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RENT CONTROL The degree of approval of Government's proposed variations of the Landlord and Tenant Proclamation, as recommended by the committee appointed to re- examine the position, will natural. ly vary according to individual vircumstances. Very largely, the modifications are for the benefit
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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916.
Self-Government In H.K.:
The
Chinese
Views
'announcement" that Utilities. Public Health and It is also suggested that in H.M Government had decided Recreation. Public Works, So-cases where proof of residence to grant the inhabitants of cial Welfare and Help for Un-prior to December 1941 is diffi Hong Kong a greater measure employed, of self-Government has received a mixed reception from the Chinese públic.
The Chinese Press has adopt ed a non-committal attitude, it! being "felt apparently that nny favourable comment which might be made could be looked. upon with disapproval in cer- Lain quarters.
It is contended that, if wide powers are not given, the pres- tige and effectiveness of the Council will be impaired.
It is however, interesting to note that, although there is con- tinual criticism of the ineffi-
By A. C.
Members of the community eiency of the Police Force, whe took an active part in 90 per cent of those expressing meetings for the purpose of i
views favur the retention of exchanging view on the sub-
Government control over the jest were accused by the mos
Police. quito press of trying to exploit the situation "in order to help the British over a delicate situation."
Many reasons have been ad- vanced for the apathy of the Chinese.
In the first place, the leaders of the community have been charged with failing to take action to use the interest
the public.
Numbers
Number of councillors: Generally, there is no mention of the specific number of Councillors to be elected. but opinion is unanimous that the Chinese shoni have
cult to obtain, an alternative would be to accept the period after the Japanese' surrender until the proclamation of the new constitution as the basis of domicile.
Tempre of Offee: This ques tion has not been dealt with at very great length, but it is generally agreed that each "Councillor should hold office for three years, and be eligible for
re-election.
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Bankruptcyor. insanity should be a bar to a Councillor Wading ice.
compara-
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Paid Councillors Payment of Councillors: In
to encourage order tively pour but' poblic spirited citizens to devole time to public affairs, it is suggested that at least Councillors >hould be 50 per cent of the seats on the murerate for their services. proposed Council. Some suggellaneous: gestions were received urging a One up holds the view Chinese percentage as high as that the Governor should have 90 per cent.
power to veto, any, legislation which he believes to be against the best interests of the Colony. (Continued on Page 5)
One group recommended 100 Councillors, at least half of them to be Chinese. Of the ve.. maining 50 seats, it was aug- gested that the British tika
of the landlord. In the case of re- sidential premises he is to be al lowed, as from February à, to increase the 1941 rent by 30 per¦ prent. Owners of business premises
In the second place. it has are permitted to call for increases heen urged that Government up to 43 per cent. New con
has not made it clear what is struction is to be free of control, intended and that the public and those landlords who care to could not very well be expected repair extensively damaged pro- to show any interest or en- perty, which since the reoccupathusiasry over a plan about 30, with the Portuguese, Ju- tion has remained continuously which they were not fully indians. Eurasians and other nationalities taking five seats untenanted, are to be similarly formed.
from rent
restriction. Third opinion attributed the ch
silence of the Chinese communi- tion that is inglied-by-the-formally to intimidation.
KM/T. Attitude Interviewed the other, day,
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confirmation, of the necessity for control in the abnormál con-
Qualifications of Councillors: View on the qualifications of the Councillors show a great divergence. The following are
gested!-
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"Nothing expensive! Just somethin husband's mailr
By Dick Turner
SAWOR
To Sicam pad.
More To Yaumati Meets The
Eye
ditions prevailing. which in the Mr. Lee Tai Chiu, head of the one of the qualifications sug- in the Colony that police officers streets. Opan and later heroin and Queen's Colleges and to the
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Kuomintang Office, in Hong Kong, said that he was strongly in favour of self- government for the people of Hong Kong and added that the Kuomintang would do all in its power to assist Government in implementing its plan.
terest
derstanding between the peoples of China and Great Britain; thus helping to further cernent the cordial relations which exist between the two countries.
The Hon. Mr. M. K. La gaid that the absence of steps by the Chinese teaders to stimulate interest was due to the fact that they did not wish to say or do anything which might be regarded as an attempt to influence the minds of the people. II. E. the Governor had intimated his desire that mem- bers of the public convey their views to bin direct..
he has an income of $3,000 a
your.
