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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
MINUTES.
The minutes of the previous meeting of the Council were confirmed.
PAPERS.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table the following papers:-
Order under section 7 of the Rating Ordinance, 1901.
Regulations under section 4 of the Nurses Registration
Ordinance, 1931.
Regulations under section 4 (1) of the Factories and Workshops Ordinance, 1932, relating to fire precautions in Factories. and Workshops.
Rules under section 16 of the Gunpowder and Fireworks Ordinance, 1901, relating to Storage of Fireworks, etc.
Medical and Sanitary Report for the year 1932.
FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table the report of the Finance Committee, No. 9 of 28th September, 1933, and moved that it be adopted.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and this was agreed to.
MISCELLANEOUS LICENCES ORDINANCE, 1933.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to miscellaneous licences". He said: Ordinance No. 8 of 1887, which will be repealed by this Ordinance, provided for the issue of licences in the case of auctioneers, hawkers, money-changers, and undertakers of Chinese funerals, and for billiard tables, skittle- grounds and nine-pin alleys open to the public. This new Ordinance requires licences for auctioneers, hawkers, massage establishments, money-changers, public billiard-tables, public dance-halls and under- takers of burials generally. A feature of the new Ordinance is that it contains in the Second Schedule the regulations which are to apply to the different classes of licences.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time.
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