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Not that anyone at all ac- quainted with the subject has any doubt as to the ultimate re- sult. The protest is against the prospect of a totally unnecessary delay, not against enquiry. But that enquiry should go with a

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understanding that it is being treated as a matter of urgency, that the date for com-:- pulsory pasteurisation remains All communications intended for as fixed, July 1, 1938, if London's publication should be addressed to views are available before the Editor, and be accompanied by December, and that notice of en- the Writer's Name and Address,|forcement of the by-law will be not necessarily for insertion - but one of six months only if a reply as a guarantee of good faith.

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THE GOVERNMENT REVOKES

is delayed until after December. The public needs some assurance that Government, having revok- ed on its decision, is not now in danger of losing sight of the issue entirely amid a further welter of red tape.

Government Finances

If it were true, as was sug- gested in a contemporary yester- day, that the P.W.D votes for this year were being heavily

slashed in order to meet the pensions" bills for In shifting its ground on milk salaries and pasteurisation, the Government 1936, we can imagine that there furnishes a sorry example of its would be something akin to the deference to vested interests, and Colony's most efficient gentle-

imitation threatens the community

of a public up- with manly an undoubted ill-service.

roar over the simultaneous an- The

that the Levy on Government is wrong if it be nouncement lieves that sufficient time has Civil Service salaries was to be The abandoned as from July 1. the elapsed since

profoundly tragic outbreak of shiga dysen- draft appropriation account laid tery in November last, for public on the table in Legislative Coun- apathy to have developed about cil yesterday revealed rather, the the need for definite steps to ways and means and devices ex- |prevent a recurrence. If it is ploited in 1936 in order to make deceived înto believing that both ends meet. The PW.D. and there is a possible alternative to other cuts in expenditure were pasteurisation in this Colony, made then, and as a result the that by some miracle the small year's accounts closed with a Chinese dairies can be operated surplus of over $500,000 instead so as to produce a clean milk, it of an anticipated deficit of some must have forgotten the very ¡$2,900,000.

clear statement of Dr. A. R. The Treasurer's Report for Wellington in his report recom-1936 reveals, incidentally, that mending compulsory pasteurisa- this apparent surplus was strict- tion.

ly illusory, as more than $600,- 000 was subsequently returned Dr. Wellington's views on this in the form of drawbacks to question were unambiguous, and those who had paid heavy earn reiteration:

tobacco duties. These drawbacks “Attempts by sanitary authorities have fallen on the accounts for to obtain a clean milk solely through 1937 and go a long way towards supervision of production and distri- explaining the apparent paradox bution, have everywhere failed: In

practice it has been found impossible of expanding trade and diminish- returns. revenue exercise the control over detailing March

to

which is necessary to ensure freedom From a Treasury point of view, from contamination. It is gener- there is little at present to worry ally admitted that the risks of milkabout, Revenue improvement is contamination are less in a dairy which employs educated. Europeans marked and has made possible than in one which employs uneducat- the restoration of many of the ed Chinese. The risks in Toronto (an economy cuts of 1936. Where example) are therefore less than in the Hong Kong Dairy Farm and very can be no question of slashing much less than in most of the sman the 1937 P.W.D. vote. dairies in the Colony. If it be neces-

sary to safeguard the purity of milk

in Toronto by compulsory pasteurise-Doctors And Parking

tion it is many more times necessary in Hong Kong.”””

Strahan's protest in the

In other words, Dr. Wellington police court on Tuesday regard- wholly supports the view expressing the absence of parking pri ed in these columns yesterday vileges for medical men, is that conditions in England and worthy of further consideration in Hong Kong are not compar by the Police Department. In- able except by the widest stretch spector Saunders told the Court of an elastic mind. (Some such that the question of allowing elasticity as enables the Govern doctors to park their cars in gone into ment to make up its mind one Chater Road had been gone. day and change it the next). thoroughly and it was felt that, That is apart altogether from in fairness to all, there could be the fact that the Secretary of no discrimination in favour of State is in no position to advise the doctors.

the Hong Kong Government on Peculiarly, perhaps, we do not what it should do, except on the see it at all in the light of dis- advice of such physicians as crimination in favour of doctors, Lord Dawson of Penn, 80 but rather as a matter of dise strangely quoted in Legislative crimination in favour of each Council yesterday. în support of and every member of the com- the plea for procrastination, or munity who may be suddenly of expert medical men who have stricken and in urgent need of had experience of Hong Kong, medical treatm