[ { "id": 389125, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10]", "content_text": "# PROFESSOR SIMPSON'S REPORT. GENERAL PROTECTIVE MEASURES.\n\n1. Government should receive regular statistics, weekly bulletins if possible, relating to plague in all parts of Southern China with which Hongkong has commercial dealings. This should be supplied by Consuls, Medical Missionaries, and the Customs Authorities.\n\nPages 8, 47, 104-105.\n\n2. Quarantine ineffective and costly. Instead, there should be supervision over junks and steamers trading with the infected districts.\n\nPages 105-107.\n\n3. The large steamers trading between Hongkong, Canton, and Macao should each carry a Surgeon on board. An alternative would be a system of Medical inspection before the steamer communicates with the shore; but this would cause delay and inconvenience.\n\nPages 104, 106.\n\n4. Food supply brought in junks to be supervised; and a small laboratory to be attached to the animal depôts for the use of the Veterinary Surgeon.\n\nPage 108. (Secale, Part II, 14(5), page 10).\n\n| Measure | Status |\n| --- | --- |\n| This is done. | C. O. |\n| | CU |\n| | 25 |\n| | 27 Pre AUG 25! |\n| Considered impracticable. | |\n| Disapproved by Executive Council. | |\n| Disapproved by Executive Council. | |\n| Importation of live stock is under supervision. No dead pigs or other animals are imported. | |\n\n5. Special attention to be paid to Emigrant houses, and keepers to be bound by strict rules to report disease, etc.\n\nPage 108.\n\n6. Establishment of an Isolation or Observation Station for coolie emigrants. Capsuimun suggested.\n\nPage 114. See also page 10.\n\n7. Clayton's machines for pumping gas to be used for destroying rats in Godowns, and elsewhere.\n\nPage 110. (Part II, 18(2).)\n\n8. No furniture to be moved from house to house during plague season without a Sanitary or Police permit.\n\nPages 112-113.\n\n| Measure | Status |\n| --- | --- |\n| Done. | |\n| Under consideration. | Provision being made in 1904 Estimates to purchase one. |\n| This is being done. | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390537, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "## exer \n\nCoctect from Saily Press of the 20th brouter 22 towards solving the question of the supply of fresh meat to Hongkong. Near the town of Un-long I found on my first visit a settlement of about 25 lepers, who were compelled to live in the middle of an extensive swamp, on a slight elevation approached by a rough causeway, and here almost under water in rainy weather. These afflicted people had built, of pieces of board, miserable shanties that afforded no protection from rain or the chill winter winds. Here they huddled together at night, while by day they approached the villages where, though not permitted to enter the houses, they were charitably supplied with food. Hard by was an unoccupied hill with a well at its base. A sufficient area was walled off, enclosing the well, and small houses have been erected by the Public Works department, that afford shelter from cold and rain. The lepers still obtain their food from the neighbours, or from their families, and the segregation is practically as effective as in more pretentious and expensive establishments, while the victims of this terrible disease have not perpetual imprisonment added to the miseries of their most miserable lives.\n\nAt Tai po, the headquarters of the New Territory establishment, a Chinese qualified medical practitioner has been stationed, whose services have been freely availed of by the inhabitants, and who is the public vaccinator of the district. The question of Education has been carefully considered. A school is about to be established at Un-long where English will be taught, and the provisions of the Education Code are being extended to the Vernacular Schools of the various districts.\n\nI have recapitulated the general lines of policy in the New Territory, as on their soundness will depend the success or failure of this assimilation with the Colony of a large agricultural population with a reputation for turbulence; suspicious of foreigners, and with a rooted objection to any interference with their settled habits or customs. It is yet too soon to judge of the results, but so far they are promising. The number of crimes reported in the year 1900 was 589, and this year 257, which is equal for the entire year to 342. Within the same period we have been able to reduce the police force from 171 to 104. Thanks to the firmness, fairness, and tact of the public officers immediately dealing with the people, confidence has been established, and the inhabitants have learnt to appreciate the benefits of the honest performance of official duties, and freedom from that official rapacity so prevalent under the Chinese system.\n\nOf this there was gratifying evidence in 1901 during the serious disturbance in the district adjoining the New Territory when the people who, two years before, had faced our troops with arms in their hands, sent a deputation of elders to request that I would send out to the frontier a small military force to prevent the entrance of disturbers of the peace, with whom they were no longer in sympathy, desiring to pursue their avocations with the quiet and security to which, as British subjects, they had become accustomed.\n\nBut in laying the foundations for the development of the New Territory, the great possibilities of which have yet to be fully realized, we must not forget the rapid growth of Hongkong and its shipping trade. \n\n| Year | Population | Assessed Value | Shipping (tons) | Revenue |\n|------|------------|---------------|---------------|----------|\n| 1898 | 254,400 | $54,511,947 | 17,265,780 | $2,834,840 |\n| 1903 | 433,660 | $8,749,643 | 23,027,455 | $4,583,295 (est.) |\n\nIn 1904, the revenue is estimated at $6,208,808, thanks to the largely increased tender for the Opium farm. In whatever direction we turn, we find a Colony instinct with boundless activity. The reclamation of Western Praya is completed. Its Eastern Praya reclamation is only delayed by demands by the Admiralty and War Office at home that this Government considers unreasonable and hopes to have modified. All around the Kowloon Peninsula, great schemes of reclamation are in progress. At Quarry Bay, a graving dock is being constructed by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, that will be capable of docking the largest ships afloat; while another dock is being constructed by the Naval Authorities in the very heart of the City.\n\nI wish that I could congratulate you upon the latter, but, however we may deplore the injury to the city by the severance of its continuity by the Naval Dockyard, we must not forget that no protest was made by the Colony until after the work of construction had advanced considerably and a large amount of money had been spent. The Admiralty are prepared to hand over the dockyard to the Colony, but on conditions so onerous that even by this wealthy community they could not be accepted. Still, the expenditure of some thirty millions of dollars in the execution of the works on the Naval Extension and Quarry Bay docks cannot fail to increase the prosperity of the Colony.\n\nNor has the Government been remiss in Public Works. During the term of my administration, $2,741,579 have been expended on Public Works Extraordinary. The reservoir at Wong-nei-chong, of a capacity 33,000,000 gallons, has been completed, and the reservoir and gravitation scheme for Kowloon is being carried out at an estimated expense of $835,000. The initial works are in progress for the new Reservoir at Tytam Tuk, to hold 1,200,000,000 gallons. Blake Pier has been built, and the foundations of the Law Courts have been completed, and the superstructure of which the foundation stone was laid by me on the 12th instant.\n\nThe foundations of the large new market at Western have been completed, and the superstructure of the latter building has been begun, while a contract for that of the former has been let, and for the new harbour office. A site has been acquired for the new post office, and plans for it have been prepared and approved, and a contract for the foundations has been let. These important buildings will be pushed forward without delay.\n\nBut the absorbing question that has exercised the minds of the community to a greater extent than all others is that of sanitation. This question has been debated year by year as in each recurring year plague claimed its victims by hundreds, and malaria scourged the community. In May, 1902, the visit to the Colony of Professor Simpson and Mr. Osbert Chadwick, C.M.G., resulted in valuable reports on defective construction of Chinese houses, and in pursuance of their recommendations, a consolidated Public Health Ordinance has been passed, under the provisions of which the houses of the future will be of a more sanitary type, and surface overcrowding that is found in the Chinese part of the City of Victoria will be no longer possible.\n\nAn able bacteriologist has been added to the permanent staff, for whom a suitable laboratory is being built, and from his original researches valuable results have already been obtained, and still more important discoveries may be expected in the future. So far, it cannot be said that we have been more successful here than in other countries in discovering the causes or checking the ravages of plague, but investigation and experiments made during the epidemic of this year afford a hope that next year may see a step in advance in prevention, and treatment, should, unhappily, the plague again develop in epidemic form.\n\nIn the treatment of Malaria, we have profited by the light thrown upon its causation by the experiments of Celli, Ross, and other investigators, and systematic arrangements have been made to control the nullahs and pools in which the anopheles mosquito has hitherto bred along the face of the hills that dominate the city. Over $93,000 have been expended already in this work, with the result that while in 1902, 8,795 cases were admitted to various civil and military hospitals, the number of cases reported this year to the present date is 2,408.\n\nIt is to be hoped that with perseverance and thoroughness in the destruction of the anopheles mosquito, this danger to the community will ultimately be removed. To more effectually carry out the recommendations of the two experts to whose reports I have alluded, it has been decided to recommend the formation of a body of Trustees at whose disposal funds will be placed for the necessary operation of remodelling this overcrowded city.\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411544, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## \n\na mart, to install here a large agency of l'Union Commerciale, with ten or a dozen Europeans. The firm would deal in all kinds of goods, including kerosene. From other sources I hear that although this firm succeeded in raising a considerable amount of capital in France last year, its prospects in Yunnan Province are not regarded as brilliant. A large sum was lost three or four years ago by the Mengtzu Agency through speculation in opium.\n\nThe Yunnan Syndicate is showing more signs of life than has been the case for some time. M. Lutz, the local Manager, has got as far as Mengtzu, where he is looking for a house in which to set up an extensive assayist's laboratory purchased in England. He is to be assisted by a young Englishman named Collins, now in Hong Kong. Both gentlemen contemplate visiting Yunnan-fu shortly, when I shall be in a better position to report on the proposals and prospects of the Syndicate.