WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1932.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ATTRACTIVE TAILORING
We beg to announce to our many clients that we have removed to 18, D'Agullar Street.
We have also just re- ceived a new assort. ment of
SUMMER SUITINGS.
WING HING CO. 18, D'Aguilar Street. Tel. 21417.
DENTISTS.
HARRY FONG, Dentist,
1st floor, No. 74, Queen's Read
Central.
Tel. 21255.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL
to
LAU PAK-WAL DENTIST, ha re moved his Hong Kong Offee GLOUCESTER BLDG., 1st floor, Ped- der St (New Building next to Hong Kong Hotel). Telephone No. 20488.
TANG YUK, Dentist. Successors to
the late SIEN TING, 14. D'Agullar Street.
TERMS VERY MODERATE Consultation Free.
ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
Kowloon Bay. New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "L" Sale Agents for Kelvin Motors.
HAIR DRESSERS.
LEE YEE.
Ladles' and Gentlemen's Hair Dressers & Booksellers. No. 12, D'Aguilar Street. (opposite Queen's Theatre).
OPTICIANS.
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
'Phone 22232.
53, Queen's Road Central
SHOES.
Pair
Black or Brown Bhoes from $6.00. Black or Brown Boots from $8.00. Children's Boots or Shoes from $2,00,
Best styles, most complete stock of all sizes. Repairing a speciality, WONG SIU WOON
21, Pottinger St
Phone 21474.
Just Received.
YVERT ET TELLIER
POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUE
FOR
1932
At $6. Each.
GRACA & CO..
Dealers in Postage Stamps. Religious Goods, Pictorial Post Cards, Toys, ste.,
No. 10, WYNDHAM STREET,
HONG KONG P.O. Box No. 420.
ALEXANDER
INSTITUT DE BEAUTE
Phone 25159. Pedder Building (1st Floor)
Opposite, Entrance to
Hong Kong Hotel.
Lastrous Oil Permanent Hair Way which are Large, Boft and Natural, Artistic Finger and Marcel Waves, Oil Treatment, Shampooing. Benna Pack (any colour), Hal Cutting and Mani- cure for Ladles Gentlemen. Con- scientious, Artistic Work by European Expert, Mr. Alexander.
CHARGES MODERATE.
A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU.
PHOTO-SUPPLIES
Kodake and Cameras. ilms, Plates and Papers, etc.
Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES.
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited
A.
SEK & CO.
Tel No. 23459.
26A, Des Voeux Road, C. Hong Kong.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
Retrenchment Commission's
Recommendations
(Continued from Page 7.)
SENIOR CLERICAL AND ACCOUNTING STAFF.
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE.
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES
April 6, June, Juns, I
1982. 1918, 1914.
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have to be provided. In the case of the two locally appointed officers Best Airloin, who were dismissed, Government had no such liability,
The Commissioners recommend that there be a reduction of twenty 8.-It should be possible to effect per cent in the various apppoved an economy in Stenographers by: classes on the Establishment. This employing one offer half time in figure has already been recommend-two different departments. It is ed for the Senior Clerical andiorly In the largest departments that Accounting Staff of the Colonial there is sufficient work to keep a atenographer continuously occupied. Secretary's Office.
Government's Comment.
Stenographers should only be allow- Paragraph 1.-Apart from the re-ed to departments where it is shown commendation in this section of the that a Chinese typist would not be Report for a general reduction of competent or suitable for the work 20%, the following specific reduc-required. itions have been recommended under Government's Comment.
the different departments:----
Paragraph 3-The, number of Harbour Office - Four officers stenographers has been reduced to or 67% of the Senior Clerical cleven, which includes a special, new and Accounting Staff in the de-post in the Police Department which partment.
has recently been created. Leaving Supreme Court Two offers this out of account, there is an ac or 67%.
tual reduction of six out of sixteen
Police Department-One officer posts. or 12.5%.
Colonial Secretary's Offics and Public Works Department 20% each.
For the following departments it has been recommended that no re- ductions at all be made:-
Attorney General; Crown Soli-! citor; Land Officer; Magistracies; Imports Treasury; Post Office;
and Exports Office; Medical and Sanitary.
more.
The question of sharing steno. graphers by departments has been considered, but it is only practicable to a very limited extent.
The possibility of employing Chinese lady stenographers is still being explored.
JUNIOR CLERICAL SERVICE.
