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Hong Kong, Friday, June 20, 1930.

MORALITY.

marked recently: "I feel quite like a young girl again; how Vic- torian these young folks are to- day!" And she had never been to, Hong Kong'

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We would like to draw the at- tention of the Chief Censor in Hong Kong and all the Permanent Under-Censors to this important fact-Hong Kong is very moral.

News in Brief

One Chinese case of smallpox on the Island was notified yester Jay.

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• Communists are reported in a Naval Wireless message to be re turning inland from the river be tween Hankow and Kluktang,

YOUNG OFFENDERS.

How They Are Dealt With.

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1930.

TOO MANY CIVIL

SERVANTS.

RETRENCHMENT: URGED BY

MEMBERS,

GOVERNMENT AGREES.

At the meeting of the Legislative

H.E. THE GOVERNOR WELCOMED.

AT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING.

AMONG OLD FRIENDS.

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Owen Hughes, pursuant to notice Council for the first time yester- HE Sir William Poel presided Council yesterday, the Hon. Mr. Jat the meeting of the Legislative moved:-

"That it is desirable, in the in-Governor of Hong Kong.

day since his appointment terests of this Colony, that is Excellency the President of this rousing welcome by the Hon. Sir His Excellency was given a REPLIES TO DR. KOTEWALL Council be invited to appoint a Shou-son Chow, who said:

Committee to be called a 'Retrench- Pursuant to notice. the Hon. Dr.ment Commitee for the purpose of sion on which you preside over Sir-As this is the, first occas R. H. Kotewall, C.MG., asked the and the manner in which, economy half of my unofficial colleagues, advising the Government where, this Council I take leave on be following question at the Legisla tive Council yesterday relative to

In expenditure can, and should be Sir, to tender Your Excellency juvenile offenders:-

made, in the personnel and admin-our respectful welcome and assur- -Will the Government give istration of this Colony."

ance of our loyal and whole-heart- the following Information Coll- I would like to express the greated support in all matters condue cerning juvenile offenders In gratification of the Unofficial mem-cive to the best interests of the

bers that you are in favour of the Colony. motion. There are many reasons

respect of the year 1929-

The number of boys and the number of girls, both under the age of 15 years (European reckoning), who were brought before the Magistrates. A. Boys 985; girls 187.

The respective numbers of such boys and girls who were convicted, with a classification showing-

(1) the number sent to prison; (2) the number of previous con-

victions; (3)) whether the convictions were for felony or for other offences;

(4) in the latter case, the num

ber of convictions under the hawkers' regulations. A-(1) Boys, 181; (2) 172: (3) and (4) felonies 268, hawking 377 and other offences 340,

Girls, (1) 5; (2) 5; (3) and (4) offences,57. felonies 7; hawking 73 and other

Q-The number of boys on whom the punishment of whip-i ping was inflicted by order of the Magistrates, showing the number who received auch punishment more than once

during the period, with a classi- fication showing the type of offences for which the punish

meat was 'inflicted.

We wish Your Excellency good for bringing it forward and we health so as to enable you to dis- appreciate your action very muth. charge the arduous and respon- During my stay at Home last year, sible duties of your high office to I observed in one of our local the advantage of the whole com- papers that there is one Civil Ser-munity. (Applause). cant to every 77 to 11 people in

Not a Stranger.

this Colony, the population being In reply, His Excellency said:- variously estimated at between Sir Shou-son Chow and Hon. 700,000 and one million. I admit members, I thank you very sin not being able to say whether those cerely for the warm welcome you figures (if correct) are justified, have given me through tho but undoubtedly there is a very raedium of your senior unofficial general belief that many of our member. Had a meeting of this Government departments are over-Council been called within a few staffed.

daya of my arrival in the Colony, Retrenchment Committee I should have said that although should make careful enquiry not a stranger to Hong Kong,. I do only with regard to the number en-not come before you entirely as a gaged in different departments, but stranger, also into the routine followed, and I had the pleasure of meeting to find out whether or not, by the Mr. Southorn a year or two ago adoption of other and more modern during his visit through Malaya. methods of working, a reduction in I travelled out nearly 321⁄2 years the number employed could not be effected without loss of efficiency,

This

ago, with Mr. Hallifax on our great adventure to the Far East, and I Dr. Kotewall Supports.

have had the opportunity of dis- Supporting the motion, the Hon. Cussing labour matters as affect- ing Chinese labour in Malaya Dr. R. H. Kdewall said:-

since that date. Mr. Messer and I need not enter into elaborate together faced the stern ex- figures to prove that it is necessary aminers of Mathematical Tripos According to Sessional Paper No. 34 years ago at Cambridge, whilst Commission, the total account pay associated over a period of 20 3 of 1930 relative to the SalariesDr. Wellington and I have been able in salaries as a sterling and

High Cost of Living Al- lowance extended down to the

of 1/6d., this yenr.