\n\nA Match Factory, to be run with capital largely raised in London and (I believe) Singapore, is in contemplation, but is being delayed by the death of one of the two local Managers, M. Schneebeli, a Swiss.\n\n## Proposed Distribution Agency for goods from India and Burmah\n\nThe Norwegian agent in Yunnan of the British and Foreign Bible Society (Mr. Edward Amundsen), a capable man with an extensive personal knowledge of Yünnan and Szechuan, laid before me last October a proposal to open depôts at Yunnan-fu and Hsiakuan for the display of samples of woven goods, hardware, watches, soaps, paper, medicines, boots, grocers' stores, and the rest. This proposal I transmitted, through the Government of Burmah, to the Rangoon Chamber of Commerce. In due course I was informed by the Chief Secretary that it had been passed on to the Chamber, but I am still without any acknowledgment from the latter. I regret to say that this apparent indifference to the furtherance of trade with Yünuan would seem to be characteristic of the present Rangoon Chamber.\n\n## Inland Transit Passes\n\nA local Chinese merchant sent in to me a petition affirming that a consignment of dried orange peel (\"ch'en pi\"), for which an inland transit pass had been taken out at Chungking, was being detained by the li-kin collectorate here. Petitioner represented that the pass had been granted to the British firm of Kung-tai (J. W. Stewart), but on making inquiries I found that it had been issued to the China Merchants Company. Although the goods had, by their passage through Hong Kong, acquired a foreign status, they are of Chinese origin; I did not, therefore, feel justified in doing more than to advise, informally, the Provincial Government to release them pending a reference to the Chungking Customs.\n\nThis is the first case for upwards of three years in which complaint has reached me of lack of respect shown to transit passes.\n\n## Laokei-Yunnan-fu Railway\n\nTowards the end of 1905 the Construction Company declared that the work could not be completed for the amount originally estimated, and that some sixty million more francs would be necessary. It was in connection with this demand that M. Beau, Governor-General of Indo-China, visited the province last March.\n\nHis Excellency was conducted along the line, up the valley of the Namhti, past the Mengizu Plain to La-li-hei, a point some three stages further north. Thence he returned to Tonking by way of Mengtzu and Manhao. The object of this tour was doubtless to show what difficulties had been, and remained to be, surmounted; but to thus confine the Governor-General's attention to a series of ravines was hardly the best way to convince him that the Yunnan Province is worth exploiting. However that may be, it is understood that M. Beau concluded that further financial aid must be given, and with that end in view has been personally consulting at Paris with the State Departments concerned. (He returned a short time since to Hanoi.)\n\nMeanwhile the French Government had sent out a Mission of Inquiry, headed by M. Drogue, Engineer-in-chief of the Ponts et Chaussées. He was assisted by two Engineers, MM. Constantin and Gervais, and by two Financial Experts, MM. Decron and Loisy. The Commission followed the line right up to Yunnan-fu, accompanied by M. Guibert, the Chief Superintendent, and M. Sainson, formerly Consul at Mengtzu, representing the Construction Company; by M. Jullidières, Acting Director-General of Public Works in Tongking, and MM. Metour and Kerler, representing the interests of the Colony; and by MM. Langrogne and Chemin-Dupontès, representing the Concessionnaires. Two days only were spent at Yunnan-fu, after which the party returned to Mengtzu along the earlier trace, through Tunghai. On their arrival at Mengtzu M. Drogue declared himself so disgusted with Chinese inns as to be unwilling to encounter the worst of them all, those between Mengtzu and Manhao. He accordingly elected to go down to Tongking by the Namhti route. Part of his following took the ordinary road to Manhao, while part continued to observe the original trace along the Sinhsien Valley.\n\nIt is confidently expected that, as a result of their reports, the money asked for by the Construction Company will be forthcoming. MM. Guibert and Sainson went to Paris with the Mission, M. Guibert's place being meanwhile taken by M. du Traz.\n\nService trains are running for at least 33 kilom. (say 20 miles) in Yünnan territory, and work is being energetically pushed everywhere. Some 46,000 coolies are now employed, costing per head in the Namhti Valley, in wages and rice, 1 dol. 20 c. a-day. At this (the Yunnan-fu) end of the line, the buildings of the station are complete except for doors, windows, and ironwork. All the staff of the section has been transferred elsewhere, and one European alone will be left in charge of the buildings and of the comparatively small remaining work on the embankments. It seems now fairly certain that the railway will be completed by the end of 1909.\n\nP.S.-A Reuter's telegram (Hong Kong, 24th January) reports that the French Government has approved the project of a loan intended to complete the Yunnan Railway.\n\n## Movements of Foreign Officials\n\nM. Leduc, “Député du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères,\" left Yunnan-fu on the 7th February, after a residence here of close on three years. I hear (from Chinese sources) that he has recommended his Government to bestow decorations on Hsing-lu, for many years Superintendent of the Department for Foreign Affairs in Yünnan and now Financial Commissioner in Kueichow; on Kuei-fu, his sometime Assistant, now Prefect of Chengchiang; on Chou Hang, formerly Magistrate at Mengtzu; and on Tang, French Secretary in the Foreign Department. In return a telegram was sent, about the 4th February, to Peking, asking for the bestowal on M. Leduc of rank of the Second Degree (Erh-p'in Ting-t'ai).\n\nWith the exception of four months at Foochow in 1887, M. Leduc has spent the whole of his twenty-one years of service either in the north, at Peking or Tien-tsin, or in this province, at Mengtzu and Yunnan-fu. He remains titular \"Premier Interprète\" —or, as we should say, Chinese Secretary—to the French Legation; but it is doubtful whether on his return to China at the close of this year he will take up the post.\n\nHe is succeeded here by M. Arnould, Consul of the Second Class. M. Arnould has been stationed at Aleppo, and is altogether ignorant of Chinese. He is some 52 years of age, and has been confined to his bed since his arrival, so that I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting him. He has brought with him his young son of 10, with the latter's governess, Mme. Arnould remaining in France with her daughter.\n\nM. Gélis, Assistant at the French Consulate-General, leaves for Foochow. He has been replaced here by M. Soulier, a young man who has spent five years in China, for the most part at Shaughae. He will act as interpreter for M. Arnould.\n\nTo the Yunnan-fu agency of the Imperial Chinese Post has been sent a Frenchman, M. Périer, at one time employed at the French post-office at Tien-tsin, but later on at the Chinese Post at Yochow. Hitherto the office has been run by Chinese alone, with the result that many complaints reached the Superintending Commissioner (at Mengtzu) of petty frauds or exactions. A recent notification by the Judicial Commissioner invites popular confidence in M. Périer and the three branch offices he has opened in this city.\n\nM. Mougeot, \"Receveur\" at the French post-office here, expects to shortly return to Tonquin. He has an uncle who is, or was, a Cabinet Minister.\n\n## Missions\n\nMgr. Fenouil, titular Bishop of Tenedos and Vicar Apostolic in Yunnan, died on the 10th January, aged 86. He came out to Hong Kong nearly sixty years ago, stayed on the island some two years, then proceeded to this province, where he resided continuously up to the day of his death. He was, I imagine, the oldest European resident in China. In earlier days he more than once went in peril of his life; but he died a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. For the past few years he led a very secluded life, indeed, never saw him. A Suffragan Bishop, Mgr. Excoffier, acted for him till a year or two ago, when the Suffragan returned to Rome, severing for some reason his connection with the Mission. Since that time P. Maire, the Pro-Vicaire, ...\n\nPage 43", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420142, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "Sub-anclosure to Enclosure 10.\n\n36963\n\nRECO\n\nREG 11 NOV 09.\n\nGovernment Laboratory,\n\nHongkong, 21st September, 1909.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to report that in connection with the Liquor Ordinance much extra work will be required of the Analyst. Briefly there is the strength of Chinese wines to be ascertained at the distilleries, the denaturing of spirits to be seen after in warehouses, some attendances to be made at bottling and breaking down operations, and attendances at court for supporting charges made under the Ordinance. Extra work has to be done now also in connection with the Opium Ordinance, such as the inspection of books of licensed persons. There is enough to keep an analyst occupied outside the laboratory all day in connection with Liquor and Opium only, therefore I would ask that a qualified assistant analyst be appointed, otherwise it will be impossible to carry out what is needed. Before being sent out he should be attached for one month to the Customs Department of the Excise at home. I would suggest that his pay be £360 rising to £420 with a travelling allowance of $30 a month. He should be on probation for three years.\n\n2. The Harbour Master prefers that the interpreter necessary for visits to Chinese distilleries, should be attached to the laboratory. I do not know how much is given usually to a reliable man of this kind.\n\nThe Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nPage 3\n\n.90.9.33\n\nPage 4\n\n \n.0.4.0.4\n\n \n was not found in the original text to be included \n\n was not in original text\n\n.Jaoo fliw mirij dariw word\n\n.Yea bluon\n\nbooed won red bas Jraw diet gnol a reed sad star\n\n.eono je unob of blueda doliw yðlaseten S\n\n«[Ind. (Da}\n\n.0.7.0.1\n\n was not in the original main text, hence not included \n\n Mikdaesh .Ik staff enom eittií s at yoq við SA \n\n Tu ghi bosmooot hivor i gniwerb won nk,daylana juajařenА \n\n Invol at \n\n.eomerolle nulq yrslea Jrog9ng aid ja faoq erd .Iuteen od [Itw egbaIwoni \n\n.0.4.0.4 \n\n,IIsä. (ha) \n\n3.\n\n.90.9.33", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420145, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "PARTICULARS of the Office now vacant in the Medical Department in the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nTitle - Apothecary and Assistant Analyst. Must be a member of the Pharmaceutical Society and have passed the Major Examination of that Society, not over 27 years of age. Free and must remain so while on probation.\n\nDuties of office and qualifications required for their performance.\n\nAble to take charge of the Hospital Pharmacy. Must have had some experience in Analytical work.\n\nSalary and emoluments, and when secured by permanent law, £350 rising to £500 by two triennial increases of £75.\n\nOther circumstances affecting the value of the office.\n\nFree bachelor quarters, partially furnished. Free passage to Hong Kong and from Hong Kong at end of three years if Conduct satisfactory.