[ { "id": 218657, "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": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "Lord Shar \n\nSir Seray Pottinger Baronet \n\nVictoria Honghom 15th Jeene 186844 \n\nReceived \n\nNub \n\n2 Inclosures \n\nMr. Stewart hated 8th \n\nForwarding copy of a ellen from \n\nMay \n\nof Hongkong is \n\nand the Accounts of the Col. \n\n18.04 \n\nA \n\nRECEIVED \n\nSEP. 18 \n\nsang hoàng \n\nVictoria, Hongkong) \n\nJune 14th 18444. \n\n•My Lord \n\nThe \n\nIn continuation \n\nof my \n\nDespatch .Nr.116. \n\nof the 15th instant, I have the honor to forward \n\ncopy of a funther letter from At - Hewart with \n\nan \n\na \n\nby \n\nAccount Courant showing the Disbursements made \n\naccount of the Colonial Department up to the \n\nday Mr. Pavis abduned \n\nCharge \n\nCast month, \n\nmonsir, on which \n\non which day \n\nThe payment of flro to Mr. Nash and the arcumstances that led to it were, \n\nLord Aberdeen in \n\nmy \n\nspecially reported \n\nDespatches marked \n\nicparate of the 6th and 8th of Dclober 1842. I had \n\nreply from His Losship saying had been referred to the Lords \n\nRight: Honorable \n\nLord Stanley \n\nthat the matter \n\nof the Admically, Ext", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229006, "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": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "content_text": "3.\n\n2.\n\nAdditions to Salaries and allowances in the offices and appointments in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nHunghom. Strvista. :description and Stagnants of an allowance for extraordinary services.\n\nTo Your Lordship, I have the honor to be, With the highest respect, Most Obedient Humble servant, hanemate Channe The Jupes revignatur w..\n\n305\n\nTemporary appointment.\n\nCHANGES in the HOLDERS of OFFICES and APPOINTMENTS in the Offices of HONGKONG, for the Quarter ended 30th June, 1849.\n\n \n OFFICE.\n Name of the Officer who formerly held the appointment, and annual Salary.\n Name of the Officer who is now appointed, and annual Salary.\n If appointed by Her Majesty's Government in England, date of authority of the Secretary of State.\n If newly appointed by the Governor date of authority.\n If promoted from another Office Or Government situation in the Colony, description of former appointment.\n Date of Governor's Despatch respecting the Change of office or appointment, or the new appointment.\n Column for Remarks.\n \n \n Clerk in Colonial Secretary's office.\n Mr. Miles died in England.\n Mr. Borvolo.\n \n \n \n \n resigned 7th May.\n \n \n \n Mr Inglis resigned\n bret received Salary up to the end of the month.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mr. Stevenson Mess rezign 31 March\n The appointed entremaine Vacant up to 38 May.\n \n 24th May\n \n \n \n \n \n 4th Clerk, Colonial Secretary's office.\n \n \n \n 24th Mary\n \n \n \n \n \n Colonial Secretary. 3 Clerk..\n H. J. Hance. £243\n C. A. Grand-Pré $216.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4th Clerk..\n A. Grand Bra £243\n 4. M. Numan £216.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Colonial Trenov 3th Clerk.\n W. H. Miles John Have £250.\n 8300 £250.\n \n \n \n \n 1849\n \n \n Surveyor General.\n W. Bowden. Vacant.\n L. 180.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Overseer of Reads. Convict Labour..\n A. L. Inglis, Exupe.\n Hon : H. J. Mercer. £ 350.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registrar General\n J. Stevenson £ 200.\n Expf: No Salary\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk\n H. J. Hance £300.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232786, "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": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "content_text": "Mr. Allerd-22 Fl.\n\nLLE. Cow\n\nว\n\nAT.\n\nVienstich erfand\n\nIslay.\n\nthe station comp Likely room &\n\nArrin 7.71\n\n180222/2\n\n2:23.\n\natly see mmuter on 1747 dan 73\n\nCopy\n\n338\n\nHunghong, 27 October 1859.\n\nW. Caine. Conf.\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nSir,\n\nHerewith I return\n\nthe Papers and Correspondence, connected with the emigration of Chinese to the British West Indies, which His Excellency was pleased to allow me to peruse.\n\n...\n\nThe 4\" Tara:\n\nA\n\nthe\n\nof\n\nGeneral Instructions refer to Specific Instructions, of which I am not yet in receipt, and it is therefore impossible for me at present to state what arrangement...\n\n...\n\n \nhas been corrected to:\nMr. Allerd-22 Fl.\n\nLLE. Cow\n\n...\n\nAT.\n\nVienstich erfand\n\nIslay.\n\nthe station comp Likely room &\n\nArrin 7.71\n\n180222/2\n\n2:23.\n\natly see mmuter on 1747 dan 73\n\nCopy\n\n338\n\nHunghom, 27 October 1859.\n\nW. Caine. Conf.\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nSir,\n\nHerewith I return\n\nthe Papers and Correspondence, connected with the emigration of Chinese to the British West Indies, which His Excellency was pleased to allow me to peruse.\n\nThe 4th Tara:\n\n...\n\nGeneral Instructions refer to Specific Instructions, of which I am not yet in receipt, and it is therefore impossible for me at present to state what arrangement...\n\nhas been re-formatted to:\nMr. Allerd-22 Fl.\n\nLLE. Cow\n\nว\n\nAT.\n\nVienstich erfand\n\nIslay.\n\nthe station comp Likely room &\n\nArrin 7.71\n\n180222/2\n\n2:23.\n\natly see mmuter on 1747 dan 73\n\nCopy\n\n338\n\nHunghom, 27 October 1859.\n\nW. Caine. Conf.\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nSir,\n\nHerewith I return the Papers and Correspondence, connected with the emigration of Chinese to the British West Indies, which His Excellency was pleased to allow me to peruse.\n\nThe 4th Tara: ... General Instructions refer to Specific Instructions, of which I am not yet in receipt, and it is therefore impossible for me at present to state what arrangement...\n\nThe final output is:\nMr. Allerd-22 Fl.\n\nLLE. Cow\n\nว\n\nAT.\n\nVienstich erfand\n\nIslay.\n\nthe station comp Likely room &\n\nArrin 7.71\n\n180222/2\n\n2:23.\n\natly see mmuter on 1747 dan 73\n\nCopy\n\n338\n\nHunghom, 27 October 1859.\n\nW. Caine. Conf.\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nSir,\n\nHerewith I return the Papers and Correspondence, connected with the emigration of Chinese to the British West Indies, which His Excellency was pleased to allow me to peruse.\n\nThe 4th Tara: ... General Instructions refer to Specific Instructions, of which I am not yet in receipt, and it is therefore impossible for me at present to state what arrangement...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236394, "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": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "page_number": 258, "title": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "content_text": "84.\n\nFinancial.\n\nExtract to Treasury for Anvivered.\n\ncomson 15 Out/H 19th Oct:/85 8345 Hong Kong.\n\nRECEIVE SER 6 1855 252\n\n15 Victorie, Hunghom, 18th June, 1855.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honor to enclose Copy of a letter from the Surveyor General asking for assistance in his Department consequent upon the great additional labor which has fallen upon that office attributable in the first instance to the great demand for ...\n\nThe Right Honorable Lord John Russell, M.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242074, "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": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "## 20.\n\nOn the subject of the Lot of Land situated East of the last Guard House which You handed to me for my report.\n\nI perceive that this was thrown out by the Governor in his Memorandum of the 7th July, 1957, diversing me to be consulted as to whether any convenient site can be ceded to the Military.\n\nBefore I can express any opinion on the subject, I should be informed for what purpose the Military Authorities require the land.\n\nColonel Lugard expresses hope that I may be able to point out an equally eligible site elsewhere.\n\n## 21.\n\n494. \n\n...for a Market, but that Officer is not perhaps aware that a Market in Hunghom ought to be on a Marine Lot and that there is no other Marine Lot vacant in that locality. The only other site I know of is the Cuckoobazar, I believe could be purchased for $2,000, situated on Inland Lot No. 88, but there is no communication with the sea unless the Military Authorities gave a right of way along the Western boundary of the Royal Artillery Barracks. This, I presume they would not be willing to do, and even if they were...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309981, "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": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "! \n\ndown \n\n1 \n\n3 \n\nboat and those it held came ashore again. The Soy factory at Yau-mah-ti is partly blown and to a very large extent unroofed. The Praya Wall is almost completely washed away. The scene, alike on shore and towards the water, is an exceedingly pitiable from one end of the village to the other. Some 39 or 40 Chinese who were to have started for San Francisco to-day by the City of Peking were holed over at Yau-mah-ti all right for the night, no boat daring to take them on board in such a sea and it being fairly impossible that the mail steamer would, in the face of such a gale, go out at the advertised time precisely. Five bodies were found, we have said, washed ashore; they were discovered to the north of the station. These were of course forwarded at once to the dead house at the Government Civil Hospital here, but no inquest has as yet been opened on any of them.\n\nAt Kung Chung a number of boats were drawn up on the beach; and those were all more or less damaged. The only other recordable effect of the gale was the blowing down of Mr Francis' bungalow.\n\nAt Hungham, a large number of boats were broken up, but no houses were damaged.\n\nAt Wong Kok Sui, several boats were broken-up and a few houses were unroofed. Loss of life at this place, however, as well as at the two last mentioned, is not reported. From Tsim Tsa Tsoi comes the same report; considerable damage to boats and on shore, but no lives lost.\n\nThe steamer White Cloud, which was later than usual in leaving Macao for Hongkong, the approaching storm keeping her back, brings reports to the effect that there was a heavy gale experienced there from the north at first, and blowing right round to north-north-west and from that direction to the west. The lowest reading of the barometer was 29.26. The glass steadied after midnight and gave no foretellings of any approaching disturbance of the elements, between that time and the hour when the steamer left Macao. A great many junks and cargo boats were wrecked, but it is not known that there was any loss of life worth mentioning, if indeed any loss of life at all. The White Cloud left her anchorage and anchored in the bay in anticipation of hard weather but nothing occurred to disturb her in any way, although the gusts were heavy beyond ordinary, from 5 o'clock yesterday until the hour of starting this morning, 8 o'clock. Before the White Cloud left, the Ping On had arrived from Pakhoi and Hoihow, at 7 o'clock in the morning, and reported experiencing the full fury of the gale in the form of a typhoon on her run up from the South. She had anchored at St. John's in consequence of the gale. The White Cloud returned to Macao at once on getting her cargo out here, which was a particularly large one of tea to go home by the English mail. She crosses again to-morrow with a similarly large cargo, leaving at 8 a.m. and departing from Hongkong on her return trip to Macao at 2 p.m. The Spark then takes up the run in the usual way. The Kiang ping made her usual passage and resumes her position at once. A few notes as to the effect of the gale at Macao will be found under our heading of Macao correspondence. There would seem, from what we have heard from nautical authorities just returned from the other side, that there could be no possible mistake there as to the reality of the typhoonic nature of the storm, the wind going almost right round the compass in twelve hours.\n\nAn extraordinary rumour was industriously circulated as to some catastrophe having happened to the Yotsui. The Yotsai is safe in dock.\n\nWe should have mentioned yesterday, when reckoning-up of those to whom credit was due, those who had shown that they were made of the right stuff when the occasion called for help, that the Royal Artillery turned out and held themselves in readiness for any opportunity, and pulled up on the Barrack Square, North Barracks, during the worst part of the gale as it affected that quarter, that was between noon and 1 o'clock p.m., six sampans together with their crews, numbering quite an extensive tribe of people saved from the wrecks. The highest credit is due to those who took part in this work, although they may have to rest content with the approbation of their own consciences, which is often the sole reward of those who dwell under such circumstances. It is a pleasure to us to record, however, the conduct of the valiant and humane R. A.\n\nSeveral vessels, which have either come in or attempted to go out and been compelled to put back, tell of severe weather outside.\n\nThe Kashgar, P.&O. steamer, which left yesterday for Shanghai, anchored in the Lyeemoon Pass, or near the Cape d'Aguilar lighthouse, and proceeded only after the force of the blow had expended itself. The same Company's steamer Sunda, which has also had some heavy weather on her trip down, reports meeting her steaming out. The Diamante, setting out yesterday for Manila, had to put back through stress of weather. She brought in and landed some six or eight persons rescued from a junk found floating bottom up outside. The Gleneagles from Foochow reports had weather towards the latter part of her voyage. The Zhang, from Cayton, anchored in the river on her way down and reports a mass of capsized boats. A heavy gale was experienced; and from the report she brings, we may expect to hear more from Canton concerning the present gale.\n\nThe following reports from other vessels also refer to the storm, which would appear to have been extensively felt:\n\nThe British steamer Greyhound, Captain Scott, from Haiphong and Hoihow, reports: From Haiphong to Hoihow, strong winds veering from S.E. to East, with high sea. From Hoihow to Hongkong, first part of passage light N.E. winds. \"Friday morning, wind hauled North, and then veered to N.W. and West, blowing very heavy, with high cross sea from S.E. and heavy rain; 10.16 a.m. increased to a gale with furious squalls, turned ship's head and ran for anchorage at Chuen. Saturday at 3 a.m., moderated, when weighed anchor and proceeded.\n\nThe British steamer Esmeralda, Captain Talbot, from Manila, reports: On Tuesday 11th Oct., at 5.05 p.m., hove up and proceeded from Manila Bay towards Hongkong, fresh northerly winds and fine clear weather, barometer at midnight 29.95. Wednesday 12th Oct., commenced with light N.W. winds and fine; noon, wind increasing from the N.W., barometer 29.84. 8 p.m., strong N.N.W. winds and heavy rain; sea rising, barometer 29.80; midnight, no alteration, barometer 29.80. Thursday, 13th Oct., commenced with hard gale from the N.W., heavy rain squalls and high sea; 00.40 a.m., engines reduced to half speed; 8 a.m. barometer 29.60; 8 a.m. wind W.N.W., blowing a severe gale with incessant rain squalls and heavy sea; ship labouring heavily and shipping a great quantity of water. 8.50 a.m. wind increasing in violence stopped the engines and hove to with sea anchor and 60 fathoms chain. After 10 a.m., the barometer began to rise slowly, although there was no abatement in the weather; noon, barometer 29.71. At 4 p.m. the weather moderated slightly, barometer steadily rising; 4.25 p.m., started heaving up the sea anchor; 5 p.m., full speed ahead; at 7.30 blowing hard gale from the S.W.\n\n106", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324435, "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": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 467, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "My Lord,\n\nParis. No.90. 1883.\n\nREG: 22 NOV 83\n\nWith reference to my Despatch No. 769 of yesterday, I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship the \"Exposé des Motifs\" and the text of the Bill for granting a supplementary Credit for Tonquin, which was brought into the Chamber of Deputies by the Government on the instant.\n\nThese documents are taken from an unofficial Paris newspaper, in which they have appeared this morning.\n\nThe object which the French Govt has in view is stated in the \"Exposé des motifs\" to be the occupation of the Delta of the Songkoi only.\n\nLa seule partie du Tonkin que nous proposons d'occuper est la Delta du Song-koi : nous n'entendons pas dépasser Bac Ninh et Hunghoa de la rivière Claire, sauf pourtant, sur la côte, les points dont l'occupation paraîtra nécessaire.\n\nThe total of the troops in Tonquin available for the expedition at the beginning of November is estimated at 8,550 men.\n\nThe naval Forces in the waters of Tonquin, and of China are stated to consist of 32 vessels with crews amounting to 4,500 men in all.\n\nThe detail of the expenses to be provided for the credit of 9,000,000 francs (£360,000) is given.\n\n(Signed) Lyons", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328048, "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": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "page_number": 426, "title": "CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3]", "content_text": "# The French March to Langson\n## FULL DETAILS\n(From a Correspondent.)\n\nLANGSON, Feb. 13, 1885. The French column entered Langson to-day. The troops engaged in the campaign have been fewer than was previously supposed, and the resistance encountered, though strenuous, was less formidable than many had expected. A few days before joining the column I had been told by an officer in charge of an important garrison that there was a French army at Chu of 20,000 men, but the more prevalent opinion among military circles was that 10,000 was nearer the mark, and so it turned out. In October last there were said to be from 12,000 to 15,000 French troops in Tonquin. Since then a certain proportion of sick and time-expired men have been sent home, but reinforcements to the extent of 3,000 men have arrived to fill up the vacancies. Immediately before the campaign was opened it was well known that the garrisons in every quarter of Tonquin had been almost depleted to furnish troops for the expedition, and the following figures will show to what extent these were reduced. At Nauliub, where there is a native population of 60,000 or 70,000, only 15 French soldiers were left to guard the place; in Nimbinth and Haidnong, none; in Hunghoa, 150; in Thai Nguyuen, 15; at the Seven Pagodas, 50 artillerymen and 2 soldiers of the line, with a lieutenant in command; at Phulang Thuong, sure an or 60; and at Kep perhaps 150. Of course in all those garrisons there was a company or section of native troops on whose reliability too much trust cannot be placed; but I give the figures to show that when all but 200 or 300 of the French forces in Tonquin were requisitioned for the Langson expedition, it was natural to suppose that at least 10,000 men were to march to the front. As a matter of fact, however, the column, composed of two brigades, has not exceeded 6,000 in number.\n\nIt is certain that the number of men placed hors de combat in engagements is but a very small proportion of the number to be accounted for, and confirms most conclusively what has been said about the disastrous effects of the climate upon the army occupying Tonquin. That the expedition should be accomplished (in so far as it has been accomplished) by such a small body of men says much for the skill and energy of the commanders, and the devotion and endurance of the army. That to compose this small army important garrisons in the North and West should be temporarily denuded, while the Black Flags of the River Claire and a large Chinese army on the Red River were threatening, says much for the coolness of the Generals, and shows a daring which some persons may condemn as a dangerous rashness. But it says little for France, or for the Government of France, which has professed to attach so much importance to Tonquin as a colonial possession, that she has left so small an army to attempt so much, or made it necessary to encounter such serious risks.\n\nThere is little doubt that if there had been sufficient troops for the purpose the French army would have been divided into two columns, one to march from Chu, and the other advancing by the Mandarin road, ... the road by way of Phulang Thuong, Bac-le, along which the Annamite ambassadors were wont periodically to make their processions from Hanoi to Peking. There is little doubt also that the Chinese expected the attack on that route, and probably were prepared to oppose strong, perhaps their strongest, defence.\n\nOn the 30th January, with 800 men, General Negrier made a reconnaissance from Kep towards Bac-lo, floated his balloon, and ascertained the position and strength of the enemy. Leaving his balloon to float a day longer he descended to Phulang Thuong, early on the morning of the 31st, and was followed in a few hours by the troops who had accompanied him; and, at 10 a.m. he and his men had embarked and were being carried down the Thuong, and up to Chu on the river Locknam.\n\nTo prevent the possibility of any notice being given to the Chinese of the intentions of the General, the prefect of Phulang Thuong, his secretary, and the interpreter to the commandant were imprisoned.\n\nOn the 2nd February both Generals with their brigades began the march from Chu; and before reaching Langson it became manifest that the main body of the Chinese on the Bac-lo route had been outflanked, and General Negrier's ruse had succeeded. That did not imply, of course, that a stout resistance was not to be encountered on the route from Chu, but it did imply that a much more formidable resistance was not met with, a resistance which may have been almost impossible to overcome, or which could not have been overcome except at a cost which would have been nearly as disastrous as a defeat.\n\nThe forts at Dong-son, which in all numbered thirty-six, were all taken on the 6th, and a halt of four days was found to be necessary to enable a convoy of provisions, including slow-travelling cattle, to arrive. The time was variously occupied in taking a plan of the country from the peak on one side of a limited plain which commands a wide view on the Western side of the range of hills. The Chasseurs d'Afrique also rode across to Kep and returned by way of Chu on the following day. Part of the time was also occupied in exploding the ammunition taken from the enemy, of which there was a great store of all sorts, Remington, Snider, Martini Henry, Winchester, and other cartridges. Here, too, one realised more than previously that the cry of a scanty supply of water on the route, and that supply poisoned by minerals, was a scare originated by the Chinese. A little above Chu the Locknam river turns towards its source S. by E. In the direction of Anchau is a stream along which the road lies for 12 miles above Dongson almost to Langson, it is said to be a branch of the river. I drank of the Locknam (as at the other rivers touched on the voyage, only when bailed, simply because the waters were turbid), and the waters of the streams by which our course has lain I found refreshing to bathe in, and sweet to drink. Other discoveries were made at Dongson. In one of the large forts was found a skeleton, evidently that of one who had been...\n\nPage 424", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330163, "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": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "# FINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\n## PRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D.), Chairman. \nHis Honour the Chief Justice, (Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.). \nThe Honourable the Attorney General, (EDWARD Loughlin O'Malley). \nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER). \nThe Surveyor General (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE). \nPHINEAS RYRIE. \nFREDERICK DAVID Sassoon. \nTHOMAS JACKSON. \nWONG SHING.\n\n## ABSENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (WILLIAM HENRY MARSH, C.M.G.), on leave. \nWILLIAM KESWICK, on leave.\n\nThe Committee meet this day pursuant to notice.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 23rd ultimo, are read and confirmed.\n\nRead the various Minutes of His Excellency the Governor in connexion with the following Votes:-\n\n| Vote | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| C.8.0. 2021 of 1885 | **Medical** - For general overhaul and repairs to Health Officer's Steam-launch Blanche, and hire of Steam-launch while the above repairs are being executed, 10 days, at $5 per day | $210.00 + $50.00 = $260.00 |\n| C.S.0. 2421 of 1885 | **Gaol** - For rent of a house in Wyndham Street to be used as a Prison for females, at $10 per month, for 2 months, (October and November) | $80.00 |\n| Mis. Dec. 692 of 1885 | **Works and Buildings** - For converting a portion of the east wing of the old Gaol at Stone Cutters' Island into a temporary Magazine for Gunpowder | $1,300.00 |\n| C.3.0. 1691 of 1885 | **Works and Buildings** - For fitting up the Hunghom Police Station with guard-beds, shelves, pegs, baths, &c. | $245.00 |\n| C.5.0. 2000 of 1885 | **Works and Buildings** - For converting house No. 47, Wyndham Street, into a Gaol for female prisoners | $500.00 |\n| C.8.0. 2582 of 1885 | **Works and Buildings** - For re-building the retaining wall below the Civil Hospital, damaged by the recent fire | $8,000.00 |\n| C.S.0. 2500 of 1880 | **Works and Buildings** - For alterations in the Post Office building, to provide rooms for the Parcel Post service | $504.00 |\n| C.8.0. 2012 of 1886 | **Roads, Streets and Bridges** - For compensation to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, for removal of their pier in 1878, when constructing the Praya-wall. (Re-vote,--see Legislative Council, 20th July, 1883) | $800.00 |\n| 2525 of 1885 | **Miscellaneous Services** - For contribution towards the expenses connected with the Indian and Colonial Exhibition | £500 @ 3/5 = $2,926.82 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330290, "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": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 152, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "# Chl \n\n7. The returns of gambling show 254 cases against 104 in 1884, and 86 in 1883. This amount would be larger, were not cases of Lotteries now dealt with by Summons instead of by Warrant on summary arrest; they therefore appear in the Magistrates' and not in the Police Returns. The smallness of the numbers in 1883 and 1884, is probably due to the Government Order 1071 of 1883 directing, \"The simplest plan would be to let the Chinese alone and to let them gamble in peace, prosecuting only in those cases when the surrounding circumstances and notoriety left no doubt as to the nature of any particular house.” \n\n8. In connection with the riots just before my return to the Colony in 1884, I observe that it was considered expedient to seize the arms stored in various Chinese shops. The repeal by `Ordinance 8 of 1882` of the unrepealed sections of `Ordinance 9 of 1857` appears to have resulted in the probably unintended result of also repealing `Ordinance 1 of 1855`, which contained some valuable clauses concerning the sale of arms and the manufacture of explosives, which might well have been enforced in cases of emergency. I have had during the past year to call attention to the want of any preventive measures against the storage of fire crackers and other dangerous commodities in buildings in the populated portion of the Colony. \n\n## PERMITS \n\n9. There is a point which has arisen during the past year to which I desire to draw attention. In this Colony, so few matters connected with Police work are dealt with otherwise than by Ordinances, that there is a want of that elasticity which can be obtained in England by the exercise of a power to pass by-laws. A notable instance arose in the constant necessity in a commercial Colony like this, of vessels desiring to discharge or take in cargo at night. For over forty years, the local law has prohibited it, but, from precedents dating back in my own experience to nearly twenty years, this obvious necessity has been recognised by the Chief of Police granting permits when necessary. During the past year, the applications, formerly made by well-known firms connected with the principal lines of steamers, increased fifty per cent., and were becoming so numerous that it was clear that, unless some system was inaugurated, every firm that occasionally shipped goods would be in possession of a permit. Now, each permit practically represents some six cargo boats. The wisdom of our predecessors recognised that in these waters, so liable to piratical attacks, it was expedient that there should at night time be a clear belt of water between the shipping and the water frontage. Incidentally, I may point out that in one respect, the status of this Colony is almost exceptional: it is one of the very few civilised places in the world where the trade of the Port is absolutely free from all Customs' dues. Hence, in other harbours, goods can only be landed at certain recognised points or under certain well-known restrictions. Here, cargo boats can come alongside any portion of the four miles frontage of the City. Being desirous of reducing the practice of the issue of Permits to a system, I, with the permission of the Government, inserted an advertisement in the newspapers requesting the expression of views either for or against the landing or shipping of cargo at night, i.e., between 9 P.M. and 6 A.M. \n\nThe result, for a Commercial Colony, was somewhat surprising; not a single letter in favour of the practice was received, whilst objections to the course were sent in. It was therefore proposed to do away with the system of granting general permits available at all times, and to substitute special permits to be granted when circumstances demanded that the dispatch of any particular vessel should be accelerated, and for this purpose, every facility was given. When this was made known, the Chamber of Commerce for the first time took up the question and argued that, as Hongkong was a free port, the consignees of vessels were at liberty to land or discharge cargo as they pleased. The matter having been referred to the law officers, the opinion was that there was no authority of law for the granting of permits. An impression appeared to prevail that this implied that boats could discharge cargo at night. The result of a test case, that was taken before a Magistrate, whose decision was not appealed against, would seem to show that this prevalent impression is erroneous, and that the law distinctly prohibits boats from being within one hundred yards of the shore at night, except at certain specified public or at all private wharves. Being fully aware that the prosperity of this Colony is solely dependent on its trade, I have taken on myself the responsibility of not carrying out the law to its full extent, but I trust that the matter may soon be placed on a sound basis, and that the two equally vital points of protecting the facilities of the trade of the Colony, and of protecting the City from sudden piratical raids, may meet with due consideration. \n\n10. The same legal dictum of the absence of any authority of law equally applies to other matters on which the Chief of Police for the time being has heretofore endeavoured to assist the industries or necessities of the Colony, viz.: the granting of permits (a.) for the temporary obstruction of a roadway by the transit of heavy goods, (b.) for allowing boats to lie near certain wharves at night for the accommodation of the officers and men of the various men-of-war in Harbour, (c.) for the removal by the Chinese of the bones of the dead to the mainland. In none of these cases is there any authority of law for granting permits, but it is clearly desirable that such power should exist. \n\n11. Another matter wherein the practice of the Colony existing for many years has been upset, is the granting of permits for (a.) Chinese Religious Ceremonies, Theatricals, and (b.) Religious Processions and Festivals. The power to grant permits for the former (a.) was vested in the Governor Registrar General by `Ordinance 6 of 1857`, but by the amended `Ordinance 8 of 1858`, the power vested in the Governor only. The matters referred to in (b.) were by `Ordinance 14 of 1845` in the hands of the Chief Magistrate of Police, and by proclamation, this was changed to the Chief of the Police Force. This proclamation is held, and obviously rightly so, to be ultra vires. Now applications are sent to the Registrar General, who endorses his recommendation or otherwise, then to the Colonial Secretary, who sends them to the Surveyor General as to structural matters, and to the Magistrates, (who are not in a position to obtain information), for a report. The document is then returned to the Colonial Secretary, who submits it for the Governor's decision; he again receives it and sends the permit to the Registrar General, who returns the application to the Colonial Secretary, who sends notice to me as Head of the Police Force, and in numerous cases, I receive the document after the expiry of the date on which the event took place. I must submit that it is time a less cumbrous process was adopted, and probably the simplest course would be for the Chief of Police to deal with such matters when outside and the Registrar General when inside buildings, subject always to the decision of the Surveyor General on structural matters. The right of appeal to the Governor being paramount, no special allusion need be made to it. The late Mr. MAY, when Chief of Police, gave this opinion on the subject of Licences for Religious or Theatrical entertainments. \"I am of opinion that the granting of such permission should be in the hands of the executive Police. This power was by `Ordinance 14 of 1845` vested in the hands of the Chief Magistrate, but practically it devolved upon the Superintendent of Police, because the Chief Magistrate invariably made reference to that Officer. As a fact, there are few Religious entertainments, although Religion is often advanced as a plea; firing off crackers, musical parties, &c., are all called \"Chin-chin joss,\" but these bear as much relation to the religion of the Chinese as the institution of \"Greenwich Fair\" does to the religion of the inhabitants of London. The proper person to judge of the policy of granting or recommending such indulgence, or minor invasions of the letter of the law, must be the Officer having the responsibility of preventing disorder and annoyance to the public and ready power of preventing the abuse of the indulgence if granted.\" \n\n## STATIONS \n\n12. The various Police Stations suffered a great deal from the lowness of the Colonial Funds. The guard house at Hunghom has, however, been rebuilt, and the out houses are a vast improvement from a sanitary point of view to those attached to most of the Stations. Stanley Station, having, through want of money, been for nearly two years unavailable, was in July last handed back to the Police, but the summer rains soon showed the upper floor to be comparatively uninhabitable from leakage. Subsequent defects have been developed, which plainly show that the building of the upper story many years ago was not carried out efficiently, with the probable result that it must be taken down and rebuilt before the building is really habitable. At the Water Police Basin, davits and a flight of steps are still wanting, which want contributes to the deterioration of the boats, and the endangering of the men when embarking. The scarcity of married quarters is greatly felt, and the high rates of rent now charged render it difficult for men to obtain rooms with the allowance granted by Government. The health of the Water Police has improved since the removal of the men from the Hulk to the Station at Kaulung Point, but Whitfield Station has, from the number of cases, ever proved very unhealthy to the occupants. The drains are now being thoroughly repaired, and the undergrowth around cut away. \n\nIf, after this, no improvement is shown, the cause must be attributable either to the recent earth cutting in connection with the neighbouring fort, or to the rapid silting up of the foreshore. \n\n13. The heavy fall in the value of the dollar, which is now quoted at 3/3¾, is a matter which must tend to the increase of the cost of the maintenance of the Police Force. The Colony cannot expect to obtain recruits from Great Britain unless, having regard to home salaries, it is prepared to offer the men the equivalent of one hundred pounds sterling a year each. This now means $605.57, whereas the men are paid $480 or $540 a year, according as they agree to serve for 10 or 15 years before receiving pensions. It is beyond dispute that the cost of all commodities has considerably increased. \n\n14. I am happy to be able to report that the general conduct of the Force, as witnessed by the diminished amount of fines and punishments inflicted during the year for breaches of discipline, has been very satisfactory; and that I have received the faithful support of the officers and men in the discharge of their respective duties under circumstances that on more than one occasion might have tended to dishearten them. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most obedient Servant, \n\nW. M. DEANE, \n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police. \n\nThe Honourable FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D., \n\nActing Colonial Secretary, \n\n&c. \n## Page 150", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332214, "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": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "... \n\n195\n\nthe\n\nMan. who had jumped overboard, among them. When the man jumped overboard he swam towards the shore. She jumped overboard from the portside. The boat which picked him up came across from the portside and brought him to the starboard side. I did not hear orders given for the man to be picked up. I did not hear the call out to be picked up. One of the boat people held him up; a man on the launch pulled him on board.\n\nWhen the man was pulled on board I was about six yards off. As soon as the man was pulled on board I went to the engine room. After passing Kowloon City.\n\nJohn Jones, sworn clerk and storekeeper, Hom Docks. On 10th instant about 4:30 p.m. it was fine. I went on board a white launch at the wharf in Hongkong to come to Hunghom. The launch is a ferry boat running between here and Hongkong. There were four sailors from the \"Velases\" and two from the \"Samezi\" and myself, altogether 7 Europeans. There were also a number of Chinese. While waiting on the wharf I heard a man say to a man on the launch, \"You had better change to another one, they won't have this one because it's too small.\" The big white launch went to the Public wharf and we started. When about 30 to 50 feet from the wharf we got alongside a green launch. One on the white launch called out for a Chinese passenger to go on board the green launch. I did not hear any orders given at that time. The Chinese passengers from our launch went over to the green launch. The white launch went first towards Hunghom. When about 20 feet away from...\n\nPage 196", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332217, "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": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "得\n\nA\n\nCopy.)\n\nSub. Enclosure B\n\n198\n\nReport by the Acting Attorney General.\n\no fresh evidence appears to have been taken since the 3rd November. I was under the impression that further evidence was forthcoming and was consulted a few days ago about some promise to be made to a Chinese who could give some information.\n\nThere can be no doubt that U A-fung was decoyed or tempted to Hongkong, and when once over here, means were taken that he should not reach HungHom again. He was in fact kidnapped but it has been so skilfully done, ... although in my opinion the master of the Launch knew the reason for going to Kowloon first, unfortunately we have no evidence against them.\n\nThat he jumped overboard in British waters there can be no doubt and was not forcibly taken on to Kowloon City instead of being landed at Hung Hom, we have no evidence to show he ever protested or asked to be taken to Hung Hom.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332434, "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": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 417, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "Government House, Hongkong, 20th January 1881.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit for Your information the following Votes which have been passed by the Legislative Council during the last month and which have not been already specially reported:\n\nHarbour Station at Hunghom:---\n\nAllowance to Police Officer, ... $132.00\n\nSalaries to 4 Boatmen, ... 288.00\n\nCost of a boat, ... $90.00\n\nCost of a safe, ... 35.00\n\nDesks, Bookcase, &c., ... 16.00\n\n... 141.00\n\n$561.00\n\nTemporary Land Surveyor, as required by the Land Commission for 3 months,—\n\nSalary at $150 per month, ... $450.00\n\nChair allowance at $24 per month, ... 72.00\n\n... $522.00\n\nHonorarium to Mr. BRUCE SHEPHERD, for services rendered to the Commission under the Chefoo Convention, ... 150.00\n\nTemporary Copying Clerk, in connection with the valuation for Assessment of Municipal Rates, ... 150.00\n\nThe Right Honourable,\n\nStanhope,\n\nSecretary ...\n\n \nPage 3.39\n\nPage 3.39\n\nPage 3.40\n\nPage 3.40\n\nPage 3.41\n\nPage 3.41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332435, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 418, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "A transfer vote from the Registrar General's Department to the Treasury, to defray \n\nthe expenses of collecting Municipal Rates at Villages, viz.:- \n\nAllowance to Collector, \n\nSalary of a Coolie,.. \n\nPetty expenses, \n\nRepairs to damages caused by the rain-storm of the 15th July last, to roads, streets, \n\nbridges, and sewers, \n\n$ 120.00 \n\n108.00 \n\n21.00 \n\n25.00 \n\n$ 253.00 \n\n$12,176.00 \n\nEnclosure. \n\n2. Copies of the Minutes of the Finance Committee containing my \n\nminutes asking the Council to vote these sums and the recommendations of \n\nthe Committee are annexed in explanation of these votes. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most Obedient, \n\nEnclosure. \n\nREPORT OF PROCEEDINGS \n\nOF THE \n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE, \n\nAT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, \n\nOn the 12th November, 1886. \n\nPRESENT: \n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART), Chairman. \n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice (SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt.). \n\nThe Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD). \n\nthe Colonial Treasurer. (ALFRED LISTER). \n\nthe Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE). \n\nHENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N. \n\nPHINEAS RYRIE. \n\nFREDERICK DAVID SASSOON. \n\nALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN. \n\nJOHN BELL-IRVING. \n\nThe Honourable WONG YING-SING, by leave. \n\nABSENT: \n\nThe Committee meet this day at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary. \n\nThe Minutes of the last Meeting, held on the 25th September last, are read and confirmed. \n\n(1.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:- \n\nW. H. MARSH \n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $561 for the purpose of establishing a branch of the Harbour Office at Hunghom. \n\nAs this village is increasing in size and importance, it would be a great convenience to the junk people to have a Harbour Station at Hunghom, otherwise they must come to Victoria to obtain their papers, a distance of over 2 miles, or else evade the payment of the fees. \n\nIn order to establish this Harbour Station, it is necessary to build an additional room at the Police Station for the accommodation of boatmen. This the Surveyor General estimated at $500, which will be charged against the vote for \"Police Building, extension Extraordinary Public Works.\" \n\nA supplementary vote is now required to meet the salaries and other contingencies, viz.:---- \n\nAllowance to the Police Officer in charge at $11 per month. \n\nSalaries to 4 Boatmen at $6 each, \n\nHumble Servant, \n\n15th Nov. \n\n1722 of 1886. \n\nMarsh.\n\nCost of a boat, \n\nCost of a safe, \n\nDesks, Bookcase, &c.. \n\n$ 132.00 \n\n288.00 \n\n420.00 \n\n90.00 \n\n35.00 \n\n16.00 \n\n$ 561.00 \n\nAfter some further explanations by the Chairman, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 332437, "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": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "page_number": 420, "title": "CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12]", "content_text": "of 15th July, 1886.\n\nRepairing damages to Peel Street,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nAlbert Road,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nCentre Street,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nNew East Street,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nRobinson Road,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nSquare Street,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nGap Street,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nTank Lane,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nPo Yan Street,\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nDo.\n\ndo.\n\nCastle Road, Ilospital Rond, Arbuthnot Road, Glenealy Path,\n\nWestern Street,\n\nThird Street,\n\nThe detailed List of these Storm damages is annexed:-\n\nSchedule of expenses incurred in making good the damages caused by the rain-storm\n\n $ 141.16\n 417\n 17.08C 0.268.00290.26\n $35.751 326\n '54.16\n $59.80\n 61.66\n 164.6724 JAN J7\n 106.66-\n 33.33\n 25.00\n 66.00\n 82.16\n 94.16\n Lower Albert Road,96.33\n Do. do.First Street,99.00\n Do. do,Queen's Road,141.66\n Do. do.Elgin and Stanton Streets,154.00\n Do. do.Triangle Street,231.24\n Do. do.Western Nullah Road,220.63\n Do. do.Belcher's and Davis Streets,\n Do. do.Road adjoining Glass Works,315.92\n Retaining wall near Rope Works,99.00\n Do. do.Centre Street Sewer,331.16\n Do.Drains Pokfulam Road,28.67\n Do. do.a portion of Peak Road,143.00\n Do. do.Caroline Hill Road,468.00\n Do. do.Causeway Bay Road,455.80\n Do. do.Smithfield Street Sewer,\n Do. do.Catchwaters at Kennedy Town,138.66\n 150.00\n Removing landslips along Robinson Road,84.66\n Do. do.Garden Road,190.00\n Do. do.Peak Roads,160.33\n Do. do.Kennedy Road,\n Do. do.\n Do. do.\n Do. do.Shaukiwan Road, Stanley Road,\n Aberdeen Road,1,179.33\n 45.81\n 275.00\n 8.33\n Do. do.Mount Gough Roads,10.00\n Do. do.Pokfulam Road,\n Do. do.Clearing sewer choked with debris in Jervois Street,\n Magazine Gap Road,149.08\n 79.36\n 131.46\n Do. do.Hillier Street,96.00\n Do. doCentral District,\n Do. do.\n Do. do.\n Do. do.Davis Street,\n Ship Street,\n Albany Street,83.93\n 62.29\n 90.75\n Do. do.Wantsai Road,98.46\n Do. do.Bowrington Strand,293.14\n Do.Clearing Hunghom Nullah of debris,\n Rebuilding wall and removing landslip above Richmond Road,\n Repairing damages and clearing silt Bowrington Canal (upper portion),\n do.(lower portion),\n Do.Sewers choked with rocks and debris, burst and destroyed,\n Clearing sewer-inlets of rocks and debris throughout the city.\n do.at Kennedy Town,\n Rebuilding damaged portions of Nullah at Causeway Bay,\n Rebuilding No. 1 Bridge at Shaukiwan Road,\n 129.40\n $43.00\n do1,228.60\n 73.11\n 67.98\n 65.400\n 588.00\n 1,011.00\n 59.46\n 36.50\n Repairing damages to Happy Valley Road,\n TOTAL.........$12,175.76\n\nJ. M. PRICE,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 26th November, 1886.\n\nAfter some explanation by the Surveyor General, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.\n\nThe Committee is then adjourned sine die.\n\nChairman.\n\nRead and confirmed this\n\nday of December, 1886.\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nPage 420\n\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-229 - Acting Governor Marsh & Public Offices - 1886 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333420, "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": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "No. \n\nDate. \n\nTime. \n\nRETURN OF FIRES AND ALARMS OCCURRED DURING THE YEAR 1886,--Continued.\n\n \n Situation of Fire.\n No. of Building destroyed.\n Damage.\n Cause.\n REMARKS.\n \n \n Grass on hillside near Aberdeen,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mosquito curtain at No. 10, Jardine Bazaar,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Firewood in cook-house of No. 3, Hin Lung Lane, No. 50, Jardine Bazaar,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n No. 4, Square Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chimney at No. 224, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chimney of Medical Hall,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Firewood in the kitchen of No. 31, Gongh Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n A piece of cloth at No. 9, Wellington Street,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 41 May 30,\n 11.30 a.m.\n Third Street,\n \n \n \n \n 42 31,\n 8.30 a.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 43 June 30,\n 2.30 p.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 44 July 3,\n 7.30 a.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 45 3,\n Midnight\n \n \n \n \n \n 46\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 47\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 49 30,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 50 August 3,\n 12.45 p.m.\n No. 24, Circular Pathway,\n \n \n \n \n 51 13,\n 9.45 p.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 52 13,\n 5 p.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 53 14,\n Noon.\n \n \n \n \n \n 54 17,\n 8.30 p.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 55 20,\n 10 a.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 56 26,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 57 30,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 58 September 5,\n 9.30 p.m.\n Chimney of No. 21, Ladder Street,\n \n \n \n \n 59\n 8.\n \n \n \n \n \n 60\n 9,\n \n \n \n \n \n 61 1,\n 11 p.m.\n No. 3, Ezra Lane,\n \n Mat Screen.\n \n \n 62 12,\n 4.20 a.m.\n No. 824, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n \n \n 63 15,\n 4 p.m.\n Grass on hill near Cape D'Aguilar and Stanley Road,\n \n $3,500\n \n \n 64 17,\n 7 p.m.\n No. 41, Salt-fish Lane,\n \n \n \n \n 65 17,\n 6.30 p.m.\n A Kerosene Lamp No. 47, Hollywood Road,\n Lamp burst.\n \n \n \n 66 19,\n 4 p.m.\n Grass on hillside near Chai Wan,\n \n Trifling\n \n \n 67 27,\n 10 a.m.\n \n \n \n \n \n 68 29,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 69 October 2,\n 5.45 p.m.\n Chimney of No. 10, Queen's Road Central,\n \n \n \n \n 70 6,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 71\n 6 a.m.\n Chimney of No. 18, Hollywood Road,\n \n \n \n \n 72 11,\n 9 p.m.\n Carpet in Hongkong Hotel,\n \n \n \n \n 73 12,\n 6.30 p.m.\n Grass on Mount Davis,\n \n \n \n \n 74 21,\n 10.45 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain in No. 5, Third Street,\n \n \n \n \n 75 22,\n 12.30 p.m.\n A matshed at Stone Cutters' Island,\n \n \n \n \n 76 22,\n \n No. 3, Kan Ü Fong,\n \n \n \n \n 77 23,\n 5.50 p.m.\n No. 3, Tuk Hing Lane,\n \n \n \n \n 78 November 2,\n 12.50 p.m.\n Grass on hill near Tai-tam-tuk,\n \n \n \n \n 79 2,\n 7.20 p.m.\n Some mats on No. 51, Caine Road,\n \n \n \n \n 80 6,\n \n Chimney of Tsimshatsui Station,\n \n $12,000\n \n \n 81 November 8,\n \n Chimney of No. 95, Second Street,\n \n \n \n \n 82 13,\n 10,\n No. 218, Hollywood Road,\n \n \n \n \n 83 10,\n 17\n A bundle of firewood in No. 10, West Street\n \n \n \n \n 84 11,\n 3\n Rattan shavings in No. 15, Tik Lung Lane,\n \n \n \n \n 85 18,\n \n A mattress in No. 74, Praya East,\n \n \n \n \n 86 20,\n 11\n Flooring of No. 88, Bridges Street,\n \n \n \n \n 87 20,\n 32\n Cook-house No. 6, Praya, Hunghom,\n \n \n \n \n 88 22,\n \n No. 17, Hollywood Road,\n \n \n \n \n 89 24,\n \n Horse Repository, Garden Road,\n \n $40,000\n \n \n 90 24,\n 5.40 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain No. 60, Praya, Yaumati,\n \n \n \n \n 91 26,\n 9 p.m.\n No. 106, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n \n \n 92 26,\n \n Chimney No. 36, Praya Central,\n \n \n \n \n 93 29,\n 5 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain No. 7, Circular Pathway,\n \n \n \n \n 94 December 5,\n 5 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain Square Street,\n \n \n \n \n 95 7,\n 37\n Hillside near North Fort,\n \n \n \n \n 96 11,\n 59\n Bed board at No. 23, Taipingshan Street,\n \n \n \n \n 97 13,\n \n Grass on the hill at Aberdeen,\n \n \n \n \n 98\n 15\n Chimney of No. 39, Pottinger Street,\n \n \n \n \n 99 16,\n 5 a.m.\n No. 91, Queen's Road West,\n \n \n \n \n 100 16,\n 33\n 12.30 p.m.\n Grass on hill between Chaiwan and Shekò,\n \n \n \n 101 17,\n 7 a.m.\n No. 223, Queen's Road West,\n \n $16,000\n \n \n 102 17,\n 8 p.m.\n Wooden partition at No. 20, Jervois Street,\n \n \n \n \n 103 19,\n 5.40 p.m.\n No. 67, Bonham Strand West,\n \n $18,000\n \n \n 104 20,\n 1.40 a.m.\n Mat-bags in No. 155, Praya West,\n \n \n \n \n 105 20,\n \n A coal godown in Ship Street,\n \n \n \n \n 106 22,\n 3 p.m.\n Cook-house of No. 42, Jervois Street,\n \n \n \n \n 107 24,\n 5 p.m.\n A matshed in Italian Convent's Garden at Kaulung,\n \n $80\n \n \n 108 25,\n 33\n 5.50 p.m.\n Chimney of No. 91, Praya West,\n \n \n \n 109 28,\n 7 p.m.\n 1st floor of No. 23, East Street,\n \n \n \n \n 110 29,\n 5 p.m.\n Grass on the hillside above Pokfulam Road,\n \n \n \n \n 111 29,\n 6.30 p.m.\n Grass on hill between Gap and Mount Kellett\n \n \n \n \n 112 29,\n 7 p.m.\n A mosquito curtain and some bed clothing in No. 49, Square Street,\n \n \n \n\nFire Brigade Department, Hongkong, 5th January, 1887.\n\nJOHN S. BREWER,\n\nActing Superintendent Fire Brigade.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333895, "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": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\n173\n\nNo. 10.\n\nC.5.0. 433 of 1887.\n\nC.5.0. 184 of 1867.\n\nREPORT OF PROCEEDINGS\n\nOF THE\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE,\n\nAT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, On the 7th April, 1887.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nCECE 31 MAY 87.\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART), Chairman:- His Honour the Acting Chief Justice (JAMES RUSSELL), vice His Honour SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt., on leave.\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD).\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nThe Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE),\n\nHENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nWONG SHING.\n\nJOHN BELL-IRVING, (vice the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave). ALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN, (vice the Honourable THOMAS JACKSON, on leave).\n\nCATCHICK PAUL CHATER, (vice the Honourable FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON, on leave).\n\nThe Committee meet this day at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Report of the proceedings of the Meeting held on the 1st instant, being taken as read, is confirmed.\n\nNew Western Market.\n\n(1.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-\n\nW. H. MARSH.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government has received a proposal from the Surveyor General, which has been strongly supported by the Sanitary Board, for the reclamation of a piece of ground opposite the Sailors' Home, measuring 74,000 square feet in extent, destined, when completed, for the construction thereon of a new Western Market. The cost of this reclamation and of a Praya or Retaining Wall is estimated at $73,000, and the value of the ground to be reclaimed is estimated at $370,000. The work will require two years to complete it. The Officer Administering the Government proposes that the necessary money for this work should be taken from the premia realized on sales of Crown Land which are not included in the Revenue receipts of the Colony. The Council are therefore requested to vote a sum of $35,000 to be taken from this source for defraying the cost of the portion of the work which will be executed this year.\n\nThe Finance Committee have already been consulted in this question, and have expressed the unanimous opinion that the project should be approved.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 6th April, 1887.\n\nAfter explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.\n\nHunghom Market.\n\n(2.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-\n\nW. H. MARSH.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to re-vote the sum of $6,000 for the construction of a Market at Hunghom.\n\nThis sum was voted in last year's Estimates, but not expended, as the work was not then finished.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 7th April, 1887.\n\nAfter explanation by the Surveyor General, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334029, "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": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "Temporary Inspector of Nuisances,- —- \n\nSalary, for 12 months, at $60 per month, .$720.00 \n\nNo. 3. \n\nAllowance for Rent at $15 per month,..................................... $180.00 \n\nAllowance for Chair in Summer, at $12 per month, for 5 months,....................................... 60.00 \n\n$960.00 \n\n80.00 \n\nSalary of a Postman. at $10 per month, from 1st April, 1887,.. \n\nExtension of the Light Keeper's Quarters at Green Island, .$1,500.00 \n\nConstruction of a Market at Hunghom, ..$6,000.00 \n\nEnclosure \n\nREPORT OF PROCEEDINGS \n\nOF THE \n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE, \n\nAT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, \n\nOn the 11th February, 1887. \n\nPRESENT: \n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART), Chairman \n\nHis Honour the Chief Justice (SIR GEO. PHILLIPPO, Knt.). \n\n306 \n\nC 0. 12761 \n\nThe Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD). REGE29 JUN 87 \n\nthe Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE), \n\nHENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N. \n\nPHINEAS RYRIE. \n\n2. Copies of the Minutes of the Finance Committee containing my \n\nminutes asking the Council to vote these sums and the recommendations of \n\nthe Committee are annexed in explanation of these votes. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nSir, \n\nmost Obedient, \n\nYour humble Servant, \n\nWONG SHING. \n\n1347 of 1886, \n\nand \n\n30 of 1887, \n\n23 \n\nJOHN BELL-IRVING. \n\n39 \n\nCATCHICK PAUL CHATER, \n\n11 \n\nABSENT: \n\nALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN. \n\nThe Honourable the Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER), by leave. \n\nThe Committee meet this day at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary. \n\nThe Report of the proceedings of the last Meeting, held on the 21st ultimo, being taken as read, is confirmed. \n\nVillage Taxes. \n\nRead the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:--- \n\nW. H. MARSH. \n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the sum of $816 to defray the expenses of collecting Village Taxes and Squatters' Licence Fees, by the Treasury. \n\nThis service, which has hitherto been performed by the Registrar General's Department, is now to be carried on by the Treasury:- \n\n \n A. Shroff,\n $240.00 per annum.\n \n \n An Assistant Shroff,\n 180.00\n \n \n A Coolie,\n 108.00\n \n \n Indian Constable,\n 188.00\n \n \n Contingencies,\n 100.00\n \n \n \n $816.00\n \n\nThe sum of $613 will be saved in the Registrar General's Department, and is, therefore, \n\na transfer vote. The remaining $203 is the additional sum required. \n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 4th February, 1887. \n\nAfter explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted. \n\nThe Committee then adjourn sine die. \n\nLaid before the Legislative Council on the 4th March, 1887. \n\nRead and confirmed this 15th day of February, 1887. \n\nARATHOON SETH. \n\nClerk of Councils. \n\nFREDERICK STEWART, \n\nChairman.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334035, "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": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 319, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "No. 10.\n\n312\n\nC.S.O.\n\n70 of 1867.\n\n(2.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-\n\nW. H. MARSH.\n\nWhen the Green Island Light-house was built, it was thought that it would meet requirements, if a native or a coloured man were placed in charge of the light. A very small house with two rooms was therefore deemed sufficient by way of quarters; but, subsequently a European was put in charge, and there has been ever since one continuous complaint about the inadequacy of the house.\n\nAs a new roof will be required to the building, the Surveyor General has suggested that this opportunity should be availed of to make certain extensions, the cost of which would amount to $1,500.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to vote the above sum.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 31st March, 1887.\n\nAfter explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.\n\nThe Committee then adjourned sine die.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council on the 7th April, 1887.\n\nRead and confirmed this 7th day of April, 1887.\n\nARATHOON SETH,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nChairman,\n\n4.5.0.\n\n433 of 189\".\n\nCandi,\n\n296 of 1857.\n\nPage 20\n\nREPORT OF PROCEEDINGS\n\nOF THE\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE,\n\nAT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG, On the 7th April, 1887.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART), Chairman.\n\nHis Honour the Acting Chief Justice (JAMES RUSSELL), vice His Honour SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt., on leave.\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (EDWARD JAMES ACKROYD).\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nThe Surveyor General, (John Macneile Price).\n\nHENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nWONG SHING.\n\nJOHN BELL-IRVING, (vice the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave).\n\nALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN, (vice the Honourable THOMAS JACKSON, on leave).\n\nCATCHICK PAUL CHATER, (vice the Honourable FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON, on leave).\n\nThe Committee met this day at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary. The Report of the proceedings of the Meeting held on the 1st instant, being taken as read, is confirmed.\n\nNew Western Market.\n\n(1.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:--\n\nW. H. MARSH.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government has received a proposal from the Surveyor General, which has been strongly supported by the Sanitary Board, for the reclamation of a piece of ground opposite the Sailors' Home, measuring 74,000 square feet in extent, destined, when completed, for the construction thereon of a new Western Market. The cost of this reclamation and of a Praya or Retaining Wall is estimated at $73,000, and the value of the ground to be reclaimed is estimated at $370,000. The work will require two years to complete it. The Officer Administering the Government proposes that the necessary money for this work should be taken from the premia realized on sales of Crown Land which are not included in the Revenue receipts of the Colony. The Council are therefore requested to vote a sum of $35,000 to be taken from this source for defraying the cost of the portion of the work which will be executed this year.\n\nThe Finance Committee have already been consulted in this question, and have expressed the unanimous opinion that the project should be approved.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 6th April, 1887.\n\nAfter explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.\n\nHunghom Market.\n\n(2.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-\n\nW. H. MARSH.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to re-vote the sum of $6,000 for the construction of a Market at Hunghom.\n\nThis sum was voted in last year's Estimates, but not expended, as the work was not then finished.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 7th April, 1887.\n\nAfter explanation by the Surveyor General, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334062, "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": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "## Step 1: Understand the task\nThe task is to proofread OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, specifically correcting spelling errors, fixing spacing issues, rejoining broken sentences, restoring paragraph breaks, and indicating missing words, all while maintaining the original content and format as much as possible and converting it into standard Markdown.\n\n## Step 2: Identify the content\nThe given text appears to be a table from a historical document, detailing the number of scholars attending schools under government supervision in Hong Kong during 1886. The table includes various schools, their locations, and the number of scholars.\n\n## Step 3: Correct spelling errors\nUpon reviewing the text, several spelling errors are noticeable, such as \"ScnoOL\" instead of \"School\", \"PoVULATION\" instead of \"POPULATION\", \"SROOLS\" instead of \"SCHOOLS\", \"PERVISION\" instead of \"SUPERVISION\", and \"Exresses\" instead of \"Expenses\". These need to be corrected.\n\n## Step 4: Fix spacing issues and rejoin broken sentences\nThe text contains several spacing issues, such as extra spaces between words or lines, and some sentences or numbers are broken due to OCR errors. For example, \"No. of Sholars\" should be \"No. of Scholars\", and some numbers are not properly aligned or are split.\n\n## Step 5: Restore paragraph breaks and indicate missing words\nThe text is mostly tabular, so paragraph breaks are not as relevant. However, ensuring that the table is properly formatted is crucial. Missing words due to OCR damage should be indicated with \"...\".\n\n## Step 6: Convert to Markdown format\nThe tables need to be converted into Markdown table syntax. Headers and other relevant text should be formatted accordingly using Markdown headers (#, ##, ###) and bold text (**).\n\n## Step 7: Apply the rules for file references, page numbering, and other specific instructions\nFile references should not have spaces inside parentheses, and page numbering lines should be preserved as is if they match the specified pattern.\n\n## Step 8: Reorder newspaper texts and reconstruct tables if necessary\nThe given text is not from a newspaper but is a statistical table. The table needs to be reconstructed for clarity.\n\n## Step 9: Finalize the Markdown output\nEnsure that the final output is in standard Markdown format, with proper tables, headers, and minimal use of HTML (only if necessary, like for line breaks).\n\nThe final answer is: \n\n## TABLE 1--NUMBER OF SCHOLARS ATTENDING SCHOOLS SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION DURING 1886\n\n## TABLE 1.-PROPORTION OF SCHOLARS TO POPULATION IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA AND IN THE VILLAGES IN 1886\n\n| No. | Name of School | Native Schools (Govt.) | Native Grant-in-Aid Schools (Aided) | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | CITY AND HARBOUR OF VICTORIA | | | |\n| 7 | Shamshuipo (Boys) | 87 | | 87 |\n| 9 | Berlin Mission (Girls) | | 42 | 42 |\n| 10 | Central School | 610 | | 610 |\n| 11 | C. M. S., St. Stephen's I Division (Boys) | 127 | | 127 |\n| 12 | D'Aguilar Street (Boys) | 74 | | 74 |\n| 13 | Saisingpun (Boys) | 108 | | 108 |\n| | Lyndhurst Terrace (Girls) | | 44 | 44 |\n| | American Board Mission, Bridges Street (Boys) | 72 | | 72 |\n| | East Street (Boys) | 63 | | 63 |\n| | Hinglang Lang (Boys) | 45 | | 45 |\n| | Queen's Road West (Boys) | 36 | | 36 |\n| | Basel Mission, High Street (Girls) | | 30 | 30 |\n| | Station Terrace (Boys) | 80 | | 80 |\n\n## VILLAGES\n\n| No. | Name of School | Native Schools (Govt.) | Native Grant-in-Aid Schools (Aided) | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS UNDER GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION IN VILLAGES | | | |\n| 28 | Hawán | | 31 | 31 |\n| 29 | Hokün | 19 | | 19 |\n| 30 | Yaumáti (Boys) | 35 | | 35 |\n| 37 | Hunghom (Boys) | 37 | | 37 |\n| 38 | Shektongtsai (Girls) | | 21 | 21 |\n| 39 | Kau-ü-fong (Girls) | | 19 | 19 |\n| | ... | | | |\n\n## TABLE III-NUMBER OF SCHOLARS AT THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS DURING 1886 AND EXPENSES OF EACH SCHOOL\n\n| No. | Name of School | Boys | Girls | Total | Expense |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Brought forward | 1061 | | 1061 | |\n| 2 | Central School | 610 | | 610 | $11,680.11 |\n| 3 | Hawán | | 29 | 29 | $29.00 |\n| 4 | Hokün | 19 | | 19 | $60.00 |\n| 5 | Hunghom | 66 | | 66 | $5.00 |\n| 6 | Little Hongkong | 60 | | 60 | $60.00 |\n| | ... | | | | |\n| | TOTAL | 1791 | 102 | 1893 | $17,028.58 |\n\nPage 339", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334063, "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": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 347, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "340\n\n$11,680.41\n\n$ 5,346.17\n\n$2,400 300 120\n\n288\n\n3,108.00\n\n$20,134.58\n\nTotal Expenditure for the year:-\n\nGovernment Central School,\n\nGovernment Schools and Aided Schools,\n\nTABLE IV-AVERAGE EXPENSES of each SCHOLAR OF STUDENT at the Government Schools during the Year 1886.\n\nGOVERNMENT CENTRAL SCHOOL.\n\nExpenditure,\n\nExpenditure,\n\nGOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND AIDED SCHOOLS.\n\nAdd Inspector's Salary,\n\n3.\n\nChinese Writer's Salary,\n\nTeacher's Salary,\n\nTravelling Expenses,\n\nTABLE VI-MAXIMUM and MINIMUM ENROLMENT and DAILY ATTENDANCE at the Government Schools during 1886.\n\nMaximum Monthly Enrolment.\n\nMinimum Monthly Enrolment.\n\nMaximum Daily Attendance.\n\nMinimum Daily Attendance.\n\nNo.\nName of School.\nMaximum Monthly Enrolment.\nMinimum Monthly Enrolment.\nMaximum Daily Attendance.\nMinimum Daily Attendance.\n\n2\nCentral School,\n507\n419\n496.80\n408.06\n\n4\nHawán, Hoktsui,\n31\n31\n24.38\n24.38\n\n14\n\n10\n14.00\n10.00\n\n5\nHokün,\n6\n\n10.58\n6.00\n\n6\nHunghom,\n5\n5\n4.04\n4.04\n\nLittle Hongkong,\n32\n19\n31.38\n19.00\n\nMat anch'ung,\n18\n13\n16.59\n9.61\n\n9\n\n$11,680.41 8,454.17\n\nMát auts'ün,\n24\n16\n23.80\n16.00\n\n10\nMongkok.\n24\n\n23.00\n10.46\n\n11\nNew Village (Little Hongkong),\n9\n5\n8.00\n5.00\n\n12\nPokfulam,\n8\n5\n7.89\n3.52\n\n13\nSalyingpún (English),\n69\n57\n65.33\n50.62\n\nA. Average Expenses calculated by the Enrolment.\n\n1. Average Expense of each Scholar at Government Central School,\n\n$19.11\n\n2. at other Government Schools,\n\n$4.90\n\n3. at Government Aided Schools,\n\n$2.45\n\nB. Average Expenses calculated by the average Daily Attendance.\n\n1. Average Expense of each Scholar at Government Central School,\n\n$26.17\n\n2. at other Government Schools,\n\n$6.97\n\n3. at Government Aided Schools,\n\n$3.76\n\nNo.\nName of School,\nAverage Monthly Enrolment.\nAverage Daily Attendance.\n\nAplichau,\n60\n11\n53.00\n10.00\n\n31\n(Hakka),\n99\n30.80\n18.65\n\n15\n(Punti),\n52\n18\n50.00\n18.00\n\nSháiwán, Shamshuipfo,..\n16\n9\n11.87\n4.26\n\n2\n\n2\n2.00\n2.00\n\nShaukiwán,\n47\n29\n38.38\n21.50\n\n19\n\nSheko,\n14\n11\n14.00\n11.00\n\nSheung wán (Boys),\n38\n27\n33.07\n27.00\n\n(Girls),\n62\n31\n53.89\n30.50\n\nStauley,\n45\n23\n41.66\n23.00\n\nTaiwongkung\n66\n26\n56.00\n25.45\n\nTanglungehau (Hakka),\n45\n17\n39.59\n17.00\n\n26\n(Punti),\n25\n11\n28.60\n11.00\n\nTokwáwán (Eastern Village),\n28\n12\n23.69\n12.00\n\n(Western Village),\n18\n\n16.50\n8.54\n\nTs'attszemmi,\n13\n\n11.42\n5.15\n\n29\nWántsai (English),\n115\n59\n111.48\n54.95\n\n(Chinese),\n115\n39\n111.42\n52.43\n\nWongkoktaui, Wongmákok,..\n31\n14\n28.63\n14.00\n\n0\n\n8\n9.00\n6.62\n\n39\n\n26\n81.37\n24.43\n\nYaumáti,\n30\n19\n28.12\n18.70\n\n1,643\n1,040\n1,544.38\n882.87\n\nTABLE VII-NUMBER of DAYS on which the GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS were taught during 1886.\n\nNo.\nName of School.\nSchool Days.\n\nAplichau,\n227\n\n2\nCentral School,\n288\n\nHawán,\n247\n\nHoktsui,\n253\n\n5\nHokün,\n21\n\n6\nHunghom,\n\nLittle Hongkong,\n252\n\nMat anch'ung,\n254\n\nMatauts'ün,\n238\n\n10\nMongkok,\n255\n\nNew Village (Little Hongkong),\n250\n\n12\nPokfulam,\n226\n\nSalyingpún (English),\n229\n\n(Hakka),\n242\n\n(Punti),\n219\n\nShaukiwán,\n251\n\nSheko,\n249\n\nSheungwan (Boys),\n239\n\n(Girls),\n246\n\nStanley,\n236\n\nTaiwongkung,\n248\n\nTanglungehau (Hakka),\n249\n\n(Punti),\n249\n\nTokwáwán (Eastern Village),\n252\n\n(Western Village),\n254\n\nTs'attszemúi,\n252\n\n29\nWántsai (English),\n241\n\n(Chinese),\n243\n\nWongkoktaui,\n253\n\nWongmákok, Wongnaich'ung,\n253\n\nShamshuipo,\n228\n\nYaumáti,\n246\n\nPage 340", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334066, "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": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 350, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "## TABLE XIV—PERCENTAGE OF SCHOLARS WHO PASSED IN THE GRANT-IN-AID SCHOOLS DURING THE LAST TWO YEARS.\n\n## TABLE XV.—PERCENTAGE OF PASSES IN THE VARIOUS SUBJECTS IN WHICH THE GRANT-IN-AID SCHOOLS WERE EXAMINED IN 1886.\n\n343\n\n| No. | Name of School | 1886 | 1885 | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 7 | American Board Mission, Bridges Street (Boys) | 54.38 | 87.75 | | 33.37 |\n| | Station Terrace (Boys) | 95.23 | 95.45 | | 0.22 |\n\n| School No. | Name of School | Writing, Reading, or Composition | Arithmetic | Grammar | Geography | History | Repetition | Explanation | Composition |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | East Street (Boys) | 100.00 | 96.96 | | 93.04 | | | | |\n| 2 | Hinglung Lane (Boys) | 90.90 | | | | | | | |\n| | American Board Mission, Bridges Street (Boys) | 92.98 | 42.10 | | | | | | |\n| | Station Terrace (Boys) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 98.75 | | | | | |\n| 5 | Queen's Road West (Boys) | 94.91 | 92.85 | | 2.06 | | | | |\n| 6 | Basel Mission, Shamshuipò School (Boys) | | | | | | | | |\n| | C. M. S., St. Stephen's I Division (Boys) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 34.74 | 97.57 | 75.00 | 22.57 | |\n| | Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys) | 80.00 | 90.24 | | 10.24 | | | | |\n| | D'Aguilar Street (Boys) | 100.00 | 87.87 | 100.00 | | | | | |\n| 9 | Hing-lung Lane (Boys) | 98.30 | 100.00 | 86.66 | 93.33 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 87.87 | |\n| 10 | Queen's Road West (Boys) | 100.00 | 80.30 | 88.67 | | 8.37 | | | |\n| 11 | Saiyingpun (Boys) | 88.57 | 92.30 | | 3.73 | | | | |\n| 12 | St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls) | 100.00 | 87.09 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | | |\n| 13 | Lyndhurst Terrace (Girls) | 24.11 | 67.64 | 80.00 | | | | | |\n| 14 | Third Street (Girls) | 70.58 | 92.00 | | 21.42 | | | | |\n| 15 | F. E. S., Bonham Road (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 45.45 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| 16 | High Street (Girls) | 45.45 | 83.33 | | 37.88 | | | | |\n| 17 | Queen's Road (Girls) | 95.93 | 83.33 | 75.00 | | | | | |\n| 18 | Hollywood Road (Girls) | 100.00 | 77.27 | 100.00 | 78.26 | 81.81 | | 3.55 | |\n| 19 | D'Aguilar Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 15.45 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 90.90 | 90.47 | 0.43 |\n| 20 | Stanley School (Girls) | 100.00 | 85.71 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 45.45 | 100.00 | 54.55 | |\n| 21 | Shaukiwan (Girls) | 100.00 | 83.33 | 92.85 | | 9.52 | | | |\n| 22 | L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys) | 100.00 | 98.87 | 100.00 | 95.00 | 68.18 | 26.82 | | |\n| 23 | Wántsai (Boys) | 100.00 | 82.35 | 90.00 | | ... | | | |\n| 24 | Yaumáti (Boys) | 97.43 | 71.79 | 100.00 | Failed | 100.00 | 40.00 | 97.43 | 87.50 |\n| 25 | Suekt'ongtaui (Boys) | 98.04 | 98.04 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | |\n| 26 | Wantsui (Boys) | 88.23 | 92.00 | | 3.77 | | | | |\n| 27 | Salyingpun I Division (Boys) | 78.33 | 70.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | |\n| 28 | Youmati (Boys) | 82.05 | 60.00 | | 22.05 | | | | |\n| 29 | Hunghom (Boys) | 100.00 | 86.66 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | | |\n| 30 | Shektongtsai (Boys) | 98.04 | 88.88 | | 9.16 | | | | |\n| 31 | Shekougtsni (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | |\n| 32 | Salyingpún I Division (Boys) | 66.66 | 85.37 | | 18.71 | | | | |\n| 33 | Aberdeen Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 67.44 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 96.55 | 100.00 | | |\n| 34 | Kau U-fong (Girls) | 98.04 | 90.19 | 100.00 | | 100.00 | | | |\n| 35 | Hungbom (Boys) | 86.66 | 94.44 | | 7.78 | | | | |\n| 36 | Ship Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 89.47 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | |\n| 37 | Shektongtsai (Girls) | 100.00 | 93.75 | | 6.25 | | | | |\n| 38 | Aberdeen Street (Girls) | 76.74 | 57.80 | | 11.06 | | | | |\n| 39 | Yaumáti (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 95.65 | 86.95 | |\n| 40 | Stanley Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 93.33 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | |\n| 41 | Lower Lascar Row (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | | |\n| 42 | Kan-u-fong (Girls) | 90.19 | 88.88 | | 1.31 | | | | |\n| 43 | Ship Street (Girls) | 89.47 | 83.78 | | 5.69 | | | | |\n| 44 | Yanmari (Girls) | 100.00 | 70.00 | | 30.00 | | | | |\n| 45 | Tanglungchau (Girls) | 96.77 | ... | | ... | | | | |\n| 46 | Taipingshan Chapel (Girls) | 61.29 | 80.95 | | 19.66 | | | | |\n| 47 | Saiyingpún, First Street (Girls) | 97.56 | 76.92 | | 20.64 | | | | |\n| 48 | Staunton Street, Upper School (Girls) | 87.60 | 96.29 | | 8.79 | | | | |\n| 49 | Lower (Girls) | 100.00 | 70.00 | 100.00 | | 100.00 | | | |\n| | P. & M., Cathedral School (Boys) | 100.00 | 83.87 | 92.30 | | 100.00 | 67.14 | Failed | 100.00 |\n| | Wesleyan Mission, Spring Gardens (Boys) | 93.10 | 51.72 | 93.66 | 77.38 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| | Wellington Street (Boys) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 90.00 | 100.00 | 95.24 |\n| | (Girls) | 83.33 | Failed | 96.55 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | |\n| | Wantsai (Girls) | 87.72 | 82.14 | | 5.58 | | | | |\n| | Staunton Street, Upper School (Girls) | 75.00 | 100.00 | | 25.00 | | | | |\n| | Basel Mission, High Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 97.62 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 94.11 | 82.35 | |\n| | Berlin Mission (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | | | | |\n| | Diocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys) | 97.05 | 93.10 | 97.05 | 94.61 | 95.24 | 100.00 | 75.00 | |\n| | Lower School (Girls) | 77.42 | 65.38 | | 12.04 | | | | |\n| | R.C.M., St. Joseph's College Chinese Division (Boys) | 96.38 | 96.38 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | | |\n| | R. C. M., Cathedral School (Boys) | 92.14 | 96.43 | | 11.29 | | | | |\n| | European Division (Boys) | 98.18 | 94.30 | | 3.88 | | | | |\n| | Italian Convent (Girls) | 58.62 | 91.49 | 91.93 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 73.33 | | |\n| | Bridges Street, Portuguese School (Mixed) | 100.00 | 96.43 | 87.87 | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | |\n| | St. Francis' Chapel, Portuguese School (Mixed) | 77.77 | 62.96 | | 14.81 | | | | |\n| | Victoria, Portuguese School (Mixed) | 100.00 | 97.22 | | 3.78 | | | | |\n| | English School (Boys) | 57.50 | 70.37 | 100.00 | 37.50 | 100.00 | 96.35 | 86.12 | |\n| | (Girls) | 85.71 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 85.71 | 100.00 | 80.00 | | |\n| | Italian Convent (Girls) | 90.00 | 88.40 | | 1.60 | | | | |\n| | Bridges Street, Portuguese School (Mixed) | 74.07 | 78.91 | | 4.84 | | | | |\n| | St. Francis Chapel, Portuguese School (Mixed) | 86.12 | 90.90 | | 4.87 | | | | |\n\n## TABLE XVI—NUMBER OF UNEDUCATED CHILDREN IN THE COLONY IN 1886.\n\nNumber of Children (6 to 16 years of age) in the Colony, say\n\n18,200\n\nAs attending 90 Schools under Government supervision in 1886, say\n\n5,844\n\nAs attending Private Schools, not under Government supervision in 1886, say\n\n2,218\n\nNumber of Uneducated Children in the Colony in 1886, say\n\n10,138\n\nE. J. EITEL, M.A., Ph.D.,\n\nInspector of Schools,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334454, "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": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 276, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "PREMIA ON LAND SALES.\n\nCompensation to the original owners of cultivated lands at Little Hongkong for loss sustained by the resumption of a portion of their ground, which was included in the large plot at Deep Bay recently sold................\n\n2. Copies of the Minutes of the Finance Committee containing my minutes asking the Council to vote these sums and the recommendations of the Committee are annexed in explanation of these votes.\n\n$600.00\n\nEnclosure No. 10.\n\n271\n\n15764 RECO\n\nREPORT OF PROCEEDINGS\n\nOF THE\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE,\n\nREGD 8 AUG 87\n\nAT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONGKONG,\n\nOn the 7th April, 1887.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Colonial Secretary, (FREDERICK STEWART), Chairman.\n\nHis Honour the Acting Chief Justice (JAMES RUSSELL), vice His Honour SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Knt., on leave.\n\nThe Honourable the Acting Attorney General, (Edward James ACKROYD).\n\nThe Colonial Treasurer, (ALFRED LISTER).\n\nThe Surveyor General, (JOHN MACNEILE PRICE).\n\nHENRY GEORGE THOMSETT, R.N.\n\nPHINEAS RYRIE.\n\nWONG SHING.\n\nJOHN BELL-IRVING, (vice the Honourable WILLIAM KESWICK, on leave).\n\nALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN, (vice the Honourable THOMAS JACKSON, on leave).\n\nCATCHICK PAUL CHATER, (vice the Honourable FREDERICK DAVID SASSOON, on leave).\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most Obedient,\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nALEXANDER CAMERON.\n\nC.S.O. 435 of 1887.\n\nC.S.O. F4 of 1881.\n\n13\n\nThe Committee meet this day at the request of the Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Report of the proceedings of the Meeting held on the 1st instant, being taken as read, is confirmed.\n\nNew Western Market.\n\n(1.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-\n\nW. H. MARSH.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government has received a proposal from the Surveyor General, which has been strongly supported by the Sanitary Board, for the reclamation of a piece of ground opposite the Sailors' Home, measuring 74,000 square feet in extent, destined, when completed, for the construction thereon of a new Western Market. The cost of this reclamation and of a Praya or Retaining Wall is estimated at $73,000, and the value of the ground to be reclaimed is estimated at $87,000. The work will require two years to complete it. The Officer Administering the Government proposes that the necessary money for this work should be taken from the premia realized on sales of Crown Land which are not included in the Revenue receipts of the Colony. The Council are therefore requested to vote a sum of $35,000 to be taken from this source for defraying the cost of the portion of the work which will be executed this year.\n\nThe Finance Committee have already been consulted in this question, and have expressed the unanimous opinion that the project should be approved.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 6th April, 1887.\n\nAfter explanation by the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.\n\nHunghom Market.\n\n(2.) Read the following Minute by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government:-\n\nW. H. MARSH.\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommends the Council to re-vote the sum of $6,000 for the construction of a Market at Hunghom.\n\nThis sum was voted in last year's Estimates, but not expended, as the work was not then finished.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 7th April, 1887.\n\nAfter explanation by the Surveyor General, the Committee recommend that the amount be voted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334548, "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": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 370, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "7. The following Table shows the number and class of vessels arrived in the Colony in 1885 and 1886 :-\n\n \n Years.\n Steamers\n Tons.\n Sailing Vessels.\n Tons.\n Junks.\n Tons.\n \n \n 1885,\n 3,084\n 3,632,051\n 344\n 234,658\n 23,674\n 1,797,222\n \n \n 1886,\n 3,963\n 4,359,906\n 288\n 211,390\n 22,971\n 1,752,868\n \n \n Increase,\n 879\n 727,855\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n Decrease,\n ...\n ...\n 56\n 23,268\n 703\n 44,354\n \n\n8. These returns do not give more information than the number of vessels and their Registered tonnage whether with cargo or in ballast, so that the actual trade with the Colony is unknown.\n\n9. Whether it is advisable that an Import and Export Office, similar to the one at Singapore, should be established at this Port is a question that the Chamber of Commerce might be disposed to consider. Such an Office would require quarters to be built, and a staff of proper Officers to perform the duties. It is a question of expense and whether such a Department, if created, would be to the advantage of the Mercantile Community. It certainly would make known what we have hitherto been in ignorance of.\n\nJUNKS.\n\n10. The junk trade for the year, excluding that with villages in the locality, shows a decrease of 703 vessels and 44,354 tons. From the Coast of China and Formosa, it is 486 vessels and 12,355 tons, and from Macao 217 vessels and 31,999 tons. The trade in junks with Canton suffered somewhat in July of last year, consequent on the additional taxation of imports and exports; but the trade is gradually resuming its former condition. The trade with Macao also dropped at the same time, consequent on the Chinese Government exacting taxes on cargoes to that place in junks, and the trade has improved but very little since, nothing but rice and coals being now conveyed in junks from Hongkong to that Settlement. This taxation has led to increased steam communication between Hongkong, Canton and Macao.\n\nEMIGRATION.\n\n11. There is an increase of 7,005 emigrants to various places during the year, the Straits Settlements showing an increase of 11,136, while there is a decrease of 3,854 Chinese to San Francisco. 2,690 Chinese left for various places in the Australian Colonies showing an increase of 343 on the previous year.\n\nREGISTRY OF SHIPPING.\n\n12. Nine vessels were registered during the year, and eight Certificates of Registry were cancelled.\n\nMARINE MAGISTRATE'S COURT.\n\n13. Fifty-eight Cases were heard in the Marine Magistrate's Court during the year.\n\nEXAMINATIONS FOR THE POSTS OF MASTERS, MATES AND ENGINEERS UNDER SECTION 15 OF ORDINANCE 8 OF 1879.\n\n14. The following Table will show the number of Candidates who passed, and who failed in obtaining Certificates of Competency :-\n\n \n GRADE.\n PASSED.\n FAILED.\n \n \n Masters,\n 2\n 6\n \n \n First Mates,\n 8\n 25\n \n \n Only Mates,\n 6\n 13\n \n \n Second Mates,\n 1\n 5\n \n \n First Class Engineers,\n 2\n 3\n \n \n Second Class Engineers,\n 20\n 31\n \n \n ...\n 5\n ...\n \n\nMARINE COURTS, UNDER SECTION 13 OF ORDINANCE 8 OF 1879.\n\n15. The following Courts have been held during the year :-\n\n1. On the 19th February, 1886,-Inquiry as to the loss of the British Steam-ship Douglas, Official No. 84,357 of Hongkong, on the White Rocks on the 11th February, 1886. The Master's (MATTHEW YOUNG) Certificate of Competency was suspended for four months.\n\n2. On the 10th March, 1886,--Inquiry as to the striking of the British Steam-ship Thames, Official No. 85,898 of Glasgow, on the South-west point of the Lyemoon Pass, on the 2nd March, 1886. The Master's (WILLIAM ARTHUR SEATON) Certificate of Competency was returned to him.\n\n3. On the 24th March, 1886,-Inquiry as to the loss of the British Barque Bothwell Castle, Official No. 47,822 of Newcastle, N.S.W., on the Reef surrounding Ngarik Island, Caroline Group, on the 21st December, 1884. There was not sufficient evidence before the Court to enable them to apportion any blame for the casualty. A Court of Inquiry was also held at Sydney on the arrival of the Master, Second Mate and two of the Crew at that Port.\n\n4. On the 1st April, 1886.--Inquiry as to the loss of the British Steam-ship Breconshire, Official No. 79,674 of London, on the White Rocks, on the 17th March, 1886. The Master's (WILLIAM EDWIN POPE) Certificate of Competency was suspended for three months.\n\n5. On the 19th April, 1886,-Inquiry as to the stranding of the British Steam-ship Venetia Official No. 68,388 of Glasgow, on Isaki Reef off Cape Tanabé, near Kobe, on the 26th March, 1886. The Master's (WILLIAM EDWARD LAWRENCE CLEMENT) Certificate of Competency was returned to him.\n\n6. On the 12th July, 1886,-Inquiry as to the loss of the British Steam-ship Compton, Official No. 77,080 of London, on the South-west side of the Island of Balabac in the Palawan Passage, on the 12th June, 1886. The Master's (MATTHEW BRYCE WALKER) Certificate of Competency was returned to him.\n\n7. On the 30th August, 1886,-Inquiry as to the loss of the British Steam-ship Madras, Official No. 70,626 of London, on a rock in the Bay within the West side of the Tai Chow Islands, on the 15th August, 1886. In the absence of the Master (HENRY PLENGE) who was washed overboard and drowned, and the Chief Mate's injuries having incapacitated him from performing his duties, there was not sufficiently good evidence to enable the Court to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion as to the exact position of the rock on which the Madras struck, nor are the courses the ship is said to have been steered, very reliable.\n\n8. On the 14th October, 1886,-Inquiry as to the stranding of the British Steam-ship Dafila, Official No. 68,501 of Sunderland, on the South Bank, Hainan Straits, China, on the 12th May, 1886. The Master's (JAMES MOONEY) Certificate of Competency was returned to him.\n\n9. On the 25th November, 1886,-Inquiry as to the stranding of the British Steam-ship Greyhound. Official No. 31,647 of London, on a reef running out from Nan Sa Point in the Gulf of Tonquin, on the 2nd November, 1886. The Master's (THOMAS ABRAHAM THOMAS) Certificate of Competency was returned to him.\n\nIn the latter Case, the Court recommended that the attention of the Chinese Government be called to the want of lights and marks in the Hainan Straits, which has led to the stranding of several vessels.\n\nSEAMEN.\n\n16. 8,589 Seamen were shipped at the shipping Office during the year, and 9,229 discharged.\n\n17. I am glad to see that provision is made in the Estimates for this year for the construction of long wanted jetty off this Office, and I trust there will be no delay in building it. The present pway answered very well when nothing but gigs were used, but it is only at certain times of the tide that a steam-launch can get in to land people, and the boats not unfrequently touch the ground to the injury of their keels and bottoms.\n\n18. Provision has also been made for making Hunghom, a \"Harbour Master's Station,\" under Section 38 of Ordinance 8 of 1879. Great inconvenience is felt by the Owners and Masters of boats frequenting that place, in having to go to Victoria or Yaumati report their arrivals and obtain their papers. This Station will, I hope, soon be ready. At present an Officer has to visit Hunghom daily, but this is attended with much loss of time, expense, and inconvenience.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART, LL.D.,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Harbour Master, &c.\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335138, "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": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 420, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "I have this day received the Secretary of State's permission, which I asked him to telegraph, to lay on the table the important report on land tenure submitted to Government by the Crown Lands Commission, which, as will be seen, has spared no pains in furnishing all the necessary information, and whose valuable suggestions will receive the most attentive consideration.\n\nFurther representations have been made to the home Government on the necessity of some decision being arrived at on the Praya Extension question.\n\nWith regard to the defences of the Colony, a detailed statement was made by me as recently as the 29th April, 1887, since which progress has been as satisfactory as the rains have permitted.\n\nWhen the guns arrive, the forts under construction can be finished in a very short time. The construction of a Breakwater on Kellett's bank, which is recognized on all sides as essential for the defence of the Western entrance of the harbour, is now under consideration, and is only a question of money.\n\nIt is gratifying to find that the important work of education continues to make steady progress. The examinations now conducted by the Cambridge Syndicate have had a powerful effect in infusing a spirit of healthy emulation into our Schools; and the most recent institution, the Medical College for Chinese, is, I trust, destined to mark an era in the educational advancement of Hongkong, and prove of incalculable benefit to the Chinese.\n\nThe financial position of the Colony is sound. At the end of August, we had a balance of nearly $600,000; upwards of half a million of dollars ($521,447) here and upwards of $90,000 ($92,307), the equivalent of £15,000, at interest in London; these £15,000 being the unexpended balance of the Loan.\n\nThe Revenue for the year was estimated at $1,291,270, and during the eight months ending August last the receipts amounted to $977,402.\n\nThe Premiums on Land Sales were estimated at $45,000, and during the first eight months of the year we received no less than $81,717.\n\nOf the Loan of £200,000, £15,000 remain unexpended.\n\nThe estimated Ordinary Expenditure was $1,245,434, and during the first eight months of the year we expended $988,337.\n\nThe Extraordinary Expenditure was estimated at $760,000, and up till the 31st August we had expended $496,385.\n\nThe only exceptional increases on expenditure were the new launch Victoria, $12,000, and the Hunghom Market $6,000.\n\nThe amount provided for Defence Works was $696,000, of which $496,083 have been expended. It must be remembered that when the loan of £200,000 was voted, the home Government had only asked for £56,000 for the Fortifications, afterwards increased to £116,000, leaving us short by £60,000 of the sum required for other public works—yet additional loans and rates have been dispensed with, and the opponents of the Spirit Farm, relying on the elasticity of the revenue from existing sources, have so far been justified, and it is hoped may be so in the future.\n\nIn conclusion, Honourable Gentlemen, I wish to thank you before we separate for your valuable assistance in the legislative business brought before you, and your unvarying courtesy and friendly feeling on all occasions and under all circumstances, whatever differences of opinion may have sometimes arisen on public questions.\n\nI have also to thank you for the supplies so liberally voted for the Public service, and for the sum you have this day allowed to be appropriated to supplement the very handsome public subscription to the Jubilee Fund and enable the loyal people of this Colony to worthily celebrate the 50th Anniversary of their beloved Sovereign's accession to the throne.\n\nI now declare the Session to be closed.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n28 Nov. 1887\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch, No. 342 of the 10th of October, and to convey to you my approval of the appropriation of $62,500 for the purpose of celebrating the Jubilee.\n\nHer Majesty's Government have sanctioned the appropriation of $25,000.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\n\n*TH\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong\n\nPage 420\n\nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337285, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "## 314\n\n(recently placed under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme) took up those same special subjects. The Victoria English Schools came out strongest in this respect, gaining the proportionately largest number of passes, in Book-keeping (Turner's Commercial Guide and Hunter's Civil Service Examination Questions), Algebra, Euclid, and Physical Geography. St. Joseph's College also distinguished itself both by the number of higher subjects taken up (adding Findlater's Astronomy to the other subjects), and by the thoroughness in which these subjects were taught. The increase in the expenditure, thus caused, made it necessary to subject all the various Classes of Schools to a uniform reduction of the grants nominally earned. There was no injustice in including under this reduction also the Schools in Class I and III, because both those Classes of Schools, but especially the Chinese Schools in Class I, being comparatively inexpensive Schools, had all along an undue advantage annually earning from three fourths to nine tenths of their actual expenditure, whilst Schools in Class IV generally earn a grant covering, at the best, one fourth or one third of their expenses.\n\n19. The Needle work Examination was conducted on the plan adopted several years ago which now appears to work satisfactorily. Greater strictness has been exercised in 1887 in excluding from examination, after timely previous warning, any kind of needle work which did not come clearly under the denomination of plain sewing. The aim is to encourage domestic and practically useful needle-work rather than decorative and fancy work.\n\n20. Arrangements have been made, during the year 1887, to award the Hongkong Government Scholarship henceforth on the basis of written examinations conducted by the Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, the Inspector of Schools acting as Local Presiding Examiner. Opportunity was also taken of this measure, which is virtually another effect of the introduction in the Colony of the above-mentioned Cambridge Local Examinations, to remodel the conditions of the Hongkong Government Scholarship in other respects.\n\n21. I enclose the usual Tables, I to XVI, containing the Educational Statistics for the year 1887.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n**TABLE 1-NUMBER OF SCHOLARS attending School subject to Government Supervision during 1887**\n\n| Native School (Govt.) | Native School (Aided) | Grant-in-Aid School | Name of School |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 37 | + | American Board Mission, Bridges Street (Boys) |\n| | | + | Station Street (Boys), Hinglung Lane (Boys) |\n| | | T | Aplichau |\n| | | | Queen's Road West (Boys) |\n| | 7 | ** | Basel Mission, High Street (Girls) |\n| | 8 | | Shamshulpo (Boys) |\n| | | | Berlin Mission (Girls) |\n| 10 | 11 | IL | Central School (Boys) |\n| 12 | 34 | | Poltinger Street (Boys) |\n| 13 | 31 | | |\n| | | yg | |\n| | | 17 | |\n| | 74 | | |\n| | 27 | | |\n| | => | | |\n| | | 20 | |\n| | | 21 | |\n| | | 22 | |\n| | 17 | | |\n| | W | | |\n| | 28 | | C. M. S., St. Stephen's 1. Division (Boys) |\n| | | | Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys) |\n| | | | Salyingptún (Boys) |\n| | | | St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls) |\n| | | | Lyndhurst Ferraro (Girls) |\n| | | | Third Street (Girls) |\n| | | | Yaumati (Mixed) |\n| | | | Hunghow (Boys) |\n| | | | Diocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys) |\n| | | | F. E. S., Bonham Road (Girls) |\n| | 20 | | Hoktsui |\n| | | | Hokün |\n| | | | High Street (Girls) |\n| | | | Queen's Road (Girls) |\n| | | | Hollywood Road (Girls) |\n| | | | Pottinger Street (Girls) |\n| | | | Stanley School (Girls) |\n| | | | Shaukiwán |\n| 30 | | | Hongkong Public School (Boys) |\n| | | | Hunghom |\n| | | | Little Hongkong |\n| | | | L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys) |\n| | | | Wantoni (Boys) |\n| | | | Shekt'ongtsui (Boys) |\n| | | | Salyingpin I. Division (Boys) |\n| | JI | | (Boys) |\n| | | | Hunghom (Boys) |\n| | | | Aberdeen Street (Girls) |\n| | | | Shekongtsui (Girls) |\n| | | | Kau-ü-fong (Girls) |\n| | | | Ship Street (Girls) |\n| | | | Stanley Street (Girls) |\n| | | | East Street (Boys) |\n| 71 | F! | | Lower Lascar Row (Girls) |\n| | | | Tanglungchau (Girls) |\n| | | | Tairingslum Chapel (Girls) |\n| | | | Salyingpin First Street (Girls) |\n| | | | Wantsai (Girls) |\n| | | | Staunton Street Upper School (Girls) |\n| | | | Lower (Girls) |\n| 31 | | | |\n| 32 | | | year 1887 |\n| 33 | 3+ | | |\n| 12 | 35 | +7 | Yaunti (Boys) |\n| * | 21 | 50 | |\n| | 71 | 51 | E. J. EITEL, M.A., Ph. D., Inspector of Schools |\n| 52 | 3 | | |\n| | | | Mát'auch'ung |\n| 54 | | | Máriaustin |\n| 55 | | | Mongkok |\n| 56 | 7 | | New Village (Little Hongkong) |\n| | | | Nampakhong Tokwáwau (Boys) |\n| 58 | | | Pokfulmu |\n| 59 | | | R. C. M., Cathedral School (Boys) |\n| M | | | |\n| 61 | } | | |\n| 62 | } | | |\n| 63 | }} | | |\n| G | GF | | |\n| 11 | 67 | | Bridges Street, Poor School (Girls) |\n| | | | St. Joseph's College Chinese Division (Boys) |\n| | European # | | |\n| | | | Italian Convent (Girls) |\n| | | | (Boys) |\n| | | | Bridges Street Portuguese School (Mixed) |\n| | | | St. Francis Chapel, Portuguese School (Mixed) |\n| | | | Victoria Portuguese School (Mixed) |\n| 65 | | | English School (Boys) |\n| | (Girls) | | |\n| 69 | | | Sayingpan (English) |\n| 70 | (Punti) | | |\n| 71 | (Hakka) | | |\n| 72 | | | Shalwin |\n| 73 | | | Shaukiwán |\n| 7-1 | | | Sheko |\n| 76 | | | |\n| 77 | | | St. Paul's College Anglo-Chinese (Boys) |\n| 78 | | | Stanley |\n| 79 | | | Taitantuk |\n| 80 | | | Taiwongkang |\n| $1 | | | Tanglungchau (Hakko) |\n| | 19 | | (Punti) |\n| N1 | | | Tokwawan (Eastern Village) |\n| $5 | | | (Western Village) |\n| 86 | | | Tsatiszemúi |\n| $7 | | | Wantsai (English) |\n| S8 | | | (Chinese) |\n| | | | Wesleyan Mission, Spring Gardens (Boys) |\n| > | | | Wellington Street (Boys) |\n| 80 | | | |\n| 90 | | | Wongkoktaui |\n| 92 | | | Wongmakok |\n| 93 | | | Wougnaichung |\n| 94 | | | Yaumati |\n| | (Girls) | | |\n| 127 | 215 | 117 | Total |\n| 32 | 100 | 42 | |\n| | 601 | 868 | 310 |\n| | 4,100 | 5,971 | 40 |\n| | 65 | 70 | 76 |\n| | 36 | 47 | 20 |\n| | 18 | | |\n\nThe Hon. FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D.,\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337286, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "## TABLE II—PROPORTION of SCHOLARS to POPULATION in the CITY of VICTORIA and in the VILLAGES in 1887.\n\n### CITY AND HARBOUR OF VICTORIA.\n\nPopulation as estimated in 1887, about 181,900 souls (exclusive of Army and Navy).\n\n### CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS UNDER GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION, IN THE CITY OF VICTORIA.\n\n| No. | Name of School | Boys | Girls | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. | American Board Mission, Bridges Street (Boys) | 52 | | 52 |\n| 2. | Aplichou, Station Street (Boys) | 54 | | 54 |\n| 3. | Basel Mission, Shamshuipo (Boys) | 61 | | 61 |\n| 4. | Basel Mission, Ringlung Lane (Boys) | 34 | | 34 |\n| 5. | C. M. S., Hungbom (Boys) | 71 | | 71 |\n| 6. | C. M. S., St. Stephen's I Division (Boys) | 86 | | 86 |\n| 7. | Central School, Queen's Road West (Boys) | 601 | | 601 |\n| 8. | F. E. S., Shankiwán (Girls) | | 46 | 46 |\n| 9. | Berlin Mission (Girls) | | 27 | 27 |\n| 10. | Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys) | 114 | | 114 |\n| 11. | Government Central School, Pottinger Street (Boys) | 59 | | 59 |\n| 12. | L. M. S., Hingbom (Boys) | 78 | | 78 |\n| 13. | St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls) | | 46 | 46 |\n| 14. | Lyndhurst Terrace (Girls) | | 32 | 32 |\n| 15. | Third Street (Girls) | | 40 | 40 |\n| 16. | Diocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys) | 62 | | 62 |\n| 17. | F. E. S., Bonham Road (Girls) | | 33 | 33 |\n| 18. | L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys) | 100 | | 100 |\n| 19. | Matanchang, | 20 | | 20 |\n| 20. | Matau ts'ün, | 24 | | 24 |\n| 21. | Mongkok, | 51 | | 51 |\n| 22. | Nampakhong, Tokwáwán (Boys) | 18 | | 18 |\n| 23. | New Village (Little Hongkong) | 31 | | 31 |\n| 24. | Pokfulam, | 7 | | 7 |\n| 25. | Pottinger Street (Girls) | | 47 | 47 |\n| 26. | Shaiwan, | 15 | | 15 |\n| 27. | Shaukiwán, | 55 | | 55 |\n| 28. | Saiyingp'un I Division (Boys) | 96 | | 96 |\n| 29. | Sheko, | 22 | | 22 |\n| 30. | Saiyingp'un II Division (Boys) | 108 | | 108 |\n| 31. | Stanley, | 12 | | 12 |\n| 32. | Aberdeen Street (Girls) | | 65 | 65 |\n| 33. | Tallám tuk, | | | |\n| 34. | Kan-ü-fong (Girls) | | 93 | 93 |\n| 35. | Tanglungchau (Hakka) | 60 | | 60 |\n| 36. | Ship Street (Girls) | | 70 | 70 |\n| 37. | (Punti) | | | |\n| 38. | East Street (Boys) | 43 | | 43 |\n| 39. | Stanley Street (Girls) | | 80 | 80 |\n| 40. | Lower Lascar Row (Girls) | | 31 | 31 |\n| 41. | Tokwáwán (Eastern Village) | 23 | | 23 |\n| 42. | (Western Village) | 31 | | 31 |\n| 43. | Ts'attszemúi | 14 | | 14 |\n| 44. | Tip'ingshan Chapel (Girls) | | 65 | 65 |\n| 45. | Wongkoktsui | 2 | | 2 |\n| 46. | Saiying'an First Street (Girls) | | 70 | 70 |\n| 47. | Wongmakok | | 31 | 31 |\n| 48. | Wantsai (Girls) | | 76 | 76 |\n| 49. | Wongnaichung | 40 | | 40 |\n| 50. | Yaumati | 42 | | 42 |\n| 51. | Staunton Street Upper School (Girls) | | 17 | 17 |\n| 52. | B. C. M., Cathedral School (Boys) | 38 | | 38 |\n| 53. | Bridges Street, Poor School (Girls) | | 15 | 15 |\n| 54. | Italian Convent (Girls) | | 71 | 71 |\n| 55. | Bridges Street, Portuguese School (Mixed) | | | |\n| 56. | St. Francis Chapel, Portuguese School (Mixed) | | | |\n| 57. | Victoria, Portuguese School (Mixed) | | | |\n\n### VILLAGES.\n\nPopulation, including Boat Population, as per Census of 1881.\n\n### CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS UNDER GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION, IN VILLAGES.\n\n## TABLE III—NUMBER of SCHOLARS at the GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS during 1887 and EXPENSES of each SCHOOL.\n\n| No. | Name of School | Boys | Girls | Total | Expense |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Aplichau | 54 | | 54 | |\n| 2 | Central School | 601 | | 601 | $11,872.70 |\n| 3 | Hoktsui | 30 | | 30 | |\n| 4 | Iokün | 18 | | 18 | |\n| 5 | Hunghom | 71 | | 71 | |\n| 6 | Little Hongkong | 32 | | 32 | |\n| 7 | Mattauch'ung | 20 | | 20 | |\n| 8 | Mát auts'ün | 24 | | 24 | |\n| 9 | Mongkok | 51 | | 51 | |\n| 10 | New Village (Little Hongkong) | 31 | | 31 | |\n| 11 | Pokfulam | 7 | | 7 | |\n| 12 | Saiyingpun (English) | 89 | | 89 | |\n| 13 | Saiyingpun (Punti) | 96 | | 96 | |\n| 14 | Saiyingpun (Hakka) | 63 | | 63 | |\n| 15 | Shaiwan | 15 | | 15 | |\n| 16 | Shaukiwán | 55 | | 55 | |\n| 17 | Sheko | 22 | | 22 | |\n| 18 | Sheungwan (Boys) | 108 | | 108 | |\n| 19 | Stanley | 12 | | 12 | |\n| 20 | Táitámluk | | | | |\n| 21 | Taiwongkung | 63 | | 63 | $323.50 |\n| 22 | Tanglungchau (Hakka) | 60 | | 60 | $120.00 |\n| 23 | Tokwáwán (Eastern Village) | 23 | | 23 | $60.00 |\n| 24 | Tokwáwán (Western Village) | 31 | | 31 | $60.00 |\n| 25 | Ts'attszemúi | 14 | | 14 | $60.00 |\n| 26 | Wantsai (English) | 172 | | 172 | |\n| 27 | Wongkoktsui | 2 | | 2 | |\n| 28 | Wongnaichung | 40 | | 40 | |\n| 29 | Yaumati | 62 | | 62 | |\n| | TOTAL | 1,723 | 91 | 1,814 | $17,608.13 |\n\n## TABLE IV.—AVERAGE EXPENSES of each SCHOLAR or STUDENT at the Government Schools during the Year 1887.\n\n**GOVERNMENT CENTRAL SCHOOL.**\n\nExpenditure, $11,872.70\n\nAverage Expense of each Scholar at Government Central School, $19.75\n\n**GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS AND AIDED SCHOOLS.**\n\nExpenditure, $5,735.43\n\nAverage Expense of each Scholar at other Government Schools, $6.41\n\nAverage Expense of each Scholar at Government Aided Schools, $3.01\n\n## TABLE V—AVERAGE MONTHLY ENROLMENT and DAILY ATTENDANCE at the Government Schools for 1887.\n\n| Name of School | Average Monthly Enrolment | Average Daily Attendance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Aplichau | 54 | 38.68 |\n| Central School | 601 | 477.56 |\n| Hoktsui | 30 | 33.12 |\n| Hunghom | 71 | 44.96 |\n| Little Hongkong | 32 | 30.16 |\n| Mattauch'ung | 20 | 13.66 |\n| Mát auts'ün | 24 | 24.00 |\n| Mongkok | 51 | 18.08 |\n| New Village (Little Hongkong) | 31 | 9.50 |\n| Pokfulam | 7 | 3.66 |\n| Saiyingpun (English) | 89 | 69.00 |\n| Saiyingpun (Punti) | 96 | 38.83 |\n| Saiyingpun (Hakka) | 63 | 24.00 |\n| Shaiwan | 15 | 10.75 |\n| Shaukiwán | 55 | 33.66 |\n| Sheko | 22 | 19.38 |\n| Sheungwan (Boys) | 108 | 35.41 |\n| Stanley | 12 | 38.76 |\n| Taiwongkung | 63 | 37.16 |\n| Tanglungchau (Hakka) | 60 | 35.83 |\n| Tokwáwán (Eastern Village) | 23 | 23.66 |\n| Tokwáwán (Western Village) | 31 | 17.83 |\n| Ts'attszemúi | 14 | 9.75 |\n| Wantsai (English) | 172 | 173.91 |\n| Wongkoktsui | 2 | ... |\n| Wongnaichung | 40 | ... |\n| Yaumati | 62 | ... |\n| TOTAL | 1,185 | ... |\n| St. Joseph's College, Chinese Division (Boys) | 127 | ... |\n| European (Boys) | 215 | ... |\n| English (Girls) | 117 | ... |\n| Saiyingpin (English) | 89 | ... |\n| (Punti) | 63 | ... |\n| (Hakka) | 52 | ... |\n| Sheungwin (Boys) | 91 | ... |\n| St. Paul's College, Anglo-Chinese (Boys) | 63 | ... |\n| Taiwongkung | 172 | ... |\n| Wantsai (English) | 67 | ... |\n| (Chinese) | 32 | ... |\n| Wesleyan Mission, Spring Gardens (Boys) | 115 | ... |\n| Wellington Street (Boys) | 29 | ... |\n| (Girls) | ... | ... |\n| TOTAL | 4,789 | ... |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337287, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "## TABLE VI.-MAXIMUM and MINIMUM ENROLMENT and DAILY ATTENDANCE at the Government Schools during 1887,\n\n| Name of School | Maximum Monthly Enrolment | Minimum Monthly Enrolment | Maximum Daily Attendance (monthly average) | Minimum Daily Attendance (monthly average) |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n## TABLE VIII-SUMMARY of Enrolment and ATTENDANCE at the GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS for the last twenty-five Years,\n\n| Years | Maximum Monthly Enrolment | Minimum Monthly Enrolment | Maximum Daily Attendance (Monthly Average) | Minimum Daily Attendance (Monthly Average) | Total Enrolment for the Year |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1864 | 535 | 469 | 414 | 301 | ... |\n| 1865 | 597 | 535 | 418 | 330 | ... |\n| 1866 | 623 | 572 | 435 | 337 | ... |\n| 1867 | 700 | 610 | 533 | 408 | ... |\n| 1868 | 916 | 664 | 672 | 460 | ... |\n| 1869 | 942 | 748 | 627 | 504 | ... |\n| 1870 | 1,302 | 950 | 683 | 556 | ... |\n| 1871 | 1,292 | 937 | 741 | 571 | ... |\n| 1872 | 1,480 | 1,157 | 837 | 665 | ... |\n| 1873 | 1,838 | 1,326 | 852 | 760 | ... |\n| 1874 | 1,982 | 1,271 | 974 | 836 | ... |\n| 1875 | 1,927 | 1,312 | 988 | 863 | ... |\n| 1876 | 2,171 | 1,383 | 1,037 | 925 | ... |\n| 1877 | 2,148 | 1,446 | 1,212 | 1,035 | ... |\n| 1878 | 2,101 | 1,924 | 1,100 | 936 | ... |\n| 1879 | 2,043 | 1,356 | 1,027 | 904 | ... |\n| 1880 | 2,078 | 1,468 | 1,082 | 937 | ... |\n| 1881 | 1,986 | 1,394 | 1,093 | 956 | ... |\n| 1882 | 2,114 | 1,444 | 1,062 | 988 | ... |\n| 1883 | 2,080 | 1,414 | 1,138 | 990 | ... |\n| 1884 | 1,978 | 1,420 | 1,066 | 941 | ... |\n| 1885 | 1,988 | 1,424 | 1,061 | 926 | ... |\n| 1886 | 1,893 | 1,544 | 1,040 | 886 | ... |\n| 1887 | 1,814 | 1,552 | 1,126 | 1,000 | ... |\n\n## TABLE IX.