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accominodate
their full
for 24 hours,
ini
capacity
RIGID REQUIREMENT
the
number of people to Mr. Pearce under cover of our
that I hold so
was letter of October 4. This memor- andum covered the hire of equip- Hongkong Mines AS ment from well as certain equipment that we
test has taken place there?-Not, increased to a tunnel. that Darticular
Wethey could have not made a complete test on very difficult
Let us crystallise by saying that any tunnel aside from the first
as hide outs they are completed? test.
The statement you made then s You also asked a question as to how
could accommodate a theoretical one?—Yes. many
Mr. Carman: The next queation This IN 1 people for 24 hour very rigid requirement. At start of the 10b i was never and the num cipated how large wals
nels CHAI ber
the people
the scheme shelter. Originally. was more or less on the Chungking idea where people could take re
fuge for two to three hours al a time.
Yes.
Council Mtg. Today
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1941.
TAXI DRIVER
HELD UP
Three Chinese entered a taxi of the Blue Taxicab Co. in Yaumati about 10.45 on Tuesday night and
had purchased on a 50 per cent. The Legislative Council will hold 'instructed the driver, Chak Kwan, amortisation basis for the job, and a meeting at the Council Cham-to proceed to Shamshulpo.
When they were in the vicinity те purchased bers at 2.30 p.m. today when the on the equipment we were prepared to take back at Colonial Secretary will move that of Apilu Street, Shamshulpe, one and 50 per cent. of its value if the job the Reports of the Finance Com-of the men brandished a revolver two differen things, did not continue past the expert mittee (No. 14 of 1940-41 and No. and pointed it at Chak, while an- but they can be used.
So far as the A.R.P. tunnels are concerned there is no doubt that how many sites have ventila-In an emergency all these tunnels
used? Hide-outs would be tion shafts. All except sites Nos. 9 and 16 which will be ventilated tunnels are by the duct system. We have al together 13 sites and 13 shafts. 3d our rises to be used instead
shafts,
Carman Continuing Mr
said
COMPARE FAVOURABLY
01
You would bot suggest any them
with cap compare
ARP tunnels in England, would you? The next question was how many would compare them favourably fans are worked Sy with those in England The
the i ventilation Chairman Who gave information that it
can accom.machinery: that has been answer modale two-thirds capacity for to eighteen hours? -It WAS right calculated by our engineers who trad sludied the problem. 'The ventiation of the tunnels 19 3 comparatively simple problem
The statement was made by yout own engineers? The data WITC checked with ARP. dala suppled 145 The matter has been stu died so that 18 not only the stutenent of OLAT engineers, but has been agreed upon by PWD engineers and ourselves.
Did the PW.D. engineers agter with your statement that they can Recomandate people from eight ta elgbteen hours?
I cannot say
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No practical test was made, was there? Shortly fter started in October. we fall A test determine how long coolies could stay in lined tunnels The reason for the test Was that the
Was
ed above.
Mr. Carman: You asked how many tunnels are completed that can house people on a basis of 24
bour's
Continuing his evidence. Mr Carman said You brought up the questio of salaries amounting to
That WUN IF
the $13.672.01 month ending July 31 1941
At the present time there Referring to items bought
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The Chairman On whost a hority did you make thin Pent"
Mr Cartrar engineers
Some o QUE AB
and
mental stage.
CONSIDERED HIGH
2 of 1941-42). dated August 7, other searched
1941. be adopted.
his pockets and robbed him of $4 in notes and $1.50 In coins. Then they ordered him to stop the car by the roadside. and ran away in different direc- tions.
The Financial Secretary will also This arrangement was confirmed
made that Rules I and II by P.W.D's letter to us dated No- move
Board of War Taxation vember 1, 1940. As Mr Campbell by the
that the rate of hire as sub- under section 70 (1) of the War
Chak. after recovering from the Imitted by the Hongkong Mines Revenue Ordinance, 1941. on Aus shock, made a report at the Poller |
was high, the matter was referred 11, 1941, be approved. to Mr Pearce who subsequently took up the matter with me.
As
station
NEW BILLS The Attorney General will move
the Hongkong Mies were giving the First reading of:
us equipment that was permanent "A Bill to amend the Public plant in their nines, they would
Health (Sanitation) Ordinance. noi reduce the rental, and it was
1935."
"A Bi in enable the Governor to confer uy Proclamation on cer tala police forces in the Colony the status of miltia in time of war."
is a tabel with acermmodation! suld to Kin Lee. Mr Carman saKİ Jo prosimately 130.000 peuplej y su asked the question as to whe- aureed that prices as requested by "A B 1 amend the Midwives
24 hour thats When the ther 10 per cent was charged on
them be accepted by Government.
