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COLONY'S BUDGET IN 1928.
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not been found possible to complete the investigations in time. The sessional papers will be issued at a inter date..
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Decreases and Increases.
I would invite the attention of Honourable Members to Appendix in the Draft Estimates, which gives a statement of the position This of of the 1925. Trade Loan.
budget, but it is published for in- formation in what is considered a convenient place.
materials and samples of spirit;
Provision has also been made, but under the Harbour Depart- ment on page 26 of the printed Estimates, for a motor boat at
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·FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1927.
main land and on the island.
ed will not be recognised by the press messages, which often can tricts shall be brought under the on the Revenue.
It is not proposed that these dis- Government as a legitimate charge not be received owing to atmos control of the Sanitary Board in
pheries. With the new apparatus The amounts now inserted in the it is expected almost all will be the same way as the urban dis- Estimates have been scrutinized clearly received, tricts are; the officer's work will very carefully and will it is hoped The equipment of the Govern be more in the nature of educating provo adequate. It will be notic-ment garages and work-shops on and instructing the villagers ined that the sum for building grants which $3,000 is being spent this sanitation and hygiene.. He will has been redaced, and I invite the year is not yet complete, and it is of course work in conjunction with terested to the remarks I have $5,000 next year. This will enable special attention of persons in- necessary to provide a further the District Officers..
made elsewhere on the inability of all cars on this side of the harbour The Hospitals.
Government to subsidize schemes to be repaired here, instead of started without adequate financial having to be sent over to the already provision.
overburdened Railway Workshops. The $11,680 inserted for equip- ment for King's College includes: Public Works Recurrent, gymnastic apparatus, physica and
There is a nott increnae on this chemistry apparatus for 3rd year pupils, drawing models and a few head of $69,750, but of this amount minor items. Part of this sum$13,000 for upkeep of bathing places College is again available for edu- will not be required until King's has been transferred from miscel
laneous services., cational purposes.
they should be properly policed. The only other change in personal: emoluments is the increnso in the Indian contingent by forty-five posts, to balance the decrease of a cost of $7,000. A considerable forty-five posts in the Wei Hal amount of opium smuggling is Wel contingent. done by junks and sampans on the
Other Charges. Kowloon side of the harbour where there is no definite water
Under other charges, amunt front as there is on this side of tion and clothing and accoutre- remembered that with practically course has nothing to do with the the harbour, and the occasionalments Have been increased by [
hiring of a launch has proved un-$4,000 and $8,000 respectively to satisfactory, chiefly because it provide for the Police Reserve. . With the opening of the new robs the raids and searches of the Passages have had to be increased contral medical store, a very neces essential element of surprise.
by $5,000 to meet the increased sary and long-needed provision to cost due to the reduction of the insure the economical use of valu
$1,500 owing to the formation of apothecary, and provision has ac- qualifying period "from 4 to 4able stores, it will be necessary to years. Petrol, etc., is increased by engage, an additional assistant the Police Flying Squad Rations cordingly been made. for Indian Police have gone up It is intended to use the Victoria with the increase in the strength Hospital for men as well as for of the Indian contingent.
women. It is more suitable than the General Civil Hospital for Europeans and there is now suffi- sigut accommodation,
in
no additional taxation we carrying the burden of a pro- gramme of works undertaken the spacious days of, an overflow ing exchequer.
Luckily these works, where it has not been possible to shut them down rapidly nearing com- pletion, in some cases I regret to say much abbreviated form, and at the end of 1928 we hope to find our commitments of the past reduced to a comparatively small Ggarey
Liquid Balances.
We inust however recognize that when we, reach the end of ***liquid balances we shall have to rely on revenue alone" for any Public Works Extraordinary which are not chargeable to loan, and unless our revenue increases, jerther by increased prosperity or by increase in taxation, we shal! Have to be content with much smaller anaual expenditure on Public Works Extraordinary than has been usual in the last few
years,
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Harbour Department.
Turning now to expenditure, the total estimate is $22.183,045. There is a decrease in Public Works Ex- however, is offset by an increase of staff of the Marine Surveyor's traordinary of $11,239,100. This i $180.638. for Military. Contribution
Apart from the increase in the and $158.076 the Pensions, neither Office, to which I have already re- of which can we regulate at will.ferred and which is fully dealt Other large increases are $247,181 with in the sessional paper on the for Miscellaneous Services, $162,401 subject, there are only minor in- for the Harbour Department and creases $185,525 for the Police Department. The more important decreases and increases are the following:
Cadet Service,
Provision has been made for one more cadet who will be necessary to keep the cadre up to strength.