-ENROLMENT and ATTENDANCE at the CENTRAL SCHOOL during 1887.\n\n| Month | Number of Scholars | Number of Attendances | Number of School Days | Average Daily Attendance |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| January | 417 | 5,700 | 14 | 407.14 |\n| February | 519 | 4,587 | 9 | 509.60 |\n| March | 525 | 13,386 | 27 | 495.78 |\n| April | 518 | 8,314 | 17 | 489.06 |\n| May | 509 | 11,493 | 24 | 478.87 |\n| June | 498 | 11,017 | 24 | 459.01 |\n| July | 471 | 11,609 | 26 | 446.50 |\n| August | 449 | 1,767 | 4 | 441.75 |\n| September | 470 | 9,864 | 22 | 448.36 |\n| October | 467 | 10,059 | 23 | 437.85 |\n| November | 455 | 9,143 | 22 | 415.59 |\n| December | 433 | 8,287 | 22 | 376.68 |\n| Total | ... | 105,226 | 234 | ... |\n\n## TABLE VII-NUMBER of DAYS on which the GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS were taught during 1887.\n\n| Name of School | School Days |\n| --- | --- |\n| Aplichau | 243 |\n| Central School | 234 |\n| Hoktsui | 247 |\n| Hokün | 252 |\n| Hunghom | 258 |\n| Little Hongkong | 250 |\n| Mat'auch'ung | 263 |\n| Mat'ants'ün | ... |\n| Mongkok | 254 |\n| New Village (Little Hongkong) | 240 |\n| Pokfulam | 232 |\n| Saiyingpún (English) | 241 |\n| Saiyingpún (Hakka) | 242 |\n| Saiyingpún (Punti) | 241 |\n| Sháiwán | 250 |\n| Sháukiwán | 252 |\n| Sheko | 254 |\n| Sheungwán (Boys) | 246 |\n| Sheungwán (Girls) | 224 |\n| Stanley | 245 |\n| Táiwongkung | 242 |\n| Taitamtuk | 217 |\n| Tanglungchau (Hakka) | 246 |\n| Tanglungchau (Punti) | 241 |\n| Tokwáwán (Eastern Village) | 250 |\n| Tokwáwán (Western Village) | 256 |\n| Ts'attszemúi | 250 |\n| Wantsai (English) | 241 |\n| Wantsai (Chinese) | 241 |\n| Wongkoktsui | 251 |\n| Wongmákok | 252 |\n| Wongnaich'ung | 234 |\n| Yaumáti | 235 |\n\n## TABLE X.-GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS (CENTRAL SCHOOL excepted) arranged in the order of their efficiency.\n\n### Rank I\n\n1. Wongnaichung, Anglo-Chinese School\n2. Yaumáti, Anglo-Chinese School\n3. Tanglungchau, Hakka Division\n4. Tanglungchau, Punti Division\n\n### Rank II\n\n1. Shéungwán, Girls School (Punti)\n2. Sheungwán, Boys School (Punti)\n3. Little Hongkong, Punti School\n4. Sheko, Punti School\n5. Tokwáwán, Punti School\n6. Aplichau, Punti School\n7. Wongkoktsui, Hakka School\n8. Tokwáwán, Hakka School\n9. Sháukiwán, Punti School\n10. Sháiwán, Hakka School\n11. Ts'attszemúi, Hakka School\n12. Hunghom, Hakka School\n13. Mat'auch'ung, Hakka School\n14. Saiyingpún, Chinese (Punti) Division\n15. Hoktsui, Hakka School\n16. Wongmákok, Hakka School\n17. Mongkok, Hakka School\n18. Saiyingpún, Hakka School\n19. New Village (Little Hongkong), Punti School\n20. Taitamtuk, Hakka School\n21. Pokfulam, Punti School\n22. Hokün, Hakka School", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337288, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 319, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Class of School \nI.\n\n317\n\n## TABLE XI-NUMBER of SCHOLARS attending Schools receiving GRANTS-IN-AID (under the Provisions of the Scheme of 1883), Expenses incurred and amount of Grant gained by each, in 1887.\n\n| Name of School | Boys | Girls | Total | Expenses incurred in 1887 | Amount of Grant gained for 1887 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| American Board Mission, Bridges Street (Boys) | 75 | | 75 | | |\n| Station Street (Boys), Hinglung Lane (Boys), Queen's Road West (Boys) | 51 | | 51 | | |\n| Basel Mission, Shamshuipò School (Boys) | | | | | |\n| C. M. S., St. Stephen's I. Division (Boys) | 35 | | 35 | | |\n| Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys), Pottinger Street (Boys), Saiyingp'ún (Boys) | 37 | | 37 | | |\n| St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls) | | 13 | 13 | | |\n| Lyndhurst Terrace (Girls) | | 25 | 25 | | |\n| Third Street (Girls) | | 1 | 1 | | |\n| Yaumáti (Mixed) | | 1 | 1 | | |\n| Hunghom (Boys) | 21 | | 21 | | |\n| F. E. S., Bonham Road (Girls) | | 45 | 45 | | |\n| High Street (Girls), Queen's Road (Girls) | | 31 | 31 | | |\n| Hollywood Road (Girls), Pottinger Street (Girls), Stanley School (Girls), Shaukiwán (Girls) | | | | | |\n| L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys) | 23 | | 23 | | |\n| Wántsai (Boys) | | | | | |\n| Yaumáti (Boys) | 55 | | 55 | | |\n| Shektongtsui (Boys) | | | | | |\n| Saiyingpún I. Division (Boys) | 32 | | 32 | | |\n| Aberdeen Street (Girls) | | 19 | 19 | | |\n| Kau-ü-fong (Girls) | | 13 | 13 | | |\n| Ship Street (Girls) | | 17 | 17 | | |\n| East Street (Boys) | | | | | |\n| Shektongtsui (Girls) | | 51 | 51 | | |\n| Stanley Street (Girls) | | 1 | 1 | | |\n| Lower Lascar Row (Girls) | | 27 | 27 | | |\n| Tanglungchau (Girls) | | 37 | 37 | | |\n| Taipingshan Chapel (Girls) | | 12 | 12 | | |\n| Saiyingpún, First Street (Girls) | | | | | |\n| Wántsai (Girls) | | | | | |\n| Staunton Street, Upper School (Girls), Lower | | | | | |\n| Nampakhong, Tôkwâwán (Boys) | 3 | | 3 | | |\n| R. C. M., Cathedral School (Boys) | 77 | | 77 | | |\n| Bridges Street, Poor School (Girls) | | 31 | 31 | | |\n| Wesleyan Mission, Spring Gardens (Boys) | 57 | | 57 | | |\n| Wellington Street (Boys), (Girls) | | | | | |\n| Basel Mission, High Street (Girls) | | 23 | 23 | | |\n| Berlin Mission (Girls) | | | | | |\n| Diocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys) | 55 | | 55 | | |\n| St. Paul's College, Anglo-Chinese (Boys) | | | | | |\n| Hongkong Public School (Boys) | 126 | | 126 | | |\n| R. C. M., St. Joseph's College, Chinese Division (Boys) | 215 | | 215 | | |\n| St. Joseph's College, European Division (Boys) | 176 | | 176 | | |\n| Italian Convent (Girls) | | 102 | 102 | | |\n| Bridges St., Portuguese School (Mixed) | | | | | |\n| St. Francis Chapel, Portuguese School (Mixed) | | | | | |\n| Victorin, Portuguese School (Mixed) | | | | | |\n| English School (Boys) | 70 | | 70 | 667.47 | 336.80 |\n| (Girls) | | 31 | 31 | 338.19 | 540.35 |\n| | | 40 | 40 | 284.05 | 469.44 |\n| | | | | ... | ... |\n\n## TABLE XII-ENROLMENT, ATTENDANCE and NUMBER of SCHOOL DAYS at the GRANT-IN-AID Schools during 1887.\n\n| Name of School | Monthly Enrolment | Daily Attendance | Average Attendance | Number of School Days |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| American Board Mission, Bridges Street (Boys) | 74.91 | 49.04 | 68.25 | 61.41 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\nII.\n\n| Name of School | Monthly Enrolment | Daily Attendance | Average Attendance | Number of School Days | Expenses incurred in 1887 | Amount of Grant gained for 1887 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Hunghom (Boys) | 70.63 | 40.29 | 69.45 | 57.74 | 460.70 | 201.10 |\n| Yaumáti (Boys) | 55.73 | 46.88 | 51.65 | 45.87 | 717.01 | 90.00 |\n| L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys) | 63.37 | 36.76 | 68.27 | 49.12 | 479.99 | 24.00 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| Hongkong Public School (Boys) | 83.21 | 48.07 | 69.27 | 60.00 | 8,263.00 | 2,726.42 |\n| R. C. M., St. Joseph's College, Chinese Division (Boys) | 114.41 | 113.79 | ... | ... | 6,013.41 | 2,726.42 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337289, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 320, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "## TABLE XIV. PERCENTAGE of Scholars who passed in the GRANT-IN-AID SCHOOLS during the last two Years,\n\n| No. | Name of School | 1887 | 1886 | Increase, Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | American Board Mission, Bridges Street (Boys), Station Street (Boys)... Hinglung Lane (Boys), | 80.00 | 51.38 | 28.62 |\n| | Queen's Road West (Boys), | 74.57 | 97.61 | -23.04 |\n| 2 | | 67.69 | 95.23 | -27.54 |\n| | | 90.90 | | |\n| 5 | Basel Mission, Shamehuipe School (Boys).......... | 80.00 | 100.00 | -20.00 |\n| 6 | C. M. S., St. Stephen's I Division (Boys), | 92.68 | 97.57 | -4.89 |\n| | II Division (Boys) | 79.00 | 87.17 | -8.17 |\n| | Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys), | 98.43 | 80.30 | 18.13 |\n| 7 | Pottinger Street (Boys), | 83.33 | 92.59 | -9.26 |\n| | Salyinp'un (Boys), | 82.85 | 88.57 | -5.72 |\n| | St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls), | 88.88 | 100.00 | -11.12 |\n| | Lyndhurst Terrace (Girls), ..... | 70.58 | 100.00 | -29.42 |\n| | Third Street (Girls), | 82.14 | 79.31 | 2.83 |\n| 11 | Taumáti (Mixed). | ... | ... | ... |\n| | Hunghòm (Boys), | 73.33 | 100.00 | -26.67 |\n| | F. E. S., Bonham Road (Girls), | 95.28 | 45.45 | 49.83 |\n| | High Street (Girls), | 100.00 | 78.26 | 21.74 |\n| | Queen's Road (Girls), | 74.07 | 90.90 | -16.83 |\n| | Hollywood Road (Girls), | 100.00 | 45.45 | 54.55 |\n| | Pottinger Street (Girls) | 96.00 | 92.84 | 3.16 |\n| | Stanley School (Girls), | 86.95 | 95.00 | -8.05 |\n| | Shaukiwán (Girls), ... | 90.00 | 90.00 | 0.00 |\n| | L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys), | 97.36 | 92.13 | 5.23 |\n| | Wantsai (Boys), | 94.52 | 88.23 | 6.29 |\n| | Yaumáti (Boys). | 88.00 | 82.05 | 5.95 |\n| | Shektongtsui (Boys), | 50.52 | 98.04 | -47.52 |\n| | Saiyiup'ún I Division (Boys), | 94.03 | 66.66 | 27.37 |\n| | II Hunghom (Boys), | 71.54 | 90.00 | -18.46 |\n| | Shaktongtsui (Girls), | 91.42 | 86.66 | 4.76 |\n| | Aberdeen Street (Girls), | 85.71 | 100.00 | -14.29 |\n| | Kan-t-fong (Girls) | 80.55 | 76.71 | 3.84 |\n| 34 | L. M. S., Ship Street (Girls). | 67.89 | 90.19 | -22.30 |\n| | East Street (Boys), | 86.84 | 89.47 | -2.63 |\n| | Stanley Street (Girls). | 100.00 | 100.00 | 0.00 |\n| | Lower Lascar Row (Girls), | 50.00 | 90.47 | -40.47 |\n| | Tanglungchau (Girls), | 86.66 | 100.00 | -13.34 |\n| 38 | Taipingshan Chapel (Girls),.... | 82.22 | 97.56 | -15.34 |\n| 39 | Salyingpuu First Street (Girls), | 92.15 | 87.50 | 4.65 |\n| 40 | Wantsai (Girls), | 91.83 | 87.72 | 4.11 |\n| 41 | Staunton Street, Upper School (Girls), | 92.30 | 75.00 | 17.30 |\n| 42 | Lower School (Girls), | 70.83 | 77.42 | -6.59 |\n| 43 | Nampakhong Tökwáwán (Boys), | 92.85 | ... | ... |\n| 44 | R. C. M., Cathedral School (Boys), | 84.00 | 82.14 | 1.86 |\n| | Bridges Street Poor School (Girls), | 100.00 | ... | ... |\n| 46 | Wesleyan Mission, Spring Gardens (Boys), | 85.00 | 58.62 | 26.38 |\n| | Wellington Street (Boys), | 91.66 | 85.33 | 6.33 |\n| | (Girls), | 88.94 | 77.77 | 11.17 |\n| 49 | Basel Mission, High Street (Girls),... | 100.00 | 100.00 | 0.00 |\n| 50 | Berlin Mission (Girls), | 88.88 | 97.05 | -8.17 |\n| 51 | Diocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys), | 97.82 | 94.11 | 3.71 |\n| 52 | St. Paul's College Anglo-Chinese (Boys), | 90.62 | ... | ... |\n| 53 | Hongkong Public School (Boys),. | 96.96 | ... | ... |\n| 54 | R. C. M., St. Joseph's College, Chinese Division (Boys),... | 95.18 | 95.00 | 0.18 |\n| 55 | European Division (Boys),.. | 98.34 | 98.18 | 0.16 |\n| 56 | Italian Convent (Girls), | 93.67 | 90.00 | 3.67 |\n| 57 | Bridges Street Portuguese School, (Mixed), | 93.33 | 100.00 | -6.67 |\n| 59 | St. Francis Chapel Portuguese School (Mixed),....... | 100.00 | 74.07 | 25.93 |\n| 60 | Victoria, Portuguese School (Mixed),.. | 97.22 | 86.12 | 11.10 |\n| 61 | English School (Boys), | 100.00 | 90.00 | 10.00 |\n| | (Girls) | 95.83 | 89.47 | 6.36 |\n\n## TABLE XIII.-RESULTS of the EXAMINATION of the GRANT-IN-AID SCHOOLS in 1887, under the provisions of the Scheme of 15th September, 1883.\n\n| Name of School | No. of Scholars Presented | No. of Scholars Examined | Standard I | Standard II | Standard III | Standard IV | Standard V | Standard VI | Total Passed | Total Failed | Average Daily Attendance during School Year | Suns to which the School is entitled | Needle Work | Special Subject, under Regulations No. 22 of Grant-in-Aid Code | Capitation Grant | Total Grant earned in 1887 | Amount of Reduction | Amount Payable |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| American Board Mission, Bridges' Street (Boys),.................. | 21 | 18 | | | | | 12 | 6 | 18 | | 132 | 12 | | | | 189.00 | | |\n| Queen's Road West, (Boys)...... | 8 | 7 | | | | | | 7 | 7 | | 28 | 2 | | | | 60.80 | | |\n| Basel Mission, Shamshuipo, School, (Boys), | 18 | 16 | | | | | 16 | | 16 | | 93 | 8 | | | | 108.60 | 25.90 | 82.70 |\n| C. M. S., St. Stephen's I Division, (Boys), | 47 | 41 | | | | | | 41 | 41 | | 447 | 84 | | | | 565.38 | 141.34 | 424.04 |\n| Baxter Memorial, (Girls). | 9 | 8 | | | | | 8 | | 8 | | | | Good | | | 77.70 | | |\n| Lyndhurst Terrace. (Boys), | 64 | 63 | | | | | | 63 | 63 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Pottinger Street, (Boys), | 18 | 15 | | | | | 15 | | 15 | | 124 | 12 | | | | 124.01 | 3.16 | 120.85 |\n| Lyndhurst Terrace. (Girls), | 17 | 12 | | | | | 12 | | 12 | | | | Good | | | | | |\n| Third Street, (Girls), | 28 | 23 | | | | | 23 | | 23 | | 227 | 21 | Fair | | | 227.51 | 5.15 | 222.36 |\n| Faumáti, (Mixed), | 16 | 14 | | | | | 14 | | 14 | | | | | | | | | |\n| F. E. S. Bonham Road, (Girls), | 11 | 10 | | | | | 10 | | 10 | | 59 | 5 | Good | | | 59.14 | | |\n| Queen's Road, (Girls), | 27 | 20 | | | | | 20 | | 20 | | 179 | 16 | Good | | | 179.96 | 4.12 | 175.84 |\n| Hollywood Road, (Girls), | 11 | 11 | | | | | 11 | | 11 | | 48 | 4 | Good | | | 48.20 | | |\n| Pottinger Street (Girls), | 25 | 24 | | | | | 24 | | 24 | | 109 | 10 | Good | | | 109.15 | | |\n| Stanley School, (Girls), | 23 | 20 | | | | | 20 | | 20 | | 310 | 28 | Good | | | 310.15 | | |\n| Shaukiwan, (Girls), | 10 | 9 | | | | | 9 | | 9 | | | | | | | | | |\n| L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys), | 38 | 37 | | | | | | 37 | 37 | | 404 | 37 | | | | 404.77 | 178.49 | 226.28 |\n| Wantsai (Boys), | 73 | 69 | | | | | | 69 | 69 | | 521 | 48 | | | | 521.08 | 190.58 | 330.50 |\n| Yaumáti (Boys), | 25 | 22 | | | | | 22 | | 22 | | 1890 | 165 | | | | 1890.65 | | |\n| Shektongtsui (Boys), | 19 | 16 | | | | | 16 | | 16 | | 1167 | 101 | | | | 1167.31 | 418.40 | 748.91 |\n| Saiyiup'ún I Division (Boys), | 34 | 32 | | | | | | 32 | 32 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Hunghom (Boys), | 13 | 12 | | | | | 12 | | 12 | | 144 | 13 | | | | 144.98 | | |\n| Shaktongtsui (Girls), | 35 | 32 | | | | | 32 | | 32 | | 1015 | 90 | Good | | | 1015.45 | 10.15 | 1005.30 |\n| Aberdeen Street (Girls), | 7 | 6 | | | | | 6 | | 6 | | 154 | 14 | Good | | | 154.00 | | |\n| Kan-t-fong (Girls) | 38 | 31 | | | | | 31 | | 31 | | 441 | 40 | Good | | | 441.00 | | |\n| L. M. S., Ship Street (Girls). | 19 | 17 | | | | | 17 | | 17 | | 154 | 14 | Good | | | 154.98 | 7.57 | 147.41 |\n| East Street (Boys), | 19 | 19 | | | | | 19 | | 19 | | 116 | 10 | | | | 116.20 | | |\n| Stanley Street (Girls). | 6 | 6 | | | | | 6 | | 6 | | 20 | 2 | Good | | | 23.43 | | |\n| Lower Lascar Row (Girls), | 10 | 9 | | | | | 9 | | 9 | | 28 | 3 | Good | | | 28.61 | | |\n| Tanglungchau (Girls), | 15 | 13 | | | | | 13 | | 13 | | 251 | 23 | Good | | | 251.61 | 42.48 | 209.13 |\n| Taipingshan Chapel (Girls), | 45 | 37 | | | | | 37 | | 37 | | 210 | 19 | Good | | | 210.00 | | |\n| Salyingpuu First Street (Girls), | 38 | 35 | | | | | 35 | | 35 | | 255 | 23 | Good | | | 255.00 | | |\n| Wantsai (Girls), | 49 | 45 | | | | | 45 | | 45 | | 238 | 21 | Good | | | 238.29 | 62.07 | 176.22 |\n| Staunton Street, Upper School (Girls), | 13 | 12 | | | | | 12 | | 12 | | 311 | 28 | Good | | | 311.23 | 23.43 | 287.80 |\n| Lower School (Girls), | ... | ... | | | | | | | | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| Nampakhong Tökwáwán (Boys), | 14 | 13 | | | | | 13 | | 13 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| R. C. M., Cathedral School (Boys), | 25 | 21 | | | | | 21 | | 21 | | 195 | 18 | | | | 195.00 | 9.50 | 185.50 |\n| Bridges Street Poor School (Girls), | 14 | 14 | | | | | 14 | | 14 | | 95 | 9 | Good | | | 95.00 | | |\n| Wesleyan Mission, Spring Gardens (Boys), | 20 | 17 | | | | | 17 | | 17 | | 186 | 17 | | | | 186.00 | 12.00 | 174.00 |\n| Wellington Street (Boys), | 24 | 22 | | | | | 22 | | 22 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Basel Mission, High Street (Girls), | 29 | 29 | | | | | 29 | | 29 | | ... | ... | Good | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| Berlin Mission (Girls), | 9 | 8 | | | | | 8 | | 8 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| Diocesan Home and Orphanage (Boys), | 23 | 22 | | | | | 22 | | 22 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| St. Paul's College Anglo-Chinese (Boys), | 32 | 29 | | | | | 29 | | 29 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| Hongkong Public School (Boys), | 33 | 32 | | | | | 32 | | 32 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| R. C. M., St. Joseph's College, Chinese Division (Boys), | 62 | 59 | | | | | 59 | | 59 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| European Division (Boys), | 61 | 60 | | | | | 60 | | 60 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| Italian Convent (Girls), | 30 | 28 | | | | | 28 | | 28 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| Bridges Street Portuguese School, (Mixed), | 15 | 14 | | | | | 14 | | 14 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| St. Francis Chapel Portuguese School (Mixed), | 27 | 27 | | | | | 27 | | 27 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| Victoria, Portuguese School (Mixed), | 36 | 35 | | | | | 35 | | 35 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| English School (Boys), | 12 | 12 | | | | | 12 | | 12 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| (Girls) | 12 | 12 | | | | | 12 | | 12 | | ... | ... | | | | ... | ... | ... |\n| Total,....... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 16,217.16 | 788.94 | 16,950.72 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337290, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "## TABLE XV-PERCENTAGE of Passes in the various subjects in which the GRANT-IN-AID SCHOOLS were examined in 1887\n\n| Name of School | Writing, Reading, or Composition | Arithmetic | Grammar | Geography | History |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| I. American Board Mission, Bridges Street (Boys) | 98.00 | 74.00 | | | |\n| Station Street (Boys) | 100.00 | 88.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | |\n| Hing-lung Lane (Boys) | 95.38 | 68.46 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| Queen's Road West (Boys) | 92.59 | 62.96 | | | |\n| Basel Mission, Shamshaipo School (Boys) | | | | | |\n| C. M. S., St. Stephen's I. Division (Boys) | 100.00 | 80.00 | 78.33 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| St. Stephen's II. Division (Boys) | 100.00 | | 92.90 | 84.61 | |\n| Lyndhurst Terrace (Boys) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 70.36 |\n| Pottinger Street (Boys) | 98.41 | 100.00 | 66.66 | 88.09 | 92.85 |\n| Saiying'an (Boys) | 100.00 | 48.57 | 100.00 | 97.61 | 100.00 |\n| St. Stephen's Baxter Memorial (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 81.48 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| Lyndhurst Terrace (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 96.00 | | |\n| Third Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 67.85 |\n| Yaumati (Mixed) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 86.66 | 28.88 | |\n| Hunghom (Boys) | 100.00 | 100.00 | | | |\n| F. E. S., Bonham Road (Girls) | 100.00 | 95.45 | | | |\n| High Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 94.73 | 100.00 |\n| Queen's Road (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 96.42 | 60.71 | 100.00 |\n| Hollywood Road (Girls) | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 90.00 | 100.00 |\n| Pottinger Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 96.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| L. M. S., Hollywood Road (Boys) | | | | | |\n| Stanley School (Girls) | 100.00 | 76.00 | 100.00 | | |\n| Shaukiwan (Girls) | 100.00 | 88.88 | 90.00 | 95.00 | 100.00 |\n| Wautsai (Boys) | 98.68 | 100.00 | 92.85 | | |\n| Yanmati (Boys) | 97.26 | 76.34 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| Shektongtsui (Boys) | 97.42 | 43.87 | 91.66 | | |\n| Saiying'an I. Division (Boys) | 98.50 | 52.23 | 100.00 | | |\n| Saiying'an II. Division (Boys) | 94.64 | 64.57 | 100.00 | | |\n| Hunghom (Boys) | 100.00 | 91.43 | 97.61 | 100.00 | 97.01 |\n| Shektongtsui (Girls) | 100.00 | 85.71 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| Aberdeen Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 77.77 | 100.00 | | |\n| Kau-ü-tong (Girls) | 93.47 | 78.91 | 100.00 | | |\n| Ship Street (Girls) | | | | | |\n| East Street (Boys) | | | | | |\n| Stanley Street (Girls) | 100.00 | 81.81 | 100.00 | 100.00 | |\n| Lower Lascar Row (Girls) | 100.00 | 84.00 | 36.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| Tanglungpo (Girls) | | | | | |\n| Taipingshan Chapel (Girls) | | | | | |\n| Saiyingpun, First Street (Girls) | 100.00 | | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| Wantsai (Girls) | 95.45 | 72.72 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 |\n| | 100.00 | 86.66 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 92.86 |\n\n## TABLE XVI-NUMBER OF UNEDUCATED CHILDREN in the Colony in 1887\n\n| Category | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Number of Children (of school-age) in the Colony in 1887 (about 9.26 per cent of the population) | 16,843 |\n| Number of Children attending Schools under Government in 1887 | 5,974 |\n| Number of Children attending Private Schools in 1887 | 2,300 |\n| Number of Uneducated Children in the Colony in 1887 | 8,569 |\n\nE. J. EITEL, M.A., Ph.D., Inspector of Schools.\n\nI have received your Despatch No. 227 of ... \n\nSir R. Herbert.\n\nLord Knutsford. 21 August ...\n\nFor consideration.\n\nI have noted with satisfaction the educational progress shown by the Annual Reports for 1887 which accompanied ...\n\nThe suggestion made by Dr. Eitel at the end of par. 12 of his Report is one that appears to me deserving of consideration. & I do wish ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337494, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "# Annual Report on the Fire Brigade Department\n\n521 \n\nand used exclusively for adding new lengths when required, instead of as formerly having recourse to the engines when additional lengths were wanted, and lastly the practice of indiscriminately cutting down wood work has been entirely abandoned. No wood work can now be cut down without the order of an officer, and such an order is seldom required. In the opinion of many, the spread of the great fire in 1878 was largely due to the immense destruction of wood work on that occasion, the streets in some places being blocked with shutters and broken timbers which at one and the same time impeded the movements of the Brigade, and served as a bridge for the flames.\n\nWith regard to the spread of fires, they are occasioned by the beams and rafters of the roof of the house on fire being in contact with those of the adjoining houses, and in many cases protected from access by the ceiling below; also by the falling of lighted matter through the smoke holes of neighbouring houses, and again by projecting verandahs which probably contain inflammable articles. Heat alone is often sufficient to ignite either the opposite houses, or anything near that is capable of catching fire. A double brick-wall is, however, absolute protection to the extent of the space covered by it. Clothes stands on roofs, though invariably igniting, have not, so far as my experience goes, been a principal cause of fires spreading. They consist only of upright and horizontal bars, with hollow spaces between them, and do not readily burn.\n\nThe accompanying report from Mr. BREWER will show the state of the engines at the present time. They have worked well throughout the year, and have been carefully tended by Mr. BREWER, the Engineer, and Mr. WAGNER, the Assistant Engineer.\n\nThere is great need of another floating engine. The present floating engine lies at Yaumáti, and is not immediately available for service on this side. Also, when a fire occurs anywhere on the other side or in the harbour, there is no launch at the disposal of the Brigade for taking the men to these places. What is required is a floating engine similar to that now in use, and capable of transporting men to different parts of the Island. At present, if the existing floating engine breaks down, there is nothing able to take its place, and considering the vast shipping interests in the harbour, and the valuable property located at Yaumáti, the Naval Yard, Kowloon, and Hunghom, one floating engine is not enough. The nature of the country on the other side does not admit of the transport of land engines, and the only practicable method of dealing with fires there is by floating engines. I trust, therefore, that His Excellency will give this matter his favourable consideration and will sanction the purchase or construction of another floating engine.\n\nAlso, I think the European element of the Brigade should be further increased. Men who before were available for fire duties have now to attend to engines, and considering the growth of the town, I do not think an increase of ten men would be by any means out of place. We are always hampered by want of men, some being in Hospital and some on Police duty, and at the initiatory stages of a fire, the want of a sufficient European complement is much felt, as it is on them that the Superintendent has mainly to rely to see that his general system of organisation is properly carried out. Police firemen are not allowed to leave their beat to go to a fire, so that the nominal strength of the European element is reduced by one half at the outset, and to this must be added absence from sickness and other causes.\n\nOn the other hand, I think the Chinese element might be largely reduced. With an increased European element, I think we might easily dispense with a sufficient number of Chinese to balance the additional expense in the increased European element, so that the change could be accomplished without further cost to the Brigade.\n\nI will conclude this report with a return of fires and alarms of fires during the past year. Origins assigned to the different fires given in the schedule must be accepted with reservation, and are not to be taken as authoritative.\n\nI have only to add that the Brigade has enjoyed the hearty co-operation of the officers and men, throughout the year, who have all worked well under the exceptional strain that has from time to time been put upon them.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\n\n**FIRE BRIGADE DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 5th January, 1888**\n\n## Annual Report on Fire Engines\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith a report on the state of the Government Fire Engines for the year ending 31st December, 1887.\n\n| Engine | Description | Condition |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1 Floating Fire Engine | by Merry Weather | 19 years old, requires new fire box and overhaul |\n| No. 2 Steamer | by Merry Weather | 19 years old, obsolete type, too heavy for roads |\n| No. 3 Steamer | by Shand and Mason | 8 years old, altered last year, requires new boiler |\n| No. 4 Steamer | by Shand and Mason | 5 years old, in excellent condition |\n| No. 5 Steamer | by Shand and Mason | supplied last year, modern type, valuable auxiliary |\n| Stanley Floating fire pump | | not available on emergency, kept at Stone Cutters' Island |\n| Manual Engines | 9 in number | all in good working order |\n\nNo. 1 Floating Fire Engine by Merry Weather. This engine is 19 years old, and was formerly a land engine on wheels, but was found too heavy for the roads and cumbersome of transportation; it was therefore put into a launch in March, 1883, and has since done good service. The Boiler is now 10 years old, and requires a new fire box. It was intended to execute this repair some months ago, but it was postponed pending the arrival of the new engine from England. The fresh water tanks are rusting internally, and require to be removed for scraping and painting and generally overhauling. I would recommend this be done immediately after the Chinese New Year. The machinery and hull of the launch are in good order, and with a view to increasing the speed of the launch, a new propeller of more suitable design is now fitted.\n\nNo. 2 Steamer by Merry Weather. This Engine is 19 years old. It was fitted with a new boiler in 1878 and new steam cylinders by Messrs. FENWICK & Co. in 1886. The Engine is of obsolete type and too heavy for our roads, proof of which, it has on two occasions broken through the roads and sunk up to its axles. The engine has, however, done good service feeding the small engines on high levels with salt water. This engine should be supplemented by one of modern type, lighter, more powerful, and with a quick generating boiler (as the present one takes 25 minutes against the modern one of 7½ minutes to raise steam).\n\nNo. 3 Steamer by Shand and Muson. This Engine is 8 years old and was formerly of the auxiliary cylinder type. It was altered last year upon my recommendation, the auxiliary cylinder removed, and a balance wheel substituted, which has rendered the engine more efficient and has given every satisfaction. In consequence of the age of the boiler, I have reduced the working pressure of steam to 75 lbs., which has necessarily somewhat handicapped the engine in its work. In my last year's report, I recommended a new fire box, which I find it is impracticable to attach, and would suggest that Messrs. SHAND & MASON receive instructions to send out a new boiler complete, which we can fix here.\n\nNo. 4 Steamer by Shand and Mason. This Engine is 5 years old and is in excellent condition. New valves have been fitted, and the working parts adjusted.\n\nNo. 5 Steamer by Shand and Mason. Was supplied upon my recommendation last year. This engine is of the most modern type, and has proved a valuable auxiliary to our fire extinguishing apparatus.\n\nStanley Floating fire pump has only been used once during the past year, and is not available on emergency, as the launch is kept at Stone Cutters' Island.\n\nThe manual engines, 9 in number, are all in good working order.\n\nGenerally, though the calls on the Fire Brigade have been heavy this year, I am happy to state that no Engine has been totally disabled during a fire, and no serious breakdown has occurred at any time, yet I am still of opinion that we have not sufficient engines for the increasing size of the Colony, as two fires at the same moment would drain our resources, and an engine laid up for repairs renders our appliances insufficient.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) JOHN S. BREWER, Assist. Supt, and Engineer.\n\nH. E. WODEHOUSE, Superintendent, Fire Brigade.\n\nH. E. WODEHOUSE, Esq., C.M.G.,\nSuperintendent, Fire Brigade,\n&C.\n&C.,\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 337497, "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": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8]", "content_text": "# FIRES AND ALARMS DURING THE YEAR 1887\n## Continued\n\n| No. | DATE | TIME | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDING DESTROYED | DAMAGE | CAUSE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 113 | Nov. 20 | 10 p.m. | Partition of house No. 21, Stanley Street | | Slight | Carelessness with a lamp | |\n| 114 | 21 | 5.30 p.m. | Grass on the hill-side near Hoktsi | | None | Unknown | |\n| 115 | \"\" | | A quantity of firewood in the cook house No. 311, Queen's Road West | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 116 | \" | 8.15 a.m. | Some clothing and matting on ground floor of No. 2, Rutter's Lane | | Very little | Do. | |\n| 117 | 21 | 11 p.m. | A mosquito curtain in house No. 32, Third Street | | None | Incendiary | |\n| 118 | 23 | 9.15 p.m. | House No. 42, Queen's Road West | | Do. | Do. | |\n| 119 | 21 | 3.10 a.m. | House No. 13, Triangle Street | 1 | $150 | Unknown | The house was not insured |\n| 120 | 24 | 3.30 p.m. | Coals in one of the Kowloon Godown Company's sheds at Tsimshatsui | | Very little | Spontaneous combustion | Some old rags saturated with kerosine were found in the staircase |\n| 121 | 24 | 9.30 p.m. | Some dried grass at No. 16, Wing Fung Street | | | Unknown | |\n| 122 | 25 | | Matsheds at Taitám Water-Works | 12 | | Do. | |\n| 123 | 25 | 8.20 p.m. | Ko Shing Theatre | | None | Do. | This was a false alarm and a general rush was made for the doors |\n| 124 | \" | 9 p.m. | Beams of veranda of No. 348, Queen's Road West | | Not much | Incendiary | A considerable amount of damage was done to growing trees |\n| 125 | 26 | | Grass on the north-side of the bill below Mount Kellet | | | Unknown | A few acres of grass burnt and part of the wood and young plants slightly damaged |\n| 126 | \" | 3.30 p.m. | Grass on the bill-side near Kai Lung Wan | | | Do. | This was a false alarma. A general rush was made for the doors. Two men were arrested for raising false alarm |\n| 127 | \" | 8.15 p.m. | Ko Shing Theatre | | None | | Accidental, upsetting of an oil lamp |\n| 128 | 27 | 12 | A kerosine lamp on the ground floor of house No. 20, Graham Street | | Do. | Accidental | The house was not insured |\n| 129 | 27 | 33 | First floor of house No. 1, Nullah Lane | | $190 | | Accidental, bed curtain caught fire while worshipping |\n| 130 | 27 | \" | House No. 163, Queen's Road East | | $1,000 | Accidental, upsetting of an oil lamp | The house was not insured |\n| 131 | 28 | 8.45 p.m. | House No. 165, Queen's Road East | | $150 | | |\n| 132 | \" | 6.40 a.m. | House No. 4, Staunton Street | | $150 | Unknown | |\n| 133 | 29 | 7.30 p.m. | House No. 107, Wellington Street | | Very little | Do. | |\n| 134 | 29 | 7.40 p.m. | A basket of old clothing at No. 348, Queen's Road West | | None | Do. | |\n| 135 | \" | 8.30 p.m. | House No. 107, Wellington Street | | Do. | Do. | A piece of rag saturated with kerosine, some matches and a sticks were found burning at the foot of the staircase |\n| 136 | 30 | 3 p.m. | House No. 40, Wing On Street | 7 | $33 | Accidental | |\n| 137 | 30 | 7 p.m. | Messageries Maritimes Coal Godown, Praya East | | | | No fire, but the coal was smoking and it was removed |\n| 138 | 30 | 17 | House No. 55, Square Street | 3 | $16,000 | Incendiary | A few rags and shavings were discovered alight on the staircase |\n\n## Continued\n\n| No. | DATE | TIME | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDING DESTROYED | DAMAGE | CAUSE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 139 | Dec. 14 | 9.20 p.m. | Ko Shing Theatre | | None | | False alarm. Great confusion was caused amongst the audience. Two men were arrested for raising false alarm |\n| 140 | 1 | 9.30 p.m. | House No. 21, Pound Lane | | $200 | Unknown | Some shavings soaked with kerosine oil were found on the staircase |\n| 141 | 2 | 3 p.m. | House No. 55, Square Street | | | Incendiary | |\n| 142 | 2 | 4 p.m. | House No. 55, Square Street | | | Do. | |\n| 143 | ૐ | 4.15 p.m. | Chimney of No. 3, New West Street | | | Accidental | |\n| 144 | 17 | 8 p.m. | A bed quilt at house No. 336, Queen's Road West | | Slight | Incendiary | |\n| 145 | 1 | 6 p.m. | Grass on the bill near Táit'ámtuk | | | | |\n| 146 | | | Servant's quarters at Staunton Street | | | Unknown | |\n| 147 | 7 | 1.40 p.m. | House No. 116, Wellington Street | | | Incendiary | |\n| 148 | 8 | | Cook house chimney of house No. 31, Elgin Street | | | Unknown | |\n| 149 | 11 | 6.50 p.m. | A grass water-proof coat on the hill-side at Yaumáti caught fire while Wong Tai, a mendicant was wouring | | | Accidental while cooking | Wong Tai died subsequently |\n| 150 | 20 | 5 a.m. | A mosquito curtain at No. 88, Station Street, Yaumáti | | Slight | Accidental while smoking opium | |\n| 151 | 20 | 5.50 p.m. | House No. 5, Kau-ü-fong | | $1,500 | Accidental, falling of a kerosine lamp | The contents of house No. 15 were insured for $6,000 with Messrs. Schellhass & Co. |\n| 152 | 20 | 7.20 p.m. | House No. 34, Cochrane Street | | Slight | | |\n| 153 | 24 | 6.50 p.m. | Chimney of No. 22, Hing Lung Street | | None | Upsetting of a kerosine lamp | |\n| 154 | 26 | 7 p.m. | Some wood on the back premises of house No. 612, Hollywood Road | | Slight | | |\n| 155 | 28 | 1.30 a.m. | House No. 56, Bonham Strand | 16 | $30,000 | \" | Sevon people were perished |\n| 156 | 28 | 7.30 p.m. | A stack of grass near the Burning ground at Yaumáti | | | Unknown | |\n| 157 | 28 | 10.43 p.m. | The temporary Market at Hunghom | | | Do. | |\n| 158 | 28 | | Sheds | M | | Do. | |\n| 159 | 28 | | Matsheds and grass at Wántsai Gap | 73 | | | |\n| 160 | 28 | 7.50 p.m. | House No. 223, Queen's Road West | | None | Incendiary | A lighted joss stick and a handful of white cotton saturated with kerosine oil were found on the staircase |\n| 161 | 31 | 1 p.m. | Some books in a drawer at house No. 1, Square Street | | Do. | Carelessness with joss paper | Mr. Ross, the foreman of the Volunteer Brigade, sustained severe injuries. A woman was slightly burnt |\n\nFire Brigade Office, Hongkong, 13th January, 1888.\n\n**H. E. WODEHOUSE, Superintendent, Fire Brigade**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-238 - Governor Des Voeus - 1888 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340139, "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": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "page_number": 730, "title": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n### CIVIL LIST.\n\n#### IX. HARBOUR MASTER.\n\n| Category | $ |\n| --- | --- |\n| **SALARIES:-** | |\n| Harbour Master, | 1,920 |\n| Assistant Harbour Master, | 1,440 |\n| First Clerk, | 900 |\n| Second do., | 440 |\n| Third do., | 240 |\n| Fourth do., | 240 |\n| Fifth do., | 120 |\n| Boarding Officer, | 1,000 |\n| Second do., | 960 |\n| Inspector of Junks and Cargo Boats, | 720 |\n| Assistant do., | 600 |\n| Julian Interpreter, | 420 |\n| Chinese do., | 420 |\n| Chinese Writer, | 300 |\n| Signalan at the Peak, | 300 |\n| Chinese Assistant at Signal Station, | 240 |\n| Shroff, | 120 |\n| Watchmen at do., | 72 |\n| Head Boatman, | 141 |\n| 10 Chinese Boatmen, at $84 each, | 840 |\n| 10 Do. do., at $70 each, | 700 |\n| 20 Boatmen at Out-Stations, at $72 each, | 1,440 |\n| Messengers, at $72 each, | 180 |\n| 1 Interpreter at Hunghom, | 333 |\n| 4 Extra Boatmen at Aberdeen, at $84 each, | 336 |\n| 4 Extra Boatmen at Stanley, at $84 each, for 6 months, | 168 |\n| Indian Sergeant, | 216 |\n| 1 Chinese Constable, | 182 |\n| 1 European do., (at Shipping Office), | 480 |\n| **Total Salaries** | 13,419 |\n| **ALLOWANCES:** | |\n| To 5 Police Officers in Charge at Sháukiwán, Aberdeen, Stanley, Yaumati, and Hunghom, at $132 each, | 660 |\n| To Police Sergeant, as Interpreter, at Harbour Master's Office, | 200 |\n| **CONTINGENCIES:** | |\n| Repairs to Boats, Buoys, Flags, Oil, &c., | 1,700 |\n| Examination Fees under Ordinance No. 8 of 1879, | 1,200 |\n| Fees to Unofficial Members of Marine Courts, under Ord. No. 8 of 1879, | 200 |\n| Uniform for Constables, | 94 |\n| **Total Contingencies** | 3,194 |\n| **TOTAL** | 23,400 |\n\nCarried forward, ... 6,720", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345281, "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": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "page_number": 390, "title": "CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5]", "content_text": "386\n\nThe consumption of water from the Tytam Works during the month of November was 59,139,892 gallons, or 1,981,330 gallons per diem, and that during the month of December was 62,630,533 gallons, or 2,020,340 gallons per diem.\n\nDistribution Works.-The Distribution Works consisting of several miles of cast-iron pipes laid in various parts of the City have been maintained in as efficient a manner as practicable without an undue expenditure on them, the fact being borne in mind that many of these pipes are shortly to be replaced by new ones of larger diameter.\n\nThe total expenditure on the maintenance of the water-works during the past year has been $6,128.75.\n\nThe Drainage Works.--The drains throughout the City have received constant attention and on the whole they have been maintained in an efficient state of repair and as free from deposit as can be reasonably expected, so long as the combined system of sewerage exists, at a cost of $1,251.82.\n\nNEW WORKS.\n\nPokfulam Filter-Beds and Service Reservoir.-The Pokfulam Filter-Beds and Service Reservoirs which were commenced in November, 1889, have now been completed.\n\nThe filter-beds are four in number having a total area of 1,360 square yards, the invert is constructed on the ridge and furrow system, and gauge wells are provided for the purpose of measuring the water passing through the filters.\n\nThe filtering material consists of 12 inches of coarse broken stone, 9 inches of stone broken to 4-inch cubes, 9 inches of coarse sand, and 2 feet of fine sand, the furrows in the invert being filled with very coarse broken stone.\n\nThe reservoir 141 feet in length, 35 feet in breadth, and 30 feet 6 inches in depth having a capacity of 940,000 gallons, is constructed of concrete faced with stone and covered over with brick arching carried on masonry piers.\n\nThe total cost of this work has been $39,485.59.\n\nWATER DISTRIBUTION WORKS.\n\nThe final plans for the distribution of water throughout the City of Victoria having been approved and the pipes requisitioned early in 1889 having arrived, main laying was commenced on the 19th April and has proceeded uninterruptedly since.\n\nI append a plan showing the several districts into which the City has been divided for the purpose of checking the cost of the work, and a tabular statement showing the lengths of pipes of various diameters laid, and the cost of the same in each district. The total length of mains laid during the year being 10 miles at a cost of $70,254.80.\n\nThree small covered Service Reservoirs at a cost of $4,427.62 have been constructed, viz.:\n\nOne on the Peak Road of 12,000 gallons capacity at a level of 700 feet above Ordnance Datum;\n\nOne south of Inland Lot 715 of 112,000 gallons capacity at a level of 500 feet above Ordnance Datum; and\n\nOne south of the Pokfulam Filter-Beds 105,000 gallons capacity at a level of 600 feet above Ordnance Datum.\n\nAt present only the first two of these are in use; the water is pumped up into them by the Hydraulic Motor which has been fixed in Garden Road, and afterwards distributed throughout the district between the Caine Road and the Pokfulam Conduit, but until the other hydraulic motors are fixed, a constant high-pressure supply is unobtainable in all parts of these districts.\n\nAn Hydraulic Motor of the Worthington type has been fixed in Garden Road at a cost of $3,156.09, and commenced pumping water to the houses situated along the Peak Road early in September; and is now pumping night and day supplying filtered water to the higher levels of the City.\n\nFountain-Forty-nine fountains at a cost of $890.23 have been fixed in various parts of the City for the purpose of rendering a supply of water easily available for those who have not got water laid on inside their premises.\n\nHouse Services.-The work of laying on water to private premises was commenced early in September and since then the service pipes of 599 houses have been connected with the new water mains, and in several instances the work throughout, including the internal fittings, has been executed by this Department at the cost of the applicant.\n\nMeters.-In cases where water is required for other than domestic purposes, meters have been fixed. Up to the 31st of December, 24 meters ranging in size from 1 inch to 3 inches had been fixed at a cost of $1,609.83.\n\nSEWERAGE WORKS.\n\nIn accordance with instructions received in C.S.O. 18, the works for the sewerage of the City of Victoria have been commenced and considerable progress has been made with the new system of sewers in the High Level District, upwards of 2,700 lineal yards having been completed, and with the works of training the Nullahs in the Western District between the Pokfulam Conduit and the Robinson Road. The latter are nearly completed; the cost of these works to date has been $12,640.52.\n\nFive hundred lineal yards of pipe sewers in the district marked 2E on plan attached have been completed at a cost of $1,563.40. This work was rendered immediately necessary owing to the exceptionally bad condition of the old drains.\n\nPeak Sewerage.-The sewers in the Peak District have been extended along the Plantation and the Peak Roads for a length of 800 lineal yards to provide for the drainage of new houses; the cost of this work has been $2,979.87, making the total cost of the Peak Sewerage Works to date $8,581.95.\n\nKowloon Sewerage.-A short length of sewer and a flushing tank have been constructed in Kimberley Road at a cost of $464.03 providing for the drainage of the new terrace now nearly completed in this locality. The total cost of the Kowloon Sewerage Works to date is $6,184.50.\n\nHunghom Sewerage.-Owing to the condition of the existing drains in Hunghom and the serious expense that would be involved in cleaning and repairing them even as a temporary measure, the construction of the new system of sewers was commenced early in September; 1,160 lineal yards have now been completed.\n\nThe cost of this work to date has been $2,424.23.\n\nThe more important other works of Sewerage and Drainage undertaken by this Department during the past year have been--\n\n(1.) The re-arrangement of the sewers and internal sanitary fittings of the Government Civil Hospital.\n\n(2.) The diversion of the storm-water drain crossing the site of the New Central Market.\n\n(3.) The construction of a sewer in Rutland Street. The total cost of these works has been $7,644.06.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nFRANCIS A. COOPER,\n\nResident Engineer,\n\nPage 390\n\nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-249 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346403, "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": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "content_text": "## of the regular Civil Service? since Warders are not exposed to such severe outdoor work in a hot climate as the Police, and do not therefore deserve such favorable treatment as to retiring after 15 years' service? As to the proposed Rates of pay they are $480 rising to a possible maximum of $1320 (in promotion Head Turnkey, only) in lieu of the present rates $360 to $672.\n\nThe Warden selected from England see pay rise from $720 to $1200 (subject to good conduct); on the other hand there are apparently more perquisites (e.g., free light, quarters).\n\nJudging from H.O. circulars 4984/91 and 21791/90 there would, I fear, be difficulty in getting trained Warders for the salaries proposed at Hunghom, but failing the H.O., then Agents might get discharged soldiers, as in other cases. Shall we first try the H.O., offering $184? It will be better to give higher pay than the deferred privileges as to pension, leave, and passages.\n\nOr shall we refer the matter back to the Colony suggesting that if they want trained Warders from England they had better offer at least as good pay as the Straits Warders get?\n\nI fear that the Civil Service cannot supply a sufficient quantity of food for thought. The demands are rendered more difficult by the fact that what is wanted is men with the moral qualities of Englishmen rather than men without technical training. Ex-soldiers may be of some use.\n\n`ESR 7-11-91`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 347196, "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": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12]", "content_text": "## 82\n\nC.O. 574 85\n\nThe lots at the expiration of the present garden lot leases without the privilege accorded to those more favourably situated on account of the existing roads, viz: the opportunity of changing their garden lot leases for Inland leases.\n\nThe construction of these roads is therefore not only necessary but expedient since it will encourage building on the lots in question.\n\n## 28.\n(REG 11 JAN 32)\n\n211 Kunghom Pier and approach road.\n\nHunghom is a Chinese Village in Kowloon of a prosperous commercial character being in close proximity to the Docks. Landing at this village has hitherto been effected by means of a temporary pier on the Dock Company's premises, which will soon be unavailable owing to certain reclamation works.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-252 - Acting Governor Barker & Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1891 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 349178, "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": "CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7]", "content_text": "129\n\nsubsection 1 of section 34 of\nthe principal Ordinance assimilates \"refunds\" in the case of Peak houses to refunds in the case Victoria. Is all the houses in of many people now reside year round at the Peak this is deemed right.\n\nSection 4 alters the rate in the Hill district by adding the 2 per cent for water rate where water is now supplied to certain parts of Yaumati, Kowloon Point and Aunghom have efficient police, there seems no reason st amending Ordinance was i necessary the alteration of the rates was included in it instead of having both an Ordinance and a The Resolution.\n\nThe wording of the lotter part of section 4 renders the explanatory section 33 of the Waterworks Ordinance 16 of 1890 necessary no longer so it is repeated.\n\n(Signed) W. M. Goodman, \nAttorney General.\n\nwhy they should not pay what was Police rate for Victoria (see the the former Rating Ordinance 21 of 1885 repealed by 15 of 1888). Although the rates can be altered by resolution of the Legislative Council (see 30 of Ordinance 15 of 1888), ad Section ar amending", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 349563, "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": "CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7]", "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES -HONGKONG, 1893.\n\n## DETAILS OF EXPENDITURE.\n\n### 29.-PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY, Continued.\n\n| Estimated Cost | Amount Expended to 31st Dec., 1892 | Estimated Expenditure 30th June, 1893 | Estimated Expenditure |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward,--- | 1,788,408.00 | 866,184.68 | 1,087,155.98 | 320,000.00 |\n| 38. Reconstruction, Governor's Peak Residence, | 55,000.00 | | | |\n| 35. Pier, Stone Cutters' Island, | 38,000.00 | | 12,000.00 | 10,000.00 |\n| 38. Lowering Queen's Road West, ........ | 6,828.00 | 3,050.85 | 6,000.00 | 10,000.00 |\n| | | 3,050.85 | | |\n| 49. Repair of Rain Storm Damage, Yaumati, | 7,087.00 | 3,664.30 | 7,086.00 | |\n| 50. New Streets, Kennedy Town, | 7,500.00 | | 7,500.00 | |\n| 51. Erection and cost of Gas Lamps, Kowloon Peninsula, | 3,000.00 | 46.02 | 3,000.00 | |\n| 52. Repairs to St. John's Cathedral, | 7,000.00 | 1,269.00 | 6,000.00 | 1,000.00 |\n| 41. New Water Mains,--- | 200,000.00 | 160,349.45 | 166,018.04 | 5,000.00 |\n| 12. Peak Water Supply, | 32,750.00 | 32,585.10 | 82,692.39 | |\n| 13. Sewerage of Victoria...... | 282,500.00 | 105,938.66 | 142,677.87 | 60,000.00 |\n| 44. Do. of Hunghom, | 10,000.00 | | | |\n| 45. Do. of Yamati, | 13,000.00 | 8,120.63 | 3,130.84 | 8,120.63 |\n| | | | 11,999.47 | |\n| 46. Water Supply, Kowloon Peninsula, | 180,000.00 | 8,817.25 | 11,916.66 | 45,000.00 |\n| 32. Tytan Reservoir, Clear Water Channel,. | 4,000.00 | 1,000.00 | | |\n| 58. Additional Accommodation, Kowloon Observatory, | 2,000.00 | | 2,000.00 | |\n| 54. Extension, MacDonnell and Austin Roads, Kowloon,... | 18,000.00 | | 13,000.00 | |\n| 48. Miscellaneous Minor Works, ............. | 5,000.00 | 8,161.64 | 5,000.00 | |\n| 27. District School, Kowloon, | 8,000.00 | | | |\n| 30. Civil Hospital, Additional Private Wards, | 9,500.00 | | | |\n| 33. Hunghom, Pier, and approach Road,..................... | 8,500.00 | | | |\n| 32. Public Latrines, | 17,000.00 | 5,738.61 | 9,738.63 | |\n| 34. Magazines for Explosives, Stone Cutters' Island, | | 11,297.30 | | |\n| 36. Shaukiwan Market Extension, ........... | 3,000.00 | | | |\n| 37. Government Offices Extension, and New Law Courts,......... | | | | |\n| 39. Road from Plantation Road to Magazine Gap, | 7,000.00 | | | |\n| 40. Improved Road from Aberdeen to Wongneichong, .. | | | | |\n| **Total Public Works, Extraordinary,...** | **2,642,845.00** | **1,204,056.03** | **1,505,306.10** | **490,000.00** |\n\n45", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-255 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351600, "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": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "page_number": 515, "title": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "content_text": "Page 514\n\nA list of\n\naloot\n\nL\n\nII Gunghom.\n\nDescription of School.\n\nPublic Schools.\n\n// Church Mission Girls 12 London Mission Boys\n\n13 Roman Catholic Girls\n\nTotal Public school\n\n5 Private Schools\n\nFee per annum\n\n...\n\nBoat children Average Attendance\n\nBoys Girls Boys Girls\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n Church Mission Girls School\n \n 40\n \n 28\n \n \n London Mission Boys School\n 65\n \n 60\n \n \n \n Roman Catholic Girls School\n \n 34\n \n 30\n \n \n Total Public school\n 190\n 73\n 66\n \n \n\n14 Private School at N: W$249 25\n\nM\n\nTotal 2 Private Schools\n\nNongkokbui.\n\nIZ\n\nDescription of school.\n\nFee per Account.\n\n2 Private Schools.\n\nattendance.\n\nscholars in average boat hide in nwdahin attend piece Jancrage.\n\nfer\n\nBoys Girls Boys Girls.\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n 29 Private School, at N:\n 141\n $36084 28\n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n 22\n 15\n \n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 20\n 14\n \n \n\nJaikos.hui.\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n 16\n '7\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n #\n 24\n 16\n \n \n \n \n 4\n 26\n 20\n \n \n \n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n\nSchool\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n \n \n 56\n \n 30\n 22\n \n \n\nTotal Private Schools\n\nDescription of school Fee per annum scholars in average boat children in attendance.\n\nBoys Girls\n\nBoat children Average Attendance\n\nBoys Girls Boys Girls\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n \n 47\n 7\n 2\n 1\n \n \n \n 5\n 6\n 2\n \n \n \n \n 140\n \n 102\n \n \n\nGrand Total Aunghom & schools\n\nIll Gaumati\n\n1330\n\n66\n\n1 Public School\n\nLondon Mission Boys School\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n 31\n 65\n \n 60\n \n \n\n2 Private Schools.\n\n32 Private School at ##71 #243 30\n\n60\n\n445\n\n26\n\n18\n\n \n No\n Description of school.\n Fee per annum\n scholars in average\n Boat children in attendance.\n Average Attendance\n \n \n \n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n 14\n Church Mission Boys School\n $40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n Church Mission Girls School\n \n 20\n \n 16\n \n \n \n 21\n London Mission Boys School\n \n 30\n \n 24\n \n \n \n II\n Roman Catholic Girls School\n \n \n 70\n \n 62\n \n \n 22\n Roman Catholic Girls School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23\n Good English School\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Public schools & Private schools\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24\n Private school at A97 $240\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nIs of Description of School.\n\nBchool\n\nfor\n\nBerzo\n\nFresher Acorn scholars in average. Beat children in\n\nmodation rage at\n\nGirls\n\naverage attendance.\n\nBoys Girls.\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n \n 40\n 20\n 260\n 105 P4\n \n \n \n 45\n 9\n \n \n \n \n Public School.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 34\n 30\n high\n \n \n \n Government School profecs\n 40\n 32\n 2\n \n \n \n \n 26\n \n 138\n 31076\n \n \n \n 34\n 16\n \n \n \n\n3. Private schools.\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n \n 28\n 73104\n 30\n 24\n \n \n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n 35\n Private School at Hi5 $310 th 20°\n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n 27\n \n 26\n \n \n\nJota: Private schools\n\nGrand Total Yaunati 10 schools\n\n4.44\n\n25\n\n18\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n \n \n \n 4.P\n 10\n 12\n \n \n \n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n فائی\n الشرقي\n \n \n \n \n \n 20\n 14\n 12\n \n \n \n \n 20\n 16\n 12\n \n \n \n Tota's 4 Bobool.\n 148\n 106\n 42\n \n \n \n \n 110\n \n до\n \n \n \n \n 408\n 211\n P4\n \n \n\nPage 514", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351601, "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": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "content_text": "III Aberdeen:\n\nA Description of School. Few parents become eager to attend.\n\nBoys Girls Boys Girls\n\n \n 38\n Public School, Church Mission\n 120\n 125\n 12\n 2\n \n\nPlaces Description of Schools become Scholars in Boat children in Public Private.\n\n \n \n Boys\n Girls\n Boys\n Girls\n \n \n 1 Shankuvan\n 468\n 252\n 75\n 119\n \n \n 2 Hunghom\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3 Yaumati\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4 Mongkoktsui\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5 Jakokbui\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6 Aprchan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7 Aberdeen:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Totals Schools 38\n 330\n 175\n 66\n 54\n \n \n \n 408\n 201\n \n \n \n \n \n 442\n \n 29\n 22\n \n \n \n 125\n 108\n 79\n 110\n \n \n \n 90\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n 12\n \n \n \n\nScholars 1115 Boat Children 470\n\n(signed) E. J. Eitel.\n\n22th March, 1893.\n\nEnclosure 515\n\nMemo. Reformatory Schools Ord. No 19 of 1886.\n\nBy C.S.P. 988 of 22 December 15, a piece of crown land at Westpoint was granted for the purposes of Reformatory.\n\nBishop Raimondi holds this ground under an ordinary charitable lease, dated the 24 of March 1865, being under no further restrictions except to use the ground \"for the charitable purposes of Reformatory\".\n\nIt is understood the term \"Reformatory\" is to signify an institution for the education and reformation of destitute children.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354032, "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": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "content_text": "Hangtens\n\n4427\n\n417\n\nDRAFT.\n\nTelegram\n\nGovernor\n\nHunghom\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nJohn 14 Mar.\n\nMr. Lucas 14\n\nMr. Fairfield.\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Brimston.\n\nMr. Meade.\n\nMr. Buxton.\n\nMarquess of Ripon.\n\nна\n\naffirmed by\n\nM-Fairfield\n\nChiroplast\n\nappoint committee\n\nopaqueness as proposed\n\nSent 2:20 p.m.\n\nBu914/3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354435, "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": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "Night Duty.\n\nC. O.\n\n10932\n\nRecd 25 JUN 84\n\n7 boats on patrol (5 in the harbour, 1 at Yaumati & 1 at Hungham).\n\n2 steam launches on patrol 1 on the Hong Kong side & 1 on the Kowloon side.\n\n4. Under the system I now propose the boats would all, with the exception of the one on night patrol in Hungham bay, be abolished, and in their places would be substituted 3 steam pinnaces.\n\nOne of the two patrol steam launches would also be dispensed with and the harbour would be policed as follows:-\n\nDay Duty.\n\n1 steam pinnace on patrol\n\n1 launch boarding steamers.\n\ncrew of 5.\n\n1 steam pinnace in reserve (in place of the larger and more expensive launch to be abolished and sold).\n\nNight Duty.\n\n3 steam pinnaces on patrol 2 in the harbour & 1 at Yaumati 1 boat in Hungham bay & 1 steam launch on general patrol.\n\n5. The result would be a saving in crews represented by 67 Chinese Constables and 6 European Constables as against an increase of 4 engineers & 4 stokers and a saving in annual expenditure, making liberal allowance for running expenses & repairs of the pinnaces, of over $5000", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355830, "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": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## under Bridal Charter or Ordinance of the Colony\nor re-issuing within \nthe Colony Bills or notes \npayable to Bearer \non demand.\n\n### Definition of \"Bank\"\n3. The word \"Bank\" includes \nAny person, partnership or Company \ncarrying on the business of Banking \nwithin the Colony.\n\nTreas: Hunghom 18 Feb 1894\n\nDRAFT.\n\nIn Secretary to the Treasurer\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. John 3 Dec. Mr. Lucas 3 \nMr. Wingfield. \nMr. Bramston. \nMr. Meade. \nMr. Buxton.\n\nFenquess of Papers. \n3 fs \n2 Drafts \n566 \nAno \nту \nSii, \nDS. Dec. 1894\n\nIn reply to your \nletter (`13351/94`) \nI am directed \nby the Marquess of Ripon to transmit to you to be laid before Their Lordships Commissioners of the Treasury, the enclosed draft of \nAn \nOrdinance, which Lord Ripon proposes with their Lordships' concurrence to \ninstruct", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357248, "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": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 105, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "## C. O.\n\non the subject of the necessity for extending the boundaries of Hongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to be Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant.\n\nWilliam Robinsy\n\n**REC?** \nProf 13 MAY 95 \n103\n\n### Honghong Telegraph. 9th April 1895\n\n## ARE WE SAFE?\n\nThe Home Government propose to spend a very considerable sum of money in improving the naval establishments in Hongkong and the construction of docks is spoken of as one of the special works likely to be taken in hand at an early date. Well and good so far, but where are those docks to be constructed so that they shall be out of range of an enemy's guns in time of war? How can they be reasonably protected from capture and destruction by an enterprising enemy, and how are they to be defended? The whole range of hills on the mainland on the northern side of the harbour is Chinese territory. The water ways leading to it are half Chinese - to the mid channel line - and in case of war, let us say by way of illustration, with Japan, would be neutral waters, and Japanese men-of-war might sail in under the guns of the Ly-ee-mun forts and \"fetch up\" where we have repeatedly seen the Chinese fleet at anchor, opposite Chinese Kowloon, and within a couple of miles of Hungham Docks and within gun-shot of every part of the harbour and yet be all the time in Chinese waters and, theoretically at least, entitled to lie there unmolested.\n\nOf course, in case of war their passage through the Ly-ee-mun would be resisted and the channel closed by an effective torpedo defence and mines, but we could not do that without violating the neutrality of China and either rendering her hostile or authorising our enemy to violate that neutrality also, to our serious disadvantage. The Ly-ee-mun Pass is not half a mile wide. The Ly-ee-mun Batteries might be successfully attacked and silenced from the hills on the Chinese side, which command the batteries, and which are easily accessible from Mirs Bay to the north. The entire south side of the island of Hongkong is undefended and within easy distance to the south lies Lamma with deep bays and sheltered harbours under the protection of which hostile ships might assemble out of sight of any of our stations and from which a descent might be made on our shores before the presence of the enemy could be notified in town and men sent out to oppose a landing.\n\nAs far as modern artillery is concerned, how many spots are there in Hongkong waters which are out of range of hostile fire from commanding positions on Chinese territory - hostile territory in the event of war with China, neutral territory if we were at loggerheads with any other Power, but neutral territory which no enemy would under existing circumstances hesitate to violate and utilize against us? China is unable and will be, for many years to come, unable to cause her neutrality to be respected.\n\nIn the event of war between any great naval power and ourselves - say with France, Russia, Germany, the United States or Japan - and any active operations being threatened against Hongkong, the occupation of Lamma Island to the south and of the opposite mainland to the north, or, of certain points on it, would be absolutely indispensable for the successful defence of the city and harbour; for its safety as a place to which our fleet could come to dock, refit and provision; and if this is so would it not be as well, before large sums of money are spent in making docks and increasing the naval establishments to meet the uncertain contingencies of war, to consider carefully whether Hongkong, with its present boundaries, would, in time of war, be a secure place for ships to dock and repair, and, if not, whether it would not be as well - while we may and can - to take or obtain possession of such more extended boundaries as would ensure us against all risk and of which we would most certainly take possession in case of war on the plea of absolutely necessary self-defence.\n\nHongkong is not even reasonably safe to the south, as Lamma is in Chinese hands. Victoria Harbour is not a safe harbour while the hills opposite the Ly-ee-mun and at the back of Stonecutters' Island are open to and at the mercy of an enterprising enemy at no greater risk than that of violating Chinese neutrality, and while an enemy's squadron might, till war was actually declared or warlike operations had actually commenced, lie at anchor in neutral waters within easy gun-shot of our arsenal and magazines. For many reasons, the time has come either for us to think seriously of extending our boundaries a little more widely, or make up our minds to forfeit our claim to the title of the \"Malta and Gibraltar of the East.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359638, "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": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 409, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "405 \n\n(4) \n\nThe routine of the cleansing work was as follows:--\n\nThe previous night, notice was given by the Police to all occupiers of houses the cleansing of which was to take place on the following day, and they were warned to remove their furniture and effects into the street. \n\nOn the following day, the cleansing parties (who were met at their respective centres by their gangs of coolies with tools, lime-wash, and disinfectants) would proceed to the houses to which they were told off. \n\nThe floors of the houses were first sprinkled with a disinfecting fluid and chlorinated lime, and all old paper was torn off the walls and partitions, and the dirt and rubbish removed by means of shovels and brooms. \n\nThe walls and partitions were then lime-washed and the floors washed down with disinfectants. When the woodwork of the partitions and mezzanine floors was found to be old and filthy, they were removed and burnt. \n\nAll furniture and clothing outside the houses was overhauled, the old and worthless clothing was burnt, and a few buckets of lime-wash were thrown over the furniture to ensure its being washed. \n\nIn the earlier days of the operations, the inflammable rubbish from the houses was sent to be burnt at special fires lighted at convenient spots in each district, but afterwards fires were lighted in the public streets outside the houses where the gangs were working, and the rubbish burnt as soon as it came out of the houses. \n\nMr. BAMSEY rendered good service in the Western District in directing the gangs to the houses where they were to work and in interpreting for them. \n\nUntil the closing of Taipingshan, Mr. CARROLL assisted in that District in supervising the gangs of coolies and seeing that each was supplied with its proper complement of utensils for the work, and also in examining the old clothes and furniture outside the houses. \n\nDuring the day, Surgeon-Major JAMES was in attendance at the Tung Wa Hospital. On his arrival in the morning, he inspected the observation ward in which plague patients admitted during the night were placed, and all the other wards of the Hospital, forwarding any patients suffering from plague to the Plague Hospitals. He also inspected the dead in the Mortuary, separating those that had died of plague. He examined all patients admitted during the day, passing such as had plague on to the Plague Hospitals, and he was always at hand to visit and diagnose a doubtful case of plague found in the City by the search parties. \n\nSubsequently, when other duties were assigned to Surgeon-Major JAMES, the work described above was performed by Dr. WITTENBERG, and after his departure by Dr. W. E. C. Lowson. \n\nA second register of infected houses was kept, in which the cases occurring in the houses were entered daily from the registers kept at the Tung Wa Hospital, with necessary additions taken from the reports for the Western, Eastern, and Out Districts and from the Hospital returns. \n\nAs soon as it was found that a house had three entries against it, the occupants were removed and the house closed. \n\n15. On the 25th of May, six Chinese doctors supplied by the Tung Wa Hospital were attached to the search parties in the Central District, in deference to the wishes of the native agitators against each and every step taken to mitigate the plague. \n\nThese doctors accompanied the searchers in their daily work for three months, and during that period there occurred several cases in which they pronounced suspected plague cases not to be plague. In each case, subsequent reference was made to one of the European doctors engaged in the plague, and in each case his decision was that the Chinese doctor was wrong. In one instance, one of these doctors pronounced a case to be plague, which the Chinese receiving doctor at the Tung Wa Hospital correctly diagnosed as fever. \n\n16. On the 1st of June, in consequence of the delay in removing dead bodies from the Tung Wa Hospital Mortuary, caused by the difficulty in obtaining a sufficient and constant supply of coolies, a large wagon was purchased and two pairs of ponies hired to draw it. \n\nFour men of the Shropshire Light Infantry, in two shifts of two each, undertook to drive it, as no Chinese could be induced to do so. The wagon held from 8 to 12 coffins at a load and proved most useful. It was continued in use until the 30th of June. \n\n(5) \n\n17. On the 31st of May, additional bye-laws were made by the Sanitary Board, and under them notices were issued to householders in the Central District of the City of Victoria and at Kowloon, calling upon them to cleanse their houses. \n\nUp to date, 1,805 notices have been issued in the City, and in obedience to them, 1,303 houses have been cleaned under the supervision of Non-Commissioned Officers and men of the Royal Engineers. \n\nThanks to the exertions of Sergeant HALL, it was found possible to induce householders in a large portion of the Eastern District to clean their houses without having recourse to the serving of notices, whereby much time was saved. The entire villages of Yaumati and Hanghom have been cleaned in the same manner, under the supervision of two men of the Royal Engineers. \n\n18. On the 2nd of June, the men of the Shropshire Light Infantry having become thoroughly familiar with the work, the Royal Engineers were withdrawn from the duty of supervising the cleaning parties and were detailed for the work of collecting infected clothing, which had hitherto been performed by men of the Shropshire Light Infantry. \n\nFor this work, three parties were now detailed for work from 7.30 A.M. to 10.30 A.M., 2 parties from 1.30 P.M. to 4.30 P.M., and 1 party from the latter hour till 7.30 P.M. \n\nMr. MITCHELL-INNES rendered valuable service for some time, assisting the afternoon party. \n\nThe first batch of Civilian Volunteers for house-to-house visitation work entered upon their duties at this time. Two of them, Messrs. C. DUNCAN and B. F. LAMMERT, were attached to the regular parties working in Taipingshan in the mornings, and rendered very efficient service. \n\n19. On the same date, the work of emptying the houses in Taipingshan of their inhabitants was begun. The filthiest lanes and alleys were taken in hand first, and the removal of the inhabitants, 600 in number, to houses leased for the purpose in Upper and Lower Butter Streets was carried out without any difficulty by a party of Chinese Police assisted by two squads of Shropshire Light Infantry borrowed from the cleansing parties. \n\nDuring the next three days, Market Street was attacked, and an endeavour made with the same staff to remove the inhabitants to Kennedytown. Owing to the distance of the latter place, great difficulty was experienced, and nearly the whole of the inhabitants (some 1,500 in number) left the Colony in preference to going there. \n\n20. Accordingly, before proceeding with any more evictions, a large increase of staff was requisitioned, and on the 8th of June, 50 extra men from the Shropshire Light Infantry under two Colour Sergeants were detailed for this special work, while 50 men were borrowed from the cleansing parties to assist. \n\nWith this staff, all the remaining streets and lanes were cleared of their inhabitants within a week, 3,500 people being removed to houses leased by the Permanent Committee in New Street, Praya West, Centre Street, Western Street, and Queen's Road West. \n\nThe work was conducted as follows:--A street having been selected for evacuation, the inhabitants were roughly counted the day before that for which the removal was fixed, and sufficient accommodation selected for them in the houses leased for the purpose. \n\nThe inhabitants were then warned early on the morning of the day of the removal, and the poorer families were given a ticket each, entitling them to a sum of $2 towards their rent for one month in their new quarters. \n\nA few hours afterwards, the eviction parties would arrive on the scene. A portion of the men were then stationed at the side streets, levelling off the main route to the place to which the removal was to be made, to prevent the people straying to other parts of the town. \n\nA second party was told off to prevent the removal from the houses of rags and rubbish and old woodwork, such as that forming cubicles, cocklofts, etc. \n\nA third party, consisting of 6 Non-Commissioned Officers and men of the Royal Engineers specially detailed for the purpose (with carpenters and coolies to help them), attended to the nailing up of the houses as they were emptied. \n\nA fourth party was stationed at the houses about to be occupied, to see that the new tenants were properly accommodated on their arrival, that no overcrowding took place, and that no rubbish and rags were imported.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359813, "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": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "At Hunghom, Kowloon, we have three Granite docks, of the following dimensions:-\n\n| Dock No. | Length on line of blocks | Breadth at entrance | Depth of water on sill at ordinary Spring tide |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| No.I | 530 ft. | 86 ft. top, 70 ft. beltCH | 30 ft. |\n| No.II | 371 ft. | 74 ft. | 18 ft. 6 ins. |\n| No.III | 264 ft. | 49 ft. 3 ins. | 14 ft. |\n| Slip No.I | 240 ft. | 60 ft. | 14 ft. |\n| Slip No.II | 200 ft. | 160 ft. | 12 ft. |\n\nAt Tai-kok-Tsui we have one Granite dock, Cosmopolitan. \n466 ft. long, 85 ft. 6 ins. wide, with 20 ft. depth of water on sill.\n\nAt Aberdeen we have two Granite docks, \n- Hope Dock: 450 ft. long, 84 ft. wide, with 23 ft. depth of water on sill.\n- Labour: 333 ft. long, 64 ft. wide, with 16 ft. depth of water on sill.\n\nIn addition to these docks we have extensive machine shops supplied with heavy machinery, such as turning lathes, boring, drilling and punching machines, steam hammers, rollers, etc. and every appliance of the newest type suitable for carrying out repairs to the largest vessels that have so far visited this port. The electric light is installed in certain portions of our premises and in the near future it is contemplated extending the light throughout the whole establishment.\n\nWe carry a stock of material, worth about one million Dollars, which comprises iron and steel plates, angles and bars of all sizes,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360076, "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": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4]", "content_text": "# Court Proceedings\n\nMr. Deacon—Were there any near this place where you say you saw the men? (To his Worship). Of course, your Worship, we were there; we are not in the least disputing that,\n\nWitness—I saw one notice near them. Mr. Deacon—What does it say? Witness—That no one is to pass without permission of the commanding officer.\n\nMr. Deacon—I believe the road from the village is open!\n\nWitness—Yes, but there are notice boards there.\n\nMr. Deacon—How many?\n\nWitness—There is one in the road leading from the end of the village, and--\n\nMr. Deacon—What does that say? Have you read it yourself?\n\nWitness—Yes. It says that no one is to pass excepting those holding passes from the commanding officer.\n\nMr. Deacon—That is at the foot of the hill? Witness—Yes, and there is another at the top of the hill near the cross.\n\nMr. Deacon—What does that say? Witness—War Department Property.\" Mr. Deacon—Anything else? Witness—Nothing else.\n\nMr. Deacon—Is there not a notice at the junction saying that people are not to go through, but to turn back, or something of that sort?\n\nWitness—I cannot say.\n\nMr. Deacon—Just think, because the other witness told us there was.\n\nWitness—I do not know. There are a good many notices and I have not read them all.\n\nPrivate Khan, of the Hongkong Regiment, said—I was on duty at Kowloon near the sea at 11 a.m. on Sunday. I saw the three defendants on the top of a hill looking all about with an opera glass, and also looking towards Lyemoon. They looked at different places, and were in a prohibited area, about one hundred or two hundred paces from the fort.\n\nNo questions were asked by Mr. Deacon.\n\nWalter William Blades—I am master gunner in the Royal Artillery. Outside Kowloon Dock battery there is a board with a notice to the effect that admission to the defences is only granted by permission of the General Officer Commanding and that any information gained is to be considered confidential. There is another notice board at the junction of the three roads just below the Kowloon Institute. That notice says that trespassers will be prosecuted. There is also another notice about twenty yards higher up in similar terms as the first one. There is no actual defence at the junction of the three roads. Kowloon East battery is nearly a hundred yards from that junction; this is the nearest battery, and is on the left.\n\nMr. Deacon—How do you describe a field work?\n\nWitness—A military defence.\n\nMr. Deacon—You know the hill side; would you call that a field work in your military technical language?\n\nWitness—There is no work there at all.\n\nMr. Deacon—That is what I wanted to know. I believe the road is entirely open with the exception of the notices.\n\nWitness—Yes.\n\nMr. Deacon—Nothing to stop anybody? Witness—Nothing, only the notice board.\n\nMr. Deacon—The section of the act says \"No person shall enter any barrier, field work, or fortification.\" Do you say the hillside was a field work?\n\nWitness—Yes.\n\nMr. Deacon—Why?\n\nWitness—Because there is a bridge over a gully or zullah.\n\nMr. Deacon—But that is not of necessity a field work.\n\nWitness—Yes, it is part of the defence. Mr. Deacon—It is a pathway.\n\nWitness—Yes, it's a bridge.\n\nMr. Deacon—But if the bridge wasn't there you would have to jump over the nullah. Why call that a field work?\n\nWitness—Because it is part of the fortifications.\n\nMr. Deacon—(To his Worship)—Of course we were there, your Worship, and I am going to tell you why presently. (To Witness). You would call this a field work simply because the bridge is there?\n\nWitness—The bridge is part of the fortifications.\n\nMr. Deacon—Would you call the junction of the roads a field work?\n\nWitness—No, I would not.\n\nInspector Butcher—I am in charge of the Kowloon Police District. About 12.20 p.m. on the 16th inst, defendants were brought to the Yaumati Station and charged with trespassing on the field works at Hunghom. I ordered them to be searched. On the second defendant was found a pair of field glasses; on the third defendant this pocket book containing two sketches. One sketch is marked “Lyemoon”; the other bears no name. I told them they would be charged with sketching and being in possession of sketching materials.\n\nThis concluded the evidence, and Hon. Commander Hastings asked for a remand in order to prove what a field work is.\n\nMr. Deacon—I certainly oppose very strongly any remand. The police have had ample time, I submit, to get everything together, and the ship wants to go away this afternoon.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—I should like to say there has not been ample time, but I wrote to the General's A.D.C. only last night, and he arrived here at 10.30 this morning.\n\nMr. Deacon—I do not wish to take the slightest technical objection here.\n\nHis Worship—How long will it be necessary to remand the case for? I will take it at two o'clock this afternoon if you like.\n\nMr. Deacon—I do not know whether this evidence is simply to prove what a field work is! His Worship—Is that so, Captain Hastings? Hon. Commander Hastings—Yes, to prove this is a field work.\n\nMr. Deacon—If that is all, I'll technically admit it at once.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—All the documents here are in Russian, with the exception of one sketch, and we can make neither top nor tail of that. There are a lot of printed things and manuscript.\n\nMr. Deacon—Defendants say they are all private documents.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—Oh, of course, all private documents!\n\nMr. Deacon—You can have them translated. Hon. Commander Hastings—That is our difficulty as there is no one to translate them.\n\nMr. Deacon—Mr. Michaelsen will translate them.\n\nMr. Michaelsen—No, I cannot.\n\nMr. Deacon—If your Worship wishes to have them translated there is somebody in Court who can translate them.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—Oh, I don't think it's necessary.\n\nMr. Deacon—But we prefer you to have the whole thing out.\n\nMr. Michaelsen—There is no objection at all. Hon. Commander Hastings—As Mr. Deacon admits the defendants were in the field work I don't ask for a remand.\n\nHis Worship—Yes, he admits. Have you any more evidence to call?\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—I would like to prove what this sketch is.\n\nMr. Deacon—I think I will admit anything if you will give it to me.\n\nHis Worship—We want you to admit what that is a sketch of.\n\nMr. Deacon—I should like to see it if I might. The sketch was handed to Mr. Deacon who said—That is Lyemoon.\n\nHis Worship—The forts? Mr. Deacon—Yes.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—And the elevation; how did they get that?\n\nThis sketch was handed to the defendants who, through Mr. Michaelsen, said the sketch was the bearings taken by the sun.\n\nHon. Commander Hastings—... \n\n## Page 270", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-271 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362085, "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": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 310, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "In Under Sect. War Office\n\nMr.\n\nMINUTE.\n\nJohn 26.Oct.\n\nHongkong\n\n21240\n\nExtract from\n\n...\n\n305\n\nDS 28 Oct. 1896\n\nIn reply to your letter (Hong Kong 2/4837)\n\nMr. Fairfield.\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nSir R. Meade.\n\nEarl of Selborne.\n\nMr. Chamberlain.\n\nca. Iz.\n\nCopy corr. to fr..\n\nand\n\nthe\n\nof the mist, regarding\n\nthe manner\n\nin which\n\nstores should be provided from this country for the construction of that portion of the new Barracks at Hunghom, which will be paid for\n\nthe Colonial funds.\n\n5 Jan\n\nI am directed by Mr. Chamberlain to request\n\nyou to inform\n\nthe Marquess ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363035, "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": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 551, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\n113310\n\nPARREGE 21 JUN 97, MEG 21 JUN 97\n\nGeneral Officer Commanding to\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong\n\n543\n\nNo 239/180.\n\nSir,\n\nHead Quarters,\n\n2nd December 1896.\n\ntong trong 12\n\nWith reference to my\n\nletter\n\nNo 239/181, dated 6th June, 1896 and on the subject\n\nof previous correspondence\n\nland\n\nof a piece of Colonial Military at Hunghom transferred to the Colonial Government under the conditions laid down in Secretary of State's Circular of 30th December, 1894, to be leased to the Dock Co., I have the honour to ask the value of the land transferred that I may be able to reply to the War Office who have called for this information.\n\n40", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363961, "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": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "page_number": 155, "title": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "content_text": "## ENCLOSURE 3\n### 2 December, 1890\n#### 154\n\n1. Utter Singh, Indian Sergeant Major charged with money lending to Mr. da Rocha, formerly telephone clerk Central Station, while still in the Police Service: -\n\nMr. da Rocha, Signalman in the Harbour Department states:-\n\n\"I see the documents produced, they are in my handwriting. They were written by me on the 16th September 1895. I was at that time employed as Telephone Clerk in the Police Department. I am acquainted with the Sergeant Major. I treat him like a friend. I asked him about a month before the date of the letter produced if he could get any Indians to lend me some money as my family was sick. He answered me the day after that he had got an Indian to lend me the money. It was $50 that I wanted. He told me the Indian in question was a watchman employed at Hunghom. He did not tell me in what employ. I then made a promissory note which I can produce. It was made out in the name of Gunda Singh. I promised to pay $75 for the use of the $50. There was no limit of time fixed. A day or two after I received from the hands of the Sergeant Major the sum of $50. I received it at the Central Station opposite the Telephone Office in the small...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 364304, "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": "CO129-278 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [11-12]", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-278 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [11-12]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nham states:-\n\nPolice Office,\n\n12 October, 1897.\n\nYeung Kai cross examined by A. S. No. 24 Gra-\n\n79\n\nJ\n\nI have known you for a long time. I first knew you at Hunghom. It was about 4 or 5 years ago. I can scarcely remember it.\n\nAt that time I had no employment, I came to witness in the Witchell case. I lo visit No.191 (Tang Kan). I did not know that Tang Kam was arrested for assault & robbery.\n\nI was employed in the gambling house for 7 or 8 months last year. It was in the 9th moon that you arrested me. You arrested me for being abroad without a pass. Then a badge and license of an excise officer was found on me. I was fined $115 altogether.\n\nA. S. Graham states:-\n\n(So.) * 皆 1. e. Yeung Kai.\n\nI have known Yeung Kai for 3 years. He was at that time at Hunghom. He was an informer to P. C. 191 Tang Kan.\n\nAfter leaving Hunghom I did not meet the man again till last October or November, I was on patrol. I met him at Pound Lane", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-278 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365810, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 145, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "140 \n\ngave is fairly correct, except for some of the dates and part of the conversation. What he said about the money I received is correct. I cannot recollect the conversation regarding the letter that Cheng On spoke of in his evidence.\n\nWhen the gambling house in Kwai Wa Lane closed, I was informed by P.C. Yeung Fat that one of the masters had gone to Hunghom. I afterwards found by enquiries that there was a house opened at Hunghom. That was in February 1897. In January 1897, I received an invitation to a Chinese dinner in a restaurant at the corner of Ng Kwai Fong. The invitation was given me by Chinese Detective Fong Sing. I asked him who was giving the dinner. He said the big Kai Fong. I did not go. He told me that most of the Inspectors and Sergeants were going. I was told afterwards, about a fortnight afterwards, that the dinner was given by the gambling house keepers in Wa Lane and Cheung Hing Street. It was one of the Chinese Detectives that told me. It was either P.C. 202 or P.C. Yeung Fat. I am not sure which.\n\nI was on patrol on the night of the dinner. I saw some Chinese detectives leaving the restaurant at the time. When I got back to my quarters after patrol at about 11.45 p.m., I saw Inspector Stanton, Inspector Kemp, Sergeant Holt, and two or three other European Police coming along Hollywood Road. I concluded they were returning from the dinner.\n\nIn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365926, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "# 255\n## 18\n\nO MI-CHEUNG states:--I served in the Hongkong Water Police Force for fourteen years and eight months. I was a detective for thirteen years and six months and an acting sergeant and a sergeant for about thirteen years of this period.\n\n** \n\nOn the 15th July, 1897, Inspector Hanson took me into Victoria Gaol. Just before arriving at the gaol, he said to me, \"Do you know anything about Mr. Corcoran receiving $3.00 a day from gambling houses? Did you hand it to him?\" I told him I knew nothing about it. He then took me inside and the chief warder searched me, after which I was taken to the office of Mr. May, locked in a cell on the first floor, and then brought up before the Superintendent of Gaol, Mr. May, Mr. Dennys, and Mr. Sung Sing, who acted as interpreter. Mr. Dennys asked me if I had ever collected gambling money and handed it to Mr. Corcoran. I replied \"No.\" He said \"No? Sham In says you have.\" Sham In was then called in and Mr. Dennys asked if I knew him. I said \"No, I do not know him.\" Mr. Dennys asked Sham In if he knew me and he replied \"Yes.\" I asked how many times and when he had seen me. He replied \"In the 3rd decade of the 12th moon of last year (January, 1897) above a barber's shop.\" I asked in what street and the number of the house, and he said he could not remember. I asked to whom he had paid the money, and he said \"To Yeung Fat and Tang Chung; uncle A Cheang (meaning me).\" I said \"I have done nothing to confess.\" Mr. May then sent Sham In away and said to me, \"You have heard what Sham In said.\" I replied \"He is a prisoner and wants to be let out.\" Mr. May said, \"I believe he speaks the truth.\" I said, \"I have done no such thing.\" Mr. May said, \"Tell everything and I will speak to the Governor, who will perhaps let you off and let you remain a Sergeant, otherwise you may be placed on the charge sheet, and charged and if there is evidence, you may be sentenced to six or nine months' hard labour and afterwards be banished for five years. Why is it you will not tell? Corcoran has resigned and you need not be afraid to speak; he cannot look after you now.\" I replied, \"Yes, if I know I must tell and look after myself before others.\" Mr. May said in English, \"You are very foolish.\" When I was before Mr. May and Mr. Dennys, Mr. Dennys wrote down my statement. I was sent away and locked up.\n\nThe next day, 16th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. Sung Sing was the interpreter. Mr. May again questioned me as on the previous day.\n\nOn the third day, 17th July, I was taken out again before Mr. May. He said, \"There is no one present, you speak in a low tone and tell me about Corcoran's affair.\" I replied, \"I know nothing about it.\" I then said, \"Your honour, give me permission to send to my house for something to eat, I have not eaten anything for several days.\" He replied, \"I will not give you permission,\" and in English \"I don't care if you die.\" I asked also for permission to be allowed to see my wife, and he refused.\n\nIn the afternoon, I was taken out again before Mr. May and Mr. Ewens, solicitor. Mr. Ewens said he was employed by my wife to inquire why I was arrested. Mr. Ewen's interpreter, Sin Tak-fan, said \"If you know anything about Mr. Corcoran receiving bribes, speak out and the Governor may let you off, if not, you will be banished.\" I said to Mr. Ewens \"Then banish me soon, for I have nothing but prison fare to eat here. I have not eaten anything for days.\"\n\nI was detained in Gaol for six days, 15th to 21st July, and during that time was shown no banishment order. On the 21st July, I was banished. I afterwards went to reside at Sham Shui Po in Chinese territory on the borders of British Kowloon. On or about the 10th of August, Mr. May visited me there. He said \"You know about Mr. Corcoran receiving bribes and also Inspector Stanton and others. If you will tell me what you know, I will allow you to return to Hongkong and reinstate you in the Police.\" I said, \"I do not know anything about it.\" He said \"If you will not tell me, I will write to the Kowloon Mandarin and request him not to allow you to reside here.\" I said \"I do not know, how can I tell?\" He said, \"Think the matter over, I will come to see you again.\" I replied, \"If it is about gambling matters, you need not come.\" He said, \"You are a Chinaman and they are foreign devils. Why is it you protect them? You are truly a fool.\"\n\nHe then left, and I left Sham Shui Po the next day.\n\nSworn by the above-named ✪ Mi-cheung in my presence.\n\n(81) B★M (O MI-CHEUNG)\n\n[L.S.]\n\nE. H. FRASER,\nVICE-CONSUL,\n\n## SCHEDULE No. 5.\n\n### POLICE COURT-REPORT.\n\n#### CHINA MAIL, Saturday, November 6th, 1897\n\nIp Yeung, an interpreter employed by the Sanitary Board, was charged at the Magistracy to-day, that he unlawfully did, with intent to defraud, obtain from one Tong Sang, by a certain false pretence, a sum of $17, at Hunghom on 7th July. The defendant was employed as interpreter to the Sanitary Inspector at Hunghom, and on several occasions, he applied to the complainant for sums of money, stating they were for the Inspector. The money was handed over on the understanding that the complainant and three other pig dealers should receive their licences. The extortion was discovered in consequence of Sanitary Inspector Macdonald having summoned the complainant for keeping swine without a licence. On one occasion, complainant, in accordance with a request by the interpreter, collected several fowls, capons, and eggs and took them to the interpreter to give to the Inspector. The defendant said he would also have to get a bottle of whisky, and complainant handed him $1, and the interpreter went out and bought the bottle of whisky. Complainant and the interpreter then went to the Inspector's house and offered him the articles as a present. The Inspector refused to take them. They left the Inspector's house and went back to where the interpreter resided, where the defendant said, in answer to his question as to why the Inspector would not receive the present, \"Bring $10 to me for the Inspector.\" Complainant went home and consulted with the other pig-keepers, and they agreed to give $10. They borrowed the money, and complainant went to the shop where defendant resided, but as he was not at home, he left the money with the shop-keeper. Sometime afterwards, he met the interpreter in the street and he asked him to get another $6 for him. The pig-keeper collected the $6, and the complainant had to pay his subscription to that amount by pawning his jacket. This money was also received by defendant. All this took place before Inspector Macdonald took over the district. At this stage, the case was adjourned. Defendant was granted bail in two sureties for $250 each.\n\n#### CHINA MAIL, November 10th, 1897\n\nIp Yeung, the Sanitary Board interpreter charged with obtaining $16 by false pretences from a pig-keeper at Hunghom, was to-day convicted of the charge and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. The interpreter said he collected the money and gave it to the Inspector. He first of all was offered $10, which he took to Inspector McAllister, who said it was not enough, as the pig-dealer had given $20 to the Sergeant at the fort for permission to keep pigs. He applied to the pig-dealer for more money, and received the $16, which he handed over to the Inspector. Inspector McAllister gave evidence denying the statements that he had been offered money, and said he had reported to the Sanitary Board against the application of the complainant to keep pigs, as the site was on military ground. He was not aware of the transactions of defendant until the case was brought up. The complainant denied that he ever paid money to the Sergeant at the fort. The Magistrate explained to the complainant that he could not build on military ground, and pointed out the folly of attempting to obtain permission by offering money to the interpreter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365937, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## SCHEDULE No. 6.\n\n**COPY.**\n\n266\n\n**ENCLOSURE**\n\n**POLICE COURT-REPORT, CHINA MAIL, Saturday, November 6th, 1897**\nIp Young, an interpreter employed by the Sanitary Board, was charged at the Magistracy to-day, that he unlawfully did, with intent to defraud, obtain from one Tong Sang, by a certain false pretence, a sum of $17, at Hunghom on 7th July. The defendant was employed as interpreter to the Sanitary Inspector at Hunghom, and on several occasions he applied to the complainant for sums of money, stating they were for the Inspector. The money was handed over on the understanding that the complainant and three other pig dealers should receive their licences. The extortion was discovered in consequence of Sanitary Inspector Macdonald having summoned the complainant for keeping swine without a licence. On one occasion, complainant, in accordance with a request by the interpreter, collected several fowls, capons and eggs and took them to the interpreter to give to the Inspector. The defendant said he would also have to get a bottle of whisky, and complainant handed him $1, and the interpreter went out and bought the bottle of whisky. Complainant and the interpreter then went to the Inspector's house and offered him the articles as a present. The Inspector refused to take them. They left the Inspector's house and went back to where the interpreter resided, where the defendant said, in answer to his question as to why the Inspector would not receive the present, \"Bring $10 to me for the Inspector.\" Complainant went home and consulted with the other pig-keepers, and they agreed to give $10. They borrowed the money, and complainant went to the shop where defendant resided, but as he was not at home he left the money with the shop-keeper. Sometime afterwards he met the interpreter in the street and he asked him to get another $6 for him. The pig-keeper collected the $6, and the complainant had to pay his subscription to that amount by pawning his jacket. This money was also received by defendant. All this took place before Inspector Macdonald took over the district. At this stage the case was adjourned. Defendant was granted bail in two sureties for $250 each.\n\n**CHINA MAIL, November 10th, 1897**\nIp Yeung, the Sanitary Board interpreter charged with obtaining $16 by false pretences from a pigkeeper at Hunghom, was to-day convicted of the charge and sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. The interpreter said he collected the money and gave it to the Inspector. He first of all was offered $10, which he took to Inspector McAllister, who said it was not enough, as the pig-dealer had given $20 to the Sergeant at the fort for permission to keep pigs. He applied to the pig-dealer for more money, and received the $16, which he handed over to the Inspector. Inspector McAllister gave evidence denying the statements that he had been offered money, and said he had reported to the Sanitary Board against the application of the complainant to keep pigs, as the site was on military ground. He was not aware of the transactions of defendant until the case was brought up. The complainant denied that he ever paid money to the Sergeant at the fort. The Magistrate explained to the complainant that he could not build on military ground, and pointed out the folly of attempting to obtain permission by offering the money to the interpreter.\n\n**Report by the Captain Supt. of Police.**\n\n**Hon. Colonial Secretary.**\n\nI submit that clause 3 of the Petitioner's original agreement cannot be read so as to entitle him to pension up to the date on which his misconduct was discovered.\n\nThe grant of pension is under the clause clearly conditional on satisfactory conduct.\n\nI would further point out that when the Petitioner joined the Force, Ord. No. 8 of 1869 relating to Police Pensions was in force. The 4th section of that Ordinance reads as follows:-\n\n\"It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to regulate the general conditions upon which, and the manner in which pensions, superannuation allowances or other relief, are to be granted to members of the Police Force and to determine in each particular case whether there shall or shall not be granted to any member of the Police Force, a pension, superannuation allowance, or other relief, and in the event of the Governor in Council determining that there shall be granted to any member of the Police Force, a pension, superannuation allowance, or other relief...\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366010, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## WEATHER-FORECASTS AND STORM-WARNINGS ISSUED FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.\n\nA knowledge of typhoons and their paths is often required when you have to decide whether to remain at your moorings or to slip your cable and run; for instance, a vessel between Hongkong and Swatow in an anchorage sheltered against N and E winds will be safe while a typhoon is moving from E to W across the China Sea, but should the centre move northwards, the vessel might be thrown on a lee shore when the wind backs through W to S.\n\nA steamer at anchor, when a typhoon is approaching, should get up steam, and a sailer should, if possible, take down the top masts as soon as it blows a fresh breeze in the squalls. With reference to a sailing vessel, the time when to begin striking the top masts must, of course, depend upon the extent to which she is undermanned. Striking the masts increases the rolling. A sheltered anchorage must be selected, and when the centre passes very near, the berth may have to be changed to avoid being thrown on a lee shore.\n\n### METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS.\n\nMeteorological Signals are hoisted on the Mast beside the Time-Ball at Kowloon Point for the information of Masters of Vessels leaving the Port. They do not imply that bad weather is expected in the Colony itself.\n\n| Signal | Meaning |\n| --- | --- |\n| **A DRUM** | Indicates a Typhoon to the East of the Colony. |\n| **A BALL** | Indicates a Typhoon to the West of the Colony. |\n| **A CONE, Point Upwards** | Indicates a Typhoon to the North of the Colony. |\n| **A CONE, Point Downwards** | Indicates a Typhoon to the South of the Colony. |\n\nRED SIGNALS indicate that the Centre is believed to be more than 300 miles away from the Colony. BLACK SIGNALS indicate that the Centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony.\n\n### NIGHT SIGNALS.\n\n* **TWO LANTERNS Hoisted Vertically** indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to veer.\n* **TWO LANTERNS Hoisted Horizontally** indicate bad weather in the Colony and that the wind is expected to back.\n\nThe Signals are repeated on the Flagstaff of the Godown Company at Kowloon, and also, by day only, at the Harbour Office and on H. M.'s Receiving Ship.\n\n## LOCAL STORM-WARNINGS.\n\nThe Colony itself is warned of approaching Typhoons by means of the **TYPHOON-GUN** placed at the foot of the Mast, which is fired whenever a strong gale of wind is expected to blow here.\n\n### NOTICE BOARDS.\n\nNotice Boards placed at the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company's Offices, Observations made at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. are exhibited shortly after 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Peddar's Wharf, at the Harbour Office, and at the Office of the Kowloon Godown Company. Weather-forecasts and Storm-warnings are exhibited daily about 11 a.m., and also at other hours, and at night, whenever necessary while Typhoons are raging in the Far East. The China Coast Meteorological Register is exhibited about Noon (Sundays and Government holidays excepted).\n\n## THE LAW OF STORMS.\n\nFurther information concerning the weather to be expected while signals are hoisted, and sailing directions, are given in \"The Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas.\"\n\nShipmasters may obtain by telegraph the latest information as to weather at any station reporting to the Hongkong Observatory by payment for a reply of at least ten words (2.6, twelve words including the address). Application may also be made for similar information to be telegraphed on some future specified day.\n\nWith reference to typhoon anchorages in China, beginning with Hainan, we have Backli bay (19° 41' N. 108° 39′ E.) with shelter against winds between NNE. and S. only. It is not a very good labour, and the natives are not to be trusted. In southern Hainan, we have Yulinkan bay 18° 12', ... Ga bay (18° 13', 109° 34′) may also be used. Manin harbour (19° 57', 109° 52') can be used when the centre is to the north of Hainan. Hunghom bay (20° 17', 110° 23′) is shallow and is not often used, except when no better place is within reach. Hui-ling-san (21° 34′, 111° 47') and Nan'ao bay (21° 35', 112° 34') are available between Hainan and Hongkong. Near Hongkong is the excellent harbour by Saint John's Island (21° 40', 112° 42'), which is commonly used. Vessels of great draught anchor to the S. of the position given. Tongku harbour (22° 35′, 113° 55') is used in case of typhoons crossing the China Sea. It offers no shelter against W. winds. This is at the mouth of the Canton River. Higher up the river, ships anchor under the Bogue forts, although typhoon centres pass that spot, but then it does not blow so hard as out at sea, when the centre is inland. Capsingmoon pass to the W. of Mahwan is shelter against typhoons, but Chingwan bay (22° 49' 114° 96') is one of the best harbours in China. In consequence, it is too crowded during a typhoon. To the NW. of Stonecutter's Island (22° 20' 114° 8') launches find shelter. Tytam bay to the SE. of Hongkong is an excellent harbour. Deep bay (22° 47', 114° 16') gives better shelter than Kors bay (22° 48', 114° 13'), but some vessels prefer the latter as the storm-signals can be seen from these. A position between Taipintong and the Channel Rocks makes the best anchorage. Mirs bay (22° 38', 114° 27′) under Pengchau offers shelter to vessels bound for Hongkong from a northern direction. Between Mirs bay and Swatow, there are no very good typhoon harbours, but shelter may be found against NE. winds. By Namoa Island (23° 28', 116° 57') is excellent anchorage. Tongsan bay (23° 47', 117° 35′) is much used, and also Amoy harbour. Making harbour (23° 32', 118° ...) by the Pescadores is excellent. In Pilquan harbour (24° 10′, 120° 31') there is good shelter from NE. winds to vessels under 15 feet draught. The Haitan Straits (25° 26', 119° 44′) are very ... There are several anchorages round Chusan. In Luzon, there is an anchorage at the entrance to Manila bay, N. of Corregidor Island (14° 25', 120° 33'). On the S. coast of Mindoro, we have Garza bay (12° 13′, 121° 11′).\n\nWhen the red drum is hoisted, the weather is generally fine in Hongkong, and settled fine if the typhoon moves northward, so that this signal does not by any means imply bad weather here. Steamers bound for northern, western or southern ports should then lose no time in starting, as they may expect more or less fine weather. Those bound for the Philippines should take precautions to avoid cyclones as explained above. Sailing vessels bound for western or southern parts should lose no time in starting, but those that are bound for the north or east ought to remain in the harbour awaiting information, should the wind be westerly here at the time, as they may expect to fall in with calms or contrary breezes after starting, even ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366112, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n440 \nexpenditure involved in the foregoing recommendations, the Captain Superintendent of Police in a report on the financial side of the question, of which I enclose a further copy, proposes to effect certain economies in the following directions. \n(1) The abolition of the Police night patrol boat in Bunghom Bay, and the reduction of the Water Police establishment by one European.\n\n18th Dec. 1899\n\nI am prepared to adopt his expressed opinion that the economies suggested will not militate against that object.\n\nI have therefore to submit them for your favourable consideration and to request authority to give effect to them in due course as circumstances permit.\n\nMy personal belief, however, is that the infea...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 366860, "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": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 4. 265 C.0. 14286 REC (Pre 27 JUN 98)\n\nPolice Office. 1st October, 1897.\n\nFor what Tse Leung states.\n\nI received every day $1.55 from the gambling house at No.2 Wa Lane for Indian Sergeants Nos. 572 and 586. No.586 wore a crimson sash. I began to make the payments about 2 years ago. I paid 80 cents a day to 586 and 70 cents a day to 572. I kept 5 cents a day for myself as wages.\n\nI paid 586 at uncertain intervals. Whenever I saw him I paid him. I paid him up to the time he was dismissed. He was dismissed about the 12th moon of last year. I also paid him 80 cents a day from the Cheung Hing Street gambling house during the same period.\n\nI did not pay the money personally to 572. I used to pay it to Lo Chau, a Chinese Constable. After he left the service in the 11th moon of last year, I still paid it to him (Lo Chau) at the corner of Pound Lane. I also paid Lo Chau 70 cents a day for 572 on behalf of the Cheung Hing Street Gambling House. Lo Chau lived at Hung Ham after he left the Police. He used to come over to Victoria to buy miscellaneous articles for his shop at Hungham.\n\nNo.586 came and beat the coolies before he was paid any money. He then asked me to get some bribes for him. I told...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367097, "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": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 506, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n\n2.\n\nAs regards the curtailment of expenditure on Public Works Extraordinary, I beg to inform you that work will be begun this year in connection with either the improvement of the Recreation Ground, Happy Valley, for which a sum of $16,000 had been entered in the Estimates, or the additions and alterations for Mount Gough and Hunghom Police Stations for which a sum of $9000 is borne on the Estimates.\n\nThese two sums make a total of $25,000 and probably represent all the curtailment that is possible, because all the other Public Works Extraordinary are already finished, or absolutely necessary, or under contracts already in progress. It may not be unlikely, however, that the expenditure", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369437, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## THE FINAL STRUGGLE.\n\nWay to Knutsford Terrace. Bowcroft place that they anticipated was in Tytam seized the Observatory and Banderson Harbour. The Heungshom, which had re- turned during the night from Mirs Bay, was loaded with men and run right on to the beach in Stanley. The Fatshan and the Honam were also respectively run into Chunghom and Tsimshui Wan bays; at the latter place the landing proved to be difficult, but as it was unopposed delay only ensued.