licence or licences for the oxclu- prove of the uso of double deckedtion has failed and no longer sup
Members of the Chung Hun Shen Kung Hui may therefore be assur. sive maintenanes of a servies or doz overy help and consideration services for the mechanical tran- from thoir new Bishop.
sport of persons by road wherefor 4.0, Hall has showed courage nadj width of sympathy in his activitica payment is made for the seat ae- in the north of England in conjunc-cupied.. tion with Free Churchunen. He's evidently a man who will help to
A tender may extend to the draw together the at present seat
maintenance of a service for the tered forces of Christian propia whole of the Colony, including the And in moral matters and dificult New Territories, or may be limited problems connected, with Christian Marriage ho has not been afraid to to the maintenance of a service for take a leading part.
the whole of the Island of Heng Expooted Here in November. Kong, or for the whole of the Kowl A bishop lately consecrated to a
Joon Peninsula, including the New diocene in the East, who worked, Territories.
The result, as may he guessed, was an unpleasant surprise for the lada who fought so well against
"war" in the North. Police offi carrying out the usual enquiries, cers boarded the vessel, and after the soldiers were politely but firm ly told that they could
not expect and also that as passengers of a ship, they were bound to obey the captain's orders.
vehicles on roads on the Island of
ports the licence then and in such Hong Kong. Approval of the usa
case the Governor-in-Council may of such vehicles on any road in Kowloon would be subject to the col such licence, and thereupon advice of the Director of Publis all the powera and privileges of Works as to the suitability of such the licenseo thereunder shall cease to travel free of charge on any boat! and determine and the service shall bordened to have been discontinued by the licensee.
road.
Taking Over Vehicles, etc., of
No vehicle of the licensee shali it has been approved by the In- be used in or for any service until
vehicle used in or for any service spector General of Police and every
shall at all times be equipped, fitter and maintained to his satising a faction and all buildings, works,
near to our new Bishop in England, Tho continued operation of the materials and things used in con- recently wrote to the Dean 16 f know O. Hall intimately and love tramway services of the Hong Kongnection with any service shall he the man much. He is a big mall, Tramway Company, Limited, and maintained in an efficient state of spiritually minded and full of the Peak Tramway Company,
iduals and visions. He will sup Limited and any lawful extensions repair to the like, satisfaction. port you through thick and thin,
both in your efforts to put spiritual thereof and the maintenance, of things first in the Cathedral, and any service of motor buses for the alan in enlightened social ideas."
Although no defuite information
Fares.
Every tenderer must submit with transport of persons between the his tender an itemised list of maximum fares contemplated by his tender.
Present Companies,
Takan Under Escort,
This part of the business, how- over, did not last very long and soon the company of desorters " Headquarters under escort. were making their way to Police
од
If any company at present operat bus service by permission tenderer or tenderers may be re- shall Ва desire, the successful quired by the Governor-in-Council to purchase under some method of board the Haiching as soon as she
Our representative went valuation to be determined by the came alongside the wharf and Government, all or any suitable and gleaned the above information from effective vehicles, repair plant, and Capt. Farrar. Mr. A. H. White, machinery, lands, buildings and the manager of the Company, was materials used by such company for,also on board at the time and when the purpose of its undertaking interviewed he said he had nothing prior to the 10th June, 1933.; The said Eats of maximum fares
to add to what Capt. Farrar had shall be deemed to relate to the
If the successful tender shall said beyond the fact that people fares to be demanded and taken then
the whole of the Colony who gave all the trouble did not tho succesful tenderer look an orderly body of men by during the first three years of the me The licence or licences will be eaid period of fifteen years.
