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TAXES TO MEET
H.K. DEFICIT?
(Continued from Paga 1.)
to the proposed Aviation Meteorol gical. Omeer for the Government Observatory, and, on the ground of economy, we agree to the proposed Asiatic engagement locally of ten Sanitary Inspectors, to replace ster- ling-paid Officers We approve of the
MOONEY'S APPEAL
CASE CARRIED TO SUPREME COURT
two new postal kiosks and of the im"TRAVESTY OF
proved postal deliveries in outside purts of the Colony, and also of the transmitter short-wave which was recommended by the Economie Commission.
telephone
CITY DEVELOPMENT Under Public Works Department, we agree that in these times of de- pression, it is advisable to retain as
tem many employees as possible on porary basis. In regard to Govers
House and City Development,
·ment we consider that the Government is wise to call a halt for the time being, to a scheme of this expensive nature which originated in more prosperous times.
With reference to the Shing Mun Pam, we note with pleasure the highly. satisfactory progress which has been
enabling some water to be in nded from the first of last month. We
Mr. Glford Hull and congratulate his atst
being so well forward
scheme. with this Shing excellent
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BRITISH CABINET
PREPARED
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(Continued from, pago 1.)
Cerutti, sador, Signor Vittorio Raw M. Pierro Laval, the French Prime Minister, yesterday, with the object of renewing the as- surance that Italy in would take the initiative of offensive in Europe.
no
case
13.
She would maintain a strictly defensive position in the Mediter- ranean if only economic sanctions and financial sanctions
applied.
were
It is stressed here that while Britain has made known that she
Well-In-
Washington, Oct. 2 Tom Mooney's attorneys to-day will take no netion, except col appealed to the Supreme Court oflectively, France la not abandoning
stand. her moderate United States to end this formed sources belleve that sanc travesty of justice."
The Supreme Court of Califor-tions would not be so excessive as to accentuate the international petition said "the Mooney tonsion and that European com- plications in the Mediterranean appeal hearing proves beyond ahndow of doubt that no judicial therefore seem to be avoided.— body exists in California capable Reuter. of hearing such an appeal."
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The attorneys state that the California Supreme Court's de fiance of the state constitution was completed when they refused to hear witnesses assigned to the hearing, leaving the court "with no greater powers than a notary
2NE work
which public."
EDEN REPORTS
London, Oct. 2. At a meeting of the British Cabinet to-day, the Minister for Affairs, Mr. Anthony League Eden, reported fully on the recent events ht Genova und his colleagues endorsed his actions as British
on the representative
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has been done by Dr. R. B. Jackson "As a result we are unable to League Council and its committees and his Staff not only in that weigh-protect our witnesses from misin eonnection bourhood but also in the Peak District
protest pleadings. We
against Ethiopian dispute. which is now more free from this scandalous conduct of this It is not supposed quitoes than it has been for very many
court."
Cabinet concerned itself with the RETURN years past. Also much good anti-
The most serious instance was general policy of the British Gov- inlarlal work has been and is being done in Kowloon Tong, Stanley, Shok when the court refused to hear ernment towards the dispute or O and elsewhere,
one word of the testimony" for the League, since that has been Mooney. It WRA abundantly already laid down and enunciated apparent, any his attorneys, that in the clearest possible terms by it was the intention of the Cali-the Foreign Secretary.
According to present arrange- fornia Supreme Court to find some way to decide against Money.ments Mr. Eden will leave for Genova by train to-morrow and Mooney, convicted in 1916 after should reach Geneva on Friday, of Committee the Preparedness Day, bombings morning. The included in the Estimates
in San Francisco. escaped the Thirteen meets to-morrow to begin gallows but has been unable to consideration of drafis upon which prove his innocence, although wit- experts have been working for the nekses have admitted perjury Inst few days with a view to pre- against him. W. Billings, who paration of the Committee's report was convicted at the same time under Article 15 of the Covenant. for the same offence, has refused |--British Wirclena,
A full report. by Dr. Jackson on anti-malarial measures during 1934 appears on pages 116 to 158 of the Report of the Acting Director of Medient and Sanitary Services for 1914, and induces us to urge that, if possible, More honey should devoted to anti-malarial work than is
present ni. for 1936.
We trust that the forthcoming ermetery extension at Hammer Will will, in the course of the next ten years, enable the Central Cemetery at Kowloon to be released for build ing and other develonment purposes - very neressary step forward in the town-planning of Kowloon.
STRONG PROTEST
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to testify on Mooney's behalf, stating he has been left by Mooney to fend for himself throughout the protracted proceedings.
unbalance drop in the dollar should i the Budget, is a palpable injustice to the taxpayers of this Colony, In such an event, as alrendy stated, the Civil Servants ought solely to hear the barden of such a drop, to the exclusion of the taxpayers, who have already been sufficiently muleted,"
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
ITALIAN TROOPS
+
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The Unofficial Members now pro- ceed to deal with one part of the Colonial Secretary's Budget speech, to which they take the strongest ex-
The
in ception. The passage
question reads na follows:-"in spite of all this, however, the Government would
(Continued from Page 1) be failing in its duty if it did not con- template in advance the steps that
Moussaaliin the province of will have to be taken in 1936 if there
Aussa. The telegram was at once should either be
a sharp drop in the COLOUR REVUE dollar rate or a serious decline in At this point somebody may ask communicated to the Council and As I "Why do the Unofficial Members State members of the League, and revenue or possibly bath, have said, no additional taxation has raise this protest just now, instead of Senor Ruiz Guinnzu, President of been imposed in the existing circum-waiting for the contingency to be the Council, conferred with the stances; but it is as well that a warn- cur?"