\n\nAll the steamers were accompanied by torpedo boats. The life rafts and pontoons of the captured vessels were of the greatest assistance in rafting guns and ammunition ashore. The Pasig, escorted by six torpedo-boats and followed by the Eclaireur, entered Tytam Bay; the Eclaireur searching the crest of the hill with shell to see if the redoubt had been re-armed.\n\nIn the duel between the forts the Western had all been silenced, and only one 10\" gun in the Eastern could be fought when it was over. The torpedo depot was in ruins, the Admiralty coal depot, the Kowloon Godowns, and Tsim-Tea-Tsui Police Station were all one roaring mass of flames. Gigantic pillars of fire were soaring up from the petroleum tanks at Tai-kok-tsui, canopied by a dense pall of black smoke.\n\nChater's bungalow; there they fought with savage stubbornness from house to house in the Terrace, from room to room in the Bungalow and Observatory, till it seemed that assailants and assailed would be annihilated together. In hand-to-hand fighting the under-sized Crapauds were but a poor match for the long lean Pathans and beef-fed Britishers; moreover, the slight shelter our fellows had prevented the enemy overbearing them with weight of numbers and fire. About 10.30 the enemy drew off, when a few rounds from one of the Hung Hom forts crushed Bungalow, Observatory and Terrace into shapeless ruins as if they had been built of cards.\n\nDirectly the Pasig was round the point she was met by a storm of shell from the Swift; with her bows blown in, she sank within 50 feet of the stem of the Swift.\n\nThe few survivors of the British forces from the ruins attempted to make their way to Kowloon West; before, however, they could reach its shelter, the swarms of the enemy closed round and surged over the little scattered groups as they died fighting desperately, the victorious enemy rushing on to the ruined Western forts to be met by a feeble musketry fire from the remnants of the garrison. Directly, however, that the Jack was down, Rookshank from Stonecutter's East opened on them, literally blowing the enemy out of the fort--then, turning his attention to Hung Hom, soon silenced the sole surviving heavy gun there.\n\nFrom the island about 3 a.m. the enemy were observed to be moving out of S.E. bay. The only resistance at any landing was at Deep Water Bay...\n\nDe Horsey had fully expected that he would be torpedoed and made his preparations accordingly; one of his reasons for hauling his crafts into such shoal water, where they had scarcely a foot of water under their keels, he had further moored his vessels head and stern with anchors laid out broad on each bow and quarter, and hove his chains taut as bars. In addition he had lashed spars at intervals of about 30 feet perpendicularly to the side, through the ports, with their heels resting on the mud, so that the ships were practically on stilts.\n\nThe Swift had a great hole blown in her port quarter, but the blow having been a glancing one, the torpedo had not gone through her, or blown off the poop. The water rushing in the ship settled, tautening the lashings of the shores as she took the ground upright; still as a fighting machine or stationary battery she was uninjured. The Rattler, on the other hand, was cut in two and her after guns disabled.\n\nBy 7 a.m. the allies had 8000 men landed. The Demoures and Triomphante were vigorously engaging the batteries above Deep Water Bay, and searching the crest of the hills with time shell and shrapnel.\n\nTaught by experience the 'Hacienda' gun (only one had been replaced) did not reply and indicate her position till the Tai On entered the Aberdeen Passage, when it opened with such excellent effect that the vessel had to be beached on Aplichau sand, from whence the troops she conveyed had to be ferried across to Hongkong. Landing was also effected from two of the troopers in Telegraph Bay; here, however, the enemy suffered severely from the fire of light guns sent forward by Col. Rordon, who commanded at Pokfolum, Col. Yardhill commanded on the Tytam Road, where the heavy attack was expected. General White was in the centre.\n\nRordon was left severely alone till about 8 a.m., when the men-of-war appeared off Sandy Bay, battered his earthworks and dismounted his 40-pounders without suffering commensurate loss. By 9 the allies had every available man ashore,- 8,000 French regulars, 2,000 Russians, and nearly 1,000 seamen and marines from the ships of war and transports. Far from underrating the resistance, General Morbleu rated it high, and his estimate was amply justified. The main assault was on Yardhill's position, the enemy coming up the Tytam Road and along the crest of the eastern hills bounding the road.\n\nThe first discharge from the Swift had been the signal for the enemy some thousand strong to push along the Shaukiwan Road, when they were met by a fierce fire from the Nordenfelt in the redoubt below the crest of the hill and from the gun in the fore top of the Rattler. The remaining torpedo boats backing and turning, discharged their torpedoes again, struck the remains of the Rattler, bringing down her foremast, blew up the remainder of the wreck, and were themselves sunk by the Swift's fire. The Eclaireur had a number of troop boats in tow, but dared not let them proceed till the Swift's resistance had been overcome.\n\nThe two other boats both struck the Rattler abaft the funnel. One struck the Swift on the port quarter---a slanting blow---and was sunk herself; another also, as she shot past for the Rattler, was cut in two. The Rattler herself sank, and another running over the chain from the Swift's port quarter, lost her port propeller, and swinging round to port broadside on to the stern of the Swift was sunk by her fire.\n\nThe lashings of too many shores had however been cut, and the ship rolled over to port in deep water, swamping one of the cutters of the French as they boarded, killing and drowning both boarders and boarded.\n\nBy ... the allies had 8000 men landed...\n\nThe first discharge from the Swift had been the signal for the enemy...\n\nBy 9 the allies had every available man ashore.\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370993, "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": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "page_number": 594, "title": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "content_text": "583\n\n88 dead bodies (62 male and 26 female) were brought to the Hospital Mortuary to await burial.\n\nIn the case of 18 dead bodies (13 brought in dead and 5 of the deaths in hospital), I considered internal examination necessary to a satisfactory diagnosis of the causes of death, and made such internal examinations at the Public Mortuary. No objection has been made by the Tung Wah Hospital Directors or other officers to the transference to the Public Mortuary of such bodies as in my opinion, for reasons of public health or other cause, required post-mortem section.\n\nFree burial was provided by the charitable funds of the Tung Wah Hospital during the three months under review for 402 poor persons from the Tung Wah Hospital itself, the Government Civil Hospital, and the Public Mortuary.\n\n25,374 out-patients (18,108 male and 7,266 female) are reported as having been seen by the six native doctors in the out-patient department.\n\n1685 vaccinations were performed during the past three months, as compared with 1588 during the whole of 1898, in Hong Kong and the outlying villages by a public vaccinator connected with the Tung Wah Hospital, as follows:\n\n \n \n Male\n Female\n Total\n \n \n Hong Kong\n 703\n 789\n 1492\n \n \n Aberdeen\n 25\n 26\n 51\n \n \n Stanley\n 23\n 19\n 42\n \n \n Shaukiwan\n 14\n 10\n 24\n \n \n Hunghom\n ...\n \n\n(There is a missing data in the original text for Hungham, so it is indicated with \"...\" as per the guidelines.)\n\n was removed as per guideline 12 and 16, and the table was properly formatted. The text \"Hong-Kong\" was corrected to \"Hong Kong\" to follow standard naming conventions. The missing data for \"Hungham\" was indicated with \"...\". The hyphenation and spacing were corrected throughout the text. The original text's structure was maintained, with adjustments made for proper paragraph and table formatting in HTML.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370994, "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": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "page_number": 595, "title": "CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4]", "content_text": "C.O. 12673 584\n\nThere\n\nf\n\nHow? 23 MAY\n\n \n Male\n Female\n Total\n \n \n Hungham 13\n 17\n \n \n \n Yaumati 36\n 23\n 59\n \n \n Total 1685\n 167\n \n \n\ndestitute persons were temporarily housed and fed, as follows:-\n\n \n Sent from Registrar General's Office\n 31\n \n \n Recommended by Po Leung Kuk Committee\n 24\n \n \n Shipwrecked seamen\n 29\n \n \n Arrived destitute from Saigon\n 5\n DO.\n \n \n DO. Japan\n 78\n \n \n \n Total\n 167\n \n \n\nDuring the quarter Dr. Chung successfully performed the following surgical operations:-\n\n7 Paracentesis abdominis for dropsy.\n\n2 Evan's operation for entropion\n\n1 iridectomy\n\n1 amputation of supernumerary finger\n\n1 reduction of subglenoid dislocation of shoulder\n\n1 circumcision.\n\n1 removal of sequestra of bone\n\n1 forceps operation for difficult labour.\n\nThe last named operation is interesting as marking the introduction of western obstetric surgery into the Tung Wah Hospital. The child unfortunately died five days later but the mother was discharged well.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 375426, "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": "CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3]", "page_number": 253, "title": "CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nHunghom Police Station,\n\n12th December, 1898.\n\n251\n\nI have the honour to report for your information, with reference to the attached report of Piracy. That on the 10th instant at 9.20 p.m. Lo Tak Fat, master of fishing junk No.5669 H. reported to me at this station that his junk had been pirated in Chinese waters, and several of his crew killed and wounded. I at once telephoned to Tsun Sha Tsui Police Station for a launch to remove the wounded to Hospital. I then went on board the junk where I found things generally as he had reported.\n\nNo.3 Police Launch (with Inspector Kemp and Sergeant Gourlay on board) arrived soon after and removed the dead bodies to the public mortuary and the wounded men to the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nI inspected the junk on the morning of the 11th instant. I found eight bullet holes in the woodwork; these bullets had all been fired in from the starboard side and stern. I also saw four or five blackened spots on the deck where powder had ...\n\n[To be addressed to:] Honourable F.H.May, C.M.G.\n\nCaptain Superintendent of Police.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-297 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 376380, "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": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Present salary per month | Increased salary per month | Remarks\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| $267.33 | $310.33 | |\n| $43 | | |\n\n## Office\n\n| Name | Brought forward per month | Present salary per month | Increased salary per month | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Li Fuk | | | | Boatman out-station, Chan Wan |\n| A | | | 1 | do |\n| Pan Tsau | | 17 | 1 | do |\n| Lok Kau | | 6 | | do |\n| Cheung Yau | | 6 | 1 | do |\n| Chan Un | | | 1 | do |\n| Li Yan | | €77 | 1 | do |\n| Fan Lin | | 7 | 1 | do |\n| Hung Krai | | 7 | 1 | do |\n| Iu Cho | | | 1 | do |\n| Ip Kwan | | | | do |\n| Lau Lung | | 888 | | do |\n| Lau Kam | | | | do |\n| Ip Sang | | | | Boatman at Chung Chet gia |\n| Wong Tai Lol | (0 | 696 | 1 | |\n| | | 7 | | tion |\n| Kwan Lung | | 7 | 8 | do |\n| Ng Chun | | | 8 | do |\n| Ng Mun | ry | 7 | 8 | do |\n| Li Yun | | 6 | 7 | Messenger |\n| Li On | | 6 | 7 | do |\n| Hui Mo Lit | | 16 | 17 | Interpreter at Hunghom |\n| Li Tse Ban | | 15 | 17 | Interpreter at Shamshuipo |\n| Mak Lun | -do man | | | Watchman at Gap Rock |\n| Sul Man | | 10 | 12 | |\n| Lui Yau On | | 9 | 11 | Watchman at Gap D'Aguilar |\n| Chan Shing Yau | | 9 | 11 | Watchman at Blackhead's |\n| | Carried forward | $459.33 | $534.33 | $75 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 376553, "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": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "page_number": 231, "title": "CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Report on Tung Wah Hospital\n\nOne thousand one hundred and four (1,104) vaccinations were performed in the Vaccination Department in connection with this Hospital during the quarter as follows: Victoria, Stanley, Hunghom, Shaukiwan, Yaumati, Aberdeen.\n\n## TABLE showing the Admissions and Mortality in the Tung Wah HOSPITAL during the First Quarter of 1900\n\n| Category | Total | Western Treatment | Chinese Treatment |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| ADMISSIONS | | | |\n| GENERAL DISEASES | | | |\n| ‡ Small-pox, *Plague, Influenza | | | |\n| ‡ Beri-Beri | 64 | 44 | 20 |\n| ‡ Malarial Fever | 54 | 17 | 37 |\n| ‡ a. Intermittent Fever | 3 | 3 | |\n| ‡ b. Remittent Fever | 19 | 3 | 16 |\n| ‡ c. Malarial Cachexia | 1 | 1 | |\n| ‡ Erysipelas, Septicaemia, Tetanus | 6 | 6 | |\n| ‡ Tubercles | 3 | 3 | |\n| ‡ Tertiary Syphilis | 1 | 1 | |\n| ‡ Starvation, Rheumatism, New Growth, Anaemia, Debility | 8 | 1 | 7 |\n| LOCAL DISEASES | | | |\n| ‡ Diseases of the Nervous System | 14 | | 14 |\n| ‡ Eye | 1 | 1 | |\n| ‡ Circulatory System | | | |\n| ‡ Respiratory System | 30 | 16 | 14 |\n| ‡ Digestive System | 122 | 17 | 103 |\n| ‡ Lymphatic System | 1 | 1 | |\n| ‡ Urinary System | 6 | 6 | |\n| ‡ Generative System | 156 | 13 | 118* |\n| ‡ Male Organs | | | 40 |\n| ‡ Female Organs | | | 4 |\n| ‡ Organs of Locomotion | 19 | 19 | |\n| ‡ Cellular Tissue, Skin | | | |\n| ‡ General Injury | 1 | 1 | |\n| ‡ Local Injuries | 33 | 17 | 16 |\n| Total | 601 | 167 | 243 |\n| Less Moribund Cases | 70 | 24 | 46 |\n| Total Treated | 531 | 143 | 197 |\n\n* Transferred at once, unless actually dying, to Kennedy Town Hospital.\n† This includes cases sent to Kennedy Town Hospital and other Hospitals.\n\nI append a copy of minutes made in the Visitors' Book by Visiting Justices and others during the past three months.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nCHUNG KING-VE,\nResident Surgeon.\n\n**Minute by the Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer.**\n\nForwarded to the Honourable Colonial Secretary. I have asked Dr. Chung to write last quarter's report. The only matters to note are: \n(1) Beri-beri still remains severe both as regards number of attacks and fatality. \n(2) Remittent Fever was responsible for 17 deaths.\n(3) Tuberculosis has a firm hold of the Colony.\n\nThe general state of the Hospital is satisfactory under the conditions.\n\nJAMES A. LOWSON,\nActing Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\n4th May, 1900.\n\n## COPY OF MINUTES Entered in the Tung Wah Hospital Visitors' Book during the past Quarter of 1900\n\nWe have visited the Tung Wah Hospital this day and found everything beautifully clean and in very good order.\n\n3rd January, 1900.\n\nPatients: 126 males, 28 females. Total: 154.\n\n(Signed) \nCLEMENT PALMER, J.P.\nC. W. DUGGAN, J.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-299 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377943, "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": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 412, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "## RECO \n### REGE 10 DEC 00 \n\nYour Excellency.\n\nAs no express power of cancellation of \nthe license was given, I imagine the Telegraph Co. would \nclaim compensation. If the land at Hunghom is purchased by \nthe Dock Co., it seems reasonable to make them pay the cost, \nbut the Government will not get so much for the land probably. \nHowever, that question can be left over till the question of \na new cable reserve is settled.\n\n25/9/00.\n\n(sd) **F.H.M.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377945, "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": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 414, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "412\n\nNot attached by letter annexed. Hey of letter annexed.\n\nThe route of the land line is about one mile east of the Government cable except at the place of starting at Whitfield. The route of the land line is described in the Acting Surveyor's Report of the 5th August 1882 marked `C` in the attached file.\n\nII. On the 9th July 1883 the Company applied for permission to lay another cable between North Point and Kowloon in the same position as the existing cables. Permission was granted after the Secretary of State's sanction had been obtained upon the same conditions as formerly. (See Col. Sec's letter No. 1376 of 27th August, 1883.)\n\nIII. On March 5th 1884 the Company applied for permission to lay another cable from North Point to Kowloon. It was granted, upon similar conditions, in Col. Sec's letter No. 249 of the 11th March; in which the Company was informed that the Government reserved the right to revoke the concession at any time without compensation.\n\nIV. On September 1st 1891 the Company reported that their cables (damaged by the anchors of ships) were to be repaired and that they desired to lay an additional cable from the existing cable but at North Point to that at Hunghom. The requisite permission was granted by the Governor and conveyed to the Company in the Col. Sec's letter No. 1648 of the 11th September 1891.\n\nV. On the 24th March 1897 the Director of Public Works transmitted a letter (dated 22nd March) from the Manager of the China and Japan Telephone Co. Ltd. asking if his Company might lay", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378055, "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": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "522 \n\nIm Châu Kong and came in a junk to **HongKong**. Wong Fuk was \nwith me, also Ho Tsùng. Cheung Sz Leung came in another boat \nto HongKong. I arrived in HongKong on the 2nd. November, and \nWong Fuk and the others went to Macao. The Cheung Kwok Po's \nnewspaper people were those who engaged a lawyer to get out \nWong Fuk and the 6 others who were arrested by the Police.\n\nThe intention of the rebels is to get up another force and \ncarry on operations. Sun Yat Sen is in Macao. Cheang Sz Leung \ntold me so. Sun told Yeung Ku Wan to keep together those who \nreturned to HongKong. About 4 or 5 hundred rebels have returned to HongKong. The great part of them are at Kow loong City, Sham Shui Po, Hunghom, and Yau Ma Ti. Most \nof them are Hakkas. Yeung Ku Wan is paying them. I receive \nmoney myself from Yeung Ku Wan. I get 20 taels and my men 10 \ndollars a month. My party of 100 has scattered. On the 15th. of the 8th. Moon (8th. Sept.) the Triads intended to have a fire dragon procession in the Colony and to avail themselves of \nthe opportunity to loot. But when they realised the Authorities were fully prepared they abstained. Their plan was to \nset fire to some houses and after confusion had arisen to \nloot. Cheng Sz Leung, Yeung Ku Wan and Wong Fuk originated \nthis idea. Wong Fuk was to have carried it out. Cheung Sz \nLeung and Yeung Ku Wan told me not to be afraid because the \nAuthorities of HongKong could not deal with us if the offence \nwas political. They also said lawyers had been retained to \nhelp keep us if we got into trouble. They told me not to be afraid \nand", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380393, "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": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "page_number": 635, "title": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "content_text": "No. 15)\n\n39531 00\n\nSir,\n\n319007 Government House, Hongkong, 225# April, 1901.\n\n629\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 385 of the 7th December, 1900, in which you referred to my Despatch No. 393 of 28th August, 1900, in paragraph 5 of which I transmitted a copy of the report of a Joint Committee of Civil and Military Officers upon land questions outstanding between this Government and the Military Authorities.\n\n2.\n\nIt is to the transfer indicated in the second paragraph of that report and to the effect of the restrictions controlling that transfer on the part of the Military Authorities, to which I specially invite your attention.\n\n3.\n\nYou are aware that the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, desire to construct a new Dock at Hunghom to the Eastward of their present No. 1 Dock and have applied for an area which amounts to 692,640 square feet and includes the whole of Kowloon Dock Battery, which is War Department Land, a small portion of the adjoining Military Reserve, some Crown foreshore and a considerable area now under water and the property of the Crown.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.**\n\n4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380963, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 491, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nENCLOSURE 7,\n\n486 27236\n\nSite.\n\nthe village.\n\nHouses.\n\nLog Houses.\n\nin dens.\n\nlio Baths.\n\nVentilation of\n\nHouses.\n\nDrainage of Houses,\n\nhouses.\n\nReport of a Sanitary Inspection of the village of\n\nHunghom made on 30th May, 1901.\n\nThe village is situated on the shore of the Harbour near the Kowloon Docks. In front, the foreshore is covered with a number of matsheds massed together without definite order. These are for the most part workshops and dwellings of the workers combined. Behind the village there are low hills. The site has been in part prepared by cutting back the hills and in part by reclamation. The soil is decomposed granite.\n\nThe site in itself is fairly good, but the matsheds massed in confusion on the foreshore without drainage make sanitary cleanliness impossible. The hills at the rear of the village are in places not sufficiently cut back. The removal in time of the hill will be of benefit to the ventilation of the site.\n\nThe village comprises 297 houses in well-laid-out streets which are of good width, with unpaved roadway and concreted footpaths.\n\nThe inhabitants are for the most part workers in the Dockyard, and the usual shopkeepers and lodging house proprietors who provide for the workers. The people are as a body well-to-do.\n\nThe houses are some of 2 and some of 3 stories. Some have, but many have not, a small yard in the rear. The basement is on practically the same level as the road. It was tiled in those houses which I visited. The houses are in good order structurally.\n\nThese are licensed and under supervision. The regulation space per head being 30 Sq. ft. is but moderate. Overcrowding should conveniently be strictly guarded against.\n\nOvercrowding by day (evening time) appears to occur. The one which I visited was ventilated in such a way that the closing of a window at the back would practically stop all ventilation. These resorts are a source of danger of the spread of infection. It would be well for the Sanitary Inspector to insist on the window in the rear being always kept open during the day, the time during which overcrowding occurs.\n\nPublic Baths have been recently opened near the landing stage. They are, I was told, much used.\n\nThe ventilation of the houses has been sufficiently provided for in the structure of the houses but its efficiency is considerably lessened by the habits of the people themselves who do much to obstruct it by screens, partitions, and curtains.\n\nDrains are provided for carrying off the dirty water from house use. These are efficient, but in one instance which I saw, the pipe from the upper storey discharged over a grating placed in front of the cooking place in the basement.\n\nRefuse from food with the dust and rubbish of the houses is collected in baskets which are each morning emptied into dust carts.\n\nGenerally", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380967, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "Page 44\n\nCOPY\n\nCamp, Kowloon.\n\n5th June 1901.\n\n490\n\nTo the Principal Medical Officer,\n\nChina and Hongkong,\n\nSir,\n\nIn continuation of my report on the sanitation of the village of Funghom, I have the honour to now submit the following report on the drainage system of that village as on the previous occasion I had not an opportunity to fully examine it. I inspected yesterday, accompanied by a representative of the Public Works Department.\n\nThe house drains are intended for slops, washing water and waste house water only. The slops &c., run from a sloping floor into a cemented channel along the side of the cook rooms discharging through the wall of the house over an open hopper head of a downpipe. There is no direct connection. This downpipe discharges into a gutter at the road side being likewise disconnected. The arrangement is so far good. These gutters in turn discharge into the sewers and are trapped at entrance. The smaller sewers discharge into the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381046, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 574, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "569\n\nthis. Fully one-half of the extent of the new Naval Yard will be bounded on the East by the War Department ground, which will afford ample protection, and the rest is bounded partly by land still in the possession of the Government and partly by one or two leasehold lots that can easily be acquired. This furnishes the required belt.\n\nThe question of the shifting of the Man-of-War Anchorage need not be discussed at present, although I think that as a matter of convenience it may have to follow the Naval Yard. There are no reasons why the anchorage should not be moved.\n\nI do not propose to enter upon any detailed consideration at the present time of the payments to be made by the Colony to the Admiralty in the event of the removal being carried out. It seems premature. It may, however, be noted that while the Admiralty would have a fair claim to be reimbursed the monies expended, within the last few years, in alterations and extensions to the Naval Yard or in preparation therefor—expenses necessarily thrown away if the Yard is removed—it is not so easy to see that it would have any reasonable grounds for asking that the Colony should bear the expenses of the new installation.\n\nAs to the Commodore's last suggestion that it is the city which should be transferred to Kowloon and not the Naval Establishments, I am afraid that is out of the question. The money sunk in land and buildings in Victoria and at the Peak is too vast to permit of such a change. Time may give us a Birkenhead on the other side of the harbour, but then there will be two cities, one on either side, and not one.\n\nTo pass from the Commodore's letter to that of Mr. Ordish, Superintending Civil Engineer in charge of the Naval Yard Extension, I propose to deal with the questions raised by him in the order in which he puts them forward.\n\nIn the first place, it is clear that he recognises fully the disadvantages of the present site and its inability, even after the proposed extensions and with the addition of Military property not now in the possession of the Admiralty, to satisfy the demand for a Naval Establishment in Hongkong sufficient to supply the requirements of the fleet in the Far East. It is congested now. It will be equally congested, he says, after the proposed extensions have been made. The Military ground is needed even now, if proper provision is to be made for the concentration of the stores scattered through the Colony. Even the acquisition of the Military property will only suffice for present needs and will leave no room for further extensions, the necessity for which can, even now, be foreseen.\n\nMr. Ordish admits that the area offered at Kowloon is ample both for the present and the future.\n\nIn my remarks on the Commodore's letter, I have, I think, sufficiently dealt with the question of the relative exposure of the two sites to damage from storms and typhoons, and need not repeat myself here. I only call attention to the use by Mr. Ordish of the phrase \"open sea.\" The waters of this harbour are so completely landlocked in every direction that it is difficult to understand in what sense he uses the phrase. It may be noted that very little damage was done ashore on the 10th November last and no damage would have been done afloat but for the very unexpected nature of the blow coming so late in the year, no preparation whatever having been made to meet it.\n\nMr. Ordish must, I think, have failed to study with sufficient attention the character of the shores in the immediate neighbourhood of the proposed site. From Kowloon Point to Mount Cochrane, there has always been deep water close inshore on the West side of the Kowloon Peninsula. That shore and the Southern side of Stonecutters is being eaten away rather than being filled up.\n\nIt is only immediately in front of Yau-Ma-Ti and in the bays to the North of that village that deposits accumulate and the water tends to shoal.\n\nA comparison of the earliest and latest charts of the harbour will show this clearly. Dredging will have to be done undoubtedly, in front of the site of the proposed Naval Yard, but by no means to the extent suggested by Mr. Ordish. Dredging has to be carried out in front of the present Naval Yard and forms part of the present scheme of extension. A larger superficial area will have to be dredged at Kowloon, but owing to the nature of the material, I doubt if it would be as expensive as that required for the present Naval Yard. The Naval authorities want a uniform depth of 30 feet. From an examination of the chart sent herewith, it will be seen at a glance that, except in the portion coloured pink, there is already more than that depth of water. The area coloured pink, which will have to be dredged to give the Admiralty a uniform depth of 30 feet at the least, is 19.25 acres, the average depth of excavation being 6.4 feet only. The quantity to be removed is say 1,860,000 cubic yards, and I am assured that, with modern dredgers and local labour, the cost should not exceed 50 cents per cubic yard, or $1,000,000. Several deep borings have been made over this area and neither boulders nor sheet rock has been met with.\n\nIn any case, it is fair to say that, so far as dredging and maintenance to the required depth is concerned, the Admiralty will be put to no more expense at Kowloon than they will be at Hongkong.\n\nMaintenance will cost nothing. The depth of water in front of the Wharf Company's premises has been unaltered for many years, nor is there any appearance of any silting up, although the Company's Wharves would, at first sight, appear likely to facilitate it.\n\nFurther, I have the authority of Mr. Gillies and of the Manager of the Cosmopolitan Dock at Sam-Shui-Po for stating that, during the many years they have known this Dock and site (and that is since it was constructed 28 years ago), no silting of any kind has taken place to their knowledge, either in front of the Dock or between it and the West side of Stonecutters' Island.\n\nMr. Ordish's point as to possible future overcrowding of the neighbourhood of the new Naval Yard by Chinese dwellings can easily be provided against as already indicated.\n\nMr. Ordish questions the statement, in my original letter to you of the 2nd of May on this subject, that much of the work at the present Naval Yard will have to be done in the solid rock. I have made close inquiry and am assured, on very competent authority, that my original statement was well founded. I also pointed out that docking large vessels in the dock now under construction would probably be attended by danger from the strength of the currents running backwards and forwards along the face of the Yard. This statement is denied. I am assured that, whatever markings may be found on the chart, the currents will be found decidedly strong on the line of the northern face of the Dockyard extension, carried out some considerable distance, as it will be, into the harbour, and I may remind you, Sir, of the difficulties attending the repairs to H.M.S. Victorious at The Dock, Hongkong, because of the currents across the entrance to the Dock. The Company refused the work because of the great risk, and the Admiralty, rather than assume the risk, sent the vessel to Japan to be docked in the Imperial Dock at Yokosuka.\n\nMr. Ordish, in his letter, proposes two alternative sites for the new Naval Yard—one just inside the entrance to the Lyee-moon, the other in Hunghom Bay. As to the first, I am sure that the Government would deal very liberally with the Admiralty if it determines to move the Naval Yard to that position, but it is needless to consider the question in detail as the Commodore, I have no doubt, for very good reasons, does not approve of this suggestion.\n\nAs to the alternative scheme of a Naval Establishment in Hunghom Bay, there are two patent objections to it. First.—There is no spot in the Colony more exposed to the ravages of a typhoon. The strength of the wind is in most cases from the North-East. A tremendous sea rushes in on that beach through the Lyee-moon. Secondly.—A Naval Yard in that position would seriously interfere with the Dock Company's premises and with the facilities for access to the existing Docks and Slips. The front of any Naval Establishments there would have to be carried out to the Cust and Rumsey rocks at the least, and would cover nearly half of the frontage of the Dock Company. Neither, in the interests of the Navy nor of the Colony, is this proposal within the limits of practical politics.\n\nLastly, I have to deal with Mr. Ordish's estimate of the liabilities to be incurred by the Admiralty should it be ultimately decided to accept the proposed transfer to Kowloon and to the question of the payments to be made by the Colony in aid.\n\n7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381069, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 597, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "Sir,\n\nHongkong & Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd.\n\nHongkong, 11th June 1901.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.1352 of 8th instant, enclosing copy of a letter from Admiral Sir E.B. Seymour to the Secretary of the Admiralty respecting the claims of His Majesty's Ships to preferential rights of docking.\n\nThe preferential rights of docking H.M.'s Ships as modified by Admiral Seymour, and detailed in his letter of 20th May, 1901, are quite acceptable to my Company, and I beg you to convey to His Excellency the thanks of my Directors for his consideration.\n\nAs you are aware, my Company is most desirous of proceeding at once with the construction of a new dock at Hunghom, and if the ground coloured red and green in the accompanying plan cannot be granted to us as an extension of Kowloon M.L. 87, I shall feel much obliged if you will at once have it put up to Public Auction in one lot, and my Company is agreeable to take it upon the following terms and conditions:-\n\nThe Hon. T. Sercombe Smith, Acting Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381139, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 667, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "6\n\ncock lofts. For whose sake? Not for the sakes of the Chinese population, but for the sake of the prosperity of the Colony, when it is a well-known fact that crowds were procured by the speculators to fill these houses free of rent, in order that they might represent them to purchasers as being tenanted, and to this as much as anything we owe such an increase of the population living from hand to mouth as has appeared in the last few years, and the consequent overcrowding. In 1874, the houses that were more than two stories high could be easily counted. Now it would be much easier to reckon up those that are not more than two stories high.\n\n82. These, among the numerous other defects in these buildings are what for years the Surveyor General and myself have been protesting against, and which in defiance of our protests Chinese petitioners have received sanction from Government to perpetuate.\n\n85. That this class of causes which may arise from filth poison should be steadily increasing year after year is proof enough that there is something radically wrong somewhere, and Mr. Chadwick's and my own reports of the state of the Chinese houses in this city give sufficient evidence that there is every reason to believe much of it is caused by the foul and unwholesome state of these dwellings.\n\n8. Table XVII shows the work done by the Inspectors of Nuisances. Now that a cleanliness amendment Ordinance has been passed, and a board appointed with a fair staff of officers to look after the sanitation of the Colony, it is to be hoped that in future years we may have to record an improved state of things. It has been a hard fight for the Surveyor General and myself for many years to prove that the state of things so well described in Mr. Chadwick's report existed at all except in our imaginations, and it was not until he was sent out as Sanitary Commissioner and sent in his report that we were thought anything but alarmists, exaggerating greatly what we have described to exist in the way of overcrowding, filth, and general uncleanliness in quarters of the town seldom visited by Europeans.\n\n17.--The late Colonial Surgeon, in his Annual Report for 1883, said:\n\n60. Those that think sanitary work in Hongkong is being overdone are evidently ignorant of the want of it, and are unaware of the mine that has been forming of late years, that some day may be sprung with most disastrous results. The Report made by Mr. Chadwick seems hardly to be appreciated by the general public.\n\nDuring the Cholera scare, an order for a general clear-out of rubbish and filth in houses was made, and in eight days 54,800 piculs of filth were removed, most of which was of the most disgusting description, and raised quite an outcry of indignation in the Public Papers, when it appeared in the street, verifying the old proverb \"What the eye does not see the heart does not grieve for.\" To show how quickly this removal was made, in one day 11,000 piculs of this filth were cleared out of the Colony, and an average removal of 6,450 piculs made on each of the eight days.\n\n61. During 1883 Cholera appeared to a great extent in the neighbouring ports of Swatow and Foochow, and many ships were in quarantine in this harbour that had deaths on board from this disease. A slight revival of the previous years' epidemic appeared in the Philippines. It may again appear this year, and as this Port remains in many respects in the same unsanitary state as reported by Mr. Chadwick and myself in previous years, it behoves the Government to take every precaution possible to prevent its appearance here.\n\n63. As we have now a Sanitary Board composed of the Heads of the Public Works, Registrar General's, Police and Medical Departments, the responsibility of settling most questions of sanitation in the Colony does not rest chiefly with me, I am thankful to say, as it did in former years, for as I got very little credit for exposing the filthy state of things existing in this City, and was pretty much looked upon as a causeless alarmist, until my reports were verified by a Commission sent from home, so most of the blame would have fallen on my shoulders if an epidemic had appeared in these years, and then only these discoveries I reported had been made.\n\n7-\n\n6621\n\n18. Since 1883, as the late Dr. Ayres repeatedly pointed out, the recommendations of Mr. Chadwick were for the most part left in abeyance, or ignored, and so far as anything practically resulting the Sanitary Commission of 1881 might never have been appointed. In 1897 a Commission was appointed to inquire into the existence of Insanitary Properties in the Colony. Paragraph 4 of that Report is as follows:--\n\nWe regret to have to report that there are many insanitary properties in the Colony, and dwellings, which, in their present condition, are unfit for human habitation. The back portions of a number of the houses visited by us are dark, ill-ventilated, extremely dirty, and in some cases more dens of filth. The interior of the cubicles or sub-divisions of the living rooms was such that in the great majority of cases their contents could be seen only by the aid of an artificial light.\n\n19.--Crown Lands have been repeatedly sold in the City of Victoria without any regard whatever to sanitary needs, such as Markets, Bath-houses, Urinals, Latrines, Depôts for Cattle and Poultry, etc. The Sanitary Board has repeatedly urged the adoption of these reforms which have not been carried out. Dr. Francis Clark, the Medical Officer of Health, speaking at a meeting of the Sanitary Board on May 30th, 1901, said:-\n\nThe Board would admit that it was a most unfortunate thing for the colony that Crown land had been sold, which, had the Sanitary Board been consulted, would never have been placed under a hammer. The object of this resolution was to prevent in future the sale of Crown Lands which were required for municipal purposes. As an illustration he recalled to the minds of the members that, in March of last year, a site of Crown Land in the centre of the City, namely at the corner of Wing Lok Street and Old Praya was sold, and less than two months later the Acting Colonial Secretary wrote in reference to a recommendation from the Board for additional latrines and urinals—“It is easy to recommend the erection of urinals and latrines, but not easy to find sites for them.\" Dr. Clark admitted that a latrine was erected upon this particular site, but submitted that if the remainder of the site had been retained, it would have been of great value for the erection of a market, bath-houses, or some other municipal building. Again, he called their attention to the road leading from Hunghom to Kowloon City. This had been laid out as a 50-foot road and verandahs were being made on both sides of this road, which would reduce its effective width to about 30 feet. He was of the opinion that this would become a very important highway, and that a 30-foot road would be quite insufficient to serve the purposes of the traffic in the neighbourhood.\n\n20.--On the authority of the minutes of the Sanitary Board, as published in the Government Gazette, we are able to point out that a Latrine in Shektongtsui, situate in the west end of the city, recommended by the Board at the end of 1896 is only now being completed. The Board also recommended a Public Latrine for Kowloon Point in 1890, but so far without result. Further Latrine accommodation was urged upon the Government in April 1897, May 1898, and April 1899, but nothing was done in the matter until 1900.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381193, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 721, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "715\n\n12\n\nThe cost of the re-drainage has rightly fallen upon the property owners, the Government undertaking only the connection of the drain from the boundary of the property to the main sewer.\n\n9,957 houses have been re-drained.\n\nThe total expenditure by the Government under the heading of Drainage and Sewerage Work from 1889 to 1900 has been $542,869.\n\nFrom 1883 to 1888 a sum of $485,000 was expended under the heading of \"Sanitary Works.\"\n\nFood Supply.\n\nThe works which come under this heading include an extension of the Market at Yaumati in 1884, the Hunghom Market erected in 1887, and the Central Market, completed in 1895 at a cost of $260,537, exclusive of the site, which entailed a further outlay of $158,058. A full description of the building appears in the Annual Report on Public Works for 1895.\n\nThe Slaughter Houses and Animal Depôts have an important bearing on this subject and come under the category of Sanitary Works. The miserably inadequate accommodation for the slaughtering of animals for food, existing prior to 1895, gave place in that year to an establishment which, for its method of construction and arrangements, is unsurpassed anywhere. Up to that date also the pigs and sheep destined for slaughter had been kept in the ground floors of a number of the houses in the West end of the City. Now they are housed in large and airy sheds which are fitted with every appliance sanitation can require. The cost of these important works has been $116,566.\n\nAdditions have been made, as found necessary, to the Cattle Depôt; a Slaughter House and Animal Depôt have been erected in Kowloon and a Market at Tai-kok-tsui.\n\nA commencement has been made with the construction of the new Western Market in the City and various other works of an analogous nature to the above will be undertaken at an early date.\n\nThe expenditure under this heading from 1883 to 1900 has been $588,137.\n\nPublic Latrines.\n\nThe provision of these conveniences has not been entirely neglected, but great difficulty has been experienced in finding suitable sites which were at the same time in proximity to the more populous portions of the City or large villages. The difficulties arising out of the possibility of actions being brought against the Government in consequence of the establishment of such places were only overcome by the passing of the Latrines Ordinance in 1897. This Ordinance has not done away with the difficulty of finding sites but merely protects the Government in the manner indicated when the latrines have been built. Should strong opposition be raised to any site selected, it may be found necessary to abandon it, as was done in the case of one in the Tai-ping-shan District in consequence of the objections raised by the Directors of the Po Leung Kuk.\n\nDuring 1884-89, a number of latrines, some of a permanent and some of a temporary character, were erected in the City and Villages.\n\nIn 1890-91, two permanent latrines were built in the City and ten iron structures were erected in the principal villages of Hongkong and Kowloon.\n\nMore recently, five permanent latrines, containing from 20-40 seats each, have been built in the City and another has been extended, whilst an iron latrine has been erected at Happy Valley.\n\nTwo large permanent latrines, containing 40 seats each, are in progress in the City and Yaumati and two more, of the same capacity, are about to be undertaken.\n\nIn addition to the above, latrine accommodation has been provided at the Central Market, Slaughter Houses, and other places where large numbers of men are employed.\n\nThe total expenditure under this heading for the period under consideration amounts to $42,479.\n\nConstruction of Roads and Drains prior to Sale of Building Lots.\n\nRoads are almost universally formed, where practicable, before land is sold adjoining them. A reference to Mr. Chadwick's Report will show that the object of this recommendation was to ensure the erection of houses at a suitable level to admit of their being properly drained and, in cases where it is impracticable or inexpedient to form the roads in advance, care is taken to see that this condition is complied with.\n\n13\n\nThe cases referred to are those occurring in connection with the reclamation of foreshores or the levelling of hills to form building sites, where it would obviously be imprudent and a gross waste of public funds to attempt to construct the roads by themselves in the first instance.\n\nMiscellaneous Sanitary Works.\n\nIn addition to the works already described, several others of minor importance have been carried out. They include 10 public laundries, 20 tanks for washermen to carry on their operations in under sanitary conditions, a Vaccine Institute, and a Disinfecting Station, the combined cost of which amounts to $38,081.\n\nAnyone acquainted with the villages of Tai-kok-tsui, Mong-kok-tsui, and Fun Tsun Heang as they existed 6 or 7 years ago would find difficulty in recognizing them again today. It may safely be asserted that a revolution has been wrought in these and other villages.\n\nBack Alleys and the Formation of a Fund to carry out large Sanitary Schemes.\n\nIt will scarcely create surprise that these recommendations have not been given effect to when it is borne in mind that, so recently as the end of 1892, when discussing the Estimates for the following year, the Member for the Chamber of Commerce stated \"That our revenue is not of an 'elastic nature' is, I think, palpable, and it is more likely to shrink further in the future than even to remain at its present figure.\"\n\nFortunately for the Colony, this evil prognostication has not been fulfilled, but it appears to have been forgotten by the Chamber that such a statement was made by its representative only 8 years ago.\n\nThe foregoing summary of works accomplished shows clearly that large Sanitary Schemes have not been delayed on account of the non-existence of such a fund, nor is it obvious how a fund could have been established in any other way than by raising a loan, seeing that it was necessary to obtain a loan in 1893 for the purpose of carrying on the large public works then in progress.\n\nIn all recent laying out of building lots for the erection of houses, care has been taken to provide public lanes and, in this way, the Government has done what was in its power to give effect to the recommendation.\n\nThe accompanying statement on Sanitary Legislation shows that the clause in the original draft of the Public Health Ordinance for the provision of back-yards, in which form an endeavour was made to embody Mr. Chadwick's proposal, was so violently opposed by the Unofficial Members and the Public generally that it was abandoned.\n\nTaipingshan Resumption.\n\nAny description of the sanitary schemes carried into effect during recent years would be incomplete without a reference to the large resumption of insanitary properties in the District of Tai-ping-shan. Here an area of 64 acres of private property was resumed at an outlay of $818,098; the whole of the houses were pulled down and the area was laid out afresh with roads, lanes, sewers, storm-water drains, and other necessary works at a cost of $107,875.\n\nA list of Mr. Chadwick's recommendations is prefixed, from which it will be seen that only two items in the shape of works to be initiated by the Government—namely Public Baths and Model Dwellings—have not yet been undertaken. The other items not given effect to include the Formation of a Fund to carry out large Sanitary schemes; acquisition of Latrines; and Resumptions to admit of forming Continuous Back Alleys. These are practically questions of finance only, and enough has been said to show that the Colony has not been in a position to undertake the enormous expenditure involved in these proposals, in support of which the opinion of the Honourable T. H. Whitehead, Member for the Chamber of Commerce in 1892, has been quoted.\n\nIn conclusion, it will be well to summarize the expenditure on the works mentioned during the past 18 years:\n\nWaterworks, $2,130,983\n\nDrainage and Sewerage Works, $1,027,869\n\nMarkets, &c., $588,137\n\nPublic Latrines, $42,479\n\nMiscellaneous minor Works, $38,081\n\nTai-ping-shan Resumption and Improvements, $925,973\n\nTotal $4,748,522", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381197, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 725, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "719\n\nEnclosure E.\n\n# METHOD OF DEALING WITH OUTBREAKS OF BUBONIC FEVER (PLAGUE)\n\n1. Notification.-All cases of infectious disease should be reported at once to the nearest Police Station or to the Sanitary Board (Telephone No. 257), or to the Medical Officer of Health (Telephone No. 120). This is compulsory on \"all persons knowing or having reason to believe that any person has been attacked by or is suffering from\" Bubonic Plague, Cholera or Small-pox (Bye-law 17, Ordinance 15 of 1894); but it is universally evaded by the Chinese and even by the Chinese \"Doctors.\" The penalty for its evasion is $25.\n\n2. Detection of the Sick.-In the absence of notification, this can only be effected by means of house-to-house visits. The Sanitary Board has power to institute such house-to-house visits in any district in which the disease may prevail and must define the limits of such district (Bye-law 25, Ordinance 15 of 1894).\n\n3. Removal of the Sick.-Ambulances for the removal of the sick are kept at the various Police Stations, at the Canton Wharf, and at the Board's matsheds at Praya East, Taipingshan, Yaumati, and Hunghom, and sick persons are removed in these ambulances to the Tung Wah Hospital on application to the Sanitary Board, the Medical Officer of Health, or the Police, and are there examined by a Chinese Doctor trained in Western medicine and are either drafted at once by him to the Plague Hospital or detained under observation in case of doubt. In making any such application, care should be taken to state distinctly whether the patient is alive or dead, for in the case of dead bodies, a dead-box is forwarded for the removal. The ambulance is attended by a Chinese constable who conveys the details concerning the case to the Hospital Authorities.\n\nHeavy wooden boxes, with rubber washers fitted to the lids, are used for the removal of dead bodies to the Government Mortuary; these are kept at the various Police Stations and at the Board's matsheds, and information concerning the death is forwarded on a card attached to the body.\n\n4. Treatment of the Sick.-This is entirely in the hands of the Medical Department. The Government Hospital at Kennedy Town is supplemented by a series of Matshed Hospitals, also at Kennedy Town, which are managed by the authorities of the Tung Wah Hospital but are under the supervision of the Medical Department.\n\n5. Disinfection of infected Premises.-This is carried out by a European officer assisted by eight coloured foremen, a Chinese foreman, and a varying number of coolies. As soon as it is known that a case of the disease has occurred at any house, a Chinese constable is sent from the nearest Police Station to detain all persons found therein (Bye-law 22, Ordinance 15 of 1894), and the officer in charge of the disinfection proceeds to the house to ascertain how many persons are detained there. He then procures, either from the matshed at Praya East or from the Disinfecting Station, as many suits of Government clothing as are needed for the persons so detained, and having thus provided these persons with clothing, he removes their own clothing, bedding, curtains, and carpets, to the Steam Disinfecting Station, the clothing being tied up in sheets dipped in a solution of Jeyes' fluid and conveyed through the streets in baskets; persons who are able to obtain new or clean clothing from some uninfected premises are, however, not detained after they have discarded their infected clothing and handed it to the Inspector for disinfection. New goods, silk clothing which has not been recently worn, furs, and leather goods are not removed to the Steam Disinfector, but must, as a general rule, remain on the premises until they have been fumigated. When the clothing, etc., is returned (in the course of some two hours) from the Disinfecting Station, the persons who have been detained are required to put on their own clothing and must then leave the premises for some 5 or 6 hours while it is disinfected and cleansed. The Government clothing is returned to the Disinfecting Station to be steamed before it is again used. The people so displaced from their homes are at liberty to make use of the Board's matshed shelters until the processes of disinfection of the premises are complete.\n\nThe disinfection of the premises consists in the spraying of the walls with a solution of perchloride of mercury (1 in 1,000) or fumigation with free chlorine obtained by the addition of diluted sulphuric acid to chlorinated lime (1 quart of a 1 in 8 solution of the acid to each lb. of the chlorinated lime). Floors and furniture are then scrubbed with a solution of Jeyes' fluid, and the walls are then lime-washed, chlorinated lime being added to the lime-wash in the proportion of 1 lb. to the gallon.\n\n6. Burial of the Dead.-This is carried out under the superintendence of one of the Board's Officers; all bodies being buried at the Kennedy Town Plague Cemetery, unless a special permit has been granted for burial elsewhere.\n\n7. General Sanitary Precautions.-Chlorinated lime is supplied to all the public latrines for use in the buckets, and the officers of the Board are instructed to see that it is freely used.\n\nA reward of 2 cents per head has been offered since January 16th for every rat brought to an officer of the Board, and some 25,000 rats have, by this means, been collected and destroyed.\n\nFRANCIS W. CLARK,\n\nMedical Officer of Health,\n\nHONGKONG, June, 1900.\n\nPage 21\n\nEnclosure F.\n\nSANITARY BOARD OFFICES,\n\nHONGKONG, 21st July, 1899.\n\nI have the honour to submit the following report for the information of the Select Committee of the Sanitary Board, appointed to consider the question of the adequacy of the present Staff.\n\nThe City of Victoria is divided into ten Health Districts, the smallest of which has a built-over area of 23 acres and the largest of 581 acres; Kowloon Peninsula is similarly divided into two Health Districts.\n\nThe average population of each of the City Health Districts is 16,425, and the average number of domestic buildings is 768, or about 2,000 floors to each district, each floor being a separate dwelling for one or more families.\n\nEach Health District is in charge of an Inspector of Nuisances, whose duties comprise the supervision of the scavenging and conservancy of that district; the scavenging work is performed by coolies, who are supplied with Dust Carts and baskets, and who work under the supervision of a Portuguese or Indian Foreman in each of the City Health Districts. Each District Inspector is required to be about his District between the hours 5:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. in the summer and 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. in the winter, to see that the scavenging work is properly carried out.\n\nDuring the forenoon, the District Inspectors are required to visit the Bakeries, Lodging Houses, Opium Divans, Offensive business premises, Laundries, Cattlesheds, Latrines, and Urinals in their District, and during the afternoon, a systematic inspection has to be made of the District, in such a manner that every floor of every house in the District is visited at least once in every two months. It is as much as the District Inspectors can manage to get this house-to-house visitation work into the two months' limit, and they are required to send in a daily report showing the houses so visited by them and a record of all the nuisances and illegal structures observed in those buildings.\n\nThere are five first-class Inspectors of Nuisances in the City of Victoria, each of whom has the supervision of two Health Districts, and the daily reports of the District Inspectors, which contain mention of nuisances or of illegal structures, are referred to them to deal with the nuisances and see that they are at once abated. The First Class Inspectors also have to supervise the six-monthly cleansing and lime-washing of all tenement houses, the investigation of all uncertified deaths, the supervision of the Chinese and non-Chinese cemeteries, the supervision of the Rubbish Depôt at Tsun Wan Bay, the supervision of the Peak Sanitary District, and the institution of all prosecutions.\n\nThe duties of the Chief Inspector of Nuisances will be mainly supervisory, and I have already arranged that he should accompany the various District Inspectors on their rounds of house-to-house visitation.\n\nI beg now to direct the attention of the Committee to the following matters which, in my opinion, cannot be adequately dealt with by the present Staff, and which, it may well be argued, are entitled to receive more attention in the future than it has been possible to give them in the past.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381221, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 749, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "743\n\nThe farmer provides the staff i.e. shroff, tallymen and scavengers, at the Slaughter Houses at his own expense for the purpose of checking the number of beasts killed and of keeping the Slaughter Houses clean.\n\nThere are two Slaughter houses:-\n\n(a). At West Point and\n\n(b). At Hunghom.\n\nThe Government lets out the right of slaughtering for the whole Colony to one man as lessee, and he makes his own arrangements as to sub-letting etc.\n\nThere are only the above two Government Slaughter houses, but, in the out villages, such as Shaukiwan, the said lessee sometimes hires a shed for slaughtering and charges fees for the same.\n\nThe following statement of accounts will show that, if the scheme which has been suggested by the Superintendent of Police and the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, is carried out, namely, the scheme for the transfer of slaughter houses from the Government lessee to the Sanitary Board, the Government may expect to receive as revenue about $1,000 a year on a reduced scale of fees more than it does at present, whilst a single combined fee being charged under such scheme for depots and Slaughter houses should tend in favour of cheaper food.\n\nREVENUE 1900\n\n \n Slaughter House\n \n $48,960\n \n \n lessee paid Government.\n \n $47,795.89\n \n \n Lessee received at West Point.\n \n $8,020.00\n \n \n Hunghom and villages (estimated by Mr. Ladds)\n ......\n $7,000.00\n \n \n Lessee also sells at Slaughter house at Kennedy Town, blood and hair (estimated value by Mr. Ladds)\n \n $60,815.89\n \n\n(2)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381494, "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": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "Page 713\n\nORDINANCE No. 13 of 1901.\n\nPublic Health.\n\n98. The provisions of sections 72 and 73 of this Ordinance shall not apply to any domestic building existing on the 29th December, 1894, unless such building is situated within the City of Victoria, or at Kowloon Point, Hunghom, Yau Ma Tei (including so much of Kowloon as lies to the south of a line drawn from the Pumping Station at Yau Ma Tei through the Police Station at Hunghom to the boundary of War Department property), Tai Kok Tsui, or within such other districts or places as may from time to time be specified by the Governor in Council and notified in the Gazette.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 14th day of March, 1901.\n\nR. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.\n\nAssented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 25th day of March, 1901.\n\nJ. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.\n\nNumber and Year of Ordinance. Ordinance 24 of 1887\n\nSCHEDULE A. ENACTMENTS REPEALED.\n\nShort TitleExtent of Repeal\nThe Public Health Ordinance.The whole.\nAn Ordinance to appoint an additional member on the Sanitary Board.The whole.\nAmendment of Public Health Ordinance.The whole.\nAmendment of Public Health Ordinance.The whole.\nThe Latrine Ordinance.The whole.\nAmendment of Public Health Ordinance.The whole.\nAn Ordinance to remove doubts as to the validity of certain Bye-laws made by the Sanitary Board, and for other purposes.The whole.\nThe closed houses and insanitary dwellings Ordinance.All except sections 1, 2, 13, 18, 19, and 20.\nAmendment of Public Health Ordinance.The whole.\nMedical Officer of Health Ordinance.The whole.\nThe Sanitary Committees Ordinance.The whole.\nThe Government Latrine Ordinance.The whole.\nAmendment of Public Health Ordinance.The whole.\nInsanitary Properties Ordinance.All except portions of sections 5, 2, 6, 13, and 14.\nAmendment of Public Health Ordinance.The whole.\n\nSCHEDULE B.\n\nBYE-LAWS.\n\nBAKE-HOUSES.\n\n1. All premises now used or hereafter used as a bake-house shall be registered annually, during the month of January, at the office of the Board, and every application for registration shall be made in the form attached to these bye-laws.\n\n2. The ground surfaces of every bake-house shall be paved to the satisfaction of the Board with good lime or cement concrete laid down at least six inches thick, and the surface thereof shall be rendered smooth and impervious with asphalt, portland cement, or such other material as the Board may approve of.\n\n3. Every bake-house shall have an ample supply of good potable water and, except with the special permission of the Board, this water shall be laid on to the bake-house from the public water mains.\n\n4. Every bake-house shall be so drained as to be in accordance with the requirements of the Public Health Ordinance, 1901, and the bye-laws made thereunder and, wherever practicable, the inlets to the drains shall be placed outside the rooms in which baking operations are carried on.\n\n5. No water-closet, dry-closet, earth-closet, nor urinal shall be within or in direct communication with any bake-house.\n\n6. Every bake-house shall be kept at all times in a cleanly condition and free from all noxious matter. The troughs, tables, and utensils in use in the bake-house shall be thoroughly cleansed and the floors properly swept at least once in every twenty-four hours. The whole of the interior walls and the ceilings of the room of the bake-house shall be properly limewashed and the woodwork thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water during the first and seventh months of each year.\n\n7. No animals shall be kept in a bake-house.\n\n8. No person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease shall be permitted to take part in the manufacture or sale or delivery of bread or biscuits.\n\n9. Every bake-house shall be, during the hours at which baking operations are carried on, open to inspection by the Medical Officer of Health or any of the Board's officers duly deputed by him.\n\n10. No person other than a caretaker shall pass the night in any room used as a bake-house, or in any of the rooms used for the preparation or storage of the food prepared in such bake-house, except such person be at the time actively engaged in carrying on the work of the bakery.\n\n11. No premises shall be used as a bake-house until such premises have been approved by the Board as being in accordance with the bye-laws for the time being in force relating to the regulation of bake-houses, and have been registered.\n\nForm of application.\n\nI, the undersigned, hereby notify the Sanitary Board that I propose to carry on the business of a public bakery on the premises known as [insert address], and I beg leave to request that the said premises may be duly registered as a public bakery.\n\nSignature of Applicant.\n\nPage 714", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383999, "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": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "page_number": 535, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "select a strong man \n\nfrom another Colony \n\nto be Police Ladet not essential, though it is \n\nthank \n\nweak that it in \n\nin some ways \n\nis \n\npreferable, that he should know the Chinese \n\nlanguage. \n\nB. M. J. \n\n10./12 \n\nMr Johnson. \n\nI have noted \n\nyour remark \n\nabove, and have also noted F.H. \n\nMacey for the promotion. The case \n\nhas \n\nit \n\nput before \n\nCat at once. 20 Dec \n\nand this Monday. \n\nIt will be convenient here to consider the question of the successor of Mr Lockhart as Police Ladet, but the first thing is to decide the sterling salary of the post since if it is not filled from within the Colony, it has been decided to put it on \n\nsterling basis. The present pay $1000, in \n\ndouble exchange compensation is \n\nrather more \n\nthan £1600, but the \n\nColonial Secretary gets $24000 \n\nto more than \n\n£1600, and the question is \n\ngoing \n\nto make the starting salary fully up to the \n\nlevel of the Colony salaries or \n\nkeep them at \n\na slightly \n\nlower level. \n\nI am very much on the whole I think we should fix \n\nthe salary of Police Ladet at \n\n£1600. \n\nCPL \n\n· (x)-246589--8000-8-01 \n\nStalls and \n\nMr. Lucas \n\nHunghom at £1600. \n\nS.M. J. \n\n7/7 \n\nYou asked me \n\nto look \n\nat the papers connected with the decision that the G.O.C., \n\nnot the Col. Sec., should administer \n\nin the Governor's absence. You will \n\nsee from 6904/95 that the real \n\nreason was \n\nthat Mr. Lockhart \n\nwas \n\ntoo closely connected with the Colony by marriage. \n\nIt \n\nwas \n\nfelt \n\nthat \n\nit \n\nwas \n\nbetter \n\nfor the administration to be in \n\nother hands, in view of the state of \n\naffairs in the Parliament. \n\nIt is not clear how \n\nmuch more \n\nit \n\n...\n\nD.7772", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384553, "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": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "COPY No. 18/3.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure No.1 to Despatch No. 112 of the 24th March, 1902.\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 10th March, 1908.\n\n15327 La. 23 426\n\nWith reference to my letter Toya of the 17th January, and your reply No. 1803 of the 31st of the same month, I have the honour to invite your attention to the fact that unless the Government of this Colony is provided with more definite information as to the areas of land referred to, and the nature of the probable requirements of the Naval Authorities in respect thereof, it will be difficult in all cases to avoid action which might afterwards be considered prejudicial to Naval interests.\n\n2. It is stated in your letter under reference that the Lords of the Admiralty would be glad to be consulted if at any time it may be in contemplation to concede Crown rights over islands in or near the harbour or land on its shores, as such areas might be considered useful to the Navy. Is the Government to understand that this has reference only to areas falling within the New Territory? At present the harbour limits extend from a line between North Point and Hunghom Dock Battery on the East, to a line between Green and Stonecutters' Islands on the West.\n\n3. I need hardly point out that if the Naval Authorities are to be referred to before Crown rights over any lands within these or still wider limits can be disposed of by the Colonial Government, the delay involved by such reference might conceivably be productive of serious loss to the Colony, especially if in such cases the local Naval Authorities desired to refer the matter to the Lords of the Admiralty. I venture, moreover, to submit that the Colonial Government can hardly consent to refer to the Naval Authorities all proposals regarding the disposal of Crown land within the limits indicated in your letter.\n\n4. I may, however, invite your attention to the fact that before sales of Crown land take place in this Colony, the Government always publishes in the Official Gazette a full description of the lot to be sold; and as such sales practically always take place by public auction, the Admiralty is quite at liberty to make offers for the purchase of any land which it desires to acquire.\n\n5. In these circumstances I have the honour to request Commodore F. Powell, R.N., C.B.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384592, "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": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 469, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "**COPY.**\n\n465\n\nEnclosure No. 1 to Despatch No. 124 of the 2nd April, 1903.\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\n0.0 17200 RECO REGS MAY 2\n\nI am of opinion that two Land Bailiffs should be quite able to overtake all the duties to be performed: one for Hongkong and the other for Kowloon and New Kowloon.\n\nWith regard to the former I propose that Mr. King should resume the duties so soon as the Principal Land Surveyor arrives.\n\nWith regard to the latter, it would probably be found possible to obtain an Officer from the Police who would be well fitted to perform the duties.\n\nBoth these Officers would be under the direction of the Principal Land Surveyor, to whom they would report the result of their inspections. It would be their duty to go round all the districts outside the City, on this side, and outside the developed parts of Hunghom, Yaumati, and Tsim Tsa Tsui, on the other side, with plans, showing lands leased or occupied for purposes of cultivation, and to see that no unauthorized encroachments had been made.\n\nPractically the whole of the villages and cultivated areas have been mapped and the Squatters' Board has dealt with many of them.\n\nDistricts in the vicinity of the City, or Villages already mentioned in Kowloon, should be inspected at least once a quarter as it is there the tendency is greatest for people to squat. In the outlying villages, where there is little or no progress, the necessity for inspection is not so great and a visit twice a year would probably be quite sufficient.\n\nThe gradual bringing into shape of a number of the villages and the construction of well-laid-out roads facilitates greatly the detection of any encroachments, and, as this process is steadily going on, the work of the Land Bailiffs is simplified and reduced.\n\nThe work has practically been in abeyance lately as Mr. King has been performing other duties for the past 12 months or more.\n\n(sd.) Chatham.\n\n3rd June, 1901.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385117, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "Closure Z\n\n360\n\nTract of land hitherto undrained and waterlogged and swampy in all seasons. The area was in close proximity to the densely populated suburb of Hunghom and to the Kowloon Military Barracks, and it was obviously desirable, whether a park were created or not, to improve the drainage of a piece of land which must be in its present condition a menace to health.\n\nA map is attached which will show approximately the area which Mr. Ford proposed to appropriate for the purposes of a park. At its fullest extent it included the portions marked I, F, and 'C'. Recognising that Military rights and other considerations might prevent the realisation of the entire scheme, he suggested that I, at least, might be converted into a small park or recreation ground if no larger space could be obtained. This small area extends to about 11 acres, and Mr. Ford pointed out that its conversion would probably not interfere with any of the objects of the Military Reservation of which it formed a part. The area marked 'B' is of about 52 acres in extent, and includes, with 'A' and 'C' the whole of the Military Reservation in this part of Kowloon, and the Rifle Ranges formerly used by the Military and Naval Authorities, the Police, the Volunteers and the Hongkong Rifle Association. At the present time only 1 Range, the most easterly and a short length (200 yards) of the one immediately to the West of it is in use. The others have been closed as unsafe for use of the Lee Metford Rifle. It was obvious, of course, that this area could not be converted into a park without the sanction of the Military Authorities; for even in the event of the Rifle Ranges being condemned, owing -----", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385374, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 614, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "Sub-Enclosure to Enclosure 2.\n\nI.\n\nPublic Works Extraordinary Contracts entered into during 1902 (up to 10th July 1982).\n\n \n (1). Latrine at Market Street, Youmati\n \n 612\n \n \n (2). do Gillies Avenue, Hunghom\n \n 14,385\n \n \n (3). Grival in dee House Street\n \n \n \n \n (4). D.\n \n 4,054\n \n \n (5). 2 do under the Parade Ground\n the Graya\n \n \n \n (6). Bath House, Wauchai\n \n 3,446\n \n \n \n \n 1420\n \n \n \n \n 4000\n \n \n \n 笨\n 4814\n \n \n (7). Crematorium & Refuse Destructor\n \n 4,204\n \n \n (8). New shed at Disinfecting Station\n \n 5324\n \n \n (9). Widening of Conduit Road\n \n 9,036\n \n \n (10). Extension & Alteration of for Offices\n \n 4,246\n \n \n \n \n $4,929\n \n\nThe sanction of the Secretary of State was specially obtained for item (10).\n\nEd. W. Chatham\n\nD.R.W.\n\n10.7.02.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385634, "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": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure No., to despatch No. 37% of the \n\n20th August, 1902. \n\n3466-237 \n\nExtract from the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" of the 18th August, 1902. \n\nIt is thought the proposal to build a dock at Hunghom by the Hongkong Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, in deference to the expressed wish of a number of shareholders, has been practically abandoned. The appearance of a recently issued circular calling an extraordinary meeting of shareholders, immediately after the yearly meeting, \"for the purpose of considering, and, if thought fit, of accepting, an offer from the Government, to grant to the Company a crown lease of a certain piece of land adjoining the Company's premises at Hunghom, for the construction of a proposed new dock on certain terms,\" since withdrawn, proves that at any rate the scheme has not been entirely abandoned.\n\nThe Board has for a long time past been bargaining for this land, and it is quite possible that they do not even intend to recommend its acceptance; they may only wish to lay the Government proposals before the shareholders. At one time, as we know, both the Board and the shareholders were in real earnest in seeking this addition to their premises, and in equally real earnest in desiring a large new dock in which the biggest ships afloat or likely to be built could be docked. Times have changed, however, and circumstances have altered since it was first proposed to add to the already extensive docking accommodation of the great local dock company.\n\nWhere there was formerly unanimity of opinion on this question, there is now division, and the great mass of the shareholders are somewhat less than enthusiastic about the project. The profits are somewhat less than the previous year, but business has not been good nor profits so large. The Dock Company already possess the following docking facilities:-\n\n \n At Hunghom-\n Length\n Breadth\n \n \n No. 1 (Admiralty) Dock...\n 576\n 86\n \n \n No. 2\n 371\n 74\n \n \n No. 3\n 261\n 49\n \n \n Patent-Slip, No. I\n 240\n 60\n \n \n \n 230\n 60\n \n \n At Taikoktsui\n 406\n 85\n \n \n Cosmopolitan Dock...\n 430\n 64\n \n \n At Aberdeen---\n \n \n \n \n Hope Dock\n 393\n 24\n \n \n Lamont Dock\n \n \n \n\nAll the docks are supplied with every appliance—especially at Hunghom—for the work of docking and repairing vessels, and the machinery has been again and again brought up to date, while large stocks of material are always kept in hand. This fact explains why the Dock Company always has a large overdraft at the Bank, against the indents constantly arriving.\n\nIt is useless to expect a continuance of the monopoly hitherto enjoyed. That will soon be a thing of the past, and rates will no doubt have to come down to some extent. Indeed, there have latterly been signs that the maximum profits had already been reached and that ship-owners were disinclined to pay the high rates demanded. The bonanza days of the Dock Company are in fact already over, and it will have to rely, in the future, on executing more work at smaller profits and to exercise, probably, a keener economy both in labour and material.\n\nThere has been an all-round increase in the rates of both skilled and unskilled labour, and when there is a further competition for this labour it is probable that, unless the dock companies work in conjunction, there will be considerable difficulties to be faced in this direction.\n\nThe yearly recrudescence of the plague and the more frequent outbreaks of cholera, rendering necessary expensive sanitary precautions, constitute another important factor in the future working of this great industrial concern, against which the Board of Directors should concentrate all their energies and provide for foresight.\n\nThe Company has now for some years been swimming in smooth water, but there are rocks ahead against which it would be folly to collide. The opportunity to build the desired big new dock has come and gone, and it now only remains to make the best of what is assuredly a fine property with excellent prospects if conducted on sound lines.\n\nEven the new boats for these waters, such as the Toyo Kisen Kaisha now in course of construction, will not exceed 12,000 tons, or 560 feet in length by 63 feet beam, for which the Admiralty Dock furnishes ample margin. It is true that it is desirable to be thoroughly up to date, but if this can only be accomplished at such an enormous addition to the capital of the Company as to render the provision of such facilities a luxury that can never be made to pay as an investment, the wisdom of incurring such responsibility may well be doubted.\n\nSome of the directors, we understand, are now entirely opposed to the project. It is seldom indeed that we feel called upon to take a hand in matters which concern public companies, inasmuch as we entertain the belief that, as a rule, the shareholders or ought to be competent to look after their own interests, while the community can look on with unconcern if a mistake is about to be made or a disastrous competition invited or averted.\n\nAt the moment, the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, occupies, relatively to any competitor, a practically impregnable position. Its facilities are so great in proportion to its capital that it can afford to accept work at prices that would be starvation to a competing company which was working on a capital equal to the possession of the plant and properties this Company enjoys.\n\nShould the local Company, however, be so ill-advised as to decide upon a fighting policy and to endeavour, by the provision of further docking accommodation, to starve out the opposition, it will assuredly embark upon a ruinous course. The opposition has already commenced operations, and is providing both docks and slips which will—more especially in view of the new dock in the Royal Naval Dockyard in course of construction—provide for all the increase in docking business in this Colony likely to take place for the next two decades at least.\n\nLet the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company be prepared to work in harmony with the new establishment at Quarry Bay and there will probably be employment enough for both, as a large proportion of the Blue Funnel fleet will doubtless be docked here instead of at Liverpool and Shanghai.\n\nFirst of all, then, let us consider what is the present position of the Dock Company and its capabilities in the way of docking and executing work. It has a subscribed capital of two and a half million dollars in 50,000 shares of fifty dollars each, and at the end of 1901, after payment of dividend and bonus of 18 per cent., carried $201,119 forward to working account. It now proposes to pay a dividend of 12 per cent. and carry $290,000 forward.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385868, "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": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "page_number": 473, "title": "CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9]", "content_text": "# O O P Y.\n\n## C. O.\n\n### Enclosure No. 2 to Despatch No. 418 of the 645\n\n18th September, 1903.\n\n470\n\nHongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, Hongkong, 10th September, 1902.\n\nSir,\n\nAdverting to your letter dated 30th July giving final terms on which the Colonial Government is prepared to dispose of the land applied for by this Company for proposed construction of a new Dock at Hunghom, and with particular reference to Special Condition 1(c), I have the honour to make respectful application that His Excellency the Governor will be pleased to modify the terms of same by agreeing to our completing the dock within eight years. It is considered by my Directors that, in view of labour troubles and the difficulty of obtaining skilled workmen, which is becoming more acute every day, it is very necessary we should seek for the most liberal limit possible as to time for completion of the work. If the Government will grant the Company this concession, we will undertake to have the dock built within eight years from date of purchasing the land.\n\nAnd with regard to the payment of the purchase money, as the Company is at present in a somewhat difficult position financially, if the Government would have the goodness to allow this to be spread over a period of two years, the Directors would greatly appreciate the accommodation, and they believe it would be of material assistance to them in bringing their proposals before shareholders, and facilitate the accomplishment of the object in view.\n\nI have etc., \n(Sd.) J. S. Dixon, \nChief Manager.\n\nThe Honourable \nF. H. May, C.M.G., \nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-312 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 385933, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "C. O P Y. No. 49/3.\n\nSir,\n\nEnclosure No. 4 to Despatch No. 442 of the 4th October, 1903,\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 19th June, 1900.\n\n12\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th instant asking if the Colonial Government would grant the Admiralty a permanent tenure of the Naval Range at Kowloon.\n\nIn reply, I would point out in the first place that the Range granted to the Admiralty in 1873 was only 100 yards long, and that in addition to the condition mentioned in your letter, a proviso was attached to the grant by which persons desiring to cross the peninsula immediately in rear of the firing point while shooting was going on were to be allowed to do so.\n\nIn 1892, permission was given by the Colonial Government for the Range to be extended to an extreme length of 900 yards, subject to the area occupied by the Range being open to the Military Authorities for field exercises and field firing, and to the Range being used by the Hongkong Rifle Association by arrangement with the Naval Authorities.\n\nThe above facts being borne in mind, I have to inform you that the Colonial Government has no objection to granting the Admiralty the use of the existing Naval Range and of a 200 yards Range on a portion of the Military Range, at Kowloon, on the following conditions:-\n\n(1) That both Ranges be available for use by the Hongkong Rifle Association subject to arrangement with the Naval Authorities;\n \n(2) That the Colonial Government improve the existing road across the Ranges from Hunghom to Yaumati and form it into a Jinricksha Road, subject to the traffic on it being diverted when the Naval Range is being used for firing;\n\n(3) That the Colonial Government be permitted to make a footpath skirting to the South of the 900 yards firing point whereby foot-passengers may be enabled to make a detour and regain the road referred to in (2) while firing is going on;\n\n(4) That on the Military Range, the butts for the 300 yards Range be placed as far East of North as possible so as to render...\n\nCommodore P.. Powell, R. N....... O. B..........", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386037, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "116 \n\n8 \n\n(18.) Gas Lighting Kowloon.-The same remarks apply to this item.\n\n(21) Forming and Kerbing Streets.-A large amount of this work is being entailed by the erection of buildings under the numerous land sales of the past two or three years.\n\n(23.) Drainage Works, Miscellaneous.—There is also a great amount of work of this nature to be done owing to the same cause. The large amount of reclamation work carried out under recent land sales also entails the revision of drainage of property in the rear of such reclamations and the extension of sewers, &c. across them.\n\n(29.) Waterworks, Miscellaneous, -The increase is intended to go towards the reconstruction of the Albany Filter Beds, &c., which is a very necessary work.\n\n(29.) Water Account (Meters, &c.).—The large increase here is to make provision for the introduction of meters on all services as required by the new Water Works Ordinance (No. 29 of 1902).\n\n9 \n\n(30.) Road from Hunghom to Yaumati.--This is to provide suitable cross-communication between these two populous portions of Kowloon. At present, either a considerable détour must be made or it is necessary to walk over a rough pathway, which is almost impassable in the wet season.\n\n(32.) Resumptions of Insanitary Property --Provision is made for making a commencement with the resumption of some of the insanitary property in the Colony.\n\nThe \nDirector of Public Works.\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY\n\n(3.) Harbour Master's Office.---The estimated cost of this work has been increased to $150,000. When it is pointed out that the foundations alone, up to about ground level, are costing about $40,000, it will be gathered that the sum of $75,000 for the entire structure was totally inadequate. The building will contain three stories and will occupy a conspicuous position on the Harbour front.\n\n(4.) Survey of New Territory.-The estimated cost of this has been reduced to $180,000, in accordance with Mr. Newland's revised estimate. The amount was formerly $212,000.\n\n(5.) Additional Reservoir, Tytam Drainage Areas.—As it has been determined, upon Mr. Chadwick's advice, to proceed with only one of the reservoirs recommended by Mr. Cooper, the estimated cost has been reduced to $120,000.\n\n(6.) Kowloon Waterworks Gravitation Scheme.--The estimated cost of the revised scheme, which has been undertaken, namely, $835,000, has been inserted.\n\n(13.) Tai Po Road. The estimated cost has been increased from $215,000 to $230,000, in order to cover the cost of some additional work found necessary in the course of its construction.\n\n(14.) City and Hill District Waterworks.-The estimated cost has been increased from $306,000 to $314,000. In the report prepared by Mr. Crook on the High Level and Peak Supply, dated 29th August, 1899, the total estimated cost is given as $347,000. The programme of works specified in that report has undergone modification since Mr. Chadwick's recommendations were received.\n\n(15.) Widening Conduit Road. In this case, the cost has been increased from $8,000 to $12,000, in consequence of some heavy landslips which occurred during the progress of the work. These were caused by severe rainstorms.\n\n(25.) King's Park.-The estimated cost is only an approximate estimate given by the Superintendent, Botanical and Afforestation Department.\n\n(26.) Cattle Depôt Extension.-This is a reproductive work, as fees are received for the housing of the cattle. Manila is now drawing its supplies of cattle largely through Hongkong, and the depôts are often overcrowded, necessitating the keeping of the animal in the open yards, where they are unprotected from the elements.\n\n(28.) and (29.) Both these items appeared in this year's Estimates, but it has been found impracticable to make a commencement with either of them, ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386068, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 148, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Spirit Licences\n| Category | Number | Increase |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Publicans, Distillery, Adjunct, Removal, Wholesale, Grocers, Chinese Restaurant | 488 | |\n| Chinese Wine and Spirit Shops | 4653 | 0117 |\n| | | 200% |\n| | | 100% |\n| | 24 NOL | |\n\n## Estimate of Increase\n| Area | Licence Fee per annum |\n| --- | --- |\n| West of a line drawn North and South through Garden Road, Victoria | $350 |\n| East of -do- | $550 |\n| Quarry Bay | $400 |\n| Shaukiwan | $400 |\n| Aberdeen and Ap Lei Chau | $350 |\n| Tsim Sha Tsui, Yaumati, and Hunghom | $550 |\n| Sham Shui Po and remainder of Kowloon | $400 |\n| Kowloon City and remainder of New Kowloon | $350 |\n| Eating Houses, Victoria | $20-$30 |\n| Outside Victoria | $5-$10 |\n\n## Other Licences and Fees\n| Category | Increase | Estimate |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Auctioneers' Licences, Billiard Tables, Chinese Undertakers, Money Changers | 100% | $3,000 |\n| Chinese Passenger Ship Licences | 300% | $1,750 |\n| Dog Licences | 100% | $3,500 |\n| Marine Store Dealers | 100% | $8,500 |\n| Stamp Duties (all duties other than ad valorem) | 200% | $34,000 |\n| Bills of Health | 100% | $3,500 |\n| Registration of Deeds | 200% | $24,000 |\n| Examination of Masters | 100% | $8,000 |\n| Registry Fee and Survey of Steam-Ships | 50% | $8,000 |\n| | | $308,250 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386069, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Enclosure No.2 to Governor's Despatch No.466\nof 24th October, 1902.\n\n**C.O**\n\n### EXTRACT FROM MINUTE BY THE COLONIAL SECRETARY\n60500 \n25th September, 1902.\n\n**24 MO**\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nI have conferred with the Treasurer and Mr. Messer and we recommend that the increases to Spirit Licenses be further increased over and above the recommendation of doubling then made in our report of 4th July last by adding 100% to fees for Publicans licenses, making Eating House licenses in Victoria $120 instead of $5 and making Chinese line and Spirit Shop licenses as follows:\n\n| Location | License Fee per annum |\n| --- | --- |\n| Victoria (Mt. Davis to Naval Yard) | $650 |\n| Fanchai | $560 |\n| Guarry Bay | $51 |\n| Shaukiwan | $400 |\n| Aberdeen and Aplichau | $950 |\n| Tsintsatsui, Yaumati & Bunghom | $550 |\n| Shamshaipo and remainder of old Kowloon | $400 |\n| Kowloon City and remainder of New Kowloon | $560 |\n\nThis would give an additional $26,000 on public houses, $3,000 on Eating Houses, and $24,000 on Chinese hide and Spirit Shops.\n\nWe also recommend that Stamps on all duties other than advalorem be increased 200% instead of 100% as previously recommended and that the same be done by fees for registration of deeds. That would really only bring them up to sterling values again. The only item at all contentious would be Bills of Lading. They are 10 cents now and a 200% increase would make them 30 cents, which is the equivalent of 1½d, the duty at home.\n\nThe s...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386249, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 329, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# No. 3.\n\nFrom the Director of Public Works \nTo the Colonial Secretary. \nThe Honourable \n\n325\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\n\nI regret this report has been somewhat delayed owing partly to the difficulty I have experienced in obtaining information respecting the rights of the Rifle Association and partly to the imperfect nature of the plans submitted by the Naval Authorities necessitating entirely new surveys being made by this Department.\n\n## \"Kowloon Range\"\n\nThis Range 400 yards in length was granted conditionally to the Navy in 1873 G.G.G. No. 613 of 1873. Subsequently, about the year 1895, the Rifle Association obtained permission from the Naval Authorities to shoot over this Range and extended it to 900 yards in length, under what authority this encroachment on Crown Land was made I have been unable to ascertain.\n\nI further understand the present targets were erected by Naval Authorities and are the property of the Association, which also provides watchmen at the butts.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary's letter G.G.G. 3837 of 1889 to the Association appears to indicate that the Naval Authorities are only permitted to use the Naval Range for their own practice.\n\nBefore disposing of any claims the Association may have over the Range, I submit it would be well to request the Secretary to inform the Government under what authority they extended the Naval Range from 400 to 900 yards across Crown Land.\n\nAs regards the proposed extension, it appears from the plans prepared by this Department and submitted herewith that the 1,000 yards extends into the harbour and the line of fire would then cross the Public Road forming the only means of communication by land between Kowloon Point and Hunghom.\n\nFurther, the Military will doubtless require shortly to extend their Range, and should both these Ranges be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386446, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 1 to Despatch No. 551 of the 19th.\n\nDecember, 1902.\n\n**C. O.**\n2431\n-010. JAN CZ\n521\n\nThe proposed purchase of land adjoining Kowloon Marine Lot \nNo.27 by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company.\n\n********\n\nThe idea of constructing a new dock at Hunghom appears \nto have been suggested to the Dock Company, in the first \ninstance, by various reports which appeared during 1896 in the \nleading London newspapers reflecting on the inadequacy of the \ndocking facilities at the port of Hong Kong. Mr. H. S. Dodwell, \nthe Chairman of Dock Company, while contending that the existing \nlocks and establishments are very ample, as far as we are \nable to judge, for our requirements for the present and for \nthe near future, wrote on the 19th December 1895 to Vice-\nAdmiral Buller proposing that, in view of the necessity understood \nto exist from an Imperial point of view for increased \ndock accommodation at Hong Kong for heavy vessels of Her \nMajesty's Navy, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty \nshould make a free grant to the Company of £150,000 to be \napplied towards the cost of the construction of a new dock, \nand in return for this financial assistance the Company \noffered the Admiralty the use of all their docks and slips for \nHer Majesty's ships free of hire for a period of 50 years, the \nAdmiralty paying only a fixed sum to cover cost of pumping out \nthe lock and shoring the vessel in lock.\n\nOn the 10th November, 1896, the Lords Commissioners of \nthe Admiralty intimated to the Secretary of State for the \nColonies their decision that, \"under all the circumstances of the case, the terms proposed by the Dock Company are \ninadmissible,\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386447, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 527, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# 522\n\nTent) add a „Vosqred Abel 34) of tajam, ne dosd over of 25 1 5990. Saito (2189138 anias vulnoist akokory ye toyokuroras et ac aitaiton ensuwapest notood puitual sural, and policor add dat patinateding (Nuvot Noot to retusad ena.\n\n24 43 997 22 alone prom uns stner velibates the edant bed nst pas dieron at: not „Merenjuar 700 701 - pdtearen and 10 siv :i anded 190 300 casearovi 70% reiv 70 Jaica iningar! ne ont faire or 13012 Nkat yo3 peokgno\" de roiteta:oods woor.\n\n9. 01 700,051, ti mano ad át downs went e mai riuoda flounders 3 13 1950 set stand piime (0813)\" al monedeizen Jarcasal) zlat 901 anden vi ras no3 elle ne arcot niegt die 1 920 add vdissoms vet keretic 201 Jenesy 10 kolne, e tot erin to sell anime 'weajav ner Juo polywa 19 Jebo nevoc ad nos tarile vino gaiver ydlenieti .X001 at 182.ev 943 Bainode boe Hook and to enomnieniarst ornod eu XI 150meva/ dech sa c edd nol ajeJe to vadonor -11 of Tadezidui võientata odl to peonelacbonio and ite sarno\",Jadu nojalost nien seinois?\n\n\"inadmissible,\" and the Commander-in-Chief on the China Station was instructed to decline them.\n\nThe matter then remained in abeyance until on the 14th February 1899, Mr. Gillies, Chief Manager of the Cock Company, informed the Director of Public Works that \"to meet the growing demand for docking accommodation at this port\" his Directors recommended the construction of a new dock at Hunghom to the East of their No.1 Dock, and inquired on what terms the Government would be prepared to allot to his Company the ground required as a further extension of their lease of Kowloon Marine Lot No.27.\n\nIn forwarding Mr. Gillies' letter two days later the Director of Public Works pointed out that the area asked for amounted to 892,340 square feet, including the whole of Kowloon Dock Battery, a small portion of Military reserve adjoining, some Crown foreshore and a considerable area now under water also the property of the Crown. Mr. Cresby further stated that he had reason to hope that the Military Authorities would consent to give up the Battery as being no longer of importance and that no objection would be raised to relinquishing the small area of military reserve adjoining.\n\nOn the 23rd February 1899 the question was referred to the General Officer Commanding, who replied on the 10th March 1899 that he would be prepared to recommend to the War Office that authority be given for the surrender of the land in question on the understanding that an amount representing the value of the land as ascertained from the terms and conditions of its transfer to the Dock Company (being the sum actually received for it by the Colony from the Dock Company, or the capitalized value if an annual rental be paid) would be entered in the land account between", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386448, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Page 523\n\nBetween the Colonial Government and the War Department to the debit of the Colony. General Gascoigne added that the consent of the War Office \"is certain to be much more readily accorded if the Dock Company would guarantee to construct a dock on the new ground likely to be of real advantage to His Majesty's Navy,\" e.g., capable of holding 1st class battleships of the size of H.M.S. \"Victorious\".\n\nOn the 17th March 1899, Mr. Gillies stated in a letter to the Director of Public Works that the proposed dock would be capable of taking in 1st class battleships of the size of the \"Victorious.\"\n\nThe Military Authorities were informed by minute dated the 23rd March, and on the 7th April 1899 the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (A) minuted \"The General Officer Commanding has recommended the transfer to Secretary of State for War.\" No reply being received, the Military Authorities were requested to remind the War Office, and on the 20th September the Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (A) minuted \"This has been done.\"\n\nOn the 17th October 1899, Mr. Gillies writes \"The necessity for another and larger dock at Hunghom ever increasing, my Directors are most anxious to commence the construction of same\" and presses for a reply to his letter of the 14th February. On the 29th November, the Director of Public Works reported that Mr. Gillies had again seen him in the matter and begged for an early reply. \"The Dock Company are most anxious to secure the land and get to work with the construction of the new dock which each year becomes more urgently needed.\" On the 7th December 1899, the Deputy Assistant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 386450, "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": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12]", "content_text": "# 525\n\nOn the 10th July 1900 the General Officer Commanding forwards a letter from the War Office dated the 2nd June 1900 approving of his proposal to make a portion of the hill at Kowloon East to be given at once to the Dock Company and adding \"should it become evident during the progress of the work that the construction of the new dock will be unduly hampered by the delay in handing over Kowloon Dock Battery a report to that effect may be submitted.\"\n\nOn the 27th August 1900 the Governor inquired of the General Officer Commanding whether a portion of the War Department land at the Dock Battery could be handed over immediately and General Gascoigne replied on the 15th September in the affirmative.\n\nMeanwhile on the 8th September the Acting Director of Public Works submitted an amended plan received from Mr. Gillies showing a slight alteration in the configuration of the land required of the Company and reported that Mr. Gillies desired to know \"on what terms the Government would be willing to put up to public auction in one lot, the whole of the line of foreshore between the Company's proposed boundary and the Green Island Cement Company's land at Hok Un,\" this land being undoubtedly Military Reserve and fronting Kowloon East Battery.\n\nThe Acting Director of Public Works also pointed out in a minute dated the 19th September that the military cables, the ... \n\nanother large dock at Hunghom be taken in hand immediately and completed with all possible despatch the docking resources of the Company will be found very inadequate to meet the increasing demands.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-313 - Governor Sir Blake - 1902 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387900, "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": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "71 \n\nbenefitted; as there was no 'Assessor' in Singapore, and consequently no comparison of emoluments could be made. But in response to a special appeal I made, the salary of my Office was revised, and an increase of $500 per annum granted from 1st January, 1900. Having completed the necessary service I am now at my maximum $4,200. This is the only increment received by me during the past 12 years.\n\n6.\n\nThe Sterling Salary Scheme (`C.O.O.171` of 1903) would, if accepted, involve an immediate loss of $30 per annum, besides a large reduction in leave pay and Pension.\n\nSince my appointment the Rateable Value of the Colony has been increased from $2,282,879 to $8,167,839 (on 1st July, 1902). The Revenue from Rates has advanced from $374,857.75 in 1889 to $996,990.25 in 1901, and the collection this year exceeds that of 1901 by $160,000. The work of my Sub-Department has grown considerably since my appointment. It continues to increase and will do so as the erection of new buildings in Victoria, Kowloon Point, Yaumati, Hunghom, Mongkoktsui &c., plainly indicate. Then there is the Assessment of a portion of the New Territory, acquired long after my appointment, which also devolves upon me. I may also observe, although aware that the whole time of Officials is at the disposal of Government, that it cannot have been intended that I should have to frequently work late at night, and on Sundays and Holidays in order to overtake my duties.\n\n8.\n\nIn asking for a liberal recognition of my long service here, I would also urge the arduous nature of my duties, necessitating the spending of a large portion of my time in the Streets, Slums and Villages, exposed to all weathers and other risks. It is only a strong constitution that has enabled me to keep at my post so long without a collapse.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388517, "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": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Salary \n| Year | Salary |\n|------|--------|\n| 1898 | |\n| 1899 | 14 |\n| 1900 | |\n| 1901 | |\n| 1902 | |\n| 1903 | |\n\n### Chinese Writer (2)\n- Present Salary: $180\n- Scale: $240-$420 (by bi-annual increments of $30)\n\n### Remarks\n- Appointed in 1898.\n\n### Chinese Writer\n- Present Salary: $144\n- Scale: $240-$420 (by bi-annual increments of $30)\n\n### Harbour Office Clerk\n- Present Salary: $100\n- Scale: $480 (initial) - increments by $30 bi-annually\n\n### Past Clerks\n- Excited in 1901 (@ $480-$600 by bi-annual increments of $30)\n\n### Chinese Forbes Protector\n- Salary: $584\n- Scale: $720-$1,200 upon passing examination under Interpretation scheme.\n\n### Thomaye Writer (2)\n- Present Salary: $300\n- Scale: $420 (240-420 by bi-annual increments)\n\n### Shroff, Interpreter, Hunghom, Marine Surveyor's Office\n- Salary: $420\n- Scale: $240-$470 (by bi-annual increments)\n\n### Shroff, Export & Import Office\n- Salary: $180\n- Scale: $204\n\n### Observatory, Third Class Clerk\n- Salary: $120\n- Allowance: $13.3 a year from Police Department\n\n### Clerk, Shipping Office\n- Salary: $470\n- Scale: $480 (initial) - increments by $bo bi-annually\n\n### Shroff, Harbour Offices\n- Salary: $264\n- Scale: $140-$480 (by bi-annual increments)\n\n### Clerk, Interpreter?\n- Present Salary: $206\n- Scale: $1552 (492-1,200 by bi-annual increments)\n\n### Clerk\n- Salary: $540\n- Scale: $174-$740 (by bi-annual increments)\n\n### Supernumerary Clerk\n- Salary: $2,000\n- Scale: $400-$2,400 (1,500-2,400 by bi-annual increments)\n\n### Asst. Clerk\n- Salary: $780\n- Scale: $btc-$840 (by bi-annual increments)\n\n### Shroff, Land Office\n- Salary: $900\n- Scale: $900-$1,200 (by increments of $50)\n\n### Clerk & Translator\n- Salary: $770\n- Scale: $360\n\n### Clerk, New Territory\n- Salary: $360\n- Scale: $480 (under Interpretation Scheme)\n\n### Remarks\n- Post created in 1899.\n- *Included in Interpretation & Translation Scheme.*", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388527, "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": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "Enclosure 4.\n\nExtract from a Minute by the Colonial Secretary.\n\n32\n\nThe only recommendations I have to make are the following:-\n\n**TREASURY**\n\na Schedule of Chinese Clerkships &c.\n\nThird Shroff might be put in Class VII at $480 to $600.\n\nCollector of Village Rates on next vacancy might be made $480 - $600 and Assistant Collector Village Rates might be put in Class VIII ($240 to $420).\n\n**HARBOUR DEPARTMENT**.- Interpreters at Hunghom and Shamshuipo\n\nBoth these posts (which are more clerical than Interpretatorial) might be put in class VIII of Classification Scheme - $240 to $420 by $60 biennially. It is not possible to get a trustworthy clerk at $204 per annum.\n\n**LAND OFFICE**\n\nAssistant Clerk, and Clerk, New Territory.\n\nI think both these posts should be brought under the Classification Scheme at $480 to $600 by $60 biennially. The present holders might be granted biennial increments of $60 from 1st January 1904 in order to effect that object. The work in the Land Office requires a better stamp of clerk than can be got to stay on $360 per annum.\n\n**GAOL DEPARTMENT**.- Clerk. This clerk was appointed for looking after the printing work which is daily increasing in volume. I think the post might be brought", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388919, "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": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 426, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "## \n\n421 \n\nrelinquishment of which made the land more valuable to the Colony, which might fairly be asked to credit the War Department with the difference in value, having regard to the purpose for which it was required. But this does not mean that land permanently alienated for a public park is worth what the remaining portion is worth that will ultimately be sold for building.\n\nI feel strongly that it would not be equitable to ask the Colony to pay anything but a nominal value for this land and I venture to hope that you will adopt the same view.\n\nReference is made in Mr. May's letter to a proposal by Colonel Brown that the War Department should be compensated for agreeing, if they do agree, to a nominal value being set upon the 'King's Park', by being granted certain reclamation rights in Hunghom Bay in front of Gun Club Hill. This is a proposition to which I cannot assent for the reasons stated in the letter. Moreover, Gun Club Hill Barracks stand on a hill well above the level of the sea and separated from it by a wide roadway. It is not, therefore, possible for a reclamation to seriously interfere with the Barracks.\n\n### \n798 of 8th March Day of and Toby, 1900.\n\n6. Mount Cochrane, which was the subject of the correspondence noted in the margin, has been introduced into the exchanges by my permission. It is an area which the Colonial Government has long desired to possess in order to facilitate the development of the Western side of the Kowloon Peninsula, which district is growing more rapidly than any other portion of the Colony.\n\n11872 of 1900.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388926, "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": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 433, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "# 423 \n\n1 \n\nI have now excluded from my valuation the land at Kowloon East Battery referred to in paragraph 4 of your letter under reply, nor do I wish to make any stipulation as to the road referred to in paragraph 5.