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Much interest was evinced by the public in the September Criminal Sessions at the Courts of Justice, Hong Kong. The question to ask, then, is--- if so many residents found time to hear the trial there must be others who know the Colony and are absent, who desire to read about the proceedings. You will be doing such people a service by sending them the "Overland China Mail," in which the reports have been col- lected in handy form.
As is well known, the "Overland." is the only weekly news budget of Hong Kong which carries illustrations. The current number is a humper one, even when the atmosphere of the Courts is left out of consideration. Because many events have occurred which concern not only residents of Hong Kong, but former residents, those on leave and friends in other parts of the world.
Details of the Sessions are still fresh so that there is no necessity to stress them. It will be sufficient to state that some of the subject matter is unique, But there is an abundance of "local" and "China
news as well.
It has been a busy week locally, in more directions than one a factor which makes for an increasing ratio of read- ing matter. There is bound to be something that will capture the imagination of folks in the Old Country. Take, for . instance, the messages about the murder of the European Bishop and priests in the interior of China. Again, an epidemic of smuggling appears to have broken out once more in Hong Kong. And there are pages and pages of news about persons and personalities, in contradistinction to reports of ordinary events. In the realm of sports also, the Overland" has the best to offer.
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THE
CHINA MAIL,
outside the "Star" Ferry Pler. On HON. MR. SHENTON behalf of motorists I am appealing to Your Excellency for а генал- sideration of the projected scheme
Hills of Kowloon
men
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929.
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When it is remembered that the of arrangement whereby the pri- expenditure of very large sums. question of public markets is vlleges now enjoyed by them will be How are we going to provide for peculiarly within the province of completely removed. One of the this? the Sanitary Board to consider, great advantages enjoyed by Kow-
The Honourable the Colonial the rejection of the Board's re-loon motorists is the Ability to Secretary tells us that the Govern- commendation to the Government resis in suburban area away from ment has adopted a forward policy is difficult of satisfactory explana- the congested districts in the City in its Budget for 1980 admittedly tion to those outfule the secret A contributory factor of that ad- he says in services rather than in councils of the Government vantage is the ownership of a car material works. I have scanned
Children's Playground
in the case of a family man and of the draft Estimates and the. Public In the opinion of residents of a motor-cycle in the čase of a Works Extraordinary report for Teim-sha-tsui, another matter of bachlor. Under the new parking support of this forward policy and
less urgency
calls for scheme forecasted by the Govern can only say I can find little support immediate attention on the part of meni it will become difficult for for his statement. Taking the draft the Government. I refer to the owner-drivem to enjoy the benefit Latimates as a whole I describe the children's playground. This also of suburban residence unless at an general position to be, that nothing On demand has been sympathetically touched increased expenditure, and it must more than ordinary current expendi-
On New York- upor by the Senior Unofficial be remembered this many
ture and usual development work On demand Member. Residents of Kewloon with families and young men in this has been provided for-nothing Credits, 60 days' sight 47% begía almost to despair that chil- Cology are not blessed with too much more than one would ordinarily ex-
On Bembly dren across the harbour will ever of this world's riches. With many pect to see in any normal year. On demand
Wire be considered worthy of the soli- despite appearance, which citate of Government in the pro-be maintained, it is a real struggle vided for but they would occur in certain minor public works are pro- vision of a suitable ground in a
for existence. The railway land convenient locality where children near the Ferry Pier could be ap crying needs of the Colony are not any normal year-raany of the great could run and play about within plied to better use and for the bene-even mentioned-in fact, I and in an area free from the objection-fit of
a larger number than the{the words of able features to be found in the concessions presently enjoyed for a Colonial Secretary that none of the Honourable railed-in portion of the railway consideration which may or may not my favourite schema" have been ground on Chatham-road dignified outweigh the larger benefits claimed included.
the with the name of a "Children's for motorists.
I emit, of course, Playground." In the senior morn-
water question because that is a matter which must be put in a ing newspaper of September 10 will be found a plaintive appeal
The presence of disorderly houses category by itself and has already.) on behalf of the children of Kow-on Nathan-road in the very heart of been fully dealt with--it needs no
the residential district loon. I should not be surprised
calls for further comment from me, save that if it be that of
attention. They were permitted at a no effort can be too great to avert some British mother vainly pleading for
time when family residences did not a recurrence of the crisis we experi. an aneloration of a-condition not too
exist in such large numbers in Korenced this year. loon and at Yaumati. Young women creditable to
Taxation the Colony in the
The Honourable matter of playgrounds at Kowloon of these houses sit on the windowsills A brief extract from that letter and trude themselves on the public Secretary consoles us with the fact may serve some meful purpose if, gaze in a main thoroughfare every that we can finance the contemplat perchance, it escaped notice from evening, and from midnight onwards ed increases in the Estimates with those to whom the letter was de- the red-light" district of Yaumati a very satisfactory state of affairs, the wise from what may be termed out recourse to increased taxation, signed to appeal.
