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THE OFFICIAL REPLIES.
Canton Road.
The Government is not aware of the exact position regarding the roads in Kwangtung to which the honourable member refers, but will cause enquiries to be made.
The
SYMPATHETIC RESPONSE TO DEMANDS linking up of the Colony's road
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OF UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS.
A SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET.
ary said:
Unofficial
system with the system in Kwang- tung when the latter is ready re- quires little more than a bridge over the Shum Chun river and a short length of approach road.
The school children's tickets are issued at cheap rates on the recom- mendation of Headmasters to enable the children of residents in the New Territories to attend schools in Kowloon and Hongkong. The concession seems to have been in existence since 1917 and was, I understand, introduced to enable residents in the New Territories to take advantage for their children of the better educational facilities available in Kowloon
and Hong- kong. The recipients are almost all Chinese children. The Govern- ment pays to the railway the differ- ence between full and reduced
the reply to
The Government has listened criticism, the Hon. Colonial Secret- with pleasure to the Unofficial ap- Sir.-In_rising to reply to the preciation of the importance of the remarks of my honourable Unoffi- ; post of Inspector General of Police, a point which is dealt with more cial friends, I would first like to fully by the Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell. thank them for the
very The salary proposed is, as regards sympathetic reception they have
its maximum, the salary recom- given to the Budget. They have mended by the Salaries Commis- shown a keen appreciation of the sion and the Government does not, Government's difficulties. They at the present juncture, feel justifi- have refrained from destructive
ed in asking for more. The view criticism and have for the most of my Unofficial friends will be of part confined themselves to sug-value to the Government if it gestions for the improvement of should be found possible to bring the commerce and amenities of the the matter up again at a later date. Colony and to justifiable requests for information on points which my already long opening address had failed to cover. I propose to deal The three piracies referred to by possible in the order in which they ships which do not observe the pre- with the various points so far as the hon. member were all of foreign were raised, but where the same cautions recommended locally. point has been raised by different
is admittedly impossible speakers I shall endeavour to give guarantee that a police search be-sampans like to have just enough a combined reply. I shall
fore sailing will always detect and we endeavour to meet their those subjects with which I under-pirates and hidden arms but in stand Your Excellency proposes to spite of that it is by no means a
useless precaution.
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Piracies.
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Causeway Bay.
You are yourself, Sir, dealing with the general question of Har- bour dredging. As regards Cause-
the silting of the typhoon shelter. way Bay, I am informed that suffi- cient dredging is done to prevent
I am
advised that
junks and
water and no more in their shelters
wishes.
The new hangar and slipway at Taking first the remarks of the As regards the Prominent, the western end of the Aerodrome. The Kai Tak will be situated at the senior Unofficial member, the Gov-Police launch was urged to cease ernment notes with keen satisfac-fire by the ship's officers, whose be at that end separated by the Commercial Aviation buildings will tion the appreciation of the services lives were being threatened by the of two of its senior officers now on pirates. The pirates also threaten-length of the Aerodrome from the the eve of retirement.
ed to set fire to the ship if firing
R.A.F. buildings at the eastern end. The Air Force has continued and they tried to ram the
taken Police launch, which was
the maintenance of the Aerodrome on payment of half cost quently forced to draw astern. The Prominent was run ashore and the trusted to make the
by this Government, and can be Police were unable in the darkness safe as it is possible to make it. It surface as
The Ordinances. The Government is aware of the heed for a new edition of the Ordinances and Regulations of the Colony. The matter has already
conse-
under-
been under consideration and it is to prevent the escape of the pirates is proposed to lay down runways at
hoped that before long it may be possible to spare an officer to undertake the work.
The Resident Engineer, Shing Mun Gorge Dam, informs me that he hopes it will be possible to supply a certain amount of water from the new Reservoir during 1936.
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with a certain amount of loot. The presence of the Police launch, how- ever, almost certainly saved pas- prevented the pirates in their haste sengers from being kidnapped and from taking a larger quantity of loot. The conduct of the Police officer in charge was very favour- ably commented on by His Ex- cellency the Naval Commander-in- Chief and the officer was highly
The Government takes note of the hon. member's views regarding a new City Hall, the need for addi-commended by Your Excellency.
tional playgrounds playing fields and Bathing facilities, to some of which other hon. members have also referred, and hopes as opportunity occurs to give due weight to the hon. members recommendations.
an early date.
the honourable member's apprecia- The Government gladly endorses
ried out voluntarily by the many tion of the very valuable work car- charitable organisations Colony.
of
the
Opium Addicts. Opium addicts are treated at the Government Civil Hospital and the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. The numbers treated as inpatients during 1933 were 72 at the former and 177 at the latter hospital. The
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