CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11] — Page 575

HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

22ND JUNE, 1916.

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PRESENT:

Land Officer; report on the Assessment ; also the quarterly return of excesses on

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR sub-heads met by savings under heads of FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.

F.

HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).

HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).

HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney- General).

HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial Treasurer).

expenditure, and the report of the pro- ceedings of the Public Works Committee.

Financial Minutes

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table financial minutes No. 8 to 12, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.

THE COLONIAL TREASURER second-

HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secreed, and this was agreed to. tary for Chinese Affairs).

HON. MR. W. CHATHAM, (Director of Public Works).

C. M. G.

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. SHELLIM.

HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK. HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK.

MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of Councils).

Minutes

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The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed.

Papers

on

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H. E. the Governor, laid upon the table the following annual

for 1915-Report reports

on the Blue Book; report On the Finances; report on the Botanical and Forestry the General department report Post Office: report on

Kow- the loon-Canton Railway, British section: report of the Captain Superintendent of Police; report of the Superintendent of the Prison; report of the Harbour of the Harbour Master; report of the Registrar of the Supreme Court; report of the Director of the Royal Observatory; report of the

Bathing Facilities

HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK asked:- "Will the Government provide, at an early date, the same facilities to the public for bathing at North Point and West Point as last year?"

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY re- plied:-Instructions were given in the middle of April to provide such facilities. at an estimated cost of $500. $180 has been provided in the estimates for the wages of two watchmen.

Registration of Enemy Trade Marks

HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK asked:--

(1.)--Will the Government state whe- ther the registration in Hongkong of any German trade marks has been renew- ed since the outbreak of war?

(2.)-Assuming that the registration of any such trade marks has been renew- ed, will the Government state what firms. have been granted renewals and whether instructions will now be given for the cancellation of any such renewals?

(3.)—Will the Government give instruc- tions that all German trade marks registered in this Colony shall be can- further celled, or at any rate that no renewals of the registration therefor shall be granted during the present War?