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CHAIRMAN: The Hawker Control Force, you may be interested to know, has a welfare fund, but this fund is used for such small expenses as occur on marriage, hospitalization and so on. This money is a grant from Government made in the annual estimates. The purpose of the fund, however, as stated in Mr. BERNACCHI's answer is not to support families of the members of the Hawker Control Force who are killed or hurt in the course of duty.
MR. HU:-Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
MR. BERNACCHI:-May I supplement both your two answers, Mr. Chairman, and say that if Sergeant YOUNG had been so badly injured that retirement was forced upon him, he would, of course, have been better off under the Government Pensions Regulations. As he is back at work on full pay, the Government Pensions Regulations do not come into it, and he is better off under the ordinary law of Workmen's Compensation.
MOTIONS.
(1) MR. WILSON T. S. WONG, CHAIRMAN OF THE OFFENSIVE TRADES SLAUGHTERHOUSES SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion:
That the Offensive Trades (Amendment) By-laws, 1967, be made under section 49 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance.
He said: Mr. Chairman, as Members are aware the Council, under By-law 4(1) of the Offensive Trades By-laws, has decreed that certain of the more obnoxious offensive trades shall only be carried out in certain areas specifically designated by the Council, and the purpose of the proposed amendments to these By-laws is to increase the number of such trades which have to be carried out within these approved areas.
At the same time the opportunity has been taken to re-define certain of the descriptions of offensive trades given in By-law 4(1) of the Offensive Trades By-laws.
The effect of this legislation will be to increase the number of offensive trades which have to be carried out in these designated areas from four (4) to seven (7).
MR. CHEUNG WING-IN:-I beg to second the motion.
DR. BELL:-I would like to say a few words on this. I think it is all very well for this Council to add certain trades to the list of offensive trades that can be carried out, and I heartily endorse this. But I do think there is a big need to look into the districts which are designated as offensive trade districts. Since the original designation of these districts there have been vast changes in the urban areas, and where the area was completely unbuilt before, and completely suitable for offensive trades, I am thinking in particular of the Hung Hom district of Kowloon, it is now a vast residential area where an offensive trade is extremely offensive, and we are adding to that by adding further trades to go into that area.
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I would like you to take note, or whoever is the authority that should take note for designating offensive trade areas, to consider re-designating these areas in the very near future.
CHAIRMAN: Does any other member wish to speak?
MR. BERNACCHI:-I may be admitting my inattendance at one of the Council's meetings, but I fail to see at present why cleaning of hair is designated an offensive trade.
CHAIRMAN:-Dr. COOMBES will speak. I must remind Members that this is a motion; every Member, except the proposer, may only speak once.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES:-Mr. Chairman, on the question of hair, the reason why this is an offensive trade is the bleaching of it. The bleaching of hair for export is a very nasty sort of process.
I can answer Dr. Alison BELL's previous question about Hung Hom. That will not be an offensive trade area. The new designated areas are only four, Aberdeen, Kennedy Town, and certain confined areas at Tsing Yi Island and Kwai Chung-each one has a small area designated. Offensive trades already in Hung Hom have been asked to move.
MR. SALES: Sir, is the generating of power and electricity not an offensive trade as far as Hung Hom is concerned? (Laughter).
CHAIRMAN:-Ladies and gentlemen, I will now call for a vote on the motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried. Mr. BERNACCHI abstained from voting.
(2) MR. WILSON T. S. WANG, CHAIRMAN OF THE OFFENSIVE TRADES SLAUGHTERHOUSES SELECT COMMITTEE, moved the following motion:
That the Declaration of Offensive Trades in the Colony excluding the New Territories except New Kowloon, a notification of which was published in the Gazette dated the 21st
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