The the motion

"Friendly Ferocity."

for dollar basis, together with the years in health and other matters. As, however, it has been un- necessary to call a meeting of this is $9,306,496

Council until to-day, I now feel adoption of

that I come among you as among that old friends. I have had the plea has just been carried would bring sure of meeting you all and feel this sum up to roughly $11,000,000, we are now well acquainted.

Be-

A.-433 whippings were inflicted If on tried to be otherwise hen boys of which 177 were

felonies, 125 for hawking and 131 would be "cut dead." People for other offences. There is no would sniff when he passed, tilt record of how many boys received rate of exchange their topees over their eyes, and this punishment more than once.

Q. Whether or not children remark "so outre, my dear!" An under the age of 16 years indiscreet joke would be treated (European reckoning), while with intellectual gravity; grey

being detained at the Police this have to be added other fore I left Lontion, the Colonial Court or at the 'Gaol or in the allowances scattered all over the office handed me copies of certain heads would pour over it in Peak

precincts thereof awaiting trial,

Estimates. It is safe to say, then, proceedings of this Council. drawing rooms; subalterns would}

that Personal Emoluments alone was struck by the simple and are so detained in company with snigger piously in discreet martial adults who are charged with on consume at least $11,500,000 per businesslike tone which pervaded humour.

offence, and who are not the re-the estimated current revenue for I missed the quite friendly fero- annum, which is more than half those proceedings. I admit that latives of such children.

(b) Whether or not such

1930, as given in paragraph 9 of city which sometimes characteris- children, on being tried by a Sir Cecil Clementi's despatch of ed the attacks on the Government Magistrate, are placed in the the 22nd January, 1930, to the by the unofficial members of the dock with adult defendants who Secretary of State for the Colonies. Federal Council of the Federated

Now, the public believes, as I do. Malay States. are not charged jointly with

that the Government Service is there, the underlying good rela- I sense here, as such children.

Our entertainments are general- ly 29 respectable as anything shown at Tunbridge Wells before 1906. It is true, indeed, that the local Censors were deeply perturb-| ed over a certain scene in a local "talkie," and were only persuaded from prohibiting its appearance in public by the doubt as to whe

are

cases where bail has been found, when the juveniles charged not detained and, when brought magistrate, placed in the dock.

PUBLIC FUNDS.

before

are

the not

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2. (a) and (b) Yes, except in/over-staffed, and that there is room itions which existed between the for economy. It seems to me that unofficial members and the Gov- retrenchment could best be affect-

ernment. Differences of opinion ed in the direction of reduction of must, of course, happen at times Personnel rather than reduction of and I assure you I will always do salary, and also by a reorganisa-my best to find solutions, and in tion and redistribution of work. In my view, the Colony is not, put have the support of you all If, as my efforts I know that I shall ting its splendid native material perhaps the inevitable must hap to a sufficient use. With proper pen, it is impossible to recon training, many Chinese, Portu-cile our differences, I feel sure guese and Indians would be found that that fact will in no way im- suitable for positions now occupied pair the happy relations which by EuropeanE. I think that the have existed and do exist between Honourable the Colonial Secretary what may be called the Govern can bear me out that Ceylon has ment and the Opposition. of cleanliness; diture, the following votes were

Relative to public works expen-gone far towards this and without

(Ap- plause).

The morals of Hong Kong are ther or not it might not be perhaps better to-day than they "artistic." There is a great deat were when Rudyard Kipling, as of humbug said and writter. an adventurous young Civil Ser-Jabout "art." A lady in her bath, vant searching for "local colour,"discreetly concealed by water visited the Colony and left his im and half a dozen maidens, is pressions in "From Sea to Sea." neither artistic nor immoral. It Saloon bar brawls are so infre- is quite ordinary. It is quite a quent now that they may almost good example

Voted for Aberdeen Water Scheme.

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be regarded as belonging to the stressing the purity of the body passed at the Legislative Council any appreciable loss of efficiency. "gay past," when the dollar was as an ideal of public health. If yesterday afternoon:--

of

high and the desire to live genial- the lady in the film and refused to 1.188.32 in connection with the Europeans are placed in them: 1oing on long leave, he was yester-

ly rose accordingly. Streets that take her Royal bath, we can now wear an 'air of sedateness understand the feelings of the and melancholy once stirred the Censors; it would have been most

I do not advocate reduction of Hon. Mr. Southorn's F.P.C.. salaries attached to the posts now In view of the fact that the A vote for the excess Aberdeen Water Scheme

occupied by Europeans If non- Colonial Secretary will soon be

by Sir Shou-son- believe In equality of treatment, day thanked A further expenditure involving $613,922.73 in connection with the provided that the native can offer Chow for his arduous work in midnight hours

equal efficiency. But there can be connection with the administra- with their immoral.

