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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1936.
Labour Gains Another Seat
CLOSE BY-ELECTION STRUGGLE
London, Mar. 19. That by-election at Dumbartons shire, conséquent on the appointment of Commander the Hon. A. D. Cochrane, former Conservative mem- ber, as Governor of Burma, has resulted in a Labour gain.
The result of the polling was declared-to-day as follows:
Mr. T, Cansells (Lab.) Mr. A. Duffes (Con)) Mr. R. Gray (Scot. Nat.).
COST OF CIVIL SERVICE
OFFICIAL REPLIES TO CRITICS
ASSURANCE BY
GOVERNOR
Lengthy official replies were given in the Legislative Counell yesterday afternoon to the Hon. M. K. Lo's mo tion criticising the high cost of Gov- ornment and calling for retrenchment. 20,187. The Hon. Dr. Wellington dealt with 19,205 various medical matters, and the Hon. 2,699. Sir Thomas Southern covered all as- pects of the question, contending that 982 the cost of administration in Hong At the General Election, Comman-kong compared favourably with that der Cochrane had a majority of 4,007 in other Colonies. over Mr. Cassells, the Labour can- didate, who polled 20,070 votes.-- Router Special
Lab. Majority
HONGKONG TRADE
EXHIBITION
MRS. THOMPSON GIVES ADDRESS
London. Mar. 19.
GOVERNOR'S SPEECH
|LOCAL ARCHITECT
RETIRING
for
MR. A.G. HEWLITT TO LEAVE FOR HOME
Honglong will be losing another of its well-known residents to-morrow, when Mr. A. G. Hewitt, F.R.I.BA., architect and civil engineer, will leave
England on retirement
by the P. and 0. Iiner Corfs, thus sovering an association with the Colony which twenty-six years. over has lasted for
Mr. Howlitt started his professional carear when he was articled with Mr.
of John Lewis Holmes, F.R.I.B.A., London and on completion of this arti cles he joined H.M. Office of Works in Whitehall as an architectural assist
ter, he secured Any nnt. Four years later, appointment in the Civil Engineere Department of the Admiralty. Department of the Admiralty, serving for seven years. He was then trans- ferred to London, where he remained for two and a
half years, after which stayed for four years. Whilst there he war appointed to Malta, where he he was engaged principally on the breakwaters at the entrance to the Grand Harbour. Returning to Eng land, he was in 1909 appolated to the Civil Engineers' Department of the Hongkong Naval Yard,
nt
HE. the Governor: I want to w thank the Honourable Member who proposed this Resolution for a most usefully critical speech. If his par Licular points could not have beca met to the very full extent that they have been met by my Honourable colleague, the Colonial Secretary, it the authorities who framed our past would of course have signified that budgets and the Councillors who turned to England and again served Five years later, Mr. Hewlitt re- passed them were either negligent, Incapable or improvident. Happily at Portmouth, but shortly afterwards for their reputation and for the he came back to Hongkong and set Colony's well-being the picture is not up in private practice. About eight in fact so black at the Honourable years later, he was joined in partner-
II. M. Siu, B.Sc., one Member has painted it. Its gloomy ship
but, some years was dissolved
The forthcoming British Trade Expedition in Hongkong, and British trade opportunities in South China, were the subject of an address given tones, I am boki to believe, are part his d
Thompson at a by Mrs. Beatrice meeting in the House of Commons of the China Committee, presided over by the Earl of Winterton.
And largely the shadows of the Inter the inued the prae-
Mrs.
Thompson said British manu- facturers had now engaged half the total space reserved for Britain nt the Exhibition. The rest of the space would be allotted to Australian, New Zealand and Canadian exhibitora.- Reuter,
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tice under his own name. He has now disposed of the practice to Mr. Fung Taun, A.R.L.B.A.. F.I.BA., who is carrying on the business under its
dark clouds of a passing depression. and Mr. Hewitt
But the pragmatic value of critic ism lies not in the answers given to particular points but in the general reaction which it evokes; and I can assure this Council that the Governoriginal name. ment will, so lorig at any rate an I am associated with it, react to Mr. Lo's two main points: firstly, that stalt must be kept at the minimum compatible with officiency; second, that the percentage of local recruits must be kept at the maximum so compatible.
During his residence in the Colony, Mr. Howlitt has been responsible for the construction of buildings, includ Ing many blocks of flats and business premises, in which connection men- tion may be made of the Club Lusi- Long and the Nanyang Bros, tobneco Coming from the Straits Settle-faelory at Wanchat. He was also ments I am already accustomed to nrebited for the Wesleyan College nt find in the Unofficial Members 90 Fathan and for numerous buildings Finance Committee the trusty watch-
on the Bund at Canton, degs of the tax-payer; this is an im- portant function and none the less salutary because they may occa- sionally be found barking up the wrong tree. But the mover of this resolution, in his two main points, is undoubtedly on the right scent and one that I have been following my
self.
