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THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1930.

UNIFIED COLONIAL SERVICE.

Promotion on Merit to the Higher Posts.

A REVOLUTIONARY PROPOSAL.

THE CHINA

WATER SUPPLY.

MAIL.

ROUND THE CINEMAS

VERY SLIGHT DECREASES IN A TEAKWOOD FURNITURE USED IN

13TH CHAIR."

WEEK.

CONSUMPTION AGAIN. UP..

The total storage in the island Far-reaching recommendations are contained in the report of reservoirs on Monday, June 30, the Committee, appointed by Mr. L. S. Amery in April, 1929, to con-amounted to 1,156.40 million sider the system of appointment in the Colonial Office and the gallons, showing a decrease of

Colonial Services.

The most important suggestions made are:- (1)--That a single Colonial Service should be created and that, within this larger whole, unified special services should be organised with the necessary degree of assimilation of the terms of service the separate Dependencies. Under the new system any Colonial officer would be liable to be called upon to serve in any part of the Colonial Empire.

(2) That, in the selection of Governors, prior consideration should be given to the suitability of officers holding high offices in the Colonial Services.

(3)—That the long salary scale system should be retained, but that, above some middle point in the scale, a number of posts of suitable importance should be designated as higher-grade posts to be filled by selection on the sole basis of merit from among all officers on the scale, whether in the upper or lower half.

(4).-That every encouragement should be given to the fullest interchange in practice between the Secretariat and the rest of the administrative staff in a Dependency.

INADEQUATE SALARIES OF ENGINEERS.

Th most sensational sugges-of combined Services for the tion which the report contains a whole of Malaya. that

ITS ACOUSTIC QUALITIES,

The perfect acoustic furniture. has been discovered.

Teakwood chair and tables, al- most as heavy as iron, the wood 26.40 million gallons during the of which is the densest known, are at week. The amount collected used in the settings of "The 13th from streams was 28.94 million Chair," Ted Browning's first. all gallons. The week's consumption talking picture for Metro-Goldwyn amounted to 76.63 million gallons Mayer. So perfect are its natural which included 21.29 million gal-acoustic properties that echoes or ions from the Shing Mun supply. "kick-backs" have been practically

· The total storage in the mainland As a result, it possible that reservoirs on Monday, June 30, teakwood panels as buckings for amounted to 395.79 million gal-sets may be developed as, a new lens, showing a decrease of 2.15 and more reliable form of acoustic million gallons during the past set treatment, according to the

week.

Position in Kowloon.

The week's consumption amount- ed to 32.75 million gallons, pot in cluding Hong Kong supplies and 2.28 million gallons supplied to

water boats at Laichikok.

The yield from the Shing Mun River and streams during the week was 64.17 million gallons.

Storage

On

Hong Kong Mainland

130.81

The following shows the amount in storage (million gallons) the dates named: for the unification of the The question of creating a gen-

1029 Lulonial Services. In this coinec-eral Colonial Service was discuss-

Apr. 22 ed at the instance of Mr. Joseph Hay B tion the Committee states:-

Chamberlain in 1899, but the pro- June ject was allowed to lapse in the

The proposals which we make, volve in the first place the re- cognition of a single Colonial ser- vice, and in the second place, this larger whole, the within unification of special services auch agriculture, medicine, cducation, etc.

July 8 face of the obstacles which pre- Aug. In his view, Sept. seated themselves. at that time, the principal ob-Oct. etacle seemed to be the severity Nov. of the tropical climate in certain Dependencies, which made it im-Jan. It is an issue of the very first practicable to include those Ter

a single Colonial importance from the point ofritories within

st

view of Colonial development.Service the members of which Much of the information on which would have to accept the liability

of serving in any region.

it rests cannot be present in the minds of Governors or their ad- visers overseas, particularly 10

recruitment, 'home'

326,38

311.72

237.90

192.75

121.05 87.00 80.51*

157.79+

105,52

1,251,86

438.58

1,978.13 467.06 514.08 1,880.14 1,690.58 514,64 1,514,80 496.54

1,279.77 458,50

1.235.50 450,51 1,188.37 438.87 1.145.65 432.88 1,097.85

eliminated.

director.

The picture, which is showing at the Queen's Theatre, is a vivid mystery drama of India. Its cast includes Margaret Wycherly, famous stage star, in the role ahe played in the stage presentation of the drams, Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyama, Mary Forbes, Holmes Her- Dert, Moon Carroll, Cyril Chadwick, | and Helene Millard,

"HAPPY DAYS."

Tom Patricola, eccentric dancer and comedian, has appeared in Beven Fox Movietone productions since he deserted the lights, of Broadway to embark on an all talk- ing picture career. He has enacted roles in "Words and Music", "Married in Hollywood," "The 3 Sistera." ""Tomanee

.of Rio Grande," "Seven Faces," "Frozen Justice" and "Happy Days," all in the space of a little more than six months.

"Happy Days," all star, all talk- ing musical romance, will be shown on Sunday at the Queen's Theatre.

Dec.

1980

13

to

20

Fúb.

430.14

1.06.18

424.80

»

1,011.11

11

410.80

to

of

must

naturally

In the last 30 years, however, the advance in the science of since it relates

questions of tropical medicine and in the pro-

and

vision of sanitary services in individual West Africa has effected nothing less than a revolution in the re- It is therefore a pro- ject which enn best be promoted sitting power of Europeans to

climatic conditions, from home, and in which the Colonial Ofre

964442 400.65

Mar.

915.10

392.04

872,86

388.88

31

828.17

378.50

792.16

379.37

31

771.09

420.65

Apr.

21

28

take the initiative.

Since the War the rapid dove- May 5 lopment of the scientific services

744.71 428.96 709.37 410.74 995,69 €71.16 644.57 388.41 008.80

365.00 654.57 364.98

646.04

346.16

26

426.10

324.29

screen.

