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Council went into Committe to consider the Bill clause by clause,
Clause 10 was amended to read This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of November, 1927."
Upon Council resuming,
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the third reading of the Bill,
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY second, and the Bill was read a third time and passed.
AFFORESTATION OPERATIONS.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the second reading of the Bill intituled, An Ordinance to enable certain areas to be declared pro- hibited areas with a view to the protection of afforestation operations."
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.
Council went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause. Upon Council resuming,
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the third reading of the Bill.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a third time and passed.
THE BUDGET.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the second reading of the Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding $17,450,103 to the Public Service of the year 1928.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded.
HON. SIR SHOU-SON CHOW said-Sir,-The duty devolves on me, as the senior unofficial member of this Council for the time being, to present the collective views of the unofficial members on the Budget this year, leaving to my honourable colleagues to bring forward in- dividually any special points they may wish to make.
At the outset we wish to congratulate Your Excellency on the able manner in which, at the last meeting of this Council, you reviewed the financial history of the Colony during the past thirty years. Your masterly survey has been read by the public with the greatest interest and pleasure, for it is a record that awakens our latent pride in the Colony's achievements, and kindles fresh confidence in its future.
We desire also to congratulate you, Sir, and the Hon. Colonial Secretary on the manner in which the Budget has been framed, and presented to this Council. Your Excellency and the Hon. Colonial Secretary have placed the Colony in your debt by the care and foresight
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