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ELEGRAPH.
CHINESE AFFAIRS IN HONGKONG.
HOW THEY ARE MANAGED.
The report of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs for the year 1919 states:
The
revenue
The total
Emigration.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1920.
Tet. 1030.
NOTICES
Tal 1036
GARAGE ACCOMMODATION
FOR PRIVATE CAR OWNERS
THIS IS OUR NEW SPECIALITY.
CARS OARAGED
TOWN $30 per month.
CARS. QARAGED at PRAYA EAST Or
HANCHAI $20 per month.
THESE PRICES INCLUDE CLEANING
ORDINARY GARAGE DUTIES.
•
AND
EXILE GARAGE
33 & 35, Des Voeux Road Central,
HONGKONG.
Tel 1936.
Six
men to
Tel. 1036
TMulations also do not cover vacated by the "Tai Tang Hotel." cahin passengers: and there are in Nana ware closed.. At the end of addition routes which avoid the the year there wars 17 houses, all Colaar altogether. Cases under of' which had taken out new all three handings have been sent licences b_fore the and of 1919. back to us by the Straits Settle-
Class III, Second Clàss Hak Uppin ments, and dealt with in the usual These are the small boarding way.
honses for independent emigrants. Prosecutions under the Women The 3 boarding houses whose and Girls Protection Ordinance licences remained under consi derived from undertaken by this office numbered deration at the end of 1913 re- all sources during the year was 7, with 3 convictions, as compared caired them at the beginning of | 221,430-less than that for 1913 by with 6 cases and S convictions in 1919. and 2 boarding houses 35,247. The decrease was mainly 1918.
received half-yearly licence. due to the smaller issue of Chinese
During the year 2 boarding houses Boarding House Licences, Mar- Male Emigration, (Amisted). were closed and one new boarding riage licences' and to less Regis-
Assisted Emigration to the house was opened. At the end of tration of Societies. There were Straits was practically at a stand-the year there remained 20 of three items which showed instill throughout the year: partly these boarding houses with ac creases, viz. Emigration Pagsagas. for lack of shipping facilities, but commedation for 1,349 persons. Brokers' Licences, Certiñcates to very largely on account of the dif- All these boarding houses received Chinese entering the United Boulties of exchange. Emigration their licences after 31st October, States of America, and Official to Banes continued throughout 1919. Signatures.
the year. The Billiton emigration
Class IV, Boarding Houses for ceased during the months of June. Assisted Emigrants--These are expenditure was $52,634, as compared with $50,117 July, August, and October: but used mainly by assisted emigrants, in 1915, sed fell short of the estim-as otherwise continuous. Fourwho may not, while staying in ate by $4.517. The increase as
batches numbering 356 coolies Hongkong, be lodged in any other compared with 1918 was due to
were pasted to go to Bilikpapan to place. During the year 10 new stipulated increments and to the work at the petroleum depot. boarding houses were opened, 9 appointment of a 3rd Class Offeer Eighty-one unskilled coolies, re of which closed in the same year. to act 8.3 Chief Assistant to cruited at Ningpo to proceed to These new boarding houses were Secretary for Chinese Affairs,
Australis to man two ships, were merely opened during the ousy examined and passed at this office emigrant seasons, as additions to work at once had the effect of arrangements 25 assisted coolies. Assisted existing premises. At the end of inspiring the
are well forward The number of women and emigration 10 British
North the year there were 14 assisted energy, and of fostering co-opera-school
greater for a large extension of the free children passengers examined and Borneo continued throughout the boarding houses, all of which retion with the Regular detectives vacant ground at the back of the accommodation on the allowed to proceed abroad was
year. The total number passed newed their licences $,550, as compared with 3,366 ia
was 1,353. The total number of October.
after 31st A marked improvement in this de- Temple. The balance sheet for 1913. During the first three emigrants to the Fiji Islands was
partment may confidently be ex-the first time is made according months emigration of this type
5-1. They went about
Class V. Ku LF Kun (lodging pected under the new system. octe a
to the European calendar, and the was very slack, but owing to in-
month in small parties. Of houses for coolies)-761 licences
re-arrangements referred to in Permits creased shipping accommodation decrepits and destitutes sent back were issued, as against 476 in
last year's report have been, hundred and ninety-one carried out. The result seems að after the month of April
by the Penang Government one 1918; of these 619 were renewed gradually increased. During the died on the voyage, 33 went direct at the end of the rear as against (691) permits to fire crackers were satisfactory simplification of the year only two ships went to South to Swatow or Amoy with through 215 in 1915. 20 convictions for issued as against 709 in 1915 and account: though it is still a ques Africa with women and children tickets and were only brought to various offences were obtained of these 471 were on the occasion tion whether the adoption of the
of marriage. Other passengers; one in August and the this office to receive pocket money, against houses of this class as
permits European calendar will be accept- a leper and
issued were other in September. During the one was
was sent against 3 in 1913.
