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Continuation of Yester day's Debate.
TUKSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1991.
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The following makes the repart suffice to show that the Unofficial buildings would not be allowed to knowledge during the last 30 years, fixirs is due to deficiencies of plant,
cannot
house without." "any tunisia - court, tween Wanchai Gap to Victoria Gap and try to meet them out of cur- porta ar signals from Kowloon out bat the Government Servant, who which is now contemplated, that is rent revenue.
of the unlinary when typhoon waa- baa takan kis chance of housing to my from "The Mount" down to Selentle Town Planning, “ ther has been threatined. In the with this average resident for many Victoria Gap, I would point out Hongkong is now perhaps the China Bass, and indications thereof years past, is apparently to be that it is impossible to renevers that most important port, politically and have been received from Manila and placed in a much better position that will open up any fresh building otherwise, in the British Empire, Riccamel. The time has · been We were unable yesterday to than the average resident.
sites having regard to the fact thasis is the foundation of our foothold reached, Sir, when the Observatory Sir, I am not making these re-that piece of read is in the Port and of our influence in the Northern should give more frequent weather give a complete report of the budget discussion which took marks in any niggardly spirit. In
reports, and if the present state of place at the Legislative Council fact a few moments reflection willum drainage area, and, therefore, Facibe. It has grown out of all
[complate:
members of this Council are dis-be erected on that road thought and if anything can be certain, it The Hon. Mr. Pollock, follow. psaed to treat the Civil Servants I had better make these remarks in is that the progress of Hongkong or funds with which to increase the that such grant be made suficient to ing his general remarks on behalf in a very liberal spirit. Only a fawforder to make my personal position must continue at a much greater service of telegrams, I would arge of the Unofficial Members, said years ago a system was brought inelear upon the question, and so that rate in the future than in the past
1. The first remark which I by which Government Servants it may not be imagined that I am Taking the large view, 1 think it is provide for anch squirment, etc., have to make is that I hope that could enjoy, when on leave, a much in any way departing from my pre high time that, the Government-is-usual sociated with mot the Gavernment will most vigor-loager period of full pay than for-
town planning. I have no doubt Ships Concerned in Smargling. ously press on the settlement of merly. Then a payment of return is position or compelled to detook in band a scheme of scientifler Observatorica
I would renew, Sie, the repre but that the excellent but ста the terms of agreement for the passages scheme was made gen-part from it, which is that the road transfer of the Military establish-erally applicable, involving the ght not to have gone rast of Wan worked officials of the P.W.D. have sentations to the Government en the ments to the mainland, and thus Colony in considerable expendi-chai Gap is regards the picer of planned ahead considerably. Town matter of penalties to which ship. give the Colony greater room for ture. Then a considerable per-road at the back of Stewart Terrace
centage was added to the salaries and above the Peak Church, I think, Planning is a special art and theyping is liable in the event of mug- expansion on this side.
to be expected devots gling operations taking place on My second point is in can of Civil Servants, in parsuance of everybody will agree that the road enough time so this even if any of board vessela. It has lately been nection with the opening up of the reports of a Commission, to will have the greatest dificulty in them had the necessary experience, recognised by the Chinese Maritime King's Park for building sites make up for the increased cost of forcing its way through there and I would suggest, therefore, that a Customs that they will not take Some two or three years ago the living. Next there is the payment that it certainly will not open up town planning expert should be advantage of the regulations which Unatcial members of this Council of Government Servants at any new sites. With these remarks engaged to draw up a scheme to have permitted them in the past to went most carefully into this mat- very favourable rate of 13 dollara bez to express my agreement with provide for the expansion of the levy Baes on ships involved in smag- ter with the late Director of Pub-to the. £ when the dollar is at 23,
Colony for the next ilty years. gling eases. I would urge, ́as al lic Works, Mr. Chatham, and red. or under, and although it may my neficial collenge commended that. apart from the be that the sliding scale is not Hon. Mr. Ho Fook on Eduction Expenditure on Public Works could ready represented by the Chamber golf links, the whole of King's much more favourable than the old Hon. Mr. Ho Fook: 1 desire to be regulated according to this plan, of Commerce, that this Government Park, including the Kille Range, rate of four-fths at 15. 9d. and endorse the remarks of my Chinese and it could then be decided what should adopt a similar attitude, and should be thrown open for baildone fifth at the rate of the day, it is colleague in 30 far as they relate would be a fair proportion of the where it is shewn that due
have been taken by the ing purposes. In fact at that time more favourable than 10 dollars to the advisability of giving facili
cost that the present generation res
Master, or his officers, to check at. all manners of schemes were being to the inserted in mercantile ties for the development of the
should bear. Territories. removing the suggested by local architects for agreements. If, on the top of that, New
The Colony has no debt to speak tempts at amoggling, special con- utilizing the available area to the we are to house all our officers in mortuary and exercising great
enormous value sideration should be given to that best advantage; but the whole superfine houses at vast expense, cantion in the banishment of a cer-
Liquor and Tobacco Duties. question seems to have been allow-and at a very inadequate rental intain class of British subjects. It potentially, so it is in a fine posi.circumstance, and fines not levied. ed to lapse.
