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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1932.

COUNCIL MEETING

MOTION ON KAI TAK AERODROME POSTPONED.

Our Opium Law,

SPEECH DAY.

At Ying Wah Girls' School.

"STEADY FAITHFUL WORK.”

The annual Speech Day of the Ying Wah Girls' School took place At yesterday's meeting of the¦parations such as tinctures, liquid Legislative Council, speaking on the extracts, etc., would be somewhat in the Hall of the Hop Yat Church, following motion:

less.

Bonham Road, last evening,' under "That this Council approves of The Hon. Colonial Secretary the Chairmanship of the Rev. the expenditure of a further sum seconded and the resolution was Cheung Chak-ling. Dr. Wong San- of $20,000 on the Kai Tak aero-carried. drome hangar during the finan- cial year 1982, which sum shall In moving the first reading of a large gathering of parents and be met from a future loan and "Bill to amend and consolidate the friends of the pupils, who fully shall meanwhile be charged as an law relating to oplùm," the Hon. taxed the accommodation in the advance from the surplus ba- Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Q.B.E., Attor-Hall, included Dr. R. Gibson, lances of the Colony"

ney-General, said that the B Senior Missionary in Hong Kong

Opium Law Amendment.

yin gave away the certificates to the successful students. The

the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, would consolidate the Ordinances of the LMS, and Mr. Y. P. Law, | C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, said that on the subject and amend therein Inspector of Vernacular Schools.

with the consent of the Council in the manner indicated in the table In the course of her annual re- he wished to postpone the motion of correspondence on pages 19 and port, Miss D. Hutchinson, the head as it had been found necessary to 20 of the Bill. The principal mistress, said "There have been amend the figure and certain details amendment was the new clause 14 no outstanding events to mark the were not yet ready.

which was to prevent the sale and year 1931, but throughout the Council agreed and the motion purchase by minors of any pre-jyear, in all classes, steady faithful was postponed.

pared opium. This clause had work has been done." The Rev. been inserted in consequence of the Cheung Chuk-ling gave an address

in Chinese. Bangkok Opium Conference.

Assessment of Liquor.

The Hon. Mr. Edwin Taylor,

Colonial Treasurer, then moved the following resolution:

The Colonial Secretary seconded After the distribution of the cer- and the Bill was read a first time,tificates, the students of the The "Bill to provide for and ro-school presented an excellent pro- "Resolved under section 39 of the gulate Industrial and Reformatory gramme of entertainment which Liquors Ordinance, 1931, that the Schools" was read for the second was well received. It included Resolution of the 22nd day of Octo-and third time and passed, on the musical items and a play by the paid on spirituous liquors other motion of the Attorney-General Middle School,

seconded by the Colonial Secretary.

ber, 1931, assessing the duty to be

than intoxicating liquors be re- scinded and that duty be assessed and paid on such spirituous liquors in accordance with the following table:

On perfumed spirits and toilet preparations -other than spirituous [liquora classified by the Superin-

tendent as Medical Spirits, $10.

On Medicated Spirits classified by the Superintendent as such: (a) containing more than 10 per cent. by weight of pure alcohol, but less than 21 per cent., $2.50.

(b) containing 21 per cent. by weight of pure alcohol but lesa than 38 per cent., $5.

(c) containing 88 per cent. by weight of pure alcohol but less than 68 per cent., $7.50.

SHOWERY!

The Royal Observatory's re- port to-day states:-The anti- cyclone has weakened.

It is central over S. Korea, moving, E.N.E.

Forecast:--N.E. winda; mo- derate; fair to showery.

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.

The official summary loued by the Stock Exchange to-day states:

Rates were further marked up

: Sales. Docks, $27.

Ewo Cottons, Tis.. 14.60/.70. Star Ferries, $90. Telephones (P.P.), $28. Hong Kong Ropes, 816. Constructions (Old), $8/6.40.

(d) containing not less than 63

per cent, by weight of pure this morning, establishing the alcohol, $10.

highest level for the week, at Provided that the dollars and which there was quite an active decimala thereof stated in the demand all round. Table shall be conventional dollars reckoned as the equivalent of one shilling and eightpence sterling; and consequently to arrive at the actual amount payable in Hong Kong currency the conventional dollar stated in the Table shall be multiplied by 20 and divided by a figure settled by the Colonial Treasurer from time to time repre- senting the average opening selling rates for the previous month of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for demand drafts on London and until so settled the figure shall be 17.24.”

He said that the object of the resolution was to assess duty on medicated spirits by the alcoholic content and not, as heretofore, charging as though the contenta were 100 per cent. alcohol. The amounts of alcohol shown in the Įtable, he said, might appear arbi trary but they represent the equiva- lent in alcohol by weight to the stan- dards of the B.P. which are given in volume. The effect would be that the duty on medical pre-

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HELENA MAY CONCERT.

Enjoyable Function Yesterday.

The

programme of yesterday afternoon's concert at the Helena May Institute was as follows:-

Programme.

1. Quartettes:-

(a) Bummer is a-coming in Old English (arr. Frederic Austin),

(b) London Town,

Edward German.

2. Duet: Full fathom five,

Thomas Dunhill. a. Duet (in the form of a canon): To Daffodils ........ Eric Thiman.

4. Song: As ever I saw,

Peter Warlock. | 5. Quartette: Drink to me only,

(arr. Frederic Austin).

6. Quintette: Wassail Song (York-

Shire) ........Traditional Carol.

art. Vaughan Williams. 7. Duets-

(a) Going to St. Ives,

(b) Atishool

8. Plano Solos-

Joseph Speaight. Armstrong Gibbs.

(a) Mazurks in à minor,

(b) La Fileuse

Chopin, Pachulaki.

9. Quintette: Love is meant to make

us glad

.Edward Germ. 10. Solo and Chorus: 0 Peaceful England ...... Edward German.

11. Duet: Come to Arcady,

Edward German. 12. Solo and Chorus: The Yeomen of

England ......Edward German.

Edward German. 14. Quintette: Merrie England,

Edward German.

19. Solo: Waltz Song

God Save the King

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