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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Objects and Reasons,
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-
Until 1923, section 54 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordin- ance, 1903, provided for the payment of compensation, not exceeding $400 for each animal, for the slaughter of infected cattle. "Cattle" is defined under the Ordinance, and means "bulls, cows, oxen, heifers, calves and buffaloes". The amending Ordinance, No. 21 of 1903, based to some extent on the Disease of Animals Act, 1894, provided for a maximum compensation of $40 in the case of a pig and $400 in the case of any other animal. It is considered that the latter figure should be applied, as it was prior to 1923, in the case of cattle and that the figure then settled as the maximum in the case of a pig should apply to other animals.
HOP YAT TONG CHURCH OF CHRIST HONG KONG ORDINANCE, 1931.
THE HON. MR. W. E. L. SHENTON moved the first reading of a Bill intituled, "An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Hop Yat Tong Church of Christ in Hong Kong.' He said.-Previous to the year 1884 Chinese Christian members of the congregation of the London Missionary Society met at the Union Church then situate in Elgin Street to observe the services on Sundays and other festival days.
In the year 1884 through the generosity of Mary Ayow Cald- well and the late Sir Kai Ho Kai certain property situate in Hollywood Road adjoining the Alice Memorial Hospital was purchased at a nominal price by the members of the congregation.
The Chinese members of the congregation erected a church upon the site and the church was known as the "To Chai Wui Tong" under the management of the Reverend Wong Yuk Cho assisted by a com- mittee.
The Chinese members of the several congregations in China such as the Presbyterian Mission, the China Congregational Church and the London Missionary Society united together and formed one Association under the name of The Church of Christ in China.
The church in Hollywood Road being insufficient for the needs of the congregation the premises were sold and a new site in Bon- ham Road was obtained from the London Missionary Society where a church was built and known as the Church of Christ in China.
The property is now vested in certain persons as trustees for the said church,
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