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their NAITOW and crowded question has taken a decided step Residents access by motor to other in forward since the matter was debated, parts of the Colony?

quarters Have "those who have In this Council on 29th January last. Is such a road desirable, having originated the proposal to charge and we earnestly trust that the regard to the danger which it will for excessive use of water in the Military Authorities will continue to bring to children at. Magazine Gap! rider main districts weighed well heartily co-operate with the Govern- and the Peak, and having regard to every condition, under which the ment of this Colony in expediting the fact that it will destroy the population of these districts lives of the procuring for the trade of this present priceless peace and quiet at whom the working class preponder- ates, and have they thought «out Colony, by which we all live, a much the Peak? needed area for expanding our Office

equitable means of dividing the and business accommodation.

charges, so as not to increase - un- necessarily the cost of living and to Cause endless disputes be- tween owners and tenants or between tenants and tenants? The Chinese consider that the proposal, if carried into effect. would constitute a breach of contract on the part of this Gover men.

In connection with Harbour Development, we are glad to extend a welcome to Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice and we hope that his investigations here may result in important develop ments of the shipping facilities of this Colony,

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MR. LAU CHU PAK'S SPEECH. Han. Mr. Lau Chi Pak said: On behalf of my Chinese colleague and myself I beg leave to offer a few observations on certain items in the estimates.

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As regards commercial wireless, we present, the reduction in the num- ber of licences, which is intended to would ask Your Excellency to appoint save the police trouble, will more likely

EDUCATION, › a small Committee which we would have an opposite effect in as much Education:On this subject, Sir, suggest should consist of the Colonial

as, in addition to looking out for we should also like to make a few re- Secretary, an Unofficial Member of licensed hawkers, they will have marks. British education, in this the Council, and the Commodore to devote more time and attention Colony, which has, during the past 75 an Officer deputed by him, for the to watching the movement of the years, steadily branched out all over purpose of discussing and reporting unemployed and the vagrants, whose China has, an indirect way, served on the feasibility of utilising the ranks will be swelled by those who as wart of British propaganda Stonecutters Lland Installation for fail to obtain licences for work und, as such, it should have commercial messages during certain hawking as an honest means of earn been so conducted as to gain the portions of the 24 hours, whilst paying a living. The Chinese popula goodwill and affection of all those, ing due regard to the necessities tion of the Colony has, in recent whom it was intended to enlighten of His Majesty's Service.

years, grown enormously and will and whose co-operation it aimed at 1. We trust that the Government As regards our finances generally, so long as political disturbances procuring. în order to further will strictly enforce the penalties for we would once again urge that it is

ACTOSS the border periodically British interests. Perhaps, in the non-completion by due date of all not fair to the present Colonists that crop up continue to grow, so opinion of those in whose hands houses and Eats towards the erection the entire cost of Public Works of that the number of licences for the work has been entrusted, it had For years, Vernacular Education, of which the Government has ad permanent character should be paid hawking needs to be increased ins all along been so conducted but the for out of current Revenue, and we read of being reduced. From the result, as we have seen and experi the want of which has been keenly

2. We regret that it has not been world advocate that short Loans Chinese point of view, it is more in encrd both here and elsewhere in felt by the working Chinese, who camot afford to engage private found possible, in the distribution of should be raised for such purposes.

So mech, Sit, for the united views accordance with righteousness to China, is hardly commensurate with teachers for their children has received the Million dollars in loans for build-

for hawking so as to enable At any rate it Las not meagre attention and help from the ing, to allocate some of the moneys of my colleagues and myself on the give a man a few dollars as capital the efforts and time expended. Government, although it forms an to persons who are building for subject of the Budget.

I am now going to add a few him to gain a decent livihood than been so inccessful as what bas to leave him unemployed and attended the efforts of other nations, important factor in British pro- their own occupation, 25 we coz

occupiers are marks of my own, in which my paganda work and is the stepping sider that owner

of every encouragement colleagues do not concur, in regarding into the ranks of vagabonds who came into the Seld at a later I think the objections to hawking date. It is true that appreciation of stone to English education, so far as worthy

Chinese popolation of this by the Government, and we venture to one item of the Badger, namely would be minimized, if the licences the facilities afforded by the British the

express the hope that it the proposal to make the motor road Colony is concerned. Without a to

creased or reduced, as the case a modern education is to be found, fairly good grounding in their own may be found possible for the Gev from Magazine Gap to Chamberlain be issued in each district and in-authorities and missions for gaining may be in proportion to the wherever British influence prevails, Language, the value and benefit of erament to shortly set apart (possibly Road.

number of people residing but somehow or other there seems to English education to Chinese youths out of the proceeds of sale of the

In the first place, Sir, I venture to therein. The licences may also be be a lack of mutual sympathy and cannot be so fully realized as they old Post Office site) a sum of 3 lacs should be. At present the system of of dollars to assist persons to build vernacular education existing in this houses of modest type and reasonable question the necessity for this road classified, so that, in the vicinities of support between the British residents other than market day, at the metropolis of China Colgay is supported by the charitably cost for their own occupation; pro- because all those who are living is markets, licences for selling only and the Chinese. For instance, to

the neighbourhood of Chamberlain ( commodities disposed Chinese, who, beyond a vided that proper security is given.

