pointed out that the provision of a new
Typhoon Refuge is an improvement in which
all the shipping frequenting the port will
participate for it will not only afford
protection from destruction for the Cargo
Beats and lighters, whether belonging to
shipping firms or to individual Chinese owners, which serve these firms by loading and discharging cargo, but will prevent the delay and
inconvenience caused under existing conditions
by these beats and lighters having to seek
shelter at the first waning of a typhoon
(often a day or two before the actual
necessity for shelter arises) lest they should
be shut out of the inadequate refuge at
Causeway Bay. In these circumstances His
Lordship considers that there is full justification for the imposition of additional
shipping dues.
As regards your suggestion that Light dues should not, as
a matter of principle, be imposed for a purpose unconnected with the provision of lights
absent,
but I am to state that the name of "Light Dues"
has been retained merely as a matter of convenience. It was at first proposed that the new tax
should be levied under the name of "Harbour Dues"
as those principally concerned would
See para &
prefer no change in a nomenclature to which
they were accustomed.
I am also to add that the amount raised from
"Light dues" in recent years has been less
than $80,000 a year. The new tax will
presumably bring in about the same sum and
this appears to his Lordship to be a very
small burden on the gross tonnage of the
shipping which frequents Hong Kong.
23000-11-7.
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$500-11-07
subsequent Paper.
(Subject.)
Institute
to investigate the life-history of
The
worm,
Opisthorchis (Distomum) Sinensis.
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(Minutes.)
B. Keith
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Dr. Keith.
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