Open Spaces
deprives residents of the rest which but it certainly appears to me hav-Chinese Sub, Coin The writer condemned last they look for in undisturbed sleeping regard to the general tenor of Hong Kong Sib. Coin Par. year's saving
The hills of Kowloon have a very the Estimates that such cannot be of $22,000 on the proposed children's playground as
bare appearance especially that the position much longer. I will "an eloquent and practical com-
porth above the Railway cutting not dwell on the Water question, ment on the high falutin' senti and on the heights of Hunghem. Government Civil Hospital, the ments expressed at the last Legis The expenditure of a couple thou-Jail, the playing grounds, port lative Council meeting." The sand dollars for a couple of yeara facilities, markets, the uncompleted writer describes the Chatham-road may alter the bareness of Kowloon part of the 70 feet road between playground as "drab," dusty and hills and the effect of the landscape. Causeway Bay and Taikoo Sugar in the evening a coolies' spittoon;
Kowloon residents
atit Factory, aviation, and Broadcasting, it is positively dangerous
It cherishing the hope for the full-they have already been dealt with fronts a long stretch of straight ment of the promise of afternoon by the Honourable. the Senior Mem- road which offers a temptation to
open-air Band concerts. The ber, but I have in addition a num- motorists, which, as a whole, they Shanghai Municipal Council pro- ber of my favourite schemes, and I do not and cannot be expected to videmusic of a high order for the will now deal with what I regard as resis. The railings are about a benet of the public throughout the some of our most pressing needs in coupe feet high, and take an ac-evenings. Hong Kong continues to to-date Colony of the British year during afternoons and in the "this the most progressive and up-
sacords to scale. It is easy to behind the Model Settlement in this
live under the reproach of being Empire" 'save' money by allowing such a wretched place to go unimproved." respect.
tive child
of four
are
L
the Colonial
buying rate) Silver (per cz.) Bar Silver is Hong
Kong
Copper Cash Copper Cents
Rate of Native In-
terest
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9% dis.
Nominal
3% prem.
LONDON EXCHANGES
Paris
New York Brussels
Geneva
Vienna
London, Yesterday.
128.855
4.84 21/32
Hongkews
New Engineerings Shanghai Docks
Cotton Mills
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is that Realising
Our City Hall Are we proud of our City Hall? True it was an appropriate building
Bucharest
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47 7/82
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Singapore Tractions Singapore Pref. Sandakan Lts. ......
Industrials
A cognate subject of open spaces.
In the matter of school fees 140 to 50 years ago and the Colony the interest which Your Ex-Wonder if Government can effect a must still be grateful to a generous celicacy has taken in the revision so as to reduce the cust Government and public-spirited men rapid growth of Kowloon it must be of fees which are a heavy drain on who provided the site and building. apparent how intensively building tho residents of this Colony. AIs it at all in keeping with the operations are proceeding especially Coloslal Secretary spoke of next Recently His Royal Highness the fortnight ago, the Honourable present requirements of the Colony? at Kowloon Point. At the present year's Budget as one of "a forward Duke building rate the few
of Gloucester visited the ↑ remaining policy in services rather than in Colony and the Theatre being the open spaces will have disappeared material works."
China Sugars within the next few months, and gible proof can there be as a his official reception-unfortunately cat and I have myself seen the peg-
What more tan- most central position was chosen for our boundary has already been given Malabon Sugars
Canton Ices the mistake which is apparent in the practical demonstration congested districts of the Island will Govenment's earnestness than by were unable to receive Invitations, daty.
of the the space is so limited that many ging out, close to our own boun-
Cements (comb.) be perpetuated in Kowloon,
We are, however, almost
Cements (old) begining in a small way to reduce almost to the extent of causing entirely in the dark as to the posiH.R. Ropes (old)
Cements (new) the cost of living to residents in general disatisfaction on such an tion. While on the subject of sankation Hong Kong? Reduction of school auspicions occasion. it becomes my duty respectfully to fees is something to start with.
H.K. Ropes (new) invite Your Excellency's attention to After all, it is by contentment with have to be shored up whenever a tional port and as such there is a The bors of the reception halls Hong Kong is a great interna- the serious obstruction
of public the common lot that one gauges the public reception or entertainment is constant stream of individuals louk thoroughfares at Kowloon-and the success of any administration, and given the public same may be said of similar condi- contentment has been described museum must be the cause of distracted by the prospects of possible Ibrary and ing for employment. Some are at- tions obtaining on the Island by b a great English essayist as the appointment to any visitor who work some because they licensed stallholders for the sale of "philosopher's stone." foodstuffs that should be kept with-
Sanitation
well as on the Island have been con- Unoffelal Member.
