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FEBRUARY 21, 1928.

FINANCE VOTES.

last summer the "Christian Gen- SHING MUN WORKS.

to be seen.

CORRESPONDENCE.

COST OF REMOVAL OF VILLAGES.

PARTICULARS OF SCHEME.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

ITEMS.

eral went to Hsuchowfu to interview Chiang Kai-shek, after which the latter re- signed. Now Chiang Kai-shek goes from Hauchowfu to see the "Christian General" and declaros

CHARITABLE ALLOWANCE. that they are brothers. Whether the war against Peking will make more rapid progress as the result Several villages are being evacu

Nine items are to be considered of this fraternal feeling remains ated at Shing Mun to make room by the Finance. Committee, of the

for the waterworks, scheme in the Legislative Council, after the Coun valley.

cil, meeting on Thursday. One of The total cost-to-the-Govorn-1 $200 is on account of 1927 and the ment, according to a report by Mr.ther eight come under supplemen. J. A. Fraser, District Officer, tary expenditure for 1928. North, is as follows:- Resumptions for sites".$ 3,8931, of $2,400 is to cover a charitable The 1928 items total $24,809. One Site-preparation

$1,500.00 allowance of £240 per annum to

2,400.00 Mrs. J. A. E. Búllock, which 170,148.00 unanimously recommended by the

8,346.00 Finance Committee, 15,250.00

Railway. Expenditure. 8,428.00 The biggest item is one 2,166.00 $9,640 for improvements and alter- 700.00ations to Talpo Market station, Kowloon-Canton Railway (British $296,898.78 | section).

A LOST THEATRE TICKET.

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owner who purchased it at Forestry resumptions ... Moutrles. The loss was found out Pineapple resumptions, an arrival at the theatre and the Fung Shui or fruit trees owner, baing known to the ticket incidental expenses

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HOARDINGS.

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of

seller and after he explained, the loss to the manager, was allowed to occupy the seat, ticket for which had been lost. Presently a gentle- man came in with two ladies and among the three tickets was the meeting of the Legislative Council Bled, carriage shed and work shop is to be laid on the table at the namely:-$2,788 for the locomotive one I had dropped. When ques-on Thursday) are as follow:- tioned if he had the ticket from The Shing Man villages of Shing stock; and $1,760 for new roofing to for the Fanling branch line rolling Moutries, he said, that was so! Mun Lo Wai, Pak Shek Wo, Pel workshops. That's that, Mr. Editor. I gave Tau To. Shek Tau Kin. Fu Yung up, my seat and purchased a ticket Shan, Nam Fong To. Tai Fel Lek for another

seat. Thanking you and Ho Pui contain about 855 and enclosing my card,

Description of Villages,

Two other votes are also for Extracts from the report (which special expenditure on the railway,

Yours, etc.,

CHURIK.

Hong Kong, Feb. 18.

MR. S. PAUL,

GOVERNMENT SERVANT

RETIRING.

WORK FOR BLIND HOME.

...

Extra Office Space,

Owing to additions to the staff

expenditure.

Education Conference.

Hakka Chinese, mostly ramed Cheng, but having among them of the Government Marine Sur- niso Cheung's, Ko's, Lo's, Tang's,veyor and inadequate accommoda- tion in the present offices, rooms and Tsang's.

In a hollow in the hills about had to be taken on the 5th floor of two miles broad by two and a half plus $27.50 for use of lift. A vote P. & O. Building at $400 per month long, formed by Tai Me Shan of $3,420 is asked for to meet this Grassy Hill and Needle Hill, and sloping from Lead Mine Pass southwards to Pineapple Pass and Taun Wan, the inhabitants of these villages own 180 acres of agricul- Conference will be held in London A Triennial Imperial Education Mr. S. Paul, of the Attorney-tural land, 1,180 acres of forestry in July, 1928, and it is considered General's office, who retires from rights and 42 acres of pineapples. desirable that the Colony should be service. next month, was recently.

New Distribution.

¡represented. the recipient of a presentation by

It is proposed that The whole of this area will have Mr. E. Ralphs, who will be on ability or otherwise of advertise the pupils of the Blind Home, Kowto be evacuated, and after careful leave, should attend, and as it will [ment hoardings is not that of theloon, to. whom he has been a great search in co-operation with the vil-be necessary for him to take part friend for many years. Mr. Paul lagers, suitable sites have been in visits to various places of edu advertiser or the hoarding "farm-was responsible for raising money found to accommodate them at cational interest in England and er" who collects rents for allow-to purchase violins for some of the Kam Tim, Wo Hop Shek, Nam possibly to certain education cen- ing their erection. It is that of girls whom he then taught to play. Shul Po. Teat Sing Kong, Ping tres in France, it is proposed to Mr. Paul is leaving on March 3 Kong, Fung. Yuen (Yue Kok), Shek grant him a sum not exceeding the individual. This is the point and is settling down in his retire-Ku Lung, and Pan Chung, and to £25 to meet his out of pocket ex- that the committee of the Kow-ment in Coonoor, Nilgiri Hills, these It is proposed to move all penses. A supplementary vote of

India. loon Residents' Association has

the inhabitants of the Shing Mun $26 is required ta meet this. Mr. Paul originally came out for valley above Pineapple Pass. always to keep in mind. If the the A.F.C. from Singapore, in the

The Governor's Staff. The greater part of the village; inhabitants on the mainland year 1908, and after serving there sites is on Crown, land.