Senior Clerical and Accounting Stall.
Altogether there are three new postinder this head. One Claas post for the Registry of the Supreme Court; recent experience has shown that it is necessary to detail an officer specially to look after the accounting and financial
under personal, emolu- Repairs to Police cars and ments. Provision is made for the cycles were adder-estimated in crews of the two new launches and previous years, and supplemen motor boat which it is proposed tary vote for $2,000 was taken last to build next year, and there April. The vote has how been in printed Estimates one Boatswain vice has been reduced by $2,500, also inserted on page 30 of the creased by $2,500. Secret Ser- for the Government slipway at the amount, now inserted being
considered auffélent.
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All stores, etc., for Government? launches are issued here, and it is anticipated that the appoint- ment of this boatswain, whose duties will be largely" that of staremau, will more than pay for itself by the prevention of leak- age of the stores.
A Worn Out Launch.
One hundred rifles will be re-
.
two more Nursing Sisters.
Pro-
Public Works Department.
Among the chief increases are a total for Hongkong, Kowloon and New Kowloon of $11,750 for light- There is a nett reduction of $81,-ing to keep pace with the develop
Ing and extensions of light- 677 on personal emoluments of the ment of the Colony. Item, water To cope with the increased num- Public Works Department. Of the her of patients which this will increases $39,526 is for stipulated meters for Kowloon, has been in-
bationer nurses have been increas entail provision has been made for increments and $19,987 for new creased by $10,000. There are at posts. Of the decreases $31,280 present nearly 400 applications for meters outstanding, and $15,000 is accounted for by posts ed by six posts. In time it is hop abolished and $46,445 by posts left the minimum sum necessary to meet ed that these Chinese nurses will vacant. Posts have been abolished
these demands. be able to take the place of Euro- and omitted from the Estimates Maintenance of Praya walls and Peans, and it is considered desir-where it is felt that there is no piers at Kowloon has been increased able that as many should be trained.
possible likelihood of their being required in for New Kowloon has been placed at by $7,000. The corresponding vote normal years. Under other charges fuel and light has been increased by $2 500. Previously this vote was un- der-estimated. Two of the votes of the Bacteriological Institute have been increased in order to meet the growing demand for vac- is of course a source of revenue to
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their work of the Supreme Court: one and stores for launches and boats and three of the cycles require cines and sera, The sale of these the reduction in the amount of due to the number of Police Sta-
No longer shall we be able, as in the days of pleaty, to assist enterprising bodies in Schemes for development, however Class III post for the Marine Sur- admirable, with advances from the veyor's Office: this is in connexion public purse,
with the increase in staff of that The fact that we have an item in office, and is referred to in the sea. Our assets
GI $1,500,000 tonal paper on that subject; and Jocked up in Building Loans tone more Probationer. private hodles and individuals is Officers with special scales of some indication of the measure of salary different from those fixed for our past assistances by way
of the various classes of the Senior advances. This money, we now
Clerical Service have been grouped
over
quired for the Police Reserve, and provision has accordingly been made, under purchase of arms. A recurrent expenditure of $2,500 which is required for spares and Coal and oil fuel for launches replacements has been transfer and repairs, minor improvements. red. One of the Police motor cars are increased with the number of craft. "Electric fans "pecially extensive repairs, and
greater
and light" has also been increased,
provision is accordingly made. as the former offices of the Imports
The harbour launch, $25,000, 19 and Exports Department have to replace, No. 8 Launch, which been taken over by the Harbour was quite worn out, so much Department.
so that when the engines had been
be obtained for the hull
Government.
Vacant posts are those which are the proper figure of $10,000, the regarded as necessary for the nor-figure of $100 in the current year's mal establishment of the depart-estimate being an error.
Maintenance and improvements ment, but though shown in the Es timates they are at the moment left to buildings in the New Territories unfilled and without provision of have been increased by $8,000 and funds for their salaries owing to $6,000 respectively. This is chiefly Public Works provided for.
tions which will require heavy re- pairs next year.
Maintenance of roads and bridges in the New Territories has been increased consider-
.in ably
order that the
condition for vehicular traffic.