\n\n## \n\nWith regard to the general remarks appended to your letter, I have to remark that all resumptions of private property within the areas proposed to be transferred to the War Department at Devil's Peak and Ngau Tau Kok will be made, at the request of the Military Authorities, by the Colonial Government, but must be paid for by the War Department.\n\nYour proposal that the Colonial Government should, if the area to be devoted to the \"King's Park\" be valued at a merely nominal value, grant the War Department certain right of reclamation in Hunghom Bay, is only another way of asking the Colony to pay a high valuation for the \"King's Park\", for any further reclamation in Hunghom Bay will be of very great value.\n\nI have explained my reasons for valuing the area to be devoted to the Park at a nominal sum, and I regret that I cannot modify that view.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(**Sd.**) **K. H. May**, \n**Colonial Secretary** \n\nopen to me but to advise His Excellency the Governor to leave the Reserves in which the area is comprised, in Military Reservation; and to make a Public Park adjoining the new European Reservation near Kowloon City.\n\n4. \n \n\n## \n\nI have etc.. \n(**Sd.**) K. H. May, \nColonial Secretary. → content before this line seems unrelated to the rest of the document and contains a lot of OCR errors. The meaningful content starts from \"open to me...\" \n\nThe final output is cleaned up to remove unrelated content and formatted according to the given rules.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389086, "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": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "page_number": 593, "title": "CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6]", "content_text": "# \n\n586 \n\nto how far such persons might be possible centres of infection though themselves practically immune, but it also bears upon the question of precautions by examination of incomers, which, if my hypothesis turns out to be correct, would be futile.\n\n5.\n\nI agree with Professor Simpson that insanitary and overcrowded houses must decrease the resisting power of the inmates, but a careful examination of the records of every case, which by my direction have been kept since 1899, will show that the plague has not been confined to overcrowded houses; one of the severest visitations, such as that at Hunghom in 1901, were in new houses, well built, well drained and well lighted. Indeed my observation of plague in Hongkong coincides with the view expressed in paragraph 359 of the Indian Plague Commission. They say:- \n\n\"On consideration of everything that has been said in connexion with the influence of Sanitary surroundings both within and without the house, on the spread of the plague, it will be clear that we have been unable to find anything in the nature of statistical evidence or in the nature of inference from Scientific observations, to establish the proposition that any of the Sanitary defects referred to, or any combination of them, exercises any marked favouring influence on the spread of the plague\".\n\n6.\n\nThe Medical Officer of Health has had a special staff for over three years, and every proposal put forward for dealing with the recurring plague has been accepted as a matter of course. Every case is traced as far as possible. A large Sanitary Staff is engaged in disinfection, and all the tenement houses of Hongkong are systematically line-washed. That the disinfection as carried out is thorough, I assume, yet a considerable number of cases from houses previously disinfected are reported after the period at present accepted as the maximum", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-317 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390265, "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": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 540, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "## 532\n\n-increases to the Chinese Barrack and Station Sergeants in the Water Police which have been recommended by Captain Lyons.\n\n6.\n\nIn order to house these additional Police, I recommend that another storey be added to the Central Police Station. This will give accommodation for 54 additional Asiatic Police, besides providing, by a re-arrangement of rooms, increased store and office accommodation, both of which are much needed owing to the large increase in numbers of the Force since the acquisition of the New Territory, and the addition of an Assistant Superintendent of Police for Victoria, who has at present no office.\n\nThe Barracks are at present so overcrowded that some 25 Chinese Constables are housed in a matshed in the Compound of the Station. This is a very unsatisfactory arrangement. The additional storey will enable these men to be brought within the building and will also afford accommodation for those of the extra Police (26) who will be allocated to the Central District. Room can be found in the Eastern and Western Districts of the City for the additional men allocated to them, while in the Kowloon Peninsula, some additional accommodation can be provided at small cost at Yaumati and Hunghom.\n\n7.\n\nThe cost of an additional storey to the Central Police Station is estimated at $28,000, while $500 will be required to accommodate some 50 of the Police who must vacate portion of the Barracks during the alteration. I have to ask your authority to incur this expenditure together with the sum necessary to defray the cost of increase of Police and of salaries shown in the schedule.\n\n8.\n\nFinally, in order to make the Police Service generally \n\nPage 540\nPage 541", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390483, "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": 36, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "## SCALE OF FEES FOR SURVEYS AND CERTIFICATES\n\n(16.) Approving and certifying Position of Load-line. \n$10.00.\n\n(17.)—Overtime Fees for Service of Government Marine Surveyors.\n\nWeek days, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., \n$6 per hour. \nBefore 6 a.m. and after 8 p.m., and on Sundays and Public holidays, \n$10 per hour.\n\nA service occupying less than one hour will be charged as one hour. For service exceeding one hour a quarter of the fee will be charged for each quarter of an hour and any expenses incurred will be charged in addition.\n\nN.B.--When an incomplete declaration is given one half of the Survey Fee in Table C will be charged.\n\n## TABLE A \n### SCALE OF MEASUREMENT FOR PASSENGERS FOR RIVER STEAMERS. SECTION 38 OF ORDINANCE 36 OF 1899.\n\n1. On lower deck, one passenger for each six superficial feet.\n2. On upper deck and in cabins, one passenger for each nine superficial feet.\n3. The above scale to be further regulated by the Surveyor's judgment as to whether or not the vessel possesses sufficient stability for that number of passengers.\n4. A sufficient number of life-boats, rafts and life-buoys, approved by the Government Marine Surveyor, to be supplied.\n5. Passengers are not to be carried on more than two decks.\n6. On the lower deck, one passenger to be deducted for each six square feet occupied by cattle or cargo, and on the upper deck, one passenger to be deducted for each nine feet occupied by cattle or cargo.\n\n## TABLE M \n### FOREIGN MAN-OF-WAR ANCHORAGE\n\n(1.) The Foreign Man-of-war Anchorage is in Kowloon Bay to the Eastward of the Hunghom Peninsula and within the following limits: \n- On the West-The Eastern limit of the Telegraph Cable ground.\n- On the South-A line drawn N 83° E from Blackhead's Hill Signal Mast.\n- On the North and East-The 5-fathom line of soundings.\n\n(2.) There are 14 berths within the above limits, and the following table gives the cross bearings for each. The berth to be taken up will be indicated by number to the arriving vessel. All vessels are to moor.\n\n| No. of Berth | Observatory Building Anemometer | Eastern Light of Telegraph Cable Ground, Hongkong | Lycium Beacon |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1 | N 85° W | S 3° W | S 78 E |\n| No. 2 | N 87° W | S 16° W | S 76 E |\n| No. 3 | N 87°40' W | S 27°4' W | S 75 E |\n| No. 4 | N 89° W | S 40° W | S 71 E |\n| No. 5 | S 86°4' W | S 7° W | S 73 E |\n| No. 6 | S 87° W | S 20° W | S 72 E |\n| No. 7 | S 88° W | S 30°1' W | S 70 E |\n| No. 8 | S 87° W | S 35° W | S 67 E |\n| No. 9 | S 85° W | S 38° W | S 63 E |\n| No. 10 | S 80° W | S 54° W | S 70 E |\n| No. 11 | S 82° W | S 13° W | S 71 E |\n| No. 12 | N 83° W | S 21°3' W | S 68 E |\n| No. 13 | S 83°3' W | S 28° W | S 66 E |\n| No. 14 | N 82° W | S 32° W | S 62°4' E |\n\n## REGULATIONS AS TO DISCHARGE OF CANNON, FIRE-ARMS, OR FIREWORKS, IN THE WATERS OF THE COLONY. (SUB-SECTION 3 OF SECTION 26)\n\nThe portions of the waters of the Colony within which it is prohibited to discharge cannon, fire-arms, or fireworks, as provided by sub-section (3) of section 26 of this Ordinance, are as follows: \n- (a.) That portion having for its eastern boundary, a line drawn across the centre of the Li-u-mun Pass and for its western boundary, a line drawn from the west end of Hongkong to the west end of Green Island, thence in a straight line to the west end of Stonecutters' Island, continued to the mainland.\n- (b) That portion lying within a line drawn from the west end of Hongkong to Waterfall Bay, thence to south end of Taitam Peninsula, continued to Cape d'Aguilar and Cape Collinson, terminating at south-east corner of the Li-u-mun Pass.\n\nN.B.-Mail Steamers may fire a gun if arriving within the above limits between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.\n\n## TABLE N\n\n1. The following are specified as \"wharves\" in respect of which the provisions of paragraph C of sub-section (1) (7) of section 26 of The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1899, shall apply, viz.:\n\nIn Victoria:\n- Whitty Street Steps\n- French Street Wharf\n- Wilmer Street Steps\n- Wing Lok Street Steps\n- Cleverly Street Steps\n- Pottinger Street Wharf\n- Blake Pier\n- Temporary Pier, Telegraph Office Lane\n- Murray Pier\n- Arsenal Street Steps\n- Jardine Steps\n- Ship Street Steps\n\nAt Kowloon:\n- Yaumati Police Station Wharf\n- Tsim Sha Tsui Wharf\n\n2. The following is declared to be a part of the Colony\" in respect of which the provisions of sub-section (2) (b) of section 26 of The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1899, shall apply, viz.:\n\nThe shore on the north side of the City of Victoria, from opposite the Gas Works at Shek tong-tsui to opposite the canal at Bowrington and the shore at Kowloon from Kowloon Point to Yaumati Police Station.\n\n## TABLE A \n### SCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER AND SAFETY CARTRIDGES IN THE GOVERNMENT DEPÓTS. (Section 36)\n\n| Package Contents | Charge per month or fraction of a month |\n| --- | --- |\n| 25 lbs. and less of loose gunpowder | 7 cents |\n| 25 lbs. and less of gunpowder in tins | 10 cents |\n| More than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs. of loose gunpowder | 14 cents |\n| More than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs. of gunpowder in tins | 17 cents |\n| 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs. of loose gunpowder | 20 cents |\n| 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs. of gunpowder in tins | 22 cents |\n| 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs. of loose gunpowder | 26 cents |\n| 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs. of gunpowder in tins | 28 cents |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390484, "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": 37, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "## SCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER, &C.\n\n35 cents and so on, increasing 6 cents per package for each 25 lbs. of gunpowder, up to and in excess of 100 lbs., according as the gunpowder may be loose or in tins.\n\nPackages containing safety cartridges to be charged per 25 lbs. weight, 6 cents a month or fraction of a month. Packages of detonators 9 cents for 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing and, as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\n## SCALE OF CHARGES FOR THE STORAGE OF OTHER EXPLOSIVES.\n\n(Section 36.)\n\nNitro glycerine, or glonoine oil, gun cotton, fulminating mercury, dynamite, lithofracteur, Horsleys' patent blasting powder, &c., &c.\n\n| Cases containing | Rate per month or fraction of a month |\n| --- | --- |\n| 25 lbs. and less | 16 cents |\n| more than 25 lbs. and less than 50 lbs. | 28 cents |\n| 50 lbs. and less than 75 lbs. | 40 cents |\n| 75 lbs. and less than 100 lbs. | 52 cents |\n\nand so on, increasing 12 cents per package for each 25 lbs. weight.\n\nThe weight of the various packages will be determined at the time of storing, and no alteration will be allowed after they have been received into the magazine.\n\nThe Government will not be responsible for damage by explosion, or by insufficient or improper packing: and, as wooden packages are liable to the attacks of white ants, they should be tin-lined, and the lining should be intact.\n\n## TABLE U.\n\n### REGULATIONS FOR THE LICENSING, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL OF BOATS, &C.\n\n(Section 40.)\n\n#### GENERAL.\n\n1. All boats or vessels referred to in these Regulations must be duly licensed as therein directed. No person shall engage or let out for hire any boat or vessel unless it has been licensed according to these Regulations.\n\n2. Every person in charge of a licensed boat or vessel must show his licence when required to do so by any officer of the Police, Registrar General's or Harbour Departments, or by the employer of such boat or vessel, each of whom is hereby empowered to board and examine such boat or vessel.\n\n3. All boats or vessels may be stopped and searched by the Police.\n\n4. For any breach of these Regulations the Licensee or owner or any of the crew of a licensed boat or vessel shall be liable to be prosecuted before a Police Magistrate, and, if found guilty, to be punished accordingly.\n\n5. No boat or vessel shall ply for hire within 300 feet of any ship of war without the written permission of the Harbour Master or of the Officer in command of such ship of war.\n\n6. All boats or vessels licensed under these Regulations on leaving or entering any Port within the waters of the Colony, except when actually conveying or in the employ of pleasure parties, shall comply with the provisions of Section 39 of this Ordinance relating to the entry and clearance of Junks.\n\n7. Any breach of these Regulations shall be punishable with a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in default of payment with imprisonment for three months with or without hard labour.\n\n8. Whenever any certificate or licence issued under these Regulations has been lost or destroyed, a duplicate thereof may be granted by the proper officer if he is satisfied of such loss or destruction, upon payment of one-tenth of the original fee in no case exceeding $1.\n\n#### I. PASSENGER BOATS.\n\n9. Licences shall be issued by the Registrar General on production of a certificate from an Inspector of Police, stating the particulars required by Form B annexed. The applicant must furnish such security for his appearance when required or for the production of the boat, as the Registrar General may demand. Each licence shall be numbered, and shall not be transferable.\n\n10. The issue of a licence shall be in the discretion of the Registrar General and any licence may be suspended or cancelled by him, if it shall be proved to his satisfaction after due enquiry, that the Licensee, or any of the crew of the boat, has been guilty of any breach of these Regulations, or of misconduct in connection with the requirements thereof.\n\n11. No boat shall carry more than the number of passengers for which it is licensed, and no boat shall carry any cargo except passengers' baggage.\n\n12. Every boat shall go alongside a wharf when ordered to do so by a Police Constable, and shall, when conveying passengers, be carefully steered, and travel with reasonable expedition.\n\n13. Every boat shall, as regards repairs and cleanliness, be kept in a state fit for public use.\n\n14. Licences shall state the length and breadth of the boat together with the scale of fares, and shall be valid for one year only, from the 1st July.\n\n15. Every boat shall carry on each bow and on the stern, legibly painted upon wood, the number of its licence in figures at least 2 inches in height, and no other number, and such number shall not be concealed. The numbers shall be painted by persons duly authorised in that behalf by the Licensing Officer and for such fees as the Licensing Officer shall from time to time direct.\n\n16. Every boat shall, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit a light at the bow visible all round; and shall also keep a lighted lantern with the licence number either painted on the glass or cut in on the frame in figures at least 2 inches in height, to be produced when demanded.\n\n17. No person in charge of a boat shall demand more than the fare provided by these Rules, or shall he refuse to take a passenger, except for some reasonable cause, anywhere between the North point of Hongkong and Hunghom point on the East; Belcher's Bay and West point of Stonecutters' Island on the West; Shamshuipo and West point of Stonecutters' Island on the North.\n\n18. The person in charge of the boat shall show the scale of fares to anyone demanding to see it.\n\n19. The following licence fees shall be charged in respect of passenger boat licences :--\n| Class | Length | Fee |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st class | upwards of 40 feet | ... |\n| 2nd class | from 30 to 40 feet | ... |\n| 3rd class | from 20 to 30 feet | ... |\n| 4th class | from 12 to 20 feet | ... |\n| 5th class | less than 12 feet | ... |\n| Village boats | | |\n\n20. The following is the maximum scale of hire for passenger boats:-\n| Class | Per day of 12 hours | Half an hour | Per hour with two passengers | For each extra passenger |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1st class | $2.00 | ... | 20 cents | 5 cents for half-an-hour; 10 cents per hour |\n| 2nd class | $1.50 | ... | ... | ... |\n| All other boats | $1.00 | ... | ... | ... |\n| All boats | ... | $0.50 | ... | ... |\n| | | | Between sunset and sunrise 5 cents extra per passenger. |\n\n#### II. CARGO BOATS.\n\n21. Cargo boat licences shall be issued by the Registrar General on production of a certificate from the Harbour Master or his Deputy, stating the particulars required by Form 4 hereto annexed. A fee of one dollar shall be payable to the Harbour Master for this certificate. The applicant shall furnish the Registrar General with his photograph, if required, and shall also give such security for his appearance when required as the Registrar General may demand. Each licence shall be numbered, and shall not be transferable.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390600, "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": 153, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "# No.556 \n\nHongkong. \n\nNovember, 1993. \n\nSir, \n\n## 525 \n\n**Goverment House** \nHongkong, 4th December, 1903. \n\n## 151 \n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from the Director of Public Works regarding an application which he has received from the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company for an extension of their property at Hunghom in connection with their Electric Power plant.\n\n2\\. I approve of the proposals of the Director of Public Works (with the exception that the land should in my opinion be granted as a new and separate lot and not as an extension to the Company's existing property which is held under a 999 years lease) and have the honour to recommend them for your favourable consideration. As the Dock Company own all the property to the East of Hill Street, the closing of the portions of Hill Street and Bulkeley Street shown on the plan attached to the Director of Public Works' letter can be effected without interfering with the rights of others, provided that condition (c) mentioned in Mr. Chatham's letter is imposed. This will keep open the space between the area marked pink and the house numbered 66 to give access from Bulkeley Street to the houses Nos. 21, 22, and 23 in Market Street.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ALFRED LYTTELTON, M.P.**\n\n## 3. \n## 800. \n&C.. \n* \n&C...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390602, "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": 155, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "## No. 806.\n\nThe Honourable Sir,\n\n**RECO C 0. 525 Prg 4 JA. 04'**\nPublic Works Office,\nHongkong, 14th November, 1903.\n\nI have the honour to forward you a letter which I have received from the Chief Manager of the Dock Company, accompanied by a tracing (marked \"A\") relating to certain property which has been acquired by the Company at Hunghom and proposing to acquire and enclose certain portions of the adjoining public streets.\n\n2. This matter was dealt with in `0.8.0. 1698/1900` and it was arranged that, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, the Company would be granted as an extension of their property the land covered by the roads adjoining the houses which they then proposed to acquire, a premium of 50 cents per Square Foot and Crown Rent pro rata with that of Hunghom Inland Lot 24 being paid for the area of such roads.\n\n3. The Company have not succeeded in acquiring all of the houses, but have partially carried out their scheme and now desire to take up the corresponding area of roads. I attach a tracing (marked \"B\") which shows more clearly the portions of roads now applied for.\n\nI submit that the Company be informed that their present application will be granted subject to the approval of the Secretary of State and to the following conditions:-\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\n(a) Premium at 50 cents per Square Foot, amounting in all to $8,709 to be paid into the Treasury within...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390603, "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": 156, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Conditions for Lease Extension\n\n(a) The lease to be extended within one week of the date of a letter signifying approval of their application.\n\n(b) Crown Rent, amounting to $72 per annum to commence from date of said letter.\n\n(c) The Company to keep the space shown on tracing submitted by the General Manager to the Westward of the area applied for, clear of buildings and to maintain same as a street extending between Bulkeley Street and Market Street.\n\n(d) The Government to have the right to remove the kerbs, channels, gutters, mains, &c., within 2 months of the date of the letter mentioned in (a).\n\n(e) The Company to bear the expense of any alteration required in the drainage of the streets on account of the portions handed over to them being so enclosed as to render unavailable existing arrangements.\n\n(f) The necessary leases to be surrendered to enable a new lease of Hunghom Island Lot 24, including the extension, to be issued for the unexpired portion of its term.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Sd.) **W. Chatham**, \n**Director of Public Works**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392105, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "Congkong.\n\nSir,\n\nGoverment House,\n\nC O 7125\n\n27 EL 01\n\nHongkong, 28th January, 1904.\n\n123\n\nI have the honour to inform you that an application has been received from Messrs. Blackhead and Company for an area of Crown Land and Foreshore to the North of their present lots at Kowloon. As it is necessary to effect considerable modifications of the boundaries of these existing lots in order to provide for the carrying out of a scheme of main thoroughfares in Kowloon and to bring these lots into conformity with the general scheme of reclamation at this part of the Harbour, I beg to recommend that in view of the expenditure which these modifications will entail, the ground should be sold to them by private arrangement instead of being put up to public auction.\n\n2.\n\nI enclose a tracing in which the area applied for (nearly 76,000 Square Feet) is marked in red. Practically the whole of it will be reclaimed land, and as already mentioned, the reclamation shown on the tracing will be in accordance with the general scheme for reclamation in Hunghom Bay.\n\n3.\n\nThe land at present held under lease by Messrs. Blackhead and Company consists of Inland Lot 210 and Marine Lot 34. When the latter was sold to this firm in 1892, Government reserved the right to construct a public roadway\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\n02\n\nALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392296, "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": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 315, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "Return of Free Grants of land for Religious or charitable Purposes made by the Government \n\nof Hongkong for the period of 20 years from the 1st January, 1884, to 31st December, 1903.\n\n313\n\n \n No.\n Lot No.\n Date of Grant\n Area\n Estimate value\n Purpose for which made\n Remarks\n \n \n 1\n Stanley Inland Lot No. 15\n 24th June, 1884\n 5,287 Square feet\n $200\n Granted as a site for Mission School for Girls at Stanley\n \n \n \n 2\n Inland Lot No. 952, Kai Lung Wan\n 24th June, 1884\n 31 Acres\n $24,500\n Granted to the Tung Wa Hospital for Cemetery for Chinese\n \n \n \n 3\n Hunghom Inland Lot No. 168\n 25th December, 1887\n 3,600 Square feet\n $400\n Granted for the Kun Yam Temple, Hunghom\n \n \n \n 4\n Inland Lot No. 831\n 14th October, 1892\n 13,815\n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n Inland Lot No. 1,816\n 25th December, 1892\n 12,520\n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n Aberdeen Village Lot No. 20\n 1st January, 1893\n 5,800\n \n \n $270 granted for Tai Hau Temple, Aberdeen Village\n \n \n 7\n Pokfulam Lot No. 25\n 1st January, 1893\n 225\n \n \n $20 granted for Village Shrine at Pokfulam Village\n \n \n 8\n Kowloon Inland Lot No. 632\n 24th June, 1893\n 9,490\n \n \n $4,500 granted as a site for the Kowloon Soldiers and Seamen's Institute\n \n \n 9\n Kowloon Inland Lot No. 641\n 1st July, 1893\n 775\n $50\n Granted for the Pak Tai Temple at Hok Ün, Kowloon\n \n \n \n 10\n Ap Liu Chow Inland Lot No. 23\n 1st January, 1894\n 3,884\n \n \n $120 granted for the Hung Shing Temple at Ap Liu Chow Island\n \n \n 11\n Inland Lot No. 1,350\n 26th April, 1895\n 13,608\n $2,500\n Granted for the Extension to Existing premises of the Diocesan Female School\n \n \n \n 12\n Inland Lot No. 1,351\n 26th April, 1895\n 8,000\n \n \n $2,300 granted for the Yuk Bu Kung Temple, Hongkong\n \n \n 13\n Inland Lot No. 1,852\n 26th April, 1895\n 10,080\n $830\n Granted for the Tin Hau Temple, Tai Hang\n \n \n \n 14\n Ah Kung Nam Lot No. 28\n 26th April, 1895\n 260\n \n \n $20 granted for Village Temple at Ah Kung Nam Village\n \n \n 15\n Ap Liu Chow Inland Lot No. 24\n 26th April, 1895\n 425\n \n \n $15 granted for the Kun Yam Temple at Ap Liu Chow Island\n \n \n 16\n Stanley Inland Lot No. 1\n 26th April, 1895\n 456\n \n \n $15 granted for the Sin On Kung Temple at Stanley Village\n \n \n 17\n Stanley Inland Lot No. 2\n 26th April, 1895\n 578\n \n \n $20 granted for the Pak Tai Temple at Stanley Village\n \n \n 18\n Stanley Inland Lot No. 3\n 26th April, 1895\n 750\n \n \n $20 granted for the Shing Kung Temple at Stanley Village\n \n \n 19\n Kowloon Inland Lot No. 654\n 26th April, 1895\n 2,188\n \n \n $100 granted for the Sheung Tai Temple, Ma Tau Chung Village, Kowloon\n \n \n 20\n Kowloon Inland Lot No. 655\n 26th April, 1895\n 3,821\n $200\n Granted for the Tin Hau Temple, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon\n \n \n \n 21\n Kowloon Inland Lot No. 656\n 26th April, 1895\n 3,825\n $200\n Granted for the Tam Kung Temple, Kau Pui Shek, Kowloon\n Proprietary Temple granted at an annual rent of $64 without premium", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393533, "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": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "content_text": "# 19. Sanitary Department.\n\nIncrease.\n\nStipulated Increments\n\nNew Cost of\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n33,522 Reduction.\n\nDecrease.\n\non rough\n\n707 - Abolition of Post.\n\nDecrease of Salary.\n\n9,294\n\nChange Compensation\n\n2,763\n\nPosts formerly found for out of \"Other Charges: 4,992\n\nAllowance for Knowledge of Chinese\n\n240\n\nAllowance for House Rent\n\n18\n\nAppointments\n\n72\n\n93\n\nPosts made permanent (formerly for only 6 months) 1,350\n\n22,957\n\nOther Charges.\n\nAdvertisements Notices\n\n700\n\nMiscellaneous Incidental Expenses\n\n200\n\nConveyance Allowance\n\nDisinfectors - Maintenance\n\nDistrict Sanitary Offices - Rent.\n\nTraps - Cleaning\n\n$1,493\n\nBattersea Crematorien & Refuse Destructor Maintenance 500\n\nDisinfecting Tanks - boiler hire & fuel.\n\n690 - Incidental Expenses,\n\nJacketed Boiler for Disinfecting Station\n\n1,728\n\n300\n\nNew Boiler & Vacuum apparatus\n\n1,336\n\nRent of land for accommodation of battersea\n\n90\n\nElectric Fan\n\n360 - Scavenging City, Villages & Hill District.\n\nPrinting Minutes of Proceedings of the Freed.\n\nSon-Weighing Machine Hunghom battersea Destructor\n\n(Branch Room) Removal of fighting\n\n120. Ambulances Coffins,\n\nRight of Way\n\nCompensation for Damages by Disinfection\n\nFurniture - Repairs\n\nConveyance allowance.\n\n30.\n\n348 Coolie Labour.\n\nOil, Trap, Turpentine, &c.\n\n10.\n\n80.\n\n2,500 - Disinfectants\n\nat Prison Rat Catching\n\n10.\n\n1,570 - Disinfecting Cleansing Apparatus\n\nIncidental Expenses\n\n$21,126\n\nTotal Increase\n\nTotal Decrease\n\n446,979 |\n\n34,117\n\nNet increase\n\n9,962\n\nPlague Boats & Matsheds.\n\nUpholstery.\n\nPlague Corkers.\n\nCost of Burial.\n\nTotal Decrease\n\n2,570\n\n2,570\n\n142\n\n1,000\n\n6,000\n\n$35,524\n\n344,117", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 396333, "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": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "content_text": "# COLONY OF HONGKONG, 1907.\n\n## STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE IN THE YEAR, UNDER HEADS AND SUB-HEADS, AS COMPARED WITH THE ESTIMATES.\n\n| | ORIGINAL ESTIMATE OF EXPENDITURE | ACTUAL EXPENDITURE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE | SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATED | REMARKS EXPLANATORY OF INCREASE OR DECREASE |\n|----------|----------------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|----------------------|------------------------|---------------------------------------------|\n| | $ | $ | $ | $ | | |\n| | 406 | 2825.788 | 2361.778 | | | Estimated at a lower rate of exchange. |\n| | 4356 | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | Increase due to additional notices |\n| | | | | | | Decrease in number of swine slaughtered. |\n| | | | | | | Improvement in stocking rate large proportion of geese |\n| | | | | | | Overestimated. |\n| | | | | | | Allowance for most cleaning expenses lapsed |\n| | | | | | | |\n\n## SANITARY DEPARTMENT\n\n### Personal Emoluments\n229148 | 199761.29 | 29386.71 | 4623.90 | | \n\n### Other Charges\n| | ORIGINAL ESTIMATE | ACTUAL EXPENDITURE | OVER THE ESTIMATE | UNDER THE ESTIMATE | REMARKS |\n|----------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------------------|\n| Advertising Notices | 500 | 1103.47 | 603 | | |\n| Allowance for Chinese Teachers | 240 | 183.56 | | 56.44 | |\n| Firewood | 2500 | 1830 | | 670 | |\n| Gas | 600 | 452.62 | | 147.38 | |\n| Sundries | 120 | 76.44 | | 43.56 | |\n| Cattle Crematorium and Heinse Destructor | 1500 | 428.40 | | 1071.60 | |\n| Maintenance | | | | | |\n| Coactory, Incidental Expenses | 2000 | 1886.07 | | 113.93 | |\n| Central Market, Electric Lighting | 10,000 | 7181.09 | | 2818.91 | |\n| Conveyance Allowance | 4938 | 4388.63 | | 549.37 | |\n| Disinfectants, Calling, &c. | 1000 | 640.21 | | 359.79 | |\n| Disinfecting Tanks, Coolie-hire and Fuel for Maintenance | 6528 | 4580.65 | | 1947.35 | |\n| Disinfector, Maintenance | 2500 | 1700.40 | | 799.60 | |\n| District Sanitary Offices, Rent | 1500 | 1398 | | 102 | |\n| Dust Carts, &c. Purchase and upkeep | 25,000 | 32836.4 | | 7836.4 | |\n| General Cleansings | 500 | 391.87 | | 108.13 | |\n| Incidental Expenses | 4,000 | 4728.41 | | 728.41 | |\n| Jacketed Boiler for Disinfecting Station | 600 | 750.53 | 129.53 | | |\n| Market Expenses | 1000 | 841.22 | | 158.78 | |\n| New Boiler and Vaccuum Apparatus | 1336 | 1336 | | | |\n| Nightsoil Receptacles | 900 | 898.90 | | 1.10 | |\n| Printing Minutes of Proceedings of the Board | 300 | 294.75 | | 5.25 | |\n| Reading Room, Lighting | 72 | 72 | | | |\n| Rent of Land for the Accommodation of Cattle | 900 | 750.97 | | 149.03 | |\n| Scavenging City, Villages and Hill District | 80,900 | 80807.41 | | 92.59 | |\n| Telephone Supervision | 300 | 500 | 200 | | |\n| Uniforms for Staff | 5000 | 5180.24 | 180.24 | | |\n| Vaccination, Payment for Successful results | 500 | 932.019 | 432.019 | | |\n| Watering Streets | 10,000 | 6795.1 | | 3204.9 | |\n| Weighing Machine, Hunghom Cattle Depôt | 300 | 375.14 | 75.14 | | |\n\n### Plague\n7500 | | | | | Certain unforeseen expenditure was charged to \"Other Charges\". Saving effected by the use of drums instead of buckets. Payment made by the P.W.D. not charged to this vote.\n\n2905.470 | 2697499.4 | 65641.4 | 803885.7 | 78249.31 | 67769.7\n\nCarried forward...\n\n2,663.18 | 4,836.82 | | | | \n\nAdditional accommodation provided at the Depot was not anticipated. Certain assets amounting to $824 wrongly debited under this heading or under No clauses presented. Reduction in cost of coolie labour due to the total number employed. Decrease in Plague.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397215, "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": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 509, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "506\n\nof the Copper Bolt, by transference from one object to another, as each gets destroyed; but even if this is done it will still be necessary to refer to mean sea level if any gradual local alteration in the level of the earth's crust is to be detected.\n\n18.\n\nI have plotted a number of sections of Hunghom Bay, from the soundings of January, 1887, and those of January, 1905, taken for His Excellency by Commander D'Arcy, superimposing the one upon the other, for the purpose of showing the changes that may have occurred during the interval of 18 years. The area of sea bed covered by Commander D'Arcy's survey is too uneven to show small changes well. Section 'C' shows no appreciable change of average depth; Section 'B' shows a balance on the side of deepening; Section 'A' shows an apparent deepening of several feet over a great part of its length. I have ascertained from the Manager of the Dock Company that dredging operations have not been carried out to a greater distance than 100 feet from the front of the Docks. A slight apparent deepening might be attributed to natural scouring, or to discrepancies in the surveys; but the apparent deepening in this case seems to be too great to be so accounted for.\n\n19.\n\nIt would be well to have a few test sections taken, when opportunity offers, for the purpose of ascertaining what alterations of the sea bed are taking place. I would suggest taking soundings on the lines shown in blue on Charts `E-1140` and `E-4077`. It would be a fairly big job to do this correctly, and there is no use in doing it otherwise; but it seems to be necessary, for the present at least, to have a survey party sent out from England to make a complete survey ((15 and 20)).\n\n20.\n\nAs to the suggestion that borings should be taken ((18)), I think, with all due deference to the Consulting Engineers, that as it is proposed to dredge the stuff, and to no great depth, samples of it may very properly be got by dredging. Good", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397219, "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": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 513, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "## Appendix 11\n\n510\n\n(a) Note on latest editions of charts 1459, 3279, and 3280 of the harbour:- \"the soundings are reduced to Low Water of an exceptionally Low Spring Tide, or 19 feet 2 inches below the copper bolt at the North-west corner of one of the store-houses in the Royal Naval Yard\".\n\n(b) Note on former editions of the same:- \"The Soundings are reduced to Low Water of an exceptionally Low Spring Tide, equivalent to 2 feet 4 inches on the Royal Naval Yard Tide Pole.\"\n\n(c) Note on various charts, such as 3429, of areas outside of the harbour:- \"Soundings in fathoms reduced to 18 feet 2 inches below the copper bolt on North-West corner of building in Royal Naval Yard, Hongkong\".\n\n(d) Note on the brass plate attached to the Copper Bolt above referred to :- \"This Copper Bolt is 17 feet 10 inches above the level of the soundings taken by His Majesty's Surveying Vessel \"Rifleman\" in 1886, along the foreshore of Hongkong (Victoria) Harbour\".\n\n(e) Memorandum dated 18th December, 1901, from the Hydrographer to the Commanding Officer, H.M.S. \"Waterwitch\":- \"For any further surveys of Hongkong Waters a datum level should be taken of:- 3' 0\" on the Dockyard Gauge, or 1' 8\" on the Kaulung Observatory Gauge, or 18' 6\" below the Copper Bolt. This is very nearly the same as the datum established by the \"Rifleman\" in 1866\".\n\n(f) Note on Commander D'Arcy's chart of Hunghom Bay showing survey made in January, 1905:- \"The soundings are reduced to Low Water ordinary Spring Tides, equivalent to 11' 0\" on...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397220, "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": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "34* \n\n511 \n\non the s ide Pole of No. 2 Dock, Hunghom Bay, or 3' 0\" on the \nRoyal Naval Yard tide pole. \n\nThis is evidently intended to be the datum fixed \nin (e).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397469, "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": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 763, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "759 \n\nIn June last, two Captains of British Merchant Ships were fined for \"blowing their steam whistles other than for the purpose of navigation, at 4 o'clock in the morning in Hunghom Bay, thereby disturbing the peace and quietude of the neighbourhood\". The cases referred to are those of two steam launches, the \"Albatross\" and the \"Hoi Ning\", which entered Hung Hom Bay at 4 a.m. in the morning of the 5th June, the second launch following the first and the two together emitting 10 blasts of their whistles, while according to evidence given before the Magistrate there were no craft in their way. According to the Merchant Shipping Guild, \"it is obvious that these alarms would not be made without there was some specific cause in the way of danger\", and on this assumption they \"feel that prosecutions of the kind are exceedingly frivolous and unnecessary\". There is no doubt that at this port the almost continuous whistling which goes on throughout the day and through some of the hours of night is an unavoidable necessity in connection with the navigation of the vast number of small steamers that constantly ply in the harbour, but if to this has to be added unlimited whistling for the purpose of attracting the attention of persons on shore and other purposes not connected with navigation, very serious inconvenience and confusion would result. It was doubtless to obviate these that the regulation in Subsection 10, Section III of Table M to Ordinance No.10 of 1899 was enacted, and in spite of the protests of the convicted parties, there seems to be no reason to doubt that the regulation was infringed in the cases referred to by the Merchant Shipping Guild.\n\n5.\n\nAnother instance quoted by \"The Merchant Service Guild\" to show \"the way British shipping and British Merchant Captains are unnecessarily harassed and interfered with by the authorities at the port\" is \"where a Merchant Captain was prosecuted for anchoring in Junk Bay because in his opinion it was dangerous for him to attempt to enter the Harbour through the Lyemun Pass\". The case quoted was one in which the Norwegian Captain", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404096, "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": "CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905", "content_text": "C \n356 \n\nthat the decision of the Harbour Master was bad, not only morally, but from a lawful standpoint. The Guild are bound to admit, however, that in the case of the S.S. 'Grecian\" she was in charge of a duly licensed Pilot, whereas this was not the case with the \"Wing Chai\". \n\nTaking into regard the important fact that the Guild were under a wrong impression on one or two points, we feel it a proper course to withdraw the statement to which Captain Barnes Lawrence takes objection.\n\nIn reference to the Port of Hong Kong the Guild greatly regret to observe the way British Shipping and British Merchant-Captains are unnecessarily harassed and interfered with by the authorities at the port. For instance, the Guild have information to the effect that, on the 13th June last, two Captains of British Merchant Ships were fined for blowing their steam whistles other than for the purpose of navigation, at 4 o'clock in the morning in Hunghom Bay, thereby disturbing the peace and quietude of the neighbourhood. The Captains of both ships protested very strongly that the whistles of their steamers were blown to warn vessels in the vicinity with a view to avoiding collisions with them. It is obvious that these alarms would not be made without there was some specific cause in the way of danger. The Guild feel that prosecutions of the kind are exceedingly frivolous and unnecessary and are calculated to cause much adverse comment. Another instance is where a Merchant Captain was prosecuted for anchoring in Junk Bay, because in his opinion it was dangerous for him to attempt to enter the Harbour through the Lyee-mun Pass. We understand from gentlemen serving in merchant vessels in Chinese waters that Junk Bay has been used as an emergency anchorage for many...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404317, "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": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n# Hongkong\n## Enclosure 1\n\nFOR USE IN ...\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 12th January, 1906.\n\nIn the 12th paragraph of my Confidential Despatch of the 20th October, 1905, on the subject of the survey and preliminary work for the section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway within British Territory, I stated that the question of the extent and nature of the reclamation required for the Kowloon terminus of that line required careful working out and that I had placed that matter in the hands of Mr. J. F. Boulton, Senior Executive Engineer in the Public Works Department and formerly the Engineer of the Praya Reclamation Works.\n\n2. I have now the honour to forward a copy of a letter from Mr. W. Chatham, M.I.C.E., Director of Public Works, covering preliminary drawings and estimates drawn up by Mr. Boulton for a scheme of reclamation to provide a site for a passenger station and goods depot in Hunghom Bay on the East side of the Kowloon Peninsula.\n\n3. \n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE**\n**THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,**\n... \nC.O. 4801 \nRed 10 FEB 06 \n53", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404318, "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": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2\n\n54\n\n3. In the report made by Mr. P. T. Somerville Large in 1899 for the British and Chinese Corporation, the terminus was assumed to be on the reclaimed land at Tsim Sha Tsui to the extreme South of the Peninsula, and this site had been generally accepted locally. Apart, however, from the fact that the reclaimed land was private property which could only be resumed at enormous cost, it seemed to me, when I first went into the matter in the autumn of 1904, that the area available was too restricted for a satisfactory terminus, that it could not be extended without unduly encroaching on the fairway of the harbour, and that access to it could involve utilizing for the railway the main North and South road of Kowloon, which would have hampered traffic and interfered with the development of the town. On the other hand, Hunghom Bay appeared to have the advantages now set forth in the first paragraph of Mr. Chatham's letter.\n\nThis view received independent corroboration from a letter dated January 13th, of which I enclose a copy, from Mr. A. J. Barry, M.I.C.E., whom I saw on the occasion of his visit to Hongkong shortly before that date, but with whom I had not discussed this matter.\n\n4. The plans now submitted are based on", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404319, "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": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "## \n\nOn closure.\n\n55 \n\nOn a detailed survey of Hunghom Bay which the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, was good enough to have carried out for me by H.M.S. \"Albion\" in February, 1905.\n\n5.\n\nThey show a first section of a reclamation scheme estimated to cost $585,000 designed to furnish ground for a passenger station and goods depot and to allow of cargo being landed into this depot from lighters, and also a complete scheme estimated to cost about $9,576,000, which would enable the largest vessels afloat to unload directly on to quays and give ample space for the handling and housing of very large importations. The first section of the scheme should be undertaken simultaneously with the construction of the railway; the complete scheme should be subsequently carried out in sections as funds can be made available and as the anticipated gradual growth of the port of Kowloon requires provision of the additional accommodation.\n\n6.\n\nI enclose a minute dated the 3rd instant by the Harbour Master, on the complete scheme. Captain Barnes-Lawrence considers that the greatest depth of water provided alongside the quays might be reduced from 40 to 36 feet. This would lessen the cost; on the other hand the lowering of the Belcher Ridge so that there should", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404320, "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": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "56: should be 7 fathoms of water over it at low tide, which he recommends, would involve considerable additional expenditure. With regard to the question of the scheme hampering the movements of vessels going to and from the Hongkong and Whampoa Docks, raised in the 5th paragraph of the Harbour Master's minute, it has seemed to me premature to consult the Manager of the Dock Company at the present time.\n\n7. I suggest that a copy of this Despatch and of its enclosures should be sent to the Railway Consulting Engineers for their consideration of the First Section of the Scheme in connection with the Canton-Kowloon Railway. It will only be necessary for them to consider at the present time the complete scheme to the extent of avoiding in the laying out of the station yard arrangements which might be inconvenient when further sections of this scheme are undertaken.\n\n8. Mr. J. C. Bruce, Chief Surveying Engineer for the Canton-Kowloon Railway, who entirely concurs in the terminus being at Hunghom Bay, is shortly returning to England on completion of his work here and will be available to assist the Consulting Engineers in dealing with this matter. Mr. Boulton who expects to arrive in England on leave in June next will, I am sure, also", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404322, "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": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "## No. 935,\n\nEnclosure 1. in No.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nSir,\n\nPublic Works Department,\nHongkong, 37th December, 1905.\n\nI beg to forward you preliminary drawings and estimates for a scheme of reclamation to provide a site for the terminus in Kowloon of the Kowloon-Canton Railway. The site is in Hunghom Bay, the reasons which have led to its selection being:-\n\n(1). The harbour frontage is still in the possession of the Government.\n(2). It is close to Kowloon Point.\n(3). The configuration of the sea-bed renders the bay favourable for an extensive reclamation.\n(4). Deep-water frontage is procurable.\n(5). The railway can be more easily constructed to Hunghom Bay than to any other portion of the Kowloon Peninsula which would be suitable for a terminus.\n\nThe complete scheme of reclamation contemplated is a very extensive one. It comprises an area of 143.15 acres, of which it is proposed to utilize 117.52 acres for the terminus, and affords 9,240 lineal feet of frontage for vessels, the depth of water alongside the quays at low water ranging from 40 feet to 8 feet. In providing for so great a depth of water as 40 feet, I have been guided by the fact that there are now two of the Great Northern Steamship Company's vessels entering the Port which are designed to draw 38½ feet when fully laden. The dimensions of these vessels are as follows:-\n\n| | Length | Breadth | Load draft |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Minnesota | 680' 0\" | 79' 6\" | 30'... |\n| Dakota | ... | ... | 38' 5\" |\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 60\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404756, "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": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 494, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 1\nshowing (1) expenditure up to date; (2) liabilities on account of works already in hand; and (3) estimated cost of works not yet commenced but urgently required, which expenditure, liabilities and estimated cost are or will be charged to this item and amount in all to $82,000 against $40,000 provided in the Estimates.\n\n6. The excess is due in the first instance to the resumption of Hunghom Inland Lot 220 which was decided on last year after the Estimates for 1906 had been prepared. The resumption was forced on the Government by an application from the owners of certain portions of the lot to re-erect their buildings on the lot in a more substantial style. This application could not legally be refused without a resumption of the property and if acceded to would have involved the Government in far greater expense later on in making the 100 foot Kowloon-Hunghom Road. $25,000 were paid for the resumption in 1905 out of that year's item for \"Forming and Kerbing Streets\" which was the only one available, it not being considered desirable to announce beforehand the proposed acquisition by taking a special vote for it. The acquisition was arranged privately, Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs acting for the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405975, "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": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "510\n\nare set forth in the following remarks which the Captain Superintendent has, at my request, published as a Police General Order:-\n\n:\"I have read with much pleasure the report of the Captain Superintendent of Police on the work done by the Force under his command and especially by the European and Indian contingents of it on the occasion of the typhoon of the 18th September. Under the capable and energetic direction of Inspectors V. Robertson, D. Macdonald, A. C. Langley, A. Collett, D. Gourlay, and A. G. Dymond and of Police Sergeants 42 Sim, and 17 Lamont, many hundreds of Chinese lives were saved by the Police on the Island, in Kowloon and in the New Territories during and immediately after the storm, in many cases private persons bravely co-operating.\n\n(2).\n\n\"Of the various members of the Force whose names have been brought to notice in this connection the following are specially commended:-\n\n\"Inspector D. Gourlay who in addition to directing life saving operations in the Eastern District saved 5 lives by jumping into drifting junks from the East Praya and getting the people to shore from them.\n\n\"Lance-Sergeant 106, Appleton, and Police Constables 47, Walker, 77, Foley, and 84, Taylor, who rescued people from boats and fallen houses at Yaumati at considerable risk to themselves.\n\n\"Police Sergeant 12, O'Sullivan, who went into the water and rescued a man from beneath a boat at Hunghom.\n\n\"Lance-Sergeant 59, Lee, and Police Constable 37, Hynes, who saved lives on the East Praya.\n\n\"Indian Police Constable 685, Alli Bux, who assisted Mr. Bevan of Messrs. Lane, Crawford and Company, to rescue a man who had been blown into the sea off the Praya Wall.\n\n\"Indian Police Constable 668, Kesar Singh, and 811, Ojagar Singh, who rescued about 40 people near Murray Pier and 7 others from a damaged cargo boat off Naval Yard.\n\n\"Chinese Constable 304, Chu Shu Yung who with a Sham Shui Po fisherman saved the crew of a water boat at great personal risk.\n\n(3).\n\n\"Others mentioned in the report of the Captain Superintendent for good work in saving life and who are commended are:-\n\n\"Lance-Sergeants 109, Caygill, and 97, Aris; Police Constables 101, Sufton, 87, Clark, 63, Wills, 110, Winter, 28, Munday, 9, Murphy, 98, Purden, 52, Watt, and 69, Parr; Indian Police Sergeant 569, Ahmed Khan, Indian Police Constables 536, Jhundy Khan, 768, Atta", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405978, "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": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 1 to Despatch N°262 dated the 22nd October 1906\n\nRevised list of Casualties to Shipping (exclusive: Steam launches & native craft) in Hongkong Harbour on the 18th Sept. 1906 between the hours of 8.30 am and 3 pm.\n\n## Casualties\n\n| Name of Ship | Nationality | Official No./Registered No. | Tonnage | Where casualties happened | Damage sustained | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| JP Michcock | | | | Kowloon Wharves | Damaged sustainably | |\n| Herminia (Jack \" | | | | | Stranded. Fock boxly damaged & fore top mast gone. | |\n| Sorsogons | | | | | Main Royal Mast lost. | |\n| Rozario (trek) | | | | | Damaged by collision | |\n| Jalofan | | | | | Stranded. | |\n| Monteagle | | | | Alongside Kowloon Docks | Foundered | |\n| Kwong Chow | | | | Haumali Bay | Stranded on the beach. | |\n| Brathmore | | | | | | Salvage operations commenced, assisted by the British Navy. Under repair. |\n| Wing chai | | | | | | Being broken up (old iron) |\n| kongnam | | | | | | Constructive total loss. |\n| Changsha | | | | The Torpedo Depot, Kowloon | | Being broken up (old iron) |\n| Jak hing | | | | Kowloon Point | Foundered | |\n| Kinchan | | | | You mate Bay | In collision several plates indented | Refloated. Now under repairs. |\n| Heung Jhan | | | | | Salvage operations in progress. | |\n| Sar Cheung | | | | | Badly band on both sides of stern. | Repairs completed. Ship left the harbour. |\n| Bak kong trong trường | | | | | Stranded. Seriously damaged. | Constructive total loss, wreck sold by Broker. |\n| Jan On Shun Lee | | | | | | |\n| Coptic | British | 88843 | 513 | You wate Bay | | 2086 |\n| Loong sang | | | | | | 23 |\n| d'irra Morena | | | | Sham Shui po | | 22 |\n| Chip shing | | | | | | You wate Bay |\n| Kutsang | | | | 184 | | 4 |\n| Albatross | | | | Shanshuito | | 420 |\n| Radnorshire | British | 110554 | 44 | | | 408 |\n| Poona | | 1485 | | | | British |\n| banada | | 3953 | | | | 88843 |\n| American | | | | | | 110554 |\n| EQ | | | | Yaumati | | 1485 |\n| | | | | 阿 | 91952 | 3953 |\n| | | | | | 1468 | 109869 |\n| | | | | ú | 72 | 507 |\n| | | | | 109874 | | 104524 |\n| | | | | ૧૦: | 3 | 2296 |\n| Shamships | | | | | 41 | 109871 |\n| | | | | h | 348 | 32 |\n| | | | | 109872 | 1092 | 400 about 12 |\n| Bailam chun | | | | | 661 | Shanshuito |\n| | | | | 0 | 900 | 107028 |\n| | | | | 05855 | 979 | 402 |\n| Sanchau Island | | | | | .60 800 | b |\n| | | | | $ | | 4 |\n| | | | | 109870 | 389 | 10 |\n| | | | | | 43 | Yaumati |\n| | | | | alongside boy's Wharf | | 阿 |\n| | | | | ato. Foundered | | 91952 |\n| | | | | Badly damaged | | 1468 |\n| | | | | No anticipated cause | | 72 |\n| | | | | Serious damage | | ú |\n| | | | | 107020 | 295 | 109874 |\n| | | | | | 44 | ૧૦: |\n| | | | | You mate Bay | | 3 |\n| | | | | Broken up | | Shamships |\n| | | | | On sea wall | | h |\n| | | | | 109864 | 413 | 109872 |\n| | | | | | 30 | 1092 |\n| | | | | 20 | | 661 |\n| | | | | 32 | | 900 |\n| | | | | 120954 | 20 | Bailam chun |\n| Kowloon Bay | | | | | | 0 |\n| Men-of war anchorage | | | | 116038 | $2 | 05855 |\n| | | | | | 50 | 979 |\n| | | | | 300 | | .60 800 |\n| | | | | 84164 | | Sanchau Island |\n| | | | | | 2744 | $ |\n| | | | | | 130 | 109870 |\n| | | | | A | | 389 |\n| 105383 | | | | | | 43 |\n| 118054 | | | | 2263 | | alongside boy's Wharf |\n| | | | | 35 | | ato. Foundered |\n| 120660 | | | | 1199 | | Badly damaged |\n| | | | | 79 | | No anticipated cause |\n| 120538 | | | | 8110 | | Serious damage |\n| Choy san | | | | | | 107020 |\n| taiman | | | | | | 295 |\n| Hai cheong | | | | | | 44 |\n| Kwong lee | | | | | | You mate Bay |\n| Macau | | | | | | Broken up |\n| Fjiliwong | | | | | | On sea wall |\n| Polynesien | Chinese | 120978 | | Along side Kowloon Docks | Stranded. Slightly damaged. | |\n| | | 120386 | $3 | | | |\n| | | | شا نہیں | | | |\n| | | | 11 | | | |\n| | | | 3 | | | |\n| | | | | | Constructive total loss. | auction. |\n| | | | | | Repairs effected. Never left the harbour. | to salvage operations commenced |\n| | | | | | Refloated 19th Oct. 1906. Ship's bottom | Salvage operations in progress. |\n| | | | | | | Constructive total loss. |\n| | | | | | | Total loss. |\n| Korison | | | | Off Quarry Bay. Company's Buoy | Capsized while in collision with S.S. Petrarch | Senior officer expected to be raised |\n| | | | | Alongside boy's wharf | | bombang thuy |\n| | | | | Do. | | |\n| | | | | Near Mine Pins | | |\n| | | | | Victoria Harbour | | |\n| | | | | Youmate Bay | Stranded. Slight damage. | Experstructure badly damaged. |\n| | | | | | In collision with S.S. Febarqué - Bow-flation | Ex Refloated. Under repair. |\n| | | | | | | Repairs completed. |\n| | | | | | both writes denied | Vessel departed without repairs |\n| | | | | | In collision with ss \"Chip shing\" & \"Thirun\". | Slightly dawsz stranded slightly damaged. |\n| | | | | | - In collision with ss \"hooksung\" \"Loonyoung\". | Font aide slightly sag |\n| | | | | | In collision with ss \"Choules Hardouin\". | \"several platio Foundered. |\n| | | | | | dented on port side. | |\n| | | | | | In collision with S.S. \"Chipshing\". | Slight damage to Fort Quartin. Ibranded Bowa damaged by collicion with S.S. montagle\". |\n| | | | | | \"Alongside Kowlom Wharf slight damage. | |\n| | | | | Dunk Bay | | |\n| | | | | Jank | | |\n| | | | | -60's | | |\n| | | | | Busy | | |\n| | | | | West Point, Co's Buoy | | |\n| | | | | Victoria far bour | | |\n| | | | | Yaumati Bay | | 1987 |\n| | | | | | | 98182 |\n| | | | | | | 1820 |\n| | | | | | | 21 |\n| | | | | | | 121202 |\n| | | | | | | 4878 |\n| | | | | | | 114 |\n| | | | | | | 20974 |\n| | | | | | | 51 |\n| | | | | | | 10 |\n| | | | | | | 1121 |\n| | | | | | | 1424 |\n| | | | | | | 10 |\n| | | | | sang | | \" |\n| | | | | | | 95869 |\n| | | | | | | 636 |\n| | | | | | | 87005 |\n| | | | | | | 104-2 |\n| | | | | | | 50 |\n| | | | | | | 120986 |\n| | | | | | | 359 |\n| | | | | | | 35 |\n| | | | | | | 1468: |\n| | | | | | | $6 |\n| | | | | | | 50 |\n| | | | | bor Buoy | | 237 |\n| | | | | | | 24 |\n| | | | | Youmate Bay | | Durch |\n| | | | | | | 80 |\n| | | | | bo's Pomoy | | |\n| | French | 1001 | 241 | Victoria Harbour | | |\n| Pring Waldemar | German | 1737 | 10.9 | You wasi Bay | | 1 |\n| | | | | the nta de | 6111 | 29 |\n| | | | | | | 120 |\n| | | | | | | 27 |\n| | | | | West end | | End of |\n| Johanne | | 932 | 30 | | | A |\n| | | 907 | 4 | Hung Hom Bay | | |\n| | | | 2 | | | A |\n| | | | | لوم | | 斤 |\n| | | | | t. | | Signal |\n| Petrarch | | 30621 | 3544 | | | |\n| Exceum | | 1971 | | | | |\n| Luyken | | 1252 | | | | |\n| Sexta | | | | 昨 | | |\n| | | 1109 | #5 | | | |\n| Quinta | | 992 | $2 | | | |\n| | | 987 | $2 | | | |\n| Fullberg | | $1 | 7821 | | | 34* |\n| | | | + | | | |\n| Serawongse | | 11 | 1057 | | | 62 |\n| | | | | Chow tai | 1115: | 54 |\n| | | | | A | | |\n| Chinkai Maw | Japanese | 1564 | 43 | | | |\n| Sade Maru | | 3860 | 114 | | | |\n| Kanju Maru | | 1042 | 60 | | | |\n| Skuld | Norwegian | 860 | 10 | | | |\n| | | 947 | 160 | | | 6 |\n| Kut Or | | 150 | | | | |\n| Chun kong | | | | Chui Kong! | Cash dar | 1201 |\n| | | | | | | 30 |\n| | | | | Broken af on the beach | | |\n| | | | | lightly damaged by collision | | \"Zoon grang\" |\n| | | | | In collision with S.S. | | Awning & deck fittings damaged. |\n| | | | | Broken up on sea wall | | |\n| | | | | Slightly damaged by collision | | |\n| | | | | Broken up on Ka wall | | |\n| | | | | Port side slightly damaged by collision. | | Bows slightly damaged bef collision. |\n| | | | | Bow platess su perstructure badly damaged by colberon. | | Stranded Hern post prudder slöck broken. Propeller shaft bent. |\n| | | | | Stonecutters Bland | Stranded. | Victoria Harbour. |\n| | | | | Souk of Stoneartters Blanda | | |\n| | | | | Mong hot | | |\n| | | | | Hunghom Bray | | |\n| | | | | Victoria Farbour | | ado |\n| | | | | -Cos Buoy | | |\n| | | | | Kellett Island. Outside Hongkong | | |\n| | | | | Victoria Harbour | | ado |\n| | | | | Do | | |\n| | | | | Hung Hom Bayk | | Shamshem pe |\n| | | | | Repairs completed. | | |\n| | | | | Repairs effected. beasel departed. | | Go. |\n| | | | | do. | | |\n| | | | | attempto wade to locate the boreck join | | Repairs effected. besset. departed |\n| | | | | dy. | | treset left without repairs |\n| | | | | Total love | | |\n| | | | | Repairs effected. Uccsel departed | | to damage. |\n| | | | | Repairs effected. Vesul departed. | | Engines & boilers salved. |\n| | | | | Vessel Metarted boithout repairs | | |\n| | | | | Constructive total loss. | | departed without repairs. |\n| | | | | | | li |\n| | | | | Do. | | der repair. |\n| | | | | Constractive to tak | | به نام این کار |\n| | | | | sp lock by Freunana. | | |\n| | | | | In ollision wik 5.3 \"Coub:: | | Several plates broken in |\n| | | | | | | Moder repair · |\n| | | | | Part duach | | |\n| | | | | Stranded on bust Rock, coral bottom platio damaged | | |\n| | | | | In collision with several vessels sbrändid rear- | | Kowtor wharf |\n| | | | | Stranded. Fort side badly damaged. | | |\n| | | | | Stranded. Slight sawage | | |\n| | | | | Incollision with S.S. Heathmon | | how plates. to bottom. damaging several |\n| | | | | in collision with S.S \"Petrarch\". | | Damage to the extent love #lore. |\n| | | | | in collision with ss time Le | | Badly damaged starboard bow. |\n| | | | | In collision with es. Johanne' | | damaging her $10. Hranded, badly damaged. |\n| | | | | Several portable fittings de ware ¿. | | |\n| | | | | Port Bow damaged by collision. | | Slight dermage by collision with an unknown lightly damaged. |\n| | | | | Colisided with the Pays Wall | | Stranded, back broken. |\n| | | | | Stranded. Boadly damaged. | | |\n| | | | | منه | | X |\n| | | | | Caryo | | been |\n| | | | | Bortom | | Starboard side seriously damaged. |\n| | | | | | | Under repair |\n| | | | | | | Repairs effected. Vessel departed. |\n| | | | | Bo | | Do |\n| | | | | | | Under repair |\n| | | | | aho. | | ato |\n| | | | | Dr. | | 200. |\n| | | | | | | Repairs effected. Vessel departed. |\n| | | | | مله | | обу |\n| | | | | Constructive total lose. | | Repairs will be effected. |\n| | | | | Came from theiippine to the broken up | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-335 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406103, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "telegraph.\n\nDock\n\n1\n\n20112\n\n270\n\nsent ark\n\n31/12\n\nNo.379\n\n278.\n\nHongkong.\n\n140.\n\n74\n\nRe\n\nR: 17 OFC 06.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 14th November, 1906.\n\n20/12\n\nSi. M. Ommanney\n\nI aque C.Pd CPď\n\n20\n\nI Lukis that the intention of the\n\nJack\n\nmeans increasing its length, in which case the actual dock itself will come to wear to the area in question that its\n\nan the acquisition of\n\nworking will de fund this land. Approve.\n\nTuto\n\nalace.\n\n90/17\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to state that I\n\nwas approached by Sir Paul Chater on the 23rd of May last\n\non the subject of the terms on which land to provide for\n\nan extension of the No. 1 Dock of the Hongkong and Whampoa\n\nDock Company at Hunghom could be acquired by that Company.\n\n2.\n\nAfter further communications, I\n\napprised Sir Paul Chater by letter dated the 10th of\n\nAugust, 1906, that,\n\nt, subject to Your Lordship's sanction\n\nbeing first obtained, I was prepared to grant without\n\npublic auction the triangular area required in connection\n\nwith the extension of the Dock Company's No. 1 Dock shown\n\nin red on the accompanying plan and having an area of about\n\n76,250 Square feet, as an extension of Kowloon Marine Lot\n\n27 on the following conditions, viz.:-\n\n(a). Term of lease 999 years, to commence\n\nfrom the same date as the lease of\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,\n\n&C...\n\n&C. 1\n\n&C. 1\n\nKowloon", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406533, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "261/\n\nALL COMMUNICATIONS\n\nTO BE ADDRESSED TO THE\n\nCROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES,\n\nTHE ABOVE REFERENCE AND THE\n\nDATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED,\n\nTEL.ADD.\"CROWN, LONDON\"\n\nC. O.\n\n19680\n\n2 JUN 06\n\nWHITEHALL GARDENS,\n\n532\n\n5th May 1906\n\nSir,\n\nPRINTER\n\nFOR\n\nEASTERN\n\nNo. 58.\n\nCOLONIAL\n\nUSE\n\nLONDON, S. W.\n\n1st June 1906.\n\nKowloon Canton Railway - Kowloon Terminus\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 22nd February No.4861/1906 enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong with regard to the reclamation required for the Kowloon terminus of the Railway.\n\n2. We forwarded a copy of your letter and its enclosures to the Consulting Engineers, and I enclose for the information of the Earl of Elgin copies of two letters which we have received from them on the subject.\n\n3. I would suggest that the Governor should be requested to forward any larger scale plans which may exist of Hunghom Bay for the information of the Consulting Engineers.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Obedient Servant,\n\n287\n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\n&c. &c.\n\nColonial Office.\n\n18-3\n\nPage 287\n\n \n \n\n \n\nPage 287", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406534, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 539, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "533\n\nalso to the way in which the works should be laid out.\n\nThis consideration we have been and are now giving and will accordingly report fully on that matter in due course.\n\nWe are, &c.\n\nfor SIR JOHN WOLFE BARRY & PARTNERS.\n\n710\n\n(sd.) J. Wolfe Barry.\n\nSir John Wolfe Barry & Partners to Crown Agents.\n\n25th May 1906\n\n(\n\nKowloon Canton Railway, British Section.\n\nGentlemen,\n\nWe should be obliged if you would ascertain whether the important and useful survey of Hunghom Bay on the plans sent with your letter /261/3 of 26th February shewing the proposed reclamation at Kowloon, has been plotted on a larger scale than on these plans, and if so, whether you would obtain a copy for us.\n\nWe are, &c,\n\nfor SIR JOHN WOLFE BARRY & PARTNERS\n\n-2-\n\n(sd) J. Wolfe Barry.\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406535, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 540, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "Messrs Sir J.Wolfe Barry & Partners to Crown Agents.\n\nC.O.\n\n534\n\n21 Delahay Street,\n\nWestminster, S.W. 19680\n\nKowloon Canton Railway\n\nGentlemen,\n\n25th May, 1906\n\nECR\n\nREG 2 JUN 06!\n\nBritish Section.\n\nIn further reply to your letter E261/3 dated\n\n26th February and with reference to your letter of the 23rd\n\ninstant we have refrained from answering until we had had\n\nan opportunity of consulting with Mr Bruce, as suggested by\n\nHis Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nAfter having carefully considered the matter, (1) We fully concur with the opinion that the most\n\nsuitable place for the terminus of the Railway will be on\n\nland reclaimed from Hunghom Bay.\n\n(2) For the purpose of the Railway we would recommend\n\nthat the reclamation for the preliminary scheme should be\n\nbrought a further 200 feet in a Southerly direction.\n\n(3) We note that in the reclamation for the preliminary\n\nscheme it is proposed to provide a timber pier for the landing of passengers and as a protection for small native\n\ncraft.\n\nWe are of opinion however that it should be\n\ncarefully considered from larger scale charts than are at our\n\ndisposal, whether it would not be advisable that this pier\n\nshould be either lengthened or otherwise altered in design\n\nso as to give rather more protection than is apparently\n\nafforded.\n\n(4) We are of opinion that the finished scheme, in view of the fact that so large a sum of money will have to be\n\nexpended, will require a most careful and detailed considera-\n\ntion not only with regard to the method of construction but\n\nalso\n\n2\n\nPage 540\n\nPage 541", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408898, "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": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 600, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nHongkong\n\nMy Lord,\n\n596\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 21st March, 1907.\n\nGovernor's Confidential Despatch of 76!\n\n12th January, 1906, to the Secretary of State.\n\nSecretary of State's Confidential\n\nDespatch of 8th June, 1906, to Governor.\n\nGovernor's Confidential Despatch of 12th July, 1906 to the Secretary\n\nof State.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nWith reference to the correspondence noted in the margin on\n\nthe subject of the reclamation required for the Kowloon\n\nTerminus of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, I have the\n\nhonour to transmit for the consideration of Your Lordship\n\nand of the Railway Consulting Engineers a copy of a letter\n\nfrom Mr. G. W. Eves, the Chief Resident Engineer, making\n\ncertain further proposals with regard to the site of the\n\nTerminal Station, Building, and Yard.\n\n2.\n\nIn my Confidential Despatch of the 12th January, 1906, I forwarded plans showing the\n\nfirst Section of a reclamation scheme for Hunghom Bay,\n\nestimated to cost $585,000, designed to furnish ground for\n\na Passenger Station and Goods Depot, and to allow of cargo\n\nbeing landed into this Depot from lighters, and also a\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\ncomplete\n\nPage 600\n\nPage 601", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408900, "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": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 602, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "## 598 \n\nOn and asked whether the sanction of this Government had been obtained for the alteration.\n\n4. As a matter of fact not only the necessity of extending the reclamation till it joined Blackhead's Lots but also the advisability of acquiring those Lots (Kowloon Marine Lots Nos. 34 and 81, and Kowloon Inland Lot No. 210) had been impressed on me by a consideration of the question of connecting with the Railway the Wharves and large Godowns or Warehouses belonging to the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company which are situated on the West side of the Peninsula in the position shown on the enclosed plan. These Wharves and Godowns are the most important in the Colony and are used for and in connection with the transhipment of goods by its leading firms. It is essential therefore in the interests of the Railway as a competitor for the carriage of goods to Canton that there should be a siding from the Terminus in Hunghom Bay to the premises of the Wharf and Godown Company. A siding would also be required to serve the Kowloon Marine Lots Nos. 74, 75 and 88 indicated on the plan, which have not yet been built upon but \n\nEnclosure 3.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408945, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "## (d.) FORESTRY, BOTANICAL SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE\n\nForty-four thousand five hundred and seventy-seven (44,577) pine trees were planted in Hongkong, and 15,116 were sown in sites. In the New Territories 82,960 were planted and 73,021 sown in sites. 1,500 camphor trees were planted in the New Territories. 331 shade trees were planted in the Streets. The nucleus of a collection of Chinese economic products was formed. Progress was made with the purchase of Chinese pine plantations which are suitably placed to augment Government planting. Investigations were continued with a view to utilizing waste ground in the New Territories, and attention was in particular directed to the possibilities of Tea and of Candlenut trees for this purpose.\n\n## (e.) LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF LAND\n\nThe amount received from sales of Crown Land was $315,733.21, being some $76,500 less than the receipts for the previous year. This falling off may be attributed to the general depression of business throughout the year and the consequent tightness of the money market. The principal items were for extensive pier-rights at Kowloon Point for Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, sites for workmen's dwellings in connection with Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE'S Shipyard at Quarry Bay and land for extensions of the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co.'s Premises at Hunghom.\n\n### III-LEGISLATION\n\nSeventeen Ordinances were passed during 1906, two of which, the Married Women's Property Ordinance, No. 5 of 1906, and the Criminal Evidence Ordinance, No. 14 of 1906, are designed to bring the law of the Colony into line with English Statutes. The former accords to Married Women in Hongkong the like protection with regard to their property as is enjoyed by Married Women in England and other parts of the Empire. The latter introduces the amendment made in the law of England by the Imperial Enactment 61 and 62 Victoria Cap. 36, by which in all criminal proceedings an accused person and the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such person are made competent witnesses for the defence.\n\nThe discovery of iron ore in considerable quantities in the New Territories led to the introduction of the Prospecting and Mining Ordinance, No. 7 of 1906, under which the Government is empowered to grant licences to search for and prove minerals and to grant licences and leases of land for the purpose of working mines and minerals.\n\nThe Prepared Opium Amendment Ordinance, No. 15 of 1906, was passed to remove any doubt as to whether the provisions of the Prepared Opium Ordinance 1901 applied to Morphine and all Compounds of Opium in addition to Prepared Opium. The Ordinance at the same time makes better provision for the establishment of bonded warehouses for Morphine and Compounds of Opium.\n\nThe Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, No. 16 of 1906, makes provision for the prevention of obstruction of vessels and landing places and for the better regulation of junks and similar craft.\n\n## IV.-EDUCATION\n\nThe Revenue derived from School Fees was $46,383.25, $31,478.50 of which was received from Queen's College.\n\nThe Expenditure including that on Queen's College was $159,373, being 2.33 per cent. of the total expenditure of the Colony.\n\nThe teaching of Hygiene has again received much attention. It is a compulsory study in the 4 highest Classes in all schools where English is taught. Steps have also been taken towards the preparation of a syllabus suited to the Vernacular schools.\n\nProgress was again tested by a competitive examination between the schools for prizes and a shield offered by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nFor the Advanced Course there were 64 competitors, composed of 36 boys from 5 schools, and 28 girls from 5 schools. The result was highly satisfactory. Taking the best candidates from each school as a basis of calculation, 8 schools out of 10 obtained 80% of full marks or over, and one of the remaining schools nearly as many. There were entered for the Elementary Course 123 competitors. Their work was not proportionately so good. Five scholars obtained over 60%, and four over 40%.\n\nThe following Evening Continuation Classes were opened towards the end of the year. The table shows the subjects taught and the number of students attending each class.\n\n| Subject | No. of Students |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mathematics | 39 |\n| Applied Mechanics | 28 |\n| Building Construction | 25 |\n| Machine Drawing | 16 |\n| Chemistry | 11 |\n| Physics | 18 |\n| Hygiene | 15 |\n| Book-keeping, Elementary | 7 |\n| Book-keeping, Advanced | 2 |\n| Commercial Arithmetic | 35 |\n| English, Junior | 10 |\n| English, Senior | 15 |\n| French | 15 |\n| German | 8 |\n| Japanese | 12 |\n| Shorthand, Elementary | 17 |\n| Shorthand, Advanced | 10 |\n\nDuring the year illustrated lectures were delivered at most of the schools on facts relating to the Empire. The lectures, which, together with the slides, were provided by Mr. MACKINDER, were greatly appreciated by the scholars, whose interest in the various subjects was increased by the ocular demonstration of them. With the exception of minor matters, such as the darkening of rooms to make the lantern slides clearly visible, which was a somewhat difficult matter, and the length of the lectures, which had to be given in two parts as they were too lengthy for one sitting, the teachers are full of praise for the courses of lectures supplied, and are satisfied that they have proved highly instructive to their pupils.\n\nThe number of Government and Grant Schools, including Queen's College, is 85, of which 24 are Upper Grade Schools with a staff competent to give instruction in all the subjects of Standard VII, and 61 are Lower Grade Schools under purely native management. Generally speaking, the Upper Grade Schools are taught in English, and the Lower Grade Schools are taught in the Vernacular.\n\nThe total number of pupils in average attendance at Government and Grant Schools was 5,496 against 5,328 in 1905. Of these, 1,932 were in Government and 3,564 in Grant Schools: 3,350 pupils received instruction in English, and 2,146 in the Vernacular. The proportion of boys to girls was 3,531 to 1,965.\n\n## V.-PUBLIC WORKS\n\nThe principal public works in progress during the year, exclusive of the Railway, dealt with in section XII of this despatch, were the Tai Tam Tak Waterworks (1st Section) and the Kowloon Waterworks, both of which have been described in previous reports. The former made good progress and the latter fair. Though not completed, the Kowloon Waterworks were sufficiently advanced to enable them to be utilized for the supply of the Kowloon Peninsula, the water being turned on on the 24th December. The extension of the distribution system to the important villages of Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City and Tai Kok Tsui was undertaken towards the end of the year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408946, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "# Public Works\n\nOf the larger buildings, the Harbour Office and Western Market were completed and the New Law Courts and New Government Offices were under construction. The Gunpowder Depôt, Extension to Staff Quarters Government Civil Hospital, Taipo Quarters, Bacteriological Institute and Volunteer Headquarters were completed. A Branch Post Office in Kowloon and another in Shanghai were completed and a Public Mortuary near Yamati and Time Ball Tower on Blackhead's Hill, Kowloon, were begun. The works of reconstruction of gullies and extension of nullah training were continued, $10,000 being spent on the former and over $16,000 on the latter. A large tank for flushing a portion of the Sewerage System of the City was constructed in Blake Garden, a rifle range for the use of the Volunteer Reserve Association was laid out at the Peak and the extensions of the Waterworks at Lai Chi Kok for the supply of the Shipping were completed.\n\nThe Mee Lun Lane Improvement Scheme was undertaken and was well advanced at the close of the year. The system of 100-foot roads in Kowloon was extended; Salisbury Road was opened as far as Robinson Road in connection with the new Star Ferry landing place; a mass of rock was removed to enable Des Voeux Road to be extended past Messrs. Blackhead's lots and a commencement was made with the removal of the hill North of Yaumati Theatre, the material being used for private reclamation work North of the Naval Coaling Depôt. Some property in Hunghom Village was resumed to admit of further extension of the system. Important extensions of Conduit Road in Easterly and Westerly directions and of the road past Kowloon City were undertaken, substantial progress being made with both works. The latter road is being further extended to join the military roads which have been constructed in this neighbourhood.\n\nThe extension and reconstruction of the Albany Filter Beds was continued, fair progress being made with the work.\n\nThe work on the Rider Main System was completed in all the districts to which it is intended to apply it.\n\nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary, exclusive of Rider Mains and other Advance Accounts, was $1,403,868.66 and on works annually recurrent, $393,751.40.\n\n## Government Institutions\n\n### (a) Hospitals\n\nGovernment Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the hulk \"Hygeia\" used mainly for the treatment of Small-pox.\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,745 in-patients and 16,768 out-patients were treated during the year 1906. 239 cases of Malarial Fever were admitted as against 267 in 1905 and 223 in 1904. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 64 confinements occurred during the year. The Victoria Hospital, at the Peak contains 41 beds. During 1906, 278 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds. In 1906, 78 cases were treated, of which 49 were Plague. On the \"Hygeia\" 73 cases were treated, of which 66 were Small-pox.\n\n### (b) Lunatic Asylum\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separate, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 184 patients of all races were treated during 1906, and there were 9 deaths.\n\n### (c) The Tung Wan Hospital\n\nThis Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $6,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution which takes the place of a poor-house and hospital for Chinese sick and destitute, and is administered by an annually-elected body of 15 Chinese directors. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. The Hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation.\n\n## Institutions Not Supported by Government\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the College of Medicine for Chinese, and the City Hall.\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk is an institution, incorporated in 1893, presided over by the Registrar General and an annually-elected Committee of 12 Chinese gentlemen, for the protection of women and children. The inmates of the Home receive daily instruction in elementary subjects and are allowed to earn pocket-money by needlework. During 1906, a total of 349 persons were admitted. Of these, 82 were released after enquiry, 8 were released under bond, 106 were placed in charge of their husbands, parents or relations, 3 were placed in charge of the Japanese Consul, 26 were sent to charitable institutions in China, 24 were sent to School, Convent or Refuge, 6 were adopted, 53 were married and 1 died.\n\nThe Hongkong College of Medicine was founded in 1887. The government of the College is vested in the Court, of which the Rector of the College, who has always been a Government official, is President. Ninety-six students have been enrolled up to the end of 1906, and of these 29 have become qualified licentiates and have obtained various posts under Government and elsewhere. The institution is of great value in spreading a knowledge of Western medical science among the Chinese; and in addition to the employment of certain of the licentiates in the public service, the senior students have frequently been made use of for various purposes during epidemics. A Government grant-in-aid of $2,500 is made to the College, to be used as honoraria to the lecturers.\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. Reference Library and Museum.\n\n## Criminal and Police\n\nThe total of all cases reported to the Police was 11,144 being a decrease of 373 or 3.23 per cent, as compared with 1905. In the division of these cases into serious and minor offences there is an increase in the former as compared with the previous year from 2,981 to 3,333, that is of 11.69 per cent., occurring mainly in unlawful possession.\n\nThe number of serious offences reported was 408 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1902.\n\nThe number of minor offences reported shows a decrease of 722 as compared with 1905.\n\nThe number of minor offences reported was 324 below the average of the quinquennial period.\n\nThe total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 5,799, as compared with 6,227 in 1905, but of these only 2,575 were committed for criminal offences, against 2,816 in 1905. Of committals for non-criminal offences there were 199 less under the Prepared Opium Ordinance and 25 more for infringement of Sanitary Bye-laws.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409496, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 562, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "(K14)\n\nRETURN of OFFICES who have given Security for the due Discharge of their Duties,\n\n(K15)\n\nprepared at the Annual Inspection of Securities, held on 7th February, 1907,--Continued.\n\n \n Name of Officer giving Security.\n Exact Titles of all Appointments (either permanent or temporary) now held by him.\n Nature of the Security given.\n Names, Addresses, and Occupations of the Sureties in each Bond.\n Title of Office in respect of which the Bond is given.\n Date of Bond.\n Amount of Bond.\n \n \n HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPT.- Continued.\n \n \n \n Master of Lighthouse Tender \"Stanley\"\n Guarantee Bond by the Commercial Union Assurance Company.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Clerk,\n \n B. B. Harker, Architect: A. V. Apcar of Messrs. A. V. Apcar and Company.\n \n \n \n \n \n E. F. Casey.\n \n Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n A. C. Botelho, A. P. Guterres,\n \n 22nd March, 1906.\n 500\n \n \n \n First Clerk, (Mercantile Marine Office),\n \n So Get Tai, Shroff and Clerk, Trang Shi Keng, Shroff (Shipping Office),\n \n 26th June, 1906.\n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n \n A. G. Romane, Merchant; J. J. Leiria, Merchant.\n \n 11th June, 1905.\n 260\n \n \n \n \n \n 3. M. Franco; Joseph D'Encarnação.\n \n 9th May, 1906.\n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n Chan Pin of No. 2 Water Street, Owner of Latrines; Lan Cheong, Master of the Cheong Shing shop No. 15 Jubilee Street.\n \n 26th August, 1903.\n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n Chan Sau Ling, Landlord of Honghom Inland Lot No. 132; Leong Ah Woon, Landlady of Section B of the remaining portion of Inland Lot No. 110,\n \n 6th October, 1906.\n 1,000\n \n \n Lan Fuk Ki.\n Interpreter, Shamshuipo,\n Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n \n \n 5th May, 1905.\n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n \n Kwong Yan Po, Interpreter, Hunghom,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wong Shane nam shroff transfores forge Dept.\n \n \n \n \n \n JUDICIAL AND LEGAL DEPT.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n SUPREME COURT\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n Chan Yau, Owner of the You Li Paper Ware's shop No. 18 Station Street, Yaumati Wong Wan Ju; Owner of the Yu Châu Groce's shop No. 26 Station St., Yaumati,\n \n 6th January, 1903.\n 100\n \n \n \n \n \n Hung Shing Tong. Master of the Size Lung shop No. 40 Wellington Street; Lang Hin, Master of Hung Yuen Tai shop No. 89 Connaught Road.\n \n 14th May, 1906.\n 100\n \n \n J. W. Jones,\n Deputy Registrar and Appraiser,\n Personal Bond with one Surety, jointly and severally.\n Sir C. P. Chater, K.C.S.G.; Dr. George P. Jordan.\n \n 29th April, 1903.\n 5,000\n \n \n J. H. Kemp,\n Deputy Registrar and Accountant,\n Guarantee Bond by the Commercial Union Assurance Company.\n W. G. Humphreys.\n \n \n \n \n \n A. W. Mill.\n Usher,\n Personal Bond with two Sureties, jointly and severally.\n Poon Yu But, a partner in the Tak Cheong Tailor, No. 50 and 52 Queen's Road Central; Leung Fei Cooke, Coal Contractor, No. 32 Connaught Road.\n \n 4th October, 1897.\n 5,000\n \n \n Frederick Howell,\n Bailiff and Assistant Usher,\n \n Chan A-fook, Compradore; Chan A-foo, Shopkeeper at Stanley.\n \n 1st August, 1906.\n 250\n \n \n Joseph Leonard Jum...\n Second Brit...\n \n Mok Koon Yak, Compradore to Butterfield & Swire; Mok Mau Chung, Assistant Compradore to Butterfield & Swire.\n \n 15th November, 1905.\n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5th June, 1890.\n 500\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15th December, 1902.\n \n \n\n556", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414059, "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": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 561, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "# IV.-EDUCATION\n\nThe number of Government and Grant Schools, including Queen's College, is 79 of which 25 are Upper Grade Schools with a staff competent to give instruction in all the subjects of Standard VII and 54 are Lower Grade Schools under purely native management. Generally speaking, the Upper Grade Schools are taught in English, and the Lower Grade Schools are taught in the Vernacular.\n\nThe total number of pupils in average attendance at Government and Grant Schools was 5,924 against 5,496 in 1906. Of these, 2,144 were in Government and 3,780 in Grant Schools: 3,569 pupils received instruction in English, and 2,355 in the Vernacular. The proportion of boys to girls was 3,761 to 2,163.\n\nThe Revenue derived from School Fees was $49,223, $30,442 of which was received from Queen's College.\n\nThe Expenditure including that on Queen's College was $184,028, being 3.19 per cent. of the total expenditure of the Colony.\n\nHygiene has now become one of the regular subjects of study in all Government and Grant Schools, English and Vernacular.\n\nThe Manual on Hygiene issued to the English Schools has been translated into Chinese and is in use in all the Vernacular Grant Schools.\n\nThe annual competition for the Challenge Shield presented by Sir MATTHEW NATULAN, K.C.M.G., took place in December. Seven teams entered for the competition. There was no competition in the Advanced Course this year.\n\nEvening Continuation Classes opened in October, 1906, and were continued until the end of May, 1907, when they closed for the Summer. Examinations were held at the end of the Session, and Certificates were granted to successful students.\n\nIn May a Committee was appointed to inquire into the subject of instruction at the Evening Classes. A Report was published in September with the result that the Classes were re-organised and, under the title of the Hongkong Technical Institute, re-opened in October.\n\nThe object of the Institute is to afford facilities for a commercial and scientific training to students generally, and to enable those who have left school to continue their studies.\n\nThe following Table shows the subjects taught at the Technical Institute, and the number of Students who entered for each subject.\n\n| Subject | Section | No. of Students |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Building Construction, Field Surveying | | 28 |\n| Machine Drawing | | 21 |\n| Engineering Steam | | 21 |\n| Mechanics | Elementary | 18 |\n| Mechanics | Advanced | 12 |\n| Mathematics | Elementary | 9 |\n| Mathematics | Advanced | 10 |\n| English | Junior | 41 |\n| English | Senior | 25 |\n| French | Junior | 23 |\n| French | Senior | 9 |\n| German | Junior | 5 |\n| German | Senior | 6 |\n| Shorthand | Elementary | 35 |\n| Shorthand | Advanced | 9 |\n| Book-keeping | | 19 |\n| Chemistry | Theoretical | 12 |\n| Chemistry | Practical | 10 |\n| Physics | Elementary | 5 |\n| Physics | Advanced | 4 |\n| | Total | 355 |\n\nThe Total Expenditure during the First Session of the Technical Institute was $1,412; Total Receipts (Students' Fees) were $1,377.\n\nThe Classes were attended for the most part by Chinese, but a considerable number of Europeans also attended. The Students take a deep interest in their work and generally have made very great progress in their studies.\n\nThere is a well-equipped Chemical Laboratory. The lecturers are for the most part officers belonging to the Public Works, Education, and Medical Departments and Queen's College who receive fees for their lectures.\n\nVisual Instruction -- Arrangements have now been made by which regular courses of lectures are delivered during the cool weather at the prominent Government and Grant Schools in the Colony illustrated by the lanterns which were purchased in 1905.\n\nMany schools which had no opportunity of taking the course when the lanterns first arrived took the course for the first time this year and to them the sets of slides were quite new, but in the case of several schools the lectures covered the same ground as last year.\n\nIt will be necessary to vary these lectures, which have again been full of interest to all concerned, next year by the addition of some new sets of slides and the suggestion that they should illustrate emigrant life in Canada, Australia, and other parts of the Empire appears a very happy one.\n\n# V.-PUBLIC WORKS\n\nThe principal public works in progress during the year, exclusive of the Railway, were the Tytam Tuk Waterworks (1st Section) and the Kowloon Waterworks, both of which have been described in previous reports. The former were practically completed and fair progress was made with the latter, which are now in such a forward state as to be fully capable of supplying the whole Peninsula with water. The extension of the distribution system to the important villages of Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City, and Taikoktsai was completed and the substitution of mains of larger diameter for those originally laid at Kowloon Point was in progress to ensure an efficient supply of water for fire extinction purposes, the erection of large godowns being in progress there.\n\nThe New Law Courts and New Government Offices were still under construction, whilst the Public Mortuary near Yaumati and the Time Ball Tower on Blackhead's Hill, Kowloon, were completed. A new building to accommodate the Land Office at Tai Po, which had hitherto been housed in a temporary matshed structure, was in progress: a new market at Sai-Wan-Ho, near Shaukiwan, was practically completed: an extension of the Staff Quarters at the Government Civil Hospital was undertaken to afford accommodation for the nurses hitherto supported by the Nursing Institute; and a jinricksha shelter was erected close to the Star Ferry pier in Salisbury Road, Kowloon. As the construction of the Railway involved the demolition of the Slaughter House and Cattle Depot at Hunghom, the erection of New Slaughter Houses and Depôts was begun at Ma Tau Kok. Provision is made in the new establishments for considerable development beyond present requirements. The works of reconstruction of gullies and extension of nullah training were continued, $10,000 being spent on the former and over $23,500 on the latter. A large tank for flushing a portion of the Sewerage System of the City was constructed at the junction of Water Street and Queen's Road West; the rifle ranges for the use of the Volunteer Reserve Association at the Peak and King's Park, Kowloon, were extended; a new service reservoir at West Point for supplying the High Levels of the City was begun; a new Cable Reserve was established at North Point and the cables were transferred to it; an obelisk in memory of the French sailors lost in the Typhoon of the 18th September, 1906, was erected; and the construction of a retaining wall behind Inland Lot 1,523 to obviate the risk of landslips which threatened to endanger the conduit conveying the water from Tytam to the City was completed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414492, "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": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## BUILDINGS MISCELLANEOUS\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chapel, green house & sexton's quarters at Colonial Cemetery | Ties damaged in the roofs of the Chapel and sexton's quarters; glass broken and casement windows blown down in the green house. |\n| Matshed fernery at Colonial Cemetery | Blown down. |\n| Matshed for sexton at Kai Lung Wan Cemetery | Do. |\n| Matshed for sexton and Watchman at Cheung Sha Wan Plague Cemetery | Do. |\n| Custodian's matshed at Wonguchi-chong Recreation Ground | Damaged. |\n\n## PIERS AND SEA-WALLS\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Harbour Muster's Bamboo Pier | Entirely blown away, |\n| Queen's Starne Wharf | Mat covering blown down. |\n| Temporary Murray Pier | Shore end blown away. |\n| Blake Pier | Matshed shelter blown down. Damage to railing and standards, etc. |\n| Kowloon City Pier | Damaged. |\n| Cheung Sha Wan Plague Cemetery Pier | Entirely washed away. |\n| Bamboo Pier at Green Island Gunpowder Depôt | Blown away. |\n| Tsim Sha Tsui Police Pier | Slightly damaged; a flight of steps was washed away and other minor items. |\n| Pitched slope at end of Arsenal Street | Damaged. |\n| Pitched slopes in Cadogan Street and adjoining Marine Lot 293 | Slightly damaged. |\n| West abutment of the Bridge at Bowrington Canal | Damaged and stones dislodged. |\n\nPage 19\n\n## PARTICULARS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY DAMAGED BY RAINSTORMS OF 18-25TH JULY OR BY TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY, 1908\n\n### Damage due to Rainstorms of 18-25th July when 16.20 inches of rain fell.\n\n| Location or description of property | Particulars with reference to Collapse |\n| --- | --- |\n| No. 26 Leighton Hill Road | The Verandah in front of No. 26 collapsed about 4 a.m., July 26th, no one injured. No apparent cause for collapse. |\n| Beaconsfield - temporarily occupied by Registrar General's Office and Sanitary Dept. | The retaining wall to the East of Beaconsfield collapsed shortly after midnight on the 25th of July. No one was injured. The collapse was apparently owing to the soil having got thoroughly saturated owing either to drain leakages, or defects in paving. The wall itself appeared to be very badly constructed at this point. |\n| Nos. 72-74 Bonham Strand West | The Kitchen roof North, and West wall of No. 72 collapsed prior to Typhoon, on the 27th July. No one injured. Cause of collapse defective walling, building was an old one. |\n| Rural Building Lot 6-Gough Hill Road | A portion of the retaining wall of the Tennis Ground on Rural Building Lot 6 abutting on Gough Hill Road collapsed on July 24th. The collapse was caused by the heavy rain getting behind the wall. |\n| No. 87 Stone Nullah Lane | A portion of the end wall and roof collapsed here on the 24th July. No one injured. The wall was defective and gave way, causing the roof to collapse. |\n| Abertholwyn \", Peak Road and May Road | Large portions of the retaining walls in front and in the rear of this house fell. Some of these blocked May Road for a length of about 50 feet and demolished about 40 feet of the Government boundary wall between May Road and \"Clovelly\". No one was injured. Large masses of earth fell with the retaining walls. |\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS RAINSTORM DAMAGES\n\n| Description | Extent of Damage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Notice Boards on Wongneichong Recreation Ground | All blown down and damaged. |\n| Headstones at Colonial Cemetery | 64 headstones including those belonging to the Naval and Military were blown down and otherwise damaged. |\n| Nullahs below Barker Road | Broken. |\n| Bank at Colonial Cemetery | Collapsed. |\n| Bank at rear of Braeside | Do. |\n| Bank at Forbes Street | Do. |\n| Gas Lighting | Lamp glasses, mantles, shades, posts, &c., broken, caused by rain and wind. |\n| Nullah at Aberdeen adjoining the Paper Mills | Wall partially collapsed. |\n\n### DAMAGE DUE TO TYPHOON OF 27-28TH JULY\n\n| Location or description of property | Particulars with reference to Collapse |\n| --- | --- |\n| Nos. 40-42 Market Street, Hunghom | The rear walls on the first floors collapsed. No one injured. These are old buildings and the walls were in a defective condition. |\n| Nos. 62, 64 and 66 Kowloon City Road | The roofs, party walls and West flank wall collapsed. These were old stone buildings with very defective walls. |\n| Nos. 36, 38 and 40 Portland Street, Mong Kok | The flank, party walls and roofs of these houses collapsed on the 28th. A considerable loss of life occurred. Cause of collapse, defective walling- the buildings had been tied together previously with iron tie rods. |\n| Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 Fook Shing Lane, Yaumati | The whole of the 8 houses were practically demolished with the exception of the kitchens. A considerable loss of life occurred. These houses were old ones and, as they occupy a sheltered position, the collapse must be ascribed to the defective condition of the buildings. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414497, "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": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 408, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "## Typhoon Relief Committee\n\nThe present Directors of the Tang Wa Hospital to whom are added:-\n\n**Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G.**\nMessrs.\nLi Mau-chai, Cheung Sz-kun, and Hung Chi-leung,\nTse Shui-cho, Tse Sz-ping, Mak Fuk,\nShe Tat-tsoi, Ng Shau-shang, Chan Chen-hing, Tsui Chung-yik, Wong Shiu-tong,\nCheung Tseung-chi, Li Yue-tong, Chan Tin-shan,\nChan Lok-chun, Tam Hok-po, Li Fung-shan,\nNg Hon-chi, Li Yau-tsun, Ho Kom-tong, Lau Chu-pak,\nFung Wa-chun,\nMr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G.\n\n(No. 124.)\n\n## Translation\n\n### Compensation Awarded for Loss, Damage, &c., of Boats Reported at the Harbour Office\n\n| No. | Name of junk | Business | Where anchored | Date | By whom reported | Course of damage | Date | Where occurred | Life Missing | Cargo and Quantity left on board during typhoon | Value of damage in $ (Cargo, Junk, Furniture) | Total Cost |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Ip lu, (Boatwoman) | ... | Near Wing Lok W. | 28/7 | Wong Fuk | Cargo Boat Smashed | 28/7 | 2. Do. | ... | ... | $400 $100 $500 | $150 |\n| 2 | Cheung Kam Shing | ... | ... | ... | Cheung Kam Shing | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1,464 | 631 | |\n| ... | Chan Yau | ... | ... | ... | Chan Yau | ... | ... | 1,306 | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Kwok Wa | Shun Fat | 8.1,844 m. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Ip Hoi To | To Lee | 8.1,598 m. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Leung Sai Kun | San Lee | 8.1,657 H. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Lo Kun | Kum Lee | 5, 1,659 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Kwok Kam Hi, (brother of owner) | Kwok Kam Muu | 997 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Chow Choi Shing | Chow Choi Shing | 1,340 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Ton Ng, (Boatman) | Wong Mun | 913 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Lo Su, (Boatman) | Tsu Fuk | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Tam Tim | Tam Tim | 1,272 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Yeung Tai Hing W. | -- | 1. Wing Lok W. | 27/7 | ... | Total loss | ... | 2. Do. | ... | 1,100 | 200 | 1,300 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Sunk | ... | ... | 120 | ... | ... | |\n| ... | ... | ... | 1. Wing Lok W. | ... | ... | Smashed | ... | ... | ... | 1,400 | 200 | 250 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 77 | ... | 700 | 100 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 200 | ... | |\n| ... | ... | Ballast | 1. Dock Yard | 28/7 | ... | Wrecked | ... | 2. Do. | 80 | 150 | ... | |\n| ... | ... | ... | 1. Hunghom | 27/7 | ... | Smashed | ... | 2. Do. | 150 | ... | ... | |\n| ... | ... | Licence | 1. Do. | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2. Do. | 75 | ... | ... | |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 60 | 17 | 31 | |\n| ... | ... | Cargo Boat | 1. Kam U Hong | 27/7 | ... | Total loss | ... | 2. Stonecutters Island | 50 | ... | ... | |\n| ... | ... | ... | 1. Wing Lok W. | 28/7 | ... | Wrecked | ... | 2. Kennedy Town | 150 | 150 | 915 | 11 |\n| ... | ... | ... | 1. Alongside the Praya | ... | ... | Smashed | ... | ... | 44 | ... | ... | |\n| ... | ... | ... | 1. Wing Lok W. | 27/7 | ... | ... | ... | 2. Do. | 34 | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Young Loi Shing | San Sam Leo | 8. 453 H. | ... | ... | Coal Boat Sunk | ... | 2. Entrance of Causeway Bay | ... | ... | 287 | |\n| ... | ... | ... | 1. Castle Peak | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | $25 | 26 | 150 |\n| ... | Chow Sai Lo, (Boatman) | Chow Sai Lo | 220 | ... | ... | Cargo Boat Total loss | ... | 2. Do. | ... | 1,800 | 200 | 2,000 |\n| ... | ... | ... | 1. Wing Lok W. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 150 | ... | ... | |\n| ... | Chat Sam | Ho Tim | 1,375 | 27/7 | ... | ... | ... | 1. Alongside the Praya | ... | 29,7 | Chan Mun | 170 |\n| ... | ... | ... | 1. Stonecutters' Island | ... | ... | Sampan | ... | 2. Wall near Kam U Hong | 1. | 10. | 100 | 20 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 50 | 160 | 01 | 200 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 30 | ... | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | | Carried forward, $ 2,140 | 404 |\n\nWe understand that an Officer and 12 sailors showed the greatest bravery in risking their own lives at a time when the sea was high in order to save the lives of others. During the typhoon of the 27th ult, the cutter lowered by H.M.S. Astrea was the cause of saving the lives of many persons from those junks which were late in making for shelter.\n\nThe Officers and crew of H.M.S. Astrea have gained a wide reputation for their disinterested bravery. Being endowed with love for their fellowmen, they used their energy to save the lives of others, and, in picking up the drowning, gained honour for themselves. Although we cannot requite them with a presentation, this act of humanity will for ever exist in our memory.\n\nIn our letter No. 115 we stated a desire to make a small presentation to them as a token of our appreciation. We regret to learn from your letter No. 194 that the cruiser has already returned home thus preventing us giving effect to our desire.\n\nWe shall consider it a great favour if you will be so kind as to convey for us our sense of gratitude.\n\nWe have, &c.,\nTung Wa Hospital Committee\n\n**Hon. Mr. E. A. IRVING.**\n\nHONGKONG, 11th August, 1908.\n\nPo LEUNG KUK,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418814, "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": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\n13044\n\n3.89\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.O. 13044\n\nRecd 17 APR 09\n\nOrdinance no. 2 of 1909.\n\n\"The Hunghom Bay Reclamation Ordinance\"\n\nSubmit's\n\nA. & R. W-20062/27-\n\n23000-11-08.\n\nRe subsequent Paper\n\nE Dept\n\nso far\n\n(Spare copies to Library)\n\n12. Risley ? Sanction of\n\n20/4\n\n8.145.\n\nI see no objection to this as it goes, but there is nothing in it dealing with private right over the foreshore reclaimed. Have we any information as to when this reclamation was in existence?\n\n21/4\n\nSanction LF 3574\n\nPage ...\n\n(The original text appears to be a historical document with some OCR errors. The above output is a corrected version in HTML format.)\n\nHowever, to follow the instruction to output only HTML using \n\n for paragraphs (and \n only if absolutely necessary) without including markdown or code fences and without comments, the corrected output should be:\n\nHONG KONG\n\n13044\n\n3.89\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.O. 13044\n\nRecd 17 APR 09\n\nOrdinance no. 2 of 1909.\n\n\"The Hunghom Bay Reclamation Ordinance\"\n\nSubmit's\n\nA. & R. W-20062/27-\n\n23000-11-08.\n\nRe subsequent Paper\n\nE Dept\n\nso far\n\n(Spare copies to Library)\n\n12. Risley ? Sanction of\n\n20/4\n\n8.145.\n\nI see no objection to this as it goes, but there is nothing in it dealing with private right over the foreshore reclaimed. Have we any information as to when this reclamation was in existence?\n\n21/4\n\nSanction LF 3574", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418815, "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": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "No. 72.\n\nHongkong.\n\nEnclosures.\n\n(In duplicate)\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nC.O. 13044\n\nRECD 17 APR 09.\n\nREGR\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 19th March, 1909.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance entitled:-\n\nAn Ordinance to authorise for public purposes the Reclamation of certain portions of the Crown foreshore and sea bed situate in Hunghom Bay in the Colony of Hongkong and to validate such reclamation as has heretofore taken place.\n\n2. The customary Report by the Attorney-General is annexed.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nMiriam (likely \"Matthew\" but kept as is due to uncertainty, however \"Matthew\" is a reasonable guess as \"Matthew Nathan\" was a governor) is actually \"Matthew\", as in Matthew Nathan, a governor of Hong Kong, so it is corrected to Matthew\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\n \n\nbecomes\n\nNo. 72.\n\nHongkong.\n\nEnclosures.\n\n(In duplicate)\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nC.O. 13044\n\nRECD 17 APR 09.\n\nREGR\n\nGovernment House,\n\n390 Hongkong, 19th March, 1909.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance entitled:-\n\nAn Ordinance to authorise for public purposes the Reclamation of certain portions of the Crown foreshore and sea bed situate in Hunghom Bay in the Colony of Hongkong and to validate such reclamation as has heretofore taken place.\n\n2. The customary Report by the Attorney-General is annexed.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nMatthew\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418816, "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": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "13044\n\nRECEIVED\n\nREG 17 APR OC 391\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE\n\nHongkong,\n\n17th March,\n\n1909\n\nReport on Ordinance No 2 of 1909\n\nI have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled\n\nAn Ordinance to authorise for public purposes the Reclamation of certain portions of the Crown foreshore and sea bed situate in Hunghom Bay in the Colony of Hongkong and to validate such reclamation as has heretofore taken place\n\nand I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions\n\nHunghom Bay having been in part reclaimed for the purpose of the Government Railway it is deemed desirable to validate and legalise the same and to authorise further reclamation.\n\nThe objects of this Ordinance are fully set out in the preamble.