Our answer to that, Sir, is that we Secretary General M. Avenol, ing should now be given that this may
Press messages state well- be necessary if the state of the public gather, from the alive-quoted pan-
in the Colonial Secretary's Informed circles in Geneva con- finances in 1930 should show some
is also de "peech, that the Government has nl-sider the turn of events as point- deterioration. serious sirable that a warning should be given Secretary of State on the subject of No collision between Italian and ready been in communication with the ing to the opening of hostilities. that IL temporary levy on all-Gavern- the possible deficit, and that the ment Salaries, both dollars and ster-
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quired in the evil ont arise"
of a contingency vants,
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by cuts in the the Committee of Thirteen has That procedure of the Gov. In London that the. Council, and which we hope
we object to as being un-perhaps the Assembly also, will be Unofficial Whilst the
Kanslitutional. Members
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that the faintly embers of this whether there has been resort to
.are
Aware of cordiosial Secretary that such a
the fact Council will have to determine contingency will not arise, and that Council are in all matters of voling war within the meaning of the Budget for 1938 will not became in a hopeless minority, but surely Covenant. If it is established that unbalanced, we strongly object to any that fact makes it all the more im additional taxation being imposed toperative that they should at least be one or other party has committed meut any such deßcit in our finances, consulted before any definite arrange a breach of Paragraph 1 of Article If it should unfortunately occur.
ment is come to with the Secretary 12 of the Covenant, Article 10 Our contention is that any such de-of State for meeting a possible de would as a consequence become fleit ought to be made good exelusive- ficit in the finances of the Colony by
operative-British Wireless, ly by cuts in the salaries of Civil means of additional taxation.
TROUBLE CLOSE Servants.
(By United Press Correspondent with the Italian Army on the March River front).
that sensational
SALARY FACTS
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In support of this contention
the ours, we beg leave to remind Government of certain facts, which preceded the considerable increase in salaries which came into force on the ucts 1931. These January,
1st. -are:-
It is expected
Boon.
Perhaps we may be told that we Unofficials shall be consulted, if the emergency in question should arise, but what a farce any such consulta tion must be, in view of the parage In the above-quoted speech of Colonial Secretary, In which he developments will occur says: "The Secretary of State has Officers and men are in excellent All difficulties have been already given his sanction to action morale. on these fines" Le. on the lines of part-surmounted: highways, water, ly inecting such a defcit by additional communications, food, labourers, taxation.
all have been found. VALUABLE PRIVILEGES
(1) That the Unofficial Members, In June 1936, very strongly opposed such increases of salaries, and that it In further support of our conten-loaded with machine
I saw hundreds of mules to-day and Kuns was then pointed out by Mr. John tion, that, in the ovent of much o
only Owen Hughes, the then Senior Euro- deficit unfortunately arising, the ammunition. The
thing pean Unullein) Member (see Hansurd taxpayers should not share the burden which can deny the advance in rain, for 1930, at p.77) that, at the ex-
Servants, we
would make it Impossible to change of 1, 10d. such increases of point out that
cross the rivers.-United Press. salaries would result in the Colony (1) Civil Servanta possess the fol- having to pay two million dollars lowing very valuable privileges,
Addis Ababa, Oct. 2. extra for the increases in sterling and namely, pensions, passages for thems dollar salaries.
selves and family, housing or rent
It is learned on unimpenchable privileged rates for medi- authority that Emperor Selassie were free Hansard for 1930 at pages cal
MOBILISATION
(11) That the direct consequences en offence, continuity of employ- will order full mobilisation to-:
ly:--
minute change in plaus.
179 and 177) that the Government ment, safety of employnient and pro-morrow unless there is 4 last were compelled, in under to balance tection against arbitrary dismissal. their Budget for 1931, to impone the (ii) That,
That, as the result of the
pre-
The Government is convinced following additional taxation, name-sent depression, very dre
drastic cuts have already been made in the salaries that the Italians about Assab have of their employees, by (1) An amusement Tax, to produce houses in this Colony, many business occupied Ethiopian soil and for the (That, in minny British aviation bases and building high- (2) Increases in light dues and in Colonies, in order to meet bad times, ways-United Press.
cuts in salaries or in allowances have fees for Government Buoys, und already been thade and are still s in other items of revenue, af- force. fecting shipping, estimated to bring in $304,000.
3 lakhs of dółlara,
sand dollars.
To pass on, we have no doubt that the resklents of this Colony will con-
past week have been establishing
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