Shing Mun Valley Scheme. shrieks and Bacchanal orgies.

The Aerodrome.

no doubt that substantial savings tion of the Colony. Addressing could be affected in exchange com-the Council, Sir Shou-on Chow Hong Kong was known to the ends tion of morality which we recom-The third motion deals with the passages, by the employment of lask your permission to say a few The Colonial Secretary said: pensation, long-leave pay and free said: "Before we rise, may I of the earth for its "ladies" and mend to the attention of the aerodrome, and is due to a small non-Europeans in the place of words as this is the last meeting its free fights.

saving on the harbour works. Are bathing dresses The harbour development and the

Europeans.

of the Council at which the Hon. All that is gone now, for the (or costumes) in Hong Kong suf- aerodrome were connected works; ments in support of the motion, absence, which he has so well I could adduce further argut before he goes on long leave of Colonial Secretary will be present generation of to-day has none of ficiently long? Are these lank the dredged material being used

as filling for the aerodrome and but since I understand that Your.

There is another grave ques-

Censors.

virility of the pre-war generation, young men and,, plump young $1,500,000 was allocated from the Excellency is prepared to accept it, earned by his arduous work dur

worked out by the Committee. I

Government Accepta.

Ten Years Ago

It is afraid to use its fists, not be-women indecently attired when loan for the combined works, prefer to leave the details to be Colonial Secretary and as Officer ing the last four years, both as cause it fears the physical senga-they meander across the sands at When the vote was taken last year have pleasure in seconding the I would like to take this oppor tion of being hit, but because it Repulse Bay? There are also re-from loan funds were $419,771.20 motion.

Administering the Government. the amounts respectively allocated comes from the suburbs and feported to be occasional motor for harbour development and

tunity, on behalf of my unofficial too respectable for anything but rides in the moonlight. Soon we $1,080.228.74 for Kai Tak Aero The Colonial Secretary. The Gov-him and Mrs. Southorn a pleasant colleagues and myself, to wish tennis and bathing. The roman- shall have novelists who visit drome. The harbour work was,ernment, Sir, accepts the motion of voyage and a restful vacation... tie spirits who fit from the pages Hong Kong describing our sunseta 88, leaving

however, completed for $416,720.-the honourable member and will be (Applause). of popular novels with a languid is the blushes of shame for the 73,041.58 available for the aero-Committee on the lines suggested. a balance of pleased to appoint a Retrenchment air and dine on absinthe, would conduct of certain maidens and drome The resolution I am about In view of the fact that the Govern have a thin time in Hong Kong youths. But they are beyond the transfer, this amount to the credit not propose to attempt any reply to to move asks for your sanction 'to ment is accepting this motion 1 do It is desperately moral, and our pale" as the Dubliners used to of aerodrome funds and your ap- the arguments of the mover and Censors have nothing to fear

Bay; the fifty per cent. Hong Kong Proval of its expenditure in 1929, seconder although there is a good A wave of puritanism seems to youth may be told by the width of The foregoing motions were deal which might be said in reply,

To-day's dollar is worth 3/8 have passed over our youth and its trousers and the angle of its aurer and carried

seconded by the Colonial Trea-particularly to remarks of my friend, left it serious and dull.. One never noses...

Dr. Kotowall. The names of the

Our "Pioneer" Aviators-AN- hears a kelly good joke nowa-

members of the Committee and other exhibition of flying was days; all the best ones are retall- always been regarded by modern Mr. Baldwin and the Conservative will be instructed to afford every was not large, possibly owing to The liberty of the Press has Beaverbrook criticised the stand of be announced later. Departments Bay yesterday, but the patronage Speaking at Hastings, Lord the exact terms of reference will given by Capt. Ricou at Repulso

ters as of supreme im- party with regard to the proposed possible facility to the Committee passenger flying bout, came over Liberty to referendum on the Empire Free and if the Committeo can suggest chines, including the large two-

Trade policy,

ed by men over fifty. Our young politica men avoid all the Clubs but the

sports Clubs and the height of know,

levity is considered to b

When a pers

WIND)

STREET

on the shar

Sached

(From the "Chiza | Mall,"

June 20, 1920.3

add any practicable-scheme whereby passenger 'flying boat came over 240747 the cost of administration can be counter attractions.) Four ma- iciated at reduced without loss of emcfancy,chine only, was used, Mr. and James's no-one will be better passed than Mrs. 1. O. Herb malle two flights, BHush Red Cross the Government.

and Mira, WA Hannibal and Mr.

Duke of York

Fresolution was passedeatzek