\n\nNature, number, and amount of securities required, and mode of giving them.\n\nNone.\n\nWhether any, and if any, what provision is made from this country elsewhere, of the persons sent to fill the office.\n\nIs or Ordinances making provision respecting any of the above matters, and especially respecting the permanency of the emoluments of the staff.\n\nThe person sent out must agree to serve for three years, after which if the Government retain his services he may be taken on permanently. In case of his leaving of his own accord or on account of dismissal before the termination of his agreement, the passage money paid for him must be refunded. If appointed to the permanent staff, his salary will be subject to a deduction of four per cent per annum towards the Widows and Orphans Fund.\n\nBefore leaving for Hong Kong the person selected will be required to sign an agreement to work for a month at the Customs Laboratory or other similar institution in England, and to furnish a full report on the work done, to the Government of Hong Kong on his arrival in the Colony.\n\nLov. I. Koch,\n\nPrincipal Civil Medical Officer.\n\n29th August 1883.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423386, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 789, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## to examine northward trains on the frontier I am not prepared to say without fuller information than I at present possess regarding the working of the customs at Dairen, In this connection I have the honour to enclose copy of a despatch addressed by Mr. Gordon, His Majesty's vice-consul at Dairen, to His Majesty's acting consul-general at Mukden, commenting on Mr. Willis's despatch on this subject. Mr. Gordon, while confirming the suspicion that wholesale smuggling of goods must have been carried on from the Kwantung leased territory into Manchuria during the year 1908, takes the view that if the work of the Chinese customs at Dairen were efficiently performed it should be impossible for goods to pass into the interior illegally. I think that Mr. Gordon has perhaps not given sufficient weight to the considerations, firstly, that the Customs have no control whatever over foreign imports until they are declared for the interior, and, secondly, that the Dairen agreement expressly provides that the Customs staff shall be wholly Japanese. However, his despatch shows that it is not certain that the establishment of a customs station on the frontier would provide an effective remedy.\n\nThe question is one which directly concerns the customs revenue, and Mr. Willis states that it has been referred by the commissioner of customs at Mukden to the inspectorate-general at Peking, I understand from Sir Robert Bredon that he has called the attention of the commissioner of customs at Dairen to the points raised, and has instructed him to furnish a full report on the existing customs procedure at Dairen and the posts on the frontier, and on the measures that can be taken under the agreement, or any modification thereof, to prevent the passing of the frontier by uncertificated goods, whether by rail or otherwise. The matter is engaging the attention of the customs, and as the acting inspector-general has promised to communicate to me the result of his enquiries, I defer further consideration of the question until I am in possession of the information thus to be obtained.\n\nAs I am forwarding a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tokyo.\n\n(No. 39.) Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN,\nActing Consul-General\n\nWillis to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, September 1, 1909.\n\nIN my despatch No. 62 of the 28th September last I pointed out that there was no examination of goods entering Manchuria from the Kwantung leased territory, and that, although there was no proof that advantage had been taken of this fact to smuggle goods into the country, under the existing procedure the Chinese Customs relied entirely on the good faith of the South Manchurian Railway.\n\nI have recently received a despatch from the acting commissioner of the foreign board at Mukden, in which he states that Mr. Tachibana, the acting commissioner of Chinese customs at Tairen, has recently brought to the notice of the provincial authorities that many foreign merchants neglect to take out the exemption certificates provided for in the provisional regulations of November 1907, and that consequently orders have been issued to the Fengtien Board of Revenue to collect li-kin and other inland taxes on goods not accompanied by such certificates.\n\nThe figures given in the Customs returns of trade from the 1st July, 1907, up to the end of last year appear to indicate that certain merchants are taking advantage of the fact that goods declared for the leased territory enter free of duty to afterwards forward these goods into Manchuria in considerable quantities without having recourse to any customs formalities.\n\n| Item | Value/Quantity (1907) | Value/Quantity (1908) | Sent into Interior |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Foreign imports into Tairen (excluding railway material) | 7,412,365 taels | 13,104,834 taels | - |\n| Goods forwarded into Manchuria by rail | 1,567,587 taels | 4,645,079 taels | - |\n| Total import of foreign goods at Newchwang | 10,587,235 taels | 15,151,734 taels | - |\n| Cotton goods imported into Tairen | - | 1,002,712 pieces | 591,922 pieces |\n| Newchwang imports of cotton goods | - | 1,452,641 pieces | - |\n| Japanese cotton goods (unclassed) via Tairen | 82,907 pieces | 566,278 pieces | - |\n| Cigarettes imported into Tairen | - | 648,965 taels | 222,170 taels |\n| American flour imported into Tairen | - | 163,121 piculs | 38,019 piculs |\n\nThe total import of foreign goods at Newchwang and Tairen, which ports practically supply between them the wants of South Manchuria, amounted to 28,256,568 taels, of which according to the statistics goods of a value of no less than 8,459,755 taels, or roughly 30 per cent. of the whole, were consumed in the leased territory, the total population of which is less than 500,000, and in which, with the exception of Tairen itself, there is not a single town of even second-class importance.\n\nIn the body of his report for 1908 Mr. Tachibana mentions that the greater part of the foreign imports were for Japanese enterprises and for the use of Japanese residing in the leased territory and in Manchuria. The only articles, he states, imported in any quantity for the use of natives were cotton piece-goods, American flour, cigarettes, and sugar.\n\nA detailed examination of the three other articles referred to by Mr. Tachibana seems to support the inference I have drawn from a consideration of the statistics viewed as a whole.\n\nIf it is the case, as appears probable, in my opinion, from the above considerations, that the Chinese Customs are being defrauded by dishonest traders, the remedy proposed by the provincial authorities, namely, to levy li-kin and inland dues on goods unaccompanied by exemption certificates, appears to me entirely inefficacious, as there are no li-kin stations along the line of the South Manchurian Railway nor in any of the railway settlements.\n\nIn the case of imports into Tairen, and thence forwarded into the interior, the exemption certificate constitutes the proof that import duty has been paid, and unless the Chinese Customs establish a customs station at Pulantien on the frontier between the leased territory and Fengtien Province, where goods are subjected to an examination similar to that which now takes place at Manchuria and Pogranitchnaya stations on the Chinese Eastern Railway, I do not see how there can be any effective check on imports via Tairen, and foreign merchants will continue to suspect that Japan is making an unfair use of her railway facilities.\n\nIn connection with this subject there is another point to which I would like to draw your attention. It seems to me very probable that within a few years Tairen will become a considerable manufacturing centre. An experimental laboratory has been established there under the auspices of the South Manchurian Railway Company, and it is claimed that important economic discoveries in connection with the extraction and refining of bean oil, the treatment of the wild silk cocoon, and the distilling of spirit from \"kaoliang\" have been made already. A cement factory, I am informed, has been completed, whilst a tobacco factory is in course of erection, and other important enterprises appear to be contemplated both at Tairen and in the South Manchurian Railway settlements along the line. At Tiebling there is already a flour mill. At Changchun a model factory, I understand, is already working, whilst at Mukden a large distillery is approaching completion.\n\nThe question of the taxation to be levied on such enterprises appears to me one of considerable importance. Whilst their establishment seems likely in the main to affect Chinese interests and Chinese revenue, yet in the case of the cement and the tobacco factories British and other foreign interests are directly concerned. I understand from Mr. Bowra, the commissioner of customs here, that in the case of the cement factory a claim has been already made to Mr. Tachibana to allow the export into Manchuria on condition of payment of li-kin on arrival at the li-kin...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423387, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 790, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n5\n\n**RECEIVED [October 11.]**\n**SECTION 7.**\n**RECEIVED 3 NOV 09**\n**788**\n\nSir,\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c.\nROBERT WILLIS.\n\nVice-Consul Gordon to Acting Consul-General Willis.\n\nDalny, September 7, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 2nd instant. As a result of a few tentative enquiries made here, I fear I must confirm the suspicions held at Mukden that wholesale smuggling of goods must have been carried on from the leased territory into the interior during 1908. Even allowing for the large stocks held here, it is impossible that there should be such a great difference between the amount of goods imported and that sent into the interior.\n\nAt the same time I strongly doubt whether it is the fault of the railway company. The Chinese Customs here have sub-stations both at the passenger station, the town goods station, and at the wharves. If their work is properly and efficiently performed it should be impossible for goods to go into the interior illegally. Consequently it would appear that a strict departmental investigation should be made into the working of the customs. It has always seemed to me that a mistake has been made in allowing the staff to be composed wholly of Japanese, and it would appear advisable that a European or American should be appointed to this port. The present acting commissioner has several times applied for such a member, preferably a British subject, but his application has invariably been refused, so far as I can understand, on sentimental grounds.