A prominent Freemason, Mr. Iw litt is a Past Master of Victoris Lodge, a member of Victorin Precep tory, and Past District Grand Deacon of the District Grand Lodge of Hong- kong and South China. He has also been n member of the Hongkong Club, the Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Inter-Colonial comparisons Ato the Kowloon Cricket Club and the dificult. Variations in Exchange Victoria Recreation Club, whilst in rate here, and the complexities of his early days in the Colony he was Municipal, Rural Board, Education member of the Cominitice of the now Board and Hospital Board finance in
am Tennis Club. Of a Wigwam the Straits Settlements, make a com- parison between the two Far Eastern most genial disposition. Mr. Hewitt
has wan
much
with But
popularity Colonica particularly difficult.
large circle of
who will wish friends, my calculation is
is correct that the rim and MYE. Howlitt many years of Straite Settlements salaries bill, health and happiness in the Old Coun- exclusive of pensions and allowances, try. According to present Intentions, 40% of their 1936 budget and 50% Mr. and Mrs. Howlitt hope to settle of their annually recurrant expendi- down in Bournemouth. ture, I should tell you also that their mounting pensions llability has been a matter of increasing concern to
their Legislative Council, and that N.Y. MARKET ON
the ear-marking out of general sur plus of a Pensions Reserve Fund has been recently mooted.
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While therefore f ́am not prepared to subscribe to the letter of this motion I have a grateful sympathy with its spirit, and I will say now on behalf of the Government that no varant Pithout
on the
exablishment will be filled
the possi- upward to-day with the easier poll- THE goddess of spRING"—SILLY SYMPHONY IN COLOUR. bility of its rotrenchment and that no tical situation in Europe influencing officer will be
be engaged from overseas the trend. without first examining the pouni- bility of
a local recruitment.
In the latter connection, however, desire to refer to one passage in the Colonial
Secretary's speech, tha PASSEgo in
in which he told us
Chinese
that
Automobilo issues advanced on in- creased sales during the month of March.
Copper and building issues and hat farm implements also advanced. Raila' were firm but dull. Utilkles were mixed and eased with late trading.
Oil insuca were stronger on favour. able earninga reporta.
University-trained
expect salarles equal to those drawn by European officers. That, surely, is an unreasonable expectation. European officers have to endure and to finance
climatically enforced Acparations from their familles, and it is an accepted and uncriticised principle in Malaya that at least 25% of their salaries
representa An oversens allowance. I feel mure that the principle will prove equally acceptable hero when people have had time to think it over.
The Bond Market was firm and issues on the Curb Exchange were upward.-United Press.
THREAT TO INDUSTRY
New York, March 10, Mr. Joseph E. Pogue, the eminent economist and expert on the economica of the petroleum industry, to-day sald that the low winter gasoline consump- The Honourable, the Senior Un- tion had resulted in their being 0,000,- oficial Member who seconded the 000 more barrels on hand than there motion has been given, in answer to
were in 1934, which constituted the his remarks regarding Government's
chief threat to the oil industry- refusal last autumn to fix exchange United Press. forward for its sterling Commitments this year, the very reply that he hoped would not be given. That is
because it is the true and only possible reply. I was not here at the titric, but I have read the correspon- dence and from it emergen vory plainly the dilemma in which Govern- ment found itself. It was on the оло
hand, as the Honourable Member
NEW CABINET APPOINTEE
expressed it, the trustee of the tax-|MR. T.J. O'CONNOR, K.C.
payer; and it was on the other tho keeper of the public conselence.
MORAL PRINCIPLES ·
GIVEN POST`
London, Mar. 19. Mr. Terence James O'Connor, K.C., Conservative M.P. for Central Nottingham, has been appointed Solicitor General, replacing Sir David Somervell, who has succeeded Sir Thomas Inskip us Attorney General.
Rostor.
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The fact that the advice for fixing exchango forward was tenderod un- animously by the Unofficial Members of this Council was proof enough that the proposal was not morally inde- fensible. But there are matters in which a Government should not allow Itself to be placed in a position where
London, Mar. 19. Dadofence of its morality may be oven called for. For Government to have Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Prime fixed exchange forward with an Minister, announced in the House of exclusive foreknowledge of relevant Commons that Sir Thomas Inskip's future events to be brought about by salary as Minister for the Co- itsolf might, I consider, have created ordination of Defence will be £5,000
In which situation
ocial per annum-Reuter's Special. scrupuloustosa could have been ques- tioned and questionings of that kind
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might have done the Administration this dobato; if it has, there is hardly greater injury than it would have any riced to proceed to a division. reaped Andncial gain by fixing, ex-L will gladly accedo to the proposer'a change forward.
wish to confer with his colleagues on this matter. (Applause).
. That is all I have; to say on this mation but before putting it to the The motion was, pressed to a divis volo. I would ask the Honourable pro- sion and was defeated by nino voten poser to consider whether bis purposo to six, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga abs- has not been adequately· served by staining from voting:"
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