Chater Collection
Home for the Infirm
are un-
the Sailors'
It is on the question of the Sai-happens to be passing through the able to get work elsewhere there in the limits of the markets or shops kung-wad that
is also another class who cease to Colony. I am afraid )
become especially licensed for the purpose. must round the discordant note
employable. The able There is flagrant abuse of the con-here the conilised opinions of,
The laté Sir C. P. Chater, for bodied are found employment by the ditions attached to these licences. unofficial members are concerned. many years-a member of this Coun- General Charities Organisation, the A drive any aftermon through the There is no comparison between the ci left a very interesting and Hong Kong Benevolent Association of pictures de- and other charties, but it is of the thickly inhabited districts will con- tiaries, viz., these embraced with valuable collection
In the Circalar-road out to Saikung picting the Colony's history from last class I now speak-it is im- vince the most unobsżrvant that cen-curving round to Shatin and those the earliest times and also a collec- possible to find work, for them. tain wadways on the Peninsula asdistricts mentioned by the Seniortion of thina representing a life! They wander between
On the first work but we have nowhere to house Home and the Hong Kong Benevo verted into open market places by section of the projected Circular- these generous gifts. Surely the lent Association and often through the advantage taken by permittees road- within not more than about time has come when a suitable City ne fauit of their own become a in exceding the privileges comeded twenty minutes drive when the road Hall Theatre and Assembly Rooms charge on the Colony- they are of under the terms of their licences. is completed by motor-ear to the must be provided. This abuse of privilege makes it Ferry wharf will be found beauti-
various nationalities--as far as pos- difficult for sanitary regulations to ful undulating land in some places sum of $1,200 per 200
I notice that we contribute the nible they should be repatriated but be enforced, not
to the there is still a residue for whom a to speak of the and in another a plateau available City Hall item 21 on page 101, a refuge should be provided, serious obstructions to traffic.
We for building sites that will outrival very small contribution Market Gardeners
have no old age pensions or in any in the Colony, the Peak not ex- Pursuing further the subject of cepted.
Vehicular Ferry
surance-they are nevertheless an sanitation, I must once again urge
Year after year the Hong Kong obligation of the Colony. upon the attention of Government As an added attraction to tourists fer in their annual
Advertising Enterprise General Chamber of Commerce re-
Factory Legislation the intolerable nuisance created by visiting Hong Kong the Circular need of a vehicular ferry between becoming, for various reasons, a
report to the
The Colony is slowly but surely market gardeners in various locali road will be an eloquent appeal for the Island and Kowloon.
manufacturing centre. The pro- In New Kowloon. Again and those whose business it is to at public Press constantly refer to it babilities are that it will sub- again have 1 been approached to tract and will be benefitted by there we any nearer the acquisitionstantially increase in the not dis- make representations to the Sani-tourist trade. tary Authorities for the abatement this Colony with much that is beau- which appeare
Nature has gifted of such a means of communication tant future. This carries with it in of the very objectionable practice of tiful and compelling admiration; it obvious and which must have a most to be only too the use of human manure by market is the backwardness of our enter beneficial effect on gardeners in the vicinity of dwell-prise that is so behindhand with our Peninsula. What is our position? ing houses. I must not, however, advertising literature and the jud
ties
The
the whole
fail in my appreciation of the suecious me of publicity that has not appears to me to be a disgrace cessful efforts exerted by the ofcers made town to the world at large to the community that it is impos- of the Sanitary Department, under the beauties of the Island and onsible to get a motor vehicle from the the direction of the Head of that the mainland so as to attract Island to the mainland or vice versa Department, ・ in mitigating the larger number of visitors to the between the hours of 7 pm and 9 nuisang in some cases, especially a shores. It is the exalting of Hong am. and then only by very antiquat- recent one at Shamshuipo. But the Kong's natural beauties that led means and laborious methods persistence of permittees in rovert would commend to the notice of our a mere sop to the public. ing to the insanitary and offensive proprietors and the numerous shop but we seem no nearer a solution. Is business men shipowners, hotel Segabonit papers have been issued practice when vigilace is slightly kepen all of whom stand to gain it that Government's terms are too relaxed calls for the immediate by more visitors coming to Hong exacting or is it that no cut and cancellation of the permits. Notori-Kong. The Salkung-road will play dried policy has yet been for- ous offenders can be found any day its part in the way of an added at mulated? Is it a Government ob within the Kowloon Tong Estate.traction. If it does not first ligation like a road or is it a mat
Plez for Motorists Much disappointment has been land sales, the indirect profile Rand to Canten
pay for itself from the proceeds of ter for private enterprise? felt with the recent statement from, brought to Hong Kong cannot be How many more years hall we be the Honourable Colonial Secretary ignored in the whole scheme of talking of the motor road to in this Courcil that thattended cars things for the Colony. I do no Centon? Rumour has it that the and mutor-cycles ll not be per therefore, share in the unofficial contract for the construction of the mitted in future whin the square condensation of the Saikung-road, motor road in Chinese territory to
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these days certain Government ob- ligations to see
that the factories are conducted according to modern hygienic methods and operated on proper lines. The report of the Inspector of Factories (Annex B) to the report of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs for last year is illuminating and clearly indicates a case for further investigation. The time is not far off when more ad- vanced factory legislation and large- ly increased factory inspection will have to be taken in hand, but this possibly has already received your Excellency's consideration.
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