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people who had not means of ear | North Point. The Salwan beach was Eccess to other beaches, should these only a short distance away. Re MAIN BRING & be taken away. He supported the admitted that in summer the walk motion because behind it. there was to the beach would be difficult, 8 very large weight of public opinici | but · perhaps -- cheap -transport. in this Colony.

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THE BATHING BEACHES.

DISCUSSION IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS FORESHADOWED.

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ing to the debate, outlined the history from West Point, and it was possible of the bathing beaches. In 1910 an arrangement might be made with | Mr. Osborne asked the Government the tram company to extend their

to reserve the beaches, "but the line. Government refused the request. ! With regard to Kowloon, he might In 1912, Mr Osborne moved & say that the remarks he made about resolution in Council for the pre North Point applied to that locality. vision of a beach at each end of the They had swanged and practically town, which was agreed to. A small

completed negotiations with sum was given by the Government

important. corporation for for the cleaning of these beaches the establishment of large The West Point beach had been in new industry, and it was the duty of use before that. The Government the Government to give the land for Pething to Public Anction Bair, to had a quantity of sand put down at that surpose rather than devote it to North Polat and made it into a fairly

| Be held on MONDAY, nhà 13th day of a beach.

December, 1990, at 3 pm, at the Office good bathing beach, Having referred

Referring to the comparison of of the Public Works Department, by Order to the figures given by Mr. Pollock, he said that these could be pressed Hongkong to a seaside place, he said of His Excellency the Gevemer, of One it should be recognized that Hong-Let of CROWN LAND at Kowloon, too far.

the Colony of Hongkong. The Government, admitted the in-kong was not a seaside place,

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real publie want, and it greatly in Liverpool or London if they had a Majosty the King, for one further tam regretted that it felt bound to give a stretch of sandy foreshore, to ask the of 15 yrs. decision that the advantages of the corporation to reserve it for bathing, decks and warehouses retention of the beaches were entirely when outweighed by other considerations were clamouring for room.

зар on behalf The importance of the harbour had would The question of the retention of owing to the strang set of the tide. been impressed on them from all sides, Government that while it accepted

then suggested that

Mr-Economic Resources Committee had the axiom that sea bathing was the bathing beaches at North Point He

health giving recreation, and into recently reported that it was their a and Kennedy Town was discussed in Carpenter should inquire

facilities "should -be he Legislative Council to-day, aa site between the hotel and the only asset, and too great, import reasonable motion by the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock strel foundry, but there were diffical-ance could not be attached to it. given Er it, it could not sacept that it was the with that end in view being defeated, ties in connection with it because He had been speaking with Sir the motion the Hon. Mr. E. V. D. Parr and the there was a considerable quantity of Maurice Fitzmaurice, who had told duty of the Government to provide Hon. Mr. John Johnstone voting with mud on the foreshore. He had taken him that he was most profoundly facilities in the scuse that it was its the Government.

a good deal of trouble because he The Hon. Mr. H.E. Pollock moved: felt it was encumbent on the Council impressed with the potentialities of duty to keep the beaches at North

port.

Government Point and West Point. The Govern- That it is

the to see that those who had not the regarded it as its duty not only ment was ready and willing to all reasonable facilities Hongkong Government to pro means to take launches or motos to encourage development, bat give vide the public with adequate cars out to other beaches went to do anything in its power to help and would consider any proposals facilities for sea bathing.

the facilities They were told that they stood that might be made for reasonably in the way of people and choked cheap transportation, The Govers- Government could find some adequate them off when they appliedment regretted that it could not substitute for these beaches, he sub- for sites for any purpose. accept the motion. mitted that they ought to be retained. The purchaser was usually a Mr. Pollock then replied, dealing

the duty

of

The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak secon- .ded.

Speaking on the motion the Hon. Mr. Pollock said the subject had to be considered under three heads: North Point, Kennedy Town and Kowloon. He wished to consider in the

the first instance North Point problem because it was somewhat urgent as he under- stood that the Government had for

not deprived of they now enjoyed.

