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Mr. M. K. Lo's Strong Plea In Legislative Council
Criticism of Water Administration In Colony
PENSIONS BILL CONDEMNED
POLICE UNDER FIRE REGARDING
HAWKER PROSECUTIONS
DEMAND FOR RENT PROFITEERING LEGISLATION
RAISED AT THE MANY QUESTIONS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO THIS COLONY WERE EUDGET DEBATE MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL YESTERDAY AT WHICH HIS EX- CEI LENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT, MR. N. L. SMITH. PRESIDED AND WAS SUPPORTED BY THE HON. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY AND A FULL ATTENDANCE OF MEMBERS.
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A STRIKING THE HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK, K.C, SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER, IN
COLONY. ·HE" DESCRIBED SPEECH, REFERRED TO THE HEAVY PENSIONS. BURDEN "OF THE THE PRESENT VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS AS A DISGRACE TO THE COLONY AND APPEALED FOR A NEW STRUCTURE.
The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo who was listened to with ript attention, after dealing extensively with the water supply and pleading for a reduction in the rates dwelt on the present plight of Hong Kong fisher folk as a result of the Japanese blockade and the ruthless sinking of junks by Japanese men- a-war. He also suggested introduction of legislation to deal with rent profiteering.
The Hon. Dr. LI Shu-fan In his maiden speech touched on the insufficiency of hospitals in the Colony and the Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson advanced a plea for the beautifying of the Colony by pay- ing greater attention to forestry.
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IMPORTANT DECISIÓN Opening the proceedings His Ex- culiency the Officer Administering the Government said:-
I think it is proper that this Council should be informed of an Important decision which has re- cently been made by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. "The operations of the Exchange Fund, which was established near- ly two years ago, have hitherto been conducted in strict secrecy; but it has now been decided, on the recommendation of the local Ex- change Fund Advisory Committee. that six-monthly statements of the exact position of the Fund, may be made public. :
disclose the In order not to Fund's current activities, these will be issued about three months in arrear, that is. In April and Octo-. ber.
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The Gazette" to be published on Friday of this week, will, ac- cordingly. contain a statement of the backing of the currency of this Colony as it stood on June 30. 1937, arid similar statements will be at six- published as a routine imonthly intervals thereafter.
HIGHLY SATISFACTORY
I do not propose to foreshadow the Agures that will be disclosed in two days' time, except to say that I have every confidence that those figures will appear highly satisfactory to all members of the community who, very naturally, wish to know what security exists for the bank notes which are now, since the 1935 Currency reform. the principal legal tender of the Colony.
I think it will be agreed that "Gazette" notice as a routine is preferable to announcement in Legislative Council, in view of the Intervals that occasionally occur. between meetings of this Council.
HON. MR. T. H. KING, Inspector General of Police
POLICE PERSONNEL
We approve of the increases in Police personnel, and we desire to I take this apportunity of con- gratulating the Inspector General of Police and the Force under him OF: the admirable order which has been preserved during the re- cent -unfortunate disputes be- tween the Chinese and Japaness
Governments.
civilians who are not Civil Ser- vants have to pay in this Colony for rent.
We consider moreover that such percentage should be on a slid. ing scale and not on a fint rate and that it should be calculated in such a way as to produce some surt of fair económic return upon the capital cost and upon the cost of repairing the buildings occupied.
We suggest that a local Commit-
Much credit is also due to the
the be appointed to inquire into- Chinese in this Colony for pre-
and report upon the subject from serving that calmness, dignity and the above angle of the Colony ob- self-control which is enjoined hetaining a fair return on its money. End The recent typhoon of the their sages.
September serves to emphasize the lg bill which the taxpayer has Sometimes to meet for repairs to Government buildings.
We heartily Indorse the com- mendations by the Government of the excellent work done by Mr. L. H. King in connection with the development of wireless telegraphy and broadcasting. His retirement will be a great loss to the Colony. PENSIONS
We now pass on to a matter which vitally affects the spending capacity of this Colony on Public Works Extraordinary, namely, the abnormally and unreasonably heavy expenditure which this Colony has to bear in connection with the payment of pensions. salaries and allowances to sterling- pald Civil Servants, in consequence ex- of the present low rate of change. That rate, so far as can be foreseen, is likely to continue. now that the dollar is divorced from silver.