Reduction has been cffected by leaving unfilled posts which have Santitary Department.
become vacant through retirements, The scavenging at Aberdeen, resignations, expiration of agree Aplichau, Stanley and Tytam ments and other causes, It will
tractor is to be done departmental ther reductions as time goes on,
serted for the purchase of a new
A sum of $25,000 has been in removed not more than $200.could which is at present done by a con- probably be possible to make fur. roads may be maintained in a fit require, as soon as we can recover in the 1928 Estimates in a diffex launch for the Boarding Officers. the Police are one launch short contract at the end of this year, la not increased. Meanwhile, how-Splendid roads, and it would be At the present moment therefore ly on the expiration of the present if the programme of Public Works The Colony is justly proud of its ent way from the grouping shown The number of Boarding Officers for harbour duty, which means It is anticipated that the work
was increased from three to five that the remaining launches have be much more efficiently done, ethicers who will be on the establish.properly.
in the 1927 Estimates. This in- volves no increase other than the stipulated increments.
night and day without adequate almost continuously provision for overhaul and repair or actual breakdown.
this year, and there is available to be run for them only one launch, which is quite inadequate for the work to be performed, particularly since the limits of the harbour have been extended to Lyemun Pass.
it; for works of public utility.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies has therefore requested that a warning be issued to the effect that Government will not
Junior Clerical Service. for the present be able to enter- tain appeals for financial help The whinle of the postal staff of from private or semi-public bodies. the Junior Clerical Service has been who must restrict any schemes or transferred from this head to Head projects they have in view tu 11-Post Office. The reason this the amount they can raise from that postal clerks unlike clerks in other than Governmental sources.ther departments are not ordinariis Source of Revenue Changes, ly transferable, and depend for pro- There are only two changes motion on vacancies in. the Post contemplated in, the sources of Offices only, and not in the service revenue next year. One is a as a whole. small increase in school fees at The number of posts in the certain schools, which will bring Higher Class and Classes I to III
New Launches.
ver, provision must be made for all false economy not to keep them up
extra staff required, which will Provision has been made for the ment on 1st January of next year. Works to Stand Over. cost $3,856 next year.
A Staff Explanation.
It has been customary to speak Drivers of bullock carts have
at length on the details of Public It may seem curious that new Works Extraordinary when intro- The cruising launch is to replace again been considerably reduced posts are required in the Publicducing the Budget. the present No. 3. Launch former with the progress of the scheme Works Department, but it must be
This year a ly the "Shun. Lee" which was only of replacing bullock refuse carts remembered that the Public Works memorandum by the Director of bought as a stop gap. The present motor launch H.D.5 ernment Marine Surveyor has re-
The Gov by motor lorries. Purchase and Department comprises many differ Public Works on the works which now quite unscnworthy for any parted that she is quite unset- similar reasons been cut down to which are sfected by the reduction been placed before each Honour- maintenance of bullocks has. for ent sub-departments not all of it is proposed to undertake has thing but a flat calm. he tried for junk inspection work sheltered
She is worthy in anything but the most $1,000. Motor, lorries are proving of Special Expenditure. at Aberdeen where the water is she is to all intents and purposes ical than bullock-carts.
waters; consequently most successful, and more econom- 'amotnt required for new posts pro- details than would be possible" in
harbour. calm, and must be replaced in the useless as a cruising launch. The
vides for one Sterographer for the a speech, and it is hoped that this The number of subheads under Accounts and Stores Branch, one new departure will prove a con- The sum of $40,000, with the wireless and
new launch will be fitted with other charges has been reduced by Wireless Telegraphist for the. Police Venience to Honourable Members. Government fees more into lines been slightly increased, and the supplementary vote, of $10,000. The Indian beds, subhead 44, are vided for similar services. This for the Government Garage at ordinary, is in some ways
a 3 pounder gun.amalgamating those which pro- Department, one Foreman Mechanic The Head, Public Works Extra- with private school feel. This is numbers in Classes IV and V cor- added, for the launch to.. replace for increased number of Indian has enabled reductions to be made Wantsai, two 1st Class and two 2nd Interesting for what it omits than
It was
expected to bring in about $60,000 ruspondingly reduced. and cannot be considered a serious found, that promotion to the higher burden, Notice of this increase classes was unduly slow, and that was given in June last.
efficiency avas liable to be affected The other is an survey fees for steamships and to work up gradually each year until increase of in consequence, and it is proposed steam launches. As is well known fixed ratio between the numbers to Honourable Members the Gov-in each class has ernment is as anxious as any one to maintain the attractiveness of our splendid harbour and it will be found that we have provided
for a very considerable increase of expenditure on the Harbour Department with that aim in view. As a means of reenuping our- solves for some of that expendi-
es-
been reached.