Ordinance, 1910." ventahin bas mechanical
bren Iteras bought and sald tr them
It January. the matter again
"A Bill to amend further the installed
shes This
Wine the question al Kin Le
ram up fur review but as I had
i Hongkong Corps of Air Rald War came up Rowan can be brought up a ap
We were requested
net
bren successtui in arranging dens Ordinance, 1940." supply em with equipment The roximately 200.000 people
any reduction of their charges 1 ater was brought to my ution
suggested that Mr. Pearce take the ilion and discussed and I mai
matter up directly with the Hong led thai while we purchased ng Mines, which he did This certain equipment In
Hongkong resulted In an understanding and Mandla we were entitled to 10 whereby they reduced the
rental
"A B to amend the Bettlug cent. Subsequent conversa-
£3,450. the arrangement being CONTINUAL CHANGES
Duty Ordinance, 1931. as amended confirmed by P.W.D and the T hairman: Belore you leave tons between Mr Lavrov and Mr
Duty Amendment) word Campbel: resulted in our agreeing Hongkong Mines in writing.
We by the Betting when you use th
is delfthecelore had nothing to do with Ordinance, 1940" Termgarten. are you in a position to large on the
This policy wasinis arrangement say hea many of these tunnels vered in Kin Lev
pursued throughout
Chairman. Who are the Hong- The Chairman Your purchases kung Mines? - Mr. Were completed. hsolutely
Carman They! aletes before the Inquiry started,
r how many have been completed from Ki: Lee did you charge 10
are a mining concern i Hongkong operating mine properties in the int
started? th inquiry
The t
New Territories word "pirted" is rather ambi
LOIT-
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You
Mr Carman. Your next ques-
PUBLIC SESSION
OF TRIBUNAL
A public session of the Com-
Anything to do with Marsman's? | pulsory Service Tribunal will be Nothing whatsoever
held on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1941, at 4 pm in the Council Chamber,
at
Its subsidiary? No
original plan was to make U-shap ed tunnels with cross-cuts so that you would have through vendia
It depends entirely on theton was whiul is the highest capi- to strmilar to mit ventilation
of the Medical Depart al value of Marsman's plant hired decision but in running this me
to Government. The highest nient and the A.R P. why are con affected and in order to determing
Continuing. plans and any one time was in January 1941.
Mr Carman said: Colonial Secretariat. The lowest how much tunnel could be used tinually changing the
The next question asked was, when jsperifications and the manufacture mounting to $27,200
was in May. $15 050.
did we start the tunnel at Belcher of equipment
Street. We started Γι ARRANGEMENTS FOR HIRE
October, The Chairman So tai as you
Marsman's
1940, but the scheme was extend. concerned, i Mr and
Carman The question ask- ied was on the arrangement fored materially from time to time hey have been completed? Yes.
You are not in a position to say i tire
from Hongkong
The Chairman It is still being was this made extended?—Yes.
m case of an emergency. We ran these blind tests They were for those sections of tunnels that had ot been rompleted So that u1 ch site, Tunnels can be used in The event of an emergency
art
of plunt
that they had been completed for Mines to PW.D.
u list of
NO COMPLETE TEST the total accommodation for which verbally or in writing? On Octo- You said that your engineers they are meant, as a lot depended ber 2 we submitted to the P.W.D. said that two-thirds of capacity on the Medical and ARP require-through Mr. Campbell
We had acquired could be used for eight to eighteen muurnis" The original scheme was equipment that hours. I
referring to that for a tunnel in which people could through hiring and purchasing for
This was No. tunnel
practical hide out. The improvements have the job.
particular
officially sent
CONCRETE BLOCKS
POLICE
REPORTS
Tacker Saki, 10 Macdonnell Rd. reports that his house was burgled! and money and Jewellery to the amount of $505 was stolen
*
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Mr. Carman: The next question
H. Hallgram, of 513 the Peak, re- was. have we anything in writing ports that some person or persona regarding concrete blocks. On our had removed his name plate and
an electric bulb from le garage. Continued Page 11, Col. 3
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Oh, who will with me ride?" "The groom, Sh "
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"I'm afraid I don't follow you, Sir." "Ithought you looked a trifle baffled. You're wondering why I'm feeling so remarkably spry this morning. Why I appear in rude and vulgar health,"
Oh no, Sir."
"And the question springs unbidden to your lips, Where, oh where, is the hangover hallowed hy tradition ? '~ "Not in the lean, Sir."
"Just to satisfy your morbid curiosity, Hawkins, let me tell you that leat night I stuck to gin and Rose's Lime Juice."
“Of course, Sir. Roe's. How foolish of me."
"And now, Hawkins, you might give this beat a rub down while I make for my tub. And see there's a whacking big breakfast --- something like those humt breakfasts you see on calendare."
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