First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong
ANNOUNCES A
FREE LECTURE
on
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
ENTITLED:
"CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS,"
By
PETER V. ROSS, C.S.B.
of San Francisco.
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
IN THE
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ANNOUNCING THE ARRIVAL
OF
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EASILY CASHED
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'WITHOUT THEM.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.“ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1933...
·PUBLIC › MONEY
VOTES FON COUNCIL'S FINANCE COMMITTEE
The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council moots to-day, and votes totalling $126,709 will be presented. The largest Item is 31,160 for altering tho water main, drainage, etc., in connexion with the re-development of the City Hall area. Details of the votes are as follow:
Polleo Forco-Expenses of, Anii-
Piracy Guards $0,000. The expandl- ture in 1932 was $27,002.02 and it has sum of $20,000 provided in the Cur- not been possible to reduce it to the rent Estimate Government is re- imbursed for ita expenditure on this servico, by the Companies employing the guards.
Kowloon-Canton Railway.--Locomo- Live Oil $3,000,
|
of the Un Loug Dispensary, combined and 8,178 vaccinations over the figures with an increasing number of patients for the same period of 1932. undor treatment tho $50,000 foto for fuel and light will be insufficient.
ond
Medica!
Department Provisiona for patients $20,000.
The number of pallents admitted to Government Hospitals for the first nine months of this year exceeds the number for the same period of last year by 454.
Too Long a Summer.
י
Office Cleaning. Colonial Secretary's Office Legislature. Cleaning of Offices $21 The cleaning of the offices in the Colonial Secretariat is undertaken by the
Health Servico Intelligence Bureau; owing to the higher conta of Magistracy Hongkong-Electric materials and labour, their charge Fans and Lights. Payment for elec- Was Increased from $118 to 3120 nm. tric current for 2 radiatore, etc. $36. as from April 1 this year.
Medical Department.-Upkeep of This incresso can only be traced as being consequent upon the use of X-Ray apparatus $1,400. this year and the balance in hand at orally greater length of the summer This vote was reduced by $1,800 fans, etc., in Court during the extra hours worked this year, and the gen. present is $540 which in insufficient of the year. to cover expenditure up to the end weather. The rewiring of the build- ing has entailed workmen using the Harbour Department and Air Ser-months, after midnight. Two radia-
lighte
wook-ends.. for two vice-Rent, Light and Water Allow tors are now in use. ances for Slipway Staff $214.
Bonuses to Chinese Employees $845. Miscellaneous Services,-New Year
The increase is due to a larger Proportion of tho establishment qualifying for the bonus by thron
Miscellaneous Services.-Ront Al-
Certain extra staff (2 carpenters, 2 sallmakers and painter) was ap proved the Government Shipway
for With the advent of the new time at Yaumati in the Estimates for 1011 table from September 30, it is esti- but no provision was made for the mated that 11,414 more train miles extra accommodation which has years' service.
to per month onward will bo run. In be provide in the neighbourhood of lowances. Aslatie Subordinate Officers the circumstances the vote for Loco the Slipway. Two flats have
been $5,000. molive Oil will not be adequate.
rented for this purpose at a cont of For the same reason, $84 more is $214. needed for loading coal. $4,000 for Polles Force. Secret Service repairs to locomotives and $2,600 for $4,000, repairs to carringox. Total $0,584.
Sanitary Department Training of Probationora $1,800. Provision for the foos to officers of the Public Works, Medical, and Sanitary De- partments who instruct the class of probationer Asintle Sanitary Inspec- tors instituted In June this year was
not mada in 1933 Estimates,
Police Force.Subsistence of Pri- soners $1,100.
Ticketa $700.
The amount provided in the 1933 Estimates has been expended owing to more rewards being pald.
Much Legislation. MixcottunemK Service.-Printing and Binding Ordinances, Regulations
Reporta $4,000.
and
Afiscellaneous
This vote was under-estimated an more oßilcers havo become eligible and more maximum allowances than were allowances are all on an authorised anticipated have been drawn. The scale. A higher rate is expected for the remainder of the your owing to promotions from December 1.
Card Indexing. Treasury. Special Expendituro. The abnormal amount of new legla. Steel Filing Cabinets and Cupboards
$1,670. lation passet and drafted during the
It has been found Imperative to eard your has caused the vote to be ex-index the assessment (30,000 tene- creded,
ments) so that the Assessor may Service-Printing work independently of the Addresso- graph equipment, the address plates of which cannot be disturbed during the current assessment.
This WAB not foreseen when preparing the current estimates as the Addresso-
in operation
April, graph was put into 1933. The life of the card will
The donciency is due to an increase in the number of prisoners and wit. neksen over that estimated for. for whom meals had to be provided.
and Binding Miscellaneous Papers Education Department-Compensa-
$13,000. tion to Railway for School Children's printing atop for 1933 to date exceeds Although the output of the Prison The amount provided in 1933 Es-the corresponding output of all Pr timates in Insufcient owing
years, the Printing Department increase in the number of New Terri has been unable to meet demands and already job printing, which would teries children who are eligible for ually go to the Gaol, to the amount cheap tickets. This is merely and Inter-departmental book transaction of over $10,000 has had to be placed
with the Government Printers,
to an
Police Officer in Hospital.