\n\nI am in full agreement with your opinion that the levying of li-kin and inland dues on goods unaccompanied by exemption certificates would be inefficacious. Even the establishment of a customs station at Pulantien would not prove an absolute bar to smuggling, and would be objectionable as causing a certain restraint to trade, and a trade in which foreign merchants and the Chinese themselves are rapidly becoming as interested as the Japanese themselves. The distance to Pulantien is so short that this district falls into a different category from the vast regions in the north. I believe, indeed, that nothing will please the Japanese trade better than the removal of the customs station to Pulantien. I should imagine that no serious difficulty ought to arise in the conclusion of an agreement between the Customs and the South Manchurian Railway Company, whereby the latter would undertake not to forward goods into the interior without an exemption certificate.\n\nIt is also true that there is every prospect of this district becoming an important manufacturing centre. The cement factory was opened this spring, and the number of bean mills is yearly increasing. A Japanese capitalist is shortly to build a silk factory on the method discovered in the Government laboratory here, and should his venture prove a success the silk trade will be transferred from Chefoo to this place. Still it would be the export trade and not the land trade that would bring in the greatest profits, and people establishing industrial concerns would concentrate their attention chiefly on the markets in Japan and foreign countries.\n\nI have, &c.\nE. L. S. GORDON,\n\n[37589]\n\n(No. 344.)\n\nSir,\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received October 11.)\n\nPeking, September 21, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith, in translation, copies of telegrams which passed between several of the high provincial authorities and the Wai-wu Pu regarding the recent Manchurian negotiations with Japan. These documents, the authenticity of which is not doubted, were published in two of the metropolitan newspapers whose indiscretion was promptly punished by their suppression. They show very clearly that the Chinese authorities were fully alive to the strategic importance of the concession for the extension of the railway from Kirin to the borders of Corea, which, as is justly remarked, completes the network of railways which encloses within a Japanese ring fence the whole of South Manchuria and Corea. One has only to follow on the map the course of the South Manchurian Railway from Port Arthur to Ch'angch'un (Kuanch'engtzu), and trace the projected railway from that place to Kirin and thence to the Corean frontier and the sea to realise the hold which Japan has acquired over the mainland of Asia facing her coast. This and the veto which she claims to exercise over railway construction east of the Liao River converts the whole of Manchuria south of latitude 44° into a Japanese preserve where “open door\" theories will yield more and more to material facts.\n\nI take this opportunity of enclosing an official communiqué which the Chinese Government recently issued with the view of removing some misapprehensions which are alleged to have arisen regarding the existence of a secret agreement between China and Japan on the Manchurian question.\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN,\n\nInclosure I in No. 1.\n\nExtract from the \"Kuo Pao\" of September 14, 1909.\n\nManchurian Negotiations: Telegrams exchanged between the Viceroy of Manchuria, the Wai-wu Pu, and the Governor of Kirin.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n(1.)\n\nViceroy to his Excellency Na-t'ung.\n\nI HAVE just been informed that Mr. Koike, when discussing the Yen-chi (boundary) question at the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, stated that a settlement would shortly be arrived at, but that in the course of conversation he let slip references to the opening of ports and the construction of railways. There was formerly some talk of their wishing to build a line from Hui-ning to Kirin, and another from Yen-chi to Ninguta, but I do not know whether any demands have now been advanced with regard to these lines. The railway question is of the most pressing importance, and if we allow them to build a line from Yen-chi to Kirin, even if the line is managed by us, or we borrow the funds for its construction from them, then the two provinces of Fengtien and Kirin will be completely hemmed in by Japanese railways, and there will not be a single way of escape. It is also to be apprehended that the Russians will make it a pretext for advancing claims. I am watching these negotiations from a distance, and no doubt the Wai-wu Pu and your Excellency have no need of my \n\n[2462 1-7]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428130, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2\n\ngrowth. In the streets there is more activity, the shops are brighter and more attractive, building is going on both in the residential and commercial quarters, and the era of speculation and reckless extravagance which has characterised Harbin since the conclusion of hostilities now seems to have given way to a more normal and businesslike method of living.\n\nAlthough up to the present no new enterprises have been started, I am informed that there is a considerable quantity of capital awaiting employment, which, I was given to understand, would mainly be devoted to the establishment of bean-oil factories. The sugar-beet factory at Asiho, 10 miles from Harbin, the erection of which was delayed for over a year owing to difficulty in finding funds, has now been completed, and two other similar factories are in course of erection at Harbin.\n\nIn this connection I would remark that certain Japanese have also been experimenting with beet at Chang Ch'un, and the analysis of the root made by the experimental laboratory established by the South Manchuria Railway at Dairen is reported to be very satisfactory. It thus seems possible that there may be considerable development in this industry in North Manchuria.\n\nThe flour-mills which were established at Harbin during the Russo-Japanese war for the purpose of supplying the necessities of the Russian troops are not up to the present proving a success. During the year 1907 the Russo-Chinese Bank foreclosed on the mortgages it held on the eight principal mills and a new syndicate was formed, but at the present only three out of the eight mills are working. Without further information than I have at present, it is difficult to account for the comparative failure of these mills; there is a large quantity of wheat grown in the district and a considerable export of the raw product, and it seems to me almost impossible to believe that this industry, if properly conducted, will not ultimately play its part in the development of the district.\n\nIt is practically an impossibility to arrive at the exact value of the trade of the town of Harbin, but it is undoubtedly the chief distributing centre of Northern Manchuria, and an examination of the trade statistics published by the Chinese Customs for the stations of Manchouli on the western, and of Sui-fen Ho on the eastern frontier, may prove of assistance in showing the importance of the trade of the district taken as a whole.\n\nIn the year 1908 the figures show a net import of 2,852,551 Haikwan taels, and a net export of 977,231 Haikwan taels via Manchouli. The imports are for the most part of Russian or German origin, and apparently are destined in the main for the consumption of the Russian inhabitants of Northern Manchuria.\n\nThe following table shows the quantity or value, as given by the customs returns, of the principal articles:\n\n \n MANCHOULI\n PRINCIPAL Imports during 1908\n \n \n Cotton-\n \n \n \n Piece-goods\n 12,740 pieces\n \n \n Goods, unclassed\n 121,816 yards\n \n \n Woollen-\n \n \n \n Cloth\n 20,473 yards\n \n \n Blankets\n 52,444 lbs\n \n \n Cigarettes\n 3\n \n \n Clothing, foreign\n \n \n\nThe following tables show the value or quantity of the chief articles of export and import:\n\n \n SUIFENHO\n TABLE of principal Imports during 1908\n \n \n Cotton-\n \n \n \n Piece-goods\n 77,897 pieces\n \n \n Cloth\n 417,184 yards\n \n \n Towels\n 14,942 dozen\n \n \n Woollen-\n \n \n \n Carriages\n 308,858 yards\n \n \n Cloth\n 8,974 lbs\n \n \n Blankets\n 28,475 piculs\n \n \n Pig-iron\n 588,446 pieces\n \n \n Bags--\n \n \n \n Cotton\n 1,608,846\n \n \n Gunny\n 26,206 Haikwan taels\n \n \n Cigarettes\n 96,433\n \n \n Haberdashery, &c.\n 46,052\n \n \n Kerosene, Russian\n 38,912\n \n \n Salt\n 11\n \n \n Spirits\n 20,293\n \n \n Stores, household\n 182,326 gallons\n \n \n Sugar\n 1,029,385\n \n \n Hardware\n 77,541 piculs\n \n \n India-rubber\n 134,782 Haikwan taels\n \n \n Machinery\n 66,127\n \n \n Oil, engine\n 14,000 piculs\n \n \n Tea\n 11\n \n \n Wines\n 5,435\n \n \n Bean-cake\n 79,354 Haikwan taels\n \n \n Beans and peas\n \n \n\n \n PRINCIPAL Exports during 1908\n \n \n \n Cereals: Barley, buckwheat, Kaoliang maize, millet, cats, rye, wheat\n 555,330 piculs\n \n \n Firewood\n 1,110,339\n \n \n Flour and wheat\n 414,361\n \n \n Live-stock: Fowls, ducks, &c., horses, ponies, oxen, cows, pigs, and sheep\n 7,559,947\n \n \n Oil: bean and hemp\n 253,975\n \n \n Meat, fresh: beef, mutton, and pork\n -\n \n \n Railway sleepers\n 55\n \n \n Tar\n 67,811 head\n \n \n Timber-\n \n \n \n Soft wood, beams\n 69,093 piculs\n \n \n laths\n 8,831\n \n \n planks\n 103,418 pieces\n \n \n Hard wood, beams\n 28,850 gallons\n \n \n planks\n 3,987,466 pieces\n \n \n poles\n 3,913,803 super feet\n \n \n \n 7,883 cubic feet\n \n \n \n 29,150\n \n \n \n 5,700\n \n \n Confectionery\n 475,761 mille\n \n \n Haberdashery, &c.\n 70,564 Haikwan taels\n \n \n Hardware\n 17,063\n \n \n Machinery\n 17,262\n \n \n Shoes and boots, all sorts, foreign\n 38,367\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n 21,891\n \n \n \n 19\n \n \n Timber and planks, soft wood\n 128,102 pairs\n \n \n Skin (fur) clothing\n (value)\n \n \n Spirits of wine\n 98,578 Haikwan taels\n \n \n \n 404,639 gallons\n \n \n \n 451,038 square feet\n \n\nThe chief export to Europe by this route are skins, flour from the Harbin mills, and hemp oil; 487,797 pieces of skins were exported, of which 238,479 were sheep, and 210,221 were tarabagan. Only 920 pieces of sable are recorded.\n\nThe flour export amounted to 115,470 piculs, and the hemp oil to 10,273 piculs. (One picul = 133 lbs.).\n\nThe trade of Sui Fen Ho, or Pogranichnaya as it is called by the Russians, is, however, far more important, the net value for 1908 amounting to 11,985,705 taels, of which 3,481,296 taels were imports, and 8,504,409 taels exports.\n\nThe total value of the trade across the Russian frontiers thus amounts to 15,815,490 Haikwan taels, but in addition to this there is the import arriving at Harbin from the south, either by the branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway from Chang Ch'un to Harbin or by Chinese cart. No figures are available to check these imports, but I do not think 3,000,000 Haikwan taels would be an unreasonable estimate.\n\nThe policy of the Chinese Eastern Railway has hitherto been to discourage import via Chang Ch'un, in favour of Vladivostock, and the rates charged are so high that it is cheaper to carry from Chang Chun to Harbin by cart than by rail. The average freight by rail from Newchwang to Chang Ch'un by the South Manchurian Railway, a distance of 300 miles, say 173. a-ton, is approximately equal to the amount charged by the Chinese Eastern Railway for carriage from Chang Ch'un to Harbin, a distance of only 140 miles. Consequently goods are brought up to Chang Ch'un from Dairen and Newchwang by the South Manchurian Railway and forwarded on by Chinese cart, this method being apparently economically competitive as against shipment from Shanghai to Vladivostock and rail thence to Harbin.