may
be required to purchase any means. In the conese of criticism by Mr. for a period or term of fifteen years
such vehicles and things ส P. S.. Cassidy of the Bishops look commencing on the 11th day of three years and at any time there-Colony, but if the successful tender On the expiration of the said aforesaid used in any part of the ou China, China and Britain" it June, 1833; provided that, at the after the fares shall be the current shall cover part only of the Colony Here is a most excellent and request of the licensee, the Cover fares proscribed by the Governor-then the successful tenderer may original contribution to the mass of nor-in-Council may, for such reasons in-Council and deemed by him to be required to purchase only such literature on China's relations with as ho shall consider sufficient, at be fair and reasonable having re-vehicles and things as aforesaid as Britain written by one who spent a brief time in Chias and apparently any time during the existence of gard as well to the licensee as to in the opinion of the Government drew most of his information from the licenco or licences extend such the general public. Christian Chinese. Yet the author licenco or licences or either of them
regarding the Bishop's consecration Hong Kong Hotel and the Repulse hus as yet been received, thers Bay Hotel (but not between any seems reason for thinking that he two intervening points on the routo may be consecrated on October 28, and that we may expect to be able between them) shall not be an in- to welcome him in Hong Kong at fringement of the licence for ex- the end of November.
clusive maintenance.
The Bishop's Book on China..
is said:--
bas presented a very accurate view
of the problem of China and has for a period not exceeding twelve
Records.
..
not allowed a very lively sympathy months at any one time: Provided, The licensed shall keep the fol- for the Chinese to obscure the ma- also that such extensions shall not lowing records in respect of overy terial benefits which have been
brought about by foreign, and par-in any case exceed in the whole & ticularly British influence. It is period of three years for anyone obvious that the author, whoever he licence.
is, has the knack of weighing up
a complicated assortment of facts
and delivering a balanced judg
ment. The early pages aroused in
me a distinct sense of hostility to
Services to be Provided.
The service or services shall be
wards the author, but on conclud. conducted only by means ing the book I have been brought vehicles of British manufacture. to realise that relations between
China and Bratain - caunot ba tied down to trade interests. I began to
the Far Eas
of
Nothing in that provision shall. prevent tho ues while serviceable
service, namely:-
(1) number of motor vehicles run.
ning:
(2) number of daily journeys and mileage run by each vehicles; (3) number of passengers carried
by each vehicle for each jour noy; and
(4) details of receipts in respect
of each section and route;
and shall permit the Governor or
cover
ane used in that part of the Colony
covered by the successful tender.
On any such valuation as "áforo-
'VARSITY NEWS.
Prof. L. T. Ride have recently re- turned from British North Borneo, where they spent their Summer
Prof. and Mrs. W. Faid and
Vacation...
Dr. Lim Poh Sim, who gradu said no allowance will be made forated last May, is now ship-surgeon goodwill.
of the Hai Hing.
General Conditions.
The licensee shall not transfer his licence without the permission of the Governor-in-Council.
Dr. Law Nai Koeg (President of the. University Union) passed his M.B. B.S. degree examination last
May, and is now attached to the
I during the period of licence Alice Memorial Hospital.
in respect of any route within the portion of the Colony affected by.
*
near future.
T
News has been received to, the
Dr. G. E. Yeoh, who also gradu- such licence, it shall be necessary ated in May, is temporarily attach- parceive that the British angle is of any vehicle of non-British manu- parzon authorised by him to in the opinion of the Governor-in-ed to the Kennedy Town Hospital. that of China as a market" facture which is owned by the inspect all such records and also all Council that motor vehicles of a Dr. kooh comes from Pouang. He whereas it ought to be widened, so that China can be viewed as a na successful tenderer and was in us accounts kept by the licensee in type or class affected by such may return there to practise in the tion struggling to adjust itself to by him in the Colony immediately connection with every service and licence should be provided and ply, modern ideas. The author roundly before the 11th June, 1933, or was all stocks of tickets, and the er that the number of motor. condemna our insularity and acquired by him under the provi: licensee shall afford all such facili vehicles provided by the licensed effect that Dr. (Miss). Mo Yin Hilda strongly in favour of increasing points of contact between the two sons of paragraph 21 of this notities for such inspection as may should be increased, or peoples. Hoig little impatientfication."
from time to time be required.