(h) Anyone who pays income tax, if it is levied in the
Colony.
(1) Any house-owner or rate. payer paying rates of not less than $200 a year.
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has resided at least five years (3) A British subject who in the Colony, or an alien who has resided eight years, five of which must be consecutive.
Average
There-are-few-police-districts Shanghai Street and adjacent have won scholarships to King's show less enthusiasin about being came to Faumati and have never University. The transferred to than Yaums left. There are few heroin divans habitant of Yaumala may even be other hand, that manage to get the market. The opium is still practically every conceivable sub- There are few districts, on the to-day as there is little herpin on highly culture. He will discus so much in their blood that it there. About 20 cases a week jeet of interest with you except was with regret that they finally come up at Kowloon Court where Yaurati leave thera on transfer
some the keepers unflinchingly pay where else. Success at Yaumati
drifted
By OBSERVER"
What 29. ab economic force;
makes Yaumati waat it is, is the fact that the onial shopkeepers there have few investments out- is also of the type that makes a side the district. Their overhead
for a rainy tay decent living but lays little and
Tals also makes.
Yaumat
a) A University graduate. opinion of the Committer may be cxpected to continue for three or
(1) Committee member, past four years. They will find
industrial er professional body. or present, of a commercial, difficult to challenge the justice
(e) A director or manager of of the finding that a percentage
a business firm or factory or of increase on the 1941 rents is
10 agricultural or farming | weighs heavily in assignments' in warranted. Those who have ex-
enterprise.
Dire rescous bic Mr. Lee stated that the Chin-
posts. pended considerable sums in re-
(d) A principal of a regis-work Yaunisti, however, that fines the Magistrates have graded There are so many forced at being entered school. were pairing premises. for their land se public
years Di acquaintance fe) A director or publisher the district gave some police oil- diyan and $3 per every mass of lords, will, on their part, be satis-couraged to take an active in-
with at so much dea for keeping the in the scheme, as fied by the method adopted by would, in the long run. lead to
or editor of a press.
cers in a quandary as to what is opium. (1) Anyone Government to clarify their post a betterment of their own conjury list, tion and adjust the rental to their dilions and also serve to pro
Yaumati who is on the really what. Theories there are in Some years ago Magistrate prey to every conceivable type ef plenty and the C.I.D. io, actual sat at Sowicon Court who offer acketeer and agitator. It is not (g) Anyone who can preliminary outlay. On the whole.
mete a better and closer un-
prove ly, possess a considerable amounted several men he chance to easy to leave Yaumsti: Property in fact, there is little in the sub-
have been to a Board of Examiners that of information on rackets that free if they, would disclose there has, no great market value
broken and rackets was the actual master of the den. 23
the case of the lazer stance of the proposed new Or
that will yet he broken,
There were no takers.
estaura is wid cat ng houses and dinance which is te consolidate
There is more, however, to Yau- Yet opium is one of Yaurati's few undertakings will take n the whole law on this subject, to
mati more than meets the eye. One miner troubles. The biggest chance on opening up something which serious exception can h
stumbling block always has been curse is the protection socsiv new there. the lack taken. It is
of inclination by Yau racket. Chinese have been used. Everything in obvious that, with
with their mati residenz to come forward to paying protection
aumati has money been regimented by the proteá Government declining to take
grievances. Mere Elabornie arrangements were tion rackets any initiative in the reconstruc
often they pack and their goods and reached, through the centuries. Chinese are fond of mutual aid to make it day, rion of private property in Hong
chattels and leave.
with every would-be aggressor societies. These mutual ald Kong, or in the provision of new
a backwash to the development of
Yaumiati niight be described as from the north.
sneleties make it possible for an houses, some such measures of de
Protection Rackets Kowloon toward
unlicensed hawker who has had Hung Hom. Some control as those recommended are
The average Yaumati shop- his whole stock in trade confis→ of the largest ship and junk yards keeper has paid protection money cated to have it replaced if he a condition precedent ta, the en-
Labour View
Yaumat-way, more desks for years to scieties innumer pays dues that esme up to a couragement of private enterprise
and yards sprung up around the able. The district is so society fairly high propertion of his daily Labour organizations favour other sides of the Kowloon Pen- bound that t to embark on. capital expenditure
1 commen electorate on the
ia only when some earnings. literal- means, ground that it would make ly. "Oil and. Rope Land. It was original. racketeer announces an of the order demanded by the
newcomer anuscles in and the
"Mutual Aid” situation. The time might, in-
Councillora feel they were re-
and is a dumping ground for order not
Who are behind these, mutual to pay that trouble aid societies the palice would like cidentally, be appropriate for the
presenting the entire Colany ship-chandler goods.