\n\nThe general trade of Northern Manchuria which even in 1908 can be estimated at a value of 20,000,000 Haikwan taels, received however an enormous stimulus towards the end of that year from the export of the soya beans to Europe, and as the ...\n\nB 2 [2518 u-2]\n\n54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 428492, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 417, "title": "CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n1)\n\n[6099]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n415 8011\n\n+16 MARIC\n\n[February 21.]\n\nSECTION 2.\n\n(No. 36.) Sir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received February 21.)\n\nPeking, January 27, 1910.\n\nIN my despatch No. 343 of the 21st September last I stated the grounds on which a suspicion had arisen that large quantities of foreign goods from Japan were entering Manchuria by way of the leased territory of Kuantung free of import duty, and I added that the acting inspector-general of customs had called for a report from the commissioner of customs at Dairen (Dalny) which might throw light on the question.\n\nThe substance of the reply from the commissioner of customs, and the result of further investigation by the acting British vice-consul at Dairen were contained in Mr. Gordon's despatch to Sir Claude MacDonald, No. 55, Confidential, of the 29th October, a copy of which has probably been sent to you from Tokyo. It has been shown, I think, that although the discrepancy appearing in the customs statistics was justly called attention to, and cannot be said to have been quite satisfactorily explained, it is in fact impossible that smuggling into China by the South Manchurian Railway can be carried on to anything like the extent that was suspected. There is, moreover, reason to believe that the result of the attention given to this question by writers in the American press and elsewhere has been to ensure a closer co-operation on the part of the Japanese railway authorities with the Chinese customs to prevent smuggling.\n\nA recent despatch from the acting British consul-general at Mukden, copy of which I have the honour to enclose herewith, shows that the minds of the Chinese authorities in Manchuria are still exercised with the question of evasion of duty. The remedy, which, according to Mr. Willis, is advocated by the commissioner of customs at Mukden, is the same as that proposed by Mr. Tachibana, the commissioner of customs at Dairen, namely, a fundamental change in the Dairen customs agreement so as to put the customs on the same footing as at Kiaochow.\n\nIt is unlikely, however, as Mr. Gordon pointed out in his despatch above quoted, that the Japanese Government could be induced to abolish the free area in the leased territory. At the time the agreement was made, I believe Sir Robert Hart endeavoured to have it modelled on the Kiaochow customs ordinance of December 1905, but the Japanese insisted on adhering to the original Kiaochow procedure, and there is no reason to suppose that they would now be willing to alter their decision.\n\nIn the correspondence regarding the alleged smuggling of imports, however, a subject has been included which is really quite distinct, namely, the duty-free passage into the interior of goods manufactured in the leased territory. At present the only factory of any importance in the leased territory (besides bean mills) is the Onoda cement factory, and as the cement is chiefly used on the Japanese railway, British or Chinese cement would have little chance of competing, even under fair fixed conditions. But the question may very easily become important to other manufacturing interests. The Japanese Government laboratory at Dairen is engaged in more or less successful experiments with the products of Kuantung and the Hinterland; and the free port of Dairen will probably soon attract capital to such enterprises as the manufacture of bean soap, kaoliang spirits, paper, glass, silk, &c. Cement passes free into the interior apparently under a clause subsequently added to the provisional customs regulations of June 1907 (see Hertslet's China Treaties, vol. 2, p. 1205), which gives goods manufactured from products of the leased territory the option of \"receiving the same treatment as Chinese goods or products\" in lieu of paying import duty. Such a provision would be fair enough if the Chinese authorities had the power of taxing such goods in the same way as Chinese goods, but owing to the special conditions created by the Japanese railway and railway settlements, the Chinese authorities have no such power. The clause in question has been probably given an interpretation more extended than it was designed to have, and I am confident that the Japanese Government would be willing to agree to a modification if\n\n[2633 x-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-371 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429822, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "2. Fur Brenridge has he asked to insult you when making his recommendation that he be confirmed as a welfare officer with local knowledge, furnished with your address, but the paper of particulars of the applicant does not state specifically the particulars. Though both with regard to the nature of the work which he should be entrusted with, has been furnished with your recommendations.\n\n3. Application has been made to the Board of Customs and Excise for permission for the selected candidate to attend the required course while there are given on the attached political form. I am glad if you will advise the Department that he will be authorized to attend. You will be advised by the Government Laboratory that the former has been desired to furnish the instructions which should be given to the selected candidate in this connection.\n\n(Signed) P. JUST.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440924, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 260, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## THE OPIUM EVIL\n\n39\n\nFor the Netherlands: \nJ. T. CREMER. \nC. TH. VAN DEVENTER. \nA. A. DE JONGH. \nJ. G. SCHEURER.\n\nFor Persia: \nMIRZA MAHMOUD KHAN.\n\nFor Portugal: \nANTONIO MARIA BARTHOLOMEU FERREIRA.\n\nFor Russia: \nA. SAVINSKY.\n\nFor Siam: \nAKHARAJ VARADHARA.\n\nWM. J. ARCHER, \n(Unofficial translation.)\n\n## PROTOCOLE DE CLÔTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONFERENCE\n\nThe International Opium Conference, proposed by the Government of the United States of America and convoked by the Government of the Netherlands, assembled at The Hague in the Palace of the Knights, December 1, 1911.\n\nThe Governments, the enumeration of which follows, have taken part in the conference, to which they had designated the delegates hereafter named.\n\n### GERMANY\n\n* His Excellency, Mr. Felix de Müller, present privy counselor, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at The Hague, first delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. Delbrück, superior privy counselor of the regency, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Grunenwald, present counselor of legation, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Kerp, privy counselor of the regency, director of the imperial health office, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Rössler, imperial consul at Canton, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n### UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\n\n* Bishop Charles H. Brent, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Hamilton Wright, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. Henry J. Finger, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n### CHINA\n\n* His Excellency Mr. Liang Cheng, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Berlin, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. T'ang Kwo-an, assistant secretary of the Wai-Wu-Pu, delegate.\n* Mr. Tchang Tsou-Soueng, chargé d'affaires ad interim at The Hague, delegate.\n* Mr. Wu Lien-Teh, M.D. (Cambridge), doctor with rank of major, director of the school of medicine, delegate.\n* Mr. F. A. Carl, former commissioner of the imperial maritime customs at Newchwang, delegate.\n* Mr. A. J. Commijs, assistant secretary in the bureau of the inspector general of the imperial maritime customs, delegate.\n\n### FRANCE\n\n* Mr. Henri Brenier, consular inspector of the agricultural and commercial services of Indo-China, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. Pierre Guesde, administrator of the civil services of Indo-China, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Gaide, physician with the rank of major of the colonial troops, technical counselor.\n\n### GREAT BRITAIN\n\n* The Right Hon. Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, G.C.M.G., member of the privy council, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Sir William Stevenson Meyer, K.C.I.E., chief secretary of the government of Madras, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. William Grenfell Max-Müller, C.B., M.V.O., counselor of embassy, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Sir William Job Collins, M.D., deputy lieutenant of the county of London, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n### ITALY\n\n* His Excellency Count J. Sallier de la Tour, Duke of Cavello, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Prof. Rocco Santoliquido, deputy of Parliament, director general of the public health, delegate.\n\n### JAPAN\n\n* His Excellency Mr. Aimaro Sato, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Tomoe Takagi, engineer of the General Government of Formosa, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Kotaro Nishizaki, technical specialist, attached to the laboratory of hygienic service, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n### THE NETHERLANDS\n\n* Mr. J. T. Cremer, former minister of colonies, president of the Dutch Commercial Co., delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. C. Th. van Deventer, member of the First Chamber of the States-General, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. A. A. de Jongh, former inspector general, chief of the opium regié service in the Dutch Indies, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. J. G. Scheurer, member of the Second Chamber of the States-General, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. W. G. van Wettum, inspector of the opium regié of the Dutch Indies, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n257", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465964, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "page_number": 194, "title": "CO129-439 - Others - 1916", "content_text": "The Secretary,\n\nCustom House,\n\nLondon, E.C.\n\nNo.\n\n87585/1916\n\n36\n\nREC\n\n22239\n\nREGE 11 MAY 16 CUSTOM HOUSE, LONDON.\n\n10th May, 1916.\n\n189\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Board of Customs and Excise to draw the attention of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the exportation to Hong Kong on the 5th instant by the \"Nellore\" from London of the following 1006 packages of tea:\n\n151 boxes marked 1/151\n\n660 boxes marked H.9.152/811\n\n138 boxes marked 1/138\n\n57 boxes marked 188/244\n\nAdmission of the tea to this country was refused under section 30 of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act 1875 as the samples examined at the Government Laboratory were found to contain an excessive proportion of sand and the owners of the tea decided to re-export it under special bond.