return. I think. Sir, that that will be gratifying to the Chinese tion and a credit stands very high, 3. My third point is to suggest would prove to be too heavy ajcommunity to know that provision and if bortowing were found to be a query as to whether the Govern-charge upon our future revenue. has been made in the Estimates necessary, which it would not be ment is wise in spreading out its That is the point at which I think for an increase of $55,000 in sub-for some years at least, it could en most favourable expenditure over so many items, we must draw the line as regards sidies to the elementary vernacular secure money
Situated, as the Colonyers- ourselves for it must be remembered that, committing
further, schools. on uncompleted items of work, more especially as, with a lower is, within a stone's throw of the
Lack of Foresight. whether they be Government exchange, the charge for Persons mainland. compaisory education; buildings, or Quarters for Officers, Emolaments of Government. sex or even motor roads, the particular sants will fall heavily upon our work, whilst still in an uncomplet-revenue. ed state, is of no worth or utility
The Peak Road.
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of and assets
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I maintain, Sir. in view of the fact that alcobel is more or less a necessity for Europeans residing in the Tropics, that the tax on foreign
iquors is excessive and I would. therefore press for an immediate All the great British ports of Asiaeduction. I am also of the opinion seems to me to be out of the question are suffering into the lack of fore-that duty on tobacco, which is z unless it is enforced sirultaneous sight of past generations. Shang. more than ordinary creature ty in China; but I would respect-
year
Traffic Improvement.
fully submit that it is the duty of bat is in the same case, and caur fort in this trying climate, might likewise be reconsidered, and if expensive resumptions whatever, and merely represents a 1. The last pent which I shall the Government gradually to in-noasty
taxation in substatation thereof is be made to to loss of so much interest on the criticize en my own behalf is increase the vote for education from land have money expended on it. This point connection with the following re-
to year until there are provide for increases in a absolutely necessary the stamp duty seems to me to be specially worthy marks of Year Excellency in in enough schools for all the children ur predecessers built as if they on agreements for sale of property of consideration. in view of the troducing the Budget. You then whose parents desire to give them expected no development to speak might easily be increased without
some education.
of. The Dutch, on the other hand, fundaly penalising the parties con stupendous programme of Public
said: Works 1921-a programme which,
Hon. Mr. Stephen: The Senior bad wider views; the Stadthouse in rerned in, such transactions. "Tader emounications' the Unofcial Member and my two Batavia budt 200 years ago is still} although it locks well on paper.)
I should like, Sir, to take this op OTHERS take your photos, but admittedly is not likely to be car-
Ers: Sve items are for works al- Unoficial Colleagues have dealt efficient for the purpose for which by our 3 years experience we ried out in anything like its entire- ready in progress, and it is ex 130 ably and in such de-it was built, and the town of Bata portunity of congratulating the take
Captain Saperintendent of Polico yours in EXCELLENT ty.
pected that all except the Erst tail with the various items of the via and the other cities in Java wre CONDITION and NATURAL Government Servants Quarters.
en recent improvements in the con- item will
remunerative Badges that I do not propose to deo planned that no expensive re- prove undertaking. I may mention that more than invite your consideration sumptions of land for strees widen-trol of trafic, which hase added COMPLEXION instead of mere- ly clear and sharp.
one piece of land opened up by to a few of the wider aspects of the
considerably to public safety; but the new road to the Peak sold aanances of the Colons. Although One of the Erst things the Ameri. farther improvement is necessary in few days nga for 250,000o, which is this is considered generally to be cans did when, they occupied the Training men for that particular exactly the estimated cost of lightly taxed community, bring exPhilippines 20 rompting the road to Victoria peses have increased enormously engage the great town planner Gap."
during the last teen years. Men Barnham, to lay out Manila City
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Our Portrait is of Mr. WALTER L. WHITE, of 4), Marlo-lane, Chiswick, Landon, England, who writes su
Some these years agɔ I had a swelling in the knee cap One nigh: I knocked my kaze which caused a litte ulcer which in time, so matter what f did, developed serows the whole knee.
In connection with delay in com-' pletion. the new quarters for Gov- ernment Servants now approach-| ing completion on the Severn Road ire a most glaring instance of delayed completion, and I should like to be informed:-1) When work was first begun on the site for these hooses; and (2) What is
ing purposes are ever necessary.