Paragraph 7 of the Report of the Salaries Commission (publish- ed as Sessional Paper No. 7 of 1929 and commonly known as the Gollan Report), shows that the Commissioners, in making their recommendations for the consider able lucreases in sterling salaries mentioned in that Report took the dollar at the rate exchange of 2/- as the basis for those re- commendations.
In support of the above state- ment we quote the following ex- tract from the said paragraph 7:--
"The dollar 13 now at little un- der 2, and there is some prob- ability that it will remain in the
HON. SIR HENRY have been prepared in the past regic of 2/-,"
POLLOCK, K.C.
The
will be abandoned.
We are glad to note that early next year atz-mail, will probably be carried at ordinary rates,
Hon. Sir Henry. Pollock,th K.C., Senior Unofficial Member of Council, said:---
self.
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THE DOLLAR
HON MR: T. N. CHAU
HON. MR. T. N. CHAU
Hon. Mr. TN. Chau sald:- Sir, I am in general agreement with the remarks of the Hon. Senior Unofficial Member, and I wish at the same time to associate myself with his expression of con- gratulations to the Hon. Colonial Secretary, the Hoa. Finaricial Secretary, and the Hon. Director of
Public Works.
this Council is aware, our
It is a matter of extreme grati- though at a considerable expens: Hong Kong dollar. since its divorce
fication to the Chinese community the Colony in subsidies.
from silver, stands roughly at one
that the Government has decided shilling and threepence, le. $16 to
not to impose additional taxation. "DISQUIETING FEATURES the pound sterling, as against the
This decision, if I may be permit- Sir, As the Senior
Passing on to the Imports and rate of two shillings to the dollar Member I desire to make the Exports Department, we are struck envisaged by the Golian Report.ted to say so, is a wise one. In view of the steady rise in the cost following remarks upon the Bud- by various disquieting features and it requires no special aptitude
of living and, the uncertainty of much get for 1938, on behalf of my Un- which are revealed in the Report for figures to realize how
the future. official..colleagues as well as my- of the Superintendent of Imports sterling-pald Civil Servants arc
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1936. For in benefiting and how much this and Exports for
(whose revenues For convenience I will, so far as
are col- Colony stance, paragraph 19 speaks of possible, deal with various items in "the overwhelming growth of the lected in dollars) is losing. the Estimates in the same order menace of heroin pills," whilst In short, sterling-paid Civil Ser- are receiving not only a as they were dealt with by the paragraph 35 states that during vants
Increase in their Honourable Colonial Secretary in 1936 in 526 cases. 3,806,707 pills considerable
were sterling pay, which the authors of his Budget speech. We thank him and 771 oupees of heroin for his lucid explanations of seized, a large majority of which the Collan Report did. Intend, but also an exchange bonus by con- found Government policy, and, for his were
in pili factories." memorandum on the. Estimates. Paragraph 42 estimates the nuin-verting that increased sterling pay We also thank the Financial Secre-
Into dollars at one and threepence heroin divans in this
which the authors of that Report certainly did NOT intend; thus seriously crippling the Colony's, programme of Public Works Extra- prolnary:
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It is reassuring to learn that estimates of revenue for 1938 have been taken upon A conservative basis.
ber of
MODIFICATION URGED
The Hon. Senior Unofficial Mem- ber has. on behalf all. Unofficial Members: tendered congratulations to the Hon. Inspector General of Police and to the Force under bim on the good order which they have maintained. It 15 a matter of great pride to my Chinese col- leagues and myself that in times like these the Chinese residents of Hong Kong should have conducted admirable themselves with such self-restraint. calmness and dig- rity, thus vindicating once more their reputation us a peace-loving and law-abiding people.
While on this subject I should like to express, on behalf of the Chinese community, appreciation" of the policy of the Government in regard to refugees. True to its
tradition.. Hong Kong has thrown open its doors to all and sundry who have chosen this place as a haven of refuge, and at the same time is affording protection to all without distinction of race or nationality.
