HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
PRESENT :-
13TH MARCH, 1924.
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR REGINALD EDWARD STUBBS, R.C.M.G.
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER IN COMMAND OF THE TROOPS, MAJOR- GENERAL SIR JOHN FOWLER, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.
HON. SIR CLAUD SEVERN, K.B.E., C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary).
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP, K.C., C.B.E. (Attorney-General).
HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER, O.B.E. (Colonial Treasurer).
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"With a view to check the breeding of mosquitoes, will the Government pass a regulation making it compul- sory to cut off all bamboo scaffolding immediately above the joint, so as to prevent a receptacle for standing water from being created."
Finance
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by com- mand of H.E. The Governor, laid on the table the Report of the Finance Committee (No. 8) and moved that it be adopted.
HON. MR. H. T. CREASY (Director of ed, and the motion was agreed to. Public Works).
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second-
HON. MR. A. E. WOOD (Secretary for Chinese Affairs).
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Captain Superintendent of Police).
HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, «.c.
HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK.
HON. MR. A. O. LANG.
HON. MR. A. R. LOWE.
HON. MR. R. H. KOTEWALL.
HON. MR. CHOW SHOU-SON.
MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER, C.M.G., C.B.E. (Clerk of Councils).
Minutes
The minutes of the last meeting were approved by the Council and signed by the President.
The Mosquito Peril
On H.E. THE GOVERNOR inquiring whe- ther there were any notices of motions or questions,
HON. MR. POLLOCK said :-
SIR,-I beg to give notice that I shall put the following question at the next Meeting of the Legislative namely:-
Council,
Papers
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by com- mand of H.E. The Governor, laid on the table the following papers:-
Regulation under section 25 (4) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899. Regulations under section 17 of the
Piracy Prevention Ordinance, 1914.
Supreme Court Rules
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by com- mand of H.E. The Governor, also laid on the table Rules made by the Chief Justice (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordinance, under section 5 of the Judgments 1921, and moved that they be adopted by the Council. These rules, he said, were all very technical, and he would ask the hon. Attorney-General to second the motion and give any explanation that he might think necessary.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in second- under the Ordinance which provides for ing the motion said: There rules were made the enforcement in Hongkong of judg- ments made by the Courts in England. The rules are based on the English rules
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