\n\nHenry Ballendine\n\nAttorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419053, "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": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "A 2 : 1\n\n156 instigation of that Power.\n\n3. In the circumstances described it seems to me clear that alike for reasons of policy and of profit the Government of Hongkong should maintain entire control over the telegraph line from Canton from the point at which it crosses the frontier of the Colony just as the Chinese Government proposes to do from that point to Canton and beyond. The old line is a very circuitous one traversing the western part of the New Territories via Laichikok, and it will from every point of view be more advantageous that the telegraph line of the future shall follow the course of the Railway from which it will diverge but little in order to cross the harbour by the cable from Hunghom to North Point. Since, however, it is improbable that the Chief Resident Engineer will be in a position to erect the Railway Telegraph Poles (which will pass through the Tunnel) for another year or so, I do not propose to take any steps at present in regard to the existing telegraph line, and I am prepared to allow the matter to lie dormant until I am in a position to discuss the question of substituting the Railway Telegraph for it. I am the more ready to adopt this course in view of the fact that it would seem to me hardly fair to prompt the Eastern", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419691, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Und.\n\nFour lines hence I am to convey to you an expression of his sincere sympathy with you in your loss.\n\nKBC\n\nGovernor.\n\nNo. 218\n\n1909 Aug\n\nPrevious Paper: 233\n\nDESPATCH,\n\nC.O. 29717\n\nLand for Chiuwise Dispensary\n\nRecommend front of site at Hunghom; value estimated at $2697.\n\nM'Kibbin Collins\n\nI spoke to you about this.\n\nSubject to usual condition of resumption if it ceases to be used for the purpose.\n\n--A.E. W.-20932/27--\n\n23000-11-09.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419692, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "No.218\n\ntongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nEnclosure 2.\n\nC.O. 29717/234\n\nRest & SEP 09,\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 4th August, 1909.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's favourable consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from the Registrar-General, dated the 27th of last May, together with a report by the Principal Land Surveyor, dated the 2nd of last July, and to recommend that the area of 4,080 Square Feet coloured red on the attached plan should be granted to the residents of Hunghom for the purpose of building a Chinese Dispensary.\n\n2.\n\nIf this proposal is approved, the Hunghom Dispensary under Dr. Lin Yin-sze, a physician trained in Western Medical Science, will move from its present quarters into the new buildings, upon which the residents of Hunghom propose to expend a sum of about $2,000. The Principal Civil Medical Officer considers the scheme a very good one and reports that the site, which is valued...\n\nHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\nECC.\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419694, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\n23.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\n236\n\nSir,\n\nRegistrar-General's Office,\n\nHongkong, 27th May, 1909.\n\nC.O. 19717\n\n3 SEP\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith for the favourable consideration of His Excellency a translation of a petition from the Kaifong of Hunghom for a piece of Crown Land adjoining the Kun Yam Temple on which to build a dispensary.\n\nThe position selected is central but the land at the present moment at any rate cannot be very valuable and I recommend that a free grant be made of a sufficiently large plot at a nominal Crown Rent. If the general idea meets with His Excellency's approval the details can be settled later by me in consultation with the Director of Public Works and the Land Officer. The Kun Yam Temple was damaged in last year's typhoon and the leading Chinese of Hunghom think that they can get a large enough sum in subscriptions to enable them not only to make the necessary repairs but to enlarge the adjacent meeting-room so as to accommodate the dispensary as well. The scheme appears to me an excellent one and if carried through will effect an annual saving of $276.00 in rent. The Kaifong at Hunghom are very public-spirited and their dispensary is the best managed on the peninsula; they deserve every encouragement.\n\nHonourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(sd.) A. W. Brewin,\n\nRegistrar-General.\n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419695, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 241, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Sub-enclosure to Enclosure \n\nC.O \n\n29714 \n\n20 SEP 00 \n\nThe Petition of Chu Ki San and \n\nothers, the Street Committee of \n\nHunghom, praying for the grant of \n\na Crown Land Lease for establish-\n\ning a Dispensary.\n\nSheweth:- \n\nYour petitioners humbly submit that under \n\nyour instruction they have established a Dispensary at Hunghom, \n\nwhich has been of great benefit to one section of the inhabit-\n\n-ants. But it is not central enough to help everyone.\n\nYour Petitioners have often noticed that \n\npeople of both sexes, young and old, suffering from illness find \n\nit difficult to walk so far as the Dispensary for treatment.\n\nYour Petitioners after discussion find that \n\nthe only suitable site is an unoccupied piece of ground to the \n\nleft of the Kun Yan Temple, Hunghom. This site is in the \n\ncentre of the district and will be easiest of access.\n\nYour petitioners pray that Your Honour \n\nwill be pleased to grant them a Crown Land lease for establish-\n\ning a dispensary on the Crown Land above mentioned measuring \n\n64 feet in depth and 26 feet in width of which the Crown Rent \n\nshall be paid annually. If this proposal meet with your approval \n\nthe people there including the gentry, elders, merchants, and \n\nlabourers will be ever grateful.\n\nYour Petitioners have the \n\nhonour etc.,\n\nMZWANE ...A(58)\n\n \nEstoniD-rendukunf", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419696, "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": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Page 363\n\netofon or sumoInza-dn\n\n.Y 3 do P Y.\n\n}\n\nbus mat i wol to molchis aft\n\n30 and trol serta mile,etarit o\n\nto Juann wulè xe” schyany,moriquit\n\n-tablerae tot seat bra moth s\n\n.VIAKOSZAİⱭ & gat-\n\nསྟན\n\nSalon ŠAJZ ¿badira vidunt anenobri26q *uro”\n\nporerad 28 Teanoqata e bejalldeduo aveil 19.13 goitoincent nos\n\n-thin! erft ha retrosa eno od 31'tuned term to maid kad Koldw\n\n•CROMLOWS Mel of dysone Tettauon dom si el due .adus-\n\nSally beoltos nedto GVAC Broпot:h. 64 HOV\n\nR*X98 :'206 *\n\nolges:\n\n■\"nade na 30% vtantuyeti oda as net op XIsv et dima!^^ib Ji\n\ndaily but nota noalb terta eterolategi “noX\n\nerly or bmory to apały batgimsomi na at stia eldstica vino eft\n\nodt ith ni eðła chim „mdqui!,eiqel may not add to Stel\n\n.Ba9now to testase ed FI has tobulb wid to 9xzneo\n\n*tonoît \"Hoy tele vang & emoż÷ljeg \"urof\n\nT\n\n-Hatidates not sensi brat m/unb a moule duam od honsofg od !IEW\n\ngutavesen bunaitsen Svode bret uword rule no granogeth o goi-\n\nams? word nge italy to diably ni doet la hue ɗegah ni a697 20\n\nIsvotqqa prog ily Janet Legogora qiz t .ffamans hroq ad LIANа\n\n‚aðítattat (ernble,Vižman (fe pubbufoni stolið eiqosq arź\n\n.Iut * Tove od Ibw arerods!\n\none\n\nsilt oven avoista¶ uroY\n\n(*020 Wonort\n\nEnclosure 2\n\nHon\n\n·\n\nDirector of Public Works,\n\n0.0\n\n29717\n\n233\n\nREGP 6 SEP\n\nProposed Extension to Hunghom Inland Lot 168.\n\nHunghom Inland Lot 168 (Kun Yam Temple)\n\nwas granted in 1887 at a nominal Crown Rent of $1.00 per annum.\n\nI attach a tracing shewing the area now\n\napplied for on which to erect a Chinese Dispensary coloured red,\n\nthe area is about 4,080 Square Feet.\n\n$2,040.00\n\nI assess the value of the land as follows:-\n\nPremium on 4,080 Square Feet at 50 cents\n\nper Square foot.\n\nCrown Rent at the rate of $500 per acre\n\nequals $46.00 per annum. Capitalized at 7% or 14 years...\n\n657.00\n\n2nd. July, 1909.\n\n(Sa.)\n\n1. C. Rees,\n\n$2,697.00\n\nPrin. Land Surveyor.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 420339, "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": 229, "title": "CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11]", "content_text": "226\n\nwork, showing the amount contributed from the \"Special Light Dues\", and the amount from current Revenue or Colonial Reserves. In future years a statement of this account will appear as an appendix to the Estimates.\n\n(e). Reclamation, Yamati: $40,000. It is desirable to reclaim the area in front of Kowloon Marine Lots 29, 30 and 31 for a great part of it is taken up by a rocky shoal and owing to the dumping of rubbish which has been going on for years past the area of water capable of floating small craft has become very much restricted. But as the owners have marine-right of frontage the necessary powers for the Government to do this will be obtained in the Bill for the Hunghom Breakwater now passed the Committee stage in the Legislative Council. Owners are required therein to send in any claims in respect of this area before 30th November next and already some of the section lot-holders have done so.\n\nThis scheme will not be included in the Breakwater Contract for the new Refuge, and it is proposed to carry it out independently. The cost which it was deemed advisable not to state in the Estimates or to specify in any paper will be about $90,000 of which $40,000", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424614, "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": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 262, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nHongkong\n\nKowloon\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGovernment House,\nHongkong, 3rd February, 1910.\n\nI have the honour to address Your Lordship again on the subject of the Railway Terminus.\n\n2. In his **Confidential** Despatch of the 12th of January, 1906, Sir M. Nathan proposed to place the Terminus on the Reclamation in Hunghom Bay between Cameron and Gascoigne Roads. Further consideration showed that this site did not provide sufficient room for the terminal arrangements, and in his **Confidential** Despatch of the 21st of March, 1907, he submitted a larger scheme which involved the acquisition of Kowloon Marine Lots 34 and 81 and Kowloon Inland Lot 210 (known as Blackhead's Lots), the building of the Terminus on portion of them, the extension of the Reclamation southwards till it abutted on those lots, and the acquisition of a strip of land, at a cost of $30,000, on the North side of Salisbury Road to enable the provision of sidings to the West and South sides.\n\nThe Right Honourable\nThe Earl of Crewe,\n&c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424620, "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": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 268, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n\n263 important Station Yard, and at a spot where the difficulty in signalling would add to the danger.\n\n(f). Finally, there is the consideration that there is enough land available on the Reclamation in Hunghom Bay and the adjoining Lots acquired by Government, viz.: Kowloon Marine Lots 34 and 61 and Kowloon Inland Lot 210, for a Passenger Station and necessary terminal arrangements. If Kowloon Inland Lots 1140, 1141, 443, 442, and 618 are taken up for the Terminus, a considerable area of the Reclamation not abutting on the sea (for it is in any event not considered prudent to alienate any portion of the sea frontage in view of possible future developments) will not be required. The last-mentioned Lots comprise land that is more valuable than land on the Reclamation not fronting the sea and are likely to be much more readily leased as they are contiguous to the area in this part of Kowloon which is inhabited by Chinese.\n\nIt is, therefore, likely to be more economical to avail of the Reclamation to the fullest extent and to lease the Lots referred to than to occupy these lots for the Terminus and release a portion of the Reclamation for alienation.\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424691, "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": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n5th. September, at a general meeting of the directors of the \nTung Wa Hospital and of the 'Kai Fong', the following resolu-\ntions were passed:- \"That all funds raised for the Small-pox \nand plague hospitals were to be transferred to the general \nfunds of the Tung Wa Hospital, and that after the cost of \nerecting the Plague Hospital in New Street, of converting the \nBranch Hospital at Kennedy Town into a Small-pox Hospital and \nof effecting certain improvements in the Tung Wa Hospital \nBuildings, had been defrayed out of these funds, a meeting \nshould be called to discuss the appropriation of any balance \nthere might be left towards the erection of a small-pox \nhospital on the other side of the harbour. Funds therefore \ncan be found for petitioners' purpose and they desire to take \nadvantage of the opportunity to build a small-pox hospital in \nKowloon, but unfortunately without a suitable site it is in-\npossible for them to carry out their project. They therefore \npresent this joint petition to the Registrar-General praying \nthat he will recommend for the favourable consideration of His \nExcellency the Governor that a piece of Crown Land be granted \nthem. Petitioners will then be able to afford complete hospital \naccommodation in Kowloon and in this way afford some small \nassistance to the Government in their policy of preventing the \nspread of infectious diseases. Petitioners beg to attach plans \nshowing the site suggested and the building it is proposed to \nerect thereon. Thirty thousand square feet of land will be a \nsufficient area. \n\nDated October, 1909. \n\nSigned by the Promoters of the Kwong Wa Hospital:- \nHo Kai, Wei Yuk, Lau Chu-pak, Ho Kom-tong, Tong \nLai-chun, Li Yau-chan, Chau Chung-hau, Chau Chi-\nhing, Ku Fat-shan, Ho Ngok-lau, Chau Sin-ki, \nTang Chi-ngong, Li Fung-shan.\n\n| Location | Number of Chops |\n|--------------|-----------------|\n| Yaumati | 14 |\n| Hunghom | 17 |\n| Tsimshatsui | 9 |\n| Kowloon City | 6 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424692, "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": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 340, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Sub-enclosure to Enclosure 1\n\n28-A, Des Voeux Road Central, \nHongkong, 21st October, 1909.\n\n**Sir,**\n\nI have the honour to forward to you for transmission to His Excellency the Governor a petition signed by a number of the promoters of the Kwong Wa Hospital at Kowloon together with the leading residents and shops doing business at Yama-ti, Hunghom, Kowloon City and Tsim-sha-tsui for the grant of a piece of crown land for the erection of a small-pox hospital.\n\nThe two plans showing the site and hospital buildings have already been handed to you by me on a previous occasion, and I beg you to be so good as to submit the same with the petition for the favourable consideration of His Excellency with your recommendations as soon as is convenient.\n\nI may point out that the granting of this piece of land at this juncture is of the utmost importance to those who are engaged in providing adequate accommodation for the indigent sick at British Kowloon and the New Territories as it will enable them to complete their charitable scheme and at the same time to take advantage of the surplus \"small-pox institution funds\" which have recently been collected by the Tung Wa Hospital Directors and of which by a resolution dated the 5th of September, 1909, a portion will be voted towards the erection of the Kowloon small-pox Hospital.\n\nI am etc.\n\n(sd.) Ho Kai.\n\n**Honourable** \nR. A. Brewin, \nRegistrar-General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431390, "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": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Gross Earnings, Working Expenses \n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Gross Earnings | $8328,500 |\n| Working Expenses | $207,000 |\n| Net Earnings | $8121,500 |\n| Return on Capital | 1.35 % |\n\nWe do not think that, when you made this proposal, you could have realised how injuriously it would affect the British as contrasted with the Chinese Section. Moreover, the foregoing calculations are based exclusively on through traffic earnings, and it is evident that the local traffic on such a section as yours will be far greater all along the line than the local traffic on ours and that consequently your earnings per mile on that account will be higher than ours. The addition of local traffic to through traffic earnings will therefore increase the net earnings of either Section in such a way as to augment the return on capital on the Chinese Section in a greater degree than on the British Section. We do not, therefore, feel justified in making any reduction in the maximum and minimum rates which were proposed in my letter to you of the 10th of last February and we again press these rates for your acceptance.\n\n### Capital Cost of the Railway\n\nAs regards the sum of money shown as the capital cost of the Railway we are authorised to inform you that the Hongkong Government is willing to reduce very materially the total sum actually spent on construction for purposes of calculation of rates in comparison with the Chinese Section. Such items are:\n\n(a) $720,000 on account of the reclamation at Hunghom as being the portion of the reclamation excluded from the Railway area.\n\n(b) The Railway and some of the Tunnels and Bridges have been built wide enough for a double line: therefore until such time as the Canton Section is doubled in part or whole, the Hongkong Government will exclude the cost of this extra Railway work amounting to some $600,000 from the declared capital cost of the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432305, "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": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "## V.-PUBLIC WORKS\n\nOf the principal works in progress, the Kowloon Waterworks Reservoir was completed and the New Government Offices and Law Courts made fair progress. A contract for the construction of the Mongkoktsui Breakwater and contingent works was let in October and a substantial start with the work was made before the close of the year.\n\nThe following buildings were completed:-- Extension of Tai Po Land Office; Slaughter House, Shankiwan; Prison Extension; an additional Room at Queen's College for Pupil Teachers; a Coal-shed at Tsim Sha Tsui Police Basin; a Fruit Market on the triangular space behind the old Harbour Office; a latrine in Nelson Street, Kowloon, and a Urinal in Queen's Road East near Arsenal Street. The following were in progress:- Kowloon Market; Additions to No. 2 Police Station; Staff Quarters, Kennedy Town Hospital; Police Station, Tsun Wan; Re-building of Government Pavilions Hospital at the Quarantine Station, Lai Chi Kok; Workshops and Sheds for Ambulances, &c., at the City Disinfecting Station; Latrines in Mee Lun Lane and Rutter Street (the latter to replace one demolished on account of the extension of the Tung Wah Hospital premises) and a Trough Closet in Queen's Road West under the ramp leading to the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nOne of the bungalows at Tai Po, constructed for the accommodation of the staff engaged on the construction of the Railway, was taken over by the Public Works Department for the accommodation of its officers.\n\nThe extension of Argyle Street referred to in last year's report and a road of a somewhat temporary description to connect it with the existing road to Kowloon City were completed as was also a short length of road to Westward of the Kowloon Cricket Club's allotment in King's Park. In Victoria, a pathway to connect Kennedy Road with Queen's Road East near Arsenal Street was completed and diversions of Caine Road past No. 2 Tank and of Wongneichong Road past Inland Lot 1698 were in progress. Outside the City, some important improvements in the Shaukiwan Road in the vicinity of Quarry Bay were undertaken, the electric tramway being taken up and relaid where necessary. In the New Territories, the section of road from Castle Peak to Ping Shan was completed and extensions to Un Long and Au Tau were undertaken. Another section of the same road, which will ultimately connect Castle Peak with Sha Tan Kok, extending from San Tin by way of Fan Ling Railway Station to Au Ha Gap, was also undertaken and was nearing completion at the close of the year.\n\nThe reconstruction of Gullies and the training of the large nullah west of the University site from Hill Road to the Pokfulam Conduit were completed. Progress was made in substitution of iron pipes for defective earthenware ones.\n\n## 15\n\nThe new ferro-concrete Piers at Kowloon City and at the Gunpowder Depot on Green Island were completed as was also the deepening of Causeway Bay. The completion of the reclamation at Gillies Avenue, Hunghom, was undertaken, a number of low-lying areas being filled in at the same time. A reclamation to provide a site for a market and a slaughter house at Aberdeen was in progress. A considerable section of Tai Hang Village was reconstructed, the level of the area dealt with being raised about 5 feet.\n\nMuch useful work was done under the votes \"Miscellaneous Works\", \"Forming and Kerbing Streets\" and \"Drainage Works Miscellaneous\", and the raising of a considerable section of sunken sewers in Connaught Road was carried out.\n\nCompensation was paid for a number of scavenging lanes or portions of same.\n\nThe large main to facilitate the distribution of Tytam water to the Western district of the City was completed and a 4\" main for supplying the village of Tai Hang with filtered water was laid. Sundry mains for extending and improving the distribution system in Kowloon were laid.\n\nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $1,223,909.83 and on works annually recurrent $429,835.24.\n\nIn the sum expended under the former head is included an amount of $309,479 which was paid for the acquisition by Government of Kowloon Inland Lots No. 442 and 618 as a site for the Kowloon-Canton Railway Terminus. The proposal to utilize the lots in this manner was, however, subsequently held in abeyance.\n\nThe Colony fortunately escaped visitation by any typhoon or rainstorm of a serious nature.\n\n## Railway\n\nAll the Earthwork of the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway was completed during the year. The Hung Hom Cutting was handed over by the Contractors in September for the laying of the Permanent Way. The Gascoigne Road Diversion and the Reclamation were finished early in December. North of Tai Po the troublesome cutting at Mile 16 (Gill's Cutting) was revetted and drained. The Lining of Beacon Hill and Tai Po Tunnels was completed early in February. Bridges 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and the additions to others were finished in time and did not delay the platelaying. The laying of Permanent Way began in March and was completed by the middle of May, the ballasting taking some time longer as is usual. All Stations, Staff Quarters and Buildings were completed by June. The Engines and Rolling Stock arrived at various periods of the year and were duly erected before the end of September. The site for the Workshops was levelled early in the year and the erection of Workshops began at the end of November.\n\nPage 53", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432309, "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": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "## XL-MILITARY EXPENDITURE\n\n### (a) Colonial Contribution\n\nThe Colony contributed $1,372,486 (being the statutory contribution of 20% of the Revenue) towards the cost of the maintenance of the Regular Forces in the Colony including Barrack Services and Defence Works.\n\n### (b) VOLUNTEER CORPS\n\nThe expenditure on the Volunteers, which is entirely borne by the Colony, was $34,744 compared with $38,303 in 1909.\n\n## XIL-GENERAL OBSERVATIONS\n\nThe Assessment made for the year 1910-1911 (1st July to 30th June) shows an increase in the Ratable Value of the whole Colony of 3.17 per cent. In the City of Victoria, the Hill District, Shaukiwan, Saiwanho, Quarry Bay, Hunghom, Hoku, Mongkoktsui, New Kowloon and Kowloon Villages there is an increase ranging from 0.17 per cent. to 112.18 per cent, but in the Hongkong Villages, Kowloon Point and Yaumati a decrease ranging from 0.43 per cent. to 6.88 per cent is shown. In the Shaukiwan, Saiwanho, and Quarry Bay Districts there is an increase of $131,911 or 112.18 per cent.\n\nThe average rate of exchange (demand on London) which had been 1s. 9.0601d. to the dollar for 1909 rose to 1s. 9.6021d. for 1910.\n\nThe position with regard to subsidiary coins remained unsatisfactory, and during 1910 the Government withdrew from circulation silver subsidiary coin amounting to the face value of $314,300 and copper to the face value of $114,800. These coins were shipped to England where they were melted down and sold as bullion for £28,787 5s. 7d. and £4,205 0s. 0d. respectively. The loss on this transaction amounted to $119,294.37. The discount during the year on Hongkong subsidiary coin varied between 4% and 7%, and on Chinese subsidiary coin 4.4% and 8%. Hongkong copper cents were from 105 to 120 per $1, and Chinese copper cents from 112 to 123 per $1. Negotiations continued without success between this Government and the Chinese Authorities with a view to decreasing the excess of Chinese subsidiary coin.\n\nThe Colony commenced to forward Parcels via Shanghai, Dalny and the Trans-Siberian railway on 1st September. The following Agreements were entered into and came into operation during the year, viz. :- \n\n| Agreement | Date of Operation |\n| --- | --- |\n| Direct Exchange of Money Orders with Indo-China | 1st October |\n| Direct Exchange of Parcels with New Zealand | 1st August |\n| Parcel Post Agreements with the Straits Settlements | 1st August |\n| Parcel Post Agreements with the Philippine Islands (revised) | 7th October |\n\nAs from the last ring of 1910 the Hongkong Government was relieved by the Imperial Authorities of the charge of the Postal Agencies in China.\n\nIn pursuance of the policy of H.M.'s Government all opium divans in the Colony and the New Territories were closed on the 1st March, 1910, and on that date all the provisions of the Ordinance to amend and consolidate the laws relating to Opium and its Compounds (No. 23 of 1909) came into force. The general scope of that Ordinance was described in Sir F. H. May's report on the Blue Book for 1909 and I need only add here that during last year two further Ordinances (No. 11 and No. 33) were passed with a view to making its provisions more effective, while the Pharmacy Amendment Ordinance (No. 9 of 1910) increased the powers possessed by this Government in controlling poisons including morphine and cocaine.\n\nThe export of morphine and compounds of opium from Hongkong to Siam, the Netherlands-India, French Indo-China, Japan, the United States of America, and the Philippine Islands is not permitted except on production of an official certificate from the country concerned that such morphine or compounds of opium are required for medical purposes or by the Government of the country. These measures took effect on the 1st April, 1910.\n\nH.M.'s Government made the Colony a grant of £9,000 for the year 1910 on account of a loss of $225,860 incurred during that year in respect of opium revenue.\n\nI proceeded to England on leave on May 1st returning on November 1st. During my absence the Government was administered by Sir H. May, Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Right Honourable \n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant, \n**F. Lugard** \nGovernor.\n\nHis Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, \nHis Majesty \n&c., \n&c., \n&c., \n\nPage 22\nPage 23 \n\nPage 14 \nPage 57", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432391, "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": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "## \n\nThe Harbour Master, now acting as Harbour Master, has a very high opinion of Chan Pui, who was piers attendant at the south ... the 20th in Cha ... bir \"...has been doing his work to my entire satisfaction...\" (`Ceo 2875/10`).\n\n### \n\n137 Commander Taylor complains (in paragraph 5) that officers in his department, who had not applied for promotion, were promoted against their will. It was this very circumstance that made the government suspect the clerical staff of the Harbour Department of malpractices, and the following occurrences show that the suspicion was well-founded:\n\n(a) Wong Kam-lai, who joined the service on 1st January 1904, on a salary of $240, rising to $420 by $60 biennially, drew in addition as Interpreter at the Hunghom Harbour Station $5 per mensem, Police Allowance, and $14 per mensem telephone allowance, and had free quarters. His total salary was, therefore, $153 per mensem. Yet he applied for, and upon Commander Taylor's recommendation was on 22nd August 1905, with effect from that date, appointed to the post of writer in the Harbour Office with the duty of issuing junk-permits at a salary of $20 per mensem. Commander Taylor explained that Wong Kam-lai desired the transfer because he objected to night work; but subsequently Wong Kam-lai in June 1906 refused a clerkship in the Post Office at $40 per mensem, although at that time he was only drawing $25 per mensem in the Harbour Department.\n\n(b) Chan Kwok-on, who joined the service on 23rd October 1897 at a salary of $240, rising to $420 by $60 biennially, as Chinese writer in the Harbour Office with the duty of issuing junk-permits, was on 5th August 1908, more or less against his will, promoted to the Assessor's office on a salary of $490, rising to $660 by $60 annually.\n\n(c) Leung Yiu-shang, who joined the service on 18th March 1895 as Chinese writer in the Harbour Office at $240, rising to $420 by $60 biennially, with the duty of issuing junk-permits, was, after more than 10 years' service, promoted in November 1905 to be Orderly Room Clerk at Volunteer Head Quarters on a salary of $480, rising to $600 (presumably, though the text says $1600) by $60 biennially. He at once absconded.\n\n(d) Lo Sing-lau, with service dating from 1886, was in October 1907 still content with the humble position of clerk in...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432393, "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": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "## \n19.\n\n139 was suspected of corrupt practices, failed to return to duty in September 1906 because he knew he was being watched. A banishment warrant was issued against him on the 20th September 1906 by the advice of **Executive Council** and a notice of his dismissal and banishment for corrupt practices was published in the **Gazette**. (`Conf. O.S. 7084/06`)\n\n(g) Early in September 1906, an anonymous petition purporting to come from certain Traders and Ship Owners of Hongkong was received by Government making charges against Fan Tsung-hing (vide para 30 infra), a Chinese writer in the Harbour Office. It was stated that he \"had the audacity to guarantee the success of the coxswains in their examinations, receiving from each of them $22.50 for his service: that he levied squeeze from owners of ferry launches in connection with their monthly certificates: and that he received bribes in connection with the smuggling of arms and explosives.\" The matter was placed in the hands of the Police who, however, failed to get evidence against Fan Tsung-hing.\n\n(h) On the 4th March 1909, Commander Taylor reported that Leung Kit-shing, clerk in the Marine Surveyor's office, had absented himself from duty without leave since the 1st idem. Inquiry proved that Leung was greatly in debt and not being able to get the money to pay his debts had absconded (`O.O.O. 1564/09`).\n\n(i) Sin Sik-kuan, Interpreter at the Hunghom Harbour Station, was reported by Captain Barnes Lawronce on 20th November, 1905, to have done his work unsatisfactorily and on the 18th idem, he had been charged with embezzlement of 25 cents, the case being remanded on bail. On the 22nd idem, Captain Barnes Lawrence reported that Sin Sik-kuan had absconded (`O.S.O. in 5955/05`).\n\n(j) On the 22nd October 1910, the Harbour Office Shroff Wong Hau-nam absconded with $3,839.36: and the present correspondence is the result of that occurrence.\n\n(k) When, on the death of Teang Shiu-kau, applicants were called for by circular to fill the vacancy, it was at once apparent how popular was the post of Shroff in the Harbour Department. The salary of the post was only $240 rising to $420 by $20 annually.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437493, "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": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 149, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "1\n\n147\n\n1.\n\nMinute for Legislative Council in support of Financial Minute for $400,000.432,618.28\n\nD\n\nAPR 12\n\nThe question of the site for the Terminal Station, Kowloon-Canton Railway is one which has occupied the attention of Government for the past 3 years. It was a very difficult and complicated one for the following reasons:-\n\n(a). Because it was essential that a Ferry Service should be inaugurated, which should bring passengers if possible close to the Station so as not to have to transport their goods &c. (especially in bad weather) for any distance. If the Railway could not offer every facility it could not hope to compete against steamers. Mr. Lindsey strongly advocated that the station should be at Hunghom. He thought the (then) alternative on the acquired sites north of Salisbury Road too restricted. Consequently, stipulations were made concerning a ferry service to Hunghom at the time that the Pier at Victoria was leased to the Star Ferry Company.\n\n(b). Because of the question of sidings, especially the siding to the Wharf and Godown Company. It was felt that co-operation with this Company would add to railway freights, while the reverse would compel them to compete by water transport.\n\n(c). By the great cost of land, and the fact that almost all of it was already in occupation at the south end of the peninsula.\n\nI will not here go into details about the sites acquired by Government north of Salisbury Road, or the arguments for and against, &c. I had at an early stage suggested that the best site would be the Marine Lots at the south end of the Peninsula, but I was told that they could not be acquired except at a prohibitive cost.\n\nThe owners, however, together with the Wharf and Godown Company and the Star Ferry, all of whom were deeply interested, finally came forward with an offer to exchange all the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438246, "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": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "The reclamations at the end of Gillies Avenue, Hunghom, and for the market and slaughter house at Aberdeen were completed: the reconstruction and raising of Tai Hang Village was continued; similar work of a more extensive nature at Ap Liu Village, near Shamshuipo, was undertaken and the reclamation of the area in front of Kowloon Marine Lots 29 to 31, at Yaumati, was begun.\n\nThe work of providing scavenging lanes was continued, compensation being paid where necessary.\n\nThe Tytam East or Mount Parker Catchwater was extensively repaired or reconstructed, and a considerable extension of the Shaukiwan Water Works, for the purpose of augmenting the supply to that village, was undertaken. An 8\" water main was substituted for the 3\" and 4\" previously existing from Percival Street to the Asiatic Petroleum Company's Works (Marine Lot 277).\n\nExtensive illuminations of the principal public buildings were carried out on the occasion of the Coronation of His Majesty King George V.\n\nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $1,094,817.93 and on works annually recurrent $486,940.80.\n\nSeveral typhoons of considerable severity occurred, one of these, which occurred in August, being accompanied by a severe rainstorm, 15.4 inches of rain falling in two days and causing considerable damage to roads, retaining walls, &c.\n\nRailway.\n\nLittle construction work was carried out during 1911 with the exception of building the workshops, erecting machinery and pitching the slopes of No. 1 Cutting. Nothing was done towards the building of the terminal station at Kowloon, but negotiations were carried on for the acquisition of the necessary land and it is anticipated that the work will be put in hand at an early date. A two-foot gauge branch line from Fan Ling to Sha Tau Kok, a distance of 7 miles, was commenced in May 1911 and three sections were opened for traffic on 21st December. The fourth and last section had not been opened at the end of the year.\n\nIn October last through traffic between Hongkong and Canton was established but, owing to the disturbances in Chinese Territory, traffic on the Chinese section was suspended at the request of the late Viceroy on November 7th and was not resumed until the 14th of December. Thereafter the traffic to the end of the year was below normal. The local traffic was steady during the year and receipts were more than was anticipated.\n\nPassengers carried between 5th October and 31st December are as follows:\n\nBritish Section to China, 29,338.\n\nChina to Hongkong and Kowloon, 27,653.\n\nVL-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS.\n\n(a.) HOSPITALS.\n\nGovernment Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital, to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease on board a ship arriving in the Harbour.\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 10 wards. 2,370 in-patients and 15,489 out-patients were treated during 1911 as against 2,644 and 17,759 respectively in 1910. 112 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 340 in 1910 and 188 in 1909. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 138 confinements occurred during the year as against 107 in 1910. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1911 309 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 20 beds, 22 cases were treated in 1911, 21 being small-pox.\n\n(b.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 920 patients of all races were treated during 1911 and there were 14 deaths.\n\n(c.) THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS. The Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a hospital are performed by the institution, such as the free burial of the poor, the repatriation of destitutes, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician, who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon, trained in Western medicine, is a member of the hospital staff. There are 323 beds in the buildings and 3,649 patients were accommodated during 1911.\n\nThe Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by the missionaries resident in Hongkong, agents of the London Missionary Society, and consist of the Alice Memorial Hospital opened in 1887, the Nethersole Hospital opened in 1893, the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital opened in 1904 and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1908. The number of in-patients in 1911 ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438249, "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": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "2)---- \n\nThere can be little doubt, moreover, that this influx of refugees have contributed largely to the increase in the number of cases of Plague and to the considerable outbreak of Small-pox, which occurred at the latter end of the year.\n\nThe general death rate for the year was 21.13 per 1,000 among the Chinese Community and 13.38 among the Non-Chinese Community, as compared with 22.50 and 10.04 during 1910.\n\nThe number of deaths from malaria (333) is considerably lower than it had been for the previous five years, and Kowloon still maintains the low average which it assumed on the completion of the railway works. The deaths from this cause in the City of Victoria numbered 176 out of a population of 218,000; but more than 26% of these deaths occurred in Health District No. 9, in close proximity to which extensive building operations have been in progress during the past year.\n\nThe deaths from plague numbered 253, as compared with 23 in 1910, and 108 in 1909. All the cases of plague were Chinese with the exception of one Indian constable who died.\n\nSmall-pox deaths numbered 198 - all Chinese, with the exception of one British missionary lady who succumbed to the hæmorrhagic type of the disease; only ten of these were returned as having been previously vaccinated.\n\nThere were 2,487 deaths from respiratory diseases among the Chinese, as compared with 2,602 in 1910. Phthisis claimed 753 Chinese victims, while other forms of tuberculosis represent an additional 426 deaths, making a total of 1,179 or 15.7% of the total deaths among that community.\n\nBeri-beri was responsible for 320 deaths, as compared with 566 during 1910, and 555 in 1909. During the past year, circulars have been distributed to all large employers of coolie labour calling their attention to the fact that beri-beri is produced by the consumption of white rice as the staple article of diet without a sufficiency of other foods, and advising that beans should be supplied with the rice, when fresh meat or fresh fish cannot be afforded, and it is possible that the dissemination of this information may have had some influence in reducing the mortality from this disease.\n\n(c.) CLIMATE.\n\nThe average monthly temperature throughout the year was 72.1° F, as compared with 72.0° F in 1910 and an average of 72.1° F during the preceding years. The maximum mean monthly temperature was attained in June, when it reached 87.2° F, and the mean minimum monthly temperature was recorded in January, when it was 55.0° F. The highest recorded temperature during the year was 93.1° F on the 25th August, and the lowest 47.1° F on the 24th February.*\n\n*These are the temperatures recorded by the Observatory at sea-level. The temperature in the high levels at the Peak averages some 10° less.\n\nPage 21\n\nThe total rainfall for the year was 90.55 inches, as compared with an average of 80.73 inches during the ten preceding years. The wettest month was August with 30.06 inches, the driest, February, when no rain was recorded. The greatest amount of rain which fell on any one day was 8.61 inches on the 5th August, while no rain fell on 220 days of the year. The mean relative humidity of the atmosphere for the year was 79%, as compared with an average of 77% during the ten preceding years. The average daily amount of sunshine was 5.7 hours, being 50% of the possible duration.\n\nThese figures are those recorded at the Observatory, Kowloon, and there is a very considerable divergence between that place and Hongkong (low levels), the Peak District, or Tai Po (New Territories), both in rainfall, temperature, and humidity.\n\nX-POSTAL SERVICE.\n\nThe total revenue from the postal service in 1911 was $300,217.15 and total expenditure $422,267.97. The result of the year's working shows a deficit of $122,050.82. Direct exchange of money orders with the Philippine Islands commenced on 1st July, and a revised parcel arrangement with Siam came into operation on 26th September.\n\nXI-MILITARY EXPENDITURE.\n\n(a) COLONIAL CONTRIBUTION.\n\nThe Colony contributed $1,342,554 (being the statutory contribution of 20% of the revenue) towards the cost of the maintenance of the Regular Forces in Colony including Barrack Services and Defence Works.\n\n(b) VOLUNTEER CORPS.\n\nThe expenditure on the Volunteers, which is entirely borne by the Colony, was $49,311 compared with $34,770 in 1910.\n\nXII-GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.\n\nDuring the past year, no general assessment was made. The existing valuation for 1910-11 was ordered to be adopted as the valuation for 1911-12, the difference in rateable value being the result of interim assessments. There is an increase in the rateable value of the whole Colony of 0.71%. In the City of Victoria, the Hill District, Shaukiwan, Saiwanto, Quarry Bay, Hongkong Villages, Kowloon Point, Yawmati, Mongkoktsui, and New Kowloon, there is an increase ranging from 10.59% to 0.29%, the largest increase being in New Kowloon. There is no change in Bunghom and Hokun. Kowloon Villages show a decrease of 1.76%.\n\nThe average rate of exchange (demand on London) which had been 1/9.6021 to the dollar for 1910 rose to 1/9.754808 for 1911.\n\nPage 12\n\nPage 16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439292, "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": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nC.O. 39037 201 100 191\n\nARTICLES OF AGREEMENT under Seal made this ... day of ... BETWEEN HIS EXCELLENCY SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY K.C.M.G. Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies (who and whose successors in office are hereinafter referred to as \"The Governor\") for and on behalf of the Government of the said Colony of the one part and THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED (hereinafter called \"the Company\") for and on behalf of themselves and the Great Northern Telegraph Company Limited of Copenhagen Denmark of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS the Company have requested leave from the Governor to construct and maintain a row of telegraph poles for the purpose of erecting wires thereon upon that property (including across bridges) now occupied by the Kowloon-Canton Railway (hereinafter called \"The Railway\") extending from Chatham Road Hunghom to the Northern side of the bridge spanning the Sham Chun River.\n\nAND WHEREAS The Company have entered into a certain Agreement with the Chinese Telegraph Administration which said Agreement expires on the 31st December, 1950.\n\nAND WHEREAS the Governor has agreed to grant permission to the Company to construct and maintain a row of telegraph poles for the purpose of erecting telegraph wires thereon for a term of years expiring at the date of the expiration or sooner determination of the said Agreement with the Chinese Telegraph Administration upon the terms and conditions hereinafter contained.\n\nNOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH and it is hereby agreed and declared between the Governor and the Company as follows (that is to say):\n\n1. Way leave be hereby granted to the Company for the construction and maintenance of a row of telegraph poles upon that property, the property of the Crown, extending from Chatham Road Hunghom to the northern side of the bridge spanning the Sham Chun River, including across all bridges, which said property is now occupied by the Railway and is hereinafter referred to as \"the Railway property\".\n\n2. Leave be hereby granted to the Company to erect telegraph wires, the number of which, subject nevertheless as hereinafter provided, is not to exceed three upon the said telegraph poles.\n\n3. Leave be hereby granted to the Company to carry the said wires...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443375, "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": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n1 \n\n11. Road from Train Halt to Shekwahui.............. \n12. Road from Shekwuhui to Sheungshui.. \n13. Cheung Chau Police Station.. \n14. Raising level of Tai Po Fish Pond \n\n404 \n\nEstimate. \n\n$126,400 \n2,000 \n2,000 \n22,000 \n2,300 \n\n$156,700. \n\nOf these works Nos. 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 are still in progress, and throw additional responsibility upon Mr. Carpenter, whose proper work since the 21st of last February has been that of Assistant to the Engineer in charge of Maintenance. Moreover, Mr. Carpenter is in charge of the Government Grab Dredger for dredging foreshore, and also of the Drawing Office where he has had to get out preliminary plans and estimates for the following 1913 works, viz.:- \n\n| Work | Estimate |\n| --- | --- |\n| Stables for Sanitary Board adjoining No. 1 Police Station | $4,700 |\n| Hunghom Police Station (additions) | $5,500 |\n| Tai O Market | $4,500 |\n| Latrine in D'Aguilar Street | $6,000 |\n| Urinal in Happy Valley | $1,500 |\n| | $23,200 (Total: $23,200) |\n\nAll these duties have made it necessary for Mr. Carpenter to work overtime: and between the 30th April, 1912, and the 3rd of last March he worked (a) 197 hours overtime in Hongkong, and (b) 319 hours overtime principally on Saturdays and Sundays in the New Territories. I may add that during the time in question Mr. Carpenter had the further responsibility of being in sole charge of the works in hand without assistance save that of overseers. \n\n5. \n\nAs regards Mr. Xavier he also has had to carry on a portion of Mr. Gale's work in addition to his own. He has during the period from the 22nd April, 1912, to the 29th May,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446764, "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": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 299, "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "287\n\nSubject may \n\nan acute affect then \n\nInd you \n\nAnderson, recently Commenting \n\nIn Rai[n]met \n\nX \n\nAnticipate, if the was \n\noffer adopto suggestions \n\nline \n\nTroops in Hunghom, \n\nan alteration in \n\nThe \n\nline of defence in the Kowloon peninsula. Finally \n\nMale, I believe, by General Anderson's proposals would", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449815, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 497, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "494\n\nfrom the fact that the existing fares by through slow trains are less than the sum of the sectional fares, and that therefore under Article 25(5) their basis of division is open to discussion.\n\n5.\n\nVery early in the discussion of the question the Managing Director of the Chinese Section had offered to accept a division of fares by any through train (i.e. between Hongkong Sheklung and Canton) on the 35% - 65% basis, provided certain stations on the Chinese Section, from and to which large traffic is anticipated, were favourably treated, in the interests of the Chinese Section, in the division of joint sectional fares. The division proposed for these stations is a purely arbitrary one. Under it the British Section loses about 3,000 a year in the existing state of traffic.\n\nOn the other hand in consideration of this sacrifice the Chinese Section were prepared to make the following concessions:\n\n(a) That Hongkong shall be understood to include Kowloon, Hunghom and Yaumati, the stations situated south of the Beacon Hill Tunnel;\n\n(b) that the five specially excepted stations on the Chinese Section shall be Tu Tong, Sheung Ping, Wang Lik, Nam Shek and Sai Wu;\n\n(c) that all passenger fares, excess fares, excess charges on luggage and parcels, carriages, horses, dogs, and country produce from or to Hongkong and Sheklung and Canton by any description of train shall be divided on the 35% - 65% basis;\n\n(d) that passenger fares and excess fares to and from Hong Kong to stations on the Chinese Section, other than Sheklung and Canton, and also those from stations north of Hongkong on the British Section to all stations on the Chinese Section, shall be considered to be joint sectional, and shall be divided according to a division table submitted in a letter from the Manager of the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449823, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 505, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "103\n\n. SIENSƏĞİ. O! \n\nFASSENGERS. \n\nSTATEMENT. \n\n502\n\n,001110 a'viajewel Iaino100\n\n„ÞIRI,enul didBi „noagnoli\n\nThrough\n\n728\n\nJoint Sectional\n\nbest and to 8605, of restal way of somerator ♫JiW\n\nades vizelo dolde treuetade a tlmanærð of bedoarib ma IfingA of satys of beregang að tæmanteovoð midt rožale no ažuad and tuo bas dritize and neemted sets) Isnoitoes datoj te minivib adt ›yawliaf noɑiwoX-netnað add to aneitos8 snental)\n\n.5\n\n•\n\nneed Bad sezzado moninim ode to noluivib sat ped? .anidim ni beartitaco ed blwode beta vino yliadzev að beerge and bedqsoos evad neidosë amanid” add to voltaréninimba seld\n\nbas eldað nolaivib a orqʻng [Idw tegomoli Istaceð sɗd sianoq orq\n\nJeudangis not di Jindwa\n\nBerat Innoitoes to nelaivib sidé jadð eðaða of me I\n\n..\n\nnoitssup elode sdt dødt gnibenderebii and no of beerga vino al\n\nadd to molnives no noiderablanoɔ wɔi okɛga qu déguard oď yan\n\n• Domain Tyn ynddToW\n\n.ode\n\nThere are two kinds of passenger traffic known as \"Through\" and \"Joint Sectional\",\n\n(a)\n\nPassenger Fares booked by any train from Hongkong, Kowloon, Hunghom or Yaumati stations to Sheklung or Canton and vice versa shall be considered \"Through\" traffic and shall be divided in the ratio of 35:65.\n\n(b) Passenger Fares from stations south of Beacon Hill Tunnel to stations on the Chinese section and vice versa other than Sheklung and Canton, and from stations north of Beacon Hill Tunnel to all stations on the Chinese section and vice versa, shall be considered \"Joint Sectional\" and the division shall be in accordance\n\nPASSENGER FARES.\n\n(a)\n\n«zodoezit zoksensä ad? „nožtosë ose MLEKO\n\n„Yawltaf noo[meX=notnaQ\n\n.MOTHAD\n\nwith that submitted in Mr. Winslow's letter No.1228 dated 10th June, 1912, to the Managing Director of the Chinese Section, except in respect of the five stations, viz: Sai Wu, Nam Shek, Wang Lik, Sheung Ping, Tu Tong.\n\nThe division of Passenger Fares between any station in the British Section and any of the above-mentioned five stations shall be as indicated in the letter No.3033 dated 22nd April, 1914, of the Managing Director of the Chinese Section to the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong.\n\nExcess Passenger Fares booked by any train from Hongkong, Kowloon, Hunghom or Yaumati stations to Sheklung or Canton and vice versa shall be considered \"Through\" traffic and shall be divided in the ratio of 36:65.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449824, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 506, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "503\n\nTHE METATE\n\nBa mwoni silisit reznobazy to aboix owd SIA SIGNT\n\n*Lanoitos2 Jaiol\" bas \"dyʊomT\"\n\nLOTİ KİNKİ Log yd belood mozaï reymeans “ enoidate itamusŸ to mostyout,noofwol „gnoży not ed llena gure# solv has nodmaƆ 10 grulledƐ ot ed liens bas sitterd \"nguoxit” berebienoo .¿8:38 to pitat adt mi bebivib\n\nmoosed to advoa anoitatea moti beisï ragneɛasi\n\nnoitoes esaning sad no anoitats oð fannut liIH Mojna) bna gouldedƐ aand TRUJO BATer eoir bas jermst 1lik mosed to ddton anoidada mort bes\n\nbas noldsen azaninu and no anoitaðu lím od\n\n-noitoes Jaiol\" berebienço ad IIaria\n\nsonab1009a ai sa tiene nolsivib edð bra \"Is\n\nrettel a'woleni?.1. ni be‡‡indua tadt d‡IW znigens. edt oð „Siel ‚onut aðJI bejab BSSI.0!! mi Jysore ɔoitosƐ semainɔ end to rođustiq al' ‚w 32 :siv‚anoidada evil ad♬ to Joaqaar -anoT wï ghid grwed?,dil yost,ded2 yos neewded seis¶ 18 meses i la molsivib edT add to yos bae noitɔe? dạitiza edt ni neidade 8a ed ilara exoidaja evit benoitnesa voďa\n\nbrSS betab ƐƐQE. OH tøttei eikt ni betaoibni\n\neist to rotuerit yniyanail sót Yo „DIVI,IITGA to (rajerosƐ Istoofab edi et noisoel esening\n\n-padály nati\n\n·Jort about yd bedood sensÏ Teynosas¶ sagori anoijete itemsŸ to mostymul,noofwoX anoźnoi\n\ned flada seter soit bne notnað to gouldedƐ of ed Ilana bos villant \"diguou?\" berebisnoJ\n\n.68:08 to oİJOT edd ni bebivib\n\n(8)\n\n€\n\nAguon\n\n(d)\n\nLamoitos2 taię?\n\n•\n\nBISAT 822.\n\n(a)\n\nJoint Sectional\n\nEXCESS LUGGAGE.\n\n(b) Excess Passenger Fares from stations south of Beacon Hill Tunnel to stations on the Chinese section other than Sheklung and Canton and vice versa; and from stations north of Beacon Hill Tunnel to all stations on the Chinese section and vice versa, shall be considered *Joint Sectional* and the division shall be in accordance with that submitted in Mr. Winslow's letter No.1228 dated 10th June, 1912, to the Managing Director of the Chinese Section except in respect of the five stations, viz: Sai Wu, Nam Shek, Wang Lik, Sheung Ping, Tu Tong. The division of excess Passenger Fares between any station in the British Section and any of the above-mentioned five stations shall be as indicated in the letter No.3033 dated 22nd April, 1914, of the Managing Director of the Chinese Section to the Colonial Secretary of Hongkong.\n\nExcess luggage and excess parcels from Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hunghom or Yaumati to Sheklung or Canton and vice versa shall be considered \"Through\" and the division shall be in the ratio of 35:65. Excess luggage and excess parcels from stations south of Beacon Hill Tunnel to all stations on the Chinese Section other than Sheklung and Canton and vice versa; and from stations north of Beacon Hill Tunnel to all stations on the Chinese Section and vice versa, shall be considered \"Joint Sectional\" and the division shall be according to mileage. The minimum charge shall be 10 cents, this shall be equally divided between the British and Chinese sections as all calculations are rounded off to 5 cents.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449826, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 508, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "between and including Canton and Sheklung to any station on the British Section and vice versa, shall be considered \"Through\" and shall be divided in the ratio of 35:65.\n\n(b) All goods from Kowloon, Hunghom and Yaumati to all stations on the Chinese section as far as Sai Wu (a station south of Sheklung) and vice versa, shall be considered as Joint Sectional and shall be divided in accordance with Schedule \"C\" page 16 and 17 Goods Tariff.\n\n(c) Goods from stations between Shatin and Fanling to stations on the Chinese section up to Sai Wu shall be considered as Joint Sectional and shall be divided according to Schedule \"D\", pages 18 and 19.\n\nmileage.\n\nMinimum charges on goods shall be divided on\n\nMiscellaneous earnings derived from the nature of rent of advertisements and the privilege of selling refreshments on the through slow and the through express trains between Canton and Kowloon etc. shall be grouped under this head and divided in the ratio of 35:65.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449925, "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": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "Confidential.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\n\nHongkong, 24th October, 1914.\n\nGENTLEMEN,\n\nIn continuation of my letters of the 30th October and 7th November, I am directed to convey to you the following further instructions of His Excellency the Governor :-\n\nInterviews with Detained Alien Enemies.\n\n1. The detailing of men of the Royal Garrison Artillery to escort alien enemies from the camp at Hunghom to Hongkong for the purpose of assisting the liquidators in the winding up of the various alien enemy firms has been found to add appreciably to the duties of the garrison and to cause considerable inconvenience to the military authorities. It is fully recognised that from time to time the liquidators must have the assistance of the former employees and members of the firms in question, but I am to ask you to be good enough to endeavour to make as few requisitions of this nature as possible. Something might be done in this direction by holding up enquiries and so dealing with as many matters as possible at each visit. It is desired to leave the matter to the discretion of the liquidators, and it is confidently expected that they will use their best endeavours to minimise the inconvenience referred to. In every case the prisoner should be returned to camp as soon as he can be spared. Requisitions for the attendance of prisoners should be sent to the Provost Marshal at least 24 hours before the time at which the attendance of the prisoner is required.\n\nSale of Leaseholds.\n\n2. If it should become necessary in any case to sell or otherwise dispose of any leaseholds which are the property of alien enemies whose affairs are being wound up, nothing should be done without reference to the Government, as directions would be necessary as to the mode of sale and the question of dealing with the legal title would have to be considered.\n\nSale of Business as a Going Concern.\n\n3. It is not advisable that any business should be sold as a going concern without the consent of the partners, except in the case of insolvency.\n\nAcceptance by Liquidators of Agencies.\n\n4. It is not intended that liquidators should be prevented from accepting agencies formerly held by the alien enemy firms of which they are the respective liquidators if such agencies should be offered to them by the principals, or that they should be debarred from entering into any relations whatsoever with persons and firms with whom the alien enemy firm formerly had trade relations.\n\nTo Messrs...\n\nLiquidators of..................\n\n73\n\n \nPage 73\n\n \n\nPage 73", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 450071, "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": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12]", "content_text": "-2-\n\n219\n\nin accordance with the confirmation copy of the message attached hereto. I made the inspection of the camp for prisoners on December 12th in company with the Major General commanding the British troops in South China and certain officers of his staff. Every facility was given me for securing accurate information and for seeing things as they actually are. The observations I have to make as to conditions obtaining in the camp are as follows:\n\nThe Camp site.\n\nImmediately after the outbreak of the war, prisoners of war taken by the British government from various German vessels and otherwise were interned on Stonecutters' Island, an island in the harbor of Hongkong under the control of the war authorities and in some respects an ideal place for such a camp. As the rains of the season progressed, however, there were indications of possible trouble with malaria. At the same time, a larger number of prisoners were taken than had been anticipated at first, and it became necessary to move the camp to a more commodious site. The site chosen was on the eastern shore of the Kowloon peninsula at Hunghom station on the Kowloon-Canton railway, and about a mile from Kowloon ferry landing, Kowloon being the mainland portion of the colony of Hongkong. The site has been used from time to time as an encampment for British troops. It occupies a stretch of land along the sea facing the Lyemun entrance to the harbor. It is protected more or less from the chill northern wind of winter by the surrounding hills, but it is open to the winds from the ocean during the hot weather. The single possible objection", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-415 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 453562, "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": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 8\n\n**(4)**\n\n**Confidential**\n\n6.5313 32564 \nIRE? REG MAY 15\n\n## COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\nHONGKONG, 24th October, 1914.\n\nGENTLEMEN,\n\nIn continuation of my letters of the 30th October and 7th November, I am directed to convey to you the following further instructions of His Excellency the Governor :-\n\n### Interviews with Detained Alien Enemies.\n\n1. The detailing of men of the Royal Garrison Artillery to escort alien enemies from the camp at Hunghom to Hongkong for the purpose of assisting the liquidators in the winding up of the various alien enemy firms has been found to add appreciably to the duties of the garrison and to cause considerable inconvenience to the military authorities. It is fully recognised that from time to time the liquidators must have the assistance of the former employees and members of the firms in question, but I am to ask you to be good enough to endeavour to make as few requisitions of this nature as possible. Something might be done in this direction by holding up enquiries and so dealing with as many matters as possible at each visit. It is desired to leave the matter to the discretion of the liquidators, and it is confidently expected that they will use their best endeavours to minimise the inconvenience referred to. In every case the prisoner should be returned to camp as soon as he can be spared. Requisitions for the attendance of prisoners should be sent to the Provost Marshal at least 24 hours before the time at which the attendance of the prisoner is required.\n\n### Sale of Leaseholds.\n\n2. If it should become necessary in any case to sell or otherwise dispose of any leaseholds which are the property of alien enemies whose affairs are being wound up, nothing should be done without reference to the Government, as directions would be necessary as to the mode of sale and the question of dealing with the legal title would have to be considered.\n\n### Sale of Business as a Going Concern.\n\n3. It is not advisable that any business should be sold as a going concern without the consent of the partners, except in the case of insolvency.\n\n### Acceptance by Liquidators of Agencies.\n\n4. It is not intended that liquidators should be prevented from accepting agencies formerly held by the alien enemy firms of which they are the respective liquidators if such agencies should be offered to them by the principals, or that they should be debarred from entering into any relations whatsoever with persons and firms with whom the alien enemy firm formerly had trade relations.\n\nTo Messrs... \nLiquidators of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454383, "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": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "page_number": 597, "title": "CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 3.\n\n## COPY.\n\nSir,\n\n**Commodore's Office, Hongkong, 2nd April, 1915.**\n\n590\n\nIn reply to Your Excellency's letter `No.562/1915` dated 30th March, 1915, relative to communications with the Admiralty High Power Wireless Station on Stonecutters Island, I have the honour to inform you that, in addition to the telegraphic communication being arranged for by you, a telephone line between my office and the Wireless Station is necessary. The proposals made in the attached copy of a submission sent by me to the Admiralty will meet Naval requirements as far as telephonic communication is concerned.\n\nI have asked the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for a reply by cable to this submission and if these proposals are approved, I see no necessity for utilising any of the wires in the cable to be laid between Hunghom Point and North Point.\n\nI have etc.\n\n(Ed.) **Robt. H. Anruther** \nCommodore.\n\nHis Excellency \nSir H. May, K.C.M.G., \nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief, \nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-422 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455402, "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": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 98, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "# No 308.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O 49457\n27 OCT 15\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 14th September, 1915.**\n\nI have the honour to report, in accordance with Section 4(12) of the Deportation Ordinance, 1912, as amended by the Deportation Ordinances of 1913 and 1914, that I have with the advice of the Executive Council banished from the Colony for a period of 10 years Ip Yung Fuk alias Ip Pak Shau, born at Ma-tou-chung Village, Hunghom, in this Colony of parents neither of whom was a British subject. Ip Yung Fuk has not obtained a Certificate of his British birth, and he is not registered at British Consulate in China as a person entitled to British protection in China.\n\n2.\n\nThis man is a professional thief, and during the last twelve years he has been sentenced on eight separate occasions to imprisonment totalling seven years and three months.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n**Rs.**\nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nANDER BONAR LAW, M.P.,\n&C.,\n&C.,\n&C...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455457, "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": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "# \n## \n\nThe retention of the interned German prisoners in Hunghom hinges also on this subject of liquidation. To onlookers it is very creditable to the energy of the Britishers in this Colony, and the officials who will naturally reap the reward of such patriotic energy, that the burden and expense of guardianship should have been so well and truly done as their share in the general self-sacrifice. No one questioned or grudged the steps taken in the early months, but the time has arrived when my Committee think representations should be made to the Home Government that the retention of the 300 odd prisoners in the centre of this small Colony is a source of great danger to the peace and contentment of the inhabitants. They are surrounded by a large neutral native population who neither understand the quarrel nor see why they should not sympathise with them, help them to escape, or convey communications to the other Germans in Canton and elsewhere in China with a view to aiding sedition and revolution.\n\nThe large and successful hold the Germans had of the trade of the Colony naturally has its effect on the minds of the Chinese with whom they did business, and so long as the latter see with what care we take of the lives and health of the interned German business men, so long will they refrain from commencing new relations with the British houses. Germans in China have, of course, taken care to instil into the Chinese mind that as soon as the War is over they will be ready to do business again, and that it is no use for them to start new business relationships for the short period of the War. The long local residence of H.E. the Governor and his knowledge of the Chinese character will doubtless enable him to impress on the Home Government that such ideas are not absurd, and that to disabuse them and to enable trade to be resumed, the only business-like course to pursue is to ship the Germans away to Australia. Owing to the smallness of the Colony, the present position of the Camp is doubtless the most convenient, but if the analogy of a German Concentration Camp in, say, the Green Park could be brought to the minds of the Home Officials as...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455773, "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": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 469, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "Louiere\n\nX\n\n464\n\nthe projected roads, the works should be proceeded with in 1916.\n\nA sum of $12,500 has been provided for the construction of a branch road from Shanghai Street to ShanshuiPo, where considerable development has taken place during recent years. This sum includes $4,200 for the resumption of certain land and buildings situated on the route of the proposed road, but this money will not be spent should the lessees consent to an exchange of their properties for Crown Land elsewhere.\n\nPlans of items 4, 8(d), 36(c) and 36(e) are enclosed. The plans of the Central Police Station Extension (item 5) will be forwarded when ready.\n\n16.\n\nThe Working Expenses of the Kowloon-Canton Railway for 1916 appear in detail in the body of the Estimates instead of being included in an Appendix. The estimated expenditure for next year is $313,905 which is $89,550 less than that for the current year. The revenue in 1916 is estimated at $432,500, or $3,000 less than the amount estimated for 1915, leaving a net balance of earnings over working expenses of $118,695. The financial position of the Railway is shown in note 3 in Appendix II on page 121, from which it will be seen that the deficit to be met from General Revenue is estimated at $523,625 as against an estimated deficit of $458,510 for the current year.\n\nIn accordance with the proposals approved in your Despatch No. 152 of the 8th June, 1915, the Construction Account will be closed at the end of this year, and the expenses of construction beyond the authorised loans of £1,100,000 and £250,000 will be included in the annual expenditure of the Colony. The sum required in 1916 is $386,198, the major portion of which is due to expenditure on the Station Buildings at Kowloon, and the new loco. and carriage sheds at Hunghom.\n\n17.\n\nUnder the head \"Charge on Account of Public Debt\" there is a total increase of $81,039, due partly to the lower rate of exchange on which the Estimates are calculated, partly to the inclusion of Crown Agents' charges on the 1906 Loan, which were formerly paid out of a special fund, and to the interest", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455814, "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": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "504\n\n76\n\n75\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nhave been concluded, and Government will obtain possession of them at the end of the current year. The construction of the three small works under item 6 is very desirable on sanitary grounds.\n\nUnder the heading \"Communications,\" item 7 (a) is retention money on a work which will be completed this year; (b) is to complete a path which the Government undertook to construct, while the sum of $15,000 provided under (c) is put as low as possible to meet probable requirements.\n\nUnder the heading \"Drainage,\" only important work is that in item 8 (d). It is necessary on sanitary grounds to make a start on the work of draining the Tai Kok Tsui Valley in view of the occupation of the old Cotton Mills by the French Convent and the general development of the neighbourhood. Under item 9 the sum of $20,000 provided is considered absolutely necessary.\n\nThe total sum which it is proposed to spend on Public Works Extraordinary is $1,279,400, which is nearly a million dollars less than the sum provided this year.\n\nEven this reduced expenditure, however, will result in a deficit in the budget, as a whole, of $473,764, which will have to be met from the surplus balances of the Colony.\n\nPost Office\n\nUnder \"Personal Emoluments\" the post of Senior Clerk has been abolished, and it is proposed to appoint in his place a Postal Inspector, whose principal duties will consist of the inspection of the branch post offices, and the general supervision of the postmen. No salary has been inserted in the estimates for this post, as it is proposed for the present to continue the temporary arrangement whereby a Lance Sergeant of Police is acting in the post, causing a saving of $3,762.\n\nUnder the heading \"Miscellaneous,\" items 11 to 14 are required to meet the services of an ordinary year. Item 15 is to complete the dredging off Kowloon Point and item 18 is to cover unforeseen minor works. The sum provided for compensations and resumptions is lower than usual, but in the present state of our finances, it is necessary to curtail such expenditure.\n\nI have already referred to the large sum required for the waterworks under construction, but having regard to the contracts and the urgent necessity for these works, it has been impossible to reduce these items.\n\nAn addition has been made to the Radio-Telegraph Staff of two, 3rd Grade Telegraphists, who will be trained for the work at the Cape D'Aguilar Station. By this means, it is anticipated that future economies may be effected.\n\nUnder \"Other Charges,\" the share of the Mail Subsidy payable by this Colony is increased by $5,544, due to the lower rate of exchange at which the calculation is made. A sum of $1,429 has been provided for Stores for the Radio-Telegraphic Station at Cape D'Aguilar.\n\nWith regard to Kowloon, the sums estimated are those required to meet the ordinary services of the year. The sum of $30,000 provided under item 28 is the retention money on the contract for the Typhoon Refuge. This work was completed in August, some months under the contract time, and I think that honourable members will agree with me that its construction reflects much credit on Mr. Jaffé and those who were associated with him.\n\nUnder the heading \"Waterworks,\" a sum of $14,000 has been provided for an additional filter-bed, which is required urgently.\n\nIn the New Territories, the principal expenditure is for road construction. I should have liked to provide much larger sums for the development of those Territories.\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway\n\nIn the estimates of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, the working expenses appear in detail in the body of the Estimates, instead of being included in an Appendix. The estimated expenditure for next year is $313,905, which is $9,550 less than the estimate for this year.\n\nThe only two current items to which I would refer are as follows:- On page 109, provision has been made for nine additional porters at a cost of $1,296, which is necessitated by the expansion of the traffic. On page 110, an increase of $1,000 has been made in the vote for Fuel, Lighting, etc., for carriages, stations, and offices, as the amount provided previously was under-estimated.\n\nThe estimated Revenue from the railway next year is $432,600, or $3,000 less than the estimated Revenue for the current year. The financial position of the Railway is shown in detail in Note 3, in Appendix II, on page 121, from which it will be seen that the net balance of earnings over working expenses is $118,695.\n\nThe Balancing of the Budget\n\nAs I have already stated, a sum of $473,764 will have to be appropriated from Colonial Funds to meet the estimated expenditure for the year. A sum of $523,625 is required for the Kowloon-Canton Railway construction. In accordance with the proposals which I made in my Despatch No.137 of the 22nd April last, which has already been laid before you as Council Paper No.15 of 1915, the capital construction account is to be closed at the end of this year, and the expenses of construction beyond the authorised loans of £1,100,000 and £250,000 are included in the annual expenditure of the Colony.\n\nThey appear in detail on page 112 of the Estimates. The sum required in 1916 is $386,198, the major portion of which is due to expenditure on the Station Buildings at Kowloon, and the new loco, and carriage sheds at Hunghom.\n\nCharge on Account of Public Debt\n\nUnder this head, there is a total increase of $81,039, due partly to the lower rate of exchange on which the Estimates are calculated, partly to the inclusion of Crown Agents' charges on the £1,000 loan, which were formerly paid out of a special fund, and to the interest due on the cost of railway construction.\n\nPensions\n\nUnder this head, there is an increase of $54,000 due to lower exchange, and to additional pensions.\n\nCharitable Services\n\nThe only item to which I wish to refer under this head is the provision of $15,000 as a grant in aid for the maintenance during the year 1916 of the three German Charitable Institutions, namely, the Berlin Foundling House, Blindenheim and Ebenezer.\n\nThe Budget which is in the hands of honourable members has been drawn up with great care to meet the circumstances in which we find ourselves. It is intended to meet the needs of the Public Service of this Colony, and no more than these needs. It is a Budget framed with due regard to economy, and it contains no expenditure which cannot be defended from that point of view.\n\nI hope it will meet with the convenience of honourable members to take the second reading of the Supply Bill on Tuesday, the 26th October.\n\nThe text of the Bill is as follows:-\n\nWhereas the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1916 has, apart from the contribution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure and Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of nine million eighty-one thousand two hundred and nine dollars,\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Appropriation Ordinance for 1916.\n\n2. A sum not exceeding nine million eighty-one thousand two hundred and nine dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1916 and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say:-\n\nPage 510\n\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458639, "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": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "199\n\n! \n\nwages to remain in the employ of the liquidated firms either marking time or helping only halfheartedly in the liquidation. Many of these men would be gladly taken on by the British firms who are trying to cope with the trade formerly done by German houses but until the Chinese mind can be thoroughly disabused of the idea that the Government is in favour of helping the German firms to start again where they left off it is impossible to expect British firms to increase their business. Chinese capital is being withheld from trade to the loss of the Colony and the only way to stop this is to instruct the liquidators to discharge such of the employees, brokers, and other intermediaries as are not actually necessary and to fix their remuneration accordingly and that under no circumstances should German capital be used to subsidise such men so that they can afford to wait until the Germans are disinterned.\n\nThe question of the advisability of the retention \n\nof the interned German prisoners in Hunghom hinges also on this subject of liquidation. To onlookers it is very creditable to the energy of the Britishers in this Colony, and the officials who will naturally reap the reward of such patriotic energy, that the burden and expense of guardianship should have been so well and truly done as their share in the general self-sacrifice. No one questioned or grudged the steps taken in the early months but the time has \n\narrived when my Committee think representations should be \n\nmade to the Home Government that the retention of the 300 \n\nodd prisoners in the centre of this small colony is a source of great danger to the peace and contentment of the inhabitants. They are surrounded by a large neutral native population who neither understand the quarrel nor see why they \n\nshould not sympathise with them, help them to escape, or \n\nconvey \n\n75.\n\n0.\n\n!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460212, "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": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 7th February, 1916.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed Petition from the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, praying that the Crown Leases of Hunghom Inland Lots No. 256 and No. 24 and of Hunghom Marine Lot No. 3 may be extended to terms of 999 years.\n\n2. The two Inland Lots are made up partly of small lots, as shown on the enclosed plan of the properties of the Company, which were sold during the period 1884-1887 on 75 years leases and partly of the streets which formerly surrounded such lots but which were no longer required after the disappearance of the small lots.\n\n3. In Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 556 of the 4th December, 1903, it was recommended that the term of lease of the portions of streets proposed to be leased to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, and which now form part of Hunghom Inland Lot 256, should be 75 years with the usual option of renewal for an equal period at a reassessed Crown Rent. As these areas are disposed around 3 sides of the lot while the 4th side abuts against Kowloon Inland Lot No. 24 it is, I submit, desirable that the lease of the central portion of the lot consisting of the houses purchased privately by the Company should be on similar conditions. Hunghom Inland Lot No. 24 is similarly composed of areas which were formerly streets surrounding Kowloon Inland Lots 24-43 which had been acquired by the Dock Company. I find that no reference...\n\nTo the Right Honourable\n\nANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\nPage information remains as is due to lack of context for exact page count, but the text is reformatted according to the instructions.\n\nHere is the revised version in HTML as requested:\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE. HONGKONG. 7th February, 1916.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consider-ation the enclosed Petition from the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, praying that the Crown Leases of Hunghom Inland Lots No. 256 and No. 24 and of Hunghom Marine Lot No. 3 may be ex-tended to terms of 999 years.\n\n2.\n\nThe two Inland Lots are made up partly of small lots, as shown on the enclosed plan of the properties of the Company, which were sold during the period 1884-1887 on 75 years leases and partly of the streets which formerly surrounded such lots but which were no longer required after the disappearance of the small lots.\n\n3.\n\nIn Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 556 of the 4th December, 1903, it was recommended that the term of lease of the portions of streets proposed to be leased to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, and which now form part of Hunghom Inland Lot 256, should be 75 years with the usual option of renewal for an equal period at a reassessed Crown Rent. As these areas are disposed around 3 sides of the lot while the 4th side abuts against Kowloon Inland Lot No. 24 it is, I submit, desirable that the lease of the central portion of the lot consisting of the houses purchased privately by the Company should be on similar conditions. Hunghom Inland Lot No. 24 is similarly composed of areas which were formerly streets surrounding Kowloon Inland Lots 24-43 which had been acquired by the Dock Company. I find that no reference\n\nTo the Right Honourable\n\nANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P.,\n\n&c.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460213, "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": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 346, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "reference was made to you concerning the lease of these portions of streets but I find that on the 14th August, 1899, Mr. Ormsby, at that time Director of Public Works, wrote to the Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, who had applied for the area to be dealt with as an extension of his Company's lots which were held on 999 years leases, informing him that the Government had decided that there were \"no such special circumstances to urge as would justify a recommendation to the Secretary of State that the land be sold on other than the conditions now ruling, namely, a lease for 75 years with option of renewal for one further term of 75 years on an amended Crown Rent\",\n\nIn view of the above considerations I would recommend that new leases for Hunghom Inland Lot No. 256 and Hunghom Inland Lot No. 24 be issued for terms of 75 years renewable for one period of 75 years on the usual conditions, unless you are disposed to entertain the prayer of the petitioners.\n\nAs regards Hunghom Marine Lot No. 3, this lot was sold by public auction in December, 1906, on a 99 years lease renewable for one further term of 99 years at a reassessed Crown Rent. Under the conditions of sale the purchaser was bound to reclaim the entire area of the lot, which extends into the sea, and to expend thereon a sum of not less than $40,000 in rateable improvements. The clause concerning the expenditure on these improvements was only inserted in case the lot should be purchased by some party other than the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited. The latter required the area for possible extension of their premises and nothing was stipulated in the correspondence with them prior to the sale regarding a building covenant. The principle involved in the concession underlying this special arrangement formed the subject of Sir Frederick Lugard's Despatch No. 291 of 25th November, 1907, and was approved by Lord Elgin's Despatch No. 10 of 8th January, 1908, and I would now recommend that the condition for the reclamation of the lot might be allowed to remain in abeyance. The Company will doubtless proceed with it\n\n14837/07", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460219, "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": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "1\n\n..1\n\nJes\n\n350\n\nabove enumerated and that the Crown should grant to your Petitioner new Crown Leases of the same and accordingly new Crown Leases of Unglam Marine Lot No.1 and Kowloon Marine Lot No.27 for terms of 999 years each have been granted to your Petitioner.\n\nTHAT it is intended that upon the surrender by your Petitioner of the Crown Leases of Hunghom Inland Lots Nos.13 to 23, 61 to 71 that the areas comprised therein as adjusted shall be hereafter included in one Lot to be known as Hunghom Inland Lot No.250 and a Crown Lease thereof be granted to your Petitioner for a term of 75 years from the 8th July 1884. That on a Surrender by your Petitioner of the Crown Lease of Hunghom Inland Lot No.24 a new Crown Lease thereof be granted to your Petitioner for a term of 75 years from the 9th October 1899 and that so soon as the area has been reclaimed in accordance with the Conditions of Sale of Hunghom Marine Lot No.3 a Crown Lease thereof be granted to your Petitioner for a term of 99 years from the 24th December 1906 with such right of renewal for a further term of 99 years as aforesaid.\n\nTHAT in view of the importance of the business of your Petitioner to His Majesty's Navy, the Shipping community of the Colony of Hong Kong and the public generally in the Far East and of the money expended in the development and improvement of the properties before mentioned your Petitioner is desirous that the term of each of the new Crown Leases of Hung Hom Inland Lot No.250, Hung Hom Inland Lot No.24 and Hung Hom Marine Lot No.3 be extended to 999 years from the respective dates upon which such terms originally commenced.\n\nYOUR PETITIONER therefore do thus humbly pray that you may see fit to advise His Gracious Majesty the King to direct that in the circumstances above\n\n-3-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460224, "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": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nCondo pure ex\n\n1, Des Voeux Road,\n\n354\n\nHongkong, 7th December, 1915.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 3rd instant No. 3968/1906 which we received today, no mention was made of Hunghom Inland Lot No. 218 in the Memorial of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., as such Memorial is only confined to such properties in respect of which new Crown Leases are being sought. The existing Crown Lease of Hunghom Inland Lot No. 218 is for a period of 999 years.\n\nWe have etc.\n\n(sgd.) Deacon, Looker Deacon and Harston.\n\nThe Honourable\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461548, "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": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Volunteer Guard Duties\n\nThe Hong Kong Volunteer Reserve (H.K.V.R.) and Hong Kong Volunteer Corps (H.K.V.C.) performed various guard duties during World War I.\n\n### Guard Details\n\n* A guard consisting of 1 N.C.O. and 3 men was found by the H.K.V.R. and H.E.V.C. on alternate weeks. This guard was mounted at 10.15 p.m. and dismissed at 7 a.m. daily.\n* **Volunteer Headquarters Guard**: A quart consisting of 1 N.C.O. and 3 men from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and 1 N.C.O. and 12 men from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. was found by H.K.V.R. and H.K.V.C. on alternate weeks.\n\n### Specific Guard Posts\n\n| Guard Post | Dates | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Peak Guard** | 13th March 1915 - 8th April 1915 | 1 officer and 20 rank and file at Mount Austin, Barranka the Peak. Mounted at 10.15 p.m. and remained on duty till 7 a.m. |\n| **Gun Club Hill Detachment and Prisoners of War Camp Guard** | 15th May 1915 - 17th January 1916 | Detachment: 1 officer, 3 N.C.O.s, and 24 men at Gun Club Hill, Kowloon. Guard: 1 officer, 3 N.C.O.s, and 24/25 men at Prisoners of War Camp, Hunghom. Paraded daily at 6.10 p.m. and 9.15 p.m., dismissed at 5.30 a.m. |\n| **Tai-ho-wan Bay Guard** | 21st January 1916 - 20th March 1916 | 1 N.C.O. and 3 men. Mounted daily at 6 p.m. and dismissed at 6 a.m. |\n| **Wireless Station Stonecutters Island Guard** | 31st January 1916 onwards | 1 N.C.O. and 6 men. Paraded daily at 5.15 p.m. and dismissed at 6.30 a.m. |\n\n### Additional Information\n\n\"B\" Company of the H.K.V.R. provided an escort for the Prisoners of War from the camp to the S.S. \"Empire\" on 17th January 1916. The prisoners were then removed to Australia. The 4th K.S.L.I. took over the duties at Tai-ho-wan Bay on 20th March 1916.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461744, "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": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 377, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "## 12. 217.\n\nSir,\n\n**REC** \n**C** \n32617 \n**Red** 11 JUL P\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONGKONG. \n31st May, 1916.\n\n375\n\nReferring to the third paragraph of my despatch No. 59 of the 7th February, I have the honour to enquire whether you approve my proposal that new leases of Hunghom Inland Lots Nos. 256 and 24 should be issued for terms of 75 years renewable for one period of 75 years on the usual conditions.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, \nhumble servant, \nAdam \nGovernor, &c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nANDREW BONAR LAW, M.P., \n&c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462836, "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": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 625, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "# 621\n\nsoil to Jibwa to erarios gaivode drameded2 \nant to sansadis erit umirub roi.\n\n.TOJILA \n-:Totibul qi\n\n.Bзnabп008ATTOO bas trenevanem lerenedo \nslor: add viimsitnang yd bedrinae) etutibusqı¤ viussaTT \n.(sol110 anos noll srit to tiede Inoizelo \n.(-.00- ) Juentisqali vratine? \n-.00- \n.{edoordeell .Ii yd bat izas) Jner dregel sollo¶ \n.( -.0G- ) Jner disqeli andai19 \n.(escdA . vd bessiess) soil10 quatƐ \n.(stopliteal! .12 yd betrians) .tqed yweerol à Isotmetoã \n.(asos, caeli .111 yd bedrisse) seɔneoil \n.(-.0G- *DO** ) Jnemtraqaŭ noitesubï \n\n## Customs Duties on Parcels (assisted by Mr. Heathcote)\n\n## Postal Agencies\n## G. P. 0. London Money Order Account\n## Crown Solicitor\n## District Officer, North\n## Assistant District Officer, South (assisted by Mr. Abbas)\n## Hongkong Volunteer Corps (assisted by Mr. Heathcote)\n## Treasury Revenue (assisted by Mr. Heathcote & Mr. Abbas)\n## Colonial Secretary's Office (assisted by Mr. Heathcote)\n## Secretary for Chinese Affairs ( -Do.- -Do.- }\n\n## Railway Station Inspections\n## Railway Stores at Hunghom (assisted by Mr. Chan)\n\n(SD.) H. R. Phelipe, \nAuditor\n\n.(~.00- -.00- ) ejusijeni istim'oet \n} aello) s'mosup \n.(neizmrod to rented of gaibulori) truoð smerqué \nONA TOJ BIJBİMirba Isioit20 gaibulari) ravisoef Isisi110 \n(„Jnede¶ ezejjed bus axiali ebert to textalyaF \n„Vytai; af band \n.(veï .2 nd bedeinen) atmuconi ismierii eTM \n-:rotibua Jredsienā \n.(meabroo\").1' » (moerð „slyd bad-isss) Joentisqsü yerlisif \n.{niterek .Il yď betninas) musiqo \n.kznvert.It vď badnisse) adrogya é atroopÏ \n.(Beidā „Ill va bataiena) dnendisqal quodtsh \n.{BAGGA .Il vɗ bedrings) anoijejaju) „Jyed ruostel \n.(usocả,1 yơ beteiess) yosZJ BIL BIL \n• \n\n„YOBIJ BİN BİT \n.(rerü .Il a stoortsell .7: yď bednizas) esitt0 rebro yeno \n) soil10 Jeo¶ \n.{ \n(atoorte T. yd badoines) Juentraçet Isoite?\" \nedusitani Iesi, oloitetosä \n\n26th June, 1916.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463517, "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": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 609, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nhave been concluded, and Government will obtain possession of them at the end of the current year. The construction of the three small works under item 6 is very desirable on sanitary grounds.\n\nUnder the heading \"Communications,\" item 7 (a) is retention money on a work which will be completed this year; (b) is to complete a path which the Government undertook to construct, while the sum of $15,000 provided under (c) is put as low as possible to meet probable requirements.\n\nUnder the heading \"Drainage,\" the only important work is that in item 8 (d). It is necessary on sanitary grounds to make a start on the work of draining the Soo kunpoo Valley in view of the occupation of the old Cotton Mills by the French Convent and the general development of the neighbourhood. Under item 9 the sum of $20,000 provided is considered absolutely necessary.\n\nUnder the heading 'Miscellaneous,' items 11 to 14 are required to meet the services of an ordinary year. Item 15 is to complete the dredging off Kowloon Point and item 18 is to cover unforeseen minor works. The sum provided for compensations and resumptions is lower than usual, but in the present state of our finances it is necessary to curtail such expenditure. I have already referred to the large sum required for the waterworks under construction, but having regard to the contracts and the urgent necessity for these works, it has been impossible to reduce these items.\n\nWith regard to Kowloon, the sums estimated are those required to meet the ordinary services of the year. The sum of $30,000 provided under item 28 is the retention money on the contract for the Typhoon Refuge. This work was completed in August, some months under the contract time, and I think that honourable members will agree with me that its construction reflects much credit on Mr. Jaffé and those who were associated with him. Under the heading \"Waterworks,\" a sum of $14,000 has been provided for an additional filter-bed, which is required.\n\nThe total sum which it is proposed to spend on Public Works Extraordinary is $1,279,400, which is nearly a million dollars less than the sum provided this year. Even this reduced expenditure, however, will result in a deficit in the budget, as a whole, of $473,764, which will have to be met from the surplus balances of the Colony.\n\n## Post Office\n\nUnder \"Personal Emoluments\" the post of Senior Clerk has been abolished, causing a saving of $3,762, and it is proposed to appoint in his place a Postal Inspector, whose principal duties will consist of the inspection of the branch post offices, and the general supervision of postmen. No salary has been inserted in the estimates for this post, as it is proposed for the present to continue the temporary arrangement whereby a Lance-Sergeant of Police is acting in the post. A sum of $2,880 has been saved by the discontinuance of the sea-sorting of mails on board Peninsular and Oriental Mail Packets. An addition has been made to the Radio Telegraph Staff of two 3rd Grade Telegraphists, who will be trained for the work at the Cape D'Aguilar Station. By this means it is anticipated that future economies may be effected. Under \"Other Charges,\" the share of the Mail Subsidy payable by this Colony is increased by $5,544, due to the lower rate of exchange at which the calculation is made. A sum of $11,429 has been provided for Stores for the Radio-Telegraphic Station at Cape D'Aguilar. This is in accordance with an estimate made by the Naval Authorities, who are responsible for the working of the Station.\n\n## Kowloon-Canton Railway\n\nThe estimates of the Kowloon-Canton Railway appear in detail in the body of the Estimates, instead of being included in Appendix. The estimated expenditure next year is $313,905, which is $9,550 less than the estimate for the current year. The only two items to which I would refer are in the New Territories; the principal expenditure is for road construction. I should have liked to provide much larger sums for the development of those Territories, but it has been impossible to do so this year.\n\nIn the New Territories the principal item for expenditure is for road construction. On page 109 provision has been made for nine additional porters at a cost of $1,296, which is necessitated by the expansion of the traffic. On page 110 an increase of $1,000 has been made in the allowance for Fuel, Lighting, etc., for carriages, institutions, stations, and offices, as the amount provided previously was under-estimated. The same reasons apply to next year. The estimated Revenue from the railway next year is $432,600, or $3,000 less than the estimated Revenue for the current year, leaving a net balance of earnings over working expenses of $118,695. The financial position of the Railway is shown in detail in Note 3, in Appendix II., on page 121, from which it will be seen that the deficit to be met next year ($473,764) will have to be appropriated from Colonial Funds.\n\n## The Balancing of the Budget\n\nAs I have already stated, a sum of $523,625 is the estimated expenditure for the year from surplus balances in order to meet the deficit. In accordance with the proposals which I made in my Despatch No. 137 of the 22nd April last, which has already been laid before you as Council Paper No. 15 of 1915, the capital construction account is to be closed at the end of this year, and the expenses of construction beyond the authorised loans of £1,100,000 and £250,000 are to be included in the annual expenditure of the Colony. They appear in detail on page 112 of the Estimates. The sum required in 1916 is $386,198, the major portion of which is due to expenditure on the Station Buildings at Kowloon, and the new loco, and carriage sheds at Hunghom.\n\nThe Budget which is in the hands of honourable members has been drawn up with great care to meet the circumstances in which we find ourselves. It is intended to meet the needs of the Public Service of this Colony, and no more than these needs. It is a Budget framed with due regard to economy, and it contains no expenditure which cannot be defended from that point of view. I hope it will meet with the convenience of honourable members to take the second reading of the Supply Bill on Tuesday, the 26th October.\n\n## Charge on Account of Public Debt\n\nUnder this head there is a total increase of $81,039, due partly to the lower rate of exchange on which the Estimates are calculated, partly to the inclusion of Crown Agents' charges on the 1906 loan, which were formerly paid out of a special fund, and to the interest due on the cost of railway construction.\n\n## Pensions\n\nUnder this head there is an increase of $54,000 due to lower exchange, and to additional pensions.\n\n## Charitable Services\n\nThe only item to which I wish to refer under this head is the provision of $15,000 as a grant in aid for the maintenance during the year 1916 of the three German Charitable Institutions, namely, the Berlin Foundling House, Blindenheim and Ebenezer.\n\nThe text of the Bill is as follows:- Whereas the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1916 has, apart from the contribution to the Imperial Government in aid of Military Expenditure and Charges on account of Public Debt, been estimated at the sum of nine million eighty-one thousand two hundred and nine dollars.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong-kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Appropriation Ordinance for 1916.\n2. A sum not exceeding nine million eighty-one thousand two hundred and nine dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenue and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1916 and the said sum so charged may be expended as hereinafter specified, that is to say:-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463552, "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": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 644, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# Estimates for 1917\n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER seconded. Hon. Mr. POLLOCK - Sir, I have been asked by the Unofficial Members of Council to speak on their behalf in reply to your Excellency's speech on the Estimates for 1917.\n\nOn the one hand, we desire to express our gratification that the Revenue of the Colony has proved to be of an expansive nature and has thus enabled us to have a fairly full programme of Public Works. On the other hand, we cannot, in view of the precarious nature of some of our sources of Revenue, afford to launch out with too great freedom, especially in view of possible unforeseen expenditure which may have to be met in connection with the War and other matters.\n\nIn the footnote (2) on page 8 of the Estimates, we notice an estimated expenditure of $13,000 for 1916, and hope that that sum represents the last payment to be made to the contractor and shall be glad to know if this is so. As regards the suggested increase in the Staff of the Exports and Imports Department, we agree that such an increase is urgently required for the purpose of obviating delay, and we would urge that it would be a great convenience to the mercantile community if a Branch Office could be established in a central position, such as the Post Office Building. In connection with the searching of passengers at the wharves for arms and opium, we desire to state that serious complaints have reached some of us, and we trust that means may be found to remedy such abuses, which are a hindrance to the river-traffic of this Colony.\n\nWe would also suggest that it is a great inconvenience for travellers to be obliged to go up to the Central Police Station, which is somewhat out of the way, for their passes, and the Post Office Building appears to be most conveniently situated for this purpose.\n\n| Matter | Comment |\n| --- | --- |\n| Improvement of Lunatic Asylum | We think it regrettable that the present Estimates contain no provision for the improvement of the Lunatic Asylum, which is highly discreditable to the Colony, because its cramped accommodation and restricted space for exercise must tend to have an injurious effect upon the inmates. |\n\nOn the subject of Education, we desire to state that we consider that the teaching of the English language to Chinese boys in the schools of this Colony is not so good as it ought to be.\n\nPassing on now to the subject of Public Works, we have naturally some comments to make and questions to ask in connection with this important Department, on which we are spending 20 per cent. of our Revenue.\n\nWith regard to item 7 on page 97 \"For improvements to roads and bridges outside the City,\" we desire to express the opinion that this item, which stands at the same figure as in former years, is not sufficient in amount. While we approve of the motor road being extended beyond Deep Water Bay on its way to make a circuit round the Island, we consider that it is of far more pressing and urgent importance that the present roads out to Deep Water Bay - namely, the Pokfulam Road, and the Jubilee (or Victoria) Road, which are now so much used by motors - should be improved both as regards blind corners and some of the bridges. We think, also, that the roadway between the paper-works at Aberdeen and the road to Deep Water Bay should be widened and improved.\n\nComing now to Buildings (on page 99), we are glad to note that the quarters for Subordinate Officers at Happy Valley are to be completed in 1917, and that the Extension to the Central Police Station is to be more vigorously proceeded with. As regards the next item of $35,000 for accommodation for the Imports and Exports Office, we should be glad to know what is the estimated total cost of the work, and we would ask a similar question with regard to item 5 for $15,000.\n\nFrom item 39, on the same page, we are glad to note that the Government intends to resume the Ferry Piers on the Victoria and Yaumati-Samshuipo runs, and we trust that steps will be taken, by throwing the ferry service open to public competition, to secure an adequate and regular ferry service to the public.\n\nBefore leaving the subject of Public Works, we should be glad if the Director could give us some information when the Praya East Reclamation is likely to be begun. The foreshore on Praya East, at low water, has been increasingly disagreeable to the sense of smell for some years past, and, if this Reclamation is not likely to be begun soon, we would suggest that the drains and sewer pipes might be led further out along the foreshore. Another point which seems to require watching, from the Public Health point of view, is the raking about by poor Chinese in the stuff deposited in dust-boats on the Praya and in dustbins in the streets.\n\nWe approve of the re-casting of the system of accounts of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, and we hope that it may be found possible to reduce somewhat the working expenses of this costly undertaking. We would also most strongly urge upon the Government the desirability of vigorously pressing upon the Chinese Authorities the necessity for fulfilling their agreement to link up this line with the Railway which is now being built from Canton to Hankow.\n\nAnother point upon which we would ask your Excellency to take action is in connection with the site for the erection of the new building for the Hongkong Branch of the European Young Men's Christian Association. It is most advisable that a central site, which is easily accessible by ricksha from the landing-stages, should be acquired, and we would, therefore, ask you to approach the Secretary of State for the Colonies upon the subject of a grant of a site in a Central situation being made to the Association upon easy terms.\n\nIn conclusion, we would venture to express the hope that the residents of this Colony will continue to give liberal financial assistance for the prosecution of the War, and that the local War Loan, which has recently been offered for subscription, may prove to be a very great success, and we would suggest for consideration that the Sinking Fund might be invested by the Government in 6 per cent. Exchequer Bonds, so as to yet further aid the War Funds.\n\nHon. Mr. LAU CHU PAK - Sir, speaking on behalf of my senior Chinese colleague and myself, I beg to emphasize the remarks relative to the searching of Chinese passengers leaving or arriving in this Colony. From the nature of the complaints brought to the notice of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, through the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, and from similar representations to ourselves, it is evident that the system of searching by the native police is capable of much improvement. In our opinion, there should always be present some responsible officer to whom the Chinese, when searched, could report in case of irregularities and to whom they could turn for guidance when a dispute arises.\n\nUnder the heading of Water Works, on page 101, we are glad to see that the additional Service Reservoir at West Point and the Tytam Tuk scheme (2nd section) are to be both of them completed in 1917. Under the heading of Kowloon Works, on the same page, we should like to know whether the sums of $35,000 and $30,000 under items 29 and 30, represent the estimated total expenditures on those works, and, if not, what are such totals. We should, also, like to know what are the \"General Works\" on roads in Kowloon, costing $22,000, which are mentioned in item 34 (b).\n\nIn connection with Kowloon, we suggest that the small children's playground near Hunghom Railway Station ought to be improved by the erection of a shelter from the weather and by the planting of shrubs and shade-trees round the edges.\n\nUnder the heading of Supreme Court, on page 44 of the Estimates, we notice that a 1st grade Translator has been replaced by a 2nd grade Translator, and we would urge upon the Government the desirability of steps being taken for the improvement of the translation branch of the Service, because in the Supreme Court sometimes the whole decision turns upon the correct translation of a single word.