sand, one hundred and fiv
public service of the ISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held on October 31st at the Council Chamber.
The following were present:— 218 EXCELLENCE THE GOVERNO, 818 FRANCIS HENSY MAY, K.O.M.G.
Hie EXCELLENCT MAJOR-GENERAL F. VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).
kie defcreueo,
I venture to submit that that should be 191, think fit But,
Owing to delay in presen- stated in Council. I think that your tation of the account a sum of $530 in Excellency and I say this again with respect of drugs ordered for 1914 was not vent questions being asked. all due deference has no right to pie paid until 1915. It is regretted that a cellency could have said that, for certain expel diture in 1914.
Your Ex mistake was made in respect of the total reasons, the question could not be an-
The amount was Вареца speaking on the point of order-is this: About half the local expenditure in swered. My position-and I am still (b) The balance was spent locally. Might I send the Clerk of the Council's 1914 was in respect of requirements which bo informed why the question suddenly letter to the Press so that people might could not have been foreseen.
(i)-Yes, in some instances, and mysteriously vanishes from the
(v.) 1914, $2,742; 1915, $2,785. agenda? I take it, Sir, I am at liberty 2(i)-On the 22nd August. to send the letter of the Clerk of the September 1, 8-15, 19-30.
(ii): Council
October 1, 4, to the Press; otherwise, it 9-12. Oo no occasion
without & Nurse's assistance. Owing to was the Sister
leave and sickness it was not possible to give effect to the allocation arranged by
Hon. Mr. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).
Hoa. Mr. J. H. KEMP (Attorney General).
Hon. Mr. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial appears that the question which has been Treasurer).
put, end of which notice had been given Hon. Mr. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secretary publicly, suddenly and mysteriously dis appeared into the void without any ex-
for Chinese Affairs).
Hon. Mr. W. CHATHAM, C.M.G. (Director Planation at all. of Public Works).
Hon. Mr. C. McI. Messze (Captain Buperintendent of Police).
Hon. Mr. Wai Yox, C.M.G.
Hon. Mr. H. E, POLLOCK, K.C.
Hou. Mr. E. SHILLIN
Hon. Mr. D. LANDALE.
Hon. Mr. LAU CHU PAK.
Hon. Mr. P. H. HOLTOAK.
H.E, the Governor. Since the 28th July three Sisters have been HIS EXCELLENCY--I have no objection leave to England, one
granted long sister WEB on to the hon. member sending the letter to sick leave from the 8th to the 17th the Press. As regards my power to September, and one has been similarly refuse to accept a question, that has absent from the 13th September up to been established by precedent in the date; while under the new system of House of Commons, and it has certainly granting one and if possible two days been established here by various preced-off in the month 11 days off were given ents. I regret very much that the ques- to the Sisters in August, 11 days in tion of the hon. member found its way September and 5 days in October up to
the 12th instant. This short leave absorbs one Sister.
Mr. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of Coun into the Orders of the Day; that was cila).
quite inadvertent.
MINUTES. The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed.
PAPERS.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, la'd on the table Sessional Paper, 16, being an abstract showing the difference between the esti mates of expenditure for 1916 and 1917.
FINANCE.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table report of meeting of the Finance Com- mittee held on October 17th (No. 8), and moved that it be adopted.
The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and this was agreed to.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H. E. the Governor, laid upon the table Financial Minutes Nos. 34 to 38, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.
UNOFFICIAL REPRESENTATION.
3. The value of the consignment was $501.89
A CORRECTION,
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL. Hon. Mr. H. E. POLEOCK asked:- 1. Of the sums of 89,905, $10,147, and $9,714 state. at the last meeting of Coun- cil to have been expended in the years
HIB EXCELLENCY---Before proceeding 1013, 1914, and 1815, respectively, will with the Orders of the Day I should like the Government state
to correct a statement which I made at (i). How much of that expenditure the last meeting of the Council. la represents drugs and disinfec- summing up the charitable and other tants
contributions made by this Colony to the war, I said that the Tai Yau Bank
cost of £1,500, and that the community Ead, contributed one aeroplane at a of Hongkong had contributed two sero- planes at a cost of £3,000. As a matter of fact, the Tai Yau Bank contributed half the cost of three seroplanes, and the Hongkong community the other ball. Therefore the Tai Yau Bank's contri- bution was considerably larger than I stated. I regret the error,
Wart
(a) supplied from home; (b) purchased locally 7 (1)-Whether it is not the fact that the price of drugs and disinfee tants has gone up considerably since the beginning of the war, with the result that the same sun of money purobased considerably less drugs and disinfectants since the war than it did before the
(2)Whether any savings were effected on the amounts voted for drugs and disinfectants in the years 1914 and 1915 or either of them, and, if sĎ,
what were the Hon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK asked:
amounts of such savings? With reference
2.-With reference to the morning to the following allocation of Sisters at the Civil Hos statements in paragraph & of the De-pital which was announced by His spatch of His Excellency the Governor cellency the Governor of the 28th May, 1916, to the Secretary Meeting of the of State for the Colonies on the subject namely:- of the recent Petition for greater repre- sentation of the public on the Executive and Legislative Councila, namely:-" It is quite impracticable to apply the prin- ciple of election to appointments to body like the Executive Council and it does not seem necessary to set out the very obvious reasons for which such a proposal could not be entertained": Will the Government state what are the reasons why such a proposal could not be entertained 1
E
The COLONIAL BBCRETARY replied-The Government is not prepared to make a statement on the subject.
Hon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK-I rise to a point of order with regard to question 2- Will the Government also state for what reasons two out of the four non- Chinese Unofficial Members of the Legis- lative Council are Government nominees instead of being oloated as Members 1- not having been answered.
Of course,
I quite appreciate the fact, from the letter addressed to me by the Clerk of the Council, that your Excellency has it in your power to decline, for certain reasons, to answer questions which you
at the Council 3rd August
last,
A BLOCK. Morning, 1 Bister on each floor; will the Government state
Operating Theatre, 1 Bister;
a
TRUSTEES' ORDINANCE. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL introduced Billäntituled, "An Ordinance to amend the Trustees Ordinance, 1901,”
The Objects and Reasons stale that the object of th's Bill is to empower
trustees to invest trust funds in the loan authorised by the recent War Loan Ordi.
ance, 1916.
The COLONIAL Secretary seconded.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then moved the suspension of the Standing Orders to allow of the Bill being taken through the remaining stages at that meeting.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY Beconded, and this was agreed to.
(9). On what dates between the 22nd August and the date of these Questions (12th October) it has The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then moved the been found possible to ca ry out second reading of the Bill. In doing s the said intended morning scheme he said: The object of the Bill, Sir, is of allocation, namely, on each floor of A Block and a funds in the Hongkong War Loan,
1 Sister to give trustees power to invest trust separate Bister for the Operating Theatre; and
(s)On what dates, between the said dates, One Bister alone as had to attend in the morning not only to the two fenre in A Block but also to the Operating Theatre as well, that is to say, to do work which, under the above scheme of allocation, is supposed to be done by three Bisters 1
and
3. What was the value of the drugs
disinfectants, consigned to Hongkong Government, which went down the
in the Faraka Maru in December, 1915
The COLONIAL SECRETARY replied as
follow :-
The COLONIAL SECRETARY Seconded, and the Bill was read a second time,
Council then went into Committee to
consider the Bill clause by clause.
without amendment, and on Council re- The Bill passed through Committee
suming,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the
Bill be read a third time.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was then read a third time and passed.
THE BUDGET. The COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the
second reading of the Bill intituled, "An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding eight million, six hundred and five thou-
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