THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1936.
COLONY FACING RECORD
ON GOVT. PENSIONS THIS
Body of Chinese
Carpenter Coming
One-Fifteenth of Total
POLICEMAN WHO
Home in Casket RETIRED FOR
Vancouver, May 10.
The body of the Chinese second carpenter of the S.S. Talthybius is on board the vessel here in a Kenled leaden casket, which will be delivered to relatives in China for burial when the ship next calls nt | Hongkong. He died from bronchi- al pneumonia while the ship was on her way here.
The Talthyblus rough weather neross
Orlent.
experienced!
PARINGA TRAGEDY ECHO
from the
VINCAS DUE SOON THE last chapter in the story of A maritime tragedy off the coast of
HEALTH REASONS IN 1889!
"Telegraph" Special Correspondent
EXPENDITURE
YEAR
Revenue Required
As a result of the low rate of exchange of the Hong- kong dollar with sterling, Hongkong may be faced with a record supplementary expenditure for Pensions when the Supplementary Estimates are introduced in Legislative Council next month.
Basing the rate of exchange against sterling at 1s. 8d. Government, in its Estimates of Expenditure for 1935-36, allowed only $1,810,000 for payment of all Pensions, as compared with $2,070,000 in 1934-35, when the rate of exchange was based at 1s. 4d.
Hongkong dollar commenced to fall, and the major portion of Almost imnicdiately after the Estimates were introduced, the Government's commitments will have to be met at a rate of exchange even lower than 1934-35. .
£
+
Government contributions to-ment,
Civil Service pensioners wards pensions are payable under drawing over £400 per annum are: Australia which cost the juree headings. Last year it cost lives of three Hongkong the Colony $1,250,000 for Civil
400 C. H. Gale, 2nd Asst. Director, Pensions, Retiring Allowances and officers will be told at the Gratuities: $320,000 for Police Pen-
P.W.D. end of the month when the slous and $240,000 for Widows and steamer Kawatiri arrives Orphans' Pensions,
here from Melbourne..
The Kawatiri, which was owned by the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, has been sold to Japan, and is com- ing to Hongkong under
the
This year the cost to the people ¡of Hongkong will be higher, since by far the greatest part of the pensions are paid in Sterling,
'MORE NAMES EACH YEAR
Each year more names are added command of Capt. Hari Hara. to the rapidly expanding list of Behind the Kwatiri, on the pensioners. Hongkong, in fact, fs end of a tow-line, will be thejbecoming a Colony of pensioners. tanker Vincas.
Lust December an attempt was made to tow the Vincas to Hongkong und Japan behind the steamer l'aringa.
In a great storm off. Gippsland the tow rope parted and shortly afterwards the Paringa founder- ed,
crew
Last year there were 1,105 people drawing Government pensions, either as retiring members of the Hongkong Civil Service, retired members of the Hongkong Police Department or widows and orphans of ex-members.
Hetween them they are draw. ing over $2,000,000 of the Colony's total annual revenue of $30,000,000.
Aboard her were Captain Allan Macinnes, Chief Officer Stephen Chester Southum and Chief Engineer James G. M. First, there are the Civil Servants Yuill, all of Hongkong, and a who have retired, some through of 22 Chinese, also of Age, others because of 11 Health Hongkong. All were lost. and a few because their Offices Only four Chinese and no ofti-were abolished. They total 320 were aboard the Vineas people and between them they will which nevertheless weathered the draw this year more than $1,450,- storm and minnaked to anchor four 1000. days later in the vicinity of Lakes Entrance.
540 POLICE PENSIONERS
Then there ture, the, retired, ment- There she has beca at anchor bers of the Hongkong Police De until this month, when arrange- partment, 546 of whom are still ments were completed for a low jalive and drawing pensions totalling to the Orient behind this steamer $370,000. The majority retire on Kawatiri.
Expiration of their time of service. Special precautions are being while several have retired through taken by the Japanese captain of ill-health. Half a dozen or so have the Kawatiri to prevent a repeti-retired as a result of receiving in- tion of the disaster that endedjuries on duty.
sea.
416.Capt. Basil Taylor, Harbour
Minster,
520 G. II. Wakeman,
110 Mr. F. J. Keyt, Part Health
Offcer
1,118 Sie William Reen Davies, Chief
Justice,
408 Mr. D. Wood, Supt. of Accounts, 100 Mr. E. A. de Carvalho, Cashier, 807 Mr. E. A. Irving, Director of
Education,
460 Mr. Isidore Xavier,
452 Mr. B. Tanner, licadmaster,
NEW FERRY LAUNCHED
His Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, smashing bottle of champagne on the bows of the new vehicular ferry Man
Gok launched at Kowloon Dock yesterday.