Years ago was to
work. I would recommend that ex- pert tuition in the regulation of
traffic be arranged for at the Police Training School, and that the more
retaised for duty in the basy cen- tres of the City. I fully realise that
I regret, ir, that I must, criticin of the Foreign Community of moder- which is growing up on the lines the total amount expended to date remarks because I think they late means and it difficult to live de-aid dowu by him, which provided scient members of the Force be on these three houses? (0) Whatar Pers made under a reapprecently and provide for the educafer expaction for centuries to come.
tion of their families at home. is the total amount expended to Frasin i ny persona) position in date on the three tennis courts ap-jilus matter.
follow their example and discon pertaining to these three houses? at being carried up to the Peak.though their wages have increased.} (4) What was the contract date for¦pig farms Wanchai Gap, because
em no better off, than they for. tinue this bent to mouth policy. Itess of traffic control, and 1 would make appeal to the sencial will very likely be found that if we the completion of these three was under the impression that inmerly were. ther there was any penalty clause fireportant featore of that road and value of money bas decreased alfevertake the expenditure of the this somewhat difficult task There houses and tennis courts and wheleusnertia with it. and, as a most count for this: since the war the abandon the policy of scrambling to fpablic, both Europeans and Chimese,
1 was in favour of awhile the labouring classes, all thick the time has come for us to the Police alone cannot make a 3DF.
in soch contracts and whether it!
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Various factors ac-
The pro
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and in my
to co-operate with the authorities in
of Police
intendent of Palice, who kindly at- tended, outlined a scheme, which.
is one point on which I would like remi
considerable per- was enforced; and if not, why i:eing absolutely necessary forever the world, but I think the PW.D., it may be possible in time
Mount principal reason here is the great to
to lay stress thonah it might not be was not enforced (5) I should the development of the
increase in rents which has affected centage of the present taxation-considered to come within the strict diatrici a tramway also like to ask why it was con-amer
Loans Not Impossible. sidered necessary to have a separ-shout! be run up the Wanchai Gap all classes, and I hope the Govern
Hon. Mr. A. (2) Lang said: Wir, efinition of traffic work viz., the ate tennis court for each i have been a consistent opponentment will very seriously consider
eficials at theatres, cinemas and those houses. Sach
a the tram being carried from Wan. the remarks which have been made Following the remarks of my Ln inadequate provision
by Mr. Bird The Government official colleagues regarding the
nther places of publicentertainment; procedare savours of abchai Gap up towards the Peak. solutely wasteful squandering of H.E. the Governor: You mean the dealt with this question last sum various question raised in connee. public money-I refer to the ten-road
mer, reluctantly I am sure, as it is tion with the Finance Bill, I desire and I would vakgeat, Sir, that this
defect be remedied withest delay.
nis courts.
The Hon Mr. Podock: Yes, I mean
as a rule not good policy to intes in the first plare to record my sp.j
Harbour Police Work 4. The question of the expen the mad feum Wanchai Gap to the
fere with the ordinary law of supply preciation of what has been achiev The Harbour Police were she sab. siveness of the Official Quarters on Peak The rest of carrying on.
and demand. But I think the rooted by the Public Works Department 3 Severn Road naturally leads me to
of the trouble should be sought for, ander very trying circumstances and ject of a discussion at a recept meet- ing of the Committee of the Bone. remark upon the very large sums road from Wanchai Gap to the It is a matter of common gossip with a depleted staff. which the Government is expend-Peak corers to a sum of roughly $215. that there is a ring of contractors(zramme arranged for that Depa kong General Chamber of Com- ing for the housing of its oicers 000-slightly more-an-Imay here.in combination which has fore-ment, as set out in the Estimates merce, at whith the Captain Super.. at the Peak and at Leighton Hill you in connection with that, that led up the cost of building beyond now under discussion, is From items 1 and 3 (on page 76 the estimated cost of a tramway all reason. The price of one service usually heavy one. of the Estimates for 1522) it will from Queen's Road East to Wan-to the community reacts on the opinion. Sir, there is no reason heil brought into effect, will result in be seen that the estimated totall chai Gap was $150,000 only-in factorire of everything else, and, until the present generation should bear increased Police supervision and expenditure on such Quarters for from the report of the Director of housing arcommodation is available the entire burden of this outlay. In consequent reduction in pilferage" 1921 is $635,000 and that the Public Works for 1020 recently laid for all classes at a moderate rate, spite of arguments to the contrary factory to note that provision has from ships and lighters. It is satis- estimated expenditure for such on the table, page 47, item 101, we Hongkong can quarters in 1922 is
never regain its am by no means convinced that $590,000,
see that a survey and longitudinal old reputation as a cheap port. roughly speaking, six lakhs of
loans in respect of such under. been made by the Government for section were made and also the dollars for each of the years 1921)
Living from Hand to Mouth. takings are impossible, and I would to last and up-to-date launches and 1922.