Two items come under "H.E. the It has want these hoardings, lot them for a while he joined a solicitor's been necessary to purchase a small Governor, Personal Emoluments." -· have them. If they do not want firm and then Loxley & Co. He area of private land included in the In consideration of the heavy eventually joined the Government sites, at a total cost of $1,055.51. extra work. in decyphering tele- them, then let the K.R.A. continue Service and was the first shorthand A, further sum of $2,783.80 com-mphic messages, which the poli to challenge their erection, and writer at the time of his entertain-pensation for fruit-tress unavold-tical situation continues to throw let the Government give imme- ment.

ably involved brings this figure to upon the Private Secretary, it is Mr. Paul was a member of the $3,839.31.

proposed again to grant him an al- diate authority for their removal Cathedral choir from the year 1908) and the cessation of the annoy-until 1927. He was also a member

lowance of $200 per month during the current year, therefore be needed.

$2,400 will of the Philharmonic Society from After all, this hoarding con-

1908 to 1926 and a member of the for the new villages is shown in

the following table: Male Voice choir for seventeen troversy moves around personal years. Mr. Paul was at one time opinions as to their desirability Hon. Secretary of the Church and not their accessity. People England Men's Society. may come along and preach to us gratia the Chinese blind girls at Mr. Paul undertook to teach the Cult of the Hoarding, ita the Home in Kowloon City.

ance.

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Site Preparation. The cost of preparing the sites

$ 5,000

1,300 10,000.

Kam Tin Text Sing Kong

of

Pan Chung

Shek Ku Lung

.500

Ping Kong....

1,000

He

Wo Hop Shek

1,700.

Nam Shul Po

Fung Yuen

6,000 7,000

• $31,500

When the 1928 Estimates were framed the Clerical work, at Gov- ernment House was. performed, by a. VI. grade clerk who was paid, from the Junior' Clerical: Service Vote.

It has now been found necessary to replace him by a stenographer clerk at $200 per month and a supplementary vote of $2,200 for this salary is required to cover the last 11 months of 1928.

Met From Savings,

Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1928, beauty and pleasing qualities, not began in the year 1924 and thanks to mention its beneficial-mental to the interest of Mr. Li Chor-chi effect. That is all very well. But! and Mr. Pattenden, he was able to get violins for the blind pupils who supposing those who have elected are now accomplished, musicians. to live in the neighbourhood Mr. Paul expects to leave by the by Government, and provision

"Macedonia" early in March, via has been made in the 1928 Estim ernment Laboratory) needs. 3200

ates to cover the expenditure. Singapore and Madras,

Houses,

TWO ROBBERS.

This work will be done exclusive-

Free sites are given in exchange

for land on which houses now stand and the question of compen- Mr. Quock, of No. 5. Kwong sation for building land resumed. Fung Terrace, first floor, has re- at Shing Mun should not arise. ported to the police that some time The existing dwellings at Shing

The Medical Department (Gov-

for apparatus and chemicals to is to be met from savings under meet the 1927 expenditure but this

other heads.

According to a report made to

a Chinese

After congratulating Mr. E. where the hoarding erectors seek Cock, M.B.E., the incoming Pre- to pursue their good work object sident of the Kowloon Residents' to glaring and blatant posters—| Association, on his remarks on have they got to put up with it? public hoardings in Kowloon, and Most emphatically, we say:—cer- | Mr. B. Wylie, the vice-President, tainly not! The removal of the on dissociating himself from hoardings, onde erected and after 2 p.m., yesterday, two robbers Mun have been measured and it is the police by Fung Kay, a tailor of the subject, there is little if "farmed out" to some advertiser entered his house which was then necessary to provide for the erec-

comment of worth that or other, is naturally going to In the charge of a maid servant. tion of buildings of the same cubic No. 5, Ladder Street, may be made in connect-incur some monetary loss.