there may be a to know. They have a line on starts. Then additional
and not one particular group. anouncement of an
murder without witnesses and a most of them hat not all. Some, The suggestion is also put stimulus, that of the floating of
- With a large assembly. of la secret burial that is the district it is probable, have forward that the Council hour in the hom days of the station's warst type of headache. connection with
no direct a Building Rehabilitation Loan,
and shipyards in the early years, re- on which there has been so much
should consist of official
the blatimo Yet, the average Yaumati re- rucketeer othe unofficial members. The official tired compradores and foreser sident is a respectable individual. weekly protection talk, and so little action. The
Ever: It was stressed that the members should be heads f opened un Blues of small shops on His sons here for years gone on for collective
and asonable prints of chief interest in the question of racial discrimina Departments such as PWD,
zo in capital the length of the Yaumati Government School, Government's new
ective bargaining po approach to tion was of paramount im- Education and Police. These
Most of Yaumati the landlord and tenant problem, portance and that the elimina- members should have no power hawever, are those concerned tion of this discrimination was to vote, their position in the essential to the Council being only in an ad- with key money and the curbing absolutely of the principal tenant. The law smooth running of any scheme. ylsory capacity. Unofficial men- an these points has for the last!
One Chinese newspaper pubers should be represented by blished a special edition on the Hong Korg General Chani- twelve months been virtually a;
self-government but 60 percent ber of Commerce, Chhuese dead leiter. The new statement.
of space was taken up with re- Chamber of Commerce, in much dearer terms, may in prints of the Governor's speech credited Labour Unions, Medi- tuse new life into it. This can, of and other material which had cats, Legal and Teaching ro course, only be achieved by the already been published.
fessions, Authorised Architects consent of the victimised. · The
id Chartered Engineers, remedy for the key money racket
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New Interest After the broadcast of H.E. the Governor on Aug. 28, the took new in- Chinese Presa terest in the subject, but ap- phed it from the angle of racial discrimination.
An interview with one of the leaders of the Chivene
com-
munity also published.
but this contained only quota- tions from the speech of H. E. the Governor and nothing of the personal views of the leader
AC-
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Oplum Still There
*mall
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on Authorities" HOW. YOU GET DISCARDS
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Nathan Road is troops. Money
out of Paid
into Yau- direct from: Yaumati. The district is econ-as omically tied up within itself. It
mati shops comes
ip
ald
only the tann Road fringe that reaps as income from nut- that the club suit-unless you side. Cigaretta hawkers are were using the short club-stas financed from Yaumati. They are: at least as long as the diamonds, societies. They hawk in Nathan
"Prolected" Ly mutual Discards of your losing carda, possibly a card longer. Then, Ros, Prostitutea financed In You when playing a suit contract when you bid the diamonds, mati walk Nathan Road at night. can never be obtained on the showing that they were of.at Yauriatiis happy hunting cards of a strong side sult least five cards, I knew you ground for gitators, which possesses exactly the had at least riz clubs. When agitators too have to pay a ide However, same length in your hand and I after that supported the dia- to agitate. If the racketeer the dummy. If one holding is monds, telling you I had enough thinks the agitator is a miserly Qualifications of voters: Ag a card longer than the other, cards to fit à five-card auit at Pe who could
afford to pay in the case of Councillors, there you may discard one loser on the five-hid level, you confirmed more, he says "nix" and there is is a great divergence of opinion it. If the longer holding has the length of your club sult Triad Sociaties
no agitation." (au A questionnaire was drawn up as to the nature of the quali-{ two more.. cards, then two by the newspaper
with a rebid of 6-Clubs. That in question fleations,
discards may be obtained; if let me know you had definitely to enable renders to
Scapegoat's where all qumati. expiress Some writers express the three more cards, then thres at least six clubs. Now knowing troubles are concerned is an or their views. The response was view that voters should have discards, That is well ta con- we had nine cards in each sultaation kann to the Chiness very disappointing, only 563 received a common education aider, as the deciding
as the San Hap Wal and more factor, I selected the cne in which you romantically in English as the replies being received. A large or have a professional occupu when choosing one of two safe had the greater length, by pass-Triad Society number of those replying to tion, or be employed in suits for trumps. Prefer to ing the 6-Clubs."