The clerical staff in the Post Office will also he worked to the same proportions.
the "Victoria" has been carried over to next year. The matter wis fully discussed in Finance Com-
gress this year but payment is not ittee and the work will be in pro-
expected to fall due until 1928.
The Fire Brigade.
Police.
Medical Department.
The
able Member. This gives fuller
more
on many of the votes, and is also Class Assistant Land Surveyors for what it contains. Almost all more convenient in working.
required in connexion with the re- the larger items are for works to Provision is made for the pur-vision of the survey of the Colony, which the Colony is committed, chase of one more motor refuge i
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and recommendations of the Naval tyres to all Sanitary Department
As a result of the investigations lorry, and for the fitting of solid one Cable Jointer and one Fore- and until these are completed no new scheme of any magnitude can When considering the staff of be contemplated except from Loan Malaria Preventive Officer, Singa- lorries. Owing to the nature of the Public Works Department it Funds. A very long list of urgent pore, who visited Hongkong, in their work, the use of pneumatic should be remembered that to the public works was very carefully A European Sub-Officer is sub-Sanitary Departments, it has been mical.
conjunction with the Medical and tyres has been found unecono- $2,467,164 provided for expendi- considered, but as Honourable stituted for an Inspection Officer: decided that the only really effec-! Additional posts are one Class IV This will mean a slight saving as tive way, and at the same time. Clerk for the Malarial Research the salary of the former is loss the most economical way, of tack-There is an increase of nine gar-pended next year from Loan Funds up practically the whole of our Officer, to whom I will refer when dealing with the Medical Depart-
Clothing has been increased by Colony is to appoint a specially quired to look after the extensive ty's
ling the malaria problem in the deners, six of whom will be re- and funds provided by His Majes-available balances and we cannot
and the all of which are ment and Tour Class VI Clerks for $3,500. The present material used trained malarial research officer, fawns surrounding the Kowloon Schemes, the Harbour Dredging out funds.
Government on the Water undertake further liabilities with-
Education and Prisons Depart- ments.
Treasury.
ture we have felt justified in rais- ing some of our survey fees to bring in an additional sum www.timated at $32,000. The matter is nf sucli interest and importance that a sessional paper has been
The post of Assistant Crown So- prepared and laid before Honour-licitor for this office is for
able Members to-day, fully
EX-
plaining the proposals and I trust justifying both the expenditure ...and the increase of the fees.
Fakat
The New Loan.
the present in abeyance.
than that of the latter.
posed to purchase "Wet Proof" puterial from England. This should prove much more durable, and so more economical in the long run.
to investigate and advise on the work to be undertaken.
Botanical and Forestry.
propagating department and one for the General Civil Hospital.
Education Department.
At present we are without
ture under Public Works Extraor- Members will see from the figures dinary must be added a sum estim- placed before them the services ated at over $2,000,000 to be ex-we have provided for have used
being carried out under the super-| vision of the existing Public Works Staff.
King's College which is being used An As-
sistant Crown Solicitor has been at last year and has done very good the Treasury since November of
work in getting the system into working order, and it is hoped that next year it will be possible for an Before leaving revenue I should Assistant Crown Solicitor from the like to make a few remarks con-
Crown Solicitor's Office spending cerning the loan which it is pro-half his time at the Treasury to posed shortly to float in Hongkong. Cope with the work. and the works which it is proposed necessary in more flourishing times It may be to finance from it. The total to consider the restoration of this amount of the loan is to be post. $5,000,000 at 6%. Of this total
$3,500,000 is provisionally allocat-
ed for water works of which the
Post Office.
"Shing Mun Scheme is likely to The increase due almost entirely absorb just over $3,100,000 accord to the transfer of provision for the wing to the latest figures. I have clerical staff from Head 4-Junior
Clerical Service.'
available. $1,000,000 is provision- "ally allocated, for the Harbour
Dredging and the Colony's share
of the Kai Tak Aerodrome and the
Imports and Exports Dept. Under personal emoluments pro-
$10,500 has been inserted for the purchase of a light motor pump to replace a worn out machine.