\n\nI am to add that the tea in question has been exported to Hong Kong for transhipment to Canton and the facts are reported for any action that may be considered desirable.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nH. Ayme\n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-439 - Others - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481847, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 579, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "fact that fifty tons of morphia were imported into Japan in recent four years, which is irrespective of the amount produced in Japanese laboratories, almost all of which was re-exported to China. If the root of the evil is to be cut out China must demand that Government inspectors be placed in every laboratory in England and Japan; that all export be controlled by limiting the amounts exported to strict medical requirements to be ascertained and stereotyped on an average system; that all chemists in China be required to keep special books for morphin and opium derivates; that everyone dealing in morphia must be registered by the Customs; that the Customs be empowered to inspect all books; and that unauthorized selling or dealing in morphia in China be punished by deportation.\n\nBy such measures and by such measures alone can this monstrous business be stopped. Some years ago an English correspondent in Manchuria showed in a grim letter how morphia after passing through many hands, finally reached the Manchurian labourer. The wretched victim approached a small window, thrust in his hand with the necessary coin, and receive in return a puncture from the needle in the hand. Neither victim nor the violator ever saw one another. The crime was committed like a crime in the night. It was mechanical, stereotyped, as Lord Robert Cecil declared in parliament. At the present there is no such evil as this in China left so flagrantly unchecked. That England should be just as responsible as Japan for a continuance of this traffic is a blot on her fair name which the British Government must remove before a public denunciation is made at the League of Nations.\n\nPatton's CADUTAKE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500211, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 615, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "460\n\n## GOVERNMENT LABORATORY.\n\nNo. S. 180.--Return of samples examined under \"The Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896,\" for the quarter ended 30th June, 1925:---\n\n| Description | Number of samples | Number found genuine | Number found adulterated |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Milk (Fresh) | 51 | 45 | 6 |\n| Milk (Condensed) | 4 | 4 | 0 |\n| Coffee | 2 | 2 | 0 |\n| Pepper | 30 | 30 | 0 |\n| Flour | 2 | 2 | 0 |\n| Vinegar | 2 | 1 | 1 |\n| Bread | 12 | 12 | 0 |\n| Cheese | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Olive Oil | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Honey | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Cocoa | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Butter | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Lard | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Jam | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Tea | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Sugar | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Mustard Condiment | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Mercurial Ointment | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Aromatic Powder of Chalk | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Compound powder of Liquorice | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Ammoniated Tincture of Quinine | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Friars Balsam | 1 | 0 | 1 |\n| Arrow-root | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Treacle | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Liquid Extract of Male Ferns | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Liniment of Turpentine | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n\n3rd July, 1925.\n\n## No. S. 181.\n\n## NOTICES TO MARINERS.\n\n## No. 826.\n\n**E. R. DOVEY**, \nGovernment Analyst.\n\n### CHINA YANGTZE RIVER.\n\n### SHANGHAI DISTRICT.\n\n#### Vine Point Light-beacon Moved.\n\nReferring to Special Notice to Mariners No. 730, notice is hereby given that Vine Point Light-beacon, Tungchow, has been moved. From the new position of the light-beacon, Langshan Pagoda bears N. 63¼° E., magnetic, distant 93 cables.\n\nBy Order of the Inspector General of Customs, \n**THE MARITIME CUSTOMS**, \n**MARINE DEPARTMENT**, \nSHANGHAI, 20th June, 1925.\n\nH. E. HILLMAN, \nCoast Inspector.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 640, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "460\n\n## GOVERNMENT LABORATORY.\n\n**No. S. 180.-Return of samples examined under \"The Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896,\" for the quarter ended 30th June, 1925:**—\n\n| Description | Number of samples | Number found genuine | Number found adulterated |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Milk (Fresh) | 51 | 45 | 6 |\n| Milk, (Condensed) | 4 | 4 | 0 |\n| Coffee | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Pepper.. | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Flour | 12 | 12 | 0 |\n| Vinegar | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Bread | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Cheese. | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Olive Oil. | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Honey | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Cocoa | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Butter | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Lard.. | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Jam | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Tea | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Sugar | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Mustard Condiment | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Mercurial Ointment | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Aromatic Powder of Chalk | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Compound powder of Liquorice | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Ammoniated Tincture of Quinine | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Friars Balsam.. | 1 | 0 | 1 |\n| Arrow-root | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Treacle | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Liquid Extract of Male Ferns.. | 1 | 1 | 0 |\n| Liniment of Turpentine | 0 | 0 | 0 |\n| **Total** | **96** | **88** | **8** |\n\n3rd July, 1925.\n\n## No. S. 181.\n\n### NOTICES TO MARINERS, No. 826.\n\n**E. R. DOVEY, Government Analyst.**\n\n### CHINA YANGTZE RIVER. SHANGHAI DISTRICT.\n\n#### Vine Point Light-beacon Moved.\n\nReferring to Special Notice to Mariners No. 730, notice is hereby given that Vine Point Light-beacon, Tungchow, has been moved. From the new position of the light-beacon, Langshan Pagoda bears N. 63¼° E., magnetic, distant 93 cables.\n\nBy Order of the Inspector General of Customs,\n\n**THE MARITIME CUSTOMS, MARINE DEPARTMENT, SHANGHAI, 20th June, 1925.**\n\nH. E. HILLMAN, \nChief Inspector.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506769, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927", "content_text": "## THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA\nEstablished by Government Mandate of 7th August, 1924\n**Official Government Depositary**\n**GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED**\nTelephone Central 199, 444, 777. \nTelegraph Address: “CENTRAL\"\nTSE VUNG SOONG \nChief Manager\n\n## The Bank of East Asia, Ltd.\n(CANTON BRANCH)\nSAPSAM HONG STREET, CANTON\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926\nHead Office-Hongkong. \nCable Address - \"Eastabank\" \nSHAMEEN.\n* \n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Authorized Capital | $10,000,000.00 |\n| Paid-up | $ 5,000,000.00 |\n| Reserve Fund | $ 1,000,000.00 |\n\nTelephone No.-1875 West. \nBRANCHES & AGENCIES throughout the World. Conducting every kind of banking facilities:-- \nGranting loans on approved securities. \nSelling draft and buying bills on Foreign countries.\n\n## WANTED\nA Well-Experienced STENO-TYPIST wants a position. Thoroughly conversant with Shorthand and Office Work. Best references. \nApply to Box 907\n\n## COLLEGE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS\nFRESH VEGETABLES \nFRESH EGGS \nDELICIOUS PAPAYA \nNow Ready to Be Delivered to You. Deliveries to: \nTungshan: Mondays and Thursdays; \nc/o Canton Gazette.\n\n## Dr. Shun Tin Wu\nSpecial treatment for Venereal diseases. Laboratory facilities for diagnosis of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Leprosy, Tuberculosis. \nand Approved diagnostic and therapeutic methods for general medicine. \n88. N. Wing Hon Road, Canton City.\n\n## DR. SHIBAKAWA\nJAPANESE DENTIST \nOffice at Shakee Road, Canton. Opposite West Bridge, Shameen.\n\n## DR. LI KUAN-TAT\nDentist \nEngaged in Dentistry for 16 years. \nNo. 99, Taiping Road, South Canton.\n\n## The Far Eastern Trust and Savings Bank Ltd.\n34, SECOND MALOO WEST BUND, CANTON. \nTELEPHONE No. 1379 CENTRAL CABLE ADDRESS \"BANKTRUS\" \nHONAM-SUB BRANCH TA KEE TOW\n| Service | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Interest allowed | on Current and Savings Accounts and Fixed Deposits. |\n| Loans granted | on approved securities. |\n\n## HOTEL \"ASIA.\"\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \nLEADING HOTEL IN SOUTH CHINA \nFirst Class Accommodation, Hot and Cold Water Service Throughout, Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators, Perfect Sanitary Arrangements, Splendid Dining Room, Meals a la Carte, Banquets, Excellent Cuisine, Public Bar, First Class Billiard Room. \nAlso, opposite to Hong Kung Temple, Macao.\n\n## Dr. Iu K. Chan\nPHYSICIAN & SURGEON (American Returned) \nOffice Hours: \na.tu. 2-6 p.m. \n67 Tai Ping Road South, CANTON\n\n## MARN KWOCK DRUG CO., Ltd.\n45 & 47 Tai Ping Road South CANTON, CHINA.\n\n## THE STAR LIGHT SHOE MACHINERY FACTORY\nThe most comfortable shoe in the World. Shoes that are \"Star Light\" made have quality and first class workmanship inside as well as out. There's comfort and easy traveling as well smart appearance in \"Star Light.\" \nBooklets of styles on request. Prompt Delivery. Prices Reasonable. Customers are cordially Welcome.\n\n## The Ng Wah Trust & Industrial Bank, Ltd.\nHEAD OFFICE: 370 YAT DUCK ROAD, CANTON. \nTELEPHONE: No. 310 CENTRAL. TELEGRAPH: CHINESE No. 0063 \nMost favourable Interest Rate allowed. \nLoans granted on approved securities. \nOur Trust Department's Catalogue sent on application. \nWONG WOOI MAY, Chief Manager.\n\n## LAI KAI HONG VACCINE LABORATORY\nPUREST CALF LYMPH prepared by Dr. Lai Kai-Hong; Registered at the Canton Bureau of Health and the Hongkong Authorities. Analysed and approved by the Sanitary Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council for use. \nOur products are entirely home-made goods. Cheaper for wholesale quantities. \nK. H. LAI'S VACCINE LABORATORY, Phone Central 616 No. 284, Yat Tak Maloo, Canton, \nEast Shameen: Fridays; Tuesdays and West Shameen: Wednesdays and Saturdays.\n\n## MARKETING OFFICE, COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, LINGNAN UNIVERSITY, HONGLOK, CANTON.\nORDERS taken in advance or make purchases direct from the Deliveryman. \nAccounts closed on the 25th. of each month. \nPlease sign all chits PLAINLY.