CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2] — Page 46

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Extract from Kung Wo Po, Hongkong, 6th. January, 1913.

Criticism on recent occurrences.

For the maintenance of the currency of the legal tender, Hongkong notes and hard dollars have long been adopted by the Government as the standard and Hongkong coins and cents as sub- -sidiary currency. Therefore by the law of the Colony every work- -man may demand payments of his wages to be Lade in Hongkong coins and in Hongkong notes or hard dollars if in excess of 82; and any foreman who compels any coal coolie or workman in any dock to accept Chinese coins will be liable to prosecution in court on a charge of fraud. This requirement is for the maintenance of the

legal tender and no money of any other nation can be allowed to

mix with it. As to the Tramway Company, by its original regulations

Hongkong coins only could be accepted, and its former acceptance

of Chinese coins was merely designed to accord with the custom and

to deal with the regulations in a general manner. Now since the

Company has suffered a heavy loss through accepting Chinese coins, payment in Hongkong silver is therefore required in accordance with the laws of the Colony. Thus how can this acion be regarded as a contemptuous rejection of Chinese coins? The Tramway boycott by the Chinese must then have arisen from misunderstanding, but since there has arisen the question of the enforcement of the new Ordi- we Chinese should patronise the Tram cars as before, that so we may continue to enjoy peace and the new Ordinance may not be

enforced.

-nance,