Dat other Yuent, ex-Chairman of the Women's and overlooks the tremendous.dif..
motor vetricies of a type or class Hostel, is now practising in Kuala culty of changing national charac
The Governor-in-Council may at Deposit and Security.
as aforesaid should be substituted teristics. The book is a day time require the licensee to
Lumpur. for any Every toaderer must deposit with
which may have become niet for a greater interest in the increase, extend, curtail or other the Colonial Treasurer the sum of the licenses shall within in such service on any route for the time Chinese addressed mainly to the wise vary any of the roubes or to
unsuitable or unserviceable, then plain man at home, but the moral reduce the intervals between the attached to the tender when 81,000 and the deposit receipt must it pointa should undoubtedly be running of vehicles on any such be
time as may seem fit, to the being, provided that such failure taken to heart by the British in route or to provide on any such this is forwarded to the Colonial Governor-in Counal provide motor is not in the opinion of the Gover
I have now read the book a se
routo vehicles of increased pusson Secretary.
vehicles of such kind as the Governor-in-Connoil dug to unavoidable cond time and am more convinced der capacity, or to institute and than ever that it is a sane and stituted services on such routes: as maintain such additional or sub
nor-in-Council may approve, and if accident or to weather or to other broad the problems of China, the Governor-in-Council may compliance by the licensee with his ob satisfaction of the Governor-in-
the licensee: shall not within such causes beyond the control of the broad-minded contribution to the
The deposit as security for comtimo make such provision to the
'linenses. fortunate events in Shanghai in The service or services to which ligations shall be made with the Council, then the Governor-in- 1928 and there is naturally a good tender relates shall be an efficient Colonial Treasurer by the success Council may make arrangements In the event at any time of any deal of consideration given to the and adequate service of motor ful tenderer within fourteen days with any other person or persons, special emergency, the Governor in indamed state of Sino-British rela-chicles of such number dimensions, after the service on the successful for the maintenance of an officient Council being the sole judge of the tions, then prevailing. These events capacity, weight, speed, power, de tenderar of a notice of acceptance service on the route, either in sub occasion and duration of such emer have passed, like so many aimilar sign, make, manufacture, origin, of his tender, JEL periods of disagreement, into his construction and otherwise in all tory but the lesson which this book respects as may be approved by offers is as worthy of acceptanes the Governor-in-Council and as now as when it was first put for shall be necessary for the provision ward.". It does not require much of the service or services specified Imagination on the part of the read the relevant Schedule or to picture the qualities which Schedules to this notice: Provided o author possosses and I have the that the service or servicos abali feeling that our new bishop will not commence until the licenseo bring to us freak outlook, shall bare obtained a certificate sympathetic frame of mind and the from the Inspector Genoral of restrained judgment of the scholar Palice to the effect that in bisi
It was written soon after the un
sider necessary,,, bu
Becurity.
1
Emergency Provision,
stitution for or in conjunction with geney, the Governor-in-Council, may The amount of the deposit shall the licenses, and in such event no direct, that the Hong Kong Govern or payable to the licensee in respect which any licence relates, and con compensation shall be claimed by ment shall take over the service, to thereaf
tinue the same, with or without The licenses, shall forfeit to the modification, or suspend the same. Orown and pay to the Colonial as the Governorin Council shall see Treasurer a sum of one hundred it until the emergency no longer dollars for each day on which he existe
bag
(a) In the case of a successful tender for a service for the whole of the Colony, 850,000; (b) For service for the whole of the Island of Hong Kong, (c) For a service for the whole of shall in the opinion of the Gover. The amount (if any) dụp to the
the Kowloon Peninsula, in nor-in-Council, fail substantially to licensed consequent upon any cluding the NEW ritories, supply an efficient and adequate direction as aforesaid shall be do $30,000
(Continued at foot of next colum) termined by a board of arbitrators,
****** 20,000.
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