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was decided to enforce more strictly the regulation dealing with the dimensions of the stalls. Incidentally, it was decided to insist that all stalls must be self-contained, particularly the food stalls, to prevent interference with scavenging. Amended Regulations for Hawkers were also drawn up and submitted for consideration to the Governor-in-Council. They have since been approved. The reduction in stalls entailed a reduction in revenue but it has certainly proved satisfactory, as the ever increasing congestion due largely to expanding motor transport of all kinds has been effectively checked in the portion of the City dealt with. The Hawkers Staff on the mainland has been chiefly engaged in collecting hawkers as far as possible on to spaces specially prepared for them, thereby reducing the unsightly appearance of the streets. Such a procedure is, of course, not possible in Victoria as there are no vacant spaces available.
6.-LIFE-SAVING.
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During the year Belilios Medals were awarded to Chinese employed on Harbour ferries and launches for saving life in the Harbour and one Indian Constable also gained this Medal, P.C.B.107. The special life-saving classes inaugurated in 1929 were continued throughout the year with the result that two Awards of Merit, five Instructor's Certificates and thirty-one Certificates and Bronze Medallions were granted to members of the Police Force, European, Indian and Chinese.
7. MENDICANTS.
Mendicants still continue to give the Police much trouble. Before the boycott of 1925, they were regularly returned to Canton by arrangement with the Canton Police. Since that date, however, when the existing arrangement expired, they have usually been returned to Chinese Territory in the vicinity of Deep Bay. As the figures in the body of the Report show, some five hundred and fifty mendicants were sent to Deep Bay during the year. A further two hundred and fifteen were returned to Canton as a result of a new arrangement with the Canton Police. This arrangement is only temporary and it is hoped to replace it in the coming year by a definite agreement under the terms of which local beggars will be returned to Canton to be housed in the Home for the Poor there, which is supported in part by Hong Kong Contributions. This arrangement will, it is hoped, also reduce the large number of mendicants charged before the Magistrates, composed of consistent beggars who return to the Colony time after time, as they find it more lucrative to return here than to pursue their vocation in the Rural Districts of the Kwong Tung Province.