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10 by each individual the case of the Colonial Secretary's member of the Senior Clerical and Office.
result a Accounting Staff. As a
Government's Comment. A bald recommendation for a 20% reduction of 15% has, been made. Government is satisfied that to go reduction, without any indication as beyond this would seriously jeo- to where or how the reduction is to pardise the working of departmental; be made, is not very helpful. The machinery. As it is, it has only only indication that has been given been possible, to attain this figure is that no reductions at all are to
departments. Barbal by a number of officers, who are due be made in certain for home leave. not applying for it, The Imports and Exports Depart Bream
the or being delayed twelve months or ment (including Statistical Canton Fresh Water # MRS
than eighty Franch) with more 2.-Sufficient attention does not clerks is one of these. If there is Carp
have been paid to the to be no cut in a department with Catfish appear to recruitment of this staff, which such a large clerical staff, a far Codish leaves much to be desired, as is larger cut than 20% will have to be Crabs evidenced by the recent dismissal of made in other departments, If a Cattle Fish two officers from it. Unless men general reduction of 20% is to be Dab are already thoroughly trained in obtained. The Commissioners ap- Dace clerical or accounting work md of parently did not examine the heads Dog Fish good character they should not be of departments, who gave evidence Exis, Conger engaged locally. There may be an before them, as to how their respec- apparent saving in the cost of pas- tive clerical staffs were employed. aage out from England in the first The Subordinate Staff Board com-Proge instance,
but this is more than posed of the Treasurer, Post Master Garoupa offset by the extra expense which General, Head of the Sanitary De-Guugpon naturally falls on Government when partment and the Second Assistant Herringe it employs inefficient officers. Re-Colonial Secretary went into this ibuk cruitment should be through the question most carefully, department Labras.... Crown Agents, who have years of by department, and officer by officer. Loach experience and who have a far They have only recently, concluded (obsters wider fold of selection, than has the their enquiries, and as a result a Mackerel local Government. In making the saving of only thirteen posts has Konk Fish foregoing recommendation the Com-been found to be possible. missioners appreciate the fact that!
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there are some very efficient officers KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY. Parrot Fish
in the Senior Clerical and Account-
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Government's Comment.
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The present staff of the British Pike Section of the Kowloon-Canton Rail-Plaice
way could with but slight augmenta- Pomfret, obite Paragraph 2.-At the time the tion probably run the whole of the Pomfret, Black Retrenchment Commission was sit-Kowloon-Canton Railway, both Bri-drawIA; ting two locally appointed officers tish and Chinese sections. On the Bay. were dismissed; this evidently in-other hand, the comparatively small Rock Fish fluenced the Commissioners when British section could not
in the Roach they were writing their report. opinion of the Commissioners be Salmon Government is well satisfied with run with a smaller staff. Whatever Shark ....... the results it has obtained from the length of the line, it is neces-Skate locally recruited European clerical|sary to have at least one of various Shrimpa staff, particularly has this been the kinds
officials... and Briapper of railway
Soles case with the Probationer class,-engineers. young man of under 20 years of
2-Nevertheless there are two Tenth
age-many of them sons of Govern-economies which the Commissioners Turbot
ment servants. Moreover, it is an recommend, and which they consider Turtles, small fr, water exceedingly cheap method of re-will at the same time lead to great cruitment. A thoroughly trained efficiency. The first concerns the
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man will not come out from England post of Manager. This is combined engineer is already seconded for salaries, and a more logical diatribu- fature, by Portuguese. One of the except at a comparatively high with the past of Engineer of Ways this post from the Public Works tion of duties.
two officers concerned is already salary; in addition to which there and Works. It would" be a better Department during the absence on 8. The second recommendation over the retiring age. There will Is, as the Commissioners remark, arrangement If the post of Manager leave of the Manager). There affecting staff which the Commis- be a considerable saving not only in the cost of his passage or passages were combined with that of Traffic would still be two officers perform- sioners make, is that the two posts salaries but in the cost of passages (if he is married), and if he is un- Manager, and a separate Engineering the duties of three posts, but of Traffic Inspectors at present and pensions. The Commissioners, satisfactory return passages home of Ways and Works appointed, (an there would be a slight saving In filled by British officers be filled in (Continued on Page 18)
POP As Long As The Bill Is Attached Why Worry.
NOW THAT
LAUNDRY HAS
SENT BACK
MY SHIRTS
WITH SOMEBODY
ELSE'S BUTTONS SEWN ON THEM,
THAT'S NOTHING
By J. MILLAR WATT.
THEY'VE SENT BACK
MY BUTTONS WITH SOMEBODY.
ELSE'S SHIRTS
ON
THEM!
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