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over them myself, and I thought really I had given him all the information he asked for. He referred to question o. We told him we had got one nurse already on the spot, and another coming--Miss Bone but I am sorry to say she is delayed through having to pass an extra examination. The successor to Miss Gourley was asked for on the 21st January, and the successor to Miss Wilkes, now the wife of our much esteemed chief clerk, was applied for on the 13th February, and I don't think we could have done it much sooner. Regarding question 4, I must say as I read it there is a great misapprehension. member was talking about sisters being liable to be sent to Kennedy Town Hospital,
Nors: The General Officer Command- ing, the Colonial Secretary, the Colonial Treasurer, the Director of Public Works, the Captain Superintendent of Police, the Attorney-General.
The resolution was declared lost.
The hon.
Inoved
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL the first reading of a Bill entitled, "A Ordinance for more effectually prevent in the Publication of Obscene Books. Pictures and other Articles."
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY Bond.
The Objects and Reasons" attached state that the object of this Bill is to introduce into the Colony the provisions of the Obscene Publications Act, England, 20 and 21 Vict, u. 83, which empower Magistrates and Justices of the Peace to sue warrants to search for obscene books, pictures, and other articles, and, after givjag parties who may be interested an opportunity of being heard. to order the destruction of any obscene articles so seized Such a power does not exist in this Colny at present.
Protection of Women and Girls
Ordinance
and of others being liable to be sent outed, and the Bill was read a first fime. private nursing. No such thing. The sisters sent out private nursing are quite separate. I was extremely sorry to hear the peroration of the hon. member in which he accused the Government of treating the questions of unofficial mem- bers in an adverse and hostile spirit. It would pain me very much if I felt that there was any justification for it, but 1 know my hon, friend on the left (the Colonial Secretary) is the personification of politeness, if I may say so, and he is always ready to give any information he can: and as for myself. I think I have always shown myself ready to help unofficial members all I possibly could, but I hate to waste my own time and the time of others, and I think if you leave this matter in the hands of the P.C M.O.,
THE ATTORNEYGENERAL moved the who has had experience at home and in second roading of a Bill entitled, "An East Africa, the hon. member on my left, Ordinance to amend the Protection of who has had experience in the Federated Women and Gigs Ordinance, 1897." In Malay States and the Straits Settlemen's doing so he said-This Bill, Sir, and two where there are very large hospitals, and other Bills which appear on the agenda my humble self, who have had experience for to-day ar rendered necessary by the in the Colony of Fiji, where they have a International Convention on the question medical department which can show of the while slave traffic, which Was Hongkong some points, hon. members entered int at Paris in the year 1910. may rest assured the matter will be The ratification of that convention by properly, sympathetically and adequately Great Britain was deposited in August, dealt with, with due regard to economy, 1912, and this Colony has also declared its
accessing to the convention. That acces sion las upon the Colony an obligation to amend its legislation dealing with the matte to bring it up to the standard set by the provisions of the convention, and
respects with that object in view. In the fit place it raises from 18 years to 20 fe age limit of girls subject to what may called the offence of simple pro- furation without
sacravatina.
HON. MR. POLLOCK-I ask for a division to be taken on this motion.
A vote was then taken, and resulted as this Bill amends the local law in four follows:-
AYES--Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, Hon. Mr. Hawett. Hon. Mr. Shellim, Hon. Mr. Pollock. Hon. Mr. Lau Chü Pak.
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