\n\n## CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION No. 600\nNOTICE is hereby given that the offices of Maritime and Native Customs will be closed to the transaction of public business, and that the shipment and discharge of cargo will be suspended, on the following days:- \n| Date | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 22nd Dec. 1926 | Winter Solstice |\n| 25th Dec. 1926 | Christmas Day |\n| 27th Dec. 1926 | Boxing Day; and 1st and 2nd January 1927 | New Year Holidays. |\n\nR. F. C. HEDGELAND, Commissioner of Customs. \nCUSTOM HOUSE, Canton, 15th December, 1926.\n\n## THE AUSTRALIAN TAILOR CO.\nExpert Cutting House \nPrices Reasonable \nE. 341 Wai Ngoi Maloo 'Phone C. 1498 CANTON\n\n## Dr. S. N. HUI\nSpecial treatments to parturient females and also babies as well as midwifery, providing quarters for lying-in women. \n2nd Floor, No. 53, Taiping Rd. South, Canton.\n\n## Chinese Optic Co\n司公鏡眼益精國中 \nRefracting and Manufacturing The Modern Opticians in China \nNorth Wing Hon Road, Canton TELEPHONE No. C. 868 \nHEAD OFFICE \"SIAN H MYNGRĄ\"\n\n## THE SUN Co. Ltd.\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS \nWEST BUND & WAI OI STREET, OLD CITY, CANTON \nIt is to your advantage to visit our Wholesale and Retail Departments. All kinds of China silk piece goods, boots and shoes, hats, outfitting, etc. \nOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTICLES DEPARTMENT \nRenown Cameras, Films & Chemicals, Best Terms for DEVELOPING & PRINTING \nTO LET Suitable Offices on our third floor, Apply General Office of the said Co.\n\n## The Sun Roof Garden\nCinematograph, Different Sorts of Chinese & Foreign plays and Amusements are shown Day and Night. Admittance 20 Cents. \nExtra charges for Tea, Refreshments, Telescope Observation, Special Exhibitions of Transfiguration. Reserved Seats at Cinema.\n\n## THE SUN CINEMA PROGRAMME FOR Dec. 29th to 31st 1926\nTRIANGLE DISTRIBUTING CORPORATION Presents RICHARD BURTON in \"FAR VALOUR \nIn Five Big Reels \nALSO VARIOUS COMEDIES\n\n## The Sincere Co.,Ltd\nUniversal Providers \nThe Bund, Canton \nNew Arrivals Of Provisions and Woollens \nOur Own Manufactures — AERATED WATERS, PERFUME, SOAP, &c. \nThe Sincere Roof Garden Cinema \nPROGRAMME FOR SHOWING TO-DAY \nA Chinese Picture Miss N. M. Yong in THREE SHANGHAI GIRLS 9 Reels \nAlso In Commemoration of The Laying of The Corner-stone of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's Tomb in Nanking\n\n## Wing Wah Dispensary\nDruggists And Chemists \nWing Hon Road, North. CANTON, CHINA \n廣州永漢北路\n\n## YOUNG TAI WA\nDentist \nShiu Poon Yerk, Middle Wai Oi Road, Canton \nAt 12.00 A.M. and 6.30 P.M. \nAdmittance 20 cents\n\n## Bank of Canton, Limited.\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG \nFOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business Transacted \nINTEREST ON FIXED DEPOSITS. \nCURRENT ACCOUNTS. \n| Period | Interest Rate |\n| --- | --- |\n| On demand | 2% per annum |\n| For 3 Months | 3% per annum |\n| For 6 Months | 4% per annum |\n| For 12 Months | 5% per annum |\n\nLOOK POON SHAN, Chief Manager", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-499-2 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-1-1927 - 4-2-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "content_text": "## Development of the Preventive Side of Medicine\n\nThe Honourable Senior Chinese Member, Sir Shou-son Chow, in approving the development of the preventive side of the Medical Department expressed the wish that that policy may be carried out in a liberal and sympathetic spirit and with due regard to the susceptibilities of the people.\n\nRecognising that the co-operation of the people is a factor of the utmost importance in matters of Public Health, every endeavour will be made to secure the good will of the populace by respecting old customs and traditions provided they are not incompatible with the principles of Public Health.\n\nWhen disease affects the individual only the choice of nursing and treatment lies with the patient or his guardian. Where the illness is of such an infectious nature that the case not only endangers the health and lives of those who approach near, but through them the health and lives of others more remote, I feel sure the Honourable Chinese Members will agree that the prejudices and wishes of the patient or his friends should not be allowed to outweigh unduly the risks to the community and the possibility of the establishment of an epidemic.\n\n## Wells\n\nMany chemical analyses and bacteriological counts have been made of water samples from wells sunk in populous areas. The results show that pollution is present in the majority of cases.\n\nThe policy of the Building Authority is to refuse sanction for the opening of wells in premises where a pipe supply is available, except in cases where a guarantee is given that the well water will be used solely for the purposes of flushing or for watering gardens.\n\nWells are closed by order of the Sanitary Board only when it is proved to their satisfaction that the water is polluted and there is danger of it being used for potable purposes.\n\n## Nuisance from Market Gardens\n\nIt is possible to grow vegetables without the creation of a nuisance and without danger to health, but in the area complained of the conditions prevailing make it almost impossible to economically carry on market gardening without nuisance.\n\nIt has been decided to cancel the permits of those who transgress the conditions of permit in respect of the use of manure.\n\n## Obstruction by Street Stalls\n\nThe subject of the propriety of allowing food stalls in streets is one over which there has been much argument in many countries, and one which it is practically impossible to solve to the satisfaction of all parties.\n\nStalls are the shops of the poor and their abolition would in many cases be a hardship on that class of the community.\n\nOn the other hand it is very difficult indeed to control the quality of the food sold and to ensure freedom from contamination. It is also difficult to prevent obstruction and to provide for the proper disposal of waste products.\n\nThe question of the removal of the stalls complained of is receiving the attention of the Sanitary Board and the Public Works Department and it is hoped that a satisfactory solution will soon be found. (Applause).\n\n## Education of the Public in Matters of Hygiene\n\nMalaria prevention negotiations are proceeding for the transfer to this Colony from the Federated Malay States of an experienced Malariologist and a skilled assistant. These Officers will form the nucleus of an anti-malaria organisation which will be built up from local material and which will investigate, advise, and in some cases execute the measures necessary for anopheline eradication.\n\nAn anopheline survey has been completed at Stanley and an investigation is being conducted at Repulse Bay. The observations so far made appear to indicate that the problems here are very much the same as those in the Federated Malay States and there is every reason to believe that the measures which have proved effective there will be successful here.\n\nOn the subject of lectures in sanitation, hygiene and anti-malaria methods-it is hoped, ultimately to establish a properly staffed propaganda section which will take the necessary action to spread instruction through lectures, posters, pamphlets, lantern and cinema shows and through the Press. The Sanitary Board has recently approved a proposal to issue pictorial posters showing the harm done by insanitary premises, which posters were prepared at the suggestion of Dr. Fawcett, M.O.H.\n\n## Training in Hygiene & Preventive Medicine\n\nI entirely agree with the view that \"the importance of adequate training in hygiene and preventive medicine can hardly be overstated.\" One of the greatest needs of the Colony in this line is a school for instruction of Sanitary Inspectors such as exists at Singapore. At present the Health Staff is insufficient to allow of the proper conduct of such an Institution, but with the advent of additional Health Officers this difficulty will disappear and it will then be possible to arrange for its establishment.\n\n## Board of Health\n\nWith regard to the suggestion that a Board of Health be formed I have in my recommendations for re-organisation of the Medical and Sanitary Services included a proposal for the formation of a Public Health Advisory Board. This proposal is now under consideration by Government.\n\nIn order to stimulate the willing co-operation of all concerned and to ensure that the best possible advice shall be obtained and the best possible methods used, I have recommended the establishment of a Public Health Advisory Board and composed of officials, doctors and laymen whose duty it will be to examine and weigh up the factors connected with the various problems and to advise as to the action which should be adopted.\n\n## Contribution to Schools of Research\n\nWith regard to the question of contributions to schools for research in tropical diseases-the subject should be examined under two headings, viz. pure research and applied research. Pure research can perhaps be more economically carried out in laboratories in Europe-but applied research, that is research applied to our own particular problems, can only be properly carried out here-and should form part of the duties of local laboratory workers.\n\n## Government Dentist\n\nIt is intended that the Government Dentist shall devote his services primarily to those officers whose salaries are below £400 a year and who are entitled to free medical treatment. It is hoped it may be possible to arrange for attention being given to school children and to prisoners who require service which cannot be performed by the Gaol Medical Officer.\n\nPage 80 \nPage 81", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520584, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "216 \n\n**HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL** \n\ncan perhaps be more economically carried out in laboratories in Europe, but applied research that is research applied to our own particular problems can only be properly carried out here, and should form part of the duties of local laboratory workers.\n\n## 12. Education of the Public in Matters of Hygiene \n\nOn the subject of lectures in sanitation, hygiene and anti-malaria methods it is hoped ultimately to establish a properly staffed propaganda section which will take the necessary action to spread instruction through lectures, posters, pamphlets, lantern and cinema shows and through the Press. The Sanitary Board has recently approved a proposal to issue pictorial posters showing the harm done by insanitary premises which posters were prepared at the suggestion of Dr. Fawcett, M.O.H.\n\n## 13. Development of the Preventive Side of Medicine \n\nThe honourable senior Chinese member, Sir Shou-son Chow in approving the development of the preventive side of the Medical Department expressed the wish that that policy may be carried out in a liberal and sympathetic spirit and with due regard to the susceptibilities of the people.\n\nRecognising that the co-operation of the people is a factor of the utmost importance in matters of public health every endeavour will be made to secure the goodwill of the populace by respecting old customs and traditions provided they are not incompatible with the principles of public health.