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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1932,

A CAUTIOUS BUDGET FOR COLONY

(Continued from Page 1)

are many where circumstances com- year's study at Home before coming We have not been able to fall bine to prevent the expenditure of out. the money allocated to this or that completely into line at once, and object, and among the desirables have asked for one new Cadet to be work may be postponed at any rate sent out at once without the year'a till late in the year owing to dißtraining at Home, and other two will culties, such as change of site or be appointed against the eventuali- questions. of accommodation requir- ties of three years hence, when they ad or of design.

will be ready for duty. The cost

"It is in fact hardly possible to of the year in England is "estimat- complete a programme of this size ed at £335, but the figure arrived) precisely according to a very de too late for inclusion in the the ordinary finite plan, and a margin of varia- Estimates, where tion is called for; and hence a mar-Cadet salary of £450 has been enter- gin of saving-in fact a slightly in ed. flated estimate--ia unavoidable.

Considerations such as these, in- variable under-expenditure which cannot be estimated for, will justify calling the Account, balanced when mathematics would not justify the word. But all the expenditure allowed for must be at the lowest "desirable" and must at its.. totall figure be within our means and the Government holds that the proposals now before the Council, fulfil these requirements.

Possible to Reduce.

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Important Changes.

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Police Changes. Apart from the additional posts which were approved by the Finance Committee last December, and with which I do not propose to deal to-day as they were fully discussed at the time, the principal in- creases shewn in the draft Es- timates of the Police Depart- ment are one European Sub- Inspector, and two Lance Ser- geants and twenty-eight Con- stables in the Cantonese Con- tingent.

NEW ARMS ORDERED FOR CANTONESE TROOPS.

Rifles and Steel Helmets Wanted From Colony Firm.

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It is learned that emis- saries of General Chan, Chai- tong, Head of the Canton Ad- ministration, have arrived in the Colony to place orders for war materials with a local firm. The order is said to in-

·clude 10,000 modern rifles and 50,000 steel helmets.

The arms, it is anticipated, are to be used in the con- tinued attempts to suppress the bandits and communist activities in the South- western provinces.

'tions of each' detail in the foot-

notes

Turning to Public Works Extra- ordinary I would refer you first to the fully detailed memo prepared by the Director of Public Works, in connection with which I would like to state in passing that it has since been decided to reduce the width of certain sections of the road. between Causeway Bay and Ming Yuen Garden, which appears as sub-head 11, to seventy-five "A word on the other side of the

feet. This will reduce the total | The Medical Department shows estimate, but it has not yet been problem. If necessity compels, as it did when the dollar sank to 1/-a marked increase in personnel. possible to work out the exact and below, it is possible to reduce The most noteworthy additions #gure. It is impossible to avoid certain departmental expenditure are, in the order in which they making provision for the many granted that this can only be done appear in the printed Estimates details necessary for the properly and some Public Works. It is a Class L officer of the Senior ordered life of the community in granted that this can only be done Clerical Staff, who is required to general-Police Stations, Markets. by a certain risk of efficiency-as assist in the increasing amount of Latrines and so forth, and I would e.g. by reducing travelling and other administrative work that is in- include among them the new resi-- allowances, or by lowering the volved in running a department dence for the Director, Royal Ob- standard of the upkeep of roads the size of the Medical Depart servatory whose present combined but necessity may compel, as it has ment; a House Officer for the Uni- and very cramped House and done before. The Treasurer is versity Professors who assist the office makes work difficult and life standing by with his blue pencil as Government at the Outpatients uncomfortable. With these re- he notes in his memo, but he adds Department at the Civil Hospital; quirements satisfied, no great sum "it is not considered that the expen-two European Nursing Sisters remained available for the larger diture shewn in the Printed who are required in connection works to which public attention is Estimates is beyond the resources with the expansion at Kowloon.

more easily drawn, and Govern- of the Colony."

On the retirement of the pre-ment had perforca to make a selec gent Director of Education, Mr. de tion. There are in, mind:-the "" pass now to the question of the Martin, he will be succeeded by Government Civil Hospital, the form in which the 1933 Estimates Mr. N. L. Smith, a Cadet Officer. Mental Hospital, Kowloon Hos have been drawn up. Hon. Mem-whose appointment to the post has pital, 'the Kowloon Post Office [bers will note that there are im- been approved by the Secretary of the Vernacular Normal, School portant changes "as compared with State. Provision is made in the for Women, the Central Bri- 1932, and they are "the result part-draft Estimates accordingly tish School, to mention the ly of instructions from Home and There is an increase of four posts prominent, and Government has partly of an attempt to fall in with of Students in Training.

selected the Government Civil Hos the wishes of the Unofficials "as ex- The approved Estimate for pital, the Central British School pressed last year. In either case Public Works Extraordinary for and the Kowloon Hospital as the the object was the same to shew 1982 was $2.178,545 and for Loan objects on which attention should as clearly as possible the separate Works $1,882,789. For 1983 the most immediately be concentrated. cost of each Department for the figures are $3,667,923 and $1,309,- It must not be thought that the year concerned. The effort to 398 (exclusive of payments to omission" of the remaining schemes reach this end has shewn that cau- the Consulting Engineers).

means that their Importance Is tion is required in interpreting the will thus be seen that actually so ignored, and the choice was made Estimates as now presented: the far as extraordinary works are only after the most anxious con- dificulty centring in those cadres concerned whether paid out of sideration of all the conditions. of the service which are not in their current revenue or out of loan, the Perhaps I might refer particularly nature confined to special Depart-estimated erpenditure next year to the omission of the Kowloon ments. They are the Cadet Ser-in approximately 25 per cent. more Past Office. The expansion's of vice, the Senior Clerical and Ae-than the approved expenditure for the Colony has made offies accom- counting staff and the "Junior the current year. The part of this modation in Hong Kong very cramp Clerical Staff in the case of the sum that will prove to be required; and the development of Kowloon first two the position being made ed during 1933 will tax to the ut is not without responsibility for still more difficult by the calls of most the capacities of the staff of the extra pressure. Home leave.

the the Public Works Department.

time A number of retirements in the Summarised new posts, as will the time has come when Kowloon senior ranks of the Cadet Service be seen from the Recapitulation on should be provided with at least are expected during the next year the last page of the Abstract of branch offices where residents can or two, and we have to kok ahead Differences amount to 1358,064 do their Government business with in filling the ranks of this c cadry. Three lakhs of this is made up by out coming across the harbour. A In the past a Cadet has not been the increases in the Treasus comprehensive view of the require- available for duty until he Esa Police, Medical, Sanitary, Educa-ments in this direction is called studied Chinese for two years; for tion and Public Works Depart for, and the probability is that, a the future the new unification ments, with which I have general large building which will include scheme of the Colonial services rely dealt. Posts abolished amount an ample Post Office will be neces-- quires him to take a course of one to $127,015. There are explana sitated in the near future.

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