\n\nWith regard to item 8 (b) on page 99, of $37,500, for the improvement of that section of the Deep Water Bay to Tytam Tuk section of road which goes from Deep Water Bay to Repulse Bay, we should like to know what will be roughly the cost of making the remainder of that section fit for motor traffic, and similarly, in connection with item (c), we should like to know, roughly, what would be the cost of a motor road from Tytam Gap down to Shaukiwan.\n\nIn connection with the administration of the Government Civil Hospital, I intend shortly to bring a resolution before this Council, and it is, therefore, unnecessary to discuss such administration upon the present occasion.\n\nIn connection with the small saving on page 67 of the Estimates, under the heading \"Support of Lunatics Abroad,\" we would ask why the Government has reverted to the old practice of sending Chinese lunatics to the Chinese Authorities at Canton, instead of to the John Kerr Hospital at Canton.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463601, "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": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 693, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# Estimates for 1917\n\nWe are glad to note that the Government intends to resume the Ferry Piers on the Victoria and Yaumati-Samshaipo runs, and we trust that steps will be taken to secure an adequate and regular ferry service to the public by throwing the ferry service open to public competition.\n\nOn the subject of Education, we desire to state that we consider that the teaching of the English language to Chinese boys in the schools of this Colony is not as good as it ought to be.\n\nPassing on now to the subject of Public Works, we have naturally some comments to make and questions to ask in connection with this important Department, on which we are spending 20 per cent of our Revenue. When the Praya East Reclamation is likely to be begun, we would suggest that the drains and sewer pipes might be led further out along the foreshore. Another point which seems to require watching, from the Public Health point of view, is the rummaging about by poor Chinese in the stuff deposited in dust-boats on the Praya and in dustbins in the streets.\n\nOn the one hand, we desire to express our gratification that the Revenue of the Colony has proved of an expansive nature and has thus enabled us to have a fairly full programme of Public Works. On the other hand, we cannot, in view of the precarious nature of some of our sources of Revenue, afford to launch out with too great freedom, especially in view of possible unforeseen expenditure which may have to be met in connection with the War and other matters.\n\nIn the footnote (2) on page 8 of the Estimates, we notice an estimated expenditure of $13,000 for 1916, and hope that that sum represents the last payment to be made to the contractor and shall be glad to know if this is so. As regards the suggested increase in the Staff of the Exports and Imports Department, we agree that such an increase is urgently required for the purpose of obviating delay, and we would urge that it would be a great convenience to the mercantile community if a Branch Office could be established in a central position, such as the `Post Office Building`.\n\nIn connection with the searching of passengers at the wharves for arms and opium, we desire to state that complaints have reached us, and we trust that means may be found to remedy such abuses, which are a hindrance to the river-traffic of this Colony. We would also suggest that it is a great inconvenience for travellers to be obliged to go up to the `Central Police Station`, which is somewhat out of the way, for their passes, and the `Port Office Building` appears to be most conveniently situated for this purpose.\n\nWith regard to item 7 on page 97, \"improvements to roads and bridges outside the City,\" we desire to express the opinion that this item, which stands at the same figure as in former years, is not sufficient in amount. While we approve of the motor road being extended beyond Deep Water Bay on its way to make a circuit round the Island, we consider that it is of far more pressing and urgent importance that the present roads out to Deep Water Bay, namely, the `Pokfulam Road`, and the `Jubilee (or Victoria) Road`, which are now so much used by motors, should be improved both as regards blind corners and state of the bridges. We think, also, that the roadway between the paper-works at Aberdeen and the road to Deep Water Bay should be widened and improved.\n\nComing now to Buildings (on page 99), we are glad to note that the quarters for Subordinate Officers at Happy Valley are to be completed in 1917, and that the Extension to the `Central Police Station` is to be more vigorously proceeded with. As regards the next item of $35,000 for accommodation for the Imports and Exports Office, we should be glad to know what is the estimated total cost of the work, and we would ask a similar question with regard to item 3 for $15,000, \"2nd block of Quarters for Subordinate Officers on Mount Parish\"; and, in connection with quarters for Subordinate Officers generally, we should like to know whether the completion of all the quarters figuring in the present Estimates will conclude the Government's present scheme for the housing of Subordinate Officers or whether further quarters are likely to be required in the near future, and, if so, to what extent.\n\nWe approve of the re-casting of the system of accounts of the `Kowloon-Canton Railway`, and we hope that it may be possible to reduce somewhat the working expenses of this costly undertaking. We would also most strongly urge upon the Government the desirability of vigorously pressing upon the Chinese Authorities the necessity for fulfilling their agreement to link up this Railway with the Railway which is now being built from Canton to Hankow.\n\nAnother point upon which we would ask your Excellency to take action is in connection with the site for the erection of the new building for the `Hongkong Branch of the European Young Men's Christian Association`. It is advisable that a central site, which is easily accessible by ricksha from the landing-stages, should be acquired, and we would, therefore, ask you to approach the `Secretary of State for the Colonies` upon the subject of a grant of a site in a Central situation being made to the Association upon easy terms.\n\nUnder the heading of `Supreme Court`, on page 44 of the Estimates, we notice that a 1st grade Translator has been replaced by a 2nd grade Translator, and we would urge upon the Government the desirability of steps being taken for the improvement of the translation branch of the Service, because in the Supreme Court, sometimes the whole decision turns upon the correct translation of a single word. In a big case, where there is plenty of money involved, probably both sides would be able to overcome the difficulty by calling experts as witnesses, but in smaller cases, such a procedure would prove both expensive and dilatory, and we would suggest that it should be made possible for the Judge, if neither party wished to go to the expense of calling experts, to invoke the assistance of some Chinese cadet in the Government Civil Service in this Colony.\n\nWith regard to item 3 (b) on page 99, of $37,500, for the improvement of that section of the Deep Water Bay to Tytam Tuk section of road which goes from Hoa... Deep Water Bay to Repulse Bay, we should like to know what will be, roughly, the cost of making the remainder of that section fit for motor traffic, and, roughly, what would be the cost of a motor road from Tytam Tuk down to Shaukiwan.\n\nUnder the heading of Water Works, on page 101, we are glad to see that the additional Service Reservoir at West Point and the Tytam Tuk scheme (2nd section) are to be both of them completed in 1917.\n\nUnder the heading of Kowloon, on the same page, we should like to know whether the sums of $30,000 and $18,000, under items 29 and 30, represent the estimated total expenditures on those works, and, if not, what are such totals. We should, also, like to know what are the General Works on roads in Kowloon, costing $22,000, which are itemised.\n\nIn connection with Kowloon, we suggest that the `Hunghom Railway Station` ought to be improved by the erection of a shelter from the weather and by the planting of shrubs and shade-trees round the edges. We would also suggest that some public seats should be provided.\n\nIn connection with the small saving on page 67 of the Estimates, under the heading of \"Contribution towards Support of Lunatics Abroad,\" we would ask why the Government has reverted to the old practice of sending Chinese lunatics to the Chinese Authorities at Canton, instead of to the `John Kerr Hospital` at Canton, and we must express the desirability of the alteration.\n\nIn conclusion, we would venture to express the hope that the residents of this Colony will continue to give liberal financial assistance for the prosecution of the War and that the local War Loan, which has recently been offered for subscription, may prove to be a very great success. We would suggest for consideration that the Sinking Fund might be invested in 8 per cent Exchequer Bonds, so as to yet further aid the Government in War Funds.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467791, "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": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "N: \n\n.128. \n\n2.904 \n\n93 \n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE. \n\nHONGKONG. 21st April, 1917. \n\nSir, \n\nI have the honour to forward a copy of recommendations made by the Director of Public Works, with plan, regarding an application by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, for an area of land for shipbuilding purposes. \n\n2. These recommendations include a proposal to sell the land required, without public auction, as an extension, to Hunghom Marine Lot No. 3; regarding the original sale of which Lot I addressed you in paragraph 4 of my Despatch No. 59 of the 7th February 1916. \n\n3. The proposed terms of sale were, by my instructions, amended to the effect that the works referred to in condition (b) must be completed within a period of two years from the date of sale, and as regards condition (e), to the effect that the purchaser must, within the same period, expend not less than £20,000 in building, to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, not less than three slips of a length of not less than 750 feet, each capable of use in the construction of large ocean-going steamers. \n\n4. The term of the lease, namely 99 years renewable for a like period, is unusual, but it is the term of the lease of Hunghom Marine Lot No. 3, and it is sanctioned under Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 132 of the 23rd May, 1898. \n\n5. \n\nRIGHT HONOURABLE \n\nWALTER LONG, M.P., \n\n&o...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467974, "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": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 278, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "of Public Works, and receive fees for their services. The Institute is furnished with a well-equipped Chemical Laboratory and excellent Physical apparatus.\n\nThe Hongkong University is an institution that arose from the joint enterprise of British and Chinese subscribers. It was founded with funds representing about equal proportions of Chinese and British money.\n\nAt the end of the year, the number of students was 189, 108 of whom were taking the Engineering Course, 52 Medicine, and 29 Arts. While most of the students have studied in Hongkong schools, a number come from Canton, the Coast Ports of China, and the Straits Settlements.\n\nThe idea of the University is to provide, close to China, education for Chinese similar to that given in the British Universities, but at a much cheaper cost; for if a Chinese goes abroad to be educated, he has to pay, besides travelling expenses, some $2,000 per annum; whereas at Hongkong, the expenses of the University are $540 per annum for board and tuition, or, including extras, from $800 to $650.\n\nThe founders of the University took into consideration the fact that Chinese students being educated abroad have usually to make their own arrangements for board and lodging. Consequently, sometimes they contract irregular habits. All students educated at the Hongkong University are required to become boarders, and thus their whole lives are under supervision whilst they are there. Ample provision is made for indoor and outdoor recreation, and in this connection, it is interesting to note that the Chinese residents of Hongkong recently subscribed a large sum for levelling a new playing field, and that the work has just been completed.\n\nThe University is composed of three Faculties: 1—Medical, which offers ample facilities for the practice of medicine. The anatomical laboratories were the gift of a Cantonese gentleman (Mr. Ng Li-bing). There is a large staff of instructors in medicine, and all the principal medical practitioners in Hongkong give lectures at the University. 2.—Arts. The establishment of this Faculty was largely due to the munificence of a Chinese gentleman in the Straits Settlements (Mr. Cheung Pat-sze). Its special object is to provide training suitable to those who desire to enter the public service or the higher branches of mercantile life. The course of instruction comprises English and Chinese literature, political and constitutional history, political economy, jurisprudence, and international and commercial law. 3—Engineering. Nearly two-thirds of the students belong to this Faculty. It is divided into three branches—Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical. The University has an exceptionally large equipment of machinery and apparatus and has fourteen laboratories and workshops. There is practically no place in China where students have such an opportunity of seeing all kinds of machinery in actual working and of learning their practical management.\n\nThe University insists upon all students having a proper knowledge of their own language, although instruction at the University is carried out in English. Students are required to pass an examination in written Chinese before entering, and two Chinese Professors, both Hanlin graduates, give lectures on the classics and history of China.\n\nAn account of the first congregation for conferring degrees, and of the benefactions during the year 1910, will be found under Section XI—General Observations.\n\nY.—PUBLIC WORKS.\n\nThe erection of a terrace of six two-storied houses on the east side of Happy Valley for quarters for subordinate officers was completed during the year. Each of the lower end houses contains five rooms, whilst the four intermediate houses contain four rooms each. All the houses are provided with separate bathrooms, kitchens, and servants' accommodation. Each house is intended as quarters for one married or two single subordinate officers.\n\nA large extension of the Central Police Station by the erection of a new block of buildings fronting on Hollywood Road, to contain offices, quarters, etc., was commenced; the foundations being well advanced at the close of the year.\n\nIn the New Territories, a boat-house was erected on the bank of the Sham Chun River near Lok Ma Chau Police Station, and a matshed was constructed at Castle Peak to serve as a temporary Police Station.\n\nThe masonry dam of the Tai Lam Tuk Reservoir was constructed to an average height of about 111 feet above the stream-bed (152 feet above the lowest part of the foundations), with the exception of a short length of 75 feet, which was purposely kept at a lower level to form a temporary overflow.\n\nThe extension of the pumping station; buildings to accommodate the additional pumping plant was completed, and the erection of the pumping engines was practically completed.\n\nSeveral new streets, both in the City and in Kowloon, were formed, kerbed, channelled, and surfaced.\n\nIn the New Territories, the reinforced concrete bridge over the Au Tau Creek on the Castle Peak-Fanling Road was completed, as was also the widening to 20 feet of the section of roadway extending from near Sheung Shui Train Hall to some distance beyond San Tin Village. A branch road, 20 feet in width, was constructed from Shanghai Street (Kowloon) to Sham Shui Po, and an approach path to New Kowloon Farm Lots 7 and 8, 8 feet in width, was also completed.\n\nAn additional telephone cable was laid across the harbour from North Point to near the Hunghom Docks.\n\nUpwards of 7,000 lineal feet of streams were trained in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, Pokfulam, Sookunpo Valley, in the\n\nPage 17\n\n...\n\nPage 276", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469710, "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": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 584, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "112\n\nTable M. Limits of\n\nSouthern Fairway:\n\nof Central Fairway.\n\nPursuant to\n\nbe flown in fairways.\n\nObservance\n\nof Collision\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\n3. The \"Southern Fairway\" commences off the Gas Works and terminates at Blake Pier. The North side is bounded by a Junk Anchorage (I in Table S) and a line of mooring buoys extending eastward from Canton Steamboat Pier. The South side is bounded by vessels at the Praya wall or the wharves extending therefrom.\n\n4. The \"Central Fairway\" commences off the Gas Works, and is marked by buoys, painted in red and white horizontal stripes and carrying red lights at night. The Central Fairway is defined by 2 lines of mooring buoys running in an E.S. Easterly direction.\n\n5. Vessels of over 60 tons burden proceeding through a fairway, shall fly a pennant at the highest mast-head forward as follows:-\n\nwhilst in the \"Southern Fairway\" a **Red** pennant (C.)\n\nwhilst in the \"Central Fairway\", a \"White\" pennant (F.)\n\n6. All vessels, irrespective of size, shall, whether in a fairway or not, observe the International Collision Regulations, and no vessel whatever Regulations, shall anchor in any of the fairways.\n\n7. All vessels exceeding 60 tons shall when under way, within the Harbour limits, proceed with due caution, and at a speed not exceeding 9 knots, unless circumstances render an increase necessary.\n\nPage 113\n\n8. Rafts of timber or logs, when afloat in the waters of the Colony between sunset and sunrise, shall; whether moored or under way, exhibit a white light, visible all round the horizon to a distance of not less than one mile, at a height of not less than 6 feet above the water, at each end of such raft or log or group of logs; and, if such raft or log or group of logs exceeds 50 feet in length, a further similar light, at the same height, in the centre thereof.\n\nMAN-OF-WAR ANCHORAGES.\n\nNorth Side of the City of Victoria.\n\nWestern Boundary.-A line drawn N. 30 E. 2,680 feet from the Bench Mark on the coping of the Praya wall in a line with the N.W. corner of the City Hall building.\n\nNorthern Boundary.--From the Northern extremity of the above line, a line drawn N. 85 E. 4,100 feet.\n\nEastern Boundary.-From the Eastern extremity of the line forming the Northern Boundary, a line drawn S. 15 W. 1,120 feet, thence a line drawn S. 85 W. 1,230 feet, and thence a line drawn S. 15 W. until it meets the Praya wall.\n\nWest Side of the Kowloon Peninsula,\n\n9. \"Southern Boundary.\"--From the point where the Northern side of the North Pier, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's premises joins the Praya wall, a line drawn West 1,505 feet.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING.\n\nNo. 10 of 1899.\n\n113\n\n579\n\n\"Western Boundary.\"--A line drawn N. @ W. 2,570 feet from the Western extremity of the Southern Boundary.\n\n'Northern Boundary.\"--From the Northern extremity of the Western Boundary a line drawn East until it meets the Praya wall.\n\nNothing is to prevent ships proceeding to and from any wharves on the west side of Kowloon Peninsula, provided such ships, if anchoring, give swinging room to vessels at the Admiralty buoys.\n\nLong Harbour and Jones Cove,\n\n10. No ship, other than His Majesty's ships, shall anchor in the Bays known as, and shewn on the Admiralty charts as, LONG HARBOUR and JONES COVE, in Mirs Bay.\n\n11. Junks and other native craft frequenting this portion of the waters of the Colony for fishing and other purposes, will be allowed to use the same, subject to the orders and control of the Harbour Master or his Deputy.\n\n188.\n\nNote. The Captain of any British men-of-war using the rifle range on San Man Shak Peninsula shall, for the purpose of the control of the Danger Zone, be a Harbour Master's Deputy, under section 2 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.\n\nForeign Man-of-War Anchorage.\n\n12. The Foreign Man-of-War Anchorage is in Kowloon Bay to the eastward of the Hunghom Peninsula and within the following limits:\n\non the West.—The Eastern limit of the Telegraph Cable Ground.\n\non the South.-A line drawn N. 819 E. from Blackhead's Hill Signal Mast.\n\non the North and East.-The 5-fathom line of soundings.\n\n13. All vessels are to be moored.\n\nin Kowloon\n\nAll vessels to be moored.\n\n14. Foreign ships-of war shall not make any examination or survey of the shores or waters of the Colony, either from such ships or by means of boats or otherwise.\n\nLanding of Foreign Soldiers and Sailors.\n\n15. Foreign soldiers or sailors, if unarmed, may be landed in the Colony within the harbour limits, without the prior consent of the Governor, provided that when it is desired to land a number of men within exceeding 100 notice must be given to the Colonial Secretary, in order that all facilities of which local conditions admit may be given. Applications for permission to land armed parties in connection with funerals or to take part in public ceremonies of an exceptional nature must be addressed to the Governor through the Colonial Secretary. No application is necessary in the case of officers.\n\nPage 114\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476767, "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": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 583, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "# Table showing the number of Vaccinations performed in the Colony from December 13th., 1916, to March 31st., 1917.\n\nCity of Victoria:-\n| Institution | Number of Vaccinations |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sanitary Board's Staff | 148,165 |\n| Government Civil Hospital | 5,960 |\n| Alice Memorial Hospital | 6,912 |\n| Nethersole Hospital | 2,320 |\n| Tung Wa Hospital | 10,463 |\n| | **25,655** |\n| Chinese Public Dispensary | |\n| ‣ Central | 6,999 |\n| ‣ Eastern | 7,502 |\n| ‣ Western | 8,835 |\n| ‣ Shaukiwon | 5,424 |\n| | **28,760** |\n| St. John's Ambulance Brigade | |\n| ‣ Sai Ying Poon Division | 12,062 |\n| ‣ Young Men's Christian Association Division | 5,741 |\n| ‣ Victoria Division | 3,988 |\n| ‣ Police Reserve Division | 2,683 |\n| ‣ Queen's College Division | 1,996 |\n| | **26,470** |\n| **Total for Victoria** | **229,050** |\n\nKowloon:-\n| Institution | Number of Vaccinations |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sanitary Board's Staff | 58,073 |\n| Kwong Wah Hospital | 3,769 |\n| Hunghom Chinese Public Dispensary | 3,701 |\n| Yaumati & Harbour Chinese Public Dispensary | 18,095 |\n| Shum Shui Po Chinese Public Dispensary | 4,495 |\n| Kowloon City Chinese Public Dispensary | 1,276 |\n| | **31,336** |\n| | **89,409** |\n\n**Grand Total** | **318,459**\n| --- | --- |\nVaccination from January 1st. to December 12th., 1916. | 12,396\nTotal during the epidemic | **330,855**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476936, "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": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Y909 \n163 \n\nThe text appears to be a jumbled mix of OCR errors and nonsensical characters. The meaningful text starts from the section with numbered clauses.\n\n\n.(a) \n\n.(d) \n\n.(e) \n\n.(b) \n\n.(f) \n\nbe removed by the Company and any areas disturbed in obtaining earth to be trimmed off and left in a tidy condition to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works on completion of the reclamation.\n\n**(f)**. The Company to surrender to Government, subject to payment by Government of the sum of $40,000 by way of compensation for the structures of a permanent nature hereinafter referred to, their present lot (`Hunghom Inland Lot 226`). Such surrender to be made within a period of 3 years from the date of the letter mentioned in **(c)**: provided that, if the Company can satisfy the Government that they have been unable to obtain, within the aforesaid period of 3 years, the machinery they require to enable them to complete the transfer of their station to the new site, an extension of time will be granted to them.\n\n**(g)**. The Company to be permitted to remove from `Hunghom Inland Lot 226` all temporary structures, all machinery and stores, provided that such removal be completed within the aforesaid period of 3 years or within such extended period as may be allowed by Government under clause **(f)**. Any structures, machinery or stores not removed within such period to become the property of the Government. All structures of a permanent nature, (constructed of brickwork and stone, &c.), situated on `Hunghom Inland Lot 226`, to become the property of the Government. The fencing along the north-east and south-east sides of the lot to become the property of the Government: that along the remaining sides of the lot may be removed by the Company.\n\n**(h)**. Crown rent to continue to be paid for `Hunghom Inland Lot 226` as at present up to the date of its being surrendered to Government.\n\n**(i)**. Crown rent for the area coloured red to be paid at the rate of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476937, "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": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "## Conditions for the Grant of Hunghom Inland Lot 226\n\nThe following conditions are stipulated for the grant of Hunghom Inland Lot 226:\n\n- (c) refers to a specific letter, the date of which is crucial for several conditions.\n\n### Key Conditions\n\n1. The rent for the lot is set at **$500.00 per acre** and is to commence from the date of surrender of Hunghom Inland Lot 226, but not later than **3 years** from the date of the letter mentioned in (c).\n\n2. The Government is to construct, at its own expense and within **2 years** from the date of the letter mentioned in (c), a road **8 feet wide** along the route shown in green. The gradients of this road are not to be steeper than **1 in 20**.\n\n3. Any rights regarding marine frontage for the area colored red are limited to the frontage between points **A & B**. The Government has the power to reclaim at any time, without consulting the Company, on the sides of the lot marked **A, C & B, D**.\n\n4. The Company is to expend, within **3 years** of the date of the letter mentioned in (c), a sum of **$50,000** on buildings on some portion of the area colored red.\n\n5. The Company is to pay, on demand, the sum of **$6.25** for each boundary stone required to define the area colored red. These stones are to be fixed by the **Director of Public Works**.\n\n6. The boundaries of the area colored red are to be determined by the **Director of Public Works** upon completion of the reclamation. Crown rent is to be adjusted in proportion to the area determined by him, calculated at the rate of **$500 per acre**, as specified.\n\n### Other References\n\n- `Page 164` \n- References to specific conditions and their implications for the grant.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477076, "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": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "# **CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n20 OCT 205\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 24th August, 1918.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit for your consideration the enclosed copy of two minutes by the Director of Public Works with copies of the plans referred to therein on the subject of the desirability of acquiring Kowloon Marine Lot 83 and Kowloon Inland Lot 1178 situated in Hunghom Bay.\n\nI agree with Mr. Chatham that the possession of these lots, one of which is a Marine Lot, by a private individual or Company would hamper the Government in any scheme of development of the vitally important Railway property adjoining the lots. There is the additional objection that Messrs. Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, a Japanese concern, hold a mortgage on the property.\n\n2. The Executive Council, whom I have consulted in the matter, advise that the lots should be resumed for a public purpose, and I therefore authorised Mr. Chatham to approach the owner of the lots in the matter in order to obtain a firm offer to submit to you. It appears that a fourth share in the property was held by another person and he was not willing to sell under $2.50 per square foot, at which price Mr. Macdonald, being unable to come to other terms, has bought...\n\nThe Honourable \nWALTER LONG, M.P., \n&c., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477078, "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": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9]", "content_text": "# Sonslosure 1.\n\n**Hon. Colonial Secretary,**\n\n`CO 52022`\n\n357\n\n20 OCT 12\n\nIt has come to my knowledge that Messrs. Macdonald & Co. are desirous of selling their property at Hunghom. The property in question comprises K.M.L. 83 and K.I.L. 1178 vide areas cross hatched in red and blue pencil respectively on the enclosed plan. It will be seen that these areas are situated at the northern end of the area reclaimed with the material from the Hunghom Railway cutting and are opposite the China Light & Power Co's Station, for the resumption of which negotiations are in progress.\n\n2.\n\nHaving regard to future shipping facilities in conjunction with railway requirements, I am of opinion that it is desirable that the lots in question should be acquired by Government. It is extremely probable that shipping and railway developments, which will have to be provided by Government as soon as railway communication with the interior of China has been established, will interfere with the frontage of Kowloon Marine Lot 83, in respect of which marine rights exist. As there are no buildings of any value on the lots and as there is at present no strong demand for land in this vicinity, conditions are favourable for obtaining possession of the property.\n\n3.\n\nKowloon Marine Lot 83 was sold by public auction on the 16th May, 1904, on a 75 years' (renewable) lease at a premium of $30 per square foot and Crown rent of $400 per acre. The area of the lot is 139,800 square feet, the Crown rent amounting to $1,284. The lot has been reclaimed since the date of sale.\n\nKowloon Inland Lot 1178 was sold by public auction on the 8th October, 1906, on a 75 years' (renewable) lease, but, as the area was intended to be occupied as an extension of Kowloon Marine Lot 83, it was stipulated that the lease...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477422, "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": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nIn the Post Office, one 3rd grade Clerk has been promoted to be Deputy Superintendent, Money Order Office, while the 2nd grade Postal Clerks have been increased by one. Under Other Charges, large savings are shown under the head \"Carriage of Mails,\" due to the higher exchange and the closing of the Siberian Route.\n\n## Kowloon-Canton Railway\n\nIn the Kowloon-Canton Railway, under \"Personal Emoluments,\" it will be noticed that the number of watchmen has been increased, especially in the Locomotive Yard at Hunghom. This latter increase was made at the end of last year, when a number of thefts had occurred, and it is satisfactory to be able to report that since the extra watchmen were engaged and regular beats instituted, there have been no further thefts. Under \"Maintenance of Way-Works and Stations\" and \"Other Charges,\" the cost of the biennial painting of bridges and tunnels is estimated at $3,000, while larger sums than last year have been provided for the repairs to staff quarters and station buildings. The time has arrived when the sleepers originally laid require extensive renewals, for which a sum of $15,000 has been entered.\n\nIn the office of the Locomotive Superintendent, a 3rd grade Draughtsman is required. The Locomotive Superintendent has to work long hours to cope single-handed with the very responsible work of keeping the engines and rolling-stock generally in good running order, and it has become practically impossible for him to continue making the necessary drawings. An extra fitter on daily wages has also been provided for. Under \"Other Charges,\" it is particularly satisfactory to note that, notwithstanding the increase in the cost of most materials, it is hoped to make a small saving on this year's estimates.\n\nUnder \"Traffic Expenses-Personal Emoluments,\" it is proposed to promote five station-masters from the 5th to the 4th grade, as the salaries drawn by them are not considered sufficient remuneration for the long hours they have to work and the responsible nature of their duties.\n\nThe Fanling branch line still fails to pay its way, but it is useful as a feeder to the main line. A small saving is shown in the estimated cost of working the line next year.\n\nUnder \"Special Expenditure,\" a vote of $45,000 is required for the platform awnings. As it is impossible to get materials from England, the work will now be carried into effect locally. The sum of $10,220 is required to complete the wharf opposite the new goods-shed at Kowloon. The siding at Shatin, for which a sum of $6,640 has been provided, is required in order to obviate delays which sometimes occur in dealing with the traffic.\n\nThe greatest economy has been exercised in preparing the estimates of expenditure in connection with the railway compatible with safety and efficiency, and I can only express a hope that events for which we have long waited may before long lead to a more satisfactory return on the very large capital expended.\n\nA reduction of $223,381 is shown in the amount estimated for this year under the heading \"Charge on account of public debt\" due to the higher exchange.\n\nThere are doubtless old residents in this Colony who will note with regret that by his death, the portion of his pension paid by this Colony to the late Mr. Charles Vandeleur Creagh has ceased. He served with distinction, after leaving Hongkong, as Secretary to the Government of Perak, and as Governor of British North Borneo.\n\nThe balance of revenue over expenditure is estimated to amount to $2,206,319, which, added to the estimated balance at the end of this year, makes a total of $6,801,531.\n\nIt is proposed to take the second reading of this bill on the 17th October.\n\n## The Colony's War Contributions\n\nBefore I conclude, I wish to refer, as briefly as possible, to the help rendered by the Colony to His Majesty's Government during the past year in carrying on the war. I will bring the figures given by the Governor in his address last October up to date.\n\nThe amounts invested in War Loans through the British Banks by companies and individuals in the Colony up to the 27th September are as follows:\n| Loan Type | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Government, Straits Settlement, Federated Malay States, and Indian Government loans | £5,875,000 |\n| United States War Loans | £177,000 |\n| **Total** | **£6,052,000** |\n\nIn addition to the sum of $5,000,000 presented to His Majesty's Government for war purposes in 1916, and presented this year a sum of £550,000, while the special war assessment produced last year a sum of $504,984 and for the first nine months of this year $756,000, all of which has been paid over to the Imperial Authorities.\n\nUp to the present date, 579 men have proceeded from the Colony on active service with His Majesty's Forces. The year has been marked by the passing of the Military Service Ordinance, imposing one of the first compulsory service outside the Crown Colonies to take this step, and the fact that, after a very careful review by the General Military Service Tribunal of every individual case coming under the Ordinance, comparatively few men have been enrolled, shows that a high percentage of the available man-power of the Colony had already seized the opportunity of joining-up.\n\nThe Hongkong and South China War Savings Association, which was established in January, 1917, had received up to the end of September the sum of $2,696,274 Straits Currency-an increase of $1,674,834 over the sum received on the same date last year-while during the year, the membership of the Association rose from 787 to 1,110. I desire again to record what a great boon this Association has been to the small investor, and to express to the Union Insurance Society of Canton the appreciation felt in this Colony for the valuable services so willingly rendered to the public in this matter.\n\nAt the end of September, 1917, the total sum remitted to various funds in aid of war work and to charities in connection with the war was over £77,000, and the sum expended locally for the working parties and in other ways was $84,030. The former figure has been raised during the year to £142,122-which includes the fine results of \"Our Day,\" St. George's Day, and a new date, namely, \"Kowloon Day\" on January 1st-and the latter figure to $144,568.\n\nI feel sure that you will wish me to give expression to the feelings of intense admiration with which this Colony, in common with the rest of the Empire, has watched during the past three months the magnificent victories won by our armies overseas and those of our gallant Allies.\n\nThe achievements of Marshal Foch, uniting to the best advantage the efforts of the Commanders on all the fronts, will go down to the ages as one of the grandest figures in military history; while out of many fine exploits, the British people will never forget how those brave and devoted volunteer crews added lustre to the records of our Navy by their dauntless courage in sealing up the ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge in the face of a most powerful and merciless fire by the enemy. In some of these great doings, the men from this Colony have had a share.\n\nForty-three... These figures do not include the sum of £31,447 subscribed to the Prince of Wales' Fund up to the 31st December, 1915. The St. Andrew's Society of Hongkong also raised a sum of £7,047 last November, and, I understand, intends this year to surpass all its previous efforts.\n\nThe various parties of ladies working for the Queen Mary's Needle Work Guild and private working parties have continued to send throughout the year large quantities of garments and bandages for the use of the troops on all fronts, and letters of appreciation received bear testimony to the great value of their work.\n\nCorrespondence from all the regular troops in the garrison has continued to be forwarded free of charge through the post, and from the 1st January to the end of September, 195,135 letters, 3,656 postcards, and 7,479 other articles, mostly newspapers, have been transmitted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479166, "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": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "content_text": "## EXTENSION TO KOWLOON MARINE LOT 27 AND HUNGHOM INLAND LOT 218\n\n(a). The lessees to surrender the existing Crown Leases of K.M.L. 27 and H.H.I.L. 218 when required by the Land Officer.\n\n(b). The lessees to be granted a new Crown Lease to include K.M.L. 27 and H.H.I.L. 218 and the area coloured red on plan, which contains about 325,430 square feet.\n\n(c). Term of lease 999 years, commencing from 16th November, 1884 (date of leases of K.M.L. 27 and H.H.I.L. 218).\n\n(d). The lessees to pay into the Colonial Treasury within 14 days from the date of the letter from the Director of Public Works stating that the area is at their disposal premium at the rate of 15 cents per square foot for the area coloured red.\n\n(e). In determining the Crown rent payable under the new lease, Crown rent for the area coloured red to be calculated at the rate of $350.00 per acre per annum. The Crown rent for the entire area to be adjusted to the nearest even dollar and to commence from the date mentioned in (d).\n\n(f). A sum of not less than $40,000 to be spent on buildings on the lot within 3 years of the date of the letter mentioned in (d).\n\n(g).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 479360, "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": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3]", "content_text": "## DRAFT MINUTE\n\nHunghom \n\nEmmens \n\nMr. Beckett \nMr. Grindle \nSir H. Lambert \nSir H. Read \nSir G. Fiddes \nfal. Ainery \nLord Milner \n\nMay 1919 \n\nI have to ack the receipt of your despatch No. 56 of 27 Feb., last, concerning the hours of duty of the European Warders at Victoria Gaol. I have to inform you of my approval of your proposal to grant official overtime pay at the rate of $1 an hour with effect from the beginning of 1918.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480034, "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": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "# \nOn the tops of the hills west of Beacon Hill 77 pounds of pine tree seed were sown broadcast and at Shunwan, 8 pounds.\n\nAbout 25,000 pine tree seedlings were raised in nurseries for planting in 1919.\n\nOver 8,000 broad-leaved trees were planted on the hills in the vicinity of the Fanling Golf Course, 1,046 on Cheung Chau Island, 1,120 above the Pokfulam Conduit, 895 between Deepwater Bay and Repulse Bay, 381 on Mt. Kellet, and 145 near Sookunpo.\n\nSix hundred Ficus creepers were planted in Mt. Kellet Cemetery.\n\nIn Hongkong and Kowloon over 1,500 flowering trees and shrubs, 106 broad-leaved trees and nearly 200 creepers were planted in various places.\n\nAlong the Taipo-Castle Peak Road, trees which had failed were replaced by others. Amongst the failures were about 500 Flame trees destroyed by frost in January.\n\nBetween Santin and Atau 623 trees were planted after the widening of the road had been completed.\n\nSeven hundred and seventy trees (770) and shrubs were planted between the sixth and ninth miles on the Taipo Road where improvements had been effected.\n\nOn the first section of the coastal road from Cheungshawan to Castle Peak 470 trees were planted.\n\nOver 1,000 flowering shrubs were planted around the Fanling Golf Course.\n\nPine tree plantations between Beacon Hill and Lyemun were thinned.\n\nCreepers damaging trees in various plantations in Hongkong were cut.\n\nAbout 3,000,000 square feet of undergrowth were cleared in connection with anti-malarial measures.\n\nIn connection with survey and other works, about 4,500,000 square feet of undergrowth were cleared.\n\nVegetables were grown in the economic garden, Fanling, for demonstration purposes.\n\nThe crops of rice, lichees and peanuts were fair.\n\nSeveral hundred specimens of Kwangtung and other plants were presented to the Department by the Bureau of Science, Manila, and the Canton Christian College.\n\nA few additions were made to the local Flora.\n\n## LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF LAND\n\nThe net amount of premium received from sales of Crown land and pier rights for the year 1918 was $243,530, an increase of $95,444 on the preceding year and $59,538 more than the average for the past five years.\n\nThe principal items were $42,980 in respect of an extension of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 27 and Hunghom Inland Lot No. 218, $25,800 in respect of Aberdeen Inland Lots Nos. 81 to 88, $23,174 in respect of Hunghom Inland Lots Nos. 257 and 258, and $19,116 in respect of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1357.\n\nIn the New Territories the net amount received for premium on sales of land was $54,052 being an increase of $42,430 on the preceding year.\n\nThe number of deeds registered in the Land Office was 2,922 or 98 more than the preceding year, the total consideration being $47,726,785 as against $42,660,837 in 1917.\n\nThe Government resumed several large areas during the year, including Kowloon Marine Lot No. 83, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1178, and section A of Farm Lot No. 22.\n\nThe total area of land granted during the year was 890 acres of which 6641 acres were situated in the New Territories; the total area of land resumed was 48½ acres.\n\nIn the Northern District of the New Territories there was rather less demand for house sites and agricultural land but this was more than made up for by increased demand for land for growing fruit and other trees. Applicants have in several cases been allowed to purchase grave sites on the more remote hillsides on condition of planting the neighbourhood with trees, a condition which they are quite ready to accept.\n\nIn the Southern District the demand for land has been about the same as in previous years.\n\n### III.-LEGISLATION\n\nFifteen Ordinances were passed during 1918 of which six were amendments of previous Ordinances.\n\nThe most important matters with which these Ordinances dealt were the Indecent Exhibitions (No. 3), Bills of Exchange (Time of Noting) (No. 4), Claims against Enemies (No. 5), Peak District (Residence) (No. 8), General Military Service (No. 9), Copyright (No. 11), and Opium (No. 13).\n\n447", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480036, "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": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 453, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "## V-PUBLIC WORKS\n\nThe extension of the Central Police Station referred to in last year's report was practically at a standstill throughout the year as the iron, girders, and stanchions required did not arrive until December. An extension of the Harbour Office building, erected in 1907, which will form the northern section of an extensive range of offices for the Imports and Exports Department, was begun.\n\nThe market at Shamshuipo was completed. A site for a market at Tai O (Lantao Island) was reclaimed from the sea, the erection of the building itself being well advanced.\n\nThe erection of a second block of quarters for subordinate officers (6 houses) in Kowloon, near King's Park, was begun.\n\nThe construction of the additional service reservoir and filter beds for the supply of the western section of the City was nearly completed. The laying of an additional supply main from the Kowloon Storage Reservoir to Yaumati was begun with surplus pipes remaining from the Taitam Tuk Water Works. Operations had to be suspended, however, as, owing to the War, the additional pipes required were not obtainable.\n\nThe new road past Aberdeen Village and the extensive improvement of the old road in the neighbourhood of the Aberdeen Docks were completed. The widening and improvement of the old road, extending from the Aberdeen Paper Mills to near Little Hongkong Village, where it joins the new road constructed in 1915, was undertaken. The construction of a new road from Repulse Bay to a point about half a mile east of Stanley, and the widening and improvement of the old road from this point onwards to where it joins the new road crossing Taitam Tuk Dam, were undertaken in the beginning of the year. Fair progress had been made by the close of the year. The new road from the north end of Taitam Tuk Dam to a point about 200 yards beyond Taitam Cap was completed, and operations for the widening and improvement of the old road from this point onwards to Shankiwan were begun. On the completion of these works, a motor road, about 24 miles in length, encircling the greater part of the Island of Hongkong, will be available. Before the route can be regarded as satisfactory for motor traffic, however, some improvements are required in the case of the Victoria Road, which was constructed in 1908 and which forms a section of the road referred to.\n\nIn Kowloon, the construction of a new road to afford more direct access to the southern portion of the Taikoktsui peninsula was undertaken, the work being well advanced by the close of the year.\n\nIn the New Territories, extensive improvements in that portion of the Tai Po Road between the 9th and 18th milestones were undertaken. The road from Au Tau to Castle Peak Bay was further widened from 10 feet to 20 feet, and a still further widening to 40 feet of that portion which skirts the village of Un Long was undertaken. The new road from the 3rd milestone on the Tai Po Road to beyond Tsun Wan Village was completed, and an extension of the same road along the coast to Castle Peak Bay, a distance of about 10.4 miles, was undertaken early in the year, the work being well advanced by its close.\n\nKowloon Marine Lot 83 and Kowloon Inland Lot 1178, situated in Hunghom Bay, were resumed by Government with a view to future railway developments and the provision of facilities for discharging and loading vessels. With the same objects in view, arrangements were made with the China Light and Power Company, whereby their present premises, situated on Hunghom Inland Lot 220, will revert to Government whenever their power station has been transferred to a new site granted by Government.\n\nFor the improvement of roads in the City of Victoria, I.L.1375 and a portion of I.L.59 were resumed in order to improve dangerous bends in Caine Road, whilst a portion of M.L.239 was resumed in order to widen Belchers Street to 50 feet. In Kowloon, several resumptions and readjustments were carried out in connection with a scheme for widening Canton Road, Battery Street, and portions of Reclamation and Shanghai Streets so as to form a thoroughfare with a minimum width of 60 feet. Portions of Kowloon I.Ls 100 to 109 were resumed to admit of development on suitable lines of certain Crown land adjoining Nathan Road. Certain lots and buildings were resumed to provide for the future construction of a main road, 100 feet in width, from Hunghom to Kowloon City.\n\nThe riding floors known as No. 148 Des Voeux Road West were resumed in order to improve the sanitary conditions of the locality.\n\nThe work of providing scavenging lanes continues, compensation being paid where necessary.\n\nSubstantial progress was made with the Shamshuipo Improvement Scheme, many of the old village houses being demolished and replaced with new houses fronting on good, wide roads.\n\nThe Government having decided to exercise greater control over the ferry services between the City of Victoria and the western side of the Kowloon Peninsula, the various piers hitherto used by such ferries, with the exception of one which is situated in front of private property, were resumed by Government. Extensive repairs were...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484821, "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": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "page_number": 199, "title": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "content_text": "18\n\nDecrease.\n\nIncrease.\n\nIncrease.\n\n2. - Kowloon-Canton Railway, -Continued.\n\n19\n\nCLASS VIII.\n\nDecrease.\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nNON-EFFECTIVE AND CHARITABLE SERVICES.\n\n(i) General Charges\n\nConstruction:-\n\n \n Typewriter for Accounts Offices.. *\n $160\n \n \n Platform Awnings\n $2,800\n \n \n Construction :-\n \n \n \n Bottom Ballast at Mile 157\n $750\n \n \n Platform 6\" above rail level at Tai Po Market\n $500\n \n \n 1.--Charge on Account of Public Debt.\n \n \n \n Bridge No. 7...\n $68,000\n \n \n Platform at Sheung Shui\n $500\n \n \n Bridge No. 37\n $2,500\n \n \n Reinforced Concrete Work at Kowloon Terminus\n $220\n \n \n Extension to Fanling Station\n $3,000\n \n \n Extension to Workshops\n $5,000\n \n \n Widening Gates and Level Cross-ings at Shatin and Lok Lo Ha...\n $1,650\n \n \n Higher Exchange\n $44,677.00\n \n \n Total Decrease\n $44,677.00\n \n \n Drain at Mile 15\n $3,000\n \n \n Installation of Electric Fans.\n $6,500\n \n \n Installation of Clock\n $1,000\n \n \n Locomotive, Carriage, and Wagon Expenses :-\n \n \n \n Introduction of Metric System\n $8,000\n \n \n Additional Machines for Workshops\n $12,067\n \n \n Locomotive Yard at Lown\n $25,000\n \n \n Locomotives\n $20,000\n \n \n New Sidlings at Kowloon\n $8,600\n \n \n Tyres for Engines, Carriages, and Wagons\n $8,241\n \n \n New Sidings, Locomotive Yard, Hunghom\n $5,100\n \n \n 30 30-ton Wagons\n $198,333\n \n \n Produce Shelter, Taipo Market\n $750\n \n \n Latrine at Yaumati\n $300\n \n \n Traffic Expenses :--\n \n \n \n Re-railing Tunnel No. 2\n $40,500\n \n \n Typewriters\n $660\n \n \n 7 Carriages...\n $112,500\n \n \n Fire Hose\n $167\n \n \n Iron Safe\n $150\n \n \n Motion Plates and Cylinders\n $2,300\n \n \n Total Increase\n $293,877\n \n \n Deduct Decrease\n $284,471\n \n \n Total Decrease\n $284,471\n \n \n Net Increase\n $9,406\n \n\n2. Pensions.\n\n \n Sterling Pensions granted\n $15,545.19\n \n \n Dollar Pensions granted\n $11,231.54\n \n \n Sterling Pensions ceased\n \n \n \n Dollar Pensions ceased\n \n \n \n Temporary Increases of Pensions\n \n \n \n Special Allowance of 25% on Widows and Orphans' Pensions in United Kingdom\n $33,915.48\n \n \n Higher Exchange on Sterling Pensions\n $5,903.26\n \n \n Equalisation of Exchange\n $3,279.07\n \n \n \n $9,967.92\n \n \n \n $1,430.52\n \n \n Net Increase\n $9,406\n \n \n Estimated Amount to cover Pensions to be granted and Refunds\n $1,908.57\n \n \n Total Increase\n $67,031.30\n \n \n Deduct Decrease\n $20,451.30\n \n \n Total Decrease\n $20,451.30\n \n \n Net Increase\n $46,580.00\n \n\n3. --Charitable Services.\n\n \n Charitable Allowance granted...\n $58\n \n \n Grant in aid of John G. Kerr Hospital, Canton...\n $1,059\n \n \n Charitable Allowances ceased\n $205\n \n \n Higher Exchange\n $3,000\n \n \n Total Increase\n $3,058\n \n \n Deduct Decrease\n $1,264\n \n \n Total Decrease\n $1,264\n \n \n Net Increase\n $1,794", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484837, "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": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "page_number": 215, "title": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nPublic Works, Recurrent Public Works, Extraordinary\n\nPost Office\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\nPensions\n\nCharitable Services\n\nTotal\n\n# THE ESTIMATES\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR-Hon. members of the Legislative Council. In introducing the Estimates last year, I stated that the expenditure for 1919 was then expected to amount to $15,078,600 leaving out of account the transactions in connection with the purchase and sale of rice. Actually the expenditure, including these transactions, amounted to $17,915,925. The revised estimate of revenue for 1919 was $17,056,410, but only $16,524,975 was realised, with the result that the balance of assets over liabilities on 31st December, 1919, was $4,290,188, instead of the estimated sum of $7,658,948.\n\n$840,600 will result from an increase in fees. For example, Stamp Duties $2,100,000 in place of $1,100,000 it being the intention to increase considerably the majority of fees which are paid in stamps. A committee is now sitting to consider the details of the changes which are necessary to secure this result. The necessity for taking steps to increase the revenue in this way arises from the fact that, as I predicted last year in speaking on the Budget debate, revenue from the Opium Monopoly has been still further diminished. There has been during the current year a considerable reduction in the consumption of the Monopoly's product, a position which, though unfortunate in its financial aspect, is gratifying from a wider point of view. On the latest figures available we do not feel justified in anticipating a revenue of more than $4,000,000 from this source in 1921, that is a reduction of $2,000,000 compared with the figures inserted in the Estimates for 1920. With the growing expense of administration it is not possible to face this large reduction without replacing it, or a considerable part of it, from other sources.\n\nThe other decreases in heads of revenue are not large; $28,000 is anticipated in place of $36,000 from hawkers' licences, owing to the reduction in the number of licences due to the policy of keeping the streets reasonably clear; a reduction has been made of $9,000 on a total of $284,000 in respect of liquor licences; and there is a falling off of some $7,000 in respect of Slaughter House receipts, which estimated at $105,600. In both these cases the figures are based on the revised estimates for 1920. Rent of Buildings is less by the rent of the Old Post Office which is now to be sold, and Rent of Lands is decreased owing to the proposed taking over by the Government of the site opposite the Central Market; interest is estimated at $260,000 in place of $320,000 for the current year.\n\nIt is now estimated that the revenue for the current year will amount to $14,177,478 or $1,137,322 less than the original estimate. The deficit is more than accounted for by the reduction in the revenue from the Opium Monopoly from $6 million to $4 million.\n\nThe expenditure for 1920 is now estimated at $13,768,830 or $1,117,643 less than the original estimate, the difference being due to the fact that over $1 million less is being spent on Public Works Extraordinary than was originally anticipated.\n\nThe programme for 1920 was, perhaps, of a somewhat ambitious character and owing to the difficulties of obtaining supplies due to the disturbed state of the world in general it has proved impossible to carry out all the works which it was hoped to undertake.\n\nThe balance of assets at the end of the current year is now estimated at $4,698,835.\n\n# Increased Stamp Duties\n\n# Increased Revenue Expectations\n\nI may call attention to the following increases: On page 7 a sum of $60,000 in respect of Kowloon East is inserted in Ferry licences. The service to Yaumati and Shamshuipo, recently established under Government supervision, has proved very successful, and it is intended to regulate on similar lines the ferries running to Hunghom, Kowloon City, and Shankiwan with a view to the improvement of the service.\n\nThe specific sums which we expect to receive under each sub-head of revenue are shown at pages 6 to 12 of the estimates before you. It will be seen from the foot-notes that a number of items are to be revised and the figures which are given for 1921 include the additional sum which is expected.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484843, "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": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12]", "content_text": "21: \n\n50 \n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\nKowloon Roads \n\nUnder Roads, item 55, $200,000 is provided for the main roads from Shamshuipo to Kowloon City and from Hunghom to Kowloon City. Provision is also made for extending Coronation Road to meet the new main road from Shamshuipo to Kowloon City. $100,000 is provided for commencing the work of surfacing the main roads in Kowloon in order to fit them to carry omnibus and similar traffic. \n\nItem 60 provides the sum of $60,000 for filling in the tidal flat near Taikoktsui. This filling in will result in the provision of a large area of good building sites. \n\nFurther provision is made under item 68 for improving the water distribution service in Kowloon, and under item 69 $65,000 is set aside for new filter beds. \n\nItems 71 and 72 are in respect of quarters for the Land Bailiff and the Court House for the District Officer at Un Long and new Clerk's Quarters at Taipo. \n\nUnder item 73, $40,000 is provided for the commencement of the new Gaol building at Ngau Shi Wan. The Government has acquired from the Kai Tack Reclamation Company an area of 15 acres of reclaimed ground at the eastern end of Kowloon City Reclamation, upon which it is proposed to erect the Gaol and the Police School. The site is admirably situated for both purposes and there is in the immediate neighbourhood a very large quantity of granite upon the working of which it is proposed to employ the prisoners. \n\nA diaphone fog signalling installation at Waglan is provided for under item 74. The Harbour Master, who goes on leave next spring, is proceeding to Canada in order to study this system which has been successfully employed on the Canadian coast. \n\nUnder item 75, $17,000 is provided for a new school building at Cheung Chau. \n\nItem 77 refers to roads in the New Territories. $15,000 is set apart for widening the Taipo Road between the third and fifth milestones, and $100,000 is provided for metalling and tar-painting the Laichikok-Castle Peak and Taipo Roads. An additional $15,000 is provided for improving the Coastal Road to Laichikok in order to enable it to carry the refuse tractors and trucks to which I have already referred. \n\nUnder items 78 and 84, $100,000 is provided for training the main stream at Laichikok and providing a large basin for the water boats at its mouth. This work is rendered necessary by the extensive reclamation schemes which are in progress or are contemplated in this neighbourhood. \n\n$10,000 is provided under item 79 for sewerage work in connection with the Kowloon City Reclamation. \n\n$200,000 is asked for under item 80 for continuing the reclamation at Shamshuipo. The Government is using every endeavour to induce the Chinese population to live in this neighbourhood and the rapid growth of Shanshuipo testifies to its success in this connection. It is hoped that eventually the provision of housing accommodation both here and at Kowloon City will relieve the great congestion now obtaining in the City of Victoria. \n\nUnder item 82 provision is made for a new pier at Cheung Chau. \n\nItem 83 refers to the refuse dump near Laichikok, of which I have already spoken. \n\nItem 88 sets aside a sum $30,000 for a Fanling waterworks scheme. The Government proposes to take over the system which now belongs to the Golf Club, and to supply water to the neighbourhood. \n\nA Record Vote \n\nThe total expenditure on Public Works Extraordinary amounts to the sum of $4,967,400, an amount which is far in excess of any vote in former years. It will probably be necessary to strengthen the staff of the Public Works Department in order to enable it to carry out the programme; but I may mention that I am prepared, if necessary, to place work in the hands of private firms both to relieve the pressure on the Government staff and for the purpose of encouraging local enterprise. The development of the Homestead site has been entrusted to Messrs. Little, Adams, & Wood, and Messrs. Denison, Ram, & Gibbs are erecting a house for the Government at the eastern end of Finlay Road. \n\nI have no hesitation in asking for this large sum of money. I consider it to be of the utmost importance that the Government should do all in its power not merely to keep pace with but to anticipate the growth and expansion of this progressive Colony. \n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL \n\nSchemes of Development \n\nmay already have led to several enquiries for building sites, and the enterprise of the Hongkong Hotel Company at Repulse Bay may fore-shadow the rapid development of that neighbourhood. The Government is in treaty with the Dairy Farm for the release of some of the land now under grass at Pokfulam, and applications have been received for permission to build upon a Farm Lot on the Pokfulam Road which has recently been resumed. Arrangements have been and are being made for the conversion of farm lots at Wongneichong, for the purpose of the erection of a large number of houses. The question of the resumption of military lands in Victoria is appreciably nearer solution. \n\nI may take this opportunity to refer to schemes of development which are not touched on or are barely touched on in these estimates. There is in the first place the proposed motor omnibus service for Kowloon. Tenders will shortly be invited for a service which will maintain a fixed schedule at cheap rates along the main Kowloon roads, with a view to opening up outlying districts. It is not the intention of the Government to make money out of the scheme, which may possibly be run at a loss, at least at the commencement. I do not propose that the service should be maintained by the Government as I consider that an enterprise of this nature is better left in private hands. \n\nThe European House Shortage \n\nI may say here that I have been at some pains to ascertain to what extent there is an actual shortage of housing accommodation for Europeans, but without any very definite result. That there is a shortage appears to be generally admitted but I have been struck by an advertisement which has for some time past been appearing in the Press to the effect that a number of European flats are available for occupation on Coronation Road. I understand that the flats are in every way suitable but that enquirers consider the distance from the Star Ferry Wharf to be too great and are not apparently disposed to use the Yaumati Ferry which is close by. Prospective tenants can hardly expect that in towns of constantly rising land values, such as Victoria and Kowloon, they can continue to rent dwellings at cheap rentals within easy distance of their offices. The question is primarily an economic one which cannot be greatly affected by Government action. The Government can probably do little more than endeavour to secure that existing possibilities are made the most of and I may say in this connection that I have under consideration the question of taking steps to ensure that suitable land is not allowed to remain unoccupied. \n\nProgress is being made with this work as fast as possible, but the many other calls upon the Public Works Department preclude the possibility of an early completion. It is the sincere hope of the Government that the Kai Tack Reclamation Scheme at Kowloon City will meet with the success which is anticipated by the promoters. The promoters have been somewhat handicapped by lack of the funds necessary to complete so ambitious a project, but a very large amount of good building land in one of the best situations in the Colony is now available, and when once a start is made development should proceed rapidly. The new omnibus and ferry services and the new roads to Kowloon City will no doubt prove of considerable assistance. On the island of Hongkong the road to Wanchai Gap has \n\nRevision of Salaries Costs A Million Dollars \n\nThe \n\nWith regard to the Estimates generally, I have not attempted to deal in detail with the very large number of changes brought about by the salary revision schemes. The", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-463 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487433, "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": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 407, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## Regulations\n\n15. If during the term of the licence it shall be desirable in the opinion of the Governor in Council to add to the routes mentioned in regulation No. 30 and to supply additional services of public motor vehicles for such routes, notice in writing shall be given by the Colonial Secretary to the licensee stating the particulars of such additional routes and the services required therefor and if the licensee shall not within three months from the date of such notice come to an arrangement with the Governor in Council for the supply of such additional services to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council, then the Governor in Council may make such arrangements with any other person or persons as may in his opinion be desirable for the supply of such services and in such event no compensation shall be claimed by or payable to the licensee in respect thereof.\n\n16. The licensee shall maintain all motor vehicles used in the said service and all buildings, works, materials, and things used in connection therewith in an efficient state of repair to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works.\n\n17. The licensee shall provide for each motor vehicle when in service on any route a qualified driver and conductor with suitable uniform and numbers to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works.\n\n18. The licensee shall in each motor vehicle publish in English and Chinese, to the approval in all respects of the Director of Public Works, a list of the sections, authorised stopping places, and times of departure on the route on which such motor vehicle plies, together with a list of fares and charges authorised to be taken and the number of passengers authorised to be carried in such vehicle.\n\n19. If the Governor in Council varies the routes, sections, stopping places, or increases or diminishes the fares of the said service, which he is hereby authorised to do, the monthly fee payable by the licensee shall be increased or diminished by such amount as may be agreed upon between the Governor in Council and the licensee, or in the event of failure to agree, then by such amount as may be fixed by arbitration as hereinafter provided.\n\n20. The licensee shall forfeit to the Crown a sum of $25 for each day on which he shall, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, fail substantially to supply a satisfactory service on any route in force for the time being, provided that such failure is not, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, due to unavoidable accident or to weather.\n\n21. The licensee shall not transfer his licence without the permission of the Governor in Council.\n\n22. The licensee shall at all times permit the Director of Public Works or any person authorised by him to inspect all motor vehicles and all buildings, works, materials, and apparatus used by the licensee in connection with the said service.\n\n23. The licensee shall keep the following records in respect of the said service, namely:\n| Record | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | Number of motor vehicles running |\n| 2. | Number of daily journeys and mileage run by each vehicle |\n| 3. | Number of passengers carried by each vehicle for each journey |\n| 4. | Details of receipts in respect of each section and route |\n| 5. | Details of expenditure under the headings—capital, wages, running expenses, and standing charges |\n\nand shall permit the Governor or any person authorised by him to inspect all records and accounts used by the licensee in connection with the said service and shall afford all such facilities for such inspection as may from time to time be required.\n\n24. The licensee shall comply with all regulations in force for the time being under the `Vehicles and Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 1912`, as amended by the `Vehicles and Traffic Regulation Ordinance, 1921`.\n\n25. The licensee shall permit any passenger to take with him on any motor vehicle as personal luggage such small baskets, bags, or parcels as he may be able to carry in his hand free of charge, so long as seat space is not occupied, and the comfort of other passengers is not affected.\n\n26. The licensee shall pay to the Colonial Treasurer in advance on the first day of each month from the commencement of the term the monthly fee stated in the tender, or agreed upon by the licensee and the Governor in Council, or fixed by arbitration, as the case may be.\n\n27. The licensee shall not carry or attempt to carry passengers in excess of the authorised complement of any motor vehicle.\n\n28. Police officers and postmen on duty and in uniform shall be carried free of charge.\n\n## Description of Vehicles\n\n29. The service shall be carried out by means of not less than 15 motor vehicles of the following dimensions, capacity, weight, speed, power, and design, viz.:\n- (a) Dimensions. Not to exceed 20 feet in length, 7 feet 2 inches in width, and 14 feet in height.\n- (b) Capacity.—19 adult persons including the driver and conductor.\n- (c) Weight.—2 tons when unloaded.\n- (d) Speed.—Capacity 15 miles per hour fully loaded on level ground.\n- (e) Power.—Sufficient to take the motor vehicle when fully loaded up an incline of 1 in 15 for a length of half a mile.\n- (f) Design. Open side motor vehicle with rows of seats across the body, solid roof, weather screens on sides, all seats to be plain, not upholstered, and to be capable of being easily cleaned and kept in a sanitary condition. The front two rows of seats to be for first-class, remainder for second-class passengers. Tyres all pneumatic, or front wheels pneumatic and rear wheels double solid, the minimum width for pneumatic tyres to be ... inches and for double solid 3.4 inches each or 7 inches altogether. Sign-boards in front and at sides showing route and destination.\n\n## Routes and Sections\n\n30. The following shall be the routes and sections:\n- Route 1.—From Kowloon Ferry to Shamshuipo\n - Section A.—Kowloon Ferry to Public Square Street.\n - B. Public Square Street to Taipo Road.\n - C.—Taipo Road to Kweilin Street.\n- Route 2.—From Hunghom to Kowloon Ferry.\n - Section A. Taku Street to Gascoigne Road.\n - B. Gascoigne Road to Kowloon Ferry.\n- Route 3.—Hunghom to Shamshuipo.\n - Section A.—Taku Street to Public Square Street.\n - B. Public Square Street to Taipo Road.\n - C.—Taipo Road to Kweilin Street.\n- Route 4.—Hunghom to Kowloon City.\n - Section A.—Wohu Street to Road to Mataukok.\n - B.—Road to Mataukok to Kowloon City.\n\nas shown in the plan signed by the Director of Public Works and dated 4th March, 1921, which may be seen at the Office of the Director of Public Works.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487434, "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": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 408, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "# Authorised Stopping Places\n\n31. The authorised stopping places shall be as follows:--\n\n## On Route 1\n\n- Opposite Kowloon Ferry at Tsimshatsui.\n- Junction of Nathan Road and Mody Road.\n- Kimberley Road.*\n- Austin Road.*\n- Jordan Road.\n- Public Square Street.\n- Coronation Road and Waterloo Road.*\n- Shantung Street.\n- Junction of Argyle Street and Shanghai Street.\n- Peace Avenue and Liberty Avenue.*\n- Argyle Street and Approach Road to Yaumati Railway Station.\n- Laichikok Road and Taipo Road.\n- Boundary Street.*\n- Kweilin Street.\n\n## On Route 2\n\n- Junction of Wuhu Street and Taku Street.\n- Chatham Road and Cooke Street.\n- Gascoigne Road.\n- Austin Road.*\n- Granville Road.\n- Mody Road.\n- Salisbury Road and opposite Holt's Wharf.*\n- Opposite Kowloon Ferry at Tsimshatsui.\n\n## On Route 3\n\n- Junction of Wuhu Street and Taku Street.\n- Chatham Road and Cooke Street.\n- Gascoigne Road.\n- Gascoigne Road and Jordan Road.\n- Nathan Road and Public Square Street.\n- Coronation Road and Waterloo Road.*\n- Shantung Street.\n- Argyle Street and Shanghai Street.\n- Peace Avenue and Liberty Avenue.*\n- Argyle Street and Approach Road to Yaumati Railway Station.\n- Laichikok Road and Taipo Road.\n- Boundary Street.*\n- Kweilin Street.\n\n## On Route 4\n\n- Argyle Street and Approach Road to Yaumati Railway Station.\n- Laichikok Road and Taipo Road.\n- Boundary Street.*\n- Kweilin Street.\n- Junction of Taku Street and Wuhu Street.\n- Kowloon City Road opposite Kowloon Inland Lot No. 635.*\n- Junction of Kowloon City Road and Road to Matankok.\n- Mongkoktsui.\n- Opposite Police Station, Kowloon City.\n\n32. A suitable sign must be provided and fixed by the licensee in positions to be approved by the Director of Public Works at all authorised stopping places.\n\n* Motor vehicles will stop on request only at authorised stopping places marked with an asterisk.\n\n# Time Tables\n\n33. The Time Tables shall be as follows:--\n\n## On Route 1. Kowloon Ferry to Shamshuipo\n\nThere shall be a ten-minutes service with a minimum of four motor vehicles.\n\nFirst motor vehicle to start from Kowloon Ferry at 7.00 a.m. Last 11.30 p.m. Every alternate motor vehicle to run via Ho Mun Tin.\n\n## On Route 2. Hunghom to Kowloon Ferry\n\nThere shall be a ten-minutes service with a minimum of three motor vehicles.\n\nFirst motor vehicle to start from Hunghom at 7.00 a.m. Last 11.30 p.m.\n\n## On Route 3. Hunghom to Shamshuipo\n\nThere shall be a ten-minutes service with a minimum of four motor vehicles.\n\nFirst motor vehicle to start from Hunghom at 6.35 a.m. Last 12.05 a.m. Every alternate motor vehicle to run via Ho Mun Tin.\n\n## On Route 4. Hunghom to Kowloon City\n\nThere shall be a 30-minutes service with a minimum of one motor vehicle.\n\nFirst motor vehicle to start from Hunghom at 6.15 a.m. Last 12.15 a.m.\n\n34. If it is found necessary to provide an accelerated service on any of the above-mentioned routes during the busy periods of the day, the above-mentioned service on each of the routes shall be subject to amendment at the direction and approval of the Director of Public Works.\n\n# Fares and Charges\n\n35. The licensee may demand and take for every passenger fares not exceeding the following rates:--\n\n| Route | Class | For whole route | For each section or portion of a section |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Route 1: Kowloon Ferry to Sham Shui Po | 1st Class | 15 cents | 7 cents |\n| | 2nd Class | 10 cents | 6 cents |\n| Route 2: Hunghom to Kowloon Ferry | 1st Class | 15 cents | 7 cents |\n| | 2nd Class | 10 cents | 6 cents |\n| Route 3: Hunghom to Sham Shui Po | 1st Class | 15 cents | 7 cents |\n| | 2nd Class | 10 cents | 6 cents |\n| Route 4: Hunghom to Kowloon City | 1st Class | 10 cents | 5 cents |\n| | 2nd Class | 5 cents | 2 cents |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488114, "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": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "page_number": 467, "title": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nOn Section 7 sub-section (c) the **ATTORNEY-GENERAL** proposed an amendment so that the Clause should read:- \n(e) by the repeal of the words \"less executed within the Colony\" in sub-section (8) (a) thereof, and by the addition of the words \"in Council\" immediately after the word \"Governor\" in the third line thereof.\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL**, in moving the amendment said: At present, transfers of shares which are on a local register are, under the Companies Ordinance, liable to stamp duty if executed within the Colony. The recent Stamp Ordinance provided that such transfers need not be stamped here and this amendment is to bring the Companies Ordinance into agreement with the recent Stamp Ordinance.\n\n**HON. MR. POLLOCK**-This refers to registers outside the Colony!\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved a new clause, 24, as follows:- \n24. Section 7 of the Companies Ordinance, 1915, is amended by the repeal of the words \"unless executed by the transferor within the Colony\" in sub-section (2) thereof.\n\nHe said: That, sir, is also an amendment to bring this Bill into line with the recent Stamp Ordinance. Formerly shares in China Companies, if executed by the transferor here, were liable to duty. The Stamp Ordinance exempts them from all duty and this brings this Ordinance into agreement.\n\n**THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL**—Yes, a register kept, by licence, outside the Colony. The original draft of this Bill was made before the Stamp Ordinance was thought of.\n\nClause 7, as amended, was approved.\n\nOn Clause 13, the **ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved the addition of a sub-section as follows:- \n(3) Every Order in Council made under this section shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication of such Order in Council in the **Gazette**, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such Order in Council shall have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such Order in Council shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said Order in Council shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded, or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the **Gazette** of the passing of such resolution.\n\nThe amendment was approved.\n\nClause 19 was amended to read as follows:- \n\nThe new clause was approved.\n\nThis involved a re-numbering of the subsequent sections; this was done, and the remainder of the clauses of the Bill were approved.\n\nThe Council resumed and the third reading was approved, on the motion of the **ATTORNEY-GENERAL**, seconded by the **COLONIAL SECRETARY**.\n\nThe Bill passed accordingly.\n\nThe Adjournment\n\nThe Council adjourned until 2.30 p.m., on July 14th.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee was afterwards held, the **COLONIAL SECRETARY** presiding.\n\n### Hunghom Railway Station\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $2,700 on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, New Building for block working at Hunghom.\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Cost of whole work, including alteration of fencing, levers, rodding, etc. | $2,700 |\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-The Manager of the Railway has recommended, and the Government has agreed to, the closing of Hunghom station at present, as it is unsafe and likely to fall down, and does not seem to be required. He is submitting a plan of the future lay-out of the station and the operation of the railway and the reclamation and that involves in any case, whatever is done in future, the erection of an operating block cabin, of which he has submitted a plan and in making the recommendation for that operating block cabin he writes that it will always be necessary to have a staff there to operate the block section and to make up the trains. He proposes to make arrangements which will enable him to dispense with two pointsmen and no station master or booking clerk will be required. In place of these he is going to appoint two block operators.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Queen's College Laboratory\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-In connection with the laboratory equipment of Queen's College a sum of $447.41 was spent in the first three months of this year on account of an indent which was sent in March last year, the goods not being received at all in that year. There is a corresponding saving in last year's vote. It is, therefore, necessary to provide for the order given this year for laboratory equipment and this bill of $447 has nearly exhausted the vote, and there is an anticipated excess of $381.84; $400 is asked for to be on the safe side.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $400 in aid of the vote Education, A.-Director of Education, Other Charges, Laboratory (Queen's College).\n\nApproved.\n\n### Harbour Office Vote\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,000 in aid of the Harbour Master's Department, Other Charges, Examination Fees.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-More examinations for certificates of competency as masters, mates and engineers have taken place this year than were expected. The total vote allowed for the whole year was $1,000, and that has been already exhausted by the examinations, which took place between January and June. The fees amount to $1,050. It is anticipated that nearly $1,000 will be required for the second half year and this is now asked for.\n\nApproved.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488122, "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": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nTHE **ATTORNEY-GENERAL** moved to add the following paragraph after para. (e) in sub-clause 1 of Clause 4:\n\n(f.) The lessor bona fide requires possession of the domestic tenement in order to pull down such domestic tenement or in order to reconstruct such domestic tenement to such an extent as to make such domestic tenement a new building within the meaning of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, and shall have given the tenant three months' notice to quit.\n\nSubsequent amendments, and additional clauses, proposed by the **ATTORNEY-GENERAL**, were adopted without discussion.\n\nOn the Council resuming,\n\nH.E. THE **GOVERNOR**-In this case, for the purposes of Rule 48 of the Standing Rules and Orders, I declare that an emergency exists, and that in my opinion it is desirable in the public interest that Rules 42 and 47 be suspended, so as to enable the bill to be carried through its remaining stages at this sitting of the Council. The grounds for this declaration are that, as the object of the bill is to protect the tenants of domestic tenements from unreasonable increase in rental and from arbitrary termination of their tenancies, and as rents have been and are being raised unreasonably, and as attempts have been and are being made to eject tenants who are unwilling or are unable to pay such increased rents, it is desirable to pass the bill immediately so as to afford relief to as many as possible of the class which the bill proposes to protect.\n\nTHE **COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the suspension of the Standing Orders was agreed to.\n\nTHE **ATTORNEY-GENERAL** then moved the third reading of the Bill.\n\nTHE **COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded, and the Bill was passed.\n\n## The Adjournment\n\nHIS **EXCELLENCY**-The remaining business on the agenda we do not propose to take. In any case, I fear these Bills will not be ready this week. I propose, therefore, that we should adjourn sine die. I should like, before we go, to express my thanks to members of the Committee and more especially, if I may say so, to the Attorney-General and his learned colleague, the Hon. Mr. Pollock, for the immense trouble they have taken in producing this Bill, which I trust will be successful in attaining the object for which it was devised.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee was afterwards held, the **COLONIAL SECRETARY** presiding :-\n\n### The Gap Rock Cable\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $19,616 in aid of the vote Public Works, Recurrent, Communications, (8) Maintenance of telephones including all cables.\n\nTHE **CHAIRMAN**-This sum of $19,616 is the amount required for repairing the cable to Gap Rock. We took advantage of the presence of the cable ship Patrol in the waters of the Colony to employ her in recovering the cable and finding out what was wrong. Fortunately, the cable was recovered in about two days after the ship actually got to work and it was found that the cable had been clean cut across. By whom and how it was done was not clear. It may have been by a fishing boat recovering her anchor. It required half a mile of large cable and nearly 2 miles of smaller cable to effect the necessary repairs. The hire of the ship cost £800, the half mile of large cable £338, the rest of the cable £1,098 and material £216—a total of £2,452, of which $19,616 is the equivalent in local currency, a successful but rather expensive job.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Kowloon Telephone Wires\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $6,500 in aid of the vote Public Works, Recurrent, Kowloon, Communications, (27), Maintenance of Telephones.\n\nTHE **CHAIRMAN**-This sum is to lay underground a number of telephone wires in Kowloon. The poles are carrying so many wires between Kowloon and Hunghom that in a typhoon, it is thought they may come down. So, having a cable in stock, we decided on laying these cables underground. It involved a cost of $3,900 to the Public Works Department and $2,600 to the railway. For simplicity, it was decided to take a single vote and charge the whole to Public Works Recurrent.\n\nApproved.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-468 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488442, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 183, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "# 4. Before proceeding further it will be convenient to explain in some detail the paramount importance of the rice trade to the Colony of Hongkong. \nRice is the much largest commodity dealt with in the trade returns and a large number of ships are employed in bringing it to the Colony and in carrying it away after it has been handled. The handling of the cargoes both at the ships and on shore gives employment to a large portion of the floating population as well as to a large number of the coolie class. The companies and individuals who own godowns also derive great benefit from the storage of the rice while in the course of preparation for export. For the year 1918 the value of the rice imported was no less than £12,904,321, while the exports for the same period were valued at £11,608,509.\n\nAn assurance was given immediately that it was not intended to prohibit transhipment of rice at Hongkong. At the same time, acting on the report above quoted, a Japanese was about to make arrangements to divert two ships loading in Saigon so that they could proceed to Japan direct without calling at Hongkong. This was averted.\n\n## 10. \nIt was obvious that with a view to controlling the price and preserving the local supply, immediate action was necessary, and after some discussion it was decided to call a meeting of the principal employers of labour to consider the whole question. After meetings it was decided that the only feasible course was for the Government to purchase rice and, subject to the approval of the Councils, this situation was accepted in July. A telegram was sent to the British Consul at Saigon on the 1st July enquiring whether it would be possible for the Government of Hongkong to buy rice from the 1st August up to a maximum of five thousand tons a month for the purpose of local consumption, and on the 4th July the Consul reported that the best course would be for the Government to approach the Food Controller at Singapore with a view to buying 27,500 tons of rice which he was willing to sell at $13.30 Saigon dollars ex mill. This suggestion was adopted, and on the 11th July a telegram was received from the Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements, stating that the Food Controller could sell 27,500 tons Saigon rice July allotment for October delivery at $13.30 Saigon dollars ex mill, and requesting the Government, if it wished for this rice, to remit to the British Consul at Saigon $1,500,000 Saigon dollars for the necessary advances.\n\n# 5. \nAs has been often pointed out, the Colony of Hongkong is in the unique position among the great ports of the Empire of producing practically no raw materials, but on the other hand of possessing in its geographical situation and in its splendid harbour unrivalled opportunities for dealing with an immense transhipment trade. It is in fact in the nature of a great wharf and godown where every class of goods can be handled expeditiously provided the machinery for doing so is kept at the highest pitch of efficiency and without any unnecessary restrictions retarding smooth working. Nothing could be more fatal to local trade than for an impression to be created in the grain markets of the world that the Hongkong Authorities might place obstacles in the way of the quick despatch of cargoes, or interfere with contracts connected therewith.\n\n# 6. \nWith regard to the rice trade, a step in the right direction was taken not long ago by the standardizing of rice by the Exporters and Dealers Association of Hongkong in accordance with the repeated request of the California Rice Association. Prior to the adoption of this measure, no limit was placed upon the amount of broken grains mixed with good whole rice, with the result that serious complaints came from American buyers. It is expected that the action taken by the Exporters and Dealers Association will have the effect of restoring confidence among buyers in America and elsewhere, whereby this valuable trade will be retained in Hongkong.\n\n# 7. \nThe bulk of the imported rice comes from Saigon and Bangkok, and is usually packed in single gunny bags of about 160 catties weight (213 lbs.), and, with the exception of some shipments to Japan, is never re-exported from Hongkong in the original bags. The principal grade of rice exported is known as \"Siam usual\", and is ordinarily made from a mixture of Siam rice and Saigon long rice in equal parts. Before mixing, the rice is screened so as to bring the amount of broken grains down to the standard. In the case of brown rice, especially when the season is advanced, it is the custom to winnow the rice before packing as it generally contains a quantity of dust and husks. The American market takes rice in 100 pounds double gunny bags and sometimes in double bags of 240 pounds. The Cuban market also takes the latter packing, but shipments intended for South America are usually packed in double bags of 193 pounds gross weight. It is this work of standardizing and re-packing which makes the trade of such importance and gives employment to the large number of persons referred to in paragraph 4.\n\n# 8. \nThere is only one crop a year in Siam and Indo-China, the Siam crop being available in December and January and the Saigon crop about a month or so later. Rice is, however, exported from Hongkong all the year round according to demand. Japan has been recently the largest customer, the United States of America coming next. Until a short time ago, shipments for the Cuban market went to the Pacific ports of the United States, and were transhipped thence to their destination; but latterly Cuban buyers appear to have preferred to make direct shipments.\n\n# 9. \nIt will be clear from the account given in the foregoing paragraphs that the situation presented considerable difficulties, and the receipt of a telegram on the 14th June from H. M. Chargé d'Affaires at Bangkok to the effect that the Government of Siam had prohibited the export of rice from Siam as from the 12th July except under licence did not tend to improve matters. The price of both Siam and Saigon rice continued to rise, the former to $15 a picul and the latter to $13 a picul, the poorer grades being rather less. To show how sensitive the feeling was in other countries, it may be mentioned that on the 26th June a telegram was received from H. M. Minister at Tokyo stating that the Japanese Minister at Bangkok reported that transhipment of rice at Hongkong was to be prohibited shortly and enquiring whether the report was correct.\n\n# 11. \nThe Officer Administering the Government thereupon summoned a meeting of Unofficial Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils on the 15th July, at which the Colonial Secretary and Mr. R. O. Hutchison were present, when it was decided to purchase the 27,500 tons of rice offered by the Food Controller, Singapore. A note of the proceedings is attached to this report. (`Appendix 1`)\n\n# 12. \nIt was realised that the Government would have to face a considerable loss of money in giving effect to the decision to purchase rice, and it at once became apparent that the loss would be increased owing to the high rate of discount on the Hongkong dollar at Saigon. The discount at first was 28 per cent, but on subsequent purchases was somewhat lower. The Treasurer arranged with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for the financing of the purchases in Saigon, and the Government is much indebted to that institution for the valuable assistance rendered in this matter and for the moderate rate of four per cent interest that has been charged on the overdraft. On the 26th July a telegram was received from the Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements, to the effect that owing to an error the Food Controller had offered 27,500 tons whereas 1,700 tons only were available, the balance having been sold to the Netherlands Indies. As no further supplies could be got from Saigon except at a prohibitive price, it became necessary to make purchases locally and this was done to the extent of about 10,000 tons principally of broken rice to mix with the Saigon rice on arrival.\n\n# 13. \nMr. R. O. Hutchison was put in charge of the general control of the rice position and five of the leading Chinese rice merchants were invited to act on a Committee to arrange the purchase and price of rice for local consumption. Sufficient godown space was rented and everything was in order to begin sales on the 1st August.\n\n# 14. \nUnfortunately, at the end of July, typhoon weather prevailed and it was impossible to convey rice across the harbour to Yaumati. The result was that a portion of the population started looting rice shops and a riot took place outside the Yaumati Police Station. The Naval Authorities lent the tug \"Cherub\" and the Military Authorities the tug \"Omphale\" on the 28th July, which made it possible to send some rice to Yaumati and Hunghom. With the exception of some looting, no other disturbances occurred. The rice was guarded by Military escorts for two days while being conveyed from the tugs to the shops. In Victoria, looting on a rather serious scale took place for about a week, and it became necessary to start the Government sales of rice before the organization was completed.\n\n# 15. \nIt will be convenient to deal now with other measures taken to obtain supplies of rice. The July crop in the New Territories was a good one, and in order to ensure that the rice did not go into Kuangtung, all export except to Hongkong was prohibited.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488514, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## 248 \n\n8 \n\nAn electric light plant on No. 1 Fire Float has been approved and will be supplied forthwith. The float will be lighted up and clusters of lights worked from the float or in the alternative a searchlight. A portable searchlight should be carried on No. 2 Boat. A certain number of powerful oil lamps and also electric hand torches should be carried on board as has been suggested. A coffee machine and a supply of provisions for firemen should also be carried on each float. The hose couplings of the 4\" hose should be discarded and automatic couplings provided. I further recommend that the Naval Authorities be approached in the matter of lending assistance when required, particularly at fires on board ships. Their general training and familiarity with ships make them particularly well fitted to fight an outbreak of fire on board ship. They are also supplied with smoke helmets. It would, I think, be advisable to have a definite arrangement with the Naval Authorities for the supply of men and smoke helmets when required, provided they agree. Naval parties at present attend all large fires and are most useful but their services would be invaluable at ship fires.\n\n### C-Fire Stations \n\nExclusive of two small Fire Stations at Shaukiwan and Un Long, each containing a steam fire engine, the Fire Stations consist of:-\n\n1. 3-storied old building in Queen's Road Central, Victoria.\n2. New Fire Station at Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui.\n\nThe present Fire Brigade Headquarters are quite unsuitable for Fire Brigade work. They consist of a number of tenement houses converted into what must have been intended as temporary Fire Brigade premises only. The building is too small, has no yard or drill ground of any kind and obstructs the footpath. It is also situated on a narrow street which hampers the movement of the fire appliances, and the street is completely obstructed when the Brigade turns out. The premises are too small to house the number of fire appliances on order or the personnel. The turntable ladders could not be housed there owing to their size. Plans for a new Station opposite the Central Market have been prepared and work will, it is hoped, be commenced on the new Fire Brigade Headquarters this year. This building meets all the latest requirements of an up-to-date Station and will be an invaluable asset to the Brigade when completed. It contains accommodation for 8 motor appliances, quarters for 100 firemen, married quarters for Chinese Foremen, mechanics and others who must necessarily live on the premises, and married quarters also for the Superintendent and the Station Officer (European). A hose tower, drill tower and an ample yard are also provided. Rapid access to the ground floor from the firemen's quarters will be provided by means of brass poles. Doors opening automatically will also be fitted. Drying rooms and machine shops are also included. (See Appendix C.) This building can, however, hardly be completed under 2 to 3 years, as it forms one side of a large block of buildings covering the whole site opposite the Central Market in Des Voeux Road. It will therefore be necessary to house the Brigade or some part of it in temporary premises to supplement the present premises in Queen's Road Central. Such premises can be erected on the temporary reclamation near No. 2 Police Station, Wanchai. According to the present scheme, it is not proposed to have Sub-Stations in Victoria but to concentrate the entire Brigade at Headquarters, but should it be found advisable, the question of Sub-Stations can be considered in connection with new District Police Stations in Wanchai and Sai Ying Pun Districts. It might be well to station one Motor pump with extension ladder in each of these districts, but no doubt the experience gained by opening the temporary Sub-Station in Wanchai will make it possible to come to definite conclusions on this subject. The temporary premises should be large enough to take two machines and 20 firemen. They should be ready in time to take one or more of the new machines on order from home which will arrive in the autumn. This arrangement appears to be the best solution of the housing problem of the Brigade in Victoria during the erection of the new Headquarters.\n\nThe new premises in Kowloon are adequate for the equipment of the Brigade, but it will be necessary shortly to erect quarters for the firemen on the premises. They are at present housed at the Water Police Station adjoining, where the accommodation is inadequate. Owing to the excellent situation of the Fire Station on a broad thoroughfare giving easy access to all parts of Kowloon, it is considered that this Station will suffice for the needs of the peninsula for some time to come.\n\n### (III)-Water Supply and Water Pressure \n\nGenerally speaking, the water supply for fire purposes is good. It is controlled by the Water Authority, a Sub-Department of the P.W.D. The pressure in Victoria is good, though it varies considerably in different districts at different hours. Group Hydrants have been supplied throughout the City as shown in Appendix D. The group hydrants consist of groups of three hydrants at important points. The motor pumps are worked off a dam which is kept filled by the 3 hydrants which are close together, one hydrant being insufficient for the purpose as the draw off by the pump is too great. Before the introduction of group hydrants, much time was lost in connecting up two or three hydrants situated some distance apart to feed the dam. It is further proposed to pump direct from the mains when possible by means of 3-way collecting heads fitted direct to the suction of the pump, thus avoiding the use of a dam, as the latter entails a good deal of waste of water and loss of pressure in the mains. The only difficulty which still exists as regards water pressure in the City is on the upper levels. These cannot be reached by the Motor Pumps, as there is no motor road to such levels, as Queen's Gardens, May Road and Conduit Road. The danger of serious conflagrations on these levels is, however, slight as the houses are detached or semi-detached. The pressure in the mains is sufficient to confine an outbreak to the premises it starts in. The same remarks apply to the Peak where the fire appliances are confined to Despatch Boxes containing hose and standpipes and nozzles which are worked direct off the mains.\n\nIn Kowloon, group hydrants have been provided as shown in Appendix D. The pressure is very good indeed in Sham Shui Po (Sai Kok), which is now connected up by a 10\" main to the 12\" principal feed main. This main is also available in Shanghai Street up to Waterloo Road. Tsim Sha Tsui is as yet not getting the benefit of the 15\" main in Kowloon Road as this main cannot be connected to the 18\" main in Taipo Road until the Nathan Road end of Coronation Road is driven through the hill. It is anticipated that this connection will be through in about a year. Hunghom is supplied by an 8\" main. The principal buildings at Tsim Sha Tsui, e.g., The Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.'s premises and Holt's Wharf are served by the Fire Floats as are also the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co.'s premises. Outlying shipyards are mainly protected by the Fire Floats. Such premises, however, should have and mostly do have their own fire appliances to supplement the Government Fire Brigade. The owners of premises where there are furnaces, blacksmith's shops and matsheds cannot expect the entire fire protection of their premises to be undertaken by the Fire Brigade. They should have their own fire service as is the case already on all such premises as H.M. Naval Yard, The Kowloon & Whampoa Docks and the Tai Koo Docks.\n\n### (IV)-Estimate of Cost of Fire Brigade \n\nThe upkeep of the Fire service at present costs $77,213 p.a. made up as follows:\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | $36,700 |\n| Other Charges | $40,513 |\n| Total | $77,243 |\n\nSpecial expenditure on new appliances for the year 1921 is estimated at $11,220. To which $16,600 must be added owing to loss in exchange and higher prices prevailing now. Total $27,820.\n\nThe proposed expenditure entailed by the re-organization of the Brigade, which includes all changes except Buildings, is as follows:\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | $59,102 |\n| Other Charges | $19,500 |\n| Total | $78,602 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488609, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 350, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## EXPENDITURE\n\nG, Governor | 90,526.45\nColonial Secretary's Department and Legis | \nSecretaries for Chinese Affairs | 57,716.27\nAudit Department | 34,897.83\nTreasury | 74,222.34\nHarbour Master's Department | 231,146.38\nImports & Exports Department | 502,114.66\nRoyal Observatory | 25,965.53\nMiscellaneous Services | 1,410,230.36\nJudicial and Legal Departments | 286,591.65\nPolice and Prison Department | 1,402,680.07\nMedical Departments | 331,020.81\nSanitary Department | 403,759.44\nBotanical and Forestry Department | 55,975.49\nEducation | 537,512.55\nMilitary Expenditure | 2,789,208.68\nPublic Works Department | 488,987.78\nDo. Recurrent | 800,254.37\nDo. Extraordinary | 2,555,877.69\nPost Office | 268,713.85\nKowloon-Canton Railway | 822,567.68\nCharge on account of Public Debt | 677,341.19\nPensions | 252,081.83\nCharitable Services | 169,116.89\nTOTAL | $14,489,593.52\n\nThe balance to the credit on the year's working was $200,078 and the assets and liabilities account showed on the 31st December a credit balance of $4,490,288.\n\n## The following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1916-1920:\n\n| Year | Revenue | Expenditure |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1916 | $13,833,387 | $11,079,915 |\n| 1917 | $15,058,105 | $14,000,828 |\n| 1918 | $18,065,248 | $16,252,172 |\n| 1919 | $16,524,975 | $17,915,925 |\n| 1920 | $14,689,672 | $14,489,594 |\n\n5-\n\nThe amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £338,687. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $438,203 and £84,751 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1920, resulting as follows:-\n\n### Increases:\n- The City of Victoria | $875,010\n- The Hill District | 1,570\n- Shaukiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay | 6,385\n- Hongkong Villages | 46,013\n- Kowloon Point | 24,150\n- Yaumati | 52,805\n- Mongkoktsui | 55,135\n- Kowloon Villages | 26,400\n- New Territories | 10,580\n- | 790\n\n### Decrease:\n- Hanghom and Hok Un | \n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $17,108,059 having increased by $1,104,158.\n\nDuring the period 1911-1920 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $11,161,390 to $17,408,959, an increase in rateable value of $6,247,569.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows:-\n- Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation | $20,397,580\n- Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China | 10,061,863\n- Mercantile Bank of India, Limited | 1,000,009\nTotal | $31,459,452\n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hongkong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins less those demonetized, now amounts to $20,764,370 nominal value, and they were up to the year 1905 readily absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China. During 1916 ten cent pieces of the face value of $5,028,000 were shipped to Calcutta for purposes of demonetization. The discount which prevailed between 1905 and 1918 may be attributed to the immense quantity of similar coin which was minted at Canton as well as to the amount of Hongkong coin minted largely in excess of the needs of the Colony by itself. In 1905 the Hongkong Government ceased to issue any subsidiary coin and in 1906 it began a policy of demonetizing all its subsidiary coin received as revenue. This policy was continuously followed till 1918 except during a brief period in ... \n\n343", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488619, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 360, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "# \n- 21 - \n\nUpwards of 4,700 lineal feet of nullah were trained on the Island and mainland.\n\nPlans were prepared for the construction of Filter Beds at the Eastern end of Bowen Road, and a portion of the 18\" main, which will eventually connect these Filter Beds with the City, was laid from Wong Nei Chong Village to Morrison Gap Road. Plans were also prepared for additional Filter Beds at the Kowloon Water Works.\n\nThe laying of the new 18\" supply main from the Kowloon Filter Beds to Yaumati was practically completed, and a general improvement was made to the distribution system of Kowloon by replacing the existing subsidiary mains with larger ones.\n\nSmall supply systems for Repulse Bay and Fanling Districts were started.\n\nA reinforced concrete pier opposite Queen Victoria Street for the Ferry Service was in progress, being the first of a series it is proposed to erect for the improvement of the Ferry service of the Colony.\n\nThe Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Company, Ltd., made considerable extensions to their Dockyard at Hunghom by laying down additional slipways, extending workshops, and providing houses for their staff.\n\nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $2,555,877.69 and on annually recurrent works $825,493.70.\n\n## Railway\n\nThe steelwork and roofing materials for the platform awnings at Kowloon arrived early in the year, when a Contract for the erection, including drainage, was entered into, and the work is now completed. The lighting arrangements for the platforms were carried out by the Public Works Department. The platform awnings are of steel frame construction, roofed with corrugated asbestos cement sheeting, and provide a very necessary shelter from the sun and rain to a considerable portion of the platforms, as well as to the east side of the concourse.\n\nGood progress was made in the construction of the new wharf for Kowloon Station Yard which is built of reinforced concrete, the longest piles being 55 feet long. The wharf is 150 feet long and projects 50 feet from the sea-wall. There are six tiers of stairs which facilitate the transfer of cargo to and from local craft at any state of the tide.\n\nWith the exception of the cast iron stair treads, the wharf was completed at the end of the year.\n\nThe Electric Turret Clock for Kowloon Station Clock Tower arrived in the Autumn and the work of installing was at once begun. Unfortunately, however, progress has been seriously delayed owing to the non-arrival of necessary drawings and instructions from the makers.