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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Scheme during the financial year 1932 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony."

THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously.

VEHICULAR FERRY.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved:-

"That this Council approves of the expenditure of $770,000 on the Vehicular Ferry during the financial year 1932 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony."

THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously.

NEW GAOL AT WONG MA KOK.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY moved :-

"That this Council approves of the expenditure of $300,000 on the New Gaol at Wong Ma Kok during the financial year 1932 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony."

THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the resolution was carried unanimously.

LIQUORS ORDINANCE, 1931.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to intoxicating liquors." He said. There is attached at the end of the Bill a table of correspondence which shows how far the Bill is purely of a consolidating nature and how far it has been improved by amendments. The chief new amendment is that licensed warehouses for the storage of intoxicating liquors under the old Ordinance will not be continued, but arrangements will be made by which firms who desire to store liquor may get a special bonded warehouse of their own approved by the Governor-in- Council. There are certain changes in the fees and certain new re-arrangements of the districts to which they apply, as stated in remarks in the schedule on pages 49 and 50.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.

Objects and Reasons.

The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-

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