CHINESE ART TREASURES ARRIVE TO-MORROW MORNING
EXCITING VOYAGE FOR RANPURA
Many prominent passengers, are aboard the P. & 0. liner Ranpura, which arrives in the Colony, at daybreak
650 Mr.
Mr. G. N. Orme, Director of to-morrow from England. Education,
520
H. Kerr, Asst. Supt. of
J. Poller, 718 Mr. A. I. Hollingsworth, Asst. 576 Mr. C. W. MeKenny, Radio-
logist,
D.P.W.
168 "H. A. Nisbet, Registrar,
Supreme Court,
831 Mr. A. E. Wright, Asst. D.P.W.
908 Mr. E. Halphs, Inspr. English
Schoola.
789 Mr. A. H. Crook, Headmaster,
Queen's College,
475 Mr. P. J. Julyan, Clerical Staff, 89 Mr. H. R. Phelips, Auditor, 483 Mr. S. J. Clarke, I. & E. Dept, H. C. Gollan, Chief Justice, 540 Sir II. 78 Mr. C. A. D. Melbourne, Deputy
Registrar,
678 Mr. Walter Kept, Asst. Supt.
Police, 1.268 Mr. C. Mel. Messer, Colonial
Treasurer,
868 Mr. L. C. Parker Rees, Public
Works Dept., 1,060 ME. W Carpenter, Asst.
Director, P.W.D., 1,000 Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse. Div.
602 Mr. H. D.
D. Goldsmith,
Supt. Police, 651 Mr. T. F. Claxton, Director
Royal Observatory, 1,400 Sir J. H. Kemp, Chief Justice, 1,150 Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Secretary
for Chinese Affairs.
The list includes three former Chief former former
They include the members of the Mui-Tsai Commis- sion, appointed by the Home Government to conduct an inquiry into "child slavery" in Hongkong.
But all of the passengers are overshadowed by the cargo aboard the liner.
It is probably the richest cargo ever to be brought to the Colony. Nominally valued at £10,000,000 sterling, its actual value cannot be computed.
The cargo comprises the Chi- ; nese art treasures which were seen by 420,000 London people during an exhibition at Burling- ton House between November 28 and March 7.
exhibition
The section of the now aboard the Rampura was the nucleus of the whole exhibition, and represented the most valuable section of it.
RADIO BROADCAST
Studio Recital by Ozo And His Boy Friends
Partly because no insurance such a risk and partly because of company in the world could carry the escort of British naval vessels which have accompanied the Ran- SPECIAL DAVENTRY RELAY purn along the entire route from London to the East, no attempt
From Z. B. W. on a wavelength of
was made to insure the priceless 365 metres (846 kilocycles):
cargo.
the first tow. Two lines each of The last list of pensions, for
4-7 p.m.. Chinese Programme. 150 fathoms of chain and wire are which $240,000 was provided in the Justices of the Colony, two
Although the Kanpura was
7 p.m. A Relay from Daventry, being used, and Caplain Hari Estimates and for which an addi- Directors of Education, a
never in any danger when sho
Big Ben: Quentin Maclean at the Hara intends to keep well out totional $10,000 will probably be re-Colonin! Treasurer, and a former
went aground in the Mediterra Organ of the Trocadero Cinema, jquired when the Supplementary Secretary for Chinese Affairs:
nean on the voyage out, British Elephant and Castle, The voyage to Hongkong, which Estimates come before Legislative
Chinese Authorities were 7.15 p.m. The Three Men Suite" Canineil next month,
In addition, the pensions payable in nevertheless perturbed at the (Eric Coates). the tire
Hongkong dollars Include a former commenced at the beginning of widows' and Orphans' of Civil and Colonial Secretary, Sir J, H. Stewart/ light risk involved, and extra | 7.30 p.m. De Groot and his April, is expected to take two police cficials. These total 215 Lockhart, who retired on a penzion off ordinary measures were taken to Orchestra.
months. When the Kwatiri left Lakes Entrance she appeared to
be making about four knots.
people.
OVER $400 P. A.
and
Samson and Delliah--Selection (Saint-Saens); La Paloma (Yradier); Destiny (Baynes): Waldteufel Me. mories (arr. Finck); Fantasia Scottish Airs (arr. Mulder).
8 p.m. Time, Weather and An-
On
$1,960 p.n. in 1922, a former Director refloat the ship. of the Royal Observatory, Mr. W.
93 STEEL CASES Just as the two vessds were According to the Inst Blue Book Daberch, who retired on a pension of
$1,000 and
former Registrar | The valuable cargo about to leave a storm threatened Issued by the Hongkong Govern-General,
is In 93 and Captain Hari Hara decided
cases in the strong-room of the not to attempt to salvage the
PENSION SINCE 1877
Ranpurn, where the mail is stored, Vincas' old towing line
Before these steel cases were
8.03 p.m. From the Studio. The Government is still paying a stowed away, each was tested to A Recital by Mrs. E. 0. Drake pension of $76.87 per annum to Kair ensure that vibration or sudden (Soprano) accompanied by Nura Singh, an Indian Assistant Worder, jars would not damage the fragile Kania. who retired, owing to ill-health, on contents. October 14, 1892.
anchor, which were bottom of the seu.