801.17

293.48

008.48

335.05

16

1,158.87

378.83

23

1,182.80

397.94

90

1,156,40

395.79

the difficulties Colonies.

the

Unification does not. As wels brought especially Into pro- have already suggested, neces-minence the urgency and difficulty June sarily involve undue interference of Jecruiting

increased with the local staff in any Colony. specialist staff required, and a The Colonial Audit Service is an

of Committees series

on indivi- dual branches of the Services Example of a service which calls for virtually no interference in have pressed for a more rational practice with the Governor's con- crganisation of the Colonial Ser- trol of the staff of his adminis vices. tration.

* Lowest for 1929 in Kowloon Lowest for 1929 in Island.

Consumption The following figures show the The report then deals, at some Nor is a provision of central length, with steps which have weekly consumption (million gal

ssential first alage. been taken, or proposals which lons) on the dates mentioned:

Hong Kong Mainland though some scheme of related have been made, for the unifica-Apr. 22 salary scales would be involved, tion (either throughout the lay

27.17 Colonial Empire or within limit- Jane and would. in certain instanses,

funds до

1020

we think, require an inconsidered territories) of the medical, July 1 able revision of existing salaryeterinary, and agricultural ser

schemes in particular Depen- dencies. Similarly, some assimila tion of other terma of service would be needed, such as leave and passage conditions, and in particular, the grant of free pas- Enges to officers on transfer,

The terms of future appoint- ments would have to provide that the appointment would be to Colonial Service in one of Its par- ticular branches for duty in the first instance in a territory stat- ed, but with a liability to serve in future anywhere within the Colonial Empire.

We recommend that this con- ́sidered proposal be brought to the notice of the Governors and ether Colonial representatives for discussion at the forthcoming Colonial Office. Conference..

The support of the oversea· Govern- ments is, wo recognise, essential If the project is to be launched under conditions favourable to ita success. Thereafter a committes should, we suggest, be appointed to draw up a complete and de- tailed scheme for each branch of service, together with the general and special regulations which. would be required to bring the new policy into effect.

The Case for Unification. In the course of Part III. of the report, which deals exclusively "with this" queation of a unified Colonial service" the, Comioittée,

"At" nearly every stage of our Inquiry we have been faced with the difficulties arising out of the Independence of each Colony's Service and the lack of a cen tral control securing a reasonable relation between the salary schemes and other terms of her... rice in the different administra tions, except in respect of certain nervices regionally grouped. The general situation is that, in the "past, each territory has set up ite

own distinct Service, and, subject: to the approval of the Colonial Offee, has laid down its own terms for its own staff.

vices.

Aug.

Colonial Office Conference. Sept. It also quotes the following ex-

Oct. tract from the published Bum. Nov. mary of proceedings of the Dec.

Office Conference 1930 Colonial (1927):-

Jan,

20

A

30.76*

23.71 24.86

37.86

93.03

27.48

24.86

24

27.14

11:08+

27.21

20.71

25.828

23.29

31.85

25.17

50.86

24.02

58.411

28.67

54.90

20.70

64.22

24.81

46.90, 26.54

46.01

25.93

45.00

24.17

47.10

25.47

47.10

25.21

· 50.76

23.74

44.71

+1

17

46.11

24

40.69

26.22

no

Mar. 9

48.87

20.88

48.71

24.80

47.82

26.40

48.84

20.26

31

50.48**

25.64

Apr

49.00

25.18

13

58.57

20.89

.55.04

28.62

-58.68

28.54

60.88

20.79

61.77 62,97

29.10

30.24

65.14

30.95

Juze

67.07

81.57

62.74

30.77

67.59

81.46

"71.05

31.15

76.03

82.75

there was a wide- *T spread feeling in many Depen. dencies, and particularly in the Feb. 3 smaller Colonies, that in pre- sent circumstances, owing to the fact that there was unified Colonial Service, officers, particularly in the scientific and technical. branches, labour ed under serious disabilities in the matter of transfers and had in many cases few or no pros- pects of ultimate promotion. The prevalent opinion was. Suc- cinctly set out in the following i extract from one of the memoranda:

While co-ordination of poli- tical machinery in the non-self- governing Colonfes is manifest- ly impracticable and doubtfully desirable, there would seem to

be considerable scope for clos er co-ordination is the, adminis trative system; not so much In matter of procedure but in rea- pect of the higher personnel of the local Administrations in all departments, administrative and technical, Individual Colonies tend to become watertight com partments: the business of Goy- ernment is conducted in a well-

#

*Highest in Kowloon during

period of publication of weekly reporta.

+ Lowest in Kowloon recorded in

1920,

$ Lowest in Island in 1929,

Highest in Toland in 1929. **Including first supply from Shing

Mun.

NICOLA

STAR: JE POGO

worn groove; there is not suffi- MAN OF MYSTERY COMING TO clent diffusion of experience and specialised knowledge to secure the steady development of this group of units as a whole, Transfers of officers Nicola, who opens at the Star seem to be opportunistic rather Theatre next week, will present than systematic. The poorer what is said to be one of the most Colonies have no regular faci- stupendous as well as the most re lities for calling for the advice markable entertainments that bas of visiting experts in matters in ever been seen in this Colony. He which they cannot afford to em. has just completed his fifth tour ploy a full time man. Officers of the world and everywhere, ho in the technical services in paras been acclaimed as the supreme ticular feel themselves hemmed master of Magic. Ng

In by local Infidences and any Over 50 tons of gorgeous pará- and often do uccumb to them. Thernalia, cenery and effects are are out of touch with their used in this entertainment, thers Colonies, the attractions

to promote

Empl

atmosp

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