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,
IMPORTANT CHINESE
DISCOVERY.
CAUSE OBLEBRE IN KUALA LUMPUR COUNT
SINGAPORE, Apr. 97. Cheung Kah Wai, a teacher at
The action in which a young the Kweilin Chinese Agricultural Chinese wife named Choi Wai College recently discovered a for Ying, who was married at Canton ANOTHER COURT BAILIFF |tilizing plant near the Ewei Lin in November, 1929, to Cheong Weng prove of very Chan, only son of Cheong Yoke great value. The plant resembles
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a bean plant fand its properties Choy, a wealthy Cantonese mer- As a fertilizer have never been exchant of Kuala Lumpur, is suing
her husband and his parents as well restitution of conjugal rights, & heard in the Kuala Lumpur Sup Supplementary Estimates to aloited or known. Mr. Cheung's na her husband's secondary wife for settlement of $200,000, and other reme Court before the noting Chief
total of $310,000 will be presented at to-day's meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Coun cil.
The biggest item is $197,000 for the old Sailors' Flome and Sen- men's Institute, recently vacated, which is to be turned into Govern inent offices in place of sons of those in Beaconsfield Archde,
There are small grunts in aid of archaeological research, to the Little Sisters of the Poor (the latter is only the granting of a piece of Crown Land free of ground rent) extra and $300 a month for an bailift. These useful officers have been working overtime. Even then they can't cope with their work. Debtors beware.
Estimates, 1933,
For purchase of No. 407, The Peak on R.B.L 100 for use as Senior Officers' Quarters, 840,000.
Public Works Extraordinary:
fertilizers now used in the Kwangsi Province, can barely maintain the fertility of the soil, and certainly not increase it.
But this newly discovered plant, if used according to old methods, is capable of increasing the fertility and can save a change of from 'two to ten dollars per acre per annua for imported fertilizer.
It is estimated that if one per
cent of the whole aret of Kwangsl Province uses this fertilizing plant, it will save hundreds of thousands. of dollars a year.
Mr. Cheung is now busy in com- piling a book of on the use of this plant.
NON-PAYMENT FOR RICE
MERCHANTS IN COURT.
East.
Before Mr. Justice Lindsel! at New Territories, Water Works the Supreme Court yesterday, the Improvements to Fanling Water Wo Hing Loong Kee firm, of 24,
Main Works, 88,940.
Street, Shaukiwan successfully claimed the sum of $81.12 for rice sold and delivered to the Cheung Lee Slipway, Ah Kung Ngan, Shaukiwan East.
The total cost of the above work is $20,000. The present system is barely capable of meeting the re quirements of the district and to meet additional applications for connection, it is important that the work be completed as early, as pos- sible. A vote for the unexpended balance on the estimate is therefore requested..
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared for the plaintiffs.
were
with
The managing partner of the plaintiff frm stated that he had no direct dealings with the master of the defendant firm until he de Charitable Services: 11, Littlemanded payment. All his dealings. Sisters, of the Poor, 8820.
the sister-in-law, Ip The Little Sisters of the Poored that she was acting on behall Kwan, who at the outset represent. receive from the Government an
of the master of the Cheung Lée annual grant of 8250, which cor
Slipway. responds with the Crown Rent pay- able for the land they own. As a result of theit erecting additional buildings in order to accommodate more inmates, extra Crown Root to the extent of $617.40 is now pay able. It is proposed to increase the grant by $620, from $250 $870. for so long as the land and buildings are used for the charit able purposes of the Order, and a vote for this amount is requested.
New Territories, Archaeological excavations, $1,000.
It is proposed to carry out under the direction of Father Finn chaeological excavations at one of the Colony's beaches, where certain articles of pottery have been found. Considerable importance is attach ed to these finds as having some bearing on prehistory of the Far
East
Treasury: Special Expenditure. Ona Accounting Machine, 814,500.
