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A Happy Pun.

In a witty speech, delivered part- ly in German and partly in English, Herr W. Wissman (Germany), sald

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1931.

CHINESE DOCTOR AND

PAMPHLETS.

Found Pasted on A Mirror.

(Before Mr. Williams.)

COLONY'S BUDGET INTRODUCED.

Official Reasons for New Taxation.

BETTING TAX.

at a banquet given at Dorchester Charged with having exhibited House on September 2 to delegates pamphlets. of an inciting nature,"

The Colonial Secretary (Hon. attending the Illumination Con-Wong Kwok-sun, a Chinese doctor, Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G.), in gress in London:"To-day A of 34, Queen's Road Central, introducing the Budget at yester gentleman asked me which, in my pleaded not guilty this morning. day's meeting of the Legislative opinion, is the brightest nation of Inspector K. W. Andrew Bald Council, said that the present was the thirteeh or fourteen represent that yesterday afternoon, in com a moment of great financial pertur ed at the Illumination Congress. I pany with a Chinese detective, ho bailon. Ho referred to the financial --- replied, "I will tell you if you will entered defendant's floor, on in-crisis in Britain, the local distur promise not to betray my conformation received. Defendant' bances, fresh outbreak of unrest in fidence. He, agreed to keep the with six other Chinese were sit. China, and the setting up of a rival. secrét. Then I told him: "The ting in the front room. A mirror, Government in Canton, and the brightest nation hero is illumi-on the lower part of which was troubles in Manchuria. nation'" (Loud laughter and pasted two pamphlets, hung on the cheers.)

wall between the two verandah doors, and was the largest article that hung in the room. Defendant stated he had not seen the papers. Nobody had their backs to the mir ror. Oplum implements were set out in the rooms.

Lord Reading's New Brier.

On being congratulated the other day by a friend on two recent events, viz., his marriage and his appointment as Foreign Secretary, Lord Reading retorted that he was confident that the former would Just longer than the latter.

Reviewing the current year, ha said that business had not been al- together unprosperous except in shipping. The extensive building programmes in Kowloon and Praya East and the activity on the Stock Exchange bore teallmony of this prosperity. A reasonably healthy Defendant, from the dock, said volume of business had been shown that the pamphlets were served at in the Colony's trade returns, and, his premises by "hostile" strang-but for the renwal of civil war. in er two nights ago. Realising that China and other disturbing ele they "were against the law, he ments, the Government would not threw them into a basket. Ha did have been forced to be so cautious not know how they came to be in Its Entimates. pasted on to the mirror. He add- en that soon after the arrival of the Polico he came out of a rear room and it was then he learned un-of the pamphlets. He had a wit-

nets to call

On another occasion the new For- eign Secretary was asked how he liked his new office. "Well," was his cautious reply, "I know very little about foreign affairs." And, after a pause, he added pensively, "But, then, I am accustomed to getting up the most unexpected and familiar briefa !"*

Using Freedom Wisely.

A man was released from prison in Minnesota recently after serving nearly ten years for a crime he did! not commit.

When asked by an interviewer what he had been doing since he came out, he smiled and said:

The case was adjourned for 24 hours

eco,

BURGLAR UNDER THE BED.

(Kowloon Police Court.).

Economy Axe.

some r

It was indicated that commendations of the Retrenchment .Committee had already been brought inte force, and that the re- port of that Committee, together with a report by the Government showing which of the recommenda- tions had been carried out, and com- menting on the Commissioner's re- port generally (which la now in course of preparation) would be published shortly...

The Colonial Secretary said that Ho Kwok, an unemployed Chin-the depreciated dollar had made the was this morning charaedhalancing of the Budget a cause of. with burglary.at. No. 24, Wal Ching great anxiety and since any reduce Street, on September 30.

tion in expenditure would impair complainant. Leung Mul,

Inspector Clarke said that the efficiency, It had been decided to in-

crease taxation. awakened at 5 am. by someone it was hoped, will be introduced be- A Betting Tax moving something under the bed. fore the end of the present year.