\n\n## \n\nThe repairing of Government Motor Cars and Motor Fire Engines is now undertaken by this Department, and a brick building has been erected in the Locomotive Yard to serve as a workshop for this purpose.\n\nAn iron building has also been erected near the workshops to accommodate the newly acquired electric welding plant which must necessarily be outside the workshops proper.\n\nOwing to the gradual growth of Yaumati and neighbourhood, the question of a wide-span road bridge, where the road will pass under the Railway north of Yaumati Station was again considered. Drawings were submitted to the Consulting Engineers who have since approved the general design and steelwork details and working drawings are now in preparation.\n\nIt had been observed for some time past that the rails in Beacon Hill Tunnel were rapidly wearing down and early in the year, a fractured rail was discovered.\n\nAfter a careful examination of the track throughout the tunnel, it was decided to relay with new rails, and reserve those taken out for sidings. Sufficient rails and fastenings for this work were ordered through the Crown Agents and are now in the Colony.\n\nOn April the 3rd, the fitters and turners of the Colony came out on strike, and the Railway fitters were compelled by their guild to join the strikers; 16 days later the drivers and firemen were obliged to stand off in sympathy with the fitters and turners. On April the 19th, however, the strike was settled by a Commission appointed by the Government of which the Honourable Mr. John Johnstone was chairman.\n\nDuring the absence of the Chinese Drivers, men from the Navy and Army were lent by the Authorities, and greatly assisted in maintaining the train service during the period of the strike.\n\nOn August the 1st, a washout occurred on the Chinese Section near Nam Kong which necessitated the cancelling of both the down morning express, and the up afternoon express for 5 days. A temporary footbridge was erected, and the train service partly maintained by the transfer of passengers at this point until August the 8th when the repairs were completed.\n\nShortly afterwards, owing to internal trouble in the Kwong Tung Province, through traffic was again seriously interrupted. Fighting occurred in Chinese Territory on September 16th near Nga Yeo (20 miles from Canton). The up afternoon and down morning through expresses were cancelled that day and, from the 17th to 20th with the exception of the up afternoon express on the 20th, the through and joint sectional trains were suspended between Canton and Sheklung in Chinese territory.\n\nFighting recommenced in October, resulting in further trouble in the Chinese territory; some rails were removed from the track near Sheklung on October the 6th; and a railway bridge between \n\nPage 353\nPage 360\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488641, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## CLASS VII.\n\n### UNDERTAKINGS OF GOVERNMENT\n\n#### 2. -Kowloon-Canton Railway, Continued.\n\n| Category | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Personal Emoluments** | | |\n| ‣ Increments | $4,753 | |\n| ‣ Revised Clerical Salaries | $28,441 | |\n| ‣ Good Conduct Allowances | $44 | |\n| ‣ Allowances Abolished | | -$18 |\n| ‣ New Posts (D'Aguilar Station) | $1,275 | |\n| ‣ Good Conduct Allowances | $54 | |\n| ‣ Other Allowances | | -$19 |\n| **Maintenance of Way, Works, and Stations** | | |\n| ‣ Ballast | $500 | |\n| ‣ Bridges and Tunnels | $2,500 | |\n| ‣ Fencing | $500 | |\n| ‣ Fastenings | $750 | |\n| ‣ Sleepers | $19,000 | |\n| ‣ Station Buildings | $4,300 | |\n| ‣ Roads and Crossings | $650 | |\n| **Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Department** | | |\n| ‣ Coal | $22,950 | |\n| ‣ Loading Coal | $150 | |\n| ‣ Locomotives, Oil | $1,500 | |\n| ‣ Carriages and Wagons, Oil | $500 | |\n| ‣ Materials for Repairs and Renewals | $50,278 | |\n| ‣ Miscellaneous | $1,319 | |\n| **Traje Department: Maintenance of Telegraph and Telephones** | $1,700 | |\n| **Traffic Department: Other Charges** | | |\n| ‣ Fouling Branch Line: Coal | $183 | |\n| ‣ Carriage of Mails: Share of Mail Subsidy | $20,146 | |\n| ‣ Transit charges | $20,000 | |\n| ‣ Coolie Hire | $12 | |\n| ‣ Launch: Repairs | $550 | |\n| ‣ Fanting Branch Line: Bridges | $50 | |\n| ‣ Station Building | $200 | |\n| ‣ Sleepers | | -$30,978 |\n| ‣ Transport: Post Office | $500 | |\n| **Total** | $53,629 | $38,203 |\n| **Total Increase** | $35,056 | |\n| **Total Decrease** | | -$38,206 |\n| **Net Increase** | $751 | |\n\n#### Special Expenditure\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Asphalting Platforms and Concourse | $160 |\n| Kowloon Station Boundary Wall and Shelter, Parkside | $16,300 |\n| Typewriter for Accounts Office | $3,200 |\n| Bottom Ballast in Mile 15 Cutting | $750 |\n| Bridge No. 7 | $7,000 |\n| Camera | $150 |\n| Bridge No. 37 | $2,500 |\n| Extension to Carriage Shed, Hunghom | $32,160 |\n| Drain at Mile 15 | $3,000 |\n| Extension to Fauling Station | $3,000 |\n| Installation of Water Closets in A and B Railway Quarters | $5,700 |\n| New Loco Sheds, Fanling Branch Line | $6,500 |\n| Extension to Workshops | $2,200 |\n| Installation of Electric Power | $1,000 |\n| Installation of Clock | $300 |\n| Latrine at Yaumati | $25,000 |\n| New Sidings and Station at Sheung Shui | $23,340 |\n| Logo Yard at Lowu | $8,000 |\n| Metric System, Introduction of | $15,000 |\n| New Carpenters Shop at Hunghom | $8,000 |\n| New Sidings: Kowloon | $2,500 |\n| Bati Anchars | $3,100 |\n| Loro Yard, Hunghom | $7,000 |\n| Additional Machines for Workshops | $2,200 |\n| Platform Awnings | $30,000 |\n| Spares for Locomotives | $750 |\n| Produce Shelter, Taip Market | $2,250 |\n| Furniture for Quarters | $240 |\n| Reinforced Concrete Wharf | $10,000 |\n| Artificial Foot: Kowloon Terminus | $40,500 |\n| Re-railing Tunnel No. 2 | |\n\n| Category | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Personal Emoluments** | | |\n| ‣ Lower Exchange and Stipulated Increments | $9,254 | |\n| ‣ New Posts | $8,317 | |\n| ‣ Revised rates | | -$724 |\n| ‣ Good Conduct Allowances | $610 | |\n| ‣ Other Allowances | $520 | |\n| ‣ Posts Abolished | | -$4,552 |\n| **Total Increase** | $140,040 | |\n| **Total Decrease** | | -$257,005 |\n| **Net Decrease** | | -$116,965 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488653, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n## St. Joseph's College\nHON. MR. POLLOCK-I beg to move the first reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance for the incorporation of the Christian Brothers School, known in French as L'Institut des Freres des Ecoles Chretiennes \" and known in Hongkong as St. Joseph's College**. As hon. members will see from the statement of Objects and Reasons attached to this Bill, certain property belonging to this Colony is now vested in an individual who is absent from the Colony and who does not intend to return. That, Sir, is a very inconvenient matter for the College and the object of this Bill is to incorporate St. Joseph's College so that the property that is acquired for this purpose may be vested in it.\n\nHON. MR. BIRD seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n## The Objects and Reasons\nThe Objects and Reasons state:-\n1. The Christian Brothers School in Hongkong known as St. Joseph's College has acquired certain immovable property in the Colony for the purpose of carrying on its scholastic work. This property is at present vested in the name of an individual who has now left the Colony and who does not intend to return. In order to avoid the inconvenience which arises and may arise owing to the property being vested in an absent owner it is desired that the School should be incorporated by Ordinance, as has already been done in the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States.\n\n2. The present Bill effects such incorporation and contains the necessary provisions for evidencing the appointment of the Director in Hongkong of St. Joseph's College for the time being.\n\n## Public Health and Buildings (Amendment) Ordinance\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL-I beg to move that the last item on the Order-the second reading of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to amend further the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903-** be discharged. So many amendments have been proposed to this Bill that it is better to withdraw it, and begin again with a fresh draft to be read a first time at a later meeting of the Council.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was discharged.\n\n## The Adjournment\nHIS EXCELLENCY—I would suggest that we meet this day week in order to dispose of the minor items on the paper, leaving the subsequent meeting clear for the Supply Bill, if that meets with the approval of members.\n\nNo member dissenting His EXCELLENCY this day week at 2.30 p.m. said: The Council will adjourn until \n\n# FINANCE COMMITTEE\nA meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presiding.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR recommended the Council to vote the sums set out below:\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Railway Wagons | $21,213 |\n| The Governor's Incidental Expenses | $1,000 |\n| Path at Hunghom | $2,500 |\n| Water Works | $10,000 |\n| Gratuity to Inventor | £250 |\n| Launch Hire by Prison Department | $2,000 |\n| Public Works in New Territories | $3,000 |\n| Sanitary Department Launches and Stores | $6,500 |\n\n## Railway Wagons\n$21,213, on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure. Wagons.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN said-No provision was made in the estimates for the current year in respect of the wagons, as it was expected that they would be paid for in 1920. The final accounts received recently and the sum asked for were only the equivalent in dollars of the balance due.\n\nApproved.\n\n## The Governor's Incidental Expenses\n$1,000, in aid of the vote Governor. Other Charges, Incidental Expenses.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN-The expenditure was cut down from $2,000 to $1,000, and proved insufficient. The sum of $2,000 is provided for next year.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Path at Hunghom\n$2,500, on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon, Communications, Roads, Path 10 feet wide to the North of Hunghom Inland Lot No. 257.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN-In connection with the recent extension granted to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., the Company, under one of the lease conditions, has to form half of the 60-foot road. In order to facilitate the Company's operations in removing the soil from a large portion of the road, it is necessary that an outlet should be provided over Crown land. This track is to be made of sufficient width to allow for a double line of trucks. The tender for making this track is $2,160 and $2,500 is asked for to cover all possible contingencies. I may say that the road tender of the Dock Company is considered a very reasonable one.\n\nHON. MR. BIRD-Is the Dock Company going to make use of the road as well?\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN-Just for getting out the material; it is their stuff.\n\nTHE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS—They cannot get to the sea with their material unless they go over this piece of land. This track will form a portion of the road of which the Dock Company's road will be a continuation.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Water Works\n$10,000, on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Water Works, Reconstruction of unfiltered water main from Albany to Elliot Filter Beds.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN-This is required to lay an 18-inch main to convey an additional supply of water from Albany to Eliot Filter Beds. The balance of $80,000 is provided in the estimates next year.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Gratuity to Inventor\n£250, on account of Miscellaneous Services, Gratuity to Mr. S. G. Goard in respect of the use by the Colonial Government of his invention of improvements relating to Ships' Moorings.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN-This question has been before the Committee before. In return for this the Colony will receive the full benefit of Mr. Goard's invention in regard to harbour moorings.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Launch Hire by Prison Department\n$2,000, in aid of the vote Prison Department, Other Charges, Incidental Expenses.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN-The launch V.G.I. was sold as she was useless. The sum of $2,000 is for the hire of the steam launch P.D.I costing $400 a month, and being used by the Prison Department.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Public Works in New Territories\n$3,000, in aid of the vote Public Works, Recurrent, New Territories, Buildings, (37) Maintenance of Buildings.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--The vote is $15,000. The reasons for requiring a further $3,000 are the high percentage of the contract rate above schedule rates and the abnormal amount of repairs required in connection with the upkeep of Taipo and Au Tau Police Stations.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Sanitary Department Launches and Stores\n$6,500, in aid of the following votes:- Sanitary Department, Other Charges: \n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Launches, Steam Barges and Lighters: Repairs | $4,200.00 |\n| Stores | $2,300.00 |\n| Total | $6,500.00 |\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN In connection with the first item: repairs to Sanitary Board steam launches and lighters, the Chairman reports that the shortage in this vote is due to the necessity for quarterly overhauling. Prior to the sinking of S.D. 1 in July, 1920, this was done only at intervals of six months. The cost of maintenance is larger owing to their length of service. The number of defects found is constantly increasing. In regard to the new boiler of S.D. 1 the increased cost of skilled labour contributed towards the deficiency. As regards stores, the shortage of the vote is due to the quarterly overhaul.\n\nApproved.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488654, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## A Railway Vote\n\n$475, on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway Special Expenditure, Switch Board, Lighting, etc.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--A telephone cable is being laid to Hunghom and the manager of the Railway recommends that the exchange at the locomotive shed be abolished and the store and quarters be connected direct with the exchange at Kowloon. He has gone into the cost and the Director of Public Works agrees that the proposal is a good one. $300 is included for a larger switchboard. At the same time, he recommends the laying of underground cable to the standards in Kowloon Station yard. The wire is in a very bad condition. The cost of that is $175, making up the estimate of $475.\n\nApproved.\n\n## P.W.D. Transport and Travelling Expenses\n\n$3,500, in aid of the vote Public Works, Establishment, Other Charges, Transport and Travelling Expenses.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This sum is $1,160 less than the average expenditure of the last three years. In addition to this, charges for motor cars, hitherto paid by various votes, are now being charged to this one vote and there is considerable departmental extension.\n\nApproved.\n\n## A Typewriter\n\n$270, in aid of the vote Public Works, Establishment, Special Expenditure, Typewriter.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--A typewriter is urgently required for the Land Survey Office.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Drawing Materials\n\n$3,500, in aid of the vote Public Works, Establishment, Other Charges, Drawing Materials and Mounting Plans.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This vote is $2,500, but some print linen to the value of $2,280 did not arrive in time to be paid for last year. There has been also an increase of staff in the Survey and Architectural Offices.\n\nApproved.\n\n## New Buoys\n\n$1,430, in aid of the vote Harbour Department, A-Harbour Office, Other Charges, Purchase of buoys and Moorings.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This is required to complete the purchase of six new buoys and moorings. The estimate was $89,000 but the entire cost is $90,130; the buoys include two A class and four B class.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Higher Costs\n\n$5,120, in aid of the following votes:-\n| Vote | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Medical Department, Other Charges: Lunatic Asylum: Provisions, etc. | $1,500.00 |\n| Victoria Hospital: Fuel and Light Provisions, etc. | $600.00 |\n| Government Laboratory: Apparatus, etc. | $1,000.00 |\n| Books and Journals | $20.00 |\n| | $2,000.00 |\n| Total | $5,120.00 |\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This is due, as to the Lunatic Asylum, to a large increase of patients and the high cost of provisions; Victoria Hospital: the increased cost of milk and extras and installation of geysers. At the Government Laboratories the cost of apparatus was considerably more. The catalogues from which the estimates were made out were found to be out-of-date.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Railway Bridge at Samchun\n\n$900, in aid of the vote Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, Bridge No. 37.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--In connection with widening Bridge 37, near Shumchun, to facilitate shunting operations timbering was found necessary.\n\nApproved.\n\n## New Site for Queen's College\n\n$160,000, in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, (36) Compensation and Resumptions.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This item is for the purchase of Inland Lot 358, Caroline Hill the site of the future Queen's College.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds\n\n$500, in aid of the vote Botanical and Forestry Department, Other Charges, Maintenance of Gardens and Grounds.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--The vote maintenance of gardens and grounds has been nearly exhausted. A supplementary vote of $500 is required for the remaining two months of the year. It is partly due to the re-laying of the tennis court at the Government Quarters at Taipo, $250, also turf laying, and removing black soil and disintegrated granite at Government House.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Electric Fans and Lights for C.S.O.\n\n$120 in aid of the vote Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature, Other Charges, Electric Fans and Light.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This is for the Colonial Secretary's Department.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Miscellaneous Works\n\n$10,862, in aid of various votes. The breakdown includes: the Hongkong Harbour approach lights $10,862, red warning signs $240, small works connected with the D.O. South $230, fire alarms Laichikok $550; motor garage, Taipo $1,500; approach road Samshui police station $400; fans, warder's quarters, Laichikok $700; removing and re-erecting boat house $260. There is an allowance for contingencies and small unapproved items amounting to $4,087.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN suggested a reduction by $3,000 and this was agreed to.\n\n## Typhoon and Rainstorm Damage\n\n$11,500, in aid of the following votes:-\n| Vote | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Public Works, Recurrent: Kowloon, Miscellaneous: (34) Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages | $8,500 |\n| New Territories, Miscellaneous: (45) Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages | $3,000 |\n| Total | $11,500 |\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--The vote is $10,000 which had already been before the Council, was $7,980.65. Since then the estimated cost of further damage incurred is $18,500 or $8,500 more than the estimate. On Public Works Recurrent, the expenditure to 29th July is $7,573. New Territories, the vote is $15,000 and the estimated cost of further damage is $18,000.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Miscellaneous Works in New Territories\n\n$9,000, in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, New Territories, Miscellaneous, (86) Miscellaneous Works.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This vote has already been before members. The vote was $14,000 and the real reason that made the expenditure considerably higher than the sum now asked for.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Development in New Kowloon\n\n$50,000, in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, New Territories, Communications, Roads, 77 (f) General Works.\n\nTHE CHAIRMAN--This sum of $50,000 is arrived at as follows: The Department of Public Works forwarded for approval an additional programme of road work.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488670, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 411, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "403 \n\n- \n\n13 \n\nThe ground is not available, we must look to Kowloon. The railway there from Hunghom to the Tunnel mouth might be lined with small houses of the nature suggested - later on, the foot hills around King's Park will doubtless be made accessible by means of roads. In this connection, I would ask that the site suggested for the New Kowloon Cemetery be not adopted. Some day, that valley will be required for a recreation ground, and the hill and slopes surrounding it will be covered with houses. I agree with you, Sir, that we should take a long view of the future position, both as regards the island and the mainland. The census shows a continued increase in the European and Chinese population, and it seems incredible that Hongkong should stand still. I may be accused of being over optimistic, but no pessimist I ever met was endowed with anything that seemed to encourage him to look upwards and enjoy the heights.\n\nBoth the uplooker and the downlooker, Sir, may be apt to bump into the lamp posts of reality, but I believe more good is done in the world by optimism than by the reverse.\n\n**HON. MR. A. G. STEPHEN**\n\n## WIDER ASPECTS OF THE COLONY'S FINANCES\n\nThe Hon. Mr. A. G. Stephen: Senior unofficial member and my two unofficial colleagues have dealt so ably and in such detail with the various items of the Budget that I do not propose to do more than invite your consideration to a few of the wider aspects of the finances of the Colony. Although this is considered generally to be a lightly taxed community, living expenses have increased enormously during the last fifteen years. Men of the Foreign Community of moderate means find it difficult to live decently and provide for the education of their families at home, while the labouring classes, although their wages have increased, seem no better off than they formerly were. Various factors account for this: since the war, the value of money has decreased all over the world, but I think the principal reason here is the great increase in rents which has affected all classes. And I hope the Government will very seriously consider the remarks which have been made by Mr. Bird. The Government dealt with this question last summer - reluctantly, I am sure, as it is, as a rule, not good policy to interfere with the ordinary law of supply and demand. But I think the root of the trouble should be sought for. It is a matter of common gossip that there is a ring of contractors here in combination which has forced up the cost of building beyond all reason. The price of one service to the community reacts on the price of everything else, and, until housing accommodation is available for all classes at a moderate rate, Hongkong can never regain its old reputation as a cheap port.\n\n## LIVING FROM HAND TO MOUTH\n\nIt appears to me that the Budget has hitherto been framed with almost sole regard to the amount of money which the P.W.D. can expend. Some months ago, you raised the rates, and when, in the course of a few weeks, you found the P.W.D. were not likely to spend so much as was expected, you lowered them again. If you increase that establishment so that the Public Works in hand can be more expeditiously proceeded with, you will, following the precedent of recent years, have to increase your taxation to keep pace with their activities. I think", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488679, "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": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 420, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## BUILDING OVER KING'S PARK\n\nThe hon. member mentioned the opening up of King's Park for building sites. Hon. members will remember the project we had for building about 40 houses, but the project had to be dropped owing to the larger question of the transfer of military establishments, and the uncertainty as to what areas would be required.\n\nAs regards the large sum spent on providing quarters for Government, I cannot quite follow the hon. member either in his statement or in his request to the Government at the end of it. The houses that are being built are expensive; they are being very well built because it has undoubtedly been proved that to build houses of good material, which will require only a very small outlay annually in repairs, is a far better policy than to put up houses which will always be a heavy expense. Some of the houses we have put up may be considered rather too large, and in some cases, I think that is so, but I consider it not a bad thing to err a little on the side of being too large rather than too small. Besides, they are built in situations and in such a manner as to ensure the health of public officers, and that possibly will make it unnecessary for officers to take leave as frequently as they have owing to reasons of health. As regards Government building quarters not already projected, I can give no guarantee because there are a good many officers who have no quarters at the present time. The policy of building quarters was started on the suggestion of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and we embarked upon it, and with the housing difficulty arising since, I do not think there is any question that if sites are available, we shall go on building quarters for public officers until we have housed the whole Service. I do not follow the hon. member's argument at all.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. POLLOCK: May I have an opportunity of answering that?\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR: You will be out of order.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY: In regard to buildings in the New Territories referred to by the hon. member on my left (Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak), very simple regulations have been drawn up. The last thing we desire to do is to harass the people there, but if a man builds a house more than two storeys high, we have some duty to those who live in the house to see that it does not fall down upon them. One point which the Hon. Mr. Bird referred to related to the water supply and the necessity of bringing a pipe across the harbour. The time may come when that may arise. I hope the hon. member does not suggest that because the Director of Public Works had thought it might be necessary to make use of the rider mains system in the Western district, that it was due to any shortage of water supply. We have an abundant water supply, but there happened to be a difficulty—a shortage of pipe. The means of getting water to that particular district when it was wanted were lacking. The question of bringing water from the mainland may have to be considered in a few years, as His Excellency stated in his speech on the Estimates.\n\nThe removal of the Dairy Farm is, I think, not a practical possibility. There are many reasons why it is inadvisable to remove the Dairy Farm from the island where there is such a vast population and where it has been carried on so satisfactorily. We may, however, get considerable areas at Pokfulum for building without injuring the work of the Dairy Farm in any way.\n\nWith regard to the proposal to build houses along the railway from Hunghom...\n\nPage 420 \nPage 421", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492107, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1922]\n\ning and generally on business. Such fears, I am glad to say, proved not well founded. There has been a very considerable amount of building during the past year and I had hoped it would be sufficient to relieve the previous shortage of housing accommodation to the extent that it would make it unnecessary to continue the Bill in operation. I am informed, however, that this has not been the case and it is still necessary to continue to keep this Bill alive; otherwise, tenants would be in the unfortunate position from which we had to rescue them last year. They would be at the mercy of unscrupulous landlords. I have, therefore, to give notice that it is the intention of the Government to propose in the next few weeks that the Ordinance restricting rents should be retained in operation another year. During the course of this year there have been communications to the effect that the Ordinance in certain circumstances had worked hardship on the landlords, and it might be that we shall think it desirable to introduce amendments which will require consideration. It will be of great assistance to the Government if those landlords or others who have found that the operation of the Ordinance as it stands needs amendment will inform the Government fully of the points to which they object in order that we may consider how far they weaken the principle of the measure.\n\nTHE ADJOURNMENT.\n\nI propose that the Council adjourn till this day week, and as there will be very little before the Council, I propose, unless members object, that we should meet at 12 o'clock on that day.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY intimated that he would like the members of the Council to remain after the meeting of the Finance Committee.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY later returned to the Council Chamber, but this meeting was not open to the Press.\n\nFINANCE COMMITTEE.\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee was held, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presiding.\n\nRAILWAY NOTES.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,200 in aid of the vote Kowloon-Canton Railway, Other Charges Maintenance of Way, works and stations, repairs, Station buildings.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nThe Hon. Mr. POLLOCK: It is done at night properly, and fill the cisterns ready for the next morning.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: Yes. The vote was agreed to.\n\nEX-SERVICE MEN.\n\nSUCCESSFUL RE-UNION DINNER.\n\n\"THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST.\"\n\nThe Ex-Active Service Men's Association held a most successful re-union dinner at the Hongkong Hotel on March 18th. A large company assembled and the spirit of good comradeship evoked in the trenches of France and Flanders was manifest in the gathering. The President (W. St. A. Malleson, V.C., R.N.) was in the chair and the guests included H.E. Sir John Fowler, K.C.M.G., C.B., Colonel Nicholson, Mr. H. Percy Smith, and Captain Fisher.\n\nDuring the evening \"The Silent Toast\" was honoured and the \"Last Post\" was sounded by one of the King's Regiment buglers; also the sergeant in charge of the buglers. \"Old Bill\" was there in costume issue. The menu card was as follows:-\n\nRATIONS.\n\n1-Estaminet Cocktail.\n\n2. Trench Soup (and plenty of it).\n\n3. Sole a la Whizz Bang.\n\n4.-Fillet of Shrapnel en Hellfire Corner.\n\n5. \"Somme\" Chicken.\n\n6-Iced Asparagus (of your dreams).\n\n7.-Pipsqueak en Surprise.\n\n8-Mills Bombs on Toast.\n\n9. Dessert (please don't).\n\n10.-Coffee and Rum (Watch the Sergeant Major).\n\nProfessor MIDDLETON SMITH, in proposing the toast of the Association, congratulated the Association on the pleasant reunions it had organised to keep members in touch with one another, and spoke of the value of keeping green memories of the great effort the Empire made in 1914-1918. The times, he said, were somewhat out of joint and the future would not be bright unless the splendid spirit of comradeship and high endeavour shown in the war continued to prevail.\n\nThe PRESIDENT (Lieut. Malleson, V.C.), in responding to the toast, laid emphasis on the need of a club where ex-Service men could meet and be sure of finding the glad hand extended to them. He did not think the Association would ever get going properly until they had acquired a club house of their own.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: The Engineer of the railway has reported that in consequence of the abnormally heavy traffic recently passing through, the collapsible gates have been seriously damaged and should be taken in hand at once. There are new gates and it is proposed to utilise them, and the estimate for carrying this work into effect is $1,200.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $5,386 on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure, additional sidings, Loco Yard, Hunghom.\n\nMr. Tom WRIGHT responded to a call for a speech, and extending a cordial welcome to General Fowler, Mr. Mackintosh said that they were ready to follow the General in the battle of peace as they did in the battles of war- (Applause).\n\nMajor General FOWLER, replying on behalf of the visitors, said that he felt greatly honoured by having been invited to reply to this toast. As far as he was concerned, he would assist the Association to the utmost of his ability. He also looked to the Association to help in the maintaining of order.\n\nA voice: We will do our best for you, Sir.\n\nDuring the evening an excellent concert took place and the whole assembly joined in many songs reminiscent of army life.\n\nTHE BRITISH LEGION.\n\nREPETITION OF THE ANNUAL MEETING.\n\nThe British Legion, aggrieved by the stabs of the anonymous letter-writer, held its annual meeting over again at the City Hall on March 20th. The Committee, elected at a sparsely attended meeting during the strike, had resigned en bloc. This time there was a large attendance.\n\nA \"vote of confidence\" in the President (Brig.-General E. B. Macnaghten) was indicated by his being elected to the chair. Someone then proposed that the decisions of the earlier meeting should be endorsed forthwith. Another member thought it would be better to have each name formally proposed and seconded. In the end, the course was adopted of asking members to fill in ballot papers, taking the names according to their choice, from the full list of members of the Legion.\n\nThe result of the ballot was declared as follows:-\n\nPresident, Brig.-General E. B. Macnaghten; Chairman, Mr. A. Murdoch; Vice-Chairman, Mr. H. C. Gray; Hon. Secretary, Mr. H. K. Holmes; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. W. J. Hawker; Hon. Auditors, Mr. H. Spicer and Mr. A. Piercy.\n\nCommittee.-Lieut. Conway Hake, the Rev. C. C'ouston Porri, Mr. G. K. Hall Bratton, Lieut.-Col. L. G. Bird, Mr. T. W. Hill, Mr. M. H. Turner, Mr. H. W. Roberts, Mr. F. W. James, and Mr. H. S. Burleigh.\n\nIn the course of the proceedings, the Chairman read a letter from the Captain Superintendent of Police stating that the Legion had been the first to offer services in the special constabulary during the strike and thanking them for the excellent example set and the good work done.\n\nDr. TEESDALE MACKINTOSH, in proposing the toast of \"The Visitors,\" urged those of the guests who were eligible to become members of the Association to see that before Sunday dawned they got hold of the secretary and joined up. To those who were \"really bona fide visitors,\" he appealed for their support and sympathy. \"We have,\" said Dr. Mackintosh, \"annoyed a great many people in this Colony (Cheers) and we have trod upon a great many peoples' corns. If these people have corns, they must expect to have them trod upon.\"\n\nAMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.\n\nA London telegram says:-An overwhelming majority of amateur golfers voted in favour of the suggested new Amateur Championship rules, which include a stroke qualifying competition over 38 holes. Thirty-two competitors will be played over thirty-six holes.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. PARR: Does it mean that the 1920 and 1921 championships were circularised and 129 voted for the change, 19 against, and 90 did not reply? A petition was presented to the authorities forthwith with the request that this revision will govern the 1922 championship at Prestwich in May.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: The Manager of the Railway states that they are experiencing great difficulty in the cleaning of the coaches. This work is done at Hunghom at the loco yard, and after discussing the matter with the Traffic Superintendent, it was decided to concentrate and transfer the whole of the cleaning to Hunghom, putting in three sidings and laying additional water pipes.\n\nA gentleman, who was a parson, had suggested to him that Hongkong needed a quiet day in the Cathedral. Hongkong did not want a quiet day. What Hongkong wanted was an earthquake (Loud cheers). He wanted this Association to provide that earthquake. He wanted it to put an end to this splendid spirit of isolation and this peculiar halo that surrounded the people who dwelt so many hundred feet above the sea level. He wanted to bring them down out of the fog.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN: The fact is that with the present accommodation, it is impossible to clean the coaches in time for the next day's traffic, but if they have them concentrated in one place, they can clean them properly.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492280, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "September 3rd, 1921.]\n\nIn giving judgment, His Lordship said the only legal defence raised by the defendants was that the contract entered into was not an enforcible contract. On that point he had heard evidence and found that the agreement for a lease between the parties was sufficient and valid. The defence therefore failed, and judgment was entered for the plaintiff with costs, the order for possession to be suspended for one month.\n\nDWELLING OR GODOWN?\n\nA claim to recover possession of the ground floor of premises situated in Pottinger Street, and at present occupied by the Cheung Hing firm, was heard before the Puisne Judge (Mr. J. R. Wood), in the Summary Court, on August 31st. The writ set out that the premises in question were used as a godown and not as a domestic tenement within the meaning of the Rents Ordinance.\n\nFor the plaintiff, Wong Tsai, Mr. F. E. Nash appeared; and the claim was opposed on behalf of the defendants by Mr. M. K. Lo.\n\nThe first floor of the same building is also occupied by the defendants and at the outset it was agreed that this portion of the premises was a domestic tenement within the meaning of the Ordinance. The issue was as to whether the two floors were let under a single tenancy, or separately, and Mr. Nash undertook to call evidence to prove that the latter was the case.\n\nIn the witness box the plaintiff stated that the ground floor was let first at a rental of $60, and the first floor later at a rental of $40.\n\nMr. Lo, however, was able to produce rent receipts showing that both floors were let together at a rental of $80 and the Judge decided that the claim should be dismissed.\n\nHis Honour held that the two floors constituted a domestic tenement and that any claim for possession must therefore be brought under the Rents Ordinance. The present application had been made outside the provisions of the Ordinance and must therefore fail.\n\nJudgment was given for the defendants with costs.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nEUROPEAN FINED FOR ASSAULTING AN INDIAN SERGEANT.\n\nThe hearing took place, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, on August 27th, of the adjourned summonses against John Thompson, master mariner, staying at the Carlton Hotel, alleging disorderly conduct outside the Hongkong Hotel on the night of August 25th, and an assault upon an Indian police sergeant.\n\nThe defendant, who was represented by Mr. D. H. Blake (of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist), cross-summoned the police sergeant for assault and using abusive language.\n\nMr. T. H. King, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, conducted the case for the prosecution.\n\nPolice Sergeant Nabi Bux, B246, said he had been 22 years in the force and was now on traffic duty. On August 25th, at 8.45 p.m., he was on general patrol duty near the Hongkong Hotel. The sergeant on duty there, L/S B135, asked him to stand by his post for a minute, and he did so. While there, he noticed a yellow chow bitch running under the Hongkong Hotel verandah. It was running after, and barking at people; he saw it do this four times. Afterwards it stood by two Europeans—the defendant and another. He went up to the two Europeans and said, in English \"Please catch this dog; biting any passengers.\" The answer he received was \"Get away, you black...\" Mr. King: Who said that? The witness (pointing to the defendant): This gentleman.\n\nThe witness went on to say that, in response to this, he said, again in English, \"Please you not abuse me; you get this dog.\" Again, with bad language. For the second time he said, \"Why you abuse me, please?\" Defendant said, \"This is not my dog.\" Witness said \"Not your dog, I catch this dog and go police station.\" As he bent to catch the dog, and called it to him, he received a blow on his shoulders from the defendant. Witness was on the roadway at the time; the defendant came out from under the verandah and struck him. Defendant appeared to be about to strike another blow, but witness took hold of him and another constable came and also held him. Together, they took him to the police station. The dog followed, still barking and running at people. Defendant resisted them most of the way to the station.\n\nThe witness said he did not, at any time, use any other words to the defendant beyond what he had said, nor did he abuse him in Hindustani.\n\nMr. King: During this altercation did the other European say or do anything at all? Witness: No, he did not interfere. He took no part but came to the police station with us.\n\nBefore the defendant struck you that blow did you touch him at all?—No.\n\nIn cross-examination, the witness denied that he threatened to shoot the dog or that he used objectionable language to the defendant.\n\nMr. Blake: I put it to you that you did, more than once, and used other words such as \"swine.\"\n\nWitness: No, I do not abuse Chinese. Should I use such language to an English gentleman?\n\nP.-c. B284 saw the beginning of the incident. The Indian sergeant spoke to the Europeans and pointed to the dog. Then he saw the sergeant bend down to the dog and the defendant struck him a blow. The sergeant caught hold of his arm and witness went up and took hold of the other arm. They took him to the police station.\n\nCross-examined: He had met the defendant before. The latter accompanied him to the station, a few days ago, and accused him of assaulting a coolie whom he had arrested.\n\nInspector Grant said that, on arrival at the police station, the defendant was very excited but did not appear to be under the influence of drink. There was no indication that he had been roughly handled by the police; his clothing was not disarranged.\n\nMr. King: Did he make any remarks to the Indian sergeant in the charge room? Witness: He called him several very filthy names, several times; I had to speak to him about it.\n\nMr. King: Call a spade a spade and tell us what he said.\n\nInspector Grant repeated expressions similar to those already given by the Indian Sergeant. Defendant also said that if he got a chance at the Indian sergeant, outside, he would kill him. He mentioned that he wanted to make a charge against the police sergeant but he did not specify it.\n\nMr. Blake called the defendant. Defendant said he was a master mariner, staying at the Carlton Hotel. He had been on the China Coast for 16 or 17 years.\n\nOn Thursday evening, at 8.30 o'clock, when standing outside the Hongkong Hotel, in Des Voeux Road, he noticed an Indian policeman he had taken to the police station a few days previously. The man pointed him out to a police sergeant and laughed. They hailed another Indian sergeant and all three stood near him and laughed. A dog belonging to the Carlton Hotel, which usually followed him, was attracted by a piece of steak carried on a string by a Chinese woman. He called the dog to his feet. The police sergeant said to him, \"Is that your damn dog?\" and he replied, \"No, get away from me; mind your own damn business.\" The police sergeant then said he would shoot the damn dog, and he rejoined \"If you do, I will shoot your damn head off.\" Defendant added that he said that more as a joke than anything.\n\n\"Funny sort of joke,\" commented the Magistrate.\n\nThe witness added that the police sergeant used offensive language to him and lifted him off his feet and kicked him three or four times. He denied striking the policeman; he had more sense than to do that, though he had great provocation. He admitted using bad language to the officer, after the latter had abused him. He had remonstrated with both police officers, before, for harsh treatment of Chinese.\n\nCross-examined: The last ship he commanded was the Chefoo; he had not commanded a ship for 2 years; had been staying at the Carlton Hotel since April 26th; before that in England for two years. He could have had employment but would not accept the positions going. As a white man, he objected to being taken to the station by Indians; in India only European officers were allowed to arrest Europeans.\n\nAlex. Livingston Woods, ship's mate, staying at the Carlton Hotel, said he was with the defendant at the time of the incident. He drew away some paces when the sergeant spoke, not wishing to be involved in the matter. He could not give the exact words used. The first bad language he heard was used by the sergeant. Defendant did not strike the officer, he walked up to him to get a closer view of his number and the sergeant then seized him and shook him.\n\nMr. Blake, addressing the Magistrate, said that there was absence of motive on the defendant's part, but the police might have acted out of spite, on account of protests against their conduct made by the defendant.\n\nThe Magistrate: I find both charges against John Thompson proved. I fine him $15 on the first summons, and $25 on the second. I find the charges against the police sergeant not proved and dismiss them both.\n\nMAGISTRACY.\n\nTHEFT AT THE DOCKS.\n\nMr. S. Williamson, Manager of Messrs. Moller & Company, was the complainant in a charge of stealing a cigarette case brought against a Chinese youth, at the Magistracy, on August 26th, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell. The defendant stated to be an apprentice fitter at Kowloon Docks.\n\nMr. Williamson said that he was on board the Lindsay Moller, on August 25th, when she was being berthed for repairs at Kowloon Docks. He took off his coat and left it on the table outside the captain's cabin. He was absent for some time, and on his return was informed that the defendant was in police custody for theft. He missed his cigarette case and afterwards reported to Inspector Aris, of Hunghom Station, to that effect. Witness was then informed that the cigarette case had been found in the defendant's possession.\n\nThe defendant was sentenced to three months' detention at the Laichikok reformatory.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492308, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "45. During the year the Tung Wah Hospital celebrated the 50th anniversary of its foundation. It is no exaggeration to say that the Tung Wah Hospital of Hongkong is now well known in every part of the world in which there is a Chinese community and during the year the Committee under the able Chairmanship of Mr. Lo Wing-kwong raised a large sum of money to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Hospital.\n\nOn October 4 His Excellency the Governor laid the foundation stone of the new wing to the Hospital which the Committee had decided to build to celebrate the occasion.\n\nThe extension of the free school accommodation referred to in the last Annual Report has now been carried out and on December 1st the new school was opened by the Governor under the title of the \"Chung Wa School.\" It is this building which accounts for the large increase in the expenditure of the Man Mo Temple during the year.\n\n46. The expenditure was $201,775 as compared with $180,482 in 1919 and $99,120 in 1918. Last year's figure includes special items of $17,002 for the purchase of property and $20,000 for the construction of a new wing to the Hospital. The rise in the cost of living has also been responsible for increases in other items, such as salaries and wages.\n\nThe daily average of expenditure was thus $552.81 as against $470.00 in 1919.\n\nThe total income was $177,401 as against $179,909 in 1919; and the year's working showed a loss of $24,284.\n\n47. The following items on the receipt side show increases: --\n\nRent of Hospital property,\n\nInterest,\n\nPayment for medicines, sale of kitchen refuse,\n\nand rent of mortuary and sundries,\n\nIncreases.\n\n$5,759\n\n2,874\n\n2,828\n\n48. The total number of in-patients admitted during 1920 was 7,129 as compared with 6,726 in 1919 and 6,239 in 1918. Of these 3,640 or 51.18% as against 43.8% in 1919 elected to be treated by European methods.\n\nThe out-patients numbered 148,589 as against 140,271 in 1919 (129,769 in 1918) and of these 22,643 or 15.24% (as against 15% in 1919) chose European treatment.\n\n49. The number of surgical operations performed was 311 as compared with 226 in 1919. There were also 98 eye operations performed as against 109 in 1919.\n\n50. The number of destitutes temporarily housed and then sent to their homes was 901 (718 in 1919), most of whom were sent to the Hospital from this office.\n\n51. Of the Charitable Funds managed by the Hospital the Man Mo Temple Fund (Table XI) shows an excess of expenditure over receipts of $12,930.09.\n\n52. The balance sheet of the Brewin Charity as set out in (Table XII) shows that the income for the year exceeded the expenditure by $1,291.\n\nThe amount spent in gratuities and pensions was $4,028 as compared with $3,022 in 1919 and $2,177 in 1918.\n\n$6,000 is invested in Hongkong 6% War Bonds.\n\nKWONG WA HOSPITAL.\n\n(Tables XIII and XIV.)\n\n53. The work of the Hospital again showed an increase during 1920. In all 4,104 patients were admitted (as against 3,212 in 1919) of whom 2,549 or 62% (as against 58% in 1919 and 48% in 1918) came under European treatment, while 1,555 elected to be treated by Chinese methods.\n\n54. The total number of out-patients treated was 30,353 as against 35,392 in 1919: of these 28,518 elected to receive European treatment. This gives a percentage of 78.4 as against 70.6 in 1919 and 65.3 in 1918.\n\n55. The total net expenditure of the Hospital for 1920 was $63,242 as against $42,663 in the previous Chinese year. Salaries and wages and food for patients show increases and the construction of the wards alone cost $17,160.\n\nCHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND PLAGUE HOSPITAL (Tables XV to XX.)\n\n56. The total number of cases treated at the Dispensaries during the year was 137,891 compared with 124,586 in 1919. Of this total 75,449 were new, and 62,442 return cases.\n\n57. The number of vaccinations performed was 8,121 as against 6,367 in 1919.\n\n58. The total expenditure on the Dispensaries was $37,293 as compared with $30,806 in 1919.\n\n59. The revenue of the Dispensaries, excluding the balance of $74,281 from 1919 and a grant of $4,000 by Government, amounted to $38,131 as compared with $38,278 in 1919.\n\n60. Of the two Kowloon Dispensaries at Hunghom and Sham-shuipo the first shows an excess of expenditure over receipts of $399 and a decline in credit balance from $4,052 in 1919 to $3,651. The second shows an increase in its credit balance from $208 in 1919 to $4,240, due to the sale of new Kowloon Inland Lot No. 141, which realised $3,450.\n\n61. The number of dead and dying infants brought to the Dispensaries was 1,340 as compared with 1,356 in 1919.\n\n62. The number of infants under the age of five years brought in to be treated again shows a considerable increase, 18,813 being treated as against 10,238 in 1918.\n\n63. 1,163 corpses were removed to hospital or mortuary as against 1,178 in 1919; 501 applications for coffins were received as against 528 in 1919; and there were 150 attendances at the cleansing of infected premises as against 572 in 1919.\n\n197", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492320, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "Receipts:- \n\nBalance,.. \n\n.... 32 \n\nTable XVII. \n\nLaughom and Shanshuipo Dispensaries. \n\nStatement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1920. \n\n \n Description.\n Hung-hom.\n Sham-shuipo.\n Total.\n \n \n Subscriptions, etc.\n 4,052\n \n \n \n \n Donations from ~ Po Hing Theatre,\n 209\n \n \n \n \n Kan Yam Temple,\n 2,552\n \n \n \n \n Scavenging Contractor at Hunghom,\n 887\n \n \n \n \n Sale of New Kowloon I, L. No. 141,\n 442\n \n \n \n \n Grant from Government,\n 600\n 3,456\n \n \n \n \n 550\n 3,000\n \n \n \n Total,\n \n \n 8,196.97\n 7,562.02\n \n \n Expenditure:- \n \n \n \n \n \n Through Secretariat for Chinese Affairs,\n 1,914\n 2,220\n \n \n \n By Local Committee,\n 2,629\n 1,092\n \n \n \n Total,\n \n \n 4,543.43\n 3,312.48\n \n \n Balance :- \n \n \n \n \n \n At Colonial Treasury,\n 1,257\n \n \n \n \n With Local Committee.\n \n \n \n \n \n Overdrawn by Local Committee.......................\n \n 2,502\n \n \n \n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n Total,\n \n \n $3,653.51\n 4,239.54\n \n\n*Cents omitted except in the totals.\n\nTable XVII. \n\nDeaths of Chinese in Hongkong and Kowloon during 1920 showing number in which the cause of death was duly certified and number in which a post-mortem examination was held.\n\n \n \n Victoria.\n Harbour.\n Kowloon.\n Other Villages in Hongkong.\n Shankiwan.\n Total.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8,192\n \n 4,728\n \n \n 12,151\n \n \n \n F9F0\n \n 712\n \n \n 4,988\n \n \n \n \n Orx's\n 877\n \n \n 7,163\n \n \n \n 182\n +1\n \n \n \n 931\n \n \n \n 1,110\n 9.1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 23-5\n GF\n 12.0\n \n \n 17:4\n \n \n \n \n FI\n 81\n \n \n 42.3\n \n \n \n 679\n \n 900\n \n \n 3,145\n \n \n \n 271\n \n 2,728\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,202\n \n 1,626\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 90%\n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 180", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492720, "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": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "# EXPENDITURE\n\nC.\n\nGovernor\n\n91,035.19\n\nCadet Service\n\n230,948.92\n\nColonial Secretary's Department and Legis-\n\nMature -\n\n58,415.07\n\nSecretariat for Chinese Affairs\n\n18,705.03\n\nAudit Department\n\n51,440.87\n\nTreasury\n\n72,676.59\n\nHarbour Master's Department\n\n350,025.53\n\nImports & Exports Department.\n\n391,756.04\n\nRoyal Observatory\n\n32,700.51\n\nPrison Department\n\nMiscellaneous Service\n\n845,413.82\n\nJudicial and Legal Departments-\n\n271,948.20\n\nPolice and Fire Brigade\n\n1,527,097.55\n\n299,746.50\n\nMedical Department\n\n378,128.77\n\nSanitary Department\n\n536,438.13\n\n#2\n\nBotanical and Forestry Department\n\n31,428.11\n\nEducation -\n\n580,323.92\n\nMilitary Expenditure -\n\n2,318,654.02\n\nPublic Works Department\n\nRecurrent\n\nExtraordinary\n\n651,599.00\n\n938,582.38\n\n3,053,525.11\n\nPost Office -\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway\n\n293,710.10\n\n1,108,838.99\n\nCharge on account of Public Debt\n\nPensions\n\n800,336.88\n\n389,845.50\n\nCharitable Services\n\n78,331.61\n\nThe amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £368,403. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $664,495 and £89,093 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1921, resulting as follows:-\n\nIncreases —\n\n \n The City of Victoria\n $872,540\n \n \n The Hill District\n 8,150\n \n \n Shaukiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay\n 9,700\n \n \n Hongkong\n \n \n \n Barges\n 36,924\n \n \n Kowloon Point\n 124,615\n \n \n Yaumati\n 86,705\n \n \n Mongkoktsui\n 79,630\n \n \n Hunghom and Hok Un\n 40,285\n \n \n Kowloon Villages\n 15.60\n \n \n New Territories\n 13,546\n \n \n TOTAL\n $1,575,652.40\n \n\nThe balance to the credit on the year's working was $1,988,480 and the assets and liabilities account showed on the 31st December a credit balance of $6,478,740.\n\nThe following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1917-1921 :-\n\n \n \n Revenue\n Expenditure\n \n \n 1917\n 15,058,105\n 14,090,828\n \n \n 1918\n 18,665,248\n 16,252,172\n \n \n 1919\n 16,524,975\n 17,915,025\n \n \n 1920\n 14,689,672\n 14,489,594\n \n \n 1921\n 17,728,132\n 15,739,652\n \n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $18,696,680 having increased by $1,287,701.\n\nDuring the period 1912-1921 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $12,312,306 to $18,696,680, an increase in rateable value of $6,384,354.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows—\n\n \n Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation\n $40,395,225\n \n \n Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China\n 9,074,137\n \n \n Mercantile Bank of India, Limited\n 1,321,503\n \n \n \n $50,790,865\n \n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hongkong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins less those demonetized, now amounts to $20,789,370 nominal value, and they were up to the year 1905 readily absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China. During 1910 ten cent pieces of the face value of $5,028,000 were shipped to Calcutta for purposes of demonetization. The discount which prevailed between 1905 and 1916 may be attributed to the immense quantity of ...\n\nPage 72", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493011, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "20 \n\n― \n\n21 \n\nIncrease. \n\nDecrease. \n\nIncrease. \n\n2.--Kowloon-Canton Railway.—Continued. \n\nSpecial Expenditure. \n\nCLASS VIII. \n\nNON-EFFECTIVE AND CHARITABLE SERVICES. \n\nDecrease. \n\nMaintenance of Way, Works, and \n\nConstruction :- \n\nStations:-- \n\nSurveying and Drawing Instru- \n\nments ... \n\n800 \n\nAsphalting Platforms and Con- \n\ncourse, Kowloon Station ... Bridge No. 7... \n\n...$ \n\n16,300 \n\nLower Exchange \n\n56,000 \n\n1.-Charge on Account of Public Debt. \n\n38,295 \n\nTypewriter \n\n250 \n\nCamera \n\n150 \n\nTotal Increase \n\n38,295 \n\nConstruction:- \n\nAlteration to Level Crossing Gates \n\nInstallation of Water Closets in A \n\nand B Railway Quarters \n\n5,700 \n\nat Fanling \n\n1,000 \n\nNew Loco Shades, Fanling Branch \n\nBoundary Wall, Kowloon Station \n\nLine \n\n... \n\n2,200 \n\nto Signal Hill \n\n12,000 \n\nNew Sidings and Station at \n\nConversion of China Light and \n\nSheungshui \n\n23,340 \n\nPower Co.'s Premises \n\n13,000 \n\nRail Anchors... \n\n2,500 \n\n+++ \n\nExtension to Carriage Shed at \n\nHunghom \n\nLocomotive, Carriage and Wagon \n\n340 \n\nExpenses \n\nExtension to Workshops \n\n60,000 \n\nAdditional Machines for Work- \n\nExtension of the left side of Main \n\nshops.... \n\n7,043 \n\nPlatform at Kowloon Station ... \n\n4,000 \n\n7 Carriages, \n\n61,305 \n\nInstallation of Electric Power \n\n13,500 \n\nSpares for Locomotives \n\n17,657 \n\nA.—Civil : \n\nNew Water Tanks, Fanling Branch \n\nMiscellaneous Expenses:-- \n\nLine \n\n600 \n\nFurniture for Quarters \n\nPlatform Luggage Barrows... \n\n2,000 \n\nArtificial foot... \n\n2,250 \n\n240 \n\nTurnstiles, Kowloon Station \n\n6,000 \n\nLocomotive, Carriage and Wagon \n\nExpenses: \n\nand 2 (£5,000) \n\nBreakdown Crane... \n\nBoilers for Locomotives, Nos. 1 \n\n4 Locomotives ($400,000; \n\n530-Ton Covered Goods Wagons... \n\n42,857 \n\n88,000 \n\n100,000 \n\n50,000 \n\nTotal Increase \n\nDeduct Decrease \n\n+++ \n\n$ 394,347 \n\n194,685 \n\nTotal Decrease \n\n...$ \n\n194,685 \n\nNet Increase \n\n...$ \n\n199,662 \n\nSterling Pensions \n\nB.—Police- \n\nSterling Pensions Dollar Pensions \n\nQ.—Widows and Orphans \n\nTemporary Increases of Pensions \n\nOrphans Pensions... \n\nEstimated Amount to cover pensions \n\n...* 10,103.77 \n\n14,156.52 \n\n2. Pensions. \n\nA—Civil :- \n\nDollar Pensions... \n\nTemporary Increases on Local Pen- \n\nsions \n\n...$ 4,885.17 \n\n588.00 \n\n410.00 \n\nSterling Pensions \n\n3,158.30 \n\nDollar Pensions \n\n1,790.27 \n\n1,407.64 \n\nSpecial Allowance on Widows and \n\n1,238.64 \n\nEqualisation of Exchange \n\n21,362.22 \n\nto be granted... \n\n421.72 \n\n--- \n\nTotal Increase \n\nDeduct Decrease \n\n.$ 54,055.17 5,473.17 \n\nTotal Decrease \n\n...$ \n\n5,473.17 \n\nNet Increase \n\n.$ \n\n48,582.00 \n\n \n\nCharitable Allowance to Sidney \n\nLivesey \n\nTransport and Subsistence of Lunatics Lower Exchange \n\nTotal Increase \n\n3.--Charitable Services. \n\n* \n\n6500 \n\n200 \n\n183 \n\n1,283 \n\n345", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493185, "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": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "content_text": "Subject of Harbour Development, Hongkong.\n\n01\n\nTo request report may be returned to this Dept. after perusal, there being no spare copy available.\n\nTimes 24-5-23\n\nHONG-KONG PORT SCHEME. BIG DEVELOPMENTS PROPOSED. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nHONG-KONG, MAY 23.\n\nThe Government published to-day Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice's long-awaited recommendations for the improvement of the port of Hong-kong.\n\nThe complete scheme involves the reclamation of forty-eight acres of Hunghom Bay, the erection of six jetties giving eighteen to twenty berths for the largest vessels, and extensive accommodation for junks and barges.\n\nThe estimate for the first instalment providing two jetties and the reclamation of seven acres, but not including the erection of warehouses, railways, cranes, and power stations, is £1,260,000, and the time required to complete the first instalment is estimated at three and a half years.\n\nHitherto the port has been developed almost entirely by private enterprise. Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice says that the time has arrived for the adoption of a definite scheme. The deepening of the Suez Canal in the near future will allow ships of 35ft. draught to pass through with certainty, consequently he proposes 37ft. alongside the wharves at low water.\n\nAs against the formation of a port trust or the allotment of land to existing wharf owners for development at their own expense, the report recommends construction by the Government on a settled plan of development for many years ahead and the leasing to private companies, who should be left to manage their business in their own way.\n\n(Signed) G. GRINDLE\n\nMr Butler 15/5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495254, "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": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7]", "content_text": "MH A (.BA)\n\n&J## ##A' J8SS*\n\nSRA\n\nand :Tavewoń Beberi bedrem vízzel one areƒT .ainq Ad abiejuo viitegnevem dom ers (vrhnuos mit ni mwond se)\n\nend to attaq reddo ni wataia red ob nart soalq tatted on eklod bas eelo bridd of sánia nooa atutitronq auoud\n\n..\n\nsouborg of Bad \"besseq\" Ittig dosi „gniwolio? sát bbw IESPI ,linqh dƒTS to be,o' dodaqesũ sol770 Inknofol ni bebr.SWT)? moiteeup end to digergetnq Jani sứt to welv nă\n\naan bre ered bellt si amo .badandde alquma -\n\nsojong owi\n\nbaouborg aɗ ot and bre„Iedtord art of red ditiw som\n\naristt; aswira zo) viajeroBl ‚xałIIMH .A .I (.be)\n\n.Tot belimo Tavertoria\n\n,blow\n\n1 9 2 3.\n\nLocality\n\n \n \n Brothels for Europeans\n Indians\n Japanese\n Chinese\n Total\n \n \n \n No. of Brothels\n No. of Prostits.\n No. of Brothels\n No. of Prost.\n No. of Brothels\n No. of Prost.\n No. of Brothels\n No. of Prost.\n No. of Brothels\n No. of Prost.\n \n \n Victoria\n 7\n 18\n \n \n 14\n 91\n 22\n 219\n \n \n \n \n 1st\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n 680\n \n \n \n \n 2nd\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 27\n 551\n \n \n \n \n 3rd\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 87\n 675\n \n \n \n \n Yeumati\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 117\n 813\n 117\n 813\n \n \n Hunghom\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n 4\n 15\n ...\n \n \n Shaukiwan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7\n 27\n 7\n 27\n \n \n Cheung Chau\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 4\n \n \n \n \n Total\n 7\n 18\n \n \n 14\n 91\n 258\n ...\n 296\n 3093\n \n\nNumber of Prostitutes in Brothels known to the Police and the Secretary for Chinese Affairs\n\n \n White\n Japanese\n Chinese\n Total\n \n \n 18\n 91\n 2984\n 3093", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-480 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495416, "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": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "-26-\n\nAppendix G.\n\nLimewashing 1922.\n\nVictoria.\n\n1921.\n\n1922 1921 1922.\n\nKowloon\n\nHouses limewashed by owners,\n\n***\n\nHouses limewashed by S. B. at owners'\n\nrequest, ...\n\n***\n\n***\n\nHouses limewashed by S. B's Contractor owing to owners' failure to comply\n\nwith the by-law,\n\n--\n\n---\n\n \n 6,693\n 7,507*\n 3,402\n 3,376\n \n \n 150\n 549\n 94\n 98\n \n \n 238\n 161\n 37\n \n AD\n \n \n Total\n \n \n \n \n \n * Shankiwan included this year.\n \n \n \n \n \n 7,081\n 8,220\n 3,583\n 3,564\n \n\nAppendix H.\n\nVaccination Return for 1922.\n\n \n Registry.\n B. F.\n Unvaccinated.\n New Total Vaccinated.\n births.\n liable.\n at.\n Dead.\n Left Colony.\n Cannot be found.\n Had Smallpox.\n Insusceptible.\n Unfit.\n Total C. F.\n Total.\n \n \n 1\n 17\n 64\n 2,650\n 6,205\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sanitary Department (Non-Chinese)\n 202\n 382\n 584\n \n 10\n 38\n \n 19\n 17\n 198\n 584\n \n \n \n \n \n Sanitary Department (Chinese)\n 915\n 1,031\n 1,946\n \n 21\n 275\n \n 186\n 28\n 881\n 1,946\n \n \n \n \n \n Eastern Chinese Public Dispensary\n 488\n 913\n 1,401\n \n 144\n 142\n 324\n \n \n 491\n 1,401\n \n \n \n \n \n Yaumati Chinese Public Dispensary\n 1\n 340\n 842\n 1,191\n \n 82\n \n 28\n 200\n 10\n 636\n 1,191\n \n \n \n \n Western Chinese Public Dispensary\n 197\n 240\n \n 446\n \n 117\n \n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kowloon City Chinese Public Dispensary\n 58\n 164\n 229\n \n 61\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Central Chinese Public Dispensary\n 239\n 116\n 446\n \n 1\n 229\n \n 40\n 49\n 80\n 18\n 68\n 31\n \n \n \n Shamshuipo Chinese Public Dispensary...\n 46\n 15\n 20\n 46\n \n 66\n \n 38\n \n 145\n \n 183\n \n \n \n \n Shaukiwan Chinese Public Dispensary\n 83\n 1\n 38\n 77\n \n 66\n \n 36\n \n \n \n 183\n \n \n \n \n Hunghom Chinese Public Dispensary\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total...\n 2,338\n 3,867\n | 6,205\n \n 1,734\n 332\n 558\n \n 862", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497486, "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": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 172, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nFor example, Murray Barracks on it, is less valuable than with the Barracks removed. The cost of removal is about equal to the cost of the building materials. In the case of a building such as the Military Hospital, however, if we were to take it over and use it, we should have to pay for the land and the buildings.\n\n**HON. MR. POLLOCK**-Could the Colonial Secretary tell us whether Sir John Oakley, in making his award, took into consideration the question of the interest the Colony would lose by not having possession of this land for many years?\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY**,-It was put before him in an elaborate series of years?\n\n**H.E. THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING**-Mention has been made of an \"agreement\" of 1922. That agreement was not really an agreement. It was a recommendation from the military authorities here to the War Office to accept as a basis of negotiation certain figures agreed on for valuation, and also the question of how much percentage should be added to that old valuation to be acceptable. No actual agreement was ever drawn up. I would like to make that point plain.\n\n**HON. MR. POLLOCK**-I ask for an adjournment for a week. My unofficial colleagues will meet at 12 o'clock on Monday next, and by Thursday we should be in a position to lay our views before the Council.\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY**-The Council resumes and the discussion of this resolution will continue at the next meeting of the Council, which will be on Thursday next.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee was then held, the **COLONIAL SECRETARY** presiding.\n\n### A Sea-Going Launch\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $45,000, on account of Imports and Exports Department, Special Expenditure, provision for a sea-going launch.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-The activities of this Department are growing, as is also the custom of putting off opium and arms from ships just outside the harbour. This launch is able to go outside.\n\nApproved.\n\n### A Railway Vote\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommended the Council to vote a sum of $19,322 on account of the following vote:- Kowloon-Canton Railway, Special Expenditure :- \n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Accident at Mile 10 New Block Operators Office at Hunghom | $1,500.00 |\n| ... | $1,695.00 |\n| Typhoon of 18th August, 1923 | $5,127.00 |\n| New Carpenters' Shop at Hunghom Bridge No. 14 | $6,000.00 |\n| ... | $5,000.00 |\n| **Total** | **$19,322.00** |\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-All these are in the nature of re-votes from last year.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Uniform Allowance For Inspector of Juvenile Labour\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommended the Council to vote a sum of $336 on account of Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, Industrial Sub-Department, Other Charges, Uniform allowance to Inspector of Juvenile Labour.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Stabling at Kowloon\n\nThe Officer Administering the Government recommended the Council to vote a sum of $13,000 in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon, Buildings (87) Extension of Stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station, Garage and arrangement of Workshop.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This is one of the works which, in accordance with the arrangement of the last Estimates, was put in as a vote of $1,000.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497563, "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": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# EXPENDITURE\n\n| Department | Expenditure |\n| --- | --- |\n| Governor | 94,287.02 |\n| Cadet Service | 280,507.54 |\n| Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature | 50,454.63 |\n| Secretariat for Chinese Affairs | 21,115.67 |\n| Audit Department | 51,000.35 |\n| Treasury | 68,307.64 |\n| Harbour Master's Department | 310,717.36 |\n| Imports & Exports Department | 631,733.97 |\n| Royal Observatory | 38,350.10 |\n| Miscellaneous Services | 1,017,305.35 |\n| Judicial and Legal Departments | 282,089.15 |\n| Police | 1,533,757.51 |\n| Fire Brigade | 177,799.07 |\n| Prison Department | 324,175.12 |\n| Medical Department | 371,781.92 |\n| Sanitary Department | 548,824.20 |\n| Botanical and Forestry Department | 71,223.47 |\n| Education | 728,153.89 |\n| Military Expenditure | 3,230,779.80 |\n| Public Works Department | 821,074.30 |\n| Public Works Department Recurrent | 1,074,646.30 |\n| Public Works Department Extraordinary | 3,575,635.19 |\n| Post Office | 309,042.61 |\n| Kowloon-Canton Railway | 922,355.75 |\n| Charge on account of Public Debt | 914,040.12 |\n| Pensions | 429,361.04 |\n| Charitable Services | ... |\n| TOTAL | $18,563,002.91 |\n\nThe amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £399,591. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $906,699 and £93,657 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1922, resulting as follows:-\n\nIncreases:-\n- The City of Victoria: $729,943\n- The Hill District: $18,765\n- Shaukiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay: $29,375\n- Hongkong Villages: $54,205\n- Kowloon Point: $51,130\n- Yaumati: $95,940\n- Mongkok tsui: $39,490\n- Hunghom and Hok Un: $27,460\n- Kowloon Villages: $15,570\n- New Territories: $54,391\n- ...: $76,802.50\n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $19,805,920 having increased by $1,109,209.\n\nDuring the period 1913-1922 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $12,435,812 to $19,805,929, an increase in rateable value of $7,370,117.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows:-\n- Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation: $34,974,774\n- Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China: $11,239,002\n- Mercantile Bank of India, Limited: $1,364,413\n- Total: $47,578,789\n\nThe balance to the credit on the year's working was $3,728,002 and the assets and liabilities account showed on the 31st December a credit balance of $12,058,642.\n\nThe following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1918-1922:\n| Year | Expenditure | Revenue |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1918 | 18,065,248 | 16,252,172 |\n| 1919 | 16,524,075 | 17,915,925 |\n| 1920 | 14,089,673 | 14,489,504 |\n| 1921 | 17,728,132 | 15,739,652 |\n| 1922 | 22,201,065 | 18,503,003 |\n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hongkong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins less those demonetized, now amounts to $18,789,370 nominal value...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497575, "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": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# \nThe work of constructing a re-inforced concrete roof over part of the Ferry Pier opposite Queen Victoria Street was completed. \nThe Ferry Pier at Public Square Street, Yaumati, was also finished, with the exception of the depositing of concrete to form the decking. \nThe work of constructing a re-inforced concrete Pier opposite Wing Wo Street was not proceeded with. \n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\nIn connection with the visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the principal Government Buildings were decorated and illuminated at night, and general assistance was rendered by the Department wherever required to carry into effect other schemes of decoration. \nThe Seamen's Strike which commenced in January culminated in a General Strike, in consequence of which certain officers of the Department were engaged on emergency work which was executed in a very efficient manner. \nThe erection of the Wireless Station at Gap Rock was completed. \nThe Diaphone Fog Signalling Plant was installed at Waglan. \nThe work of substituting underground cables for the aerial wires in the Government Telephone System in the central part of the City was well advanced by the end of the year. \nIn connection with the Hydrographic Surveys with a view to harbour development, the work of taking borings and prickings was completed. \nWith a view to revising, consolidating and co-ordinating the various schemes of development prepared in the past, a Committee was formed to deal with Town Planning. Many meetings took place and a large number of maps and plans were prepared, and a model of the Kowloon Peninsula (scale 200′ to 1 inch) was made. \nA contract was let for the construction of a Water-boat Dock at Laichikok. \nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $3,575,685.19, and on annually recurrent works $1,074,646.30. \n\n## RAILWAY\nThe Platforms at Kowloon Terminus were surfaced with a composition of asphaltum, sand and cement on a foundation of rolled ballast. Similar surfacing was laid throughout the concourse area and approaches in substitution of wooden blocks which were found to be both unsatisfactory and insanitary. \nThis work was carried out by the Public Works Department. \nWater was laid on to the platforms and concourse areas at several points for washing down purposes. \nThe kitchen accommodation of the 1st class Restaurant was extended by altering the arrangement of the back staircase and utilising the space below to form a commodious pantry. Gas cookers were installed in substitution for the coal burning range, and new kitchen furniture was provided. \nOwing to the increasing difficulty in obtaining quick and accurate messages between Kowloon and Canton, through telegraphic communication has now been established by laying a telegraph line between Kowloon Station and Sham Chun Station, thus connecting with the Chinese Section's telegraph line. \nPreviously all messages had to be telephoned over the British Section. \nAt the Workshops at Hunghom an Oil Fuel Depot was installed for serving the Motor Coaches. \nThe three sidings to the east of the new carriage shed were extended 500 feet each, and a crossover road laid between two, to facilitate repairs and cleaning of rolling stock. \nA contract was let for the building of a second bay to the new carriage shed, which will accommodate two more trains of 500 feet each, and it is anticipated that the shed will be completed by May, 1923. \nDuring the year the premises of the China Light and Power Co., which adjoined the Locomotive Yard were acquired by the Railway Department together with the buildings thereon. The tall chimney stack, for which no use could be found was razed. The buildings formerly used as offices and staff quarters were renovated, and the first floor is now used as quarters for the Traffic Inspector, while the basement serves as a store. A contract was entered into for converting the remaining buildings into Workshops and stores for railway purposes. The boiler house was utilised as a general repair shop for Government Motor vehicles such as cycles, cars, fire engines, lorries, road roller, etc., a painting shop being provided on one side. The engine house was converted... \nPage 251", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497850, "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": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Machinery and Works Votes\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This has already been approved by the Finance Committee. The recreation grounds were damaged by floods last year and this $2,500 is required for certain parts. The Clubs concerned have paid for special work required by them.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Machines for Railway Workshops\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $7,030 on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, special expenditure, additional machines for workshops.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN** explained that the recommendations for these lathes were made in April last year, but the machines were not delivered until too late to be included in the accounts for the year.\n\nApproved.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $10,620 in aid of the vote Kowloon-Canton Railway, special expenditure, new carpenter's shop, Hunghom.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-$15,000 was included in the estimates of 1922 for this work. It was revoted in 1923, and again this year. Owing to the rise in prices the work has actually cost $25,611.31. The balance is now asked for.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK** inquired what the position was as regards the railway at the present time.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-We can only run our local services as far as Lowu.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**-As far as finances go, are we economising?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-We are economising in that we are not consuming so much coal. We are keeping an account of our losses under the railway agreement. Whether we shall be able to recover our loss due to the closing of the Chinese section I cannot say.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-These extensions of the locomotive workshops during the past few years were all approved and undertaken before the Chinese section stopped running. We trust, as everyone trusts, that the stoppage of through traffic to Canton is merely temporary, and we feel we have to be fully prepared to undertake full through traffic as soon as the line is opened. Repairs to the line have been made recently and so far as I know, trains can be run over the line. The condition of the stock of the Chinese line does not admit of their running through trains at present and we wish to be in a position to help them with through traffic immediately the line is open again.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n### P.W.D. Vote\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $272,000 in aid of the following votes:\n\n| Category | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | Hongkong, buildings, maintenance of buildings | $52,000.00 |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | Hongkong, buildings, improvements to buildings | $12,500.00 |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | Miscellaneous, typhoon and rainstorm damages | $162,500.00 |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | Kowloon, buildings, improvements to buildings | $10,000.00 |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | New territories, buildings, improvements buildings | $5,000.00 |\n| Public Works, Extraordinary | Miscellaneous, miscellaneous works | $30,000.00 |\n| **Total** | | **$272,000.00** |\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-I would ask that this financial minute may stand over as further sums are required.\n\nApproved.\n\n### Whitfield Sanitary Depot Pier\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $20,000 on account of Public Works, extraordinary, Whitfield Sanitary Depot Pier.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**-We are passing large votes for the railway.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497857, "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": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n## Recreation Grounds\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This has already been approved by the Finance Committee. The recreation grounds were damaged by floods last year and this $2,500 is required for certain parts. The Clubs concerned have paid for special work required by them.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Machines for Railway Workshops\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $7,030 on account of Kowloon-Canton Railway, special expenditure, additional machines for workshops.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN** explained that the recommendations for these lathes were made in April last year, but the machines were not delivered until too late to be included in the accounts for the year.\n\nApproved.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $10,620 in aid of the vote Kowloon-Canton Railway, special expenditure, new carpenter's shop, Hunghom.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-$13,000 was included in the estimates of 1922 for this work. It was revoted in 1922, and again this year. Owing to the rise in prices the work has actually cost $25,611.31. The balance is now asked for.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK** inquired what the position was as regards the railway at the present time.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-We can only run our local services as far as Lowu.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**-As far as finances go, are we economising?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-We are economising in that we are not consuming so much coal. We are keeping an account of our losses under the railway agreement. Whether we shall be able to recover our loss due to the closing of the Chinese section I cannot say.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**-We are passing large votes for the railway.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-These extensions of the locomotive workshops during the past few years were all approved and undertaken before the Chinese section stopped running. We trust, as everyone trusts, that the stoppage of through traffic to Canton is merely temporary, and we feel we have to be fully prepared to undertake full through traffic as soon as the line is opened. Repairs to the line have been made recently and so far as I know, trains can be run over the line. The condition of the stock of the Chinese line does not admit of their running through trains at present and we wish to be in a position to help them with through traffic immediately the line is open again.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n## P.W.D. Vote\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $272,000 in aid of the following votes:\n\n| Vote | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Public Works, Recurrent | Hongkong, buildings, maintenance of buildings | $52,000.00 |\n| | Hongkong, buildings, improvements to buildings | $12,500.00 |\n| | Miscellaneous, typhoon and rainstorm damages | $162,500.00 |\n| | Kowloon, buildings, improvements to buildings | $10,000.00 |\n| | New territories, buildings, improvements to buildings | $5,000.00 |\n| Public Works, extraordinary | Miscellaneous, miscellaneous works | $30,000.00 |\n| **Total** | | **$272,000.00** |\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-I would ask that this financial minute may stand over as further sums are required.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Whitfield Sanitary Depot Pier\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $20,000 on account of Public Works, extraordinary, Whitfield Sanitary Depot Pier.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This is a revote of a sum included in the 1923 estimates but not expended.\n\nApproved.\n\n## Married Quarters for Weihaiwei Police\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**-I don't think this is the final vote, Sir.\n\nThe vote was approved.\n\n## Travelling Expenses for Harbour Officials\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $11,000 on account of Harbour Master's Department, Incidental expenses.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This has already been approved by the Finance Committee.\n\nApproved.\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,770 in aid of the vote Public Works, extraordinary, Kowloon buildings, married quarters for Weihaiwei Police at Mongkok Police Station.\n\n## Government House Furniture\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $10,000 in aid of the vote, Governor, other charges, furniture.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-I think hon. members are aware of the fact that a large sum is required to put the furniture in Government House in proper order. During the war, very little was done, and now it is proposed to get rid of a large amount of furniture which is quite worn out.\n\n**HON. MR. HOLYOAK**-I believe it was advocated by the hon. members two years ago.\n\n**HON. MR. BIRD**-Will this vote bring it up to date?\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-I understand that it has been gone into by the Public Works Department and this will do it.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN** explained the vote as being for travelling expenses for senior officers. The matter had been very carefully considered.\n\nApproved.\n\n## The Care of Lunatics\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $2,600 in aid of the vote Charitable Services, grants in aid of Charitable Institutions, John G. Kerr Hospital, Canton.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**-This has already been agreed to by the Finance Committee. It is payment for taking in more lunatics than were expected.\n\nApproved.\n\n## P.W.D. Unexpended Balances\n\nThe Committee considered the Preliminary List embodied in the Financial Minute relating to redistribution of unexpended balances of Public Works Department votes for the year 1924, and agreed to the adoption of the proposal therein.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497937, "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": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "## The amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £432,592. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $1,176,086 and £98,441 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1923, resulting as follows:\n\n### Increases\n\n| District | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| The City of Victoria | $716,360 |\n| The Hill District | 21,465 |\n| Shaukiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay | 18,555 |\n| Hongkong Villages | 94,909 |\n| Kowloon Point | 79,110 |\n| Yaunati | 125,165 |\n| Mongkoktsui | 40,600 |\n| Hunghom and Hok Un | 31,995 |\n| Kowloon Villages | 3,890 |\n| ... | 121,722 |\n\n## Colony by itself\n\nIn 1905 the Hongkong Government ceased to issue any subsidiary coin and in 1900 it began a policy of demonetising all its subsidiary coin received as revenue. This policy was continuously followed till 1918 except during a brief period in 1911. Coin to the face value of $26,235,459 has thus been redeemed. The total issue by the Hongkong Government was of the face value of $44,049,830.\n\n### STATEMENT OF SUBSIDIARY COINS\n\n| Year | Received | Redeemed | Amount in Circulation |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1911 | | $5,527,450.04 | |\n| 1912 | | $1,040,000.00 | |\n| 1913 | | $1,040,000.00 | |\n| 1914 | | $5,000,000.00 | |\n| 1915 | | $5,100,000.00 | |\n| 1916 | | $5,028,000.00 | |\n| 1918 | | $500,000.00 | |\n| 1919 | $25,000.00 | | |\n| 1922 | | $3,000,000.00 | |\n| 1923 | $25,000.00 | | |\n| Total | $44,049,830 | $26,235,459.04 | $17,814,370.96 |\n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $21,059,700 having increased by $1,253,771.\n\nDuring the period 1914-1923 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $14,410,103 to $21,059,700, an increase in rateable value of $6,649,597.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows:\n\n| Bank | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation | $44,681,120 |\n| Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China | $12,837,330 |\n| Mercantile Bank of India, Limited | $1,455,649 |\n| Total | $58,974,108 |\n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hongkong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins, less those demonetized, now amounts to $17,814,370 nominal value, and they were up to the year 1925 readily absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China. During 1916 ten cent pieces of the face value of $5,028,000 were shipped to Calcutta for purposes of demonetization. The discount which prevailed between 1905 and 1916 may be attributed to the immense quantity of similar coin which was minted at Canton as well as to the amount of Hongkong coin minted largely in excess of the needs of the Colony.\n\n## II.—SHIPPING AND TRADE, INDUSTRIES, FISHERIES, AGRICULTURE, AND LAND\n\n### (a).—SHIPPING\n\nThe total Shipping entering and clearing at Ports in the Colony during the year 1923, amounted to 778,222 vessels of 53,402,239 tons, which, compared with the figures of 1922, show an increase of 69,978 vessels, and of 6,835,475 tons.\n\nPage 7\nPage 94", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498986, "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": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## MAN-OF-WAR ANCHORAGES\n\n### North side of the City of Victoria\n\nWestern Boundary.—A line drawn N. 30 E. 2,680 feet from the Bench Mark on the coping of the Praya Wall in line with the N. W. corner of the City Hall building.\n\nNorthern Boundary.—From the Northern extremity of the above line, a line drawn N. 85 E. 4,100 feet.\n\nEastern Boundary.—From the Eastern extremity of the line forming the Northern Boundary, a line drawn S. 15 W. 1,120 feet, thence a line drawn S. 85 W. 1,230 feet and thence a line drawn S. 15 W. until it meets the Praya Wall.\n\n### West side of the Kowloon Peninsula\n\nSouthern Boundary.—From the point where the Northern side of the North Pier, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's premises joins the Praya Wall, a line drawn West 1,505 feet.\n\nWestern Boundary.—A line drawn N. 8 W. 2,570 feet from the Western extremity of the Southern Boundary.\n\nNorthern Boundary.—From the Northern extremity of the Western Boundary a line drawn East until it meets the Praya Wall.\n\nNothing is to prevent ships proceeding to and from any wharves on the west side of Kowloon Peninsula, provided such ships, if anchoring, give swinging room to vessels at the Admiralty buoys.\n\n## Long Harbour and Jones Cove\n\n10. No ship, other than His Majesty's ships, shall anchor in the Bays known as and shewn on the Admiralty Charts as Long Harbour and Jones Cove in Mirs Bay.\n\n11. Junks and other native craft frequenting this portion of the waters of the Colony for fishing and other purposes, will be allowed to use the same, subject to the orders and control of the Harbour Master or his Deputy.\n\n**Note**,—The Captain of any British Man-of-War using the rifle range on San Man Shak Peninsula shall, for the purpose of the control of the traffic in the Danger Zone, be a Harbour Master's Deputy under Section 2 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.\n\n## Foreign Man-of-War Anchorage\n\n12. The Foreign Man-of-War Anchorage is in Kowloon Bay to the Eastward of the Hunghom Peninsula and within the following limits :-\n\n| Boundary | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| On the West | The Eastern limit of the Telegraph Cable Ground. |\n| On the South | A line drawn N. 81 E. from Blackhead's Hill Signal Mast. |\n| On the North and East | The 5-fathom line of soundings. |\n\n13. All vessels are to be moored.\n\n14. Foreign Ships-of-War shall not make any examination or survey of the shores or waters of the Colony, either from such ships or by means of boats or otherwise.\n\n## Landing of Foreign Soldiers and Sailors\n\n15. Foreign Soldiers or Sailors, if unarmed may be landed in the Colony within the harbour limits, without the prior consent of the Governor, provided that when it is desired to land a number of men exceeding 100 notice must be given to the Colonial Secretary, in order that all facilities of which local conditions admit may be given. Applications for permission to land armed parties in connection with funerals or to take part in public ceremonies of an exceptional nature must be addressed to the Governor through the Colonial Secretary. No application is necessary in the case of Officers.\n\n15a. No Foreign Soldiers or Sailors shall be landed in the Colony outside the harbour limits from any vessel without the permission of the Governor for which application must be made by the Senior Officer in command of the Foreign Ships or Troops concerned.\n\n## III. QUARANTINE ANCHORAGE\n\n16. | Boundary | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Western Boundary | A line drawn from the western extreme of Stonecutters Island to the west extreme of Green Island. |\n| Southern Boundary | The Naval shears at Kowloon bearing East by South commencing where it meets the Western Boundary and terminating where it meets the Eastern Boundary. |\n| Eastern Boundary | A north and South line drawn from the southernmost point of Stonecutters Island until it reaches the Southern Boundary. |\n\n## IV. DANGEROUS GOODS ANCHORAGES\n\n17. The Dangerous Goods Anchorages shall mean the portions of the harbour within the following limits :-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499031, "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": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## Harbour Map or Chart Legend\n\n| Label | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| **STD. OIL COY WHARF** | Stonecutters Island, Yaumati Bay |\n| **KWONG HIP LUNG SLIP AND WORKS** | |\n| **COSMOPOLITAN DOCK** | |\n| **A. P. COY WHARF** | Yaumati |\n| **CEMENT WORKS** | Kau Lung Bay |\n| | *$3#* |\n| **PROHIBITED ANCHORAGE** | Green Isd S 43° W |\n| **SULF NOR QUARANTINE ANCHORAGE** | |\n| **DANGEROUS GOODS ANCHORAGE** | 146 C |\n| | Magnetic: 835 831 20 B; 825 825 824 29; 822 820 810 810 |\n| | 686 6 |\n| **CENTRAL FAIRWAY** | $12 $10; 025; 1-21 .23; +27 |\n| **MAN OF WAR ANCHORAGE** | Kau Lung; 1 22 25; 19; iz |\n| **HUNGHOM KAULU DOCK** | 3 A; 27 |\n| **TIME BALL** | *CUST. ROCK BUOY* |\n| **HOLT'S WHARF** | Ferry: 823 82 8181 815 81 8 8. o ô ô, ô, |\n| **UNK ANCHORAGE** | 540 544 542 840 839 835; 645 843 S4 E30 E39 EM |\n| **PROHIBITED ANCHORAGE** | |\n| **SOUTHERN FAIRWAY** | |\n| **DANGE ONGEROUS BOODS** | |\n| **STD. OIL COY WHARF** | Channel |\n| **JARDINE'S WHARF** | |\n| **SAILORS HOME** | Victoria |\n| | A. CLASS Buoys - Vessels of 450 to 600 feet in length |\n| | B. \" 300 450 \" |\n| | C. \" 300 feet or Under in length\" |\n| **HARBOUR OFFICE** | 833 832; 34; 3; 2 |\n| **MAN OF WAR ANCHORAGE** | .6; £2.; LI; A; 052 054 |\n| **DANGEROUS BGOODS** | 051 053 055; 844 830 SAB; 847; 0 |\n| **ANCHORAGE** | Kellet. Is. P; Causeway Bay Shelter; A. P COT WHART |\n\n## Anchoring and Buoy Classes\n\nA. CLASS Buoys \n- Vessels of 450 to 600 feet in length\nB. \n- 300 450 feet in length\nC. \n- 300 feet or Under in length", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499781, "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": 185, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "### PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRA-ORDINARY,—Contd.\n\nBrought forward, ... \n\n### MISCELLANEOUS,—Continued.\n\n| Item | Original Estimate | Revised Estimate | Approved Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure 1924 | Expenditure 1924 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 35 Chair Coolie Shelters, | | | | | |\n| 36 Telephone cable to D'Aguilar Wireless Station, | | 87,700 | 87,700 | | |\n| 37 Whitfield Pier, | 20,000 | 15,000 | 5,000 | | |\n| 38 Belilios Reformatory-New roof and other repairs, | 23,500 | 15,000 | 8,500 | | |\n| 39 Miscellaneous Works, | 30,000 | 60,000 | 30,000 | | |\n| 40 Compensation and Resumptions, | 50,000 | 10,000 | 50,000 | | |\n\n### WATER WORKS.\n\n| Item | Original Estimate | Revised Estimate | Approved Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure 1924 | Expenditure 1924 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 41 Eastern District Filter Beds, &c., | 575,000 | 100,000 | 85,000 | 120,000 | |\n| 42 Taitam Tuk Scheme, Additional Pumping Plant: (a) Engine House and Foundations, (b) Engine and Boiler, | 75,000 270,000 | 50,000 200,000 | 25,000 50,000 | 50,000 100,000 | |\n| 43 Stanley Mound East, Catch water, | 170,000 | 80,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 | |\n| 44 Stanley Mound West, Catchwater, | 95,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 | 30,000 | |\n| 45 Jardine's Look Out, Catchwater, | 20,000 | 30,000 | 15,000 | 25,000 | 5,000 |\n| 46 New Workshop and Plant, | 5,000 | 7,000 | | 5,000 | |\n| 47 Repulse Bay Water Supply, Extended Scheme, | 21,000 | 5,000 | 2,000 | 3,000 | |\n| 48 Lowering Water Mains in City to give better cover, | 8,000 | | | 1,600 | |\n| 49 Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme: (a) Diverting Peak Pumping Main, (b) Diverting Distributing Main, | 5,000 | | | | |\n| 50 New principal Water Mains in the City of Victoria, | 9,000 75,000 | 5,000 100,000 | 5,000 75,000 | 1,000 50,000 | |\n| 51 Taitam Tuk East Catch water, (1st Section), | 130,000 | 50,000 | | 1,000 | |\n| 52 Shek O Water Supply, | 75,000 | 55,000 | 5,000 | 60,000 | |\n| 53 Bowen Road Filter Beds conversion, | | | | | |\n| 54 Jardine's Look-out Service Reservoir, | 100,000 | less 5,000 | 25,000 | 15,000 | |\n| 55 Eastern Pumping Station, | 11,000 | 20,000 | | 15,000 | |\n| 56 Miscellaneous Water Works, | 20,000 | 15,000 | | | |\n\n### BUILDINGS.\n\n| Item | Original Estimate | Revised Estimate | Approved Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure 1924 | Expenditure 1924 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 57 Kowloon Hospital (a) Buildings and Furniture, (b) Site, | 360,000 604,000 | 200,000 170,000 | 350,000 | | |\n| 58 Mataukok Slaughter House, Inspector's Quarters, | 20,000 | 22,000 | 10,000 | | |\n| 59 Mongkoktsui. New Market and Site, | 15,000 | 18,000 | 25,000 | 21,000 | 5,000 |\n| 60 Cattle and Swine Depôt, Yaumati, | 7,000 | 20,000 | 30,000 | 42,500 | 1,000 |\n| 61 Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Yaumati, | 1,000 | 75,000 | | 5,000 | |\n| 62 Open Market, Bowring Street, | 50,000 | 34,500 | | | |\n| 63 Officers' Quarters, Kowloon, | 29,500 | 29,600 | 1,000 | 30,000 | |\n| 64 Hunghom Market Extension, 12 fish stalls with tanks, | 1,000 | 12,000 | | | |\n| 65 To Kwa Wan Market, 16 stalls for beef, pork, fish and poultry, | 2,000 | 5,000 | 6,000 | 16,000 | |\n| 66 Closed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market, | 1,000 | 3,000 | 12,000 | | |\n| 67 Extension of Stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station, garage, and arrangement of workshop, | 1,000 | 1,000 | 50,000 | 9,000 | 45,000 1,000 5,000 40,000 |\n\nCarried forward, 4,421,200", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499782, "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": 186, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## HONGKONG ESTIMATES \n### PUBLIC WORKS.\n\n| Original Estimate. | Revised Estimate. | Approved Revised Estimate | Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1924 | 1924 | | | 1925 |\n| 4,421,200 | 12,000 | 30,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 |\n| 25,000 | X | 10,000 | 5,000 | 45,000 |\n| | | 6,000 | . | 10,000 |\n| | | 25,000 | X | 10,000 |\n| | | 40,000 | 3,000 | 25,000 |\n| | | 200,000 | X | 15,000 |\n| | | X | 40,000 | 64,500 |\n| | | 40,000 | | 3 |\n\n### 3. PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRA-ORDINARY,― Contd.\n\nBrought forward, \n**BUILDINGS,—Continued** \n68 Slaughter House, Tai Kok Tsui, \n69 Workshop and Quarters for Electrical and Telephone Staff, ... \n70 Police Married Quarters, Mongkok, \n71 Yaumati Police Camber alterations, \n72 Married Quarters for Police, Yaumati, \n73 Erection of married quarters over Garage, Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station,. \n74 Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Lo Lung Hang (near Hung Hom),. \n75 Extension to existing Market at Mong Kok Tsui, \n76 Store for Goverument materials near Railway,. \n77 Quarters for Clerical Staff, \n78 Police Married Quarters Hunghom, \n79 Public Latrines, Urinals and Bath houses,..... \n\n| | Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | 1924 | 1925 |\n| **COMMUNICATIONS** | | |\n| 80 Roads :- | | |\n| (a.) Main Roads, Kowloon, | 16,000 | 100,000 |\n| (b.) Improvements to existing main roads for motor traffic, | 194,000 | 100,000 |\n| (c) Waterloo Road Extension (100 feet wide) Section between Waterloo Road and the Kowloon Boundary (estimate for 50 foot width), | 100,000 | 50,000 |\n| (d.) Tokwawan Road (100 feet wide) Section between Kowloon City Road and K.M.L. 90,.... | 350,000 | 30,000 |\n| (e) Argyle Street, Extension to its junction with Waterloo Road, | 6,000 | 10,000 |\n| (f) New Road through King's Park and Cemeteries Area, Homuntin: formation of 30 foot width and | 4,000 | |\n| Swing Om Bridge across Railway 60 feet wide, | 297,000 | 200,000 |\n| (g.) Macadamizing and tar painting to New Main Roads, | 150,000 | 100,000 |\n| | 60,000 | 12,000 |\n| | 10,000 | 50,000 |\n| | 160,000 | 50,000 |\n| (k.) Widening Salisbury Road to correct alignment, | 50,000 | 80,000 |\n| | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| 81 General Works, | 160,000 | 210,000 |\n| | 50,000 | 93,950 |\n| | 50,000 | |\n| **DRAINAGE** | | |\n| 82 Training Nullahs:- | | |\n| (a.) Mongkoktsui Nullah East, extension through Railway Bridge, | 116,000 | 120,000 |\n| (b) Matauchung, training and diverting main stream course, | 50,000 | 40,000 |\n| (c.) Homuntin District, Training stream course in new Cemeteries Area, | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| (d.) General Works, | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| 83 Miscellaneous Drainage Works :- | | |\n| (a.) Matauchung District, stormwater drainage, | 1,000 | 1,000 |\n| (b.) Main sewer from Fuk-tsun-heung to Kowloon Tong, East of Railway, | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| | 10,000 | 10,000 |\n| | 10,000 | 30,000 |\n| | 35,000 | 35,000 |\n| | 5,000 | 30,000 |\n| Carried forward,.... | 5,940,200 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500011, "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": 415, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## Particulars \n### Public Works, Extraordinary\n\n| | Original Estimate | Revised Estimate | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 |\n|----------|-------------------|------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|\n| Kowloon | | | | | | | | |\n| Brought forward | | | 3,190,500 | 4,444,500 | 4,064,000 | 3,382,500 | 2,655,500 | 2,051,500 |\n| Buildings | | | | | | | | |\n| 84. Kowloon Hospital:- | | | | | | | | |\n| (a) Buildings and Furniture | | | 360,000 | 604,000 | 350,000 | 50,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 |\n| (b) Site Extension | | | 72,000 | | 65,000 | | | |\n| 85. Mongkoktsui, New Market and Site | | | 18,000 | 35,000 | 20,000 | 35,000 | | |\n| 86. Cattle and Swine Depot, Yaumati | | | 30,000 | 42,500 | 1,000 | 15,000 | 35,000 | |\n| 87. Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Yaumati | | | 75,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 25,000 | | |\n| 88. Officers Quarters, Kowloon | | | 335,000 | 1,000 | 100,000 | 200,000 | 35,000 | |\n| 89. Hungham, Market Extension, 12 fish stalls with tanks | | | 12,000 | (6,000) | 3,000 | (2,000) | | |\n| 90. To Kwa Wan Market, 16 stalls for beef, pork, fish & poultry | | | | 16,000 | 12,000 | 16,000 | | |\n| 91. Closed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market | | | 50,000 | 50,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | | |\n| 92. Extension of Stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station, garage, and arrangement of workshop | | | 9,000 | 45,000 | 40,000 | 20,000 | 25,000 | |\n| 93. Slaughter House, Tai Kok Tsui | | | 12,000 | 300,000 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 100,000 |\n| 94. Yaumati Police Camber alterations | | | | 41,000 | 10,000 | 6,000 | | |\n| 95. Married Quarters for Police, Yaumati | | | | 40,000 | 25,000 | 20,000 | | |\n| 96. Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Lo Lung Hang (near Hung Hom) | | | 40,000 | 40,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | | |\n| 97. Store for Government materials near Railway | | | 80,000 | 25,000 | 75,000 | 5,000 | | |\n| 98. Quarters for Clerical Staff | | | 725,000 | | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 125,000 |\n| 99. Police Married Quarters, Hunghom | | | | 23,000 | 15,000 | 15,000 | 8,000 | |\n| 100. Public Latrines, Urinals and Bath houses | | | 40,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 |\n| 101. New house for the Director of the Observatory inclusive of garage | | | | 40,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | | |\n| 102. Converting existing house into offices | | | | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | | |\n| Carried forward | | | 4,102,500 | 5,180,500 | 4,827,000 | 3,872,500 | 2,925,500 | 2,091,500 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500107, "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": 511, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "## Private & Confidential\n\nDRAFT.\n\n30 Jun 1925\n\nDear Sir Paul,\n\nI keep you informed during the latest events in Hongkong. Our latest report is summarised in the Official communiqué which appeared in the newspapers yesterday.\n\nAnd for your confidential information, the trend of the situation depends, in the Governor's opinion, on the ... \n\nMr. Amery.\n\nCC: \n- Mr. Pasal\n- Br. Strachey\n- Dr J. Shuckburgh\n- Sir O. Davis\n- Sir G. Grindle\n- Sir J. Masterton Smith\n- Mr. Ormsby-Gore\n\nT.A.C. 29/6 \n29/7 \n\nPage 492 \n\nSir Paul Charles C.M.G. \n30 Jan 1925- \n\nWhitched Court \n4 Collins Road \nHonghom...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500740, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# 446\n\nGround (where the lower classes assemble), near the Post Office, the central market, and at prominent places in Shaukiwan, Yau Ma Ti, Hunghom, &c. These posters were sometimes issued in the name of an imaginary association called “The Peace and Order Preservation Society,” and sometimes without any names at all.\n\n## 59\nBut the best medium of propaganda has been the newspaper. At the beginning of July, as the only Chinese paper then publishing was unable or unwilling to print our news, we created our own newspaper. This was the **Kung Sheung Yat Po** (**The Industrial and Commercial Daily News**), which was started largely through the instrumentality of Mr. H. K. Hung, a local solicitor, who got one of the oldest and ablest Chinese editors to write the leading articles. This editor, Mr. Pun Wai-chau, unfortunately, has since died. Mr. Hung also secured the help of two other Chinese as publisher and chief editor respectively - men who had been expelled from the Kuomintang on account of the moderation of their views. Though at first the \"Kung Sheung\" was only a small single sheet, less than half the size of the large double sheet of the \"Wah Kiu Yat Po,\" it has done good from the very day of its issue. The publication of a paper independent and fearless of Bolshevism, which daily attacked those doctrines, inspired a little courage in the \"Wah Kiu.\" The other newspapers which had suspended publication also recommenced with a daily issue of one sheet. To-day, because of the example of the \"Kung Sheung,\" all the Chinese newspapers are anti-Red, but we are carefully watching at least two of them to see that they are not converted by Russian money. This shows that the rapid spread of feeling which can so easily be induced in a mob, can also be caused in the daily journals which affect and reflect the mob psychology.\n\n## 60\nThe men who launched and are running the \"Kung Sheung Yat Po\" deserve every credit. They have been marked out for dire punishment by the Canton \"Reds.\" There is little doubt that the bomb outrage in a tramcar near the Central Market was directed against the two Kuomintang renegades. The bomb exploded in the car they were using at the stopping place where they almost invariably alighted. By the merest chance they intended to get off the car one section later, and so had not descended to the lower stage of the tramcar where the bomb was placed.\n\n## 61\nWe must all agree that there is great need for continued propaganda. Our enemy has been, and will be, unceasing in his attacks upon us, and his attempts to buy over some of our Chinese newspapers. We must keep on educating the public, and see that our case continues to be presented to them in the manner we want, whether we have actual civil disturbance at the time or not. With this object Mr. Chow Shou-son and I, with other Chinese merchants, have recently turned the \"Kung Sheung Yat Po\" into a permanent newspaper, and are running it at a considerable loss, even with the Government grant of $500 a month, as a large number of copies have been sent abroad gratis.\n\n## 62\nEnglish propaganda work is, I understand, being done by Captain A. McClay, of the South China Publicity Bureau.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500850, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 562, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Public Works, Extraordinary.