Lary, of whose appointment we Colony as being in the neighbour heartily approve, for his me-hood of 2000, whilst paragraph 49 shows that this diagraceful traffic morandum on the Colony's finan- cial position for the years 1936, has invaded the New Territories. #1937 and 1938, and we thank the "with main centres
at Un Long. Director of Public Works for his Sheung Shui and Talpo. notes
Public Works Extra- We are therefore, glad to learn ordinary for 1938.
that the Government has in hand We regret that there is no new legislation to cope with heroin Auditor's report.
divans and pill factories, which will in due course, be submitted to this Council for consideration. We would urge. In this connec- tion, that the keeping of a heroin We applaud the "Government's divan ought to be added to the decision not to impose additional 1st of offences which are punish taxation at a time like the present,able by flogging. In China we be when the costs of living are rising. VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS A DISGRACE, TO COLONY We deplore the fact that our Extra- Budget. for Public Works ordinary for 1930 has been reduced to so low a limit, because we con- sider that a modern hospital for infectious diseases, and I new Volunteer Headquarters are urgently required. The last-named building is a disgrace to a first-
in another way, the considerable The Unofficial Members of Coun-imposed by our Courts, the traffic class Colony, and we suggest that
Increase in various forms of crime cell do not propose to waste the (whilst preserving the present is due to a great extent to the time of this Council by moving any Volunteer parade-ground) a new somewhat too luxurious accom- amendments to the figures in Headquarters and £ seconomodation for prisoners which is clause 2 of this Appropriation Bui. parade-ground ought to be provid-provided in the new four million although, for the reasons above ed by the Government. We sug-
dollar gaol at Stanley, where the given in criticizing the Gollan Re-
gest that the cost of these two buildings can properly be met out of 'Luan Account; just as appro- priately as the cost of the new Central Market
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The big slump in exchange at the beginning of November, 1936. which has since become slightly accentuated, has made the recom mendations of the Gollan Report as to increases of sterling salaries favourable to sterling-paid too Civil Servants, and we hope that. with the able assistance and ex- Héve that purveyors of noxious perience of the Financial Secre drugs and persistent drug addicts | tary, 3 new scale, of sterilng are shot.
salaries or some modification of the rate of exchange at which they are payable may abortly be evolved which is not only fair to We view the proposals for the the sterling-paid Civil Servants but construction of a third Court. at which also bears some relation to the Central Magistracy with mixed the financial ability of this Colony feelings, because we consider that to afford the payment of such the number of cases tried by the salaries-a point which is apt to Magistrates or, to put the matter be overlooked:
STANLEY'S LUXURIOUS
VACCOMMODATION
inmates enjoy comfortable lodging, port, they must not be taken tu too liberal a scale of food, regular agrec with them. exercise, and free medical attend- GOVERNMENT QUARTERS
regard Another point in
ance.
EVIL OF HEROIN TRAFFIC
My Chinese colleagues and I., express the strong hope that the Government will do everything in their power to suppress the evil of heroin trame. The problem 、 is admittedly a difficult one. In spite of increased vigilance on the part of the authorities, and in spite of the long terms of imprisonment
remains unabated. It seems tous that, the time has come when flog- ging should be tried. We know how reluctant., successive Secretaries of State for the Colonies have been in sanctioning this form of: pen-
aity, but where other measures have been tried and have failed, and health of the community, and of future generations is at stake.
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we have no hesitation in advocat-
We concede that the modern which it seems to us that some We hope that the recent com-humanitarian treatment of pri-revision should be exercised is ining the adoption of the extraor- plaints by the Kowloon Realdents soners in Britain is a success, but regard to the privilege accorded to dinary measure to meet the ex- Association in regard to the Kow-having regard to the everyday Government Servants of occupying traordinary situation. We would therefore urge the Government icon Mortuary will receive atten-conditions unfortunately prevail-quarters (which are paid for and tion, and we should like to be In- ing amongst the poorer classes in maintained and repatred out of once more to represent this strong formed how far the scheme for a Hong Kong. entirely different con- revenue) upon the basis of their recommendation to the Secretary. new leper settlement and a clinte siderations apply here.
paying 6 per cent only of their of State. salery as font,
in connection. therewith has pro- gressed.
In fact in this Colony we ought tu make prison conditions harder. Whilst agreeing in the necessity and we trust that the Government for a new Mental Hospital, we hope will give its earnest consideration that the expensive plans which to this aspect of the problem.
This seems to
be
The proposed appointment of ♣ us a very low Lady Assistant and three ad- percentage of salary payable as ditional female inspectors to rent as compared with the per-attached to the Secretariat for centage of their salary which most (Continued on Page 67
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