1932-06-08 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1932.

Shortage A Menace To Public Health

Government Should Review Water Situation

Sanitary Board Decision

MOTION CARRIED BY THREE VOTES TO ONE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

TELEPHONE STRIKE

IN SHANGHAI.

Apparatus Smashed,

Shanghai, Yesterday.

Joy-Rider Sentenced To Six Months

Passed Stationary Tram.

As a result of dismissals follow-

(Continued from Page 1) ing the conversion from the

affront tyre of the car was burst, “and At the Sincere Company, the de- there were scratches on all four manual to the automatic system, fendant passed the Chinese staff of the Telephone car. "At Morrison Street" con- had struck one of the Iron posts, a stationary tram mudguards. The starting handle Company this evening declared a tinued the witness "he turned north which gave a little, and was bent, general strike. Previously the passing the Empress Hotel That denting the radiator slightly." mechanics of the weatern ex-corner he took on the wrong side, changes smashed some of the ap-also at a fast speed. At Connaught tion the witness, contended that be! Defendant; when asked to ques! paratus, dislocating part of the Road West, near the junction of the stopped several times. service, but the necessary repairs Western Market, he again passed a were effected within an hour.

Total Disregard.. Police are now guarding the ex-Near the Tung Shan Hotel, which is stopped, and as the Sergeant did not stationary tram, on the left side. Defendant-The car was actually! changes to prevent further dam about one hundred yards ahead, I say anything to me, I drove on!

The service

tried to pull alongside him, is not expected to ed to him to stop. He

I call-again. suffer as the foreign staff, assist take any notice, and I thought he Worship, said that he kept on defen- did not Sergeant Brittain, replying to his to carry on. ed by emergency recruits, are able did not hear me," are demanding

age..

The strikers

Mr. M. K. Lo's motion that in the opinion of the Board, the present system of water restriction constitutes a menace to public health, and that the higher pay and six months' wages Board, whilst recognising the regrettable neces for those dismissed-Reuter. sity for drastic restriction at the present time, nevertheless considers that the Government should JUNTA STRENGTHENS reconsider and review such existing system in the interests of public health, was carried by three

ITS POWER.

Nearly an Accident,

Road West and carried on at a great car."

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dant's trall the whole time. He added-"I don't think the defendant) "He then turned into Des Voeuxfknows much about this particular speed in the direction of Kennedy Defendant-It was not a high| not get alongside him again until 20 miles an hour, Town.. Owing to the traffic I did speed, I travelled between 15 and

to his

votes to one vote at a meeting of the Sanitary Rebels Establish Firm his right hand and pulled in violent-Worship)-I did not know what the Board held yesterday, afternoon.

Control.

Catchick Street." Witness stated. Sergt. Brittain-He went round "I then pulled right alongside him the corners with a total disregard and called upon him to stop, putting for traffic and pedestrians. up my hand. He waved to me with Defendant (in reply Mr. G. R. Sayer (Head of the Sanitary Depart-

ly to the right. I put on my Sergeant was following me forf brakes and swerved with him to ment) presided, others present being the Hon. Mr.

Damages $285, Santiago, Yesterday. avoid an accident. He then turn- Mr. Major handed in a report on H. T. Creasy (Director of Public Works), Dr. G. W. aims to establish a Socialist Re-acceleration, I got in front of him. been damaged to the extent of The revolutionary junta which ad into Davis Street, and by a little the car, which stated that it had Pope, M.O.H., Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, Dr. Li public in Chile, is strengthening its again called on him to stop, and 8285. Shu-fan, F.R.C.S., Messrs. M. K. Lo, Wong Kwong-grip on the whole country, and now he turned his car on me. I swerved Inspector Alexander stated that tin and L. C. F. Bellamy. The first four gentle-Navy.

has the support of the Army and and he missed me."

defendant had one previous convic men abstained from voting.

The junta denies the report His Worship-How far in front tion for refusing to pay his fare in! that it will dissolve all religious were you?

a bus, and Inspector MacWalter, orders.

Witness-Three yards to the who was in Court, recognised the Mr. Bellamy stated that the justified in reopening the rider- President Montero, who left office most, your Worship.

defendant for a similar offence. Board instead of attacking the mains. The Director of Public on the uprising of the revolution led Sergeant Brittain continued--"He Defendant said, he visited Canton Water Authority, should cordially Works has a scheme under con- by Colonel Marmaduke Grove, is got in front of me again and turn- frequently, and was staying with a commend them for what they had sideration by which a longer period now seeking refuge in the Argentine ed west through Belchers Street,friend here. done during the past two weeks in of supply can be given from street Legation.

and then travelled up Victoria Road,. giving eleven hours water supply fountains, while a shorter supply

His Worship, said he would leave at street fountains. It was a mag nificent thing, he said, and the Water Authority had done very well

in a heavy and anxious time. Had

the motion been brought up three

in

or four weeks ago, he would have understood it. Drastic steps water restrictions had already been taken, and the Government had dealt with the Hon. Mr. Kotewall's suggestion in regard to direct sup- ply, three weeks ago.

The newly established junta de- to Sassoon Road. Between the the question of compensation open will be made available for those clares that the counter-revolution in junction at Belchers Street and for seven days, on metered supplies. It is hoped Southern Chile, under the leadership Saasoon Road I repeatedly tried to

The atternative to the $100 fine that this scheme will be ready for of General Ibanez, former Dictator, pull up alongside him, but opération in the

esch is 41 days' jail, concument with the! time he turned either to the right prison term. next few days. It is not consider storage renders this drastic step in-Pokfulam Road and travelled to Bon- the defendant intimated his wish to

or to the left. He then entered ed safe to allow unmetered sup- evitable. But this plea of justifica-ham Road, to Park Road, to Robin-retain a solicitor,

When being Jed from the dock, plies in houses until the position tion can only mean one of two, son Road, to Bowen Road and, then improves,

course of

the

is petering out.-Reuter.

