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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Search of Passengers
--Will the Government state whether tbare is at present any system for searching passengers and passeng era uggage entering the Colony, whether by boat or train, for arms and ammunition? If not, in view of the derous outrages and armed thefts which have occurred in this Colony recently, will they take im- mediate stepeto provide for such a search ↑
Underground Telegraph Ling
The Officer Administering the ( ment recommended the Council to sum of five hundred and forty del aid of the vote Miscellaneous Ser Rent of Underground Telegraph Line
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
Mrs. Glendinning
Officer Administering the Govern recommended the Council to vote & of five hundred and thirty-six dollars THE CHAIRMAN-This is to carry sixty-four cents in aid of the vote arrangement with the Telegraph Table Services, Charitable Penzion. pany for direct lines from the Oberf to the Cable Office and from the P Office to the Cable Office.
The vote was agreed to.
Medical Department
The Officer Administering the G ment recommended the Council to Bum of one thousand one hundred a seventy dollers in aid of the vote Micht Department, 4-Staff. Other Ch Conveyance Allowances to Matron, i and Probationers.
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HAIRMAN--Thisvete representstho
ce in the amount due to Mrs. ning, the widow of Sergt. Glen- ing who was murdered at Tel 0, from Willows' and Orphans' Fund and £104 ich sum her pension has been raised.
the vote was agreed to.
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Children's Shelter at Kowloon
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The Officer Administering the Govern- ment recommended the Council to vote a sum of two thousand two hundred dollars in aid of the vote Public Works, Extra- ordinary, Kowloon, Miscellaneous, Shelter in Children's Playground.
THE CHAIRMAN The total cost has been $6,800. The extra sum is required partly because of the rise in the price of materials and partly to provide a fence around the enclosure.
The vote was agreed to.
Frontier Police Stations
The Officer Administering the Govern- meat recommended the Council to vote a sum of ten thousand dollars in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, New Territories, Miscellaneous, (47) Miscel laneous Works.
A-All steamers, river steamers, pas sage boats, and launches arriving in the Colony and some trainę arriving at Kowloon are searched for arms and ammunition. It is not possible to search more than a certain percentage of arriv ing passengers without serious incon- venience to the vessels searched, and t the public. The greatest ingenuity is shown as regards methods of concealment, arms being upholstered into chairs,am- munition being placed in false bottops, and so on; and a completely exhaustive search would involve practically the divided among the Sisters who barat # the vote Royal Observatory, Special great unrest over the border hits made it stripping of each passenger and great destruction of property. Detectives scrutinize passengers arriving both by hip and by train for the purpose of picking out known criminals, persons re- turning from banishment, and suspicious characters. It must be remembered that the neighbouring province of China has been for some time past in a state of great disorder.
Council then adjourned sine die.
FINANCE COMMITTEE,
A meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the Colonial Scoretary presid ing.
Moorings in Victoria Harbour
The Officer Administering the Govern- ment recommended the Council to vote a sum of three thousand five hundred dollars in aid of the vote Harbour Master's Department, 4-Harbour Officer, Special Expenditure, Acquisition and re-arrange ment of moorings in Victoria Harbour.
THE CHAIRMAN-It was found that new moorings were required at Wanchai.
The vote was agreed to.
THE CHAIRMAN-Up till the end of year, a fixed sum was paid which to be on the Staff at the time. The bationers, I think, got nothing. Th allowance which necessitates this s now being given a small cou
for the current year. The Matron N Senior Sisters at the Peak receive Sisters $10; probationers at the $7.50 and probationers at the G.CHE
The vote was agreed to.
Charitable Allowances
The Officer Administering the G ment recommended the Council to ve Bum of five hundred dollars in aid allowance to Shin Lok-shang, son of t vote Charitable Services, Che
Yau-wai, late of the Education D ment.
THE CHAIRMAN--The Council vote?
expenses up to the end of 1917. This the beginning of last year a sum to con is for five terms at the University Shin Lok-sang was for a long time service of the Government. His s a Canton scholarship at the Uni and the Government has undertake pay the fees for his course there.
The vote was agreed to.
The Officer Administering the Govern- recommended the Council to vote a of one hundred and two dollars in
iture, Typewriter.
The vote was agreed to.
THE CHAIRMAN -This vote is required to protect the frontier police stations with barbed wire and iron shutters. The
desirable to put protective fences round the outlying police stations.
The vote was agreed to.
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