Crown Solicitor: Legal Expenses $2,001.
For the taxed costs of the respec tive, appellants in Appeals from the convictions of a Magistrate in two Import and Export Depart ment prosecutions under the Opium
Ordinance.
Police Force: Special Expendi ture. Recall Signals, $4,000.
On the introduction of motor patrols as recommended by the Retrenchment Commission it bas become necessary to evolve a scheme of recall signals for these patrols.
It is proposed, to erect recall signals at the various Police
·Stations in the Colony to allow men on patrel duty to be recalled quick ly in case of emergency.
The estimated cost is Hong Kong Stations #1,900, Kowloon and New Territory Stations $2,100.
Kowloon Junior School Drill Hall, $700.
cases should be done separately from the washing of the remunder of the hospital. This will neves sitate the building of three roams and a yard for washing, drying and ironing estimated to cost 82,300.
Bailiffs Work Overtime.
Supreme Court: Personal Erotu. ments, 89,700.
Owing to the large increase in work in the issuing of writs the staff of bailiffs has been working overtine continuously and it is considered essential in order that the work shall not fall into arrears to obtain the services of an addi- tional bailiff. The officer will be engaged on
a temporary basis at
$300 per month.
Public Works Extraordinary: Filling in areas North West of Tai. Po Rond, $2,180.
Geologien Survey of Colony, $1,500.
Provision made in Estimates. $11.500.
The amount required for this service was underestimated and a further sum of $1,500 will be neces sary. It is honed that this will cover the cast of printing the re port.
The Opium Factory,
Opium: Gratuities to Opium Factory Staff, 63,864.
Gratuities to Opium Factory Staff on abolition of the Factory.
The new system of packing pre- pared opium for sale in metallic tubes done by the Singapore Mono- poly has made it possible to close down the Hong Kong Factory and it has been decided to grant suit- able gratuities to the Factory hands on abolition of office. The grati- tics are based on salary and cal. Sanitary Department: Burial of teen hands have been discharged culated on length of service. Nine- Infocted Bodies, $1,000.
and the gratuities average 8200
..
This is a result of the outbreak | each. of small.pox,
Kowloon Venereál Olinic, 6,695.
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34, Public Works Extraordinary: Diseases Accommodation for Sanitary Cen- tral District Office and Statistical Office, $1,250.
sum of
The expenditure of $12,500 for the erection of a build ing for the Veneral Diseases Clinic at Kowloon was approved under item 34 of Message No. 7 of 1932 The expenditure for 1032, was, however, 3002 only, and a supple mentary vote for the balance of 81.308 together with the excess of $1,347 making a total of $5,685 is accordingly requested.
Sanitary Central District Office and The provision of offices for the the Statistical Office has become an immediate, necessity with the con demnation of Beaconsfield Arcade.
Purchase of Sailors' Home and Seamen's Institute on Marine_Lot No. 23 and adaptation as oflees,
$107,000.
The provision of more Governi- ment, offices has become an imme- Police Force; 21, Reut of Stations diate necessity with the condemna and Married Police Quarters, tion of Beaconsfield Arcade, where $12,275.
are housed the Port Development i Sub-department, Sanitary Depart ment District Office, the Statistical Office and the Medical Department Store.
A greater number of officers have married than was anticipated at the time the 1923 Estimates were Iramed Ten additional Bats are réquired.
Kowloon Hospital 82,500.7
An opportunity has arisen of ac quiring for the sum of $185,000, the Additions, Sailors Home and Seamen's In-
stitute on Marine Lot No. 295.
On completion of the block in The alterations, which will be course of erection at the Kowloon necessary to adapt the building for Hospital, the Maternity Block will offices. are estimated at about be reserved for maternity cases $12,000.
only. It is considered very desir A supplementary vote for the sum able that the washing of bedding. of8107,000 is accordingly etc., used in connection with such Fquested
(@tinued on next column.3 terms of the marriage contract was Justice on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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