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necessary for the purpose. The Ser-0, will you be properly advised vice has many genuine grievances as to what is really required to with which the unofficial mem- bring our ferry services up-to- Ibers have every sympathy. If I date.
may single out one, in particular, I am glad to see that you intend it is the lack of adequate pro- to spend $30,000 on the extension if they did not think absolutely vision for passages for public of Coronation Road northwards justified by the facts. They did officers and their dependents, and a further $190,000 on other not do anything that was not Whilst on the subject of salaries, roads in Kowloon, also that it is bare justice and nothing more. I may point the some proposed to lay a larger main Unofficial members could do very what misleading statement which from the reservoir filter beds and little in that matter. They could appears in the exchange footnote to improve the system of distribu- bark, but as they were muzzled op page 3. The rate of ex- tion in that rapidly developing by the official majority, they could change on sterling salaries is district. With abundance of not bite. Не would go
on now 4/5ths at 1:9 and 1/5th at 3 water in the reservoir, the in- barking and if Lord The last fifth is paid at the habitants of Kowloon have suffer- Milner's advisers saw fit to Government current rate, withed for years from a difficulty in modify the recommendations in the result that neither the sterling any serious instance they would posts nor the compensated dollar do a gross injustice to their posts will receive during the year fellow sergants out here as well the sums in dollars stated in the as to a body of hard-working. estimates. In fact, they will not receive so much unless the dollar patient men and women. MR. ALABASTER'S SPEECH
The Hon. Mr. Ahaster said: Sir, I desire to associate myself with the remarks which have fallen from the senior unofficial member of this Council, more especially as those remarks reflect the results of certain discussions which the unofficial members have held on this Budget.
drops in value to 3
obtaining water in their houses, which amounts to a positive scandal. It is due to them that the Government should state ex- plicitly the precise nature of the measures it intends to take to remove that difficulty during the ensuing year.
Passing from the faults off omission to those of commission On the Hongkong side, I doubt in these estimates, it is to be whether it is worth while to noted that you propose to spend spend $45,000 on the the exten- the sum of $5,951,706, or 35.28 persion of Lugard Road at the Peak. cent. of the total vote on Public unless arrangements can be made Works and that, of this large with the military authorities to sum, no less than $3.973,700 release some of the military are
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to be devoted to lands in the neighbourhood of Public Works Extraordinary. Harlech Gap for building sites. If I may supplement those That being so. it would seem As we are asked to assist the remarks. Sir. I should like to impossible to defend or palliate military authorities with & say that, whilst the Colony the reticence which has been defence contribution of $2,886,478. and those who have the shaping displayed by the Administration out of our revennes for of its destinies are to be congratin disregarding the unanimous the year, they should at least be ulated on the continuous and desire of the unofficial members. reasonable in helping to reduce natural increase of its revenues expressed last year, that the the housing shortage by releasing and on the allocation of so large estimates for public works should undeveloped building sites, which a proportion of those revenues to be submitted in the first instance cost them nothing and which are development, it is impossible to to the Public Works Committee not required for military par pass these
estimates without of this Council, which should beposes. some criticism of their faults, the enlarged for that purpose. as With regard to the $71,481, greatest of which are those of appears to be the case in Singa- including a sum of $24,000, for omission.
pore and Penang, by the inclusion next year's camp expenses Last year this Council was of all the unofficial members. which you propose to spend asked to apply a sum not exceed- Amongst the most outstanding on the maintenance of ing $10,605,345 to the Public omissions from the draft estim- the Defence Corps, is Service of the year 1919. Forates are any reference to the is not high time. Sir. that this the previous year the sum voted Prara East reclamation scheme body of met, who have cheerful- was $8.380.910. Yet only eight (a matter of infinitely greater im-ly served for upwards of five weeks ago we were asked to portance than the reclamation years without daily pay, without authorise the appropriation of a scheme for Aplichaul and equally chevrons, and without medals, Supplementary sum of $5,466.327.important the emission of a re-end who have been combed and to defray the charges of the year ference to the Government's pro-re-combed för service in the 1918, and we now know from posals in the matter of housing. fighting line until nöne but those Your Excellency's speech on with regard to which the situation medically unfit or essential to the first reading of this Bill.is, I can assure you, acute. the Colony remain, should be thet these estimates. which If the item of $150,000. on page given the privilege, accorded to are framed to show a balance in 94. for a hill tramway to Wanchai troops throughout the Empire, favour of revenue of something Gap and the commencement of a of demobilization at the earl- more than four lakhs. attain that road which will eventually reach est possible moment? satisfactory appearance only by Shek O and Cape D'Aguilar are force they have not proved costly the studied. omission of two intended a contributions to the and they have rendered such factors of expenditure which housing problem. I will observe services towards the protection must be reckoned with during that. however much these works of the Colony as were deemed the Snancial year, the deficit on may benefit posterity, they do not necessary, whilst they rice purchases and the emolu-go one inch towards the solution always in readiness to do more ments of public servants.