The men entered by the staircase content in the new villages subject named Chan Shiu-fong visited his But door which was inadvertently left only to approval of plans. It is shop at 8.80 pan., on February 11 ion with last night's dis-this, we submit, is the affair of open. Whilst one of the robbers proposed to allow the villagers to and bought two cults of clothing cussion at the K.R.A. annual the erector and not of the Govern- spoke to the maid and engaged her construct their own houses, Gov-worth $85 for which payment was Yes. meeting. Upon the matter of ment or the general public. The attention, the other stole Into. aj ernment paying in accordance with made with seven 35 notes. hoardings generally, however, authorities, therefore, should not and some clothing, valued at $81.

terday when Fung went to the in Peel their usefulness and desirability, hesitate to order the removal of The intruders then bolted from the tractors engaged by villag for first time that the notes which Street to buy goods he discovered a lot may be written. Our views any hoarding to which residents house. No violence was used on ers) as the work proceeds. were fairly fully expressed in may object, always provided, of the mui tsal.

any

(1) Dwellings, by contract (con- Leung Yuk Kee shop roor and took a watch worth $15 the following table, for

these columns on October 14 last, course, that the objection is for- WING LOK WHARF SEIZURE. when the Association decided to warded through such an accredit-

protest to the Colonial Secretary ed body as

the

in the strongest possible terms Residents' Association.

against the erection of unsightly

advertisement hoardings on the

Peninsula. Then we said that Strange Bedfellows! those being erected near the Kow- loon Rallway

Kowloon

Arrested on the Wing Lok wharf yesterday with 50 taels of illicit raw opium in his possession, a Chinese when charged before Mr.

at a flat rate of 12 cents per he had received from Chan were. cubic foot.

(2) Outhouses, roughly con-

forgeries.

structed by the villagers themselves, at thoir value as they now stand in Shing *Mun. *- Thare being now 200 dwellings, the usual resumption rates for payment of cent was added to

Agricultural Land.

R. E. Lindsell at the Central this works out roughly at $850 n agricultural land in remote parts Magistracy this morning said. that house including temples, and of the Territory and included in the drug was brought from Canton should ensure a good type of build the above figures. In all cases the Adversity makes strange bed by a friend who asked him to take ing throughout..

new village altes are in a more Station, and fellows, the old saying goes, and it ashore for him. He did so to

populous neighbourhood than the similar disfigurements, were an now we read of Chiang Kai-shek oblige the friend. The Magistrate

old. Leyesore. This we now say again appointing himself the guest imposed a fine of $1,000 or four

and, in view of the special plead of Feng Yu-hsiang, who will months" "jail":" ing advanced on behalf of the always be best known to the world as the "Christian General." hoardings by acutely interested No matter the result of their parties, we say it with all the confab, it is at least encouraging A Chinese woman named Ko force at our command.

to find one Chinese warlord will Hing,, Hving at No. 81, Pokfulam

FELL ON ROCKS.

The following is a resume of agricultural resumptions at Shing Mun, which involve the whole of Demarcation Districts 452, 467; 458, 460 and 486,

3.12 acres 1st clasa

padi at 1 cent afte square foot....$ 1,359.06 acres 2nd class.

-padi at cent n

square foot Vi

land at cent a square foot

Pineapples,

There are 42.14 acres under pineapples, in: 94 holdings, each holding subdivided into smaller lota: Compensation will be made by Government at the evacuation at, $20, per 1,000 growing, pine- It is not to be supposed, how-ing to trust another without re- Road,, was yesterday removed to 132.5

course to a retinue of thousands the Government, Gívil Hospital suf-|

apples, irrespective of age, and fa ever, that our disgust is evoked of men carrying Mauser pistols toring from injuries to her head

43,295.92 order to encourage the owners to solely by the pictorial creations and portable machine-gana. received as the result of a fall on 48.6 acres 3rd class,

carry on the industry elsewhere, they will have the option of remov- There were times, not so long some broken rocks, outside: Mr. that are springing up in Kowloon. ago, when it was a favourite ruse Arnold's house, "Rockville,"

9,487.49ing the plants. The new villages In plain truth, we dislike hoard with Chinese Generals to invite Sassoon Road. The woman's con

have where possible been sited with reference to their suitabilitý inge in any residential and semi-somebody to dinner and then dition is stated to be serious. 179.22.aeres, agricultural rural area, and so, we think, do after a sumptuous banquet, order 07 Su

land all class $51,122.47 for pineapple growing, and their his execution. Such events were Captain & F. Charles; who lives In default of exchanges, as there proximity to land, suitable for the rest of our fellow men who common at Canton, and elsewhere, at No. 8, Knutsford Terrace, How is very little occupied auricultural forestry and, grass-cutting Look upon the mat

the matter dis- The practice has fallen into dis loon, has reported to the police land in the vicinity of the new vil Graves will not be interfered Interestedly. In this connection use either because all Generals that some time between 11 and 12 lages, cash compensation will be with, except where they are with we would emphnaiss what has have become suspicious of invita noon yesterday, a thier entered his paid, to enable the villagers them in the area to be laundated, when tions to dinner or because public room and stole Lequer box con- selves to purchase, privately-owned they will be removed by the village been said be!

The average opinion is making itself felt. In talning two amber necklaces and a landain place of their old holdings: era. No now graves will be allow outlook in regard to the desir passing. It should be noted that string of coral worth $90,

With this end in view, an ex gratia ed. CRAS PARA A MIND