She called out and a man who

He was caught

WOR

atrols in the northern part of the New Territories and along

"Lying under the trees and feel- the boundary, and of enabling a ing the grass." small but compact body of men

He had not been spending his time at the talkies. They would have to be rushed to any danger spot.een all new to him, and one might Excellent in theory, perhaps, so expect him to be curious at least. far as concerns the New Terri-He had not been going to ball tories; but doubtful in practice games, wor doing any of the things in its application to the congest-one might expect a man to do after was pulling a box from underneath

spending so many years behind pri- the bed, bolted. ed districts in the centre of the son walls. It wasn't because he emerging from the staircase, by an city. This tinkering with the did not have the money to Indulge Indian constable. On his hurried European contingent of the whatever little funcios might have attracted him, because during his Policé may to some savour of incarceration he had earned $452 real economy: to others it may for his prison Inbour..

But he lay under the trees and

the defen- flight down the stairs dant dropped two pairs of trousers which he had taken from the cubicle.

Six months' hard labour was im- posed.

Less Europeans. Reductions in staff were proposed

Budget Features.

Thanks to the revenue this year exceeding expectations .by. three and a half million dollars, the Government has been enabled

in many departments. Five Euro- to present a balanced Budget and

pean, warders will be reduced from anticipate a balance of $50,000

the Prison Department, and there at the end of next year. It was

will be a corresponding increase of ten Indian guards. It was, indicat- pointed out, however, by the

ed that the Indian staff would be Government apokesman, the

further increased by ben and that Colonial Secretary, that fluctua-appear like tempting Providence

felt the grass.

about fifty of the Indian staff were and inviting trouble.

The law found this man guilty.

twelve or more months overdue for tions in exchange can easily alter

The Prison Department is and then it found him innocent. the whole picture; if the fluctua-·

Details of the staffing of a Junior tions

are upward it should be also to be victimised by a re- In the meantime he had suffered,

duction of five European ward- and although his Innocence was stories to the occupant of the chair Technical School which will be hous possible to paint the picture in

firmly established, it will not be an opposite him in the smoking-room. ed in the building at present oc- rosier. colours than those heers and a corresponding increase easy thing for him from now on in At last the wretched victim decld-cupled by the Victoria British-

of ten Indian guards the first this busy world. Some will thinked that he would have to be rude School were also given. half of the scheme for the re- he should have been out looking if he were to escape at all.

for a job.

When the next story came to an placement of ten Europeans by It is entirely probable that the end he gave a prodigious yawn. twenty Indiang recommended by way he chose to use his newly found "Excuse me," he said. the Retrenchment Commission. freedom was the most profitable But the club bore was a match Looking to the protracted handi-piness of those days the conyfetion concerned.

In the quiet hap-for the best where, rudeness was one possible.

cap to the Superintendent of Fri- was perhaps borne in upon him "That's quite all right, old man,"

adopted at the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday.

The first perusal of the Budget speech, occupying as it doca nearly two whole pages of a newspaper, cannot justify neces- sarily hasty impressions, leading,

•

For more than two hours the home leave.

club bore had been telling his

may be, to weak or even errone-ons and his European staff of that there is an immutable law of he wheezed. "It doesn't bother mel

warders owing to the perpetual Justice operating in the affairs of at all. You see, I've lived close to men, however clouded and tardy the entrance of a railway tunnel congestion of prisoners, would have expected to find con- seem.

one the human expression, of it may for the last five years." :

Such realization would give siderable reluctance in reducing courage to carry on with a stout the European personnel until memories of years of unjust impri- such time as the new very costly sonment.-C.S.M. jail were ready for occupation at Stanley. Nor-in regard to the latter-do we consider that the

one

heart and help dissolve the

News in Brief.

ous criticisms. There is,, for in- stance, the reduction in the Euro- pean contingent of the Police by the elimination of one Inspector, Ser Sub-Inspector, one geant,. and sixteen Lance- Sergeants. This is a very serious retrenchment in the Force to whom is entrusted the duty of

a sum The next meeting of the Legisla- protecting the community and expenditure of no less

than $4,500,000 in these hard tiva Council has been fixed for maintaining law and order. In a Colony in which, by virtue of times is the best method of soly. October 22. its overwhelming allen Orientaling the problem of providing