of the problem of the present should the occasion arise. The The amount which will be situation which is urgent through- Government, Sir, in a time of required under the former head out the Colony and particularly emergency, has traded on their you have told us cannot be in Kowloon.
patriotism. I biame evenly approximately estimat- While additional public works not for that. Every State ed; it is fairly generally believed will necessitate increases in the may legitimately trade on the that it will run into some millions staff of the Department-cherged patriotiser-of-its-people-in-times of dollars.
with the duty of executing them, of emergency, but to continue so If, hitherto, unofficial members it" is becoming more and more to trade when the emergency has have refrained from criticising or evident that the time has arrived passed savours of profiteering catechising the Government on to relieve that overburdened De- and ecgenders discontent. the rice question you must underpartment of its duties in connec- I am afraid that, in comment- stand, Sir, that they have exercis- tion with the sale of Crown Landing on this mass of figures, I have ed that self-restraint so as not to and conversion of farm lots into detained the Council for some- e the hands of the Administra-building lots in urban areas. what longer than I had originally tion in dealing with a delicate and These duties properly appertain difficult situation. But the time to the Land Office which should for calling on the Government have its own staff of surveyors to give an account of its under the Land Officer. In this stewardship cannot be much connection, and, with special re- longer deferred. It is to be hoped. ference to the item of $200.000 Sir, that means will be devised to which appears at the bottom of. prevent a recurrence of the con- page 5 as the estimated premia on ditions, of the last few months.and sales, I should like to en- and that the burden of paying dorse and repeat every word the bill will be imposed as far as uttered by the Hon. Mr. Landale, possible
the speculative last year, when dealing with the interests that brought the situa same item, words which you will tion about.
find, Sir, on page 82 of the It is to be hoped, Sir, also that Hansard report. by improving the communications
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intended, but before I resume my seat to make way for the hou. member who represents the Chamber of Commerce, there are two or three matters of import. ance to which I must refer."
Under the heading "Judical and Legal Departments I note that the Government proposes to abolish the post of Assistant Interpreter (a European billet) and to substitute a second grade Chinese interpreter.
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Once the spores of the Malaria parasite have become established in the blood something. more efficacious than quinine which at best is purely a palliative-is necessary to eliminate then. Un- less these spores are completely exterminated they will remain Telegraphic information has dormant for varying intervals of profession views this proposal, been received at Military Head-time, only to break out into Sir, with consternation The quarters from the War Office that renewed activity whenever the I notice amongst the Public proper administration of justice the 2nd Bn. Wilts "Regiment vitality is lowered by chills, with the Southern district of Works Extraordinary, on page in this Colony depends, in embarked in England for Hong-change of temperature, debility, kong on the 5.3. Trasos. Montes or other causes. Then the victim on October 18th.
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the New Territories, particularly 95, that the sum of $60,000 is to no small Lantau and Lamma, greater be spent on the reconstruction of quality of interpretation. It is areas of Colonial land may be ferry piers, which are now a dis-essential that there should be at There are on board 8 Married put under cultivation so as to grace to the fair fame of the least two fully qualified Euro and 16 unmarried Officers, and 29 But if the blood is rich, red and enable the Colony to grow its Colony. I note, also, that though peans on the interpreting staff families of other ranks in addition strong the system is thereby safe- own consumption of rice and other vegetables and fruits. The only one-fifth of it was spent.
