NEW SCHEDULE Colony Liquor Duties
LOCAL BREWED BEER CHARGE
At the meeting of the Legislative Council held yesterday after- noon, the Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor) moved:
Resolved pursuant to section 39 of the Liquors Ordinance. 1931, Ordinance No 36 of 1931, that the Liquors Duties Resolution of April 22, 1936, published in the Gazette by notification No. 375 of April 24. 1936, be rescinded and that on and after coming into aperation of this resolution the duties to be paid upon interesting or spirituous liquors imported into." or distilled, made or prepared in, the Colony shall be assessed in Hong Kong currency on September 1 and thereafter.
Hon. Mr. E. Davidson spoke against the motion. He remarked" that the resolution, although the revenue results were very smali. was very important in principle. It merely amounted to adopting for the Colony a principle, of protection. He thought he was right In saying that the principle of protection had never been applied In Hong Kring.
The Colonial Treasurer replied that he rather looked upon the "resolution as a preference rather than protection.
The motion was adopted by a majority vote.
EUROPEAN TYPE LIQUOR
Per galion
Ön al liqueurs, and on all champagnes and other spark-
ling wines
$13.00
On all brandy consigned from and grown or produced in
the British Empire
5:00
On all other brandy and on gin. whisky and other spiritu-
ous liquors...........
On all port, sherry and madeira
10.00 €.00
On all other still wines
5.00
On cider and perry
0.80
On beer (RS defined in the Ordinance, but exclusive of clder and perry) not exceeding 1055 degrees original- gravity that is to say the specific gravity of the worts before fermentation.
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(a) if brewed in the Colony.
0.70
0.80
(b) if not brewed 'in the Colony
with the addition of 30.02 per gallon for every degree. by which the original gravity of the worts for such beer exceeds 1055 degrees as measured by the "Bates", standard.saccharometer.
On all other beer (as defined in the Ordinange, but exclu- sive of cider and, perry), whether in concentrated, form, or as ale basts, or malt and hops concentrate, or otherwise
with the addition of 20.02 per gallon for every degree by which the original gravity exceeds 1045 degrees a$ measured by the "Bates" standard, saccharometer. On all intoxicating liquors above the strength of 20 degrees. under proof. for every degree above such strength in addition to the appropriate duty as above ...........
CHINESE TYPE
On all Chinese type spirits distilled in the Colony and containing hot more than 25 per cent... of alcohol by weight....
0.80"
0.12
LIQUOR
"Fer gallon
On all Chinese type spirits not distilled in the Colony and containing not more than 25 percent, alcohol by weight....
$1.50
-1.75
On all Chinese type spirits containing more than 25 per 'cent, alcohol by weight, for every one per cent, of ad- ditional alcoholic strength by weight...
0.06
JAPANESE TYPE LIQUOR
Per gallon
On all sake containing not more than 25 per cent. of
alcohol by weight
$1,50
For every one per cent, of additional alcoholic, strength ̈
by weight
0,03
OTHER LIQUORS
Per gallon
On all spirituous liquors other than intoxicating liquora but including spirits of wine or arrack, containing not inore than 25 per cent of alcohol by weight For every one per cent of additional alcoholic strength
by weight
$1,50
0.06
Provided that it shall be lawful for the Superintendent of Im- ports and Exports, in its discretion, to assess the duty on any in- toxicating liquor not specifically mentioned in Part III and above at such rate as is provided in any such Part for the liquor. which the sald Superintendent shall deem to approximate most nearly to such intoxicating liquor; and Provided also that it shall be lawful for the said Superintendent in his discretion, to assess the duty on any spirituous liquors, imported in a consignment of less than two gallons at one time, at $10.00 per gallon.
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SOVIET'S
AVIATION
STUDIED
French Mission Returns To Paris
FRIENDLY FEELINGS IN EVIDENCE
Great satisfaction with the re- sults of their trip to Soviet Russia was expressed recently by mem bers of the French air mission which visited the USSR. on be- half of the Chamber of Deputies Aeronautical Committee.
The head of the delegation, the airman. Lucien, Bossoutrot, told the press that friendly feelings toward France were in evidence In the USSR.. as well as in Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, which they visited
on their way back from Moscow.
SUSPECTED
MURDER
INDIAN WATCHMAN
FOUND ON ROADWAY
Police are making enquiries into the death of an Indian watchman, whose body was folind on the roadway near the Chinese Ceme-
tery yesterday morning.
The dead man was employed as a watchunan at the Queen Mary Hospital. }
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1936.
HUMOUR AS WEAPON
OF SERIOUSNESS
THINGS AS THEY ARE AND OUGHT TO BE
The English race, so fond of boasting about its sense of humour, is oddly afraid of it. 'You may with impunity accuse an Englishman of having no-car for musiè, no tasio, no sense of style, ng business ability and even no moral sense; but tell him that he has no sense of humour and he will knock you down.
And there is something more in this than the desire to be thought capable of seeing or making a joke. For what we call our sense of humour is closely linked with our most prized political virtue, our sense of proportion and refusal to rush to extremes wrote Mr. A. P. "Herbert in the "Morning Post" re-
cently.
"Man," said Haziltt, "Is the only animal who laughs and weeps: for he alone is able to distinguish be- tween things as they
are and things as they ought to be." The humourist is only one who perceives this distinction more clearly than some of his fellows, and has as well the capacity to express it in a pithy and memorable phrase. One would expect, then, to find that wit and humour would be welcome In polities. But, as we all know, they are generally regarded as evidence of insincerity and shal- low purpose.
I was told long ago this story of a certain politician-"Poor old X, he used to make us laugh so much. But when he was funny nobody took him, seriously; and when he stopped being funny nobody would listen to him.”