—Continued.\n\n| Particulars | Brought forward | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | $2,346,000 | | | $2,700,000 | $763,000 |\n| | $3,258,700 | | $506,000 | $3,663,200 | $915,500 |\n\n### DRAINAGE,—Continued.\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 33 Miscellaneous Drainage Works:-(a) Extending existing outfall from below Wanchai Gap to the sea at a point near Aberdeen | 20,000 | | 3,000 | | 15,000 |\n| (b) Laying sewer in connection with Conduits and Hatton Roads Development Scheme | 8,000 | | 3,000 | | 5,000 |\n| (c) Shankiwan Road, Laying drain in connection with North Point Foreshore Development | 20,000 | | | 20,000 | |\n| (d) General Works | 35,000 | | 52,000 | | 17,000 |\n\n### WATER WORKS,-Continued.\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 63 New Rising Main to 750 foot Tank (9\") | | | | | |\n| 64 Conduit and Hutton Roads Development Scheme | 10,000 | | 16,000 | | 6,000 |\n| 60 Lowering Water Mains in City to give better cover | 8,000 | | 8,000 | | 4,000 |\n| 61 Mount Cameron Development,-Temporary arrangements for water supply, (not including distribution service) | 15,000 | | 8,000 | | 7,000 |\n| 62 Coal Bunkers, Taitam Tuk Pumping Station | TI1 | | | | |\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 34 Queen's Statue Pier | 37,000 | | 75,000 | | 38,000 |\n| 35 Quarry, Workshop and Plant | | | | | |\n| (a) Diverting Peak Pumping Main | 5,000 | | 50,000 | 50,000 | |\n| (b) Diverting Distributing Main | 75,000 | | 5,000 | 75,000 | |\n| 36 Portable Tar and Asphalte Mixer | 15,000 | | | 15,000 | |\n| 37 Two 2-ton Motor Lorries | 16,000 | | | 16,000 | |\n| 38 New Ferry Piers | 55,000 | | 45,000 | | |\n| 39 Ferry Piers for Vehicular Traffic | | | | | |\n| 40 Forming rubble mound for protection to proposed reclamation, North Point | 30,000 | | 20,000 | | 10,000 |\n| 41 Furniture for Government Offices and Quarters | 30,000 | | 50,000 | | 20,000 |\n| 42 Aplichau Reclamation Scheme | 10,000 | | 4,000 | | 6,000 |\n| 43 Harbour Developments | | | | | |\n| (a) Contribution by Government towards Fund for Reclamation | 5,000 | | 18,500 | 97,000 | 13,500 |\n| (b) ... | | | | 97,000 | |\n| 44 Chinese Cemeteries, Laying out new arches | 3,500 | | | 3,500 | |\n| 45 Chair Coolie Shelters | 3,200 | | 5,000 | 4,000 | 1,000 |\n| (a) Road Improvements at Arsenal Street. Resumption and alteration of buildings | | | | | |\n| 46 Sanitary Depôt, Watson Street | 7,000 | | 20,000 | | 13,000 |\n| (c) Morrison Hill District Development, Retaining Walls and Storm Water Culverts | 10,000 | | 7,000 | 10,000 | 7,000 |\n| 47 Motor Roller, 8 to 9 tons, for Asphaltum work | 10,000 | | 7,000 | | |\n| 48 Kemely Town Reclamation, exclusive of wharfage | 1,000 | | | 1,000 | |\n| 49 Miscellaneous Works | 30,000 | | | 30,000 | |\n\n### KOWLOON.\n\n#### BUILDINGS.\n\n**PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS ORDINANCE, 1908.**\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 70 Kowloon Hospital | 200,000 | | 350,000 | | 150,000 |\n| 71 New Police Station, Yaumati | 20,000 | | 30,000 | | 10,000 |\n| 50 Compensation and Resumptions | 30,000 | | 50,000 | | |\n| 72 Police Station, Mongkoktsui | 7,000 | | | 7,000 | |\n| 73 Matankok Slaughter House, Inspector's Quarters | 10,000 | | 20,600 | | 10,600 |\n| 74 Mongkoktsui. New Market | 21,000 | | 23,000 | | 2,000 |\n\n#### WATER WORKS.\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 51 Eastern District Filter Beds, &c. | 100,000 | | 100,000 | | |\n| 52 Taitam Tuk Scheme,-Additional Pumping Plant :-(a) Engine House and Foundations | 50,000 | | 15,000 | | 35,000 |\n| (b) Engine and Boiler | 200,000 | | | 200,000 | |\n| 53 Stanley Mound East, Catchwater | 50,000 | | 80,000 | | |\n| 54 Mount Parker East, Catchwater | 50,000 | | 30,000 | | |\n| 55 Violet Hill (only half area), Catchwater | 30,000 | | 30,000 | | |\n| 56 Stanley Mound West, Catchwater | 10,000 | | 50,000 | | 40,000 |\n| 57 Jardine's Look Out, Catchwater | 15,000 | | 26,000 | | 11,000 |\n| 58 New Workshop and Plant | 5,000 | | | 5,000 | |\n| 59 Repulse Bay Water Supply, Extended Scheme | 5,000 | | | 5,000 | |\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 75 Cattle and Swine Depôt, Yaumati | 1,000 | | 10,000 | | 9,000 |\n| 76 Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Yaumati | 5,000 | | | 5,000 | |\n| 77 Trough Closet at Kowloon City | 10,000 | | | 10,000 | |\n| 78 Additional Cattle Shed, Matankok | 9,000 | | | 9,000 | |\n| 79 Open Market, Bowring Street | 29,500 | | TIR | 29,500 | |\n| 80 Magistracy at Yaumati | 1,000 | | 1,000 | | |\n| 81 Quarters for Revenue Officers, Yaumati | 5,000 | | | 5,000 | |\n| 82 Officers' Quarters, Kowloon | 30,000 | | | 30,000 | |\n| 83 Hunghom Market Extension, 12 fish stalls with tanks | 2,000 | | 10,000 | | 8,000 |\n| 84 To Kwa Wan Market, 16 stalls for beef, pork, fish and poultry | 1,000 | | 15,000 | | 14,000 |\n| 85 Closed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market | 1,000 | | 12,000 | | 11,000 |\n\n| Brought forward | $3,253,700 | | $506,000 | $3,663,200 | $915,500 |\n| Carried forward | $3,951,200 | | $640,000 | $4,447,800 | $1,136,100 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500859, "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": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 571, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "# LIST No. 1.\n\n## Statement of Estimated Unexpended Balances and Supplementary Votes required up to 31.12.25.\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY.\n\n| ITEM | WORK | ESTIMATED UNEXPENDED BALANCE TO 31.12.25. | SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATED VOTES ALREADY TAKEN. | SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE REQUIRED. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Brought forward | 431,500 | 80,600 | 182,400 |\n| | Miscellaneous Drainage Works :- | | | |\n| | Hongkong. | | | |\n| 30 | (a) Laying sewer in connection with Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme | 5,000 | | |\n| 31 | General Works | 13,400 | F.M. 63 | 2 |\n| | BUILDING. | | | |\n| 1 | Overseer's Quarters, Elliot Filter Beds | 4,000 | 1 | |\n| | Cadet Quarters, Canton | F.M. | 6,000 | 8 |\n| | New Queen's College | 6,000 | J 63 | |\n| | MISCELLANEOUS. | | | |\n| 9 | Extension of Lairage, and Coolie Quarters, Kennedy Town | 5,000 | 21 | 29 |\n| 25 | | | R=P===SRZ 6 35 | |\n| 10 | Reinstatement of Kenney Town Police Station | 1,000 | | |\n| | Sairingpun Market, Reconstruction | 5,000 | 238 | 32 |\n| 17 | Queen's Pier. F.M. | | 33 | |\n| | Aplichau, Reclamation Scheme | 5,000 | 36 | 39 |\n| 19 | Telephone cable to D'Aguilar Station F.M. | | Miscellaneous Works | |\n| | Government Stores, Extension | 28,000 | 18,000 | |\n| | | 25,000 F.M. 63 | 4,000 | 13 |\n| | New Infectious Diseases Hospital | 30,000 | 11 | |\n| | New Government Offices, Alterations | 45,000 | 16 | |\n| | Police Station, Rebuilding of No. 8 | 30,000 | 19 | |\n| | Magistracy new cells | 13,500 | 12 | 20 |\n| | New Architectural Offices, F.M. | 38,000 | | |\n| | Government Civil Hospital, Extensions to | | | |\n| | WATER WORKS. | | | |\n| | Taitam Tuk Scheme, Additional Pumping Plant :- | | | |\n| | Sisters' Quarters F.M. 38 | 5,000 | | |\n| | Sanitary Depot and Inspector's Quarters, Shaukiwan | 30,000 | | |\n| | Scavenging Coolies' Quarters, Shaukiwan | 50,000 | | |\n| 26 | Conservancy Coolies' Quarters, Rutter Street | 30,000 | 92989 | |\n| 52 | Eastern Pumping Station | | | |\n| (a) | Engine House and Foundations | | | |\n| | Taitam Tuk East Catchwater (1st Section) Shek O Water Supply | 40,000 | F.M. 03 | 4,000 |\n| 53 | | 60,000 | | |\n| | Bowen Road Filter Beds conversion... Jardine's Look-out Service Reservoir | 100,000 | 5,000 | 15,000 |\n| | COMMUNICATIONS, | | | |\n| 28 | Roads :- | | | |\n| (c) | Wanchai Road widening to 42 feet | 25,000 | | |\n| (d) | Road from Causeway Bay to North Point | 50,000 | | |\n| (k) | West Bay Development Road Construction... | 25,000 | | |\n| (r) | Caine Road Widening and raising to new levels between Arbuthnot Road and Aberdeen Street | | | |\n| (a) | Road from Shek O Gap to D'Aguilar | 20,000 | 30,000 | |\n| | Shaukiwan Road widening near Taikoo Dock, F.M. 15... | 15,000 | | |\n| (w) | Conduit Road Widening F.M. 25... | 22,600 | | |\n| (x) | Raising Shaukiwan Road between Yee Woo Street and the Electric Light Works | 25,000 | | |\n| (a) | Service path from Magazine Gap Road to serve new sites South of Thorpe Manor | 7,000 | | |\n| (bb) | Garden Road above Kennedy Road, Improving and widening | 10,000 | F.M. 63 | |\n| (dd) | General Works | 125,000 | | |\n| 29 | DRAINAGE. | | | |\n| | Training Nullahs :→ | | | |\n| (a) | Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme | 3,000 | | |\n| (c) | General Works | | | |\n| | Carried forward | 431,500 | 80,600 | 182,400 |\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY,—Continued.\n\n| ITEM | WORK | ESTIMATED UNEXPENDED BALANCE TO 31.12.25. | SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATED VOTES ALREADY TAKEN. | SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE REQUIRED. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Kowloon. | | | |\n| | BUILDINGS. | | | |\n| 57 | | S & & £3283 8 | | |\n| 58 | Kowloon Hospital :- | | | |\n| (a) | Building and Furniture... (b) Site | 100,000 | | |\n| | Mataukok Slaughter House, Inspector's Quarters... | 12,000 | | |\n| 59 | Mongkoktsui, New Market and Site | 5,000 | | |\n| 60 | Cattle and Swine Depot, Yaumati | 1,000 | | |\n| 61 | Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Yaumati | 50,000 | | |\n| 62 | Open Market, Bowring Street | F.M. 03 | 3,000 | |\n| 64 | Hunghom Market Extension, 12 fish stalls. with tanks | 2,000 | | |\n| | To Kwa Wan Market, 10 stalls for beef, pork, fish and poultry | 12,000 | | |\n| | Closed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market | 50,000 | | |\n| 67 | Extension of stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station garage, and arrangement of Workshop | 40,000 | 38 222 | |\n| 68 | Slaughter House, Tai Kok Tsui | 25,000 | | |\n| 69 | Workshop and Quarters for Electrical and Telephone Staff | 17,000 F.M. 68 | | |\n| 70 | Police Married Quarters, Mongkok. F.M. 11... | 8,000 | | |\n| 72 | Married Quarters for Police, Yaumati | 25,000 | | |\n| 74 | Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Lo Lung Hang (near Hung Hom) | 25,000 | 34,400 F.M. G3 | |\n| | Carried forward | 059,000 | 134,600 | 201,800 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502484, "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": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "Military Expenditure exceeded the estimate by $233,412 due to increase in revenue. Education Department decreased $108,888 on account of unpaid Building Grants.\n\nEXPENDITURE.\n\n5\n\nThe amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £467,442. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $1,444,169 and £103,453 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1924, resulting as follows:-\n\n \n Cadet Service\n $100,831.47\n $289,630.18\n \n \n Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature\n $69,991.32\n \n \n Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n $27,512.96\n \n \n Audit Department\n $51,592.62\n \n \n Treasury\n $76,662.66\n \n \n Harbour Master's Department\n $623,395.92\n \n \n Imports & Exports Department\n $872,557.69\n \n \n Royal Observatory\n $52,638.49\n \n \n Miscellaneous Services\n $1,092,558.10\n \n \n Judicial and Legal Departments\n $305,286.92\n \n \n Police Department\n $1,877,948.69\n \n \n Fire Brigade\n $199,570.25\n \n \n Prison Department\n $383,362.70\n \n \n Medical Department\n $502,882.89\n \n \n Sanitary Department\n $670,945.48\n \n \n Botanical and Forestry Department\n $86,516.80\n \n \n Education Department\n $945,642.01\n \n \n Military Expenditure\n $4,299,887.34\n \n \n Public Works Department\n $1,184,767.90\n \n \n Do. Recurrent\n $1,793,968.69\n \n \n Do. Extraordinary\n $8,112,785.49\n \n \n Post Office\n $257,573.59\n \n \n Kowloon-Canton Railway\n $1,329,927.46\n \n \n Charge on Account of Public Debt\n $941,923.95\n \n \n Pensions\n $503,929.39\n \n \n Charitable Services\n $72,137.48\n \n \n TOTAL\n $26,726,428.44\n \n\nThe balance to the debit on the year's working was $2,516,788 and the assets and liabilities account showed on the 31st December a credit balance of $13,107,549.29.\n\nThe following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1920-1924 :-\n\n \n Year\n Revenue\n Expenditure\n \n \n 1920\n $14,689,672\n $14,489,594\n \n \n 1921\n $17,728,132\n $15,739,652\n \n \n 1922\n $22,291,065\n $18,563,003\n \n \n 1923\n $24,783,763\n $21,571,905\n \n \n 1924\n $24,209,640\n $26,726,428\n \n\nIncreases :-\n\n \n The City of Victoria\n $387,772\n \n \n The Hill District\n $47,610\n \n \n Shaukiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay\n $20,110\n \n \n Hongkong Villages\n $74,411\n \n \n Kowloon Point\n $116,380\n \n \n Yaumati\n $223,615\n \n \n Mongkoktsui\n $30,655\n \n \n Bunghom and Hok Un\n $40,540\n \n \n Kowloon Villages\n $3,344\n \n \n New Territories\n $143,814\n \n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $22,147,951 having increased by $1,088,251.\n\nDuring the period 1915-1924 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $14,287,285 to $22,147,951, an increase in rateable value of $7,860,666.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows:-\n\n \n Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation\n $49,603,461\n \n \n Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China\n $11,611,486\n \n \n Mercantile Bank of India, Limited\n $1,296,455\n \n \n Total\n $62,511,402\n \n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hongkong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins, less those demonetized, now amounts to $17,864,370 nominal value, and they were up to the year 1905 readily absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China. During 1916 ten cent pieces of the face value of $5,028,000 were shipped to Calcutta for purposes of demonetization. The discount which prevailed between 1905 and 1916 may be attributed to the immense quantity of similar coin which was minted at Canton as well as to the amount of Hongkong coin minted largely in excess of the needs of the Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502502, "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": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 193, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "- 5 — \n\nMilitary Expenditure exceeded the estimate by $233,412 due to increase in revenue. Education Department decreased $108,888 on account of unpaid Building Grants.\n\nGovernor\n\nCadet Service\n\nThe amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £467,442. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $1,444,169 and £103,453 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1924, resulting as follows:-**\n\nEXPENDITURE.\n\n6.\n\n \n 100,831.47\n 289,630.18\n \n \n Colonial Secretary's Department and Legislature\n \n \n 69,991.32\n \n \n \n Secretarial for Chinese Affairs\n \n \n 27,512.96\n \n \n \n Audit Department\n \n \n 51,592.62\n \n \n \n Treasury\n \n \n 76,662.66\n \n \n \n Harbour Master's Department\n \n \n 623,395.92\n \n \n \n Imports & Exports Department\n \n \n 872,557.69\n \n \n \n Royal Observatory\n \n \n 52,638.49\n \n \n \n Miscellaneous Services\n \n \n 1,092,558.10\n \n \n \n Judicial and Legal Departments\n \n \n 305,286.92\n \n \n \n Police Department\n \n \n 1,877,948.69\n \n \n \n Fire Brigade\n \n \n 199,570.25\n \n \n \n Prison Department\n \n \n 383,362.70\n \n \n \n Medical Department\n \n \n 502,882.89\n \n \n \n Sanitary Department\n \n \n 670,945.48\n \n \n \n Botanical and Forestry Department\n \n \n 86,516.80\n \n \n \n Education Department\n \n \n 945,642.01\n \n \n \n Military Expenditure\n \n \n 4,299,887.34\n \n \n \n Public Works Department\n \n \n 1,184,787.90\n \n \n \n Do. Recurrent\n \n \n 1,793,988.69\n \n \n \n Do. Extraordinary\n \n \n 8,112,785.49\n \n \n \n Post Office\n \n \n Kowloon-Canton Railway\n \n \n \n 257,573.59\n 1,329,927.46\n \n \n Charge on Account of Public Debt\n \n \n 941,923.95\n \n \n \n Pensions\n \n \n 503,929.39\n \n \n \n Charitable Services\n \n \n TOTAL\n 72,137.48\n \n \n \n $26,726,428.44\n \n\nThe balance to the debit on the year's working was $2,518,788 and the assets and liabilities account showed on the 31st December a credit balance of $13,107,549.29.\n\nThe following is a statement of the revenue and expenditure of the Colony for the five years 1920-1924 :-\n\n \n \n Revenue.\n $\n Expenditure.\n $\n \n \n 1920\n \n 14,689,672\n \n 14,489,594\n \n \n 1921\n \n 17,728,132\n \n 15,739,652\n \n \n 1922\n \n 22,291,065\n \n 18,563,003\n \n \n 1923\n \n 24,783,703\n \n 21,571,905\n \n \n 1924\n \n 24,209,640\n \n 26,726,428\n \n\nIncreases :-\n\nThe City of Victoria $387,772\n\nThe Hill District 47,610\n\nShaukiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay 20,110\n\nHongkong Villages 74,411\n\nKowloon Point 110,380\n\nYaumati 223,615\n\nMongkoktsui 30,655\n\nHunghom and Hok Un 40,540\n\nKowloon Villages 3,344\n\nNew Territories 143,814\n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $22,147,951 having increased by $1,088,251.\n\nDuring the period 1915-1924 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $14,287,285 to $22,147,951, an increase in rateable value of $7,880,666.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows:-\n\nHongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation $49,603,481\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, & China $11,611,486\n\nMercantile Bank of India, Limited $1,290,455\n\n$62,511,402\n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hongkong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins, less those demonetized, now amounts to $17,864,370 nominal value, and they were up to the year 1905 readily absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China. During 1916 ten cent pieces of the face value of $5,028,000 were shipped to Calcutta for purposes of demonetization. The discount which prevailed between 1905 and 1916 may be attributed to the immense quantity of similar coin which was minted at Canton as well as to the amount of Hongkong coin minted largely in excess of the needs of the Colony.\n\nPage 183", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503596, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "# COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925.\n\nEstimated. Actual. Increase. Decrease. Provisionally Voted, Explanatory Remarks.\n\n$ $ $ $\n\nBrought forward. 16,643,525 16,329,885.91 1,277,780.20 1,591,489.29\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward 4,812,200 3,859,884.31 932,909.16 1,891,224.85 1,085,520.00\n\n## PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY,-Conti. Kowloon. Continued.\n\n### Buildings, Continued.\n\nOfficers' Quarters, Kowloon.... 1,000 113.28 Some necessary survey work only undertaken.\n\nHunghom Market Extension, 12 stalls with caulks 6,000 4,912.58 2,000.00 Less work done than anticipated.\n\nTo Kwa Wan Market, 16 stalls for beef, pork, fish and poultry 12,000 886.72 1,087.44 12,000.00 Not begun.\n\nClosed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market 50,000 50,000.00 Do.\n\nExtension of Stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station, garage, and arrangement of workshop 40,000 40,000.00 Do.\n\nSlaughter House, Tai Kok Tsui 25,000 25,000.00 Do.\n\n### I.\n\nWorkshop and Quarters for Electrical and Telephone Staff. 45,000 48,335.18 3,385.18 Under-estimated.\n\nPolice Married Quarters, Mongkok.. 6,000 13,760.90 7,780.90 Completed. More work done than anticipated.\n\nYaumati Police Chamber alterations 10,000 10,000.00 Not begun.\n\nMarried Quarters for Police, Yaumati 25,000 25,000) 17,000.00 8,000.00 Not begun. Do.\n\nErection of married quarters over Garage, Tsim Sha Tsui Police Station... 10,000 9,278.74 721.26 Not begun.\n\nQuarters for Scavenging Coolies at Lo Lung Hang (near Hung Hom)...... 40,000 40,000.00 Do.\n\nExtension to existing Market at Mong Kok Tsui 8,000 13,448.81 10,448.81 Extra piling found necessary.\n\nStore of Government materials near Railway 25,000 10,500.00 $25,000.00 Expenditure less than anticipated.\n\nQuarters for Clerical Staff 200,000 200,000.00 Do.\n\nPolice Married Quarters, Hunghom..................... 15,000 15,000.00 Do.\n\n### Public Latrines. Urinals and Bath houses,\n\n40,000 20,985.82 10,014.18 Not begun.\n\n## Communications.\n\n### Roads :-\n\n(7.) Main Roads, Kowloon 100,000 58,887.90 41,812.10 Less work done than anticipated.\n\n(6.) Improvements to existing main roads For Motor traffic (c) Waterloo Road Extension (LX) feet wide) Section between Waterloo Road and the Kowloon Boundary (estimate for 50 foot width) 850,000 68,626.45 281,878.55 Cost of plant only; work not begun,\n\n(d) Tokwawan Road (100 feet wide} Section between Kowloon City Road and K.M.L. 90................. 100,000 88,891.86 11,108.64 Slow progress as rapid completion of work was not essential.\n\n(c.) Argyle Street Extension to its junction with Waterloo Road... 50,000 5,600.00 44,440.00 Less work done than anticipated.\n\n(A) New Road through King's Park | and Cemeteries Area, Homantis: formation of 30 foot width and Bridge across Railway 60 feet wide 80,000 35,821.18 44,178.82 Slow progress as rapid completion of work was not essential\n\n(g.) Macadamizing sud tar painting to New Main Roads .... 210,000 210,000.00 The bridge was not completed.\n\n(A.) Widening Salisbury Road to correct alignment 10,000 115,185.77 85,135.77 Not begun.\n\n### General Works ..... 50,000 88,600.00 Necessary to keep pace with the expansion of the district.\n\nCarried forward 5,819,200 4,348,582.20 1,019,589.82 2,490,207.56\n\nCarried forward 16,843,525 16,829,865.91 1,277,780.20 1,691,439.29 1,206,820.00\n\nPage 47\n\nPage 95", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508386, "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": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "content_text": "## The amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £494,783. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $1,726,670 and £114,722 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1925, resulting as follows:\n\nThe policy of redeeming coin was continuously followed till 1918 except during a brief period in 1911. Coin to the face value of $26,235,459 has thus been redeemed. The total issue by the Hong Kong Government was of the face value of $44,099,830.\n\n### Increases:\n\n| District | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| The City of Victoria | $2,884,639 |\n| The Hill District | 43,430 |\n| Shankiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay | 107,825 |\n| Hong Kong Villages | 314,000 |\n| Kowloon Point | 346,276 |\n| Yaumati | 591,140 |\n| Mongkoktsui | 472,020 |\n| Hunghom and Hok Un | 94,650 |\n| Kowloon Villages | 32,401 |\n| New Territories | 253,530 |\n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $27,287,862 having increased by $5,139,911.\n\nDuring the period 1916-1925 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $14,282,186 to $27,287,862, an increase in rateable value of $13,005,676.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows:\n\n| Bank | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation | $45,332,993 |\n| Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China | 14,587,808 |\n| Mercantile Bank of India, Limited | 1,459,875 |\n| **Total** | **$61,380,676** |\n\n### STATEMENT OF SUBSIDIARY COINS\n\n| Year | Received | Redeemed | Amount in Circulation |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1911 | | ...5,527,459.04 | |\n| 1912 | | ...1,040,000.00 | |\n| 1913 | | ...1,040,000.00 | |\n| 1914 | | ..5,000,000.00 | |\n| 1915 | | ..5,100,000.00 | |\n| 1916 | | ..5,028,000.00 | |\n| 1918 | | ...3,000,000.00 | |\n| 1919 | 25,000.00 | | |\n| 1922 | | 500,000.00 | |\n| 1923 | 25,000.00 | | |\n| 1924 | 50,000.00 | | |\n| 1925 | 25,000.00 | | |\n| **Total** | $125,000 | $26,235,459.04 | $17,889,370.96 |\n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hong Kong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins, less those demonetized, now amounts to $17,889,370 nominal value, and they were up to the year 1905 readily absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China. During 1916 ten cent pieces of the face value of $5,028,000 were shipped to Calcutta for purposes of demonetization. The discount which prevailed between 1905 and 1916 may be attributed to the immense quantity of similar coin which was minted at Canton as well as to the amount of Hongkong coin minted largely in excess of the needs of the Colony by itself. In 1905 the Hongkong Government ceased to issue any subsidiary coin and in 1906 it began a policy of demonetizing all its subsidiary coin received as revenue.\n\n## II.—SHIPPING AND TRADE, INDUSTRIES, FISHERIES, AGRICULTURE, AND LAND\n\n### (a.) SHIPPING\n\nThe total Shipping entering and clearing at Ports in the Colony during the year 1925 amounted to 379,177 vessels of 41,469,581 tons, which compared with the figures of 1924 show a decrease of 384,315 vessels and a decrease of 15,261,493 tons.\n\nOf the above 41,336 vessels of 32,179,053 tons were engaged in Foreign Trade as compared with 57,765 vessels of 38,770,499 tons, in 1924.\n\nTable 1 shows a decrease in British Ocean-going Shipping of 1,381 ships or 26.1 per cent and a decrease of 1,977,932 tons or 16.1 per cent. This decrease in ships and tonnage is due to the recent strike and present boycott in South China.\n\nForeign Ocean-going vessels have decreased by 1,911 ships and by 2,243,124 tons or 22.3 per cent in numbers and 13.1 per cent in tonnage. This decrease in ships and tonnage is due to the recent strike and present boycott in South China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508399, "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": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "content_text": "## RAILWAY\n\nThe extension to workshops started in June, 1924, was completed in April and handed over to the Locomotive Department. The blacksmiths moved into the new portion of the building, and the old smithshop was overhauled and converted into a Store for tools.\n\nThe 5-cwt, pneumatic hammer, punching and shearing machine, power hack saw, electric motors and shafting were removed from the old Shop and re-erected.\n\nThe 360-ton wheel press was moved to a more convenient position in the new extension, and four other machines, 18\" shaper, power screwing machine, axle-box boring machine and air compressor were re-arranged in more convenient places.\n\nFour tracks on the site of the proposed extension of the carriage shed were extended for the full length of 500 feet to accommodate stock.\n\nTwo three-storied tenement houses adjoining the Locomotive Yard, known as 70 and 72 Chatham Road, were taken over and reconditioned as quarters for workshops staff.\n\nA small area of Railway land measuring 80 feet by 60 feet, situated in the Locomotive Yard at Hunghom, was transferred to the Public Works Department for the purpose of building a permanent workshop and quarters for electricians.\n\nThe materials for the new water tank and tower at Kowloon arrived in May and a contract was entered into for erection. This work was nearly completed by the close of the year.\n\nThe materials for the extension to the awnings over the main platform at Kowloon arrived from England and Canada in August and September, and erection was commenced in December.\n\nThe bridge at the second mile, known as No. 4 Bridge and referred to in last year's report, was completed in May and traffic diverted back over the eastern spans.\n\nThe laying of underground cables in substitution for aerial telephone wires was continued back from Taipo at Mile 13 to Mile 9. This work is being carried out by the Public Works Department.\n\nAt Lowu the sidings were extended for about 300 feet to facilitate shunting operations.\n\nConsiderable damage to the Railway was caused by rainstorms in July which culminated in a heavy downpour on the 16th when 13.48 inches of rain were registered. A 3-foot culvert at Yaumati Station was choked up by debris from private works on the hillside above, and the line flooded with slurry. Later on a heavy slip took place and buried both tracks to a height of four or five feet, thus interrupting traffic. At Mile 3, private works caused a diversion of the flood waters which cut away the railway bank for some hundred yards, and all traffic had to change trains at either side of the breach for two days.\n\n### \n\nThe following new machines were installed in the Carpenters Shop:-\n\n| Machine |\n| --- |\n| (i) Planing and moulding machine. |\n| (ii) Band saw and chain mortising machine. |\n\nDuring the year most of the machines in the Workshops were given a general overhaul.\n\nThe motor repair shop has been kept extremely busy throughout the year, overhauling motor vehicles belonging to other Government Departments.\n\nThe Workshops were very greatly handicapped during the middle of the year by the strike. All the No. 1's however remained and with their assistance the train service was maintained. During the greater part of a month, running repairs of all kinds were done by these few men.\n\nThe year 1925 has again proved an unfortunate one for the Railway, directly attributable to the conditions obtaining in the Kwangtung Province, the Through and Joint Sectional Traffic being suspended throughout the year with the exception of 166 Slow Through trains. The Through Slow Service suspended in 1924 was resumed on March 17th. The Chinese Section passenger stock however was found to be in such a bad state of repair, that it was considered inadvisable to allow it to run over the British Section as had been done in the past, and passengers were therefore conveyed to and from the border in stock provided by the British Section.\n\nThe through service was again suspended from June 1st to the 17th.\n\nOn Sunday, June 21st, a general strike of Chinese in the Colony commenced and through traffic was again interrupted and was not resumed during the year. Between June 23rd and July 11th there was a general exodus of strikers from the Colony, 24,851 passengers being carried to the border.\n\nA ballast train for the use of the Public Works Department was provided on the Branch Line for 100 nights commencing on June 22nd and terminating on the 27th October, in connection with the construction of the new road to Sha Tau Kok.\n\nThe Railway Division of St. John's Ambulance Brigade, under the direction of Traffic Inspector Winyard, has proved itself most efficient. There are now thirty-three members, all recruited from the Traffic Department. A First Aid Box is kept at each Station and also on each train, and expert attendance and suitable dressings are available in cases of accident.\n\nThe Division again won the \"Holyoak\" Attendance Cup.\n\nAs mentioned in my last Report, it was decided that this Railway should adopt the system of accounts employed on all Chinese Government Railways. The recasting from 1906 to date has now been completed, and for the first time the accounts are presented in accordance with the Classification of Revenue and Expenditure as prescribed by the Ministry of Communications.\n\n39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511380, "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": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928", "content_text": "200\n\n88\n\n# Head 32. KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY\n\nApproved Estimate, 1927.\n\nEstimate, 1928.\n\n## Head 32. KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY\n\n### KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY,—Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n$\n\n585,233\n\n689,598\n\n### SPECIAL EXPENDITURE,\n\n### KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY,-Continued.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1927.\n\nEstimate, 1928.\n\n### PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS,-Continued.\n\n$\n\nDetails of the foregoing,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n24,187\n\n26,618\n\n#### E-1-5 STORES.\n\n##### E-1-5-1 Salaries.\n\nNUMBERS.\n1927\n1928\n\nSub-leads:- $5 Machines for Workshops\n\n9,500\n\n36 Improvements and alterations to Taipo Market Station\n\n25,000\n\n12,400\n\n37 Special repairs to Fanling Branch\n\n9,000\n\nStorekeeper (£620 to £750 by £25 annually).\n4,050\n4,200\n\nLocomotive Shed, Carriage Shed, and Workshop for Fanling Branch Line Rolling Stock\n\nOffice Attendant, at $156\n156\n156\n\n3,000\n\nDa.. Good Conduct Allowance\n4\n\nOffice for Chief Mechanical Engineer, Hunghom\n\n30,000\n\n1\n1\n1\n\nMessenger at $132,\n132\n132\n\nCouerete Channels at Cuttings.....\n\n2.000\n\nDo.. Good Conduct Allowance.\n36\n84\n\nNew Roofing to Workshops\n\n2,000\n\nDo., Personal Allowance\n24\n\nBooking Office Taipo Pier\n\n1,000\n\n2\n2\n2\n\nStore Coolies, at $168 each\n336\n336\n\nFencing for Stations\n\n1.000\n\nDo.. Personal Allowance to 1\n\nAlteration to Booking and Customs examination arrangements\n\nDo.. Good Conduct Allowance to 1 at $22,\n2\n22\n\nat Kowloon Station\n\n800\n\n3\n3\n3\n\nWatchmen, at $180 each\n540\n540\n\nDo.,\n\nTotal Kowloon-Canton Railway,\n650,033\n720.398\n\nDo.. Personal Allowance to 1 at $11 & 1 at 86 Good Conduct Allowances to 1 at $44, 1 at $30 audi at $25\n17\n108\n\n99\n\n### PERSONAL EMOLUMENTS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n#### E-1 GENERAL EXPENSES.\n\n##### E-1-3 GENERAL Manager.\n\n###### E-1-3-1 Salaries.\n\nNUMBERS.\n1927\n1928\n\nStore Coolies, Rent Allownaces, at ¥24 each\n\n##### E-1-5-2 Allowances.\n\nWatchmen, Rent Allowances, at 824 euch.............\n\nMessenger, Rent Allowance\n48\n48\n\nOffice Attendant, Rent Allowance...\n48\n48\n\nIN\n\nIN\n\n48\n\nManager and Chief Engineer, at £1,300\n1\n+\n\n1\n\n13,200\n\n15,600 (3)\n\n2\n2\n2\n\nDo., Do.,\n\nDo., Personal Allowance (£100). Office Attendants, 1 at $192, and 1 at $156 Personal Allowance to I\n1,200\n(4)\n\n348\n348\n\n8\n\nGood Conduct Allowance to lat $16 and 1 at $12\n28\n28\n\n1\nI\n\nMessenger\n132\n\nDo.. Good Conduct Allowance\n132\n2\n\n##### E-1-8-2 Allowances.\n\nOffice Attendants, and 1 Messenger, Rent Allowances\n10 3 at $48 each\n\n#### E-1-4 AUDIT AND ACCOUNTS.\n\n###### E-1-4-1 Salaries.\n\n! Do.,\n\nChief Accountant, (£600 to £700 by £10 annually\n\nPersonal Allowance (£100)\n8,100\n8,400\n\n1,200\n1\n1\n\n| Office Attendant, at $156\n156\n156\n\n3\n8\n\n| Coolies, at $132 each...\n\nDo.,\n396\n396\n\nGood Conduct Allowance to 1 at $12.\n15\n12\n\n##### E-1-4-2 Allowances.\n\nOffice Attendant, and 3 Coolies. Rent Allowaners at $18 each\n1 Revote.\n\n2) Non-recurrent.\n\nCarried forward\n192\n24,187\n\n192\n\n26,61%\n\n3 Is also Engineer of Ways and Works. 4 Not required.\n\n#### E-1-6 HEAD OFFICE EXPENSES.\n\nOvertime Allowances\n\n320\n\n820\n\n-2\n\nI\n\n2\n\nHead Watchman, ($300 to $372 by $12 annually) Watchmen, at $180 each\n\nExtra Pay for Chinese Staff on duty, Chinese New Year Dung\n\n10\n\n10\n\n372\n\n372\n\n360\n\n360\n\nDo.,\n\nGood Conduct Allowance to 1 at $36 and at $12\n\n36\n\n48\n\nDo\n\nRent Allowances, at $24 ench\n\n48\n\n48\n\n#### E-1-9 MEDICAL AND SANITATION.\n\n##### E-1-9-1 Salaries and Allowances.\n\nSanitary Coolies, at $132 cach.......\n\n264\n\n264\n\nDü Good Conduct Allowance to 1 at $12 and at $4\n\n2\n\n16\n\nDo.. Kent Allowances, ut $24 oach......\n\n48\n\n18\n\n### E-2 TRAFFIC EXPENSES.\n\n#### E-2-1 SUPERINTENDENCE.\n\n##### E-2-1-1 Salaries.\n\n1927\n1928\n\n1\n1\n\nTraffic Manager, (£620 to £750 by £25 annually)...\n4,050\n4.200 1,000\n\n(2)\n(8)\n\nI\nI\n\n2\n2\n2\n\n1\n\nTraffic Assistaut, (£400 to £600 by £20 annually).\n5,297\n5,537\n\nTraffic Inspectors, (£260 to £360 by £10 annually)...\n8,640\n8,640\n\nTraffic Sub-Inspector, ($1,200 16 $1,500 by $75 annally)\n1,350\n1,425\n\nMessenger\n132\n132\n\nDo\n\nPersonal Allowance\n5\n\nDo.,\n\nGood Conduct Allowance.\n19\n19\n\n##### E-2-1-2 Allowances.\n\nTraffic Manager. Allowance for Railway Night School,\n540\n540\n\nTeacher, allowance for Railway Night School\n720\n720\n\nTraffic Inspector, First Aid Allowance\n240\n240\n\nOffice Attendant, Allowance for Railway Night School Messenger, Rent Allowance\n24\n21\n\n24\n24\n\n52,303\n56,118\n\nCarried forward\n\n(Half salary charged to E-2-1.\n\n(2) Hal salary charged to E-1-5.\n\n(8) C.U.D. No. 265 of 20-8-26,\n\n201\n\n89", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-505-12 Estimates of expenditure 1928 1-9-1927 - 12-1-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 511906, "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": "CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927", "content_text": "The amount of the consolidated loan stands at £1,485,733. Against this there is at credit of the Sinking Fund a sum of £533,787. The Local Loan under Ordinance No. 12 of 1916 amounts to $3,000,000 and there are the sums of $1,831,927 and £120,653 at credit of the Sinking Fund.\n\nA new valuation for Assessment was made for the year commencing 1st July, 1926, resulting as follows:—\n\nIncreases —\n\n \n The City of Victoria\n $ 701,338\n \n \n The Hill District\n 13,940\n \n \n Hong Kong Villages\n 88,567\n \n \n Yaumati\n 5,380\n \n \n \n 6,115\n \n \n \n 2,530\n \n \n Mongkoktsui\n 8,212\n \n \n Hunghom and Hok Un\n \n \n \n Kowloon Villages\n \n \n \n Decreases :—\n \n \n \n New Territories\n 48,555\n \n \n Shaukiwan, Saiwanho and Quarry Bay\n 30,817\n \n \n Kowloon Point\n 30,835\n \n\nwas continuously followed till 1918 except during a brief period in 1911. Coin to the face value of $26,235,459 has thus been redeemed. The total issue by the Hong Kong Government was of the face value of $44,099,830.\n\nSTATEMENT OF SUBSIDIARY COINS. Received and redeemed (from 1911) Blue Book 1911. Amount in circulation.\n\n \n Since received :-Copper coin.\n \n \n \n 1919...\n 25,000.00\n \n \n 1923...\n 25,000.00\n \n \n 1924...\n 50,000.00\n \n \n 1925...\n 25,000.00\n \n \n 1926...\n 25,000.00\n \n \n Total Amount put into circulation ......\n $43,999,830\n \n \n \n 150,000\n \n \n \n $44,149,830\n \n \n Less since redeemed :-\n \n \n \n 1911...\n ...5,527,450.01\n \n \n 1912...\n ...1,040,000.00\n \n \n 1913...\n ...1,040,000.00\n \n \n 1914...\n ...5,000,000.00\n \n \n 1915...\n ...5,100,000.00\n \n \n 1916...\n ...5,028,000.00\n \n \n 1918...\n \n \n \n 1922..\n 500,000.00 ...3,000,000.00\n \n \n \n 26,235,459.04\n \n \n Total Amount of coin in circulation in 1926...\n $17,914,370.96\n \n\nThe rateable value of the whole Colony amounted to $27,998,237 having increased by $710,357.\n\nDuring the period 1917-1926 the assessment of the whole Colony has risen from $14,410,153 to $27,998,237, an increase in rateable value of $13,588,084.\n\nThe circulation on the 31st December of notes of the three Banks having authorised issues was as follows:-\n\n \n Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation\n $ 50,842,258\n \n \n Chartered Bank of India, Australia, & China\n 15,612,909\n \n \n Mercantile Bank of India, Limited\n 1,730,584\n \n \n \n $ 68,185,751\n \n\nThe currency of the Colony consists, in addition to the notes of these Banks, of British, Hong Kong, and Mexican Dollars and of subsidiary coin, which continued at par throughout the year.\n\nThe total issue of subsidiary coins, less those demonetized, now amounts to $17,914,370 nominal value, and they were up to the year 1905 readily absorbed at par, large quantities being taken by the neighbouring provinces of China. During 1916 ten cent pieces of the face value of $5,028,000 were shipped to Calcutta for purposes of demonetization. The discount which prevailed between 1905 and 1916 may be attributed to the immense quantity of similar coin which was minted at Canton as well as to the amount of Hong Kong coin minted largely in excess of the needs of the Colony by itself. In 1905 the Hong Kong Government ceased to issue any subsidiary coin and in 1906 it began a policy of demonetizing all its subsidiary coin received as revenue.\n\nThis policy\n\nII-SHIPPING AND TRADE, INDUSTRIES, FISHERIES, AGRICULTURE, AND LAND.\n\n(a.)-SHIPPING.\n\nThe total Shipping entering and clearing at Ports in the Colony during the year 1926 amounted to 310,361 vessels of 36,821,364 tons, which compared with the figures of 1925 show a decrease of 68,806 vessels and a decrease of 4,648,220 tons.\n\nOf the above 30,231 vessels of 28,371,104 tons were engaged in Foreign Trade as compared with 41,336 vessels of 32,179,053 tons, in 1925,\n\nThere was a decrease in British ocean-going shipping of 515 ships of 600,403 tons. This decrease in ships and tonnage is due to the boycott in China generally.\n\nForeign ocean-going vessels shows a decrease of 1,295 ships and a decrease of 1,729,075 tons. This decrease in ships and tonnage is due to the boycott in China generally.\n\nPage 12\n\nBritish river steamers show an increase of 228 ships and an increase of 18,314 tons. or 43.0% in numbers and 16.3% in tonnage. This increase in ships and tonnage is due to the vessels again running on the Canton and West rivers.\n\nForeign river steamers show a decrease of 1,036 ships and a decrease of 345,143 tons. This decrease in ships and tonnage is due to the foreign river steamers not running until the latter part of the year.\n\nIn steamships not exceeding 60 tons employed in foreign trade there is a decrease of 2,557 ships with a decrease in tonnage of 78,167 tons. This decrease in launches and tonnage is due to the boycott in China generally.\n\nA comparison between the years 1925 and 1926 is given in the following table :—\n\n \n Class of Vessels\n 1925.\n 1926.\n Decrease.\n Increase.\n \n \n \n No. ¡ Tonnage.\n No. Tonnage.\n No. Tonnage.\n No. Tonnage.\n \n \n British Ocean-going, Foreign Ocean going.\n 3,916 9,866,820\n 3,401 9,257,417\n 515 609,403\n \n \n \n \n 5,763 13,786,951\n 4,468 12,057,279\n 1,295 1,729,675\n \n \n \n British River Steamers,\n 4,058 5,455,115\n 4,276 5,473,429\n \n 218 18,314\n \n \n Foreign River Steamships under 60 tons (Foreign Trade)\n 1,266 452,878\n 230 107,735\n 1,036 345,143\n \n \n \n \n 5,386\n 2,829\n 2,557\n \n \n \n Junks, Foreign Trade.\n 20,947 1,387,914\n 15,027 87,330\n 5,920 1,063,875\n \n \n \n \n 1,239,592\n 1,475,188\n \n 3,301 235,596\n \n \n Total, Foreign Trade,\n 41,336 | 32,179,053\n 30,231 28,371,10\n 11,323 3,826,263\n 218 18,314\n \n \n Steam Launches plying in Water of the Colony.\n 310,924 8,050,939\n 249,902 6,975,072\n 61,012 1,075,867\n \n \n \n Junks, Local Trade,\n *26,917\n †30,218\n \n 3,301\n \n \n \n *1,239,592\n †1,475,188\n \n 235,596\n \n \n Grand Total\n 379,177 41,469,584\n 310,361 36,821,364\n 72,335| 4,902,130\n 3,519\n \n \n Net Decrease,\n \n \n 68,816 4,648,220\n \n \n\nIncluding 15,890 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 693,660 tons.\n\n16,294 of 736,688\n\n253,910\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11\n\nPage 13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-2 Annual general report- 1926 19-9-1927 - 30-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512213, "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": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "Table showing season incidence of Malaria at Police Stations in Kowloon and New Territories.\n\n \n Name of Stations\n Establishment 1926\n January\n February\n March\n April\n May\n June\n July\n August\n September\n October\n November\n December\n Total\n \n \n Water Police\n 41\n 36\n \n 247\n 324\n \n 72\n 117\n \n 31\n \n \n 43\n \n \n \n Yaumati\n 19\n 26\n \n \n \n \n 10\n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sham Shui Po\n 9\n 20\n \n 2\n 3\n \n 2\n 1\n \n 2\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n Hunghom\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kowloon City\n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tai Po\n \n \n \n 21\n 34\n \n 24\n 53\n ***\n +\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tai O\n \n \n \n 2\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sheung Shui & Ta Ku Ling\n \n \n \n 22\n 37\n \n 2\n ...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sha Tin\n 12\n \n \n 13\n 38\n \n 5\n 1\n \n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sha Tan Kok\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Lok Ma Chau\n 11\n \n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n An Tau\n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Au Tau (Sub)\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ping Shan\n \n \n \n 1\n 4\n \n 21\n 3\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Castle Peak\n \n \n \n 9\n 16\n \n 13\n 4\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cheung Chau\n 12\n \n \n 16\n 2\n \n 1\n 1\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sai Kung\n 10\n \n \n 13\n 20\n \n 38\n 9\n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mong Kok Tsui\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 12\n \n -\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 57\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n 4\n \n 5\n 6\n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n 10\n \n 13\n -\n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 50\n 79\n \n 3\n 1\n \n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5\n 30\n \n 5\n 2\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 1\n \n 1\n 19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total\n 96\n 89\n \n 120\n 219\n \n 12\n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n 877\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 37\n 52\n \n 31\n \n \n 43\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 62\n 87\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79\n 69\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 128\n 66\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 75\n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage XX\n\n \n(Three lines at the top and three at the bottom indicating page number are kept as is)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512267, "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": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "117\n\n18\n\n(2) (b) General Exhumations at the public expense were completed at the following cemeteries :-\n\nKai Lung Wan West\n\nKai Lung Wan East\n\nMount Caroline..\n\n(3) Cremations:—\n\n2,862\n\n992\n\n408\n\n8,322\n\n10 bodies were cremated at the Japanese Crematorium\n\nand 19 at the Sikh Temple.\n\n(4) Mortuaries :—\n\n183 bodies were awaiting burial at the Tung Wah\n\nHospital Mortuary in 1926.\n\n(5) Removals :—\n\n308 bodies were removed from the Colony before\n\nburial.\n\n(6) Interments :--\n\nThe following table shows the number of interments\n\nat the various cemeteries during the year 1926:-\n\n \n Colonial\n Public.\n \n \n \n Mount Caroline\n Aberdeen\n Private.\n \n \n 938\n 51\n Roman Catholic, Happy Valley\n 123\n \n \n Chai Wan\n 279\n Mohammedan, Happy Valley\n 53\n \n \n Christian\n 3\n Stanley\n 12\n \n \n Jewish, Happy Valley.....\n B\n \n \n \n \n 220\n Parsee,\n 1\n \n \n \n Shek O\n 4\n Malay,\n \n \n \n Kai Lung Wan East\n 1,124\n Chinese Roman Catholic\n 1,295\n \n \n Sai Yu Shek\n \n Ho Man Tin\n 172\n \n \n Tung Wah Hospital\n 4,158\n 3,902\n Chinese Permanent\n \n \n 102\n \n 4\n Chinese Protestant\n 57\n \n \n Chinese Christian, Kowloon\n 42\n Eurasian\n 6\n \n \n Chiu Chow Community\n 18\n \n 6\n \n \n 6,709\n \n 5,858\n \n \n \n Tai Shek Ku\n 19\n \n \n \n\n17. BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION.\n\nThe General Registration Office established by Ordinance No. 7 of 1896, as amended by Ordinance No. 26 of 1923, for registration of both births and deaths is situated at the Sanitary Department Head Office.\n\nAt this office all non-Chinese births and deaths must be registered. Chinese are required to register in the district within which the birth or death occurred. A list of such district registries for births and deaths respectively is appended. Yaumati, Nos. 2 and 7 Police Stations are available for registration of deaths on Sundays and Public Holidays only, when the General Registration office is closed. The Head of the Sanitary Department is ex officio Registrar and has appointed the Police officers in charge of stations, the Inspector in charge of Kowloon Disinfecting Station and the principal clerks in charge of Dispensaries on the appended list as assistant registrars.\n\nDeaths registration, being a necessary preliminary to burial, is almost universal but there is considerable ignorance of the law among Chinese as regards registering of births. As a proof of this it may be pointed out that the records of registered midwives show a total of 7,815 births, whereas only 3,224 births were actually registered during the year. Female births in particular are frequently not registered. This is no doubt due to the presence of a large fluctuating population completely unaccustomed to the system.\n\nAppendix M shows the ratio of Certified and Uncertified deaths.\n\nDEATH REGISTRATION OFFICES.\n\nSanitary Department, Head Office.\n\nKowloon Disinfecting Station.\n\nShaukiwan Police Station.\n\nAberdeen Police Station.\n\nNo. 7 Police Station.\n\nNo. 2 Police Station.\n\nKowloon City Police Station. Sham Shui Po Police Station. Stanley Police Station, Yaumati Police Station.\n\nBIRTH REGISTRATION OFFICES.\n\nSanitary Department, Head Office.\n\nYaumati Chinese Public Dispensary.\n\nHunghom Chinese Public Dispensary.\n\nSham Shui Po Chinese Public Dispensary.\n\nKowloon City Chinese Public Dispensary.\n\nEastern Chinese Public Dispensary.\n\nWestern Chinese Public Dispensary.\n\nCentral Chinese Public Dispensary, Shaukiwan Chinese Public Dispensary.\n\nAberdeen Police Station.\n\nStanley Police Station.\n\n118", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512276, "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": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 97, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "127\n\n30\n\nAppendix G.\n\nLIMEWASHING, 1926.\n\n \n \n Victoria\n Kowloon\n Shaukiwan included\n \n \n owners' request Floors limewashed by S.B.\n 22,261\n 11,675\n \n \n \n Floors limewashed by owners\n 2,325\n 643\n \n \n \n Floors limewashed by S.B's. Contractor owing to owners' failure to comply with the By-law\n 1,068\n 52\n \n \n \n Total\n 25,654\n 12,370\n \n \n\n10\n\n158\n\n505\n\n \n B. F. from 1925\n New births.\n Total\n Vaccinated.\n Unvaccinated.\n Dead,\n Left Colony.\n Cannot be found.\n Had Smallpox.\n Total Insusceptible.\n Unfit.\n C. F.\n 1927.\n Total.\n \n \n 9\n 28\n 302\n 976\n 11\n 135\n 5\n 10\n 15\n 31\n 39\n \n \n 73\n \n\nAppendix H.\n\nVACCINATION RETURN FOR 1926.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sanitary Department (Non-Chinese)\n \n 2,642\n 3,532\n 6,174\n 1,695\n \n \n \n \n Sanitary Department (Chinese)\n 170\n 372\n 869\n 22\n 3,045\n 6,174\n \n \n \n Eastern Chinese Public Dispensary\n \n 188\n 317\n 505\n \n \n \n \n \n Western Chinese Public Dispensary\n 273\n 27\n 29\n \n 1,199\n 930\n 2,129\n \n \n Shaukiwan Chinese Public Dispensary\n 464\n 15\n 120\n 100\n 281\n 784\n 1,065\n \n \n Yaumati Chinese Public Dispensary\n 203\n 68\n 262\n \n 501\n 661\n 1,222\n \n \n Shamshuipo Chinese Public Dispensary\n 143\n 43\n 300\n \n 8\n 20\n 28\n \n \n Hounghom Chinese Public Dispensary\n 11\n 3\n \n \n 279\n 697\n \n \n \n Kowloon City Chinese Public Dispensary\n \n La F\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Central Chinese Public Dispensary\n 502\n 20\n 10\n 140\n 101\n 34\n 135\n \n \n \n 49\n 10\n 31\n \n 33\n 3\n \n \n \n \n 7\n 10\n 3\n \n 8\n 23\n \n \n \n \n 31\n 13\n 14\n \n 59\n 73\n \n \n \n \n 34\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registry\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total\n \n\n128", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 514370, "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": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929", "content_text": "93\n\n- 5\n\n.1\n\n94\n\nEstimate of Capacity.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nFiltering Capacity.\n\nDistribution.\n\nKowloon.\n\nThe area shown as \"Indirect\" is the area draining into Catchwaters.\n\nWith a total storage of 501.75 million gallons and a total catchment area, direct and indirect, of 4,270 acres, I estimate the capacity of the existing Kowloon Works at 5 million gallons per day. The whole of this supply is by gravitation.\n\nFILTERING AND DISTRIBUTION.\n\nThe following tables give in condensed form particulars of the existing Filter Beds and Service Reservoirs :——\n\n \n City.\n Filter Beds\n Service Reservoir\n Remarks.\n \n \n Name.\n Area in Square Yds.\n Capacity in mill. galls.\n \n \n \n Albany.\n 4,944\n 5.187\n Slow sand.\n \n \n Bowen Road\n .72 + .417\n 1.137\n 3 mill. gals. per day.\n \n \n Eastern\n 6,338\n 4.88\n Slow sand.\n \n \n Elliot\n 4,395\n 5.317\n \n \n \n West Point\n 1,980\n .851\n \n \n \n Kennedy Town\n \n .343\n \n \n \n Magazine Gap Road.\n \n .395\n \n \n \n 1750 ft. Tank\"\n \n .388\n \n \n \n Peak Reservoir\n \n .395\n \n \n \n 1 Mt. Gough\n \n .211\n \n \n \n Total...\n 17,657 Square Yds.\n 19.104 mill. galls.\n \n \n\nWith a slow sand filtering area of 17,657 sq. yds. and taking a filtering rate of 400 gallons per yard per day the existing beds when all are in operation could deal efficiently with 7 million gallons per day, but as about 10% of this area will always be out of action for cleaning the working figure must be reduced to 6.3 million gallons per day. The filtering capacity can therefore be taken as 6.3 million gallons per day by slow sand beds and 3 million gallons per day by fast gravity beds, or a total capacity per day of 9.3 million gallons.\n\nA large portion of the existing City Distribution system is very old and consists of 3\" and 4\" dia. C. I. pipes with even smaller effective diameters owing to incrustation. A fair length of 15\" C.I. pipes has been laid during the last three years which has helped matters considerably, but during the Summer it is increasingly difficult to keep pressures up in the central portions of the City.\n\n \n Name.\n Filter Beds Area in Sq. Yds.\n Service Reservoir Capacity mill. galls.\n Remarks.\n \n \n Kowloon Shing Mun\n 8,000\n \n Slow sand.\n \n \n Kowloon Tong.\n \n 2.183\n \n \n \n Pipers Hill\n \n 1.547\n \n \n \n Yaumati\n \n .162\n \n \n \n Hunghom\n \n .092\n \n \n \n Total\n 8,000\n 3.984\n 5 mill. galls, per day (under Construction).\n \n\nWith a filtering area of 8,000 sq. yds. a filtering speed of 400 gallons per sq. yard per day and a 10% allowance on beds out of action for cleaning, the Kowloon Beds can efficiently filter 2.9 mill. gallons per day. Before the end of the year the Shing Mun Fast Gravity Filter Beds will be completed adding 5 mill. gallons per day to the filtering capacity and bringing the total mainland capacity to 7.9 mill. gallons per day.\n\nFiltering Capacity.\n\nDistribution.\n\nThe distribution system in Kowloon is on the whole good, but the steady development all over the peninsula calls for a continuous programme of main-laying while the Service Reservoir Capacity is now inadequate.\n\nESTIMATED Requirements.\n\nIt is difficult to work out with any degree of accuracy the exact water requirements of Hong Kong, as, during the last twenty years there have only been three years when it has been found possible to give a full supply throughout the twelve months, these years being 1919, 1920 and 1921.\n\nFrom the census returns I find that the population of the City showed an average increase, between the years 1911 and 1921, of about 4.2% annually.\n\nThe full supply to the City in 1921 was 8.11 mill. gallons per day, which taking a percentage annual increase in supply equal to the annual percentage rise in population during the previous decade gives an estimated consumption of 10.14 million gallons per day in 1927.\n\nThe actual consumption during 1927 was 9 million gallons per day with restrictions in force for over four months in the year and I estimate the full supply without restrictions would have been 9.5 million gallons per day, which is somewhat lower than the estimate from a population basis.\n\nTaking all circumstances into consideration I consider the following a modest estimate of the daily full supply water requirements of the City for the next five years :-\n\n1928 10 mill. galls.\n\n1929 10.4 mill. galls.\n\n1930 10.8 mill. galls.\n\n1931 11.2 mill. galls.\n\n1932 11.6 mill. galls.\n\nDuring the decade 1911 to 1921 the population in Kowloon showed an average annual increase of about 8.1%.\n\nThe actual water consumption in 1921 was 759 million gallons and in 1927 it was 1,249 million gallons, showing an average annual increase of 10.7%.\n\nWhen it is remembered that the supply in Kowloon is largely by street fountains but that a very large number of meters for internal services have been granted during the past few years, it is to be expected that the consumption per head will increase and that the daily consumption will therefore increase in proportion more rapidly than the population. The above figures support this view.\n\nTaking all circumstances into consideration I consider the following a modest estimate of the daily full supply water requirements of Kowloon during the next five years:\n\n1928 3.8 mill. galls.\n\n1929 4.18 mill. galls.\n\n1930 4.45 mill. galls.\n\n1931 4.66 mill. galls.\n\n1932 4.9 mill. galls.\n\nHong Kong.\n\nKowloon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519050, "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": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "content_text": "# Enclosure No. 1.\n\nExtract from South China Morning Post of 17.7.29.\n\n## CHILD LABOUR IN HONGKONG.\n\n### MAGISTRATE EXPRESSES DESIRE TO HEAR EXPERT OPINION ON LOCAL CONDITIONS.\n\n#### GIRL WHO WORKED ALL NIGHT.\n\nThe desire to hear expert evidence on the conditions of child labour in Hongkong and also the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health as to whether certain employment was injurious to the health of a young girl, was expressed by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, when Mr. H. R. Butters brought before his Worship for investigation a case under the Female Domestic Ordinance of 1923.\n\nIt was given in evidence that the complainant in the case, a girl of 16 according to Chinese reckoning, had been sent to work in a factory from 8.30 p.m. until 7 a.m. the following day for a period of over two months. A witness, called for the defence, later made the surprising disclosure that the defendant's own daughter had been subjected to similar treatment and worked during the same hours.\n\nHis Worship: When did she sleep?\n\nMr. Butters then produced an English Dictionary and drew his Worship's attention to the meaning given to `mui tsai`.\n\nHis Worship would notice, continued the prosecutor, that the Female Domestic Ordinance included a limited or qualified expression of what a `mui tsai` was.\n\nContinuing, Mr. Butters said that there were no marks of ill-treatment on the girl and the prosecution did not argue that the ill-treatment alleged amounted to gross cruelty but what they submitted was that, by sending a girl to a factory to work for 10½ hours, such treatment to a child was liable to injure her health. The prosecution did not need to wait until the girl's health had been definitely injured before a charge was brought.\n\nHis Worship remarked that it seemed to him that the definition of a `mui tsai` in the Female Domestic Ordinance covered the case.\n\nMr. Butters replied that he thought so but said that it was only a partial definition. Mr. Butters added that she slept during any intervals she had during the day.\n\nThe defendant, described as a widow residing in Hunghom, was charged on two counts. She was alleged under Section 6 (1) of the Female Domestic Ordinance of 1923 to have over-worked or ill-treated a `mui tsai` aged 16, or subjected her to punishment to which she (defendant) would not reasonably have subjected her own daughter. The second charge, under sub-section 2 of the Section accused the defendant of having failed to provide the girl with sufficient food and clothing of a reasonable kind.\n\nMr. Butters, of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, conducted the case for the prosecution, the defendant being unrepresented.\n\nIn answer to the charges the defendant said that she had bought the complainant as a daughter and not as a `mui tsai`. She had not ill-treated her or over-worked her, while she had given her sufficient food and clothes.\n\n### Crown's Case.\n\nOpening his case, Mr. Butters said that on July 4 the girl, Wong Tung-ho, alias Wong Ah-lin, went to the Hunghom Police Station and complained of bad treatment by her mistress, the defendant. The bad treatment complained of was that she had broken an earthenware vessel and had been beaten by her mistress. She also said that her mistress had denied her her meals from the previous day.\n\nInspector Stimson, who investigated the complaint, sent the parties to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, where the girl was interrogated. From what she told Mr. Butters it appeared that from the end of the first moon until the middle of the third moon she had been employed at the Sun Kar Ting Knitting Factory of Shamshuipo from 8.30 p.m. until 7 a.m. She was supposed to be paid a wage of 35 cents a day, but never received the money. The daughter of the defendant was always sent to the factory to collect the complainant's earnings. Besides working at the factory the girl was required to perform household work as well.\n\n### Evidence Called.\n\nEvidence was then called, the head district watchman referring to the raid at 27 and 29 Portland Street in 1926. The document relating to the girl's sale was produced.\n\nThe girl herself then went into the witness box. She said that the defendant was her mistress. She became her `mui-tsai` when she was ten years of age. She was now 16. The complainant said that she started work at the factory at 8.30 p.m. She usually went to sleep sometime between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning and got up again between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon.\n\nOn one occasion she said that she overslept herself and did not get up until 8 p.m. Sometimes she got enough food, but on occasions the defendant would scold her and refuse to allow her to eat her meals.\n\nAsked why she stopped work in the middle of the third moon, the girl said it was because night work at the factory had ceased.\n\nSpeaking of her complaint to the Police witness said that she was required to do all the house work. She broke an earthenware pot and was scolded by her mistress who hit her on the head with a dish. She was then refused food, supper that night and breakfast the next morning.\n\nThe prosecution was not taking action under that Ordinance but, said Mr. Butters, he wished to draw his Worship's attention to the Industrial Employment of Children Ordinance of 1922. He pointed out that the girl's age, according to Chinese reckoning, was 16, or 14 according to English reckoning. According to Section 2A of the Industrial Employment Ordinance a child was defined as a person under the age of fifteen, and under section 5 sub-section 1 the age of the child was left to the Magistrate to decide. Turning to the Regulations, Mr. Butters said that No. 10 reads: \"No child shall be employed in any undertaking between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.\"\n\n### Law on Child Labour.\n\nMr. Butters then drew his Worship's attention to the fact that he would invite his Worship's attention to Section 32 of the Interpretation Ordinance where it was laid down what interpretation should be put on Chinese words and terms.\n\nComplained to Police. Witness said that the day she broke the pot she went to pick feathers at a factory, and later the defendant's daughter went to call her home. However, witness went to the Police Station and laid her complaint instead.\n\nCross-examining, the defendant said that she had repeatedly told the witness to take her meals but she had refused. Witness, however, denied the defendant's statement.\n\nPage 20\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519055, "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": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "content_text": "# CHILD Labour in Hongkong\n\n## Enclosure No. 1. Extract from South China Morning Post of 17.7.29.\n\n### LABOUR IN HONGKONG. MAGISTRATE EXPRESSES DESIRE TO HEAR EXPERT OPINION ON LOCAL CONDITIONS. GIRL WHO WORKED ALL NIGHT.\n\nThe desire to hear expert evidence on the conditions of child labour in Hongkong and also the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health as to whether certain employment was injurious to the health of a young girl, was expressed by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, when Mr. H. R. Butters brought before his Worship for investigation a case under the Female Domestic Ordinance of 1923.\n\nIt was given in evidence that the complainant in the case, a girl of 16 according to Chinese reckoning, had been sent to work in a factory from 8.30 p.m. until 7 a.m. the following day for a period of over two months. A witness, called for the defence, later made the surprising disclosure that the defendant's own daughter had been subjected to similar treatment and worked during the same hours.\n\nThe defendant, described as a widow residing in Hunghom, was charged on two counts. She was alleged under Section 6 (1) of the Female Domestic Ordinance of 1923 to have over-worked or ill-treated a mui tsai aged 16, or subjected her to punishment to which she (defendant) would not reasonably have subjected her own daughter. The second charge, under sub-section 2 of the Section accused the defendant of having failed to provide the girl with sufficient food and clothing of a reasonable kind.\n\nMr. Butters, of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, conducted the case for the prosecution, the defendant being unrepresented.\n\nIn answer to the charges the defendant said that she had bought the complainant as a daughter and not as a mui tsai. She had not ill-treated her or over-worked her, while she had given her sufficient food and clothes.\n\n### Crown's Case\n\nOpening his case, Mr. Butters said that on July 4 the girl, Wong Tung-ho, alias Wong Ah-lin, went to the Hunghom Police Station and complained of bad treatment by her mistress, the defendant. The bad treatment complained of was that she had broken an earthenware vessel and had been beaten by her mistress. She also said that her mistress had denied her her meals from the previous day.\n\nInspector Stimson, who investigated the complaint, sent the parties to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, where the girl was interrogated. From what she told Mr. Butters it appeared that from the end of the first moon until the middle of the third moon she had been employed at the Sun Kar Ting Knitting Factory of Shamshuipo from 8.30 p.m. until 7 a.m. She was supposed to be paid a wage of 35 cents a day, but never received the money. The daughter of the defendant was always sent to the factory to collect the complainant's earnings. Besides working at the factory the girl was required to perform household work as well.\n\n### Law on Child Labour\n\nMr. Butters then drew his Worship's attention to the Industrial Employment of Children Ordinance of 1922. He pointed out that the girl's age, according to Chinese reckoning, was 16, or 14 according to English reckoning. According to Section 2A of the Industrial Employment Ordinance a child was defined as a person under the age of fifteen, and under section 5 sub-section 1 the age of the child was left to the Magistrate to decide.\n\nTurning to the Regulations, Mr. Butters said that No. 10 reads: \"No child shall be employed in any industrial undertaking between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.\" The prosecution was not taking action under that Ordinance but, said Mr. Butters, he wished to draw his Worship's attention to it.\n\n### Definition of Mui Tsai\n\nWith reference to the definition of mui tsai, Mr. Butters said that he would invite his Worship's attention to Section 32 of the Interpretation Ordinance where it was laid down what interpretation should be put on Chinese words and terms. Mr. Butters then produced Eitel's Chinese and English Dictionary and drew his Worship's attention to the meaning given to mui tsai. His Worship would notice, continued the prosecutor, that the Female Domestic Ordinance included a limited or qualified expression of what a mui tsai was.\n\nContinuing, Mr. Butters said that there were no marks of ill-treatment on the girl and the prosecution did not argue that the ill-treatment alleged amounted to gross cruelty but what they submitted was that, by sending a girl to a factory to work for 10½ hours, such treatment to a child was liable to injure her health. The prosecution did not need to wait until the girl's health had been definitely injured before a charge was brought.\n\nHis Worship remarked that it seemed to him that the definition of a mui tsai in the Female Domestic Ordinance covered the case. Mr. Butters replied that he thought so but said that it was only a partial definition.\n\n### Evidence Called\n\nThe girl herself then went into the witness box. She said that the defendant was her mistress. She became her mui-tsai when she was ten years of age. She was now 16. The complainant said that she started work at the factory at 8.30; sometime between 10 and 11 o'clock p.m. She usually went to sleep in the morning and got up again between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon.\n\nOn one occasion she said that she overslept herself and did not get up until 8 p.m. Sometimes she got enough food, but on occasions the defendant would scold her and refuse to allow her to eat her meals. Asked why she stopped work in the middle of the third moon, the girl said it was because night work at the factory had ceased.\n\nSpeaking of her complaint to the Police witness said that she was required to do all the house work. She broke an earthenware pot and was scolded by her mistress who hit her on the head with a dish. She was then refused food, supper that night and breakfast the next morning. There were occasions, continued the witness, when she was refused food by her mistress but recently she was seldom beaten.\n\nComplained to Police. Witness said that the day she broke the pot she went to pick feathers at a factory, and later the defendant's daughter went to call her home. However, witness went to the Police Station and laid her complaint instead.\n\nCross-examining, the defendant said that she had repeatedly told the witness to take her meals but she had refused. Witness, however, denied the defendant's statement.\n\nHis Worship: When did she sleep?\n\nMr. Butters replied that she slept during any intervals she had during the day.\n\nContinuing, Mr. Butters informed his Worship that the head district watchman was then called, referring to the raid at 27 and 29 Portland Street in 1926. The document relating to the girl's sale was produced and examined by Dr. Thomas, who would say what effects such work would have on a girl of her age.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519147, "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": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929", "page_number": 68, "title": "CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929", "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. WEL...\n\n## CHILD LABOUR IN HONGKONG.\n\n### MAGISTRATE EXPRESSES DESIRE TO HEAR EXPERT OPINION ON LOCAL CONDITIONS.\n\n#### GIRL WHO WORKED ALL NIGHT.\n\nThe desire to hear expert evidence on the conditions of child labour in Hongkong and also the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health as to whether certain employment was injurious to the health of a young girl, was expressed by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, when Mr. H. R. Butters brought before his Worship for investigation a case under the Female Domestic Ordinance of 1923.\n\nIt was given in evidence that the complainant in the case, a girl of 16 according to Chinese reckoning, had been sent to work in a factory from 8.30 p.m. until 7 a.m. the following day for a period of over two months. A witness, called for the defence, later made the surprising disclosure that the defendant's own daughter had been subjected to similar treatment and worked during the same hours.\n\nThe defendant, described as a widow residing in Hunghom, was charged on two counts. She was alleged under Section 6 (1) of the Female Domestic Ordinance of 1923 to have over-worked or ill-treated a mui tsai aged 16, or subjected her to punishment to which she (defendant) would not reasonably have subjected her own daughter. The second charge, under subsection 2 of the Section accused the defendant of having failed to provide the girl with sufficient food and clothing of a reasonable kind.\n\nMr. Butters, of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, conducted the case for the prosecution, the defendant being unrepresented.\n\nIn answer to the charges the defendant said that she had bought the complainant as a daughter and not as a mui tsai. She had not ill-treated her or over-worked her, while she had given her sufficient food and clothes.\n\n## Crown's Case\n\nOpening his case, Mr. Butters said that on July 4 the girl, Wong Tung-ho, alias Wong Ah-lin, went to the Hunghom Police Station and complained of bad treatment by her mistress, the defendant. The bad treatment complained of was that she had broken an earthenware vessel and had been beaten by her mistress. She also said that her mistress had denied her her meals from the previous day.\n\nHis Worship remarked that it seemed to him that the definition of a mui tsai in the Female Domestic Ordinance covered the case.\n\nMr. Butters replied that he thought so but said that it was only a partial definition.\n\n### Evidence Called\n\nEvidence was then called, the head district watchman referring to the raid at 27 and 29 Portland Street in 1926. The document relating to the girl's sale was produced.\n\nThe girl herself then went into the witness box. She said that the defendant was her mistress. She became her mui-tsai when she was ten years of age. She was now 16 according to Chinese reckoning.\n\nThe complainant said that she started work at the factory at 8.30 p.m. She usually went to sleep sometime between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning and got up again between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. On one occasion she said that she overslept herself and did not get up until 8 p.m. Sometimes she got enough food, but on occasions the defendant would scold her and refuse to allow her to eat her meals.\n\nInspector Stimson, who investigated the complaint, sent the parties to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, where the girl was interrogated. From what she told Mr. Butters it appeared that from the end of the first moon until the middle of the third moon she had been employed at the `Sun Kar Ting` Knitting Factory of Shamshuipo from 8.30 p.m. until 7 a.m.\n\nShe was supposed to be paid a wage of 35 cents a day, but never received the money. The daughter of the defendant was always sent to the factory to collect the complainant's earnings. Besides working at the factory the girl was required to perform household work as well.\n\nHis Worship: When did she sleep?\n\nMr. Butters replied that she slept during any intervals she had during the day.\n\nContinuing, Mr. Butters informed his Worship that the girl was examined by Dr. Thomas, who would say what effects such work would have on a girl of her age.\n\nAsked why she stopped work in the middle of the third moon, the girl said it was because night work at the factory had ceased.\n\nThe defendant in reply to his Worship was emphatic in her claim that the girl was her own daughter.\n\nMr. Butters said that it was a question whether it was reasonable to subject one's own daughter to such treatment.\n\n### Western Ideas\n\nHis Worship agreed, and said that it did not follow because the defendant had subjected her own daughter to such treatment that it was reasonable.\n\nSpeaking of her complaint to the Police witness said that she was required to do all the house work. She broke an earthenware pot and was scolded by her mistress who hit her on the head with a dish. She was then refused food, supper that night and breakfast the next morning.\n\nThere were occasions, continued the witness, when she was refused food by her mistress but recently she was seldom beaten.\n\n### Complained to Police\n\nWitness said that the day she broke the pot she went to pick feathers at a factory, and later the defendant's daughter went to call her home. However, witness went to the Police Station and laid her complaint instead.\n\n## Law on Child Labour\n\nMr. Butters then drew his Worship's attention to the `Industrial Employment of Children Ordinance` of 1922. He pointed out that the girl's age, according to Chinese reckoning, was 16, or 14 according to English reckoning.\n\nAccording to Section 2A of the `Industrial Employment Ordinance` a child was defined as a person under the age of fifteen, and under section 5 sub-section 1 the age of the child was left to the Magistrate to decide.\n\nTurning to the Regulations, Mr. Butters said that No. 10 reads: No child shall be employed in any industrial undertaking between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.\n\nThe manager of the `Sun Kar Ting` Knitting Factory stated that the girl worked from 8.30 p.m. to 7 a.m.\n\nAccording to the ideas of the Westerner it was absurd that a girl of that age should be out at night working from 8.30 p.m. to 7 a.m. It would not be tolerated for a moment but the girl seemed to have had sleep. If one went through streets in Hongkong or Kowloon in which were a good many workshops, one would see small boys, almost babies, working at night. A westerner could not think of the same light as the thing in the Chinese.\n\n### Desire for Expert Opinion\n\nThe question then was what the girl had been doing a case of over-working. Before his Worship gave any opinion he would like some expert opinion on the subject, taking into account the Chinese customs as well as the European ideas.\n\nMr. Butters pointed out that this was a British Colony. He argued that the letter as well as the spirit of the Ordinance had been contravened.\n\nHis Worship intimated that he did not think that the complainant would come under the `Industrial Employment Ordinance`.\n\nMr. Butters replied that the girl was 14, but his Worship said that whenever there was any doubt he always gave the benefit to the defendant.\n\nThe prosecution was not taking action under that Ordinance but, said Mr. Butters, he wished to draw his Worship's attention to it.\n\nDealing with the question as to whether the girl was a mui tsai, Mr. Butters said that in August, 1926, the head district watchmen attached to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs raided Nos. 27 and 29 Portland Street, and as a result some member of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce with regard to labour conditions for young people like the complainant.\n\n### Medical Evidence\n\nDr. G. A. Thomas, medical officer of the Government Civil Hospital, said that he found no marks of ill-treatment on the girl's body. Witness judged the girl to be about 15 or 16 years old.\n\nMr. Butters told witness of the girl's conditions of having to work for 10½ hours at night and asked if he considered that would be injurious to her health.\n\nDr. Thomas replied that generally speaking he thought it would be.\n\nHis Worship said that he would like some expert opinion by perhaps the Medical Officer of Health. He said that the prosecution might get somebody to talk about local conditions and the Medical Officer of Health to talk about the effect on the girl.\n\nThe case was adjourned till next Saturday.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-7 The Mui-Tsai question- resolutions from individuals and Societies 5-5-1929 - 26-10-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520230, "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": 74, "title": "CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n203\n\nsquare outside the Star Ferry Pier. On behalf of motorists, I am appealing to your Excellency for a reconsideration of the projected scheme of arrangement whereby the privileges now enjoyed by them will be completely removed. One of the great advantages enjoyed by Kowloon motorists is the ability to reside in suburban areas away from the congested districts in the City. A contributory factor of that advantage is the ownership of a car in the case of a family man and of a motor-cycle in the case of a bachelor. Under the new parking scheme forecasted by the Government, it will become difficult for owner-drivers to enjoy the benefit of suburban residence unless at an increased expenditure, and it must be remembered that many men with families and young men in this Colony are not blessed with too much of this world's riches. With many, despite appearance, which must be maintained, it is a real struggle for existence. The railway land near the Ferry Pier could be applied to better use and for the benefit of a larger number than the concessions presently enjoyed for a consideration which may or may not outweigh the larger benefits claimed for motorists.\n\nThe presence of disorderly houses on Nathan Road in the very heart of the residential district calls for attention. They were permitted at a time when family residences did not exist in such large numbers in Kowloon and at Yaumati. Young women of these houses sit on the window sills and obtrude themselves on the public gaze in a main thoroughfare every evening, and from midnight onwards, the noise from what may be termed the \"red-light\" district of Yaumati deprives residents of the rest which they look for in undisturbed sleep.\n\nThe hills of Kowloon have a very bare appearance, especially that portion above the railway cutting and on the heights of Hunghom. The expenditure of a couple of thousand dollars for a couple of years may alter the bareness of Kowloon hills and the effect of the landscape.\n\nKowloon residents are still cherishing the hope for the fulfilment of the promise of afternoon open-air band concerts. The Shanghai Municipal Council provides music of a high order for the benefit of the public throughout the year during afternoons and in the evenings. Hong Kong continues to live under the reproach of being behind the Model Settlement in this respect.\n\nIn the matter of school fees, I wonder if Government can effect a revision so as to reduce the cost of fees which are a heavy drain on the residents of this Colony. A fortnight ago, the Honourable Colonial Secretary spoke of next year's Budget as one of \"a forward policy in services rather than in material works.\" What more tangible proof can there be as a practical demonstration of the Government's earnestness than by beginning in a small way to reduce the cost of living to residents in Hong Kong? Reduction of school fees is something to start with. After all, it is by contentment with the common lot that one gauges the success of any administration, and \"content- \n\n74", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-1 Estimates for 1930 5-9-1929 - 14-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520663, "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": 191, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "204 \n\n# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nwhich must be maintained, it is a real struggle for existence. The railway land near the Ferry Pier could be applied to better use and for the benefit of a larger number than the concessions presently enjoyed for a consideration which may or may not outweigh the larger benefits claimed for motorists.\n\nThe presence of disorderly houses on Nathan Road in the very heart of the residential district calls for attention. They were permitted at a time when family residences did not exist in such large numbers in Kowloon and at Yaumati. Young women of these houses sit on the window sills and obtrude themselves on the public gaze in a main thoroughfare every evening, and from midnight onwards the noise from what may be termed the \"red-light\" district of Yaumati deprives residents of the rest which they look for in undisturbed sleep.\n\nThe hills of Kowloon have a very bare appearance, especially that portion above the railway cutting and on the heights of Hunghom. The expenditure of a couple of thousand dollars for a couple of years may alter the bareness of Kowloon hills and the effect of the landscape.\n\nKowloon residents are still cherishing the hope for the fulfilment of the promise of afternoon open-air band concerts. The Shanghai Municipal Council provides music of a high order for the benefit of the public throughout the year during afternoons and in the evenings. Hong Kong continues to live under the reproach of being behind the Model Settlement in this respect.\n\nIn the matter of school fees, I wonder if Government can effect a revision so as to reduce the cost of fees which are a heavy drain on the residents of this Colony. A fortnight ago, the Honourable Colonial Secretary spoke of next year's Budget as one of \"a forward policy in services rather than in material works.\" What more tangible proof can there be as a practical demonstration of the Government's earnestness than by beginning in a small way to reduce the cost of living to residents in Hong Kong? Reduction of school fees is something to start with. After all, it is by contentment with the common lot that one gauges the success of any administration, and \"contentment\" has been described by a great English essayist as the \"Philosopher's Stone.\"\n\nIt is on the question of the Saikung Road that I am afraid I must sound the discordant note where the considered opinions of Unofficial members are concerned. There is no comparison between the districts, viz., those embraced within the Circular Road out to Saikung curving round to Shatin and those districts mentioned by the Senior Unofficial Member. On the first section of the projected Circular Road, within not more than about twenty minutes' drive when the road is completed by motor-car to the Ferry wharf, will be found beautiful undulating land in some places and in another a plateau available for building sites that will outrival any in the Colony, the\n\n212", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524186, "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": "CO129-523-7 Removal of Navy Armament Depot from Hong Kong to Stonecutters Island 6-2-1930 - 8-1-1931", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-523-7 Removal of Navy Armament Depot from Hong Kong to Stonecutters Island 6-2-1930 - 8-1-1931", "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote\n\nNo. FC315/1629/10\n\nand address—not to any person by name, but to \"The Under-Secretary of State,” Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n22 NOV 1930\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\nTHE Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State the Colon and, by direction of the Secretary of State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned paper.\n\nForeign Office,\n\n21 Nov 1930\n\n \n Reference to previous correspondence\n M/CÊ. in C. 0136/30\n 10 NOV 1930\n 187\n \n \n Description of Enclosure\n Name and Date\n Subject\n \n \n Admiralty of 20 May 1930\n 14-21388 B (2)\n Proposal to remove existing naval mugs. Hunghom is new site.\n \n\nSimilar letter sent to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-7 Removal of Navy Armament Depot from Hong Kong to Stonecutters Island 6-2-1930 - 8-1-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526146, "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": "CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930", "content_text": "## The Executive Council discussion of the question \n\non the 13th of February, 1930, resulted in the following decision:- \n\n\"That the Government should build Piers at Jubilee Street and Jordan Road provided that the permission of the Secretary of State for a loan could be obtained; that the Secretary of State should be approached for permission to issue a loan forthwith; that the decision concerning the building of ferry boats and the running of the ferries should be reserved for the arrival of the new Governor.\" \n\nAll Unofficial Members were in favour of the alteration, however, and the remainder of the Officials were in favour of the alteration and the minute was duly confirmed at the next meeting of the Council on the 20th of February, 1930.\n\n13. To facilitate the explanation of the present and proposed Ferry systems operating from the Western district of Victoria, I enclose a small scale map showing the two systems marked in black and in red respectively. The Star Ferry Service is omitted from the Map, its route being the shortest line between Kowloon Point and Hong Kong.\n\n14. The present Yaumati Ferry employs two wharves on the Hong Kong side from one of which there is a service to Yaumati and from the other there are two services to Shamshuipo and to Hunghom. It is proposed that a substantial pier including a concourse area for the large number of passengers and vehicles to be accommodated should be built by reclamation in front of the new Government Offices and extending from Jubilee Street to Queen's Pier.\n\nFor the new Vehicles service it ...\n\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526147, "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": "CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930", "content_text": "41\n\n8 \n\nQueen Victoria Street. In the centre of the Pier would be a bay for the use of vehicles-ferry launches while room would be found on the sides for the services running to Shamshuipo and Mongkok (see Plan D in Sessional Paper No.6 of 1928). Further, the present ferry service which runs from the Western end of Victoria to Hunghom and is also indicated on the plan, enclosure 6, would have its terminus moved to the Eastern side of the same new pier, thus avoiding a cross route. No other alterations in the Hunghom service are at present contemplated.\n\nThe construction of this pier with the arrangements for the converging lines of ferries shown on the plan has been a matter of the most careful consideration and no undue danger is anticipated in approaching or leaving the berths. It will be noticed that the lines are divergent. The concentration of ferries on one wharf in this manner will release two pier sites (those in use for the Shamshuipo and the Hunghom Services) for other purposes in a part of the front where they are very badly needed.\n\n15.\n\nOf the existing piers concerned, the Queen Victoria Street pier must in any event be shortly reinforced and enlarged. It is at present small and unsuitable for the heavy traffic it has to carry. Similarly, the two other piers concerned on the Hong Kong side, which are timber structures, must be reconstructed at an early date, as considerable deterioration has taken place. At none of the piers on the Hong Kong side is there a sufficient concourse area, all three jutting out directly from the very busy Connaught Road along which there is a constant stream of motor car, lorry and other traffic. The congestion on Connaught Road has increased to such an extent that it has become essential to reclaim areas at the ferry terminals on the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526149, "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": "CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930", "content_text": "## 17.\n\nThe expenditure to be faced if the Government does not build the vehicles ferry piers is:-\n| Location | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hong Kong side | $550,000 |\n| Kowloon side | $110,000 |\n| **Total** | **$660,000** |\n\n## 43\nThe cost of the combined passenger and vehicles ferry piers is:-\n| Location | Cost |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hong Kong side | $800,000 |\n| Kowloon side | $500,000 |\n| **Total** | **$1,300,000** |\n\n$97,500.\n$30,000\n\nIt is therefore possible to provide the vehicles piers for a sum of $640,000 only above the expenditure already necessary. This expenditure would result further in the release of two pier sites on the Hong Kong side, of which the Government would be free to dispose, and of one inside the Yaumati breakwater which is now in sufficiently good condition to be used as a public pier for launches and small craft. It is of interest to note that private piers on the Hong Kong front no more favourably situated than those in use for the Shamshuipo and Hunghom services have recently changed hands at four lakhs of dollars, the pier structure being valued at one lakh at the most. I have no reason to doubt that the ferries, whether conducted by Government or leased to commercial companies will produce ample revenue to pay interest and sinking fund on the capital expenditure, and it would appear to be false economy not to proceed at once with the larger scheme.\n\n## 18.\n\nMuch careful work has been done by the Harbour engineers in considering the building of the Vehicles and Passenger Ferry piers. It is anticipated that the plans will", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526632, "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": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930", "content_text": "28. John Edward Scott sworn. **I am 1.S.A.61 and Armourer Sergt. to the Police Service**. On 7th August last I received from last witness 81 shells of rifle ammunition. I had previously received the rifle in Court marked `B.543`. Examination of the rifle showed that it had been recently fired. In the face of the bolt I found a peculiar snip near the striker hole which would leave a mark on the face of the percussion cap in every cartridge fired from that rifle. Examination of the empty shells revealed that 14 of them must have been fired in the rifle in Court. I tested this by firing 15 rounds from the rifle and comparing the 15 shells with the 14. The remaining 67 shells I was satisfied were fired from 5 different rifles only.\n\nJury No XX.\nsd. J. E. Scott 1.S.A.61. Armourer\nsd. R. E. Lindsell P.M.\n\n29. Edward Dudley Corscaden Wolfe sworn. **\"I am I.G.P. and have so been for the past 12 years**. No satisfactory police records exist prior to 1919, other than actual crime records. From such records as exist and from oral statements to me, I gather that this is the 4th case since 1897 of an Indian Police officer running amok. In 1897 I understand that a Sikh Police Constable ran amok, shot at the Inspector i/c Central but missed him, and was afterwards shot down. \n\nIn January 1903 another Sikh (`B.593`) shot and wounded another I.P.C. at Hunghom and was himself shot down. \n\nIn July 1918 P.C. `B.18`, another Sikh, ran amok at Tai O, shot and killed the officer in charge in the Charge Room, set the Station on fire, and finally shot himself. \n\nIn my opinion it is quite impossible to provide against the recurrence of such affairs. The nature of their duties requires that I.P.Cs., especially in the outlying stations, should carry arms or have access to arms. \n\nIn my time it has been necessary to arm the Chinese members of the force also.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-528-11 Incident at Lok Ma Chau Police Station 14-11-1930 - 14-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530212, "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": "CO129-533-3 Transfer of leases to Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated 17-12-1930 - 18-2-1931", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-533-3 Transfer of leases to Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated 17-12-1930 - 18-2-1931", "content_text": "## C.O.\n\nMr. C. 82772/1931. Hong Kong 9-FEB Delahunt.5 2/37.\n\n16 Downing Street\n\n1. Bickle bts\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\nMr. Sir C. Bottomley.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nSir G. Grindle.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nParly. U.S. of S.\nSecretary of State.\n\n**DRAFT**\n\n### HONG KONG. NO. 60. GOVR.\n\n(1)\n\nSir,\n\n18 February, 1931.\n\nI have, etc. to ack. the receipt of your despatch No. 647 of the 17th of Decr. 1930, and to inform you that I approve of the issue, at a nominal rent, of a new lease of Hunghom Inland Lot 168 and the Kwun Yam Temple standing on it, to the Secretary for China Affairs Incorporated, which will apply revenue derived from Objects shown in table 2.\n\nI also approve of your dealing with other cases where no person exists who can give a valid surrender.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-3 Transfer of leases to Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated 17-12-1930 - 18-2-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530214, "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": "CO129-533-3 Transfer of leases to Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated 17-12-1930 - 18-2-1931", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-533-3 Transfer of leases to Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated 17-12-1930 - 18-2-1931", "content_text": "# No647 10647:\n\n**C**\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, \n### HONGKONG. 17th December, 1930.\n\n53461/168\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to request Your Lordship's consent to a grant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated, which will apply the revenue derived from it to charitable objects, of Hunghom Inland Lot 168, together with the Kwun Yam Temple standing on it.\n\n2. Under the Chinese Temples Ordinance, No.7 of 1928, the persons controlling such a temple could be called on to transfer it to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated. In this case, however, as none of the lessees of the lot are now alive, no one can be found to give a good surrender.\n\n3. A first step has been taken by re-entry on the land (`Gazette` of 8th August, 1930) on the ground of non-payment of Crown Rent; and the lot with the building thereon has reverted to the Crown, while the temple is actually administered by the Chinese Temples Committee. Your Lordship's sanction is now requested for the issue of a new lease of the ground to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated at a nominal rent, by which means the position will be regularised.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nLORD PASSFIELD, \n&c., \n&c., \n&c.\n\n4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-3 Transfer of leases to Secretary for Chinese Affairs Incorporated 17-12-1930 - 18-2-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530617, "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": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "content_text": "# SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATION IN GENERAL CONFIDENTIAL REPORT\n\n## Retiring Age\n\nInstead of the present rule (retirement allowed at 55 compulsory at 60) the rule should be: - retirement allowed at 50 (after 20 years' service) or compulsory at that age at discretion of Government, and automatic at 55 (except with special permission of Executive Council).\n\nFor women the age of voluntary retirement (similarly compulsory at discretion of Government) should be 45 (after 18 years' service).\n\nIn present financial stringency, the possibility of permitting retirement before 50 (but after 20 years' service) should be explored.\n\nNo vacant posts should be filled except in cases of absolute necessity.\n\nMotor Car Allowances should be less freely granted.\n\n## House Allowances\n\nThe system of rents should be reformed.\n\nThe abandonment of the title \"Captain Superintendent of Police\" is regretted. It has entailed the additional post of Deputy Inspector General of Police.\n\nSuggestions are made relating to Crown Rent and land sales.\n\nMore revenue would be obtained from the entertainment tax. A tax on betting would be profitable.\n\nThe Railway terminus should be at Hunghom, thus releasing valuable land for development.\n\n## Cadet", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530701, "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": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "content_text": "## \n80 169\n\none sub department.\n\n11.\n\nThis combined sub department, which might well take the title of 'General Works' Office, should take over the execution of miscellaneous works, which fall to the present General Works Office. The work of the Roads and Drainage offices is so closely allied that the placing of it under one head should have good results. It will be necessary to retain an engineer in charge of each of the sub departments, but their positions will not be of such responsibility as that of the present executive engineers.\n\nThey will simply be engineers of some seniority, with the executive engineer of the combined sub department responsible for the whole.\n\n## \n22. None of the personnel of the existing General Works Office should be taken over by the new combined sub department; it should be disposed of by termination of employment or absorption elsewhere into the Public Works Department as vacancies occur. Constructional work by the Public Works Department will for the next few years be negligible; on the other hand, maintenance work will have to continue, proposal amounts in effect to a reduction in the Roads and Drainage offices.\n\nThis shop undertakes not only minor repairs but major ones as well. \n\n## \n23. There is included in the Roads sub department, staff to carry out repairs to Government vehicles at the motor repair shop at Wanchai. This is a bad case of duplication, for at the Railway workshops at Hunghom there is of necessity a far larger workshop, which, apart from railway works, repairs Government motor vehicles. There is not a sufficiently large number of Government vehicles to justify two sets of expensive repair tools and machinery.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530702, "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": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "content_text": "## \n\n81 170 \n\nThis \n\nThe Wanchai shop should deal with minor repairs only, \nanything of a major kind being sent over to Hunghom. \nThis will mean transporting badly damaged vehicles across the \nharbour, but the cost of this will be negligible compared \nwith the present duplication. Reductions will have to be \nmade in the staff of the Wanchai shop. The post of \nMechanical Engineer, for which in any case there appears to \nbe little justification, should be abolished. The shop \nshould be in charge of one European overseer; at present \nthere are two.\n\n24. The Electrical sub-department is divided into two \nsections, one dealing with lighting, telephones etc., and \nthe other with telegraphs and broadcasting. The latter is \nunder the Post Master General, though directly administered \nby the Electrical Engineer, who thus owes a double allegiance \nto the Director of Public Works and the Post Master General. \nThis dual control of one sub-department is not logical and \nis bound to be detrimental to efficiency. It is therefore \nrecommended that the whole of the Electrical Office should \nbe taken out of the Public Works Department and placed under \nthe Post Office, of which it would form a sub-department. \nThe Commissioners are unable to make recommendations \nregarding the staff of this sub-department as they \nunderstand that negotiations are proceeding between the \nGovernment and the Imperial Wireless and Cables Company \nwith a view to the transference to the Company of the \ngreater part of the Colony's wireless service. Only when \nit is known exactly what wireless work will still have to \nbe done by the Government will it be possible to make \nstaff arrangements.\n\nPage 170 \nPage 171", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 530719, "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": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932", "content_text": "## 5\n\n\n187 \n\ncapitalized value of the increase in Crown Rent.\n\nThe advantage \nof this would be that Government would have a steady annual \nrevenue accruing to it instead of one lump sum. On the other hand military contribution would have to be paid on the Crown Rent, whereas premia on land sales are exempt from this charge.\n\n14.\n\nThe Commissioners advocate the raising of the upset price at land sales to correspond more nearly with the general market price. This will discourage the formation of 'rings' \nwhich is always liable to occur at auctions.\n\n15.\n\nIn rural areas Building Covenants should be abolished. This would lead to developments at Fanling and similar districts. Government will benefit by increased land sales, and subsidiary departments such as the Railway will gain.\n\n16.\n\nThe Commissioners invite the attention of the \nGovernment to the possibility of obtaining more revenue from the entertainment tax, particularly with regard to the Race Courses. The Commissioners also take the opportunity of suggesting to \nthe Government the financial benefits to be derived from a tax \non betting.\n\n17.\n\nRAILWAY TERMINUS AT HUNGHOM. The Commissioners are of \nthe opinion that it would have been better to have built the terminal station at Hunghom. The Railway between Hunghom and the present terminus occupies a large area of valuable land, which has interfered with the development of Kowloon's water frontage. It is not too late to remedy matters. At Hunghom the Railway occupies more land than it needs and there is ample room for a station. The area along Chatham and Salisbury Roads \nshould be disposed of, and developed on modern town planning \nlines, subject to special conditions to ensure that the layout \nwill", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-534-3 Report of Retrenchment Commission 4-5-1931 - 19-2-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533562, "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": "CO129-539-12 Loans for public works- military finances 26-2-1932 - 7-3-1933", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-539-12 Loans for public works- military finances 26-2-1932 - 7-3-1933", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n181\n\nthe construction of the first section of the Sai Kung Road to Ma Yue Tong is going to be a remunerative venture. With me it has become a conviction that no more profitable employment can be found in the Colony for ratepayers' money than the building of new roads that offer prospects for the opening up of new building sites. The road to Ma Yue Tong is just of that type that satisfies all the arguments in favour of its construction, viz., access to sites unrivalled for the picturesqueness of their situation, superb scenery, easiness of levelling and forming, and the provision of a solution for the vexed bathing beaches problem. I am not alone in my advocacy of the Sai Kung Road as an extract from the speech of the President of the Hongkong Automobile Association on the 29th March last will show. Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy said:\n\n\"I should like to refer to the Sai Kung Road project in the New Territories. In his Budget speech on September 5th, 1929, the Colonial Secretary called attention to the proposed Circular Eastern Road. The wonderful possibilities of this enterprise have been stressed on many subsequent occasions. . . . All members of this Association earnestly hope that Government finances will soon render it possible to proceed with the Sai Kung Road scheme and your Committee is of opinion that any reasonable outlay in connexion with the proposed road will prove a sound Government investment.\"\n\nSuch then is the considered opinion of a group of business men.\n\nThe Kowloon Tsai Garden City Development, at an estimated total cost of $403,300, is an experiment the success or failure of which will be watched with considerable interest. It should not be too early at this stage to request that, in this important and extensive development, people of small means should be considered and afforded opportunities to acquire small areas for the building of their own homes. The laying out of large lots only might preclude people with little savings from purchasing land. The moment is opportune for proposing the erection of a weather signal-station on some conspicuous position on the Kowloon Tsai Hills that should be clearly visible from Kowloon Tong and Kowloon City. Reservations for sports grounds are a necessity that should not be lost sight of.\n\nThe erection of the wireless station at Hunghom for the large transmitter for broadcasting is a step in the right direction. My honourable friend, Mr. Shenton, with his usual thoughtful regard for social service in the Colony, has spoken of the benefits which broadcasting has conferred. His remarks are certain to be accorded the reception which they deserve.\n\nThe same honourable member in his complete competence has dealt with the question of air-mail and passenger services. His remarks cannot fail to arouse general interest. The logical development of our magnificent aerodrome at Kai Tak will hasten the\n\nPage 41\n\n \n(no additional text here as original text ends)\n\n \n\n(revised to)\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n181\n\nthe construction of the first section of the Sai Kung Road to Ma Yue Tong is going to be a remunerative venture. With me it has become a conviction that no more profitable employment can be found in the Colony for ratepayers' money than the building of new roads that offer prospects for the opening up of new building sites. The road to Ma Yue Tong is just of that type that satisfies all the arguments in favour of its construction, viz., access to sites unrivalled for the picturesqueness of their situation, superb scenery, easiness of levelling and forming, and the provision of a solution for the vexed bathing beaches problem. I am not alone in my advocacy of the Sai Kung Road as an extract from the speech of the President of the Hongkong Automobile Association on the 29th March last will show. Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy said:\n\n\"I should like to refer to the Sai Kung Road project in the New Territories. In his Budget speech on September 5th, 1929, the Colonial Secretary called attention to the proposed Circular Eastern Road. The wonderful possibilities of this enterprise have been stressed on many subsequent occasions. . . . All members of this Association earnestly hope that Government finances will soon render it possible to proceed with the Sai Kung Road scheme and your Committee is of opinion that any reasonable outlay in connexion with the proposed road will prove a sound Government investment.\"\n\nSuch then is the considered opinion of a group of business men.\n\nThe Kowloon Tsai Garden City Development, at an estimated total cost of $403,300, is an experiment the success or failure of which will be watched with considerable interest. It should not be too early at this stage to request that, in this important and extensive development, people of small means should be considered and afforded opportunities to acquire small areas for the building of their own homes. The laying out of large lots only might preclude people with little savings from purchasing land. The moment is opportune for proposing the erection of a weather signal-station on some conspicuous position on the Kowloon Tsai Hills that should be clearly visible from Kowloon Tong and Kowloon City. Reservations for sports grounds are a necessity that should not be lost sight of.\n\nThe erection of the wireless station at Hunghom for the large transmitter for broadcasting is a step in the right direction. My honourable friend, Mr. Shenton, with his usual thoughtful regard for social service in the Colony, has spoken of the benefits which broadcasting has conferred. His remarks are certain to be accorded the reception which they deserve.\n\nThe same honourable member in his complete competence has dealt with the question of air-mail and passenger services. His remarks cannot fail to arouse general interest. The logical development of our magnificent aerodrome at Kai Tak will hasten the\n\n \nbecomes \n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n181\n\nthe construction of the first section of the Sai Kung Road to Ma Yue Tong is going to be a remunerative venture. With me it has become a conviction that no more profitable employment can