a similar sum was voted last year and that they should be supple-to the unmarried rank and file. guarded against the causes of
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lowered vitality, and at the same cultivated acreage at present is should like to know the of the first grade only. The ad-
time this good blood, by creating only 42,463. It is high time. Sir, reason. Although Eastern ministration has been niggardly
a generous amount of red cor- that steps were taken to put as Street ferry pier wes removed in this respect in the past and
puscles, makes existenco im- much as possible of the remaining about a year ago, nothing has the Government has lost, in con-
possible for the germs of Malaria, 207,778 acres under cultivation on been done to replace it. The sequence, the services of some of
Thus it is that Dr. Williams 'Pink the terrace system at which the ferry pier on the new bund the best of the Chinese interpre-
The short season of "Vanity Pills have gained such popularity Chinese cultivator is such an opposite the market at Cheung ters and translators.
Fair" which Edgar Warwick is in all countries conspicuous for adept.
Chau has not been even begun. Under the heading "Sanitary presenting is rapidly drawing to Malaria. The pure, new, disease- On the question of increased The ferry piers assigned to the Department" you are making pro-s close. To-morrow will wit-expelling blood which these pills emoluments of public servants, Yaumati and associated ferries vision for only two Sanitary nese the farewell performance of create has brought new life, which are represented on page 42 are impossibly narrow and con-inspectors to do the work at this remarkably clever company strength and permanent health of the estimates at a sum of gested. The want of proper Kowloon City and Shamshuipo of artistes, and if there are any to sufferers inevery part of the $465,000, we know from
your supervision of these piers is ap- formerly done by Police Inspect who have not yet enjoyed the World where Malaria is found. Excellency's speech and from the parent to everyone who has had ors. You may not be personally melody and mirth which they Don't give Malaria another footnote on that page that this occasion to thread his way aware, Sir, so shortly after your purvey, they are advised to do so chance to put YOU out of action.. sum represents merely temporary through buckets of pigwash when arrival in the Colony, that when ere it is too late,
Commence now to fill your veins increases authorised by Colonial leaving, or arriving, at these the estimates for the Sanitary To-night's bill includes some with a new stream of healthy, Office telegrame in July and piers by ferry. Whilst on the Department came before the particularly attractive items. pure, red blood, the blood that September, and that the real subject of ferries, I notice, on page Sanitary Board last May, four One in particular, which is bound Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can give sum required for the service of 9, that you count on getting 8118, new Sanitary Inspectors, and not to make a very strong appeal, is you at every dose. There is no the year will be measurably 800 for new licences in connection two, were recommended. Fur. a charming scene the subject of difficulty in obtaining Dr. Wil- greater. The reticence dis-with the Kowloon (West) forries. ther.. that that recommendation which is Rose Petals It liam's Pink Pills; they are sold played by the Administration in It would be better, in the interests was referred by the Board to a is an extremely striking and by medicine vendors everywhere, refraining from publishing the of the community, that fares be sub-committee consisting of the effective number. Another and by Dr. Williams' Medicine report of the Commission
on reduced and the type of vessel President, Mr. Chan Kai-ming, item which will probably prove Co., 96 Szechuen Road, Shanghai, emoluments, and from inviting improved than that we should Mr. Bowley and Mr. B. W. Tso, popular is
toy shop 1 bottle $1.50, 6 for $8-, post free. the opinions of unofficial members regard these necessary com- who were unanimous in support idyll, in which all the inhabitants and the public on that report. is munications
source of ing the recommendation for four, of the shop come to life in the Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1154, regrettable. But I may say, Sir, revenue. I fear, however, and that recommendation was middle of the night. Leslie comprising an area of 16,945 that when the Government does that not until you have unanimously agreed to by the Holmes will draw upon his square feet, with a frontage of come forward with its proposals required your Heads of De Sanitary Board at a meeting inexhaustable store of humour 135 feet on Kimberley Road, was on that important subject you partments and Executive and on the 10th June. Why then, and all the other favourites will, put up to auction at noon to-day will not find that the unofficial Legislative Councillors to travel Sir, is the Board to be both singly and collectively, be by Mr. G. F. Lammert. The members will be niggardly in by the ordinary ferries to Aber fouted and the Department seen in fresh efforts. The plans property was withdrawn as it did voting whatever sums may be 'deen, Stanley, Ping Chat and Tai (Continued on Page 8.)
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