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Under miscellaneous services it is pro- posed to make a grant of £50 to the Im- perial Bureau of Mycology which has recently been established. The sum of $1,000 for the Yunnan Scholarship Fund has been approved by the Secretary of State for a period of three years, and approval has been requested to extend this grant for two years more, as the Cham- ber of Commerce and certain of the lead ing firms in the Colony have promised a similar sum.
The amounts subscribed will enable six students to complete a course at the University of Hongkong which will include medicine and engineering. The amount required for rent allowances has been increased by $16,500 as the sum of $30,000, which was roughly estimated on the introduction of the scheme, has been found to be insufficient. The provision of quarters will cause a reduction in this item after next year. The sum of $200,000 for special war allowances to Government officers is the amount required under a scheme which has already been considered by Honourable Members and approved by the Secretary of State.
In the Supreme Court a 2nd grade clerk has taken the place of a 1st grade clerk on the retirement of the latter. Free quarters have been granted to the Assistant Interpreter and the First and Second Bailiffs to place them on the same footing as officers in corresponding posi- tions in other departments. The watchmen have been granted house-allow ances for a similar reason at a cost of $600 a year.
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In the office of Crown Solicitor a 2nd grade clerk has been promoted to 1st grade.
Under special expenditure small sums are provided for furniture and a sum of $1,000 for a set of Law Reports in the office of the Attorney-General.
In the Police Department provision nas been made for a Secretary and Clerk for the Deputy Superintendent, Police Re- serve, who is in urgent need of such assistance. No less than 69 members of the Police Force have gone to join His Majesty's Forces of whom, I regret to say, 9 are reported to have been killed in action. Two Police Officers are still serving under the Government of India.
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In addition to the many duties under- taken by them since the enrolment of the Force, the members of the Police Reserve have for some time been employed in searching passengers' baggage for traband at the various wharves. Proper shelters have been erected to enable this work to be performed under suitable con- ditions, and the Government is very grate. ful for the valuable help rendered in this respect.
Under "Other Charges "the sum pro- vided for repairs to Launches and Boats has been increased by $3,500 to meet the extra cost of materials and labour.
A sum of $18,667 has been entered under special expenditure for the pur- chase of two motor fire-engines and pumps, which it is proposed to obtain from America.
In the District Office a 3rd grade clerk has been added to the Establishment, pro-
In the Medical Department the follow- moted from 4th grade. In the Southern ing changes have to be recorded. A District provision has been made for a
Chinese Accountant and Storekeeper has caretaker for the new market at Tai O, replaced the former European holder of and a small allowance to the Sergeant the post. The post of Staff nurse has been Interpreter as Collector of Market Re abolished, the holder of the post having venue. Under Other Charges, North- been promoted to be a nursing Sister. At ern District a sum of $2,500 is the Lunatic Asylum a European Female
pro- vided for afforestation. It is desired to Attendant has been appointed. The Euro. encourage the people of the New Ter-pean Wardmaster at Kennedy Town Hos- ritories to grow trees on their own behalf, pital has been replaced by a Chinese and this vote will be used towards the com-
Wardmaster, and in place of a tempor- mencement of village plantations, parti-ary Wardmaster a Chinese Wardmaster ticularly of the eucalyptus tree and the has been appointed, the post of temporary indigenous camphor tree, which has Wardmaster being abolished. been a commercial success in Formosa. Scods will also be provided for those who are willing to make use of them. The scheme is intended as a nucleus of larger undertakings which will be much facilitated by the experience thus gained. The allowance for transport in the South- ern District has been raised by $250 owing to the increased cost of launch hire.
A sum of $1,200 has been provided under Public Dispensaries as travelling allow ance to the Supervisor of Midwives, and one more midwife has been appointed in the New Territories. Reductions have been made in the amounts required for the support of lunatics abroad, and for fuel and light, based on the figures of the last three years.
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Special Expenditure" a sum the initial sterling salary of the Head- of $1,500 has been provided for the pre-mistress of the Belilios Public School, as paration of meningococcic serum in ac- it was considered better not to remove cordance with the directions of an ex- her from the Peak School where she is pert from the Rockefeller Institute, New doing excellent work. One Assistant York, a report of whose visit to the Colony Mistress has been added to the staff of will shortly be laid before you.
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In the Sanitary Department six fore-buildings are now required for the school men have received a new scale of salary House allowance of $600 a year on vacat-
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ing the quarters. At Safyingpun English School a Student Teacher, supernumer ary, has been appointed to assist in the teaching of English. One post of Assis- tant Master at Yaumati English School has been raised from Class III. to Class
$480 rising to $780 by $60 annually. in place of a fixed salary of $480, in- volving an increase next year of $338. Under Other Charges the amount re- quired for fuel for Bath-houses has been reduced by 8800 based on the average ex- penditure of the last three years, and the provision for the burial of infected bodies has been reduced to $1,000. Coal for launches is estimated to cost $3,000, re- pairs $3,000, and stores $800, more than this year. Owing to the temporary reduc- tion in the staff a reduction of $3.000 has been made in the vote for uniformis.
Under Special Expenditure sums ag- gregating $1,810 have been provided for new vehicles and a sum of $10,000 for exhumation at the Kailungwan Cemetery.
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The Department has suffered a great loss in the retirement of Mrs. Tutcher from the post of Headmistress of Belilios Public School, Mrs. Tutcher had been connected with the school during the whole of her service, and for twelve years had been Headınistress. She brought the school to a high state of efficiency, and possessed the confidence and respect of posed to make any permanent appoint- both parents and pupils. It is not pro- In the Botanical and Forestry Department to the post at present, though the ment a new post of Foreman has been salary has been provided in the Estimates- created for forestry work in the New Mr. T. K. Dealy-after nearly thirty- Territories, and the votes for forestry four years service, during the last nine and motor-car hire have been increased of which he had been Headmaster of by $1,000 and $180 respectively,
Queen's College-retired from the ser vice in July. He had been connected with the school since the days when it was known as the Government Central The total sum provided for education School, and it is no exaggeration to is $398,958, or $18,556 more than this state that during his service he had had year. Owing to the increase in the num- no small share in the education of most ber of Vernacular Schools in the New of the prominent Chinese gentlemen in Territories it is proposed to have three the Colony for more than a generation, 5th grade Sub-Inspectors in place of one. ¦ including several of the Chinese members From the 1st September next year the first of this Council. three trained Chinese Masters will begin their work, and a sum of $900 is pro- vided for their salaries. There are now six of these masters at the University. the cost of whose education is being defrayed by the Government,
The op- portunity of a change in the Headmaster ship at Queen's College was taken to abolish the post of Assistant Master on a special salary and the allowance of $900 to the Master of the Normal School. No less than seven of the European Mas ters are serving with His Majesty's Forces, and their places have been taken by Lady Teachers. The Student Teachers have been placed on a new scale of salaries, as shown. The Headmistress of the Peak School has been placed on
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Under Special Expenditure provi sion is made for a building grant of $5,500 to the Diocesan Girls School in respect of the new wing recently erected, and the first instalment of $10,000 of a total grant of $20.000 for new buildings to house the Girls' Training Home of the London Missionary Society.
In connection with the Hongkong Defence Corps considerable reductions have been made under the heads "Ammunition and Uniform."
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