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GOVERNOR'S FAREWELL
SPEECH TO COUNCIL
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Addressing the Council, His Excellency said:--
Honourable Members, this is. I am sad to say, the last occasion on which I shall have the privilege of addressing you from this chair. I therefore ask your forbearance for a short message of farewell before I declare this session adjourned.
I want, Gentlemen, to thank you for collaboration and support that no Governor could ever have en- joyed in fuller, measure. The per- sonnel of this Council has under- gone many changes since I took the Oaths of office in this Cham- ber only sixteen months ago. 8tr❘ Thomas Southern. Sir William Shenton, Mr. Braga, Dr. Ts'o Seen- wan, Mr. W. H. Bell, and Mr. E. Taylor have all vacated their seats since then; on transfer, retirement or expiration of a lust, term office. I mention their names to- day because to them as well as to present members my deep sense of gratitude and obligation goes out; as it does also to Bir Shouson Chow and to his successor, Dr. Kotewall, on my Executive Council.
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COURT NEWS IN BRIEF
· Summonses for failing to ex- tinguish their lights on the night of, March 21 when the Combined know, being investigated by a
manoeuvers wero held in the committee. That committee has Colony, against the Len Ryan_re-. during my time here been largely siding at the Hong Kong Club dormant owing to changes of staff
Annex; Leang Yat Yuen of the and to the Impossibility of tackling Kam Lung Restaurant, No. 157 such a large problem during the Des Voeux Road Central; 8"Narian economic depression. Its report of the Tajmahal Silk Store, En- however will comie before this
tertainment Building: M. S. Lau. Council this year or next, and K. Furniture Company: Fok when it does come it will. I have Too Yellow Dragon Curlo Shop. no doubt, present serious demands Alexandra Building; Lachi Ram on the publie conscience and on of Jhamatmal and Co.. 61 Queen's MORE
Road; were heard by Mr. Scho- feld at the Central Magistracy yesterday. All the defendants pleaded guilty and were each fined $1 and cautioned. The Hon. Mr. T H King 10.P. appeared for the prosecution
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the public purse. As regards so- cial services the Calony may well be proud of the achievements of its voluntary workers and subscri- bers: It is Indeed a magnificent tradition which, I feel sure, will never be impaired. But there are. limits to the field of private phil-
anthropy for the simply reason that not all rich men are philan- thropists, and if the field of social service is to be widened questions of new or increased subsidies from the Treasury will inevitably arise.
PUBLIC SALARIES Under "Public Salaries" the ap- proximation of what are commonly known as "standard time-scales" I believe this Council to be truly and of the pay of thelf super-posts and effetently representative of to the rates current in the African the public interests of this Colony: Colonies is awaiting the Anal, ap- and anybody who will take the proval of the Secretary of State. trouble to look through our Han-Some consequential alterations in surd of the past year and to note what I may call the mid-level the points that have been brought scales may be necessary, and also forward at. question-time or in an overhaul of our present list of debate will never accuse it of being allowances. These matters are a merely a registering authority-n ready under attention. criticism that I have sometimes
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Messrs. Banker and Co. summoned before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy yesterday for being in possession of poison, to wit, an admixture or prepara- tion of a poisonous alkaloid known ad Ephedrine without a licence or lawful authority. The defendants pleaded guilty and were fined $50. while the goods were ordered to be confiscated. Mr. M. J. Abbott prosecuted.
Li Sze 41, and Chung Shing 51, appeared before Mr. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday for gambling at No. 6. Wo Hop There were Street, 1st floor. thirty-three other defendnts but only 10 appeared in Court. The did not, appear I know that I speak on behalf of twenty-two who all in this Chamber, and reflect had their ball of $2 each estreat- also all influential opinion outsideed, while the others were each it, when I say that the tale of fined $2. The fist and second de- fendants were aned $30 or one "Friendly Relations" with our .neighbours must, like that of months' hard labour. The sum of "Economy", be made into a serial $19, found on the table was order- history carried on and developed ed to be put into the Poor Box. from year to year. There is no need for me to enlarge on theme, because the public feeling or the Colony is happily eloquent
of it as never before.
A
MUI-TSAI COMMISSION
this
I think that everybody will agree that the Mul-taal Commissioners have deserved our thanks and our congratulations on a report which presents a full and faithful picture of the whole problem, and has al- scurity of historical and factual ready dissipated some of the ob detail in which it had become en- veloped. You will have seen from
heard levelled against Colonial Le-, gislatures. But, as my predecessor remarked in his parting speech. there is no waste of words or of time in this Chamber; It has never degenerated into a cave of the winds. It is rather a business-like clearing-house for proposals, criti- cisms and arguments on all mat- ters of public Interest and policy and such, I trust. It will always continue to be. As you know, I have left
the stocks a new scheme of budget procedure de- signed to give the unofficial mem- bers a more constructive part in the forming of the annual estf- mates Some of you have put for- ward valuable suggestions for the improvement of that, scheme, and these suggestions are awaiting the consideration of my successor and of the new Financial Secretary whose arrival is expected in June
the reply to a
question in the or July. I hope that the scheme,
House of Commons that action on with al advisable modifications,
the report awaits consultation be- will be given its trial next year.
tween the Secretary of State for If I were to write a local history
the Colonies and the Colonial of the past sixteen months I would
Governments concerned I much Include the following among my chapter headings:-Currency; Re-regret that our coples of the re- trenchment and Economy: Taxa-port, which requires very careful tion; Public Salaries; Friendly reading and unhurried digestion, have arrived too late for me to Relations; Mui-Tsal; University; Public Health; Volunteers: Air participate in the local discussions on the subject In Executive Coun- Port; Water Works: Prisons; and
ell, District Watch Committee, or, Scenic Hong Kong. Under none of these headings of course could a finished chapter be written; in every case something, and in most coses a great deal, remains still to be done.
