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THE
HONGKONG
PUBLIC MONEY.
VOTES FOR COUNCIL. COMMITTEE TO-DAY.'
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1932.
Votes to ha recommanded to tho Finance Commitee of the Legin lative Counell tu-day call for a total aum of 358,418, of which the biggest item is $30,000 for water meters in Kowloon. This how- 0W- ever, is only an adjustment of the
that
HONGKONG SNAKES.
MANY VEHÒMOUS SPECIES FOUND LOCALLY.
M.C.L. CHARITIES.
BRIDGE, MAHJONG AND TEA
DANCE....
COMING SHORTLY TO THE QUEEN'S. CAN THERE BE A PERFECT MURDER?
Members of the Medical Society The Victoria and Kowloon
the of
Rongkong University | Branches of the H.KW.G. and Kaloned with great interest to MCL Charities are holding a lecture on "Snakes of Hongkong," bridge (contract and auction) and delivered by Dr. G. A. C. Herklo.8,
a mahjong party on the first floor! yesterday afternoon, and after and a ten dance on the maf mare wards were given the opportunity don of the Hongkong Hotel thy
GUILTRANDS
1931 Estimates. It is explained of examining live and preserved kind permission of the Hongkong LIONEL BARRYMORE'S NEW TRIUMPH.· ́
Bum of $60,000 waa
vas specimens which illustrated approved to supplement P.W.R. navoral of the examples mention. Hongkong Sub-hend Item 3ed by the lecturer.
Thla
Water Account (Meters). was incorrect as only $30,000 should have been voted for Hong- and the balance should have kong been allocated to Kowloon. It is requested that out of the $60,000 voted for Hongkong the sum of $30,000 may be debited na above as the meters are required for Kowloon and Now Kowloon And have been issued accordingly.
Of the balance of $28,418, the aum of $26.333 represents the recent anti-fapauca riota, viz. Postal Censorship .... Hire of lorries Expanded metal guards to certain Police Stationя
Sundry expenses
Allowancos to Polica
Reserve
Allowancen to
to Volunters
Naval
Experature by
Authorities
Expenditure by Military
Authorities
Travelling Expensen far-
elading motor bus and
hire
car
Board and things for guards, meals and re- freshments
Sundry expeten Contingencies
Harlour
or
540
136
♫
Dr. Herklots, in opening bis subject, explained that it was very large one, and that as to was no easy method of telling apart, a venomous anake from
only non-venomous one, it was
specles them- by knowing the
can- selves, and thus avoiding founding
them with
#
· harmless
and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.) an Tuesday, March 8 from 3.30 p.m. to ₫ 30 n.m.
Tables may he booked for bridge and mahjong, for which separate prizes will be awarded. Lady Peel has very kindly con- vented to present the prizes at the concluaton of the function. Tickets $2 each include tea. The Hotel band will play for the ten
varioties, that the problem of dance. recognition could be solved. The aigned by venomous snakes
of
Hongkong
During the afternoon a football. many distinguished
were common to south-onst China, people and presented by Mr. Tang though there might be a great Shiu-kin, will be auctioned. range of variety of harmlons
species in different d'stricts. In
ព
flosh WOR niso
2,095 other parts of the easters tropica be taken out of the snake whilst 62ather venomous species might alrait was alive, and he had watched
occur, and it would be well worth the operation on more than 2,692 the time spent if a doctor from occasion. The
B04 Hongkong, who went to Singapore, learned to recognise the venommis 2,636 species of Malaya in addition.
Snakes Cannot Cry. 2,437
1051
1879
of
One of the recommendations of
appointed the Committee
by Government to engaire into sufficiency
otherwise Government laupelies www one Launch froh the Governme Marian Surveyor's Department should be laid up, and that the number of Conveyanes Allow- ances to Assistant Government Marine Surveyors should 12: increased from six to ten. These allowances are $480 per annum
L
of
eaten.
Tips on Trentment. After making references to the various other varieties of venom. ous snakes found locally, Dr. Herklots said that treatment with a specific anti-venom was the only certain remedy, but none
locally. Mixtures. available
was
for
The Repliilà, said the lecturer, was the highest developed class 7.306 of the cold blooded
vertebrates, and included the crocodiles. Lar- Ues and allies, lizards and snakes, the Colubrine and the Viperine
In describing MOZZIC
thewrongs were prepared in Batavia, 49eullarities of the snake. Dr. Bangkok and Manila.
jr 21 Herklets said that a sunke cannot thought a supply should be kep: rry, or rather that it ennnot shed in Hongkong. $21,683 tears except through its nose, for For emergency treatment he ad- Other Items.
