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Kotoloon Supplement FUTURE OF KOWLOON
Hong Koso, March 13, 1833,
DEMOCRACY
FACTORS MAKING FOR CONTINUED PROSPERITY
(Continued)
In the course of his Presidentia! address at the annual meeting of the Kowloon Resident's Association
It should not be assumed that the British-and American Tobaccó last week, the Rev. W. Walton our forecast of the lines on which Company and the Asiatic Petroleum Rogers lamented the fact that "in building in Kowloon will probably Company, whoso employees in the these democratic times" it was not develop is infallible, Unforscou Far East must total thousands. For healthy that a large and growing factors may arrest operations for an concerns like these it has beco community should be debarred from indefinite period, confining develop found expedient to establish head- any exercise of its civic responsi- nents to a small area in the vicinity quarters in Hong Kong and Kow- bilities. This should of course be of Nathan Road, We have merely loon, with the result that an impetus read in conjunction with the spenattempted to describe the pos has been given to local trade," ship- ker's earlier reflection that the As-sibilities which this valuable area ping and building, and an increase sociation wAS "a self-constituted offers to the investor, but whether of the foreign.population has follow- body, with no official status, yet conditions will enable him to take ed. forming practically the only means whereby the collective feelings of the community on this side of the harbour can be voiced."
advantage of them for ten or twenty "In Spite of the Depression." years hence it is impossible to tell.
In spite of the world economic One can safely onvisage a township Į of modern buildings and attractivo stability of China, competition is residential areas, very different still as keen if not keener than ever.
and capital appears to be available for the development of fresh onter- prises. These are, the factors which will determine the future prosperity
It is not easy to resist the temp-from the straggling collection of ill
assorted and decayed properties tation of pursuing this question of which compose the present Kow- the status of the K.R.A. to dan loon, but we should not care to fix gerous limits, thereby precipitating a date for its completion. Except of Hong Kong and Kowloon, and a controversy in which much bitter in cases where exceptional condi- upon them largely rest the fortunes tions causo large-scale migration to of the Mainland. The creation of feeling would be evoked. Without previously desolated regions, such new industries or of great organi going to that extreme, it is reason-as the amazing growth of cities like sations like the Imperial Chemical able to ask whether the democratic forty yours from a barren veldt, crease the population, as might the Johannesburg, which developed in Industries would be bound to in- principle to which the President re- owing to the discoveries of the gold sudden economic recovery of China, ferred can be fairly applied to poli- fields, the rise of towns and cities which would favourably relict on tical conditions in a Colony such Kong has taken nearly ninety years Yet there are no signs at the mo ie gradual and uncertain: Hong the import trade of the Colony. as Hong Kong! The suggestion to assume its present size, and the ment of any such turn in the tide that the K.R.A. should be granted factors governing its growth have and failing them we must 'expect official recognition, either in the been many and various. The most the demand for residential and com vital factor, perhaps, has been the afercial property in Kowloon to be form of a Municipality or as a increasing import and export trade restricted wholly by the needs of District Council, has been thorough consequent upon the greater variety the existing community. It has ly aired on several occasions both of manufactured goods made pos been suggested that residents are at Association meetings and in the in turn has affected, the volume of tages of Kowloon as a residential sible by modern machinery, which beginning to appreciate the advan Press, and the majority of enligh shipping in Far Eastern waters. contre, and though to some extent tened residente of Kowloon have| Apart from the old established circumstances appear to justify this hongs such as Jardine Matheson theory, too great BIL emphasis recognised some of the foremost dif- and Butterfield and Sivire's, the last should not be laid upen it. There ficulties in the way of such a sleme twenty years have seen the birth of a at present a housing shortage in Without resuscitating these obstac-hundreds of new agencies and stores Hong Kong but it is not unlikely. which serve not merely the local that huilding speculators will shortly Je in this article, it is sufficient population but the teeming millions take advantage of the opportunity to remind those familiar with the in China itself. To quote two in- and erect flata to meet the heaviest subject that they consist of delicate stances only, the comparatively re-demands. When that occurs Low- cont demands in China for tobacco loon may, in vulgar parlance, begin issues involving the Government's and kerosene have led to the to feel the draught. domestic policy, and it has been establishment of large branches of found that conditions in Hong Kong are not favourable to the creation of a democratic constitu- tion of the type to be found in other British Colonies differently
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(Ta be Continued.),
is now ruled, ident though it may medy is not in revolutionary re not be, is best suited to existing form, but in the persistent arraign- conditions. The times may be de- ment of our grievances. Kowloon mocratic, but they are also dan has little need to worry, for in gerous, and any innovation to the the near future her size and in- An acquaintance with the history may precipitate events which con- bring her the remedies for which form of constitution or government fluence will, as by a natural law of the relations between China and servative statesmanship would a few are over-impatient. It has Hong Kong, and recognition of the avoid. The world is, if anything, been suggested that representation suffering from an excess of demo- on the Legislative Council-would- fact that geographical proximitycracy, or from the too-swift libera, help to dispel the dissatisfaction to China has not lightened the de tion of those elements, admirable in which the official indifference to her licate task which it has been the of a guiding hand. This is no time that she should be granted this themselves, which need the restraintcivic status has "bred. We agree unenviable lot of our several Gov for discontent. The burden of our privilege, which is a soothing balm ernors to perform, should suffice to "civic responsibilities" must not be to wounded vanity, but whether convince the average resident that allowed to weaken our faith in the such representation would
bring the system by which the Colony and peglect persuade us that we are which we prefer to leave to the prevailing order, and if deficiencies her Utopia any closer is a question. (Continued on next Volumn) not getting a square deal, the re- Bebariatrista, pe
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