Unless the

He did not say that some substitute could not be found. He did not believe in merely destructive criticis but he could only say that in looking round he had come against blank wall.

the

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shy person, who was not disposed to more particularly with the sugges take the land they offered, but in tions of the Colonial Secretary with this case they had the chance of regard to Saiwan Bay and Sandy Bay developing the area with large which he described as being, vague wharves and godowns for housing and very much in the air. He asked merchandise. The Government that the Government should come In making the motion he meant was satisfied that it was its daty to forward with something definite that it was the duty of the Hongkong promote the scheme by all the means It was not his business, as an option of renewal at a Grown Bent to be Government to provide the public in its power, and, did not wish to official member, to bring forward reference to the acquisition by them with adequate facilities for bathing lose this application because they of land at North Point which includ- ed the bathing beaches. These such as they had hitherto eninsed wished to reserve a stretch of sand beaches were only started with and it was the duty of the Goverfor bathing.

some time past been engaged in negotiations with certain people with

ment to look round and see what could be done in this matter.

With regard to West Point, the Economic Resources Committee. Referring to Kennedy Town, Mr. which included several members Pollock gave the figures for 1920 of the Counci had put for- which were 1,406 European civilians, warda scheme providing for 1316 soldiers, 11,769 Chinese, 4,118 reclamation work there, but the Portuguese and 1,459 Indians. These Government had replied that it had showed, he said, that considerable other reclamation schemes on hand use was made of the beaches and would not proceed with it until though not to the same extent as at these schemes were well on the way North Point. With regard to Kow to completion loon, he understood that "the Kow- With regard to the figures which on. Residents' Association intended had been given, he found that a to send an application into the Gev-large number of those who used the einment to provide a bathing beach beach were schoolboys.

schemes of transportation

His Excellency said he could not accept the motion in view of the interpretation that had been put on it. The motion was then put to the Council, and lost.

. Mr. Pollock asked for a division.

Mr. Parr explained that he was a member of the Economic Resources Committee, and Chairman of the Ship- ning Section, which had recommended from the very first that the Govern ment should do its utmost to develop the harbour, which was their life blood. He would have to vote against the motion, though he agreed that there should be bathing facilities, but these should not be at the expense of any been doing con- development of the harbour.

Council divided. The Hon. Messrs. schoolboys out at cheap rates. No Pollock, Holyoak, Lau Chu Pak, and

He was

- conveniences for public bathing some nine years ago and it was shown that they were steadily growing in public favour. The figures for 1920 were peculiarly striking. They show ed that over 39,000 persons made use of the beach during the summer, If they took the summer season as fire months, or 150 days, it showed that an average of 250 persons used the beach per diem. These figures were not only striking but they filustrated that the use of the beaches was appreciated' by the public and that in fact the public had used the at the West end of Chung Sha War, glad to learn that the Confucian beaches to a considerable extent. Analysing the figures they found that with the usual facilities. He desired Society had 4,617 European civilians, 11,765 to support the request of the Associa-siderable work in the way of taking European soldiers, 3,607 Portuguese, He had endeavoured in this matter doubt something could be done on Ho Fook voting for the motion, while 14,473 Chinese, 981 Japanese, 2,553 Indians and 1,158 Parsees used the not to use any strong language, be the lines of cheap transport for the Hon. Mr. Parr and Mr. Johnstone

by the Government voted with the Government, beach. The figures for soldiers and cause his object was to see whether schoolboys Chinese were peculiarly striking when the Government would help them, or by private enterprise. With compared with those for 1919 when Certainly a bad start, he must frankly regard to soldiers, it must be remem- there were 5,253 soldiers. More than ssy, had been made in the matter bered that the European garrison double the number of European of the North Point beach, and he was going across to Kowloon, and it

trusted that

Government did not seem likely that any large soldiers used the beach in 1920 than

would not deprive the public numbers would go to North Point. in 1919, and he submitted that it would be a very great bardship to of the North Point beach until an The military also had launches, deprive these soldiers of these means adequate substitute was provided, and could go to Stonecutter's,