The Naval authorities, report 0 better food and shelter for alien capsized junk in Lat. 28.03. N. and population and by reason of its

convicts. There are other Long, 121.58.E. It is a danger to close proximity to the Southern

methods of dealing with the

navigation: Provinces of China, crises occur

question that are too obvious to with dramatic unexpectedness,

labour here. one would have considereds furth that the application of the prun. It is further proposed to frit

ter away $770,000 on vehicular ing knife would have been delay- ed till more tranquil days than ferry piers, and the startling dis- those we are passing through closure is made that the revised now. A palliative is offered by a estimate for the total cost is two | lakhs over the original estimate vote for $18,500 for motor cycles, $12,000 of which is in connection owing to the drop in exchange. with the scheme of reducing the The scheme has never had the unanimous approval of the bust number of European Sergeants and Lance-Sergeants by substiness community, by many of tuting motor cycle patrols. It whom it is considered premature is stated that the difference be to the extent of at least a de

tween the pay of

of ten Lance- cade...

Anti-Malarial Work. Among new public services, anti-malaria work is to be taken up, also infant welfare work. There is to be a Junior Technical School, and other educational, development.

The Government anticipated a deficit this year of something over two million dollars, but now expects a' surplus of about $50,- 000, revenue having exceeded ex- : pectations by three and a half millions.

The estimated revenue for 1982. Is $33,991,510. The estimated ex-, penditure is.. $33,081,661.

The estimated revenue for 1982 is as under (the ontimates of ex already been

Harbour For dredging · In the yesterday without a permit a boat woman this morning was fined $3penditure or three days hard labour..

published, were approved by the

published) Duties

have

7,800,000 798,000

16,234,110

Votes totalling $148,960, part-Port and Harbour Duea

Licences and Interna】 culars of which have already been

Revenue not other- Finance Committee of the Legisla

wise specified tive Council yesterday afternoón.

Fees of Court or Office, Payments for Specifle Purposes, and Reim- bursements In Ald "77.2,112,100 2,840,000

The new motor ambulance Intended for the Kowloon district will be formally received on Jean by His Excellency the Governor, on bohalf of the Government, on Tuesday at G p.m.

Personal Pars.

Post Office ..... Kowloon-Canton Railway 1,100,000

Rent of Government Pro- and. perty, Land“

Houses

Interest

Miscellaneous

Sergeants and the cost of twelve The foregoing are not the only motor cycles is $20,000 and "the salient features of what we may

Mussolini became a grandfather, Total, (exclusive of Land cost of the motor cycles does not describe as the gloomy side of for the first time, when yesterday eales) form an annual charge." It is the new Budget. Opportunity afternoon his daughter Edda, wife contended that the twelve push may be taken to deal with other of Count Clano, the Italian Consul cycles will serve the dual pur phases gloomy and otherwise General at Shanghai, gave birth to à son. Both mother and child'aro well-Reuter. pose of making more efficient the in subsequent issuess

Land Sales, (Premja" on

New Lenses)

Total

Among the now works the Gov- ernment has in view, but for which It has no funds, are a new Govern- ment Civ Hospital, a new Mental Hospital, a new Infectious Disease Hospital, a Post Office for Kowloon, a new block for Kowloon Hospital, and a now Central British School,

A Betting Tax la to be intro- duced

The Government is abandoning the Civil Service Salaries compro. mise and will pay salaries at cur- rent exchange rate.

The Government is allent con- cerning stabilisation of the dollar.

A new Prison is to be com- menced next year, out of loan It is to be built at Stanley.

Among other new works are a new Magistracy for Kowloon and completion of the Shaukiwan main road at Causeway Bay: (Continued at foot of preceding Column.)

To-day's Thought.

We remain young as long as we look forward; it is the backward look that makes us old,

Ten Years Ago.

(From the "Chins Mall" ·

October 2, 1921.]

To-day's dollar, is worth 2/11%.

Our advertising: columns an- nounce a series of meetings to be addressed by Dr. H. T, Hodgkin on 1,407,300 some arresting subjects, which 150,000 should have an appeal to all. st 205,000 Two of the meetings are to be

held in the St. Andrew's Hall And- one at the Helena May Institute. At the Sunday meeting to be held- In the Theatre, HE the Governor

A

82,241,510

* has kindly consented to take the 1,760,009 chair, and the subject of the address

will be "The Salvaging of Civilisa $89,991,510 ton."