Subsidiary Street Fountains "The plan for the construction of aubsidiary street fountains, which can be opened for any num- Replying Mr. Lo said that Mr.ber of hours a day whilst the rest Bellamy had apparently not done of the Colony's supply is shut off, him the honour of even listening to must afford material relief. But his speech in proposing the motion. any expedient other than a direct He did not attack the Water Au-house supply, however restricted, thority, but his main reason must involve suffering and hard- in bringing forward the motion ship to the poor. and is open was that the Government in grave objection from the point of turning down the Hon. Mr. view of public health, because all Kotewall's suggestion did not the receptacles have to be left for give any reasons.

hours in streets and surroundings In proposing the motion, Mr. M. which, none too clean at normal K. Lo sald:-

times, are in an infinitely dirtier state on account of the water short- age, with the inevitable consequen ces of contamination.

"Some of my colleagues may have noticed that the terms of this .Motion are identical with those of the Motion which was passed by this Board on the 28th ,'1920.

May,

I have purposely adopt ed the wording of the former Motion because although the pre- sent water situation is perhaps not so critical as that of 1929, in one important aspect of the system of water restriction, namely, that of the complete discontinuance of direct unmetered supply to houses -the circumstances of both periods

a

Chinese Petition.

to

this Board to à petition which was In 1929 I drew the attention of presented by the Chinese inhabi tants to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in August 1902, and I quoted from it a paragraph which 1902, any house in London without showed that, even as long ago as

ply of water was regarded in law a proper and sufficient direct sup as a nuisance, liable to be summari-

fit for human occupation..

are the same. And it is in regardly dealt with, and was deemed un to this aspect of the matter-in so far as it affects public health- that I wish to confine myself to day.

Dr. Kotewall's Question. "According to the Press the Hon. Dr. Kotewall, on the 19th May, 1932, put a question to the Govern- ment on this matter, and append below his question and ade Govern ment's reply:-

"In view of the great hardship which residents of the rider-main

diatricts are suffering in having to obtain their water supply from the street fountains in this hot wea ther, will the Government, as an experiment, restore the supply to the houses in these districts on the Game (restriction in respect, of hours of supply, so as to give the people an opportunity to prove that, in the present acute state of the water situation, they are able- to keep down consumption of water. obtained through such direct sup ply, to the same level as that. through the street supply on the, Understanding that every effort is made by the three Chinese mem- bts of the Legislative Council to

press upon the people the im-) ative cecessity for conserving. drop of water, and that the supply will be reverted to, uld it be found that the con

tion of a direct houses supply

ibly exceeds Mathatiofe aupply,

Honial Secretary Reply.

Secretary repl

nment does';

Only Justification.

"The only possible justification in Hong Kong. for cutting off a that the present state of water direct supply to houses must be

things:-

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to Magazine Gap Road." (1) "That it is recognised by the Government that the rider

Sergeant Leaves Motor Cycle. main system of distribution does below the sentry box at Magazine "When at the iron bridge just not and cannot provide even the Gap Road" said witness "I decided minimum requirements from the to blow my whistle to attract the point of view of health, but that,attention of the constable in the owing to the present shortage, the sentry box. rider main people must get what

An Indian Constable they can through the street foun- try and stop the defendant.

came out and I shouted to him to. tains. This cannot be the Govern-the defendant's attention was en- While ment's intention. Indeed, the underlying idea of creating sub-front.

gaged by the Indian, I again got in the apportionment recommended sidiary fountains is obviously to ill very slowly and so

The car was going up the by the Directors as therein indicat enable the people in the rider motorcycle go.

I let my ed) as presented, be adopted, and main districts to get a fair share before I could get to the driver he holder will kindly second such I jumped off and I shall be obliged if some Share- of the available supply.

(2) We are then driven to the road at a furious speed, this time. done, I shall be please to answer turned round and went down the proposal. When this has been other alternative, namely, that the Government desires to give "The Indian and 3 ran down on any questions Shareholders may a fair and reasonable supply to foot after him. I knew that at the wish to ask, all, but that by giving a direct speed he was going he would not be Seconder's Speech. house supply to the rider main able to take the bridge. He failed In seconding the adoption of districts, a reasonable supply to take the bridge striking the the report Mr. J. Scott Haraton, necessarily restricted in accor-north side.

"I desire to associate myself.

When I arrive on the said:-

dance with the available storage scene, the driver tried to get out|

Defendant Arrested.

gentlemen, and from my personal experience of them, can appreciate

in the reservoirs-will be ex-but he could not find the handle. with the Chairman's expression of ceeded owing to preventable He was trying to get out by the far regret concerning the Bevere loss waste. Although the Hon. the aide door, when I went round to sustained by the Company by the Colonial Secretary did not give intercept him:

When I went to death of Mr. Manuk and also that any reasons in his answer to the that side he shuffled over to the other of Mr. Scriven. I knew, both these Hom. Dr. Katewall's question, side again" said the witness, this must have been the Govern- ment's contention, especially in view of the Colonial Secretary's waited for the Indian to arrive. "I then stood behind the car and remark that "it is, not consider-The Indian took the far side. 'ed safe to allow unmetered sup- went to the other side and arrested plies in houses until the position the defendant. improves."

He was removed to the Central Folite Station. He was not hurt witness concluded, "The

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