Attorney General.
On
More Motor Cars,
Under other charges, conveyance
What Must Wait.
It is needless for me to enume rate the many works which have had to stand over apart altogether from large schemes such as the Vehicular Ferry, and the Increased
At present the incidence of ma- larial fever in some parts of the Island and in the New Territories is very high; and it is largely due to the prevalence of malaria that as a military hospital. It is how-allowances show a decrease with the Water Supply which can only be districts such as Taipo, Stanley
ever necessary that provision reduction in staff. Drawing ma- considered in conjunction with a and Shek O have not been develop should be made for staffing it and terials and mounting plans have further loan." . ed as residential areas.
running it in the event of the nam-been reduced by $2,000. Electric There In order to obviate the neces
are Hospitals, Markets, In view of the great progress
ber of troops in the Colony being fans and light have been increased Latrines, Bath Houses, Schools, sity of taking vote in a small department, we of the world in combatting the
a supplementary which is being made in other parts not require King's College.
so reduced next year that they will to $28,000. The whole of the light-Roads, a Police Training School, there would not be sufficient gay-ravages of malaria it is a standing temporary staff who were formerly Works Department,
ing of the new Fire Station build-Police Stations, Public Bathing ings, to pay the salary of the reproach to this Colony that paid from savings on personal em-
Six British mistresses on the ing is to paid for by the Public Beaches, the Kowloon Point Im-
leave, it has been decided that here. In spite of the need for estimates. The teaching staffs of officer acting for an officer
provements, Wireless Directions little improvement has been made oluments are new included in the duced by $3,000, and lifts mainten- which
Incidental expenses have been re- Finders, and many other works where such liability can be fore economy we can
the Government would no longer afford the Vernacular Middle School and
ance has been reduced to $4,000. gladly undertake if they could be seen provision shall be made in to neglect this all. important the Normal School for Women the operators will in future also the burden of taxation. As mat- The Fire Brigade which provides accomplished without increasing the Estimates. There is a cave problem and the first step neces- have been increased by one Eng-pay for the maintenance of the lifts ters stand they must wait until in point in this department. sary is to obtain expert advice on lish teacher at the former, and by in the Fire Station Building. More we have cleared off our commit-
the best way of attaining our end. three lecturers at the latter. Both surveying instruments will be re-ments or until our revenue
The Cost this Year.
these schools are proving very po- quired next year, and the vote has creases. pular and are expanding..
been increased accordingly. increased so as to provide unforms ernment ears not so much will be
Incidental expenses have been With the purchase of more Gov. Kowloon-Canton Railway. for office attendants, messengers. required for the transport and tra-be a considerable increase on this At first sight there appears to recommendations of the Committee $2,000 has been made. Uniforma extra cost in staff, coal, repairs, matter. have been increased so as to pro- etc., resulting from our locomotives
The Police Force.
There is a increase on this Rend
i
in-
of $186,525, of which $128,100 is
I have been much interested to accounted for by two launches, notice since the Estimates were Under personal emoluments pro- printed that this subject has re- remaining $500,000 is unallocated vision is made for one more Euro- vision is made for one more Euro-ceived considerable public atten- and coolies in accordance with the velling vote, and a reduction of head. Actually it is not so. The Colonies has proposed that the Im-quacy of the present staff, which place of one European Lance Ser- ticle on Malaria by a well known The same scale applies for all office vide the office staff, messengers, running through to Canton is over
The Secretary of State for the pean Revenue Officer. The inade-pean Sergeant, who will take the tion as the result of a recent ar-which investigated the perini Government shall bear three does not allow for an officer geant.
Provision is, however, Medical Professor of the Hung- staff throughout the service. Sub- etc., with uniforms in accordance $97,000. This is all to be reco- quarters of the cost of the Aero-"
to be detailed exclusively for made for seven additional Euro-kong University.
heada "Students-in-training" have with the fixed scale. drome and the Colony one quarter, ship searching, has been aggravated pean Lance Sergeants, so that the The annual cost for next year a been reduced with the decrense.in
vered from the Chinese Section, so but the matter has not yet been by the reduction in the period Estimates show one additional estimated at just over $20,000, finally decided by His Majesty's qualifying for home leave from Sergeant and six additional Lance This provides for the Research
number of those students.