Road can easily take the Tram down products will be issued. In view where most of the Chinese students WANCHAIGAP HILL TRAMWAY to the lower Tram Station and from of the fact that the Chinese com educated abroad bave gathered small setsidy of a small grant under

exceedingly since their retorn, what forcibly the Grant-in-aid Code, receive scarcely! 3. With regard to bailing deve there they are in touch with all the munity considers it any encouragement or help from the topment in the neighbourhood of other parts of the Colony which are hard on a poor but honest man strikes a visitor who takes an in

be punished for trying" to❘terest in the subject is that except Government. The schools which Wanchai Gap, we notice with astonish-accessible by motor. One argument to they are maintaining afford shelter "ment that the Hill Tramway to which I have heard against this con- gain a livilitood by honest means, those who went there from Hong- for two or three thousand children of Wanchai Gap, for the construction of tention of mine seems to be too not because he defies the law by rekong or returned from England, the working class, who, bad it not been which a sum of 150,000 Dollars was paltry for serious consideration, fusing to pay for a licence, but be all the returned, students have form for such schools, would be thrown inserted

motor-owner, cause he is denied one, when heed themselves into groups working for namely, estimates on the streets to swell the number of 1920, does not figure at all whether he goes East or West will willingly offers to pay for it, we heartily in sympathy with, and in Juvenile Offenders. The present the estimates for 1921, have to spend 10 minutes in travell hope the Government will recon- support of the country from which system has no permanency and those and we are at a loss to understanding through China Town. Another sider its decision from a more they derived their education. The who are running the schools may retire the reason for the omission, as argument which I have heard used is sympathetic point of view. At nationals of those countries from from the field, at any time, for want obviously a tram from the lower that it will be much pleasanter to any rate, all those who are at present which the students came back also and fraternally of support and encouragement. My level to Wanchai Gap is an indispens- travel from the Peak to Repulse Bay holding licences should be given new mingle freely Chinese colleagues suggest that the able preliminary to the development over the new projected road entirely licences and an extra number should with the students and also with Subsidies and grants should be in- of the Mount Cameron District, on the high levels, instead of starting be given to creased and free scholarships given, which cannot be effectively opened from below. This argument, though proportion so as to enable the best pupils to pass up by mctor roads enly. We pre- better

the that is seldom, if ever, experienced jast me, the population. As regards on to the Government District schools sure that the Government has had does not, in my opinion, fustify two thousand licences which it is pro- bere. How is it that the Chinese of making survey made of the route of such the for a course of English education.

expensive posed to abolish, we should also like educated in Hongkong and in Great So differently? When things were cheap and rents projected Tram and a rough estimate road, while we have in this Colony to know how it is to be done and Britain, behave

have put to low, a grant of 3 or 5 Dollars per of the cost thereof and we should be other urgent public matters requir- whether steps will be taken to prevent This question we head might be adequate, but now

thongh the answers were more or Revenue but also the services of our issue.

less evasive, they all pointed to one nose too large Public Works Staff.

Secondly, Sir, I take the objection Water excess supply and Meter factor, and that is a want of mutual and good fellowship that this proposed road is not desir Rents Under this heading, it is pro- sympathy "It has become very desirable to able. open up new sites for residences in First, on the ground that it will posed to charge for excessive use of between the Chinese and those from water in the Rider-main Districts. whose country they received their the Hill District. The only part of destroy one of our greatest assets at It may not be out of place to recall education. Even in this Colony, the the District. so far entirely unde- the Peak, namely, the absolute quiet what really led up to the introduction centre of British influence and British

..there The enlightenment, veloped is Mount Cameron, and which we enjoy at night.

of the Rider-main system.

barriers between It, as I understand to be the case system was asked for as a concession social provision is made underiler 17 for We are glad to hear that, at last beginning the construction of a Tram-it is proposed to continue this road from the Government by the Chinese rulers and the ruled, which give rise a Maternity Wing is to be built on way to Wanchai Gap, which will ultimately on through the Mount residents and they paid the cost of more to murnal distrust than to to Victoria Hospital, and also that provide a rapid means of access both Kellett Gap down to Fokfulam Road, its construction, which amounted to mutual confidence which is all a Hospital is to be built at Kowloon, to Mount Cameron and to the hills we are faced with the possibility of a

more than $1,000,000. The condi- important for breeding mutqal and a Hospital for Europeans, to re- between Wacchai and Magazine fine procession of joyriders at the ions under which the Chinese sympathy and understanding: The

Feak, at all hours of the day and live here, to-day, are

same condition prevails on the main- the $217 Leve the pressure on the Government Gaps."

