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HongKong
in elections, I may mention that at the last e lection of two members of the sanitary Board, which was held in June last year at a time when, as the plague
was
raging, it might have been expected that the e-
lectors would have shown some desire to avail them- selves of their right to vote, only 25 members out of an electorate of some five
five hundred
recorded their votes.
The
was
500
The recent strike, which
• practically a rebellion on
the part of the Chinese against sanitary legislation, illustrates how necessary
sessary it is that the power of enforcing such laws should rest with the Govern_
ment and should not be
vested in the hands of
It is almost municipality.
certain that the representatives
of a municipality, who must necessarily have many pri-
vate interests at stake, would
have
e