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and laft on the
FUTURE OF MANDATES
London, May 12.
The Dominions Secretary assured ja member who questioned him in The Kawatiri, which is 3,127 tons, the House of Commons regarding the la almost three times the size of Dominions and the future of the the ill-fated Paringa. The former mandated territories, that the es- Vessel was hulle at Priestman's (tublished principle of consultation Yards in Sunderland in 1919 and with the Dominion Governments on has been on the New Zealand and questions of foreign policy, would be Australian coast trade since then. fully observed-British Wireless.
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DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
A GOOD MAN IS THE BEST FRIEND, AND Mr. S. H. Langston returned to the TUMEFORE SOONEST TO DE CHOSEN, Colony yesterday by the na. Talma LONGER TO BE. RETAINED, AND INDEED (after a business tour of Malaya and NEVER TO BE PARTED WITH.Jeremy Slam. Taylor.
Mrs. Frank Winfield, of Colombo, The R. A. Sorgeants lead for the youngest daughter of Mrs. Harry nightly whist drive and tombola will Woods, is noong the FRASENKUIS bo hell in the premises of the mess arriving hers by the P. and D. liner on Friday next, commencing at 8.30 Ranpura to-morrow. She is taking a p.m.
round trip to Japan,
nouncements.
Programme
Even had the mishap to the
1. Thank God for a Garden....Del Pensions paid by the Pollee De Ranpura bean serious, it is doubt Riegu; 2. None but the Lonely pariment date even further back. ful whother more than nominal Heart....Tachaikovsky: B. Waltz Une Palice pensioner, Jumal Khan, damage would have been done to Song--"Merrie England"...Edward has been drawing a pension of the art treasures. It is interest German; 4. The Hills..... Frank La 846.50 per annum since January 4, in to note that goods found in Farge: 5. Annie Laurie,...Liza 1877. Be is now 95 years old.
Lehmann. the strong-room of the P. & 0. Robert Clare has been drawing a
8.20 p.m. Violin Solos by Fritz Uner Egypt, which Bank off pension of $120 airco 1879. Torab Ustant in 1922, were quite intact Kreisler. Singh and Pali Singh 'have regularly more than ten years later when 1. Humoreske, Op/101, No. 7.... collected their pensions of $46.50 since
Dvosk; 2. Caprice Viennois...Kreis April 1884, while several pensioners divers went down to her.
ter; 3. Serenade......Zehar; di retired in 1886 and Inter years. Accompanying the cargo aboard Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow.), Kreisler;
the Rampura are two officers of 5. Llobesfroad (Love's. "Joy)........... Beer Singh, who retired on June 10, the Chinese Government, Messrs...Kreisler. 1860 with Medical Certificate to Tang and Chuang, who also went secure his retitement, is still apparent home with the, trensures.
8.40 p.m. A Relay from Daven- ly hale and healthy in 1936, for his
try. annual pension of $128 is regularly
The 93 cases were taken to London Lights. Cut into a slice of collected. Ia age in how 86.
England from Shanghai aboard fe in the
Davised by Cocil Madden. cruiser Suffolk, the British which left China Station for re fit and recommission.
Five widows who still draw pensions under Ordinance No. 16-of-1908 have been paid since before the beginning The forthcoming wedding is ari- "I have a baby two months old at of the twentieth century, while thirty
On the voyage to Hongkong the nounced of Mr. James
Johnston home; I have been told that it has widows have drawn pensions regularly Ranpura has been guarded un- Ferguson, schoolmaster, King's been crying day and night", pleaded for over a quarter of a College, and Miss Phyllis Louise a woman, Tsin Yi, when she appeared
contury. ccasingly since it kert England. Lady Catherine Berkeley, whose The liner was accompanied from Ogilvie Young, of "Marybank,” 18 on remand before Mr. Balfour at the husband; Sir H. J. Berkeley, late the Thames to the Goodwins by Brook Street, Broughty Ferry, Dus Central Mugistracy this morning and
Attorney General of the Colony, the destroyer. Scout, where she dec
pleaded guilty to the possession of died in 1918, is entitled to £231 3,000 heroin pllls. A fine at $1,500 under the Ordinance. But two picked up the destroyer Veteran Two men, Au Kan-an and Lim with the alternative of eight months
widows are drawing still higher for the passage to Malta, t Chow-chi, who were passengers in hard Inbour, was imposed, Arrange-
pensions,uamely, Mrs. car No. 191 which crashed into a ments are to be made for the woman tramway standard about 11. a.m. to fetch her child to go to prison with yesterday, were later admitted to the | her in the event of her being unable Government Civil Hospital suffering to pay the dne. Sub-Inspector from, Injuries.
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