Important Radio Scheme.
that the apparent increase of Government. If that proportion 4 to 4 years. Provision has Sergeants.
Officer at $8,000, a European Ins-
$70,000 on this head is converted Grants to Schools, should be adopted the cost to the also been made for granting rent
The motor and eteam rollers will into a decrease of $27,000. This increase has been very pector, six coolies for work in the Golony according to the latest allowances to Chinese Senior Re- carefully considered by the Gov-field, $2,000 for equipment, micro-sidies, Government may under the year, and the vote has been increa-by our locomotives run through to Coming now to grants and sub-require more extensive repairs next The present arrangement where- figures available would be $602,700 venue Officers and 1st Class Re-ernment, and has only been allow-scopes, etc., and $5,000 for field Grant Code make various grantssed to $8,000. A reduction of $2,000 Canton is working very satisfac for Dredging, and $594,500 for Kai venue Officers of ten years ser- ed because Tak, Aerodrome, and it will be vice on
the Government is works. As the investigations pro- to non-Government schools whch has been made on upkeep of quarry torily. It is very gratifying to the same ...necessary to draw on the unalloc grunts to Chinese Sergeant Majors of the seven is required for the in subsequent years to increase buildings, the number of pupils next year it is proposed to install to the mutual benefit of both. I basis as the satisfied that it is necessary. One coed it will probably be necessary full certain conditions as regards plant. The Radio Telegraph Branch see the two sections of this rall- ated funds of the loan to the ex- and 1st Class Constables respec- finger print and photography de- the amount
has been steadily expanding, and way co-operating so harmoniously irbent of $197,200,
provided for field entered for various examinations, It is proposed to raise $3,000,000
partment, for which at present works.
etc. It has been the polley in the
a short wave transmitter and reis to be hoped that this spirit of of the total loan in November next.
Control of Distilleries.
only one officer can be spared; the.
Health Office'
past for schools to regard, these ceiver which will enable commercial mutual help will extend to other Changes, While dealing with loan works I
work is very much on the increase,
grants as almost automatic.
messages to and from the United activities. As a result of the re $3,000 has been inserted under and extra assistance is urgently would observe that it had been in Special Expenditure for the pur-required. One is needed for duty in Medical Officer of Health and to these Increasing demands on the
It has been decided that the is however necessary to fix a limit Kingdom and possibly other coun- numption of through-traffic, re-
tries to be handled. tended to issue in time for to-day's chase of a motor car: This is re- the Pass Office to assist in keep the Assistant Medical Officers
It is anticipated that this will
ceipts have gone up, a meeting seesional papers on the
public purse.
Apart from the increases just Uhhhrepoked Aberdeen Reservoir, on quired in.connection with the con- ing-track of and rounding up un-of Health should more. properly considers equitable are provided in revenue, as well as effecting a sav of importance under either. Per Such suma as the Government bring in a considerable amount of referred to there are no alterations trol of distilleries, the Vehicular Ferry Scheme and on
At present desirable aliens. the New General Civil Hospital the train and motor bua have to
the Estimates, and it will be the Of the remaining five, two are der the Sanitary Department Est!-auty of school managers so to re- Provision is made for the necessary Charges,
Government messages. sonal Emoluments or Other it Scheme, but our Engineers were be relied on, which involves much required for street duty in the mates, though they will remain gulate their brrangements, in con- apparatus under special expendi very fully occupied earlier in the waste of time. A motor cycle and Mongkok District, and three for seconded to the latter department. sulation with the Director of Edu- ture, and with more apparatus it year with work for the Military in side car would not be suitable as the Kowloon City District, which Provision has been made for one cation, that their requirements can subhend, repairs, stores, and cur- connexion with the arrival of that it will be necessary to transport embraces Kowloon Tong.
will be necessary, to increase the Both more Assistant Medical Officer of be met from the sums provided. Tart of the Shanghai Defence Force one European and two Chinese Re- these districts are" expanding Health. He will be required for Unauthorized expansion involving which is stationed here, and it has venue Officers, as well as bulky rapidly, and it is necessary that work in rural districts both on the claims beyond the amounts provid-made for an additional receiver to
Provision has also been tain improve the reception of Rugby
tively in the Police Force.
appear under the Medicul than un-
It
ing оп
rent..
Fanling-Shataukok.
It is necessary to replace cer- of the workshop machines, (Continued on Page 11.)
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