CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6] — Page 504

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HongKong

in elections, I may mention that at the last e lection of two members of the sanitary Board, which was held in June last year at a time when, as the plague

was

raging, it might have been expected that the e-

lectors would have shown some desire to avail them- selves of their right to vote, only 25 members out of an electorate of some five

five hundred

recorded their votes.

The

was

500

The recent strike, which

• practically a rebellion on

the part of the Chinese against sanitary legislation, illustrates how necessary

sessary it is that the power of enforcing such laws should rest with the Govern_

ment and should not be

vested in the hands of

It is almost municipality.

certain that the representatives

of a municipality, who must necessarily have many pri-

vate interests at stake, would

have

e