Police Force.-Incidental Expenses $1,000.
To pay cost of Medical Treatment
vious
Supreme Court.-Conveyance and Motor Allowance $134.
a
period of ten years and the informin- cover tion noted thereon will be of immense value to the assessor in future gener Water and Rates bills and Entertain-
Owing to the large increase
ment Tax and Betting Duty returns,
of
By reason of exceptional pressure the very limited available storage of work in connexion with distraints accommodation for stationery and and executions an additional (tem-recorda in taxed beyond its capacity for ex-Lance Sergeant, L. McGreavey porary) Balliff was employed from and there cupboards are urgently re- at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich | April 1, 1033, and is still employed. quired. for the period September 29, 1932 to Police Force-Repairs to Police |September 30, 1933.
Motor Cars and Cycles $1,000.
of
There is a saving of over $5,000 under the Special Expenditure Vote
Prikon Department.--Rent
A sum of $1,000 is required for the for the new Cash Register owing to Quarters for Indian Staf $2,000. purchase of a new set of solid tyres more favourable exchange. This ap- Owing to the fact that married off-for the Dennis Police Van and also to plication does not, therefore, involve corn of the Prison Indian Star draw-meet running repaire for Pallee ing rent allowance at the rate of 315 Motor Vehleles up to December 31. any additional expenditure.
Medical Department.Rent Fire Brigade.-Conveyance Allow-Premises for Dispensarles, Garage per month could not obtain suitable. quarters in the vicinity of the Gnolancos $22.
of
it was found necessary to rent a house This rate will be excorded by the and Infant Welfare Centre $96. in Hospital Road for $300 a month sum of $21.04 due to the payment in premises to accommodate the Govern
The excess is due to renting larger no additional quarters for eight faml-1033 of the December, Conveyaneument Dispensary and the, Travelling Allowance for the Superintendent. Dispensary at Un Long In the early Prisons Department.--Photography | Fire Brigade, who returned from long part of this year.
leave in the middle of December,
lier.
$100,
Owing to unforseon increase in the 1932. number of prisoners the amount pro-i vided has proved insufficient.
Govt. House Furniture. Hia Excellency The Governor.--- Furnituro $1,621.
Owing to deterioration of furniture covers at Government House, it has been necessary to purchase covers for 3 rooms. The piano at Government House, which is hired at the rnte uf $300 p.a, can now be purchased for $825 and it la considered to be an economy to make this purchase.
Police ForceBurial of Destitute Dend $200.
Scavenging.
con-
for
Public Works Recurront: Hongkong, Miscellaneous-Malintenance of Fraya Walls and Piers $1,800.
Reconditioning Wharf is considered necessary in of King Shan
ment as a stand-by pier for launches order to permit of its use by Govern- not exceeding 600 tons displacement Flushed Closets,
Education Department-Rent. (Tai Po, Normal School for Women and Normal School at Tai Po) $00.
The Taipo Normal School has been Sanitary Department-Scavenging moved to new and better premises on Gear $800.
October 1 at an increased rental of Owing to the control of public $22 per month. This was not flush latrines and urinals having been templated when the Estimates taken over by the Government (from 1933 were framed. the contractor) this year, additional, stores, such as brooms, brushes and buckets are necessary,
Sanitary Department.-Animal De- and Slaughter-house-Motor pota
feat Vans Running Expenses $2,000.
Owing to a greater number of more expensivo repairs and general over- hauls of meat vans having to be Owing to recent heavy charges the undertaken this year, the expenditure amount of $300 provided in the Es-on this sub-head up to end of Septem timates is exhausted,
ber has amounted to $0,510.10 out of Police Force-Telegrams and longja total vote of $12,500.
Miscellaneous. Mount distance telephone calls $350.
Medical Department-Bonuses to Gough Station-Flush Water Closets Owing to the increased number of Dispensary Licentiates and Clerks for $2,000. telegrams despatched, the vote of vaccination of children and registra.
The introduction of a flush system $1,000 is exhausted.
tion of births $1,000.
was delayed in anticipation of the and The
of births. and early, rebuilding of the Station but success registrati
vaccination of children as this project must be deferred in- Owing to the transference of the under 1 year of ags, at the Chinoso definitely, it is considered necessary Centrul Medical Store to Wanchal, Public Dispensaries In the Colony for from a sanitary point vlow, that the opening of the Venereal Diseases the months of January to August & modern flush system bo installed Clinic at Trim Sha Tsul and wiring | 1933, shows an lucrease of 1,102 births
Medient Department-Fuel
Light $4,500.
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Public Works Extraordinary;
(Continued on Page 12.)
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ING AUN
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