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BUDGET
NEW P.A.A. · TRANS-ATLANTIC
ROUTING
Change Necessitated
DEBATE TOMORROW
Estimates Slashed Down
The
To $52,483,294
record budget for $63,389,776, inclusive of $12,306,274 specially classed as war expenditure, introduced by the Financial
By Strong Headwinds Secretary (Hon. Mr. H. B. Butters; at the Legislative Council meet-
new trans-
maugurating Atlantic air route via Africa, the Dixie Clipper, with Wendell Wil- kle aboard. recently returned to New York from a scheduled west- bound Atlantic flight.
ing on Jan. 16 has been considerably cut by the Select Committee appointed to examine the estimates.
At the meeting of the Council tomorTEW, at 9.30 4.11... the Financial Secretary will move the first reading of a Bill to apply $52,483.294. to the public service of the flaancial year beginning on April 1, 1941, and ending on March 31, 192, and also to apply an additional sum not exceeding $832,000 to the Waterworks Re- newals and Improvements Fund for the service of that Fund in the said financial year.
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This new air routing is to con- tinue through the winter months in order to avoid the constant The Ordinance may be cited as Department 4.725.389; Miscellane- headwinds which beat upon each}
the Appropriation for 1941-1942' ous Services Europe to America westbound Ordinance, 1941, and the specified 2.846,000; Ponce. Force 1,205,845; 2,845,000; Pensions fight over the North Pacific. To expenditure is as follows:- Post Office 912203; Wireless 488,- overcome this, westbound Clippers' His Excellency the will, for the remainder of the $182,747;
Governor, 215; Broadcasting 97.955; Prisons Colonial Secretary's Department 1,096,322; Public winter months, be routed home.
Office and Legislature 308,275; Works Department 1,973,654; wold via Africa.
Audit Department 111135; Botani- | Waterworks 300,000; Public Works The Clippers on this new rout-cal and Forestry 184,201; Agricul. (Recurrent) 1,859,500; Waterworks mg leave Lisbon in the afternoon. ture 119,286; Charitable Services (Recurrent) 1,039.115; Royal Ob- flying throughout the night down 619,648; Volunteer Defence Corps' servatory 121,364; Sanitary De- the west coast of Africa,
past 150,000; Naval Volunteer Force partment 1,437,425; Secretariat for Morocco. between the Canary Is-10,000: Air Raid Precautions 288.- Chinese Affairs 138.509; Labour lands and Spanish Sahara, past 599: District Office.. North 71,824: Office 62,171; Stores Department Gambia into Balama. Portuguese District Office: South 51,523; Edu- 1.983,026; Treasury, etc.. 333,801: cation Department 2,606,024; Fire Public Works (Extraordinary) 3- Africa- flight of 1,917 miles.
Brigade 774,543; Harbour Depart- 829,594; Fisheries Research Station ment 1,566,171; Air Services 140,- 180,054; War Expenditure 12,300,- 210; Imports and Exports. Office 274: Immigration. Department |1,585,378; Supreme Court 217.863: 203,225; Total $52,483,294.
Magistracy, Hongkong 77,247: Ma WATERWORKS EXPENDITURE gistracy, Kowloon 64,420; Kow- loon-Canton Railway 917,341; Le gal Departments 263,168; Medical
Refueled, the Clippers push westward to Port of Spain. Trinidad, on the longest non- stop operation ever attempted by commercial aviation 3,180 milles. This fight is 700 miles longer than the fight between San Francisco and Honolulu " on the trans-Pacific service.
In spite of the lengthy trip. prevailing, easterly
Pokfulam District Supply $7,000; Reconstruction of waterworks de- pot and replacement of plant 45,- 000; Replacement of plant, water- works workshop. Hongkong 45,000: Bowen Road conduit reconstruc-
trades push COLONY HEALTH ton 200.000: Remove and re-erect
then on to New York.