\n\nWhen disease affects the individual only the choice of nursing and treatment lies with the patient or his guardian. Where the illness is of such an infectious nature that the case not only endangers the health and lives of those who approach near, but through them the health and lives of others more remote, I feel sure the honourable Chinese members will agree that the prejudices and wishes of the patient or his friends should not be allowed to outweigh unduly the risks to the community and the possibility of the establishment of an epidemic.\n\nIn order to stimulate the willing co-operation of all concerned and to ensure that the best possible advice shall be obtained and the best possible methods used, I have recommended the establishment of a Public Health Advisory Board composed of officials and unofficials, doctors and laymen whose duty it will be to examine and weigh up the factors connected with the various problems and to advise as to the action which should be adopted.\n\n## 14. Wells \n\nMany chemical analyses and bacteriological counts have been made of water samples from wells sunk in populous areas. The results show that pollution is present in the majority of cases.\n\n134", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520675, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "216 \n\n# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\ncan perhaps be more economically carried out in laboratories in Europe, but applied research—that is research applied to our own particular problems can only be properly carried out here, and should form part of the duties of local laboratory workers.\n\n## 12. Education of the Public in Matters of Hygiene\n\nOn the subject of lectures in sanitation, hygiene and anti-malaria methods—it is hoped ultimately to establish a properly staffed propaganda section which will take the necessary action to spread instruction through lectures, posters, pamphlets, lantern and cinema shows and through the Press. The Sanitary Board has recently approved a proposal to issue pictorial posters showing the harm done by insanitary premises which posters were prepared at the suggestion of Dr. Fawcett, M.O.H.\n\n## 13. Development of the Preventive Side of Medicine\n\nThe honourable senior Chinese member, Sir Shou-son Chow in approving the development of the preventive side of the Medical Department expressed the wish that that policy may be carried out in a liberal and sympathetic spirit and with due regard to the susceptibilities of the people.\n\nRecognising that the co-operation of the people is a factor of the utmost importance in matters of public health every endeavour will be made to secure the goodwill of the populace by respecting old customs and traditions provided they are not incompatible with the principles of public health.\n\nWhen disease affects the individual only the choice of nursing and treatment lies with the patient or his guardian. Where the illness is of such an infectious nature that the case not only endangers the health and lives of those who approach near, but through them the health and lives of others more remote, I feel sure the honourable Chinese members will agree that the prejudices and wishes of the patient or his friends should not be allowed to outweigh unduly the risks to the community and the possibility of the establishment of an epidemic.\n\nIn order to stimulate the willing co-operation of all concerned and to ensure that the best possible advice shall be obtained and the best possible methods used, I have recommended the establishment of a Public Health Advisory Board composed of officials and unofficials, doctors and laymen whose duty it will be to examine and weigh up the factors connected with the various problems and to advise as to the action which should be adopted.\n\n## 14. Wells\n\nMany chemical analyses and bacteriological counts have been made of water samples from wells sunk in populous areas. The results show that pollution is present in the majority of cases.\n\n224", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545041, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 347, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "# COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE.\n\n## F 11\n\n24. Acknowledgements.-Acknowledgements are here made to the Directors of the Weather Services of the Far East, the Chinese Maritime Customs, and the Commanders of all ships for the observations forwarded during the year, to the Telegraph companies for continuing to forward observations free or at reduced rates, to all institutions and individuals who have contributed to the Library, to the Observatory staff for the efficient performance of their duties, and particularly to Mr. G.S.P. Heywood, who acted as Assistant Director during the absence of Mr. B. D. Evans.\n\n| Category | 1932 | 1933 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | 61,360.31 | 55,569.77 |\n| **Other Charges** | | |\n| Books and Postage | 327.25 | 257.72 |\n| Electric Light and Power | 586.54 | 579.95 |\n| Gas | 106.28 | 98.94 |\n| Incidental Expenses | 68.90 | 77.81 |\n| Laboratory Expenses | 1,269.03 | ... |\n| Maintenance of Lithographic Plant | 269.28 | ... |\n| Maintenance of Time Service | 43.70 | ... |\n| Maintenance of Magnetographs | 816.28 | 2,892.44 |\n| Meteorological Telegrams | 866.75 | 733.79 |\n| Printing | 3,254.00 | 2,600.00 |\n| Subscription towards cost of printing International Upper Air Observations | 141.70 | 154.84 |\n| Transport | 176.54 | ... |\n| Uniforms | 231.67 | 105.05 |\n| ... | 95.61 | ... |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 8,157.92 | 7,595.65 |\n| **Total Royal Observatory** | 69,518.23 | 63,165.42 |\n\n## COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF REVENUE.\n\n| Category | 1932 | 1933 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Fees of Court or Office, Sale of Publications | 598.00 | 600.30 |\n\nC. W. JEFFRIES, \nDirector. \n21st February, 1934.\n\nPage 456\nPage 457", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554343, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-14 Vacancy for an assistant analyst in Department of Imports and Exports 30-11-1936 - 30-9-1937", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-562-14 Vacancy for an assistant analyst in Department of Imports and Exports 30-11-1936 - 30-9-1937", "content_text": "## 3.\n\n29\n\nThe\n\n## 5.\n\nI have been obliged to accept the view that it is necessary to grant extra assistance in the office of the Imports and Exports Department in the shape of an assistant to Mr. Taylor. After careful enquiries, I have found it to be impossible to supply this from the staff of the Government Analyst's Department, as the activities of this Department are also increasing rapidly and may be expected to increase even more in the immediate future, owing partly to the introduction of up-to-date legislation for the control of food and drugs and partly to the increase of commercial work, such as the assay of ores. Moreover, the post is one which requires special qualifications and experience and cannot easily be taken over at short notice by an officer accustomed only to laboratory work. Mr. Taylor joined the service in 1913 and is now forty-eight years of age. He is due for leave in 1938, and it is understood that he contemplates comparatively early retirement. Unless, therefore, arrangements can be made to train a successor in the somewhat peculiar duties of the post, the problem of his replacement is likely to present considerable difficulty.\n\n## 6.\n\nFor these reasons, I shall be glad if approval may be given for the recruitment as soon as possible of an assistant analyst for permanent duty in the Imports and Exports Department. I attach the usual form and would emphasize that candidates should be Associates or Fellows of the Institute of Chemistry, not over twenty-seven years of age and unmarried, and should preferably possess an Honours Degree in Chemistry granted by a British University.\n\n## 7.\n\nThe selected candidate will be required to undertake general analytical duties in connection with Customs, Excise, and Anti-Narcotic work, and to assist in general executive duties at the head office and in inspection and investigation duties. In order that no misunderstanding may arise, it should be clearly explained to the candidate that his work will not be confined to the laboratory, but will include supervision of arrangements made for the control of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-14 Vacancy for an assistant analyst in Department of Imports and Exports 30-11-1936 - 30-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596081, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-622-7 Department of Commerce and Industry- reorganisation and Annual Report 4-4-1949 - 20-2-1950", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-622-7 Department of Commerce and Industry- reorganisation and Annual Report 4-4-1949 - 20-2-1950", "content_text": "6\n\nprobable that the drug is manufactured in North China, which was the centre of the pre-war Japanese trade, and smuggled from there down to Hong Kong.\n\n25. There were 83 heroin cases, and 53,733 pills were seized during the year, as against 13 cases and 5,570 pills seized during the previous year.\n\n26.\n\nV-Legislation.\n\nThe following are the chief legislative enactments affecting the Department, which were passed during the year:\n\n(i) Smuggling into China (Control) Ordinance, 1948, which gave effect to the Sino-British Customs Agreement of January, 1948.\n\n(ii) An increase as from 6th January, 1949, in the duty payable on tobacco, to $6.00 per pound on cigarettes of non-Empire origin and manufacture, and $4.70 per pound in the case of cigarettes of Empire origin and manufacture.\n\n(iii) An order, under Section 3 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, prohibiting the import into the Colony of any plant originating within the American Tropics without a licence from the Director of Commerce & Industry.\n\n(iv) The Trade Commissioner's Privileges Ordinance, 1948, which allows to Trade Commissioners the same privileges as are granted to accredited Consular officials in respect to obtaining dutiable commodities duty-free.\n\n(v) The Diplomatic Privileges Ordinance, 1948.\n\nVI-Certificate of Origin.\n\n27. The number of Certificates of Origin issued during the year was 10,812, whilst 9,511 Imperial Preference Certificates were issued (Table XVII). The bulk of the certificates issued were with regard to textiles, flashlights, rubber shoes and enamelware, in the order given.\n\nVII Statistical Graphs.\n\n28. Graphs showing the volume of imports and exports, month by month, and moving on a three monthly average—together with graphs showing a comparison in the volume of trade for the previous year, are appended to this report. These graphs have been supplied by the Government Statistician.\n\n7\n\nTABLE I.\n\nStatement of Expenditure for the Period from 1st April, 1948 to 31st March, 1949.\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n$\n944,932.49\n\nOther Charges :-\n\nAdvertising\n\n1,688.65\n\nCleaning of Office\n\n824.52\n\nFuel, Light & Power\n\n11,885.30\n\nIncidental Expenses\n\n2,939.13\n\nLaboratory Stores\n\n5,107.05\n\nPrinting of Liquor Labels\n\n7,350.00\n\nPrinting of Trade Returns\n\n4,000.00\n\nPublications\n\n422.56\n\nTravelling Expenses\n\n1,741.27\n\nUniforms\n\n6,473.41\n\nUpkeep of Vehicles\n\n36,935.40\n\n13,351.68\n\n92,718.97\n\n$\n1,037,651.46\n\nRent of Quarters\n\n18th July, 1949.\n\nK. KEEN,\n\nActing Director of Commerce & Industry.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-622-7 Department of Commerce and Industry- reorganisation and Annual Report 4-4-1949 - 20-2-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]