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ABARET DINNER DANCES, will

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of not only innocent but healthful He trusted that the Government as it was no great distance from REPULSE BAY HOTEL. recreation which" wert at their would have no difficulty in accepting Kowloon. He recognized that Re- disposal by means of a through the terms of the motion, that it pulse Bay was not exactly within was the duty of the Hongkong the purview of the motion. but be Ofice to tram from the Post

If as was thought Government to provide the public might mention that they were Quarry Bay.

with adequate facilities for driving a large road through;

SATURDAY, 11th December, we had a larger garrison in Hong

by which he they bathing. kong, the argument applied with ea

WEDNESDAY, 15th December, still greater force with regard to the meant that the public should be able with the "hotel

to the provision Of SATURDAY, 18th December, to enjoy the facilities they had had regard Chinese. There again the figures were

facilities for public WEDNESDAY, 22nd December. very striking compared with 1919 in the past. He would put it higher first-class

Smith and Jacken will entertain than that, and say that the Govern-bathing at Repulse Bay. When that. when they were 7,925. In 1920 they were nearly double and it was ment should look ahead. More and road was completed, It would no with the latest Cam Songs and Dances only reasonable to suppose that the more persons were using these doubt be possible to arrange for The Bali Hoom extension at Repulse increase would be maintained in beaches, and the Government ought cheap transportation to Repulse Bay Hotel will be completed this week

those persons' Bay for a large number of ead. future years, with the beaches be to provide for

and Took forward people. They were also driving No increased charge is made to "coming increasingly popular with the

with a view to future needs. a 100-feet road from the City Dinners at the Repulse Bay Hotel in Chinese population.

Mr. Pollock then explained that in He submitted it was the wrong policy Hall to Shaukivan. The present connection with the entertainment. A the figures he had given he did not for the Government which carried tramway was tortuous and slow, but tables money charge will be made to mean that they referred to separate out the functions of a municipal with a faster service of trams they Non-diners on the night when cabaret and distinct individuals. The same council in this Colony, to do what no would be able to get to Shankiwan dinner dances are being held. people might have used the beach municipal council would do, to take the time it now took to get to several times.

needs

away from the public facilities for asa-bathing which had hitherto been enjoyed by them.

The situation at the present time was that the Government calmly

The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak support- proposed to sell these beaches for the purpose of commercial enterprise ed the motion, referring to the in- without making the slightest attempt crease among the Chinese in the art to provide any substitute for these of swimming, and urging the Govern 39,000 persons for "bathing during ment to give the motion its favourable the next season. So far as could be consideration.

gathered the Government entered The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak em into these negotiations without phasized the fact that there was an at all considering any alternative intensely strong public feeling on provision of bathing facilities. That, this

matter,

which he did not he submitted, was an extraordinary think the Government realized. it for him to proceeding on the part of the Govern-Far be ment. Could they imagine the oppose anything in the nature of Council of a sea-side place in development for the commercial England saying that they were going prosperity of this place. They were to take away a bathing beach used by all bound up in it sufficiently well 40,000 persons, without attempting But

when counter

such development to provide a substitute? Yet Hongfan

to public rights kong Government was in exactly a and what were also public needs he paralleled situation as trustee for the submitted that the question called public. There being no Municipal for the gravest consideration before Council, the Government had to tinder any intevocable step was taken. take municipal functions. Since the last fle claimed, that for hygienic meeting of the Council he had been reasons, the greatest asssistance in communication with Mr. Carpenter should be given to sea-bathing and of the P.W D., who had been good great facilities be provided. Increa enough to enquire into alternative singly large numbere had used and sites He (Mr Pollock) thought of enjoyed the beseft of the bathing two sites and suggested them to Mr. beaches provided by the Govera Carpenter. The first was by a group, ment. "Ho" had seen how much rocks further along the Shaukiwan} they were enjoyed, and mo Road, at the west end of Quarry Bay submitted that ther would This was found to be suitable be bringing la positive hardship" on

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