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was our object. In short, we were i With that theory I. profoundly being not funny but effective.
disagree. I am not defending flp- Reading, the "Spectator." I re- pancy, but fun. Filppancy I take allsed why SD
many legislators it is fun in the wrong place, or nvold making £ joke as they fun not supporting
serious would avoid treading on a baby. I thought or purpose. But that is a had, in fact, at that time made very different thing from the only two speeches, one, extremely exuberant but pointed fun la-for serious, about divorce, and an- example, Mr. Churchill's speeches. other equally serious. on our Political fe after all, is a con-
The latter last-tinual Licensing system.
process of criticism. and ed 27 minutes. and as reported. laughter is nearly always a form contained a good many sentences of criticism, since to go back to marked (laughter). They all, as I Hazlitt. It expresses man's percep- thought, had a serious peint; and, tion of the difference between beyond that, they were in the pro- things as they are and things as portion of about 1 in 30 to the they ought to be. It must be a manifestly. "serious" argument. | mistake to exclude humour or any But Jokes are always reported-weapon of criticism from political sometimes in heavy black type warfare: and I timidly suggest
that there is as much room for a professional humourist in the counsels of the nation as there is for a professional lawyer or pre- acher (there are plenty of both). Of course, he must mix the bow-
and serious argument is sometimes crowded out. I do not blame the Press Gallery, who "ike a good "laugh" as much as most of us, and inust often need one more: rior do I blame "Janus" for not reading Hansard but that is one reasoning, and not send down the same why it is dangerous to be funny.
"KIND OF INDECENCY"
A few weeks earlier, the Parlia mentary Correspondent of the "Spectator" announced that "there is no room for a professional hum- When I entered the House of ourist, as such, in the House of Commons many members and Commons. Well, I have won bread nawasapera kindly expressed the by many kinds of writing in my hope that I should "brighten the time, from advertising copy to debates." Others implored me, for political essays, from lectures and my own sake, "not to be funny." serious verse to earnest novels and Mr. James Maxton, who knows satirical opera. And I might mo- supremely well how to use his rich destly deprecate the choice of this humour in the right place, warn- particular label But that matters ed me thus--"The only way to do Hotle. What matters is the gen- anything in this place is to go feral theory. here revealed, that about with a long face and talk humour is a kind of indecency, in a deep voice." I think he did the out of place in political agrument. Commons a little injustice. Like the
notion that laughter is the rest of the race they keenly synonymous with levity, and that ke a good laugh": and I could to carry weight you must always name many members who use the be heavy. weapons of wit much more effec- tively than I though an alleged "professional." am ever likely to
do.
They sit back and rear at the "sallies" with which "Mr. Church- ill opens some very serious speech on the League of Nations or the organization of Defence; and do dat suspect that because he has made them laugh he does not re- ally want Great Britain to be de- fended.
small And-comparing with
had great-though I have the honour to score a few "laugh, ters" I do not think that any of my colleagues would accuse me of not believing in the causeS which I have spoken.
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But the fear of fun does exist. outside and in those very quar- ters where the complaint is fre- quent that politics are boring and
and politicians prosy
dull. Mr. Churchill. I think, has suffered through scintillation among those to whom a spark is the same as "Bashiness.
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THE BEST WEAPON
Within a few weeks the humble writer
of this
been article has twice lectured for laughter in that chirpy weekly, the "Spec ator," which does not seem to perceiva that laughter may be the best weapon of seriousness.
My amendment about "explor- ing every avenue" received this well-meant but discouraging com- ment from
writer #L
called "Janus:"
Pleasantly Jocose, but I hope Mr. H. is not going to constitute him- self the chartered Jester of the House of Commons. One or two of his recent speeches rather sug- gest the possibility. The House may like being amused, but the member who merely amuses usually falls to impress .......... Ox- ford, moreover, which has treated him so handsomely, has traditions to which her Parliamentary repre
It is believed he was stabbed." The dead man is Police Watch-sentatives owe some homage. man No. 546, Mohamed Khan.
My-I should be surprised to hear that duliness was one of Ox- ford's traditions, or that the pre- servation of the English language branches all over the country, as from mildewed clichés and other well as a number of aeroplane- enemies was a cause unfitting for motor, factories, aviation research her representatives. And I ought laboratories and experimenting to know, for I included it in my centres. They also attended a Election address. I may add, for huge aviation festival in Moscow, the information of the "Spectator," when a simultaneous descent of that four or five Cabinet Ministers. 200 parachutists leaping from over none of them notorious for levity.. a score of planes was demonstrat- warmly approved the amendment,
Useful aviation data was gathered to a crowd of 300,000 specta- | and twenty. out of the first
ed by the delegation in these countries, particularly in Boviet Russia, M. Bossoutrot went on...
The delegates Inspected the po- pular Soviet aeru club, known as the Ossoaviakhim,
which has
tors.
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twenty-five members I approach-
A detalled report on the results | ed, at once added their names to
of the journey will be drawn up by it. But the important point is that
the Chamber's Aeronautical Com- mittee, after the parliamentary re-
ceas.
no avenue is likely to be explored.
in Parliament for a long time to come: and that, strangely enough,
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ball every time: but if he is a "pro- · fessional" he will know that al- ready. It is part of his profession. Let us be careful, then, not,to confuse laughter with levity, or Alppancy heaviness with weight.
with fun. Most of us do.
PIONEER FINED
RTA
A man who stated he pioneer of the old belt-driven cab, and had driven motor-cars for thirty-three years without mishap or conviction, was fined £h with £9 costa and his licence was en" dorsed,' for driving without due care and attention at Colchester re rently.
'He was Gilbert Hunwick, of Mille-lage, Layer, Colchester.
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