CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6] — Page 90

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The Attomey-General moved the second reading of the

Bill intituled, "An Ordinance to regulate Ferries." In

doing so he said The object of the Bill is to take powers

to regulate the ferries of the Colony generally, other than

the present service of the Star Ferry Company, Ltd., which depended upon certain contracts between the Government and

the Company and was sufficiently regulated already. At the

apart from the Star Ferry Company there was present time

no power to regulate the ferries either with regard to accommodation, size of launches, time-tables or any of the

other various points on which a public service like a ferry

should be subject to some control. The object of the Bill

is not to secure revenue but the interests of the travelling

public. Certain draft regulations were published in the

same Gazette with the Bill, dealing with ferries between Victoria and Yaumati, Mong Kok Tsui and Sham Shui Po, and it is proposed at the moment only to deal with these particular

ferries. The regulations, however, were merely tentative and were published with the object of exciting discussion

and not as a final draft. It is not proposed on the passing

of this Ordinance to make those regulations, but it is intend-

ed that they should have full consideration and not be passed

until everyone, who has anything to say upon them, has been

heard. It is intended, I believe, to appoint a small

Committee on which unofficial members shall be represented,

if they will accept membership, and to hand over to that

Committee the consideration, ab initio, of the whole of the

regulations to be made under the Ordinance.

The Colonial Secretary seconded,

Hon.Mr.P.K.Holyoak May I ask whether these regulations

will involve putting these ferries up to tender?

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