dd s to lowingApply the tears were drained off into Department. Con vryance and Motor allowances darts. The nose was
The pasal cavities along special tourniquet immediately above the well de- wound (not to be left on for more $1600.
veloped and the sense of meil than one hour), then make a deep Was acute. The
was insiston in the wound with a razor tongue? shoudd Pot be, blade and rub in Potassium per- armless nad as it often was, confused with le manganate crystals, and take the Cangs. Chat
Swallowing might take dead sanke to the nearest dartor ::t the doable. Do 1101 ni hours, as it was process getting outside the front. It was alcohol in large quantities. There were several treatment. which the well to remember that a had no hands or pawa with which qualified doctor could carry out nction of adrenalin or pititrin. to force food into its mouth,
Snakes were intelligent, band infections of 'me water thi derrense the permeability of the! most of them were of D moroar disposition and did not enre for blood vessels to encourage clot company, even of other snakes, Bng and to and therefore did not make good caleifying properties of the venom. pets.
The treatment was different for Aferent sankos, so anyone bitten Late Governor's Experience. was strongly advised to take the It was not Tho
most primitive living make to the doctor. family of snakes, the Typhlopidae for him to tell doctors or medical students how to treat snake bites. was fortunately represented in Hongkong, while the Python was
but if he could ever help them in also an Inhabitant. Sir Ceri the Mentification of a specimen he Clementi, late Governor of the would be delighted to be of nasis- Coleny, once told him that Shek O. he saw a python that had swallowed a deer.
To pay these four additional allowances for the perind 18,32 to 31.12.32 the sum of $1,000 1 required.
The immediate saving in a fall year from the laying up of the launch will to $5,363,
L Is proposed to review the position after twelve months.
Harbour Deparment Special Expenditure, New Water Bont for Tai © Statkan $375.
The Tai O Station Water Boat, built in 1927 bucamo unservice- able early last year. An old con- fiscated
saman was sent out in its place.. and that has HOW become serviceable.
occur
snak
nt
lance,
counteract the de-
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The dortor made reference to the eight non-venomous species of Colubrine which
forally. and added there
were othera which were not so common. The The estimated cost of a new
rest of the sankes he would men- hoat required for that Station is
For generations famous physicians tion were venomous, and included and special's in respiratory direnses $375 for which : application is no
the Naja Cobra, which was come have grappled with the problem submitted. This expenditure was
mon in Hongkong and the New
whereby a natural healing agent approved in 1991. P.M. 13. Item
the Territories. He had secured could be conveyed direct into 112 of 1931 but too late for the
Prak. lung At last, in the discovery and work to be carried out before the specimens from Victorin end of the financial year.
High West, Aberdeen, Stanley perfection of the remedy known Public Works Extraordinary Peninsula, Stonecutters Islandi. PEPS. the problem is solved. Peps are unique in that they are a real Kowloon, foot hills and Tal Pa.breatheable treatment in handy tablet Garage. Arbuthnot Road $910. A specimen over three feet in farm. Their eflency in throat, chest
A sum of $6,900 was included
rare in Hongkong. and lung troubles is demonstrated by in the 1931 Estimates (L31.ngth was
cobras were SH24) for
the world-wide demand for Pops. this
AnGenerally, young work.
The healing and germicidal, pro amendment in the design was much more savage than the adult
the
In-perties in Peps are highly volatile and N&OR being made which raised the tender to $5.850. The work was com-experienced, while the older ones very tabl is separately sealed in a silver Jacket. When stripped of this menced in October but could not knew it was wise to move away preserving wrapper and dissolved in be completed by the end of the from man. The local name was the mouth, Peps release the volatile year. It is now practically com- Farn Turn Tau. meaning theufs they contain in the form of fumes. pleted and a vote is requested 14 head of a wooden rice spoon, and Mixing with the inspired air, these carried with the meet the final accounts and reten- was a snake well known to the Peps fumes are tion money.
Chinese who valued te gall breath through the bronchials direct into the lunga, Liquid mixtures highly. The gall bladder must
swallowed Into the stomach touch the real trouble.
young
astaraly handienoned bv the absence of a writer with the special qualifications for this work.
necessary
Rever
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs: 1. Personal Emoluments. Salary of Chinese Writer for 1932 $1,500. The post of Chinese Writer in the S.C.A. was left unfilled after The retirement on pension of Mr. Lau Pak-tun on 11.3.30, and r provision for Alling the post was The officer for whose appoint-system. For coughs, colds, chills made in the 1932 Estimates as it ment financial provision is now was thought that suitable depart-sought will in addition to hisor enrly-morning cough, etc., Peps mental arrangements could be datice as writer share in the work made.
of press censorship, thus effect- Ing the retrenchment of one of the censors hitherto employed.
It has been found, however. that the work of the S.C.A. is
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