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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
27TH OCTOBER, 1914.
PRESENT:
HLS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. H. KELLY, C.B. (General Officer Command- ing Troops).
HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney- General).
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial Treasurer).
HON. MR. A. F. CHURCHILL (Direc- tor of Public Works).
HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).
HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER (Captain Superintendent of Police).
HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G. HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C. HON. MR. E. A. HEWETT, C.M.G. HON. MR. D. LANDALE. HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK. MR. M. J. BREEN (Clerk of Councils).
Financial
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H. E. the Governor, laid on the table the Report of the Finance Com- mittee (No. 15), and moved its adoption.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and the motion was agreed to.
Alien Enemies (Winding up)
Ordinance
IIIS EXCELLENCY-Gentlemen, since our last meeting it has been considered necessary, for reasons which I am not at liberty to state, that the German and Austrian community should leave the Colony or be interned. The result naturally is that their trading in the Colony must cease, and that the businesses of the various firms which have been trading here under licence have to be wound up. This Bill is intended to give
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power to begin that winding up, and to carry it through, and you will understand that as the community in question has to cease business in a very few days, that it is necessary with the utmost despatch all their to provide for taking over business. Therefore, I will ask you to-day to pass this Bill in all its stages. There has not been a great deal of time for the consideration of the measure, and it is perhaps to be foreseen that it may be necessary to amend it in certain particulars later when perhaps experience shows that it is defective in any parti- cular. But we must begin the liquidation of these businesses at once, therefore it is necessary that we should be armed with the necessary power so to do.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL then moved the first reading of the Bill entitled, "An Ordinance to provide for the winding up of the affairs of certain alien enemies.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY second- ed, and the Bill was read a first time.
The Objects and Reasons attached to the Bill state:-The object of this Bill is to provide for the winding up of the affairs of such alien enemies as may be ordered to quit the Colony or may be detained or may be absent from the Colony.
moved
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL the suspension of the Standing Orders to onable the Bill to pass through its remaining stages at this meeting.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY second- ed, and the motion was agreed to.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill. In doing so he said--Certain enemy subjects have been ordered to leave the Colony, others will be detained, and others who are absent from the Colony will not be able to return. It is therefore necessary and desirable that some provision should be made for winding up the businesses and personal affairs of such persons, and this
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