necessary working drawings for the
It appears to me that the Budget request the Goremment to carefully to facilitate this barbour work, and Extravagant Expenditure, track formatifin, and the 1990 es has hitherto been framed with al- consider that method of finance with trust the corabined efforts of the Police and the shipping and wharf I had one large gaping wound, and with
For my own part, 1 regard such timate was $150,000. Therefore, it most sole regard to the amount of view to its adoption.
companies will prove successful in all the care and attention that wound expenditure as being very extra-was not altogether a rough estimate money which the P.W.D. can ex A Better Weather Service. was upen for 15 months Being a 11 vagant from the Colony's point of the Pahlic Works Department. pend. Some months ago you rais With reference to the Observeradicating an evil which has be all-rooed athlete, holder of many cupsview, having regard to the present They had the necessary working ed the a priam, i begun to give up all hope high cost of building and to the drawings to
rates and, when in the tary, Bir, the Chamber of Comcome notorions in recent year
The Fire Brigade. upon Well, course of a few weeks you found t'e merre, and the shipping and general fact that officers not entitled to Sir, continuing with my criticisms P.W.D. were not likely to spend communities have a strong feeling Improvements in the Fire Brigade free quarters, who occupy quarters of Your Excellency's remarks Twant much as was expected, you lowered that this institution needs expan are also a sacree of satisfaction, supplied by the Government, only further to point out that the exten- them again. If you increase that sign, and world welcome some and with the completion of the new pay rent for such quarters at the rate of 6 per cent. upon salary and son of the motor roads castwards. establishment so
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Public arrangement which would enable the Station, with its up-to-date ap from Wanchai Gap to Victoria Gap Works in hand can be more expedi- Director to issue more frequent pliances and additional personnel, not at the rate of 6 per cent. upon not likely to cause any houses to tiously proceeded with, you will, weather reports, particularly in the the service will be more in keeping Speaking for myself, I think that be built which would not be built following the precedent of recent typhoon season, on the lines of with the requirements of a large I understand, Sir, that in this system of expensive housing otherwise. with the exception pos- years, have to increase your taxa-those issued by the Manils and the city. as ever, and am still bolding my own as, ought not to extend beyond the sibly of a house for the Captain-tion to keep pace with their activi-Bicestei Observatories. The two addition to the equipment already
completion or erection of the Superintendent of Police on Mount | tien. 1 think that principle is neighbouring
Observatories frea order in England, the Super- Officers' Quarters of which the Gough Hill With regard to your entirely wrong; the Government is quently furnish information regard-intendent, in his report, has recom Public Works Committee have a remark that there was a piece of creating what will be an enormous ing typhoons ahead of the Hongkong mended the purchase of a further land sold for 850.000 on the road toly valuable property in Kowloon Observatory, and this even in the motor pump and a second turn. In this connection I consider the Peak, that piece of land was to and on this island by its various case of conditions which more close table ladder, and while I am fully that the Public Works Department the eastward of the Wanchai Gap. schemes of road-making and rely affect Hongkong. It is recognia, aware that appliances of the nalare | are very much to blame for setting It was on the lower part of the clamation, and it is at the same ed. Bir, that with the institution of indicated are expensive, it is im
Officers' Quarters, bath as regards road, not on the road to the Peak time living from hand to mouth the new system of signals, more reftative in a densely populated Clarke's Blood Mixture provision of tennis courts.
number and size of rooms and the proper, which I bave always obNo Municipality and no Govern elaborate daily weather reports place like Hongkong that safety ment I have ever heard of have at have been given, but there have often should be the first consideration.
Extraordinary The average Peak resident in With regard to the possibility of tempted
Pablie been occations when the community It would appear that the water this Colony lives in a five-roomed the further addition to the road be. Works to the extent you do bere would have welcomed weather 15 (Continued an Page, 5, 4 and 5.)
of ever taking my place again among
the athletes. One day one of my fellow workmen inquired how my g was and told me it was 'Clarke's "Blood Mixture I wanted. That day I bought a bottle, and when i had finished it [
was not only surprised myself, but all my workmates could improvement
I could bend my knee a little and that gave me encouragement, so I persevered with it and am glad to say seven bottles completely cured me. Jam now as well
an athlete."
Sufferers Cale
from Bad Logs, Ihnesises, Ulcers,
Ement, Bola. Puples, Bruylase. Formation. Goską should realism that lotions and rintamente cat hot, giva tempotaky relief-te be, verk of complet and lasting beseft, the blood must be shoroughly ciencoed of the impore wasło zoutine, the true cause of such tranhias. Clarke's Blond Mixture goleki sitacks, ovezences, and aspełn the impurities, that is why so many rerurkable moossties stand to is credit.
and icon from injurious ingradienta.
Of all Dealas-see that you get
**Everybody's.Blood Puchar M
the cost of the building.
ready had notice..
up a very expensiva standard of
jected to
that the