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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
PRESENT:--
29TH JUNE, 1916.
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR - GENERAL F VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).
HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and this was agreed to.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on Committee, No. 3, and moved that it be the table report of proceedings of Finance
adopted.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second-
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney-ed, and this was agreed to. General).
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial
Treasurer).
Honorarium
Regarding financial minute 13, the
HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Seere | recommendation of an honorarium of tary for Chinese Affairs).
HON. MR. W. CHATHAM, C. M. G. (Director of Public Works).
£200 to Mr. F. Browne, late Government Analyst,
HIS EXCELLENCY said- -Council are
HON. MR. C. Mcl. MESSER (Captain asked to vote £200 as an honorarium to Superintendent of Police).
HON. MR. WEI YUK, C. M. G.
HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.
HON. MR. E. SHELLIM.
Jos. MR. D. LANDALE.
HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK.
HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK.
Mr. Frank Browne, late Government Analyst, who retired on account of ill- health. Mr. Browne was a very valued pub- lic servant, and was one of those who never spared himself. In 1897 he recommended to the Government that the laboratory should be opened for the use of the public on payment of fees, and that re- commendation has had far-reaching
MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of effects. Signed certificates by the Gov Councils).
Minutes
The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed.
Papers
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H. E. the Governor, laid on the table the annual report of the Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs, for the year 1915. •
Financial Minutes
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H. E. the Governor, laid on the table financial minutes Nos. 13 to 15, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.
ernment Analyst for the analyses of ores are received all over the world as a valid certificate of the quality of the ore, and the Colonial Government incidentally reaped last year no less than $16,000. It is not possible to increase the pension of an officer for the services I have indicat- ed, but I think it would be a graceful tribute to his efficiency and utility if the Council voted him the sum mentioned in the financial minute.
HON. MR. POLLOCK --I have not re- ceived a copy
of financial minute 14, relating to the vote of $5,000 on account of the Kowloon-Canton railway.
His EXCELLENCY- That has been withdrawn. The amount is on account of typhoon damage, and the full extent of the damage has not yet been arrived at,
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Hon, Mr. Holyoak and Enemy Trade-Marks
gave MR. P. H. HOLYOAK Hox. notice that at the next meeting of the
move Council he will
the following
· resolution:—
Dow on
That it is expedient that all trade marks belonging to alien enemies and the Register here should be expunged, and it is therefore resolved that they be struck off the Register forthwith, and that subsequently to such trade-marks being struck off the Regis ter, that Section 19 of the Trade-marks Ordinance of 1909 be amended by providing that no trade-mark shall be registered. at any future period, which is identical with, or so closely resembles, as to be calculated to deceive, one which
has been so struck off and that:-
Section 3 of the Merchandise Marks Ordinance of 1890' be amended so as to make it an offence under that Ordinance to imitate or apply to goods any trade- mark identical with, or so nearly resem- bling as to be calculated to deceive, a trade-mark which has been so struck off."
Nursing Staff at Government Civil Hospital
HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.. ,asked:
(1)-How many Sisters are there now on the Nursing Staff at the Government Civil Hospital? What is the number of Sisters
on such Staff borne on
the Estimates for 1916?
(2.) What steps is the Government taking to remedy the deficiency in num 'bers in such Staff of Sisters, and when will such steps result in such deficiency being remedied?
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY replied as follows:-
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There are now on the Nursing Staff at the Civil Hospital one Matron and five Sisters; and two Sisters, Private Nursing Staff, assist at that hospital when their services are not required for private nursing.
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2.--Under the heading Civil Hos- pital "in the Estimates for 1916 provi- sion is made for seven Sisters and for
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two Sisters, Private Nursing Staff. This provision includes Sisters who would in the normal course be absent on leave. Two Sisters are at the present time absent on leave and it may be found necessary to invalid one of these from the Service.
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3. It is assumed that the hon. mem- ber's second question is intended to re- for to the Staff of Sisters under the Provi- Medical Department generally. sion is made in the estimates for fourteen Sisters, exclusive of two Sisters, Private Nursing Staff, and there are at the pre-
sent time five vacancies, if allowance is made for the retirement of the Sister who is now absent on sick leave,
As a temporary measure this Govern- ment now employs, to make up for vacan- cies on the usual staff, one fully trained European Nurse, one probationer Nurse. one Japanese Nurse, one Chinese Nurse trained in a hospital managed on Euro- pean principles, and two Volunteer Aid Detachment Nurses.
This Government has on several occa- sions made urgent representations to the Secretary of State for the Colonies re- garding the necessity for filling the vacancies on the Staff of Sisters. A tele- gram was received in October last to the effect that there was no immediate pro- spect of obtaining a suitable candidate; and in a further telegram dated the 8th January Mr. Bonar Law stated that the Colonial Nursing Association were un- able to say when they would be in a posi- tion to recommend candidates.
Application was thereupon made to the Government of New Zealand, who in due course replied by telegram regretting that, owing to the scarcity of trained Nurses, due to the large number on active service, it was not possible to spare any for Hongkong.
Enquiries were also made in India, Japan, Shanghai, and Tientsin. Nego- tiations were opened three months ago for the engagement of five trained Nurses from Japan, and three of these are due to arrive in the Colony very shortly, their passage money having already been re- mitted for the purpose. Enquiries received from India point to the proba- bility that Nurses may be forthcoming from that country at the commencement of 1917; if there should then be vacancies.