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Bowen Road rapid gravity filters
at Eastern 65,000; Reconstruction
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1941. -PAGE TI
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of Bowen Road. service reservair | 9.50 BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG, 215,000; Reconstruction of Albany service reservoir 145,000: Over-
the Clippers along with loads. twice as large as could be accom modated on the North Atlantic
The following is the Return of routing. From Port of Spain the
notified 28 flight again turas northward an-notifiable diseases other 1,600 miles to Bermuda and having occurred in the Colony seers quarters at Eastern 45.000; during the week ended at mid-Reconstruction of Kowloon Tong night on Feb. 15: Cholera,
service réservoir 10,000; Replace- cases (Ave deaths); Small-Pox, one ment of meters 45,000; Total $832,- death; Diphtheria, 10 cases (eight cou deaths) Enterle Fever, 13 cases (one death); Measles, 15 cases (four deaths); Chicken-Pox, two cases; Cerebro-Spinal Fever, severed an additional $10,000 as a re- cuses (two deaths); Dysentery. 44sult of the review by the Select cases (9 deaths); Puerperal Fever. Committee one case: Tuberculosis, 207 cases $100,000 appears under the head (128 deaths and one imported of Miscellaneous Service. case).
Trans-Atlantic route mileage is now 3,200 miles eastbound be- tween New York and Lisbon and 7,200 miles on the return trip via Africa.
PASSENGERS
DEPARTURES. FROM THE COLONY.
The following passengers left Hongkong by the Pres. Coolidge on Saturday:-
Mr. Parsram Alldas, Mr. Louis Bartholomees, Miss B, M. de Sousa, Miss F. Dumayuga, Mr. H. G. Mc- Neary, Mr. Max Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Preston. Mr. Seltaro Sakae, Mr. Dalip Singh, Mr. Gas- ton Willoquet, Mr. Antonio Wilson.
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--DAILY RETURNS Returns for the 24 hours ended: at midnight on Feb. 17 are as fol- lows:-Diphtheria, one case; Mea- sles, four cases* Cerebro-Spinal Fever, one case; Dysentery, Ave cases: Tuberculosis, 46 cases.
MORE FOR CHARITY
Charitable services have receiv-
and an additional
The Harbour Department has suffered a cut of $600,000, the Me- dical Department just over $100,- 000, and Public Works Extraordin- ary $1.150.000.
The Financial Secretary will also move the following resolution:-
That this Council approves the carrying out of the works set out in the Schedule attached at an
WEATHER REPORT estimated cost of $4,416,407.84 and
Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 am, Feb. 18. Barometer (at sea level), 30.04 ins. Temperature, 63 F. Humidity, 93 per cent. Wind Direction, E/N Wind Force (Beaufort), 6. Temperature: maximum yesterday,
67 F.
Temperature: minimum last night,
63 E.
Rainfal; for 24 hrs, ending 10th |
today, 0.02 ins.
of the expenditure in the financial years 1940-41 and 1941-42 of the sums set out in columns 3 and 4 of the schedule, the cost to be met from a future loan and meanwhile to be charged as advances from the surplus balances of the Colony. pending the raising of a loan,
MEDICAL ORD.
At tomorrow's meeting of the
Total rainfall since January 1st, Legislative Council the Attorney-
6.99 ins.
Against an average'ni, 2,29 ins.
h. m.
4.12
b. m.
Wed. 19
Ther. 20
03 25
4 5
DR 03
3 1
16 22
6 0 22 47
24
007
4 1
08 65
3 5
Sunset tonight, 6.21 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6.53 am..
16 34
€ 2.
Fri.
91.
(16.54 4 1
Snt 22
00 18 17 47 6 4 10 21 US 00 4 3 01 20
2 0 137
Sun 23
Von. 24
Tues. 25
18:53
6 6 11 52 45,020
08 55 10 4 6 12 56 09 28 4 6 02 42 20 37
70 13 47
09:47 49
03 14
21 20 17 0
14 32
4 p.m., Feb. 18. Barometer at sea level); 29.99 ins. 18 Temperature, 62 F. 3 7
Humidity, 97 per cent.
3 Wind Direction, WNW.
Wind Force (Beaufort), 4.
33 Maximum temperature, 65 F.-
| 13 ||Minimum temperature, 82 F.
20 Rainfall. 0.36 ns.
General "will move the first read- ing of a Bill to amend the Medi- cal Registration Ordinance, 1935, and a Bill to amend the Hong- kong Corps of Air Raid Wardens Ordinance, 1940.
The Attorney-General will also move the second and third read- ings of a Bill to amend the Places of Public Entertainment Regula- tion Ordinance, 1919, and a Bl to amend the Entertainments Tax Ordinance, 1930.
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