Under "Currency" for instance it will soon, I am glad to say, be possible to chronicle the substitu- tion of safety-rimmed nickel for cupro-nickel small coin, and the consequent discomfiture of the counterfeiter.
elsewhere. My personal views are however known to my colleagues,
UNIVERSITY REPORT
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For the larceny of a quantity of lead cable covers and lead clips, property of the Government, and
receiving the same, Cheung Ching. aged 21, electriclan, "employed by the P.W.D.. was fined $15 or" one month's imprisonment by "Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Ma gistracy yesterday. Mr. A. Spary of the P.W.D. appeared at com- plainant.
The management of the Ancient Co. at No. 39. Nathan Road, way ained $40 for the possession of a seven-valve wireless receiving set without a licence. Mr. James Rey of the General Post Office ap- peared for prosecution, and stated that the Poat Master General had Instructed him to request his Wor- ship to take a serious view of the. Cast.
Appearing on remand before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon. Ma- gistracy yesterday, two unemploy- ed men, Leung Kau, 19, and Ll Kai, 47, who were charged with the larceny, receiving and unlawful pawning of a gold and jade brace- who let belonging to a woman Under the heading "University" dropped it at the Yaumati Ferry I again have to record inability, to Wharf, and was found by a boot- discuss with my advisers and with black, Tsang Ngau, aged 13, from the Council of the University be whom they had demanded it, were fore I go the very valuable report found guilty. First defendant was of the Committee which I recently fined $20 or one month's imprison- appointed to look into and advisement, while second defendant was regarding Its affairs. Right ordered to pay a total fine of $30 through the report, of which I was or 5 weeks in gaol, SALARY LEVY
kindly furnished with an advance Under "Retrenchment and Eco- copy, there will be found to run a nomy" I hope that the termination sure and profound bellef in the of the salary levy will soon be re-University, a belief of which I corded. But the tale of the substi- made personal profession not long tution, wherever and whenever ago in a message which I sent for possible, of locally born for im- ported officers is a serial story and must go on from year to year. Also it should never be forgotten that "Economy" is not a slump time slogan but a synonym for sound budgeting and business-like administration. Retrenchment ta
the Orient Number of a British illustrated paper. I am happy in the anticipation that the com- mittee's recommendations will be found to afford a basis for the University's continued success and development."
PUBLIC HEALTH DISCUSSED
too, often necessitated by a previ I now come to the subject of ous disregard for economy and Public Health," and must express can itself, when applied by force my pleasure at having seen the
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A case, the result of which may. have some importance as a prece- dent, came before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when I L Goldenburg. licensee of the Palace Hotel, was summoned for breach of his licence by permitting disorder on his pre- mises en March 25,
Defendant "pleaded not guilty through his solleitor, Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios,
After some deliberation His Wor- ship dismissed the summons He remarked: I think the publican has satisfied the Court that he
con-
of Anancial circumstance to main-completion of the Queen Mary did everything he could to stop tenance of fabrics. be most uneco-Hospital and of the Wanchal the commotion, I cannot nomical. No circle could be more market; also my pleasure that the rict him for allowing shouting. I vicious than this one. The golden doom of our old and unhygienic think, however, that you (Inspec- rule is that no item of special ex- central market should have been tor Andrew) were perfectly right penditure should ever be inserted precipitated in my time by omens in bringing the summons. in a budget without a note of the of structural collapse. Its replace annual charges, to which it will ment by two modern markets will give rise, and no new appointment remove what has too long been
on Lamma Island, for Hong Kong- should be added to the establish- both a danger and a disgrace. The born lepers: ment without a note of the future.
latter word is, I regret to say, ap-
DR. WELLINGTON incremental and pensions Hability plicable also to the premises which The Colony will shortly lose the involved.
are at present dignified by the services of Dr. Wellington on re- name of "Mental Hospital." The tirement; his statement of pro- "Taxation" is not a popular cap- opening of the Queen Mary andress made during his directorate tion, but I cannot conceal my the closing of the old Civil Hos-of Medical and Sanitary Services considered opinion that the pital will leave these premises is one on which both he and the sanitary and social services of this marooned, and 1 commend to the Colony may be congratulated, and Colony are to be raised and deve- attention of all concerned the is being printed as a sessional loped to such a level and extent as necessity for their early replace paper, and is before honourable that, which I sometimes see sug- ment and for a change of site.
members this afternoon. There is gested, and not unreasonably aug- Similar attention should be paid gested, in the Press, extra revenue to the question of providing an will have to be raised. Victoria is adequate Infectious Diseases Hos
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