4. We are disappointed to find no night. And, even if you call a halt as they were seventeen Civil Hospital, on this side of the

years Land of China where the two Harbour. We approve of the pro reference in your Budget speech to at Chamberlain Road, you cannot ago when the system was introduced. peoples meet on more or less equal footings. This state of affairs posal to have Wards in the latter any negotiations with the Military prevent anybody who can afford the Their houses are almost all let out by bospital in which private practitioners Authorities for the release of hire of a car from going up to the floors, and in many cases, a floor is is most regrettable, and we venture ота Nathan Peak on a fine moonlight night as I sub-let to several families. The to believe that it can be removed can see their own patients, and we the Military lands hope that private practitioners will be. Road Kowloon. As has been pointed presume that the Government does ground

occupied given leave to treat their own patients out more than once, sites on that not intend to put up a turn-pike and shopkeepers and tradesmen uses

road which are eminently suitable to issue passes to Peak Residents more, water than the tenants of hope that its growth will be nursed

Will a meter with such care and in such a liberal H for residences are being occupied by only.

the upper floors. stables for mules,

DANGER TO CHILDREN.

be fixed on each foor or a meter spirit as will materially help the ends for the new wharf containing much will do everything in its powerground of undesirability which I for the whole bouse? If so, how

And now I come to my second on the ground floor only, to serve of British propaganda work. greater accommodation for launches to expedite the speedy commence- thas the present one and also that it ment and vigorous prosecution of the consider most important, and that is will the charges be equitably ap the question of safety of the children portioned amongst the different should be constructed in a manner, Praya East Reclamation.

6. We trust that the extension of living at Magazine Gap and the floors or the different families, as worthy of its surroundings.

Peak. The proposed route of the the case may be? And who is to His Excellency the Governor enter- As regards items 78 and 84 (on the Ho Mun Tin Colony and the road lies through Magazine Gap be held liable for payment, when tained the Officers of the 74th Pun- page 85) we should like to know development of the area of land at reif and from thence along the one floor becomes vacant? If the jabis at dinner last evening at Govern whether the Government foresaw the Kowloon Tong on Garden City lines Craigmin Road to Craiguria West. landlord is to be held liable for every ment House. There were present: recessity for this work (which in will be pressed forward by the and subsequently it has to thing, how is he to recoup himself? Is Captain E. H. Gray, Mrs. Gray, volves the expenditure of over One lac Government.

its way through the be allowed simply to add what belikes Captain W. T. Campbell, Mrs. Camp- small gap between Cheirondale on to the rent and is such addition, if bell, and Captain H. E. Murgy.

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With regard to the item on page 73 of Building Grants 180.000, we should like to be informed how such sum is to be apportioned between the different schools.

in the Kowloon Hospital

In your Budget speech of last year (at page 90 of Hansard for 1919) Your Excellency referred to this subject as follows:-

As regards the reconstruction of Queen's Statue Wharf, we would urge upon the Government the necessity 5: We hope that the Government

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of Dollars) at the time when the land 7. We also trust that the Govern- squeeze was sold for reclamation at Laichikok, ment will give its assistance to the and, if this contingent expenditure Kai Tack Reclamation scheme by

run for some distance along the pre-reasons together with several others was foreseen in settling the upset pressing on with the inauguration of price for such land. We think that the Kowloon East Ferry Service and seat road past the Peak Church, were seventeen years ago, laid before which road is the approach to Peak the Government by the Chinese com-: it ought to have been foreseen. As the Motor Bus service to Kowloon school for all children going to that munity with the request that the

Owing to the musetted state of the regards item 84, we should also like City.

With regard to the question of school from any house to the East of ridez-main be substituted for the to know whether the sum of 60,000

that school. And the question which meter system, and the Government weather, the sports of the Kowloon Dollars for the construction of the whether there is a shortage of houses water boat dock at Laichikpk will in the Colony, there are no houses, we want only and unnecessarily intre they contributed to the cost of its until next week.

so far as we are aware, to let for duce a new danger for children living contruction complete that work.

European occupation in any part of at Magazine Gap and the Peak by Practically speaking, it was in the the Colony south of Coronation Road, building such a road.

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Whilst warmly commending the Government (and especially the Acting Colonial Secretary) for the steps which have been taken for the ot additional housing provision accommodation at the Peak, the Middle levels, and Kowloon, we have the following criticisms and remarks

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