The Tried the questionnaire showed that business house, factory
have the less-balanced suit on
Bociety may or may not exist as There was the nub of the one society. No one is quite sure." the side. AN they had but a hazy idea public organization.
matter. Knowing the side had It is, more probably, a complex of the problem.
with its origins in far which
bimclf.
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Individual group meetings were called also proved disappointing. In some enses, only four or five persons ventured to make any comment. Time Ripe
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A very small percentage' sug-D8:3
in newspaper reports, it is gest that the holder of u cog... generally conceded that the primary or middle school certi-|-- time is ripe for self-Government] ficate be entitled to vote.
nine cards in each, auit, he racle eiety of which the
should have selected the more evenly-balanced one, diamonds. Carly buccaneers of the South.
Coast wers charter members. With clubs on trumps, South got
Most Chinese, bore and bied 'In only one heart discard from
duer thejr
dummy, do tork 12 tricks. At a purely Chinese atmosphere, pay The boy who serves diamonds he could have taken you a drink at one of the best all 13 tricks la canse of discards hotels may well be a member. He en the unbalanced clubs,
amount paid, a step that requires both the courage of the viction and the provision of a certain amount of evidence. The principal tenant's lot has been rendered very much unhappier, The decision to make it compul- Sory to issue receipts to sub-tenants will not prevent him from over- charging if the sub-tenants choose to cake it lying down. The loop holes are plentiful. The Govern- ment has, however,, taken the mater beyond the level of com- plaint by the sub-tenant."Principal tenants are now made responsible for providing their landlords with correct returns. Whether he I does so or not, the landlord may at his own discretion, eliminate the principal tenant from his pri- |vileged. position, and collect the Trents from all sub-tenants himself, and most writers are emphatic The rate paying qualification The greatest obstacle to sub that the people of Hong Kong is also put forward, but la ob- tenant resistance to excessive are fully capably of governing jected to on the ground that it charges in the past has been fear themselves.
would be a social injustice. transient nature of a large majority also agree adequate publicity is now given tion and the large number of rather than property holdings, Easter South of strife, in one form or another. pértion of the Chinese popula that educational standards.nerable to the new measures proposed by permanent residents who do not should be the requisite to a Face 10- Government to bring the principal necessarily think in the best power to vote. PARS 3D tenant to heel, there should result interests of the Colony received Ages of Councillors and; Paas 41 & rapid tumbling of rentals in attention.
+ Votera: All agree that Council. Pasir 60 |congested tenements throughout -The following are the main Jors and: Voters should be 21 | North; made a very: bad and
the Colony, The degree of the points of articles appearing in years of age, or, over, very unsound-pasa! Of the 6- public own responsibility for the Chinese Pressione Domicile: On the point, Clubs, though, is is usual in oneruus rent levels during dipal Council:: Except in regard who express views set the ton for it. His explanation. **Scope of the proposed Munt-domicile, the majority of those such cases, he had an explana- period of official control cannot
(Dealer South. Beth aides to matters pertaining to Defen- peried at five years in the can however, constituted a perfect vulnerable) ton often be stressed. The law ec and Foreign Policy, it is the of Bilfish sabicets and eight reason for not passing it, but Wlint unusual play must be there, in Janguage a laymen can consensus that the powers of years in the case of Altens for putting the contract into made by Eist to take 12 tricks during understand." It is for him to en- the proposed Municipal Council Any period covering the Japas diamonds instead guy with clubs us trumps on this met ono walich sure that 'he obtains the reliefs should extend to Finance, Fire se occupation not to be count. Here is what he culd: "Your deal, after South leptis the maid, of know that it offers.
Brigade, Education Public ed.
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To
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brinte
ennomie duster the varioda Triad organisations are a kind of Robin Hood,
the
set-up
the Japanese occupation power forá time.
pie mutual
Duke and;
CAKI 10 dreds of corpses were picked 87
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up every morning in munisti, mofo, then in any other district
An
economic unit to Eself) Yao- mati a surplus population lay -down in the streets and dia The average rolice effic
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