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present system 7 are still student-interpreters, 16 have Third Class Certificates and 3 Second Class Certificates. Twelve are no longer in the Government Service.
Five meetings of the Interpretation Board were held. Twenty-eight candidates were examined; one Second Class Interpreter Certificate and eleven Third Class Certificates were awarded.
GENERAL.
The appointments of Mr. Fung Wa-chün and Mr. Lau Chü-pak as members of the Sanitary Board terminated in March. Mr. Lau was reappointed and Mr. Ho Kom-tong replaced Mr. Fung. On Mr. Ho's resignation, Mr. Ng Hon-tsz received the appointment. Mr. Pun Yan-tsün was appointed a Justice of the Peace.
In May the Chinese became restless under the serious inconvenience caused in some parts of the town by the length of time the intermittent supply of water was continued, and in June a petition on the subject signed by 101 of the largest business firms was presented. I issued a notice requesting all complaints regarding insufficiency of water to be addressed to me, and the Water Authority deputed an inspector to call every morning at my office to receive the list of complaints and to investigate them. This indication that the Government was alive to the inconveniences suffered did much to allay the agitation. As a consequence of the notice the department was called on on several occasions to arbitrate between the tenants of two floors in a Chinese house and to fix the time during which each party might draw off water.
In August a Society was formed by the leading Chinese for the suppression of spitting in public places. The Society has a most influential backing, and there is a genuine attempt to change the habits of the Chinese in this respect. The Society soon numbered 104 members, handbills have been distributed, notices are being carried by conspicuously clothed coolies through the streets, a lecturer has been engaged and a large number of varnished boards are being prepared to be fixed permanently to the walls of houses and in public places.
It was found possible to embody in the contract for the present Opium Farm certain conditions which had been asked for by the Chinese five years ago, regulating the powers of search. Although not actually inserted in the contract the last Farmer had agreed to observe the conditions.
Section 2 of Ordinance No. 19 of 1909 which directs the stamping of receipts for all sums over ten dollars, (the limit for unstamped receipts for the last seven years being twenty-five dollars), was not opposed in Council, but after passing the Liquors Duties Ordinance the Chinese business world thought this source of revenue might be dispensed with, and petitioned the Government. The matter was fully discussed at a conference at Government House; the estimated revenue and expenditure for the next two years elaborated and the reasons for the Government's inability to comply with petitioners' request explained.
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present system 7 are still student-interpreters, 16 have Third Class Certificates and 3 Second Class Certificates. Twelve are no longer in the Government Service.
Five meetings of the Interpretation Board were held. Twenty- eight candidates were examined; one Second Class Interpeter Certificate and eleven Third Class Certificates were awarded.
GENERAL.
The appointments of Mr. Fung Wa-chün and Mr. Lau Chü-pak as members of the Sanitary Board terminated in March. Mr. Lau was reappointed and Mr. Ho Kom-tong replaced Mr. Fung. On Mr. Ho's resignation, Mr. Ng Hon-tsz received the appointment. Mr. Pun Yan-tsün was appointed a Justice of the Peace.
In May the Chinese became restless under the serious in- convenience caused in some parts of the town by the length of time the intermittent supply of water was continued, and in June a petition on the subject chopped by 101 of the largest business firms was presented. I issued a notice requesting all complaints regarding insufficiency of water to be addressed to me, and the Water Authority deputed an inspector to call every morning at my office to receive the list of complaints and to investigate them. This indication that the Government was alive to the inconveniences suffered did much to allay the agitation. As a consequence of the notice the department was called on on several occasions to arbitrate between the tenants of two floors in a Chinese house and to fix the time during which each party might draw off water.
In August a Society was formed by the leading Chinese for the suppression of spitting in public places. The Society has a most influential backing, and there is a genuine attempt to change the habits of the Chinese in this respect. The Society soon numbered 104 members, handbills have been distributed, notices are being carried by conspicuously clothed coolies through the streets, a lecturer has been engaged and a large number of varnished boards are being prepared to be fixed permanently to the walls of houses and in public places.
It was found possible to embody in the contract for the present Opium Farm certain conditions which had been asked for by the Chinese five years ago, regulating the powers of search. Although not actually inserted in the contract the last Farmer had agreed to observe the conditions.
Section 2 of Ordinance No. 19 of 1909 which directs the stamp- ing of receipts for all sum over ten dollars, (the limit for unstamped receipts for the last seven years being twenty-five dollars), was not opposed in Council, but after passing the Liquors Duties Ordin- ance the Chinese business world thought this source of revenue might be dispensed with, and petitioned the Government. The matter was fully discussed at a conference at Government House; the estimated revenue and expenditure for the next two years elaborated and the reasons for the Government's inability to comply with petitioners' request explained.
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