CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12] — Page 375

b.

7.

town away from their ordinvery dwellings

for the

are enabled to take measures removal or protection other wise of such

as

way happen to be in the neigbourhood

Therefore the Captaine

of the Fire - Therefore Superintendent of Police

justified in.

the

trett

were he

in barracks,

- Reeping which I deny, had no. right to neglect ringing the Bell, and by this neglect he committed, a breach of Regulation I for Government of the

Police the Hongkong

Force.

gud that the Police Force of this Colony

is

surely not so

weak in

that one

In an

spared for

A

ber

could not have been

for minutes to run to

the abode of the

-Chief Superintendent

of the Fire Brigade and apprize him of the Fire. That the said Superintendent

of

of the Fine Brigade

371

was the

the proper

was

to be

Officer to decide what force sent for the suppression of the Fire, and- the Captain. Superintendent of Police usurped the functions of the above named. Officir and acted in contravention of the Fire Brigade Ordinance N.4. 1863, which gives the entire control of the Brigade to its

tendent. and the Owners of the; Superinten

Property in the Colony

in the Colony view with alarm

of

this

the approval by the Gvcvernor proceeding; as in the event of a conflict of opinion between these two Officers, great destruction of property might be

the resulken

3rd That it is not stated, what requisitions

anre

likely to be made on the resuve force of the Police: it is known that "the Captain Superintendent refused to

Comply