23 for religious ed finally by the Chinese Com- months of April and May several away by the Police. Four blind
Class VI. Ku Kung Ngoi U232 permits
ceremonies and 9 for processions.munity. The expenditure was batches of female and minor coolies were sent back from Sin lodging houses for employees of theatricals. 194 of which perin 1918 and $102,323 in 1917. Last
·were issued for $180,432 as compared with $99,126 emigrants proceeding to Bangkok. sapore, and were sent home under firms)-393 licences were issued formances were held in permanent year's figure includes special Siam, were brought to this office escort by the Tung Wa Hospital as against 146 in 1919: of these houses and 33
the One hundred and eighty-nine (189) 294 were renewed at the end of buildings. for examination; but after month of May this emigration decrepits and destitutes were re-the year as against 32. in 1918.
property. $15,00 for the through this office ceased entirely. patriated from British North 2 convictions for different offences
erection of a pier at the Mortuary, and $11,057 for repairs. The rise The record of the occupations of Borneo as compared with 173 is were obtained against heases of
The number of marriages in the east of living has also been the women emigrants aged over 1918. One of these men was al-this class in 1918 there were solemnized during the year was responsible for increases in other 16 years as given by themselves lowed to find his relatives in this one).
142 as compared with 115 in 1918. items, such as salaries and wages. Colony, and the rest were sent shows that out of a total of 5.442. home by the Tung Wa Hospital (residential clubs for seamen) Registrar's Office was 15. In 1913 against $115,796 in 1915; and the Class VII. Hang Shun Kan The number contracted at the The total Income was $179,909, as 1.839 were going to join relatives. 1,161 going with relatives or box. In the rold season the men were 111 licences were issued as against it was 26.
provided in Eritish North Borneo 104 in 1913; of these 103 were re-
year's working shewed a Amali banda, 302 as tailoresses, 995 as
Joss. prostitutes, 682 as maid-servants with quilted clothing and blankets.
newed at the end of the year as or nurses, 413 as cooka, and 103 so that they would not, as was against 101 in 1913. No convic to work in the tin mines and on the case in previous years, suffer
There were also 1 from the sudden change from houses of this class (in 1913 there States of America, but none 5,093 in 1917. Of these 2,958 or plantations. teacher, 2 actresses, hair-hot to a cold climate. dressers, 1 temple keeper, 2 nuas. Classification of Assisted and 3 repatriated by Government. Emigrants by the language spoken; Forty-four, or 34 per cent of the gives the following figures:— number of women and children | Cantonese emigrants were detained for en- Hakka quiries, as against 15, or 27 per cent, in 1913. Of these, 15 were allowed to proceed after enquiry. There were no applications for the recovery of women orgiris who had emigrated. Eight women or girls Singpo were repatriated from Singapore. 3 of them were the family of a Singapore banishee, I refused to stay with her husband in Singa- pore. 2 were taken to Singapore under false pretences, and 2 who went to Singapore via Amoy were returned as suspicions characters. They were all handed back to their relatives or sent off to their des tinations. One girl who abscond ed from Singapore with a man, was found in Hongkong and sent back to Singapore.
Hoklo
Hainanese Southern Mandarin (mostly
from Hunan
Kwong
Sai and
tions
were 4).
ware obtained
in
Marriages.
temporary items of 532.859 for the purchase
of
Certificates of Identity. Thirteen certificates were issued enter the United against to Chinese to
enter the Philippine Islands. One certificate 1330rd was not used and the fee was refunded to the applicant. These certificates are limited to Chinese British Subjects resident in Hongkong,
British Born Certificates. There were eleven applicationa
The total number of in-patients admitted during 1919 was 6,726 as compared with 6,239 in 1918 and
43.8 par tent. (as against 95.10 per cent. in 1918) elected to be treated by European methods. The out-patients numbered 140,271
a3
against 129,769 in 1918 (133,884 in 1917), and of these 20,919 or 15 per cent (as against In 1918) chose 33 per cent
Registration of Householders. One thousand three hundred and 6.277 ninety-four (1,394) householders 6.559 were registered as against 1,594 254 in 1918: of these 137 were first 32 registration as against 174 in 1918, 8.957 changes of tenancy were also notified for registration for these certificates, six of which European treatment. The number 562 as against 9248 in 1918. The were granted: three were refused of surgical operations performed S1 number of Chinese business men and in two cases passports were was 226 as compared with 207 in
1915.
There were also 109 ere in Victoria and Kowloon offering the real objects in view and were 13,875 themselves as sureties to Gorem granted. There was one applica- Operations performed as against
ment Departments and reported tion for naturalisation: it is still 42 in 1913. The Boarding House Ordinance.
on by this office was 1,410 as under consideration. Under this Ordinance Chinese resident householder was rired against 1,472 in 1913. One non- Boarding Houses are divided into to enter into a bond; the figure seven classes for the purposes of was also.ene in 1913. licensing and regulation.
Tastal
District Watchmen.
Kwong Wa Hospital Turg Wa Hospital.
The work of the Hospital again The work of the Hospital proper shewed an increase during 1919.- has increased, a Maternity Ward In all 3,212 patients were admitted has been instituted, and many im-(as against 2,696 in 1918) of whom Clasa 1, Chinese Hotels-These
provements have been made in the 11,864 or 58 per cent. (as against are run very much on the lines of
famitare of the Wards and the 43 per cent. in 1918 and 46 pe Earopean hotels: they are licensed District Watchmen Fand at the the
The balance to the credit of the regulation of the staff. Outside cent. in 1917) came under for the sale of alcohol. During end of the rear was $34,208, as
Hospital work, the most European treatment, while 1,348 the year one of these houses, the compared with $34,372 on January the rice shortage. The Committee methods.
serious problem that arose was elected to be treated by Chinese One woman who went to Sing other, the "Hotel China," which vested in Hongkong 6 per cent. who devoted his whole time to against 33,085 in 1913, and of The total number of Tai Tung." was closed and an 1st. $28,000 of the balance is in- loyally supported Mr. Ho Kwong, out-patients treated was 35,392 3 pore as cabin passenger to join gave up business, was taken over war her husband and who failed to find for the extension of the "Great 36,208 deposited in the Colonial astonishingly short space of time European treatment.
Loan, and the remainder dealing with it and in him was sent back. She died of Eastern Hotel.
an these 25,000 elected to receive phthisis while detained here in the the year therefore there remained the District Watchmen Force at ranged, and
This gives At the end of Treasury. The total strength of sheds were built, all details ara percentage of 70.6 83 against Po Leung Kok for enquiry.
enly two houses, the "Great East the end of the year was 102, as d stributed. The free distribution total net expenditure of the Hox- congee was being 65.3 in 1918 and 67.3 in 1917. The Two women and two children era" and the "Stag Hotel," both of compared with 103 on January 1st was however soon found to have pital for 1919 were returned from Penang and which applied for and received the approved strength is 102. its own disadvantages and the sale against $32,595 in the previous was 3-42,663 as fresh licences after 31st October. The number of convictions secur- of cheap rice took its place. The Chinese year. Salaries and wages 1919.
ed by members of the force was effort was in keeping with the best food for staff and patients, and Class II. First Class Hak U-164 as compared with 172 in 1918 traditions of the Hospital, and the repairs and furniture all show These are the large boarding and 113 is 1917. The Detective Committee and their Chairman increases; and the whole work of houses which cater principally for Staff now numbers 23 as compared are to be congratulated on the the hospital has grown. Further independent emigration and inter-with 20 in 1918. Police Sergeant result. Hach work was done in exact comparison with the pre- port passenger business During Murphy was seconded from the connection with education to vious year however is dimeult as the year a new Boarding House of Police towards the end of the which. purpose it has become the the change from the Chinese to this class was opened, the "Wah year to take charge of the District practice to devote the surplus Kin," which took up the premises Watchmen-detective staff. His funds of the Man No Temple: and
handed back to their relatives.
Four girls alleged to have been kidnapped or decoyed away were sent back from Bangkok and were handed back to their relatives.
The route via Bangkok (which is not covered by our Emigration Ordinance) to Singapore seems to have been increasingly utilised to avoid the local regulations. The
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