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In my last year's report I mentioned the receipt of a petition against the removal of ceilings. The Sanitary Board finally decided to drop the proposal as it was considered futile to remove ceilings without removing the lath and plaster partitions which existed in the houses it was proposed to deal with first, and the removal of these partitions would have entailed reconstruction of the house.
It has been found advisable to regulate further the duties of the Government midwives. The midwives must attend all cases in which their services are requisitioned, but are to report if the family they attend is well-to-do, when the Registrar General will ask for payment of a fee. Up to date $20.00 have been received in fees, but in a record kept for two months it was found that all the cases attended were in poor families which might reasonably be granted free attendance.
Regulations to ensure sufficient space on board ship for the animals and poultry brought into the Colony, and to protect them from injury in rough weather, have been under discussion, and the importers have accepted certain rules.
Numerous discussions have taken place on the subject of the recognition of the legitimacy of the children of concubines, and of the distribution of property in case of intestacy.
The draft Limited Partnership Bill has been accepted in its final form by the Chinese commercial community.
There is no general interest taken now in the two boycotts which created such trouble a short time ago, but an endeavour to put a formal end to one of them led to an unfortunate resuscitation of it.
The local Chinese Press has taken a great interest in the queue-cutting movement, and in events in Macao. One of the papers has come dangerously near a breach of the Seditious Publications Ordinance, and in March all the local Chinese papers were prohibited from circulation in the territories under the jurisdiction of the Governor General at Canton; this prohibition is still in force.
There has been much activity among the local Chinese district societies and an increase in their number during the past year. The advisability of introducing legislation on the lines of the Straits Settlements Societies Ordinance No. XX of 1909 is under consideration.
Twenty applications for British-born subject certificates were reported on, and two applications for naturalization.
In February last, the Rice Guild took steps to put a stop to the thefts of rice by coolies unloading cargo; these had reached alarming proportions, and a notice that no more than 30 lbs. of rice could be taken as "samples" from 100 bags, touched the coolies so nearly that they struck work for a day. Negotiations were entered into in my Office between the consignees and the stevedores, and the repres-
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C 17
In my last year's report I mentioned the receipt of a petition against the removal of ceilings. The Sanitary Board finally decided to drop the proposal it was considered futile to remove ceilings without removing, the lath and plaster partitions which existed in the houses it was proposed to deal with first, and the removal of these partitions would have entailed reconstruction of the house.
It has been found advisable to regulate further the duties of the Government midwives. The midwives must attend all cases in which their services are requisitioned, but are to report if the family they attend is well-to-do, when the Registrar General will ask for pay- ment of a fee. Up to date $20.00 have been received in fees, but in a record kept for two months it was found that all the cases attended were in poor families which might reasonably be granted free attendance.
Regulations to ensure sufficient space on board ship for the animals and poultry brought into the Colony, and to protect them from injury in rough weather, have been under discussion, and the importers have accepted certain rules.
Numerous discussions have taken place on the subject of the recognition of the legitimacy of the children of concubines, and of the distribution of property in case of intestacy.
The draft Limited Partnership Bill has been accepted in its final form by the Chinese commercial community.
There is no general interest taken now in the two boycotts which created such trouble a short time ago, but an endeavour to put a formal end to one of them led to an unfortunate resuscitation of it.
The local Chinese Press has taken a great interest in the queue- cutting movement, and in events in Macao. One of the papers has come dangerously near a breach of the Seditious Publications Ordinance, and in March all the local Chinese papers were prohibited from circulation in the territories under the jurisdiction of the Governor General at Canton; this prohibition is still in force.
There has been much activity among the local Chinese district societies and an increase in their number during the past year. The advisability of introducing legislation on the lines of the Straits Settlements Societies Ordinance No. XX of 1909 is under con- sideration.
Twenty applications for British-born subject certificates were reported on, and two applications for naturalization.
In February last, the Rice Guild took steps to put a stop to the thefts of rice by coolies unloading cargo; these had reached alarming proportions, and a notice that no more than 30 lbs. of rice could be taken as "samples" from 100 bags, touched the coolies so nearly that they struck work for a day. Negotiations were entered into in my Office between the consignees and the stevedores, and the repres-
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