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The Attomey-General moved the second reading of the
Bill intituled, "An Ordinance to regulate Ferries." In
doing so he said The object of the Bill is to take powers
to regulate the ferries of the Colony generally, other than
the present service of the Star Ferry Company, Ltd., which depended upon certain contracts between the Government and
the Company and was sufficiently regulated already. At the
apart from the Star Ferry Company there was present time
no power to regulate the ferries either with regard to accommodation, size of launches, time-tables or any of the
other various points on which a public service like a ferry
should be subject to some control. The object of the Bill
is not to secure revenue but the interests of the travelling
public. Certain draft regulations were published in the
same Gazette with the Bill, dealing with ferries between Victoria and Yaumati, Mong Kok Tsui and Sham Shui Po, and it is proposed at the moment only to deal with these particular
ferries. The regulations, however, were merely tentative and were published with the object of exciting discussion
and not as a final draft. It is not proposed on the passing
of this Ordinance to make those regulations, but it is intend-
ed that they should have full consideration and not be passed
until everyone, who has anything to say upon them, has been
heard. It is intended, I believe, to appoint a small
Committee on which unofficial members shall be represented,
if they will accept membership, and to hand over to that
Committee the consideration, ab initio, of the whole of the
regulations to be made under the Ordinance.
The Colonial Secretary seconded,
Hon.Mr.P.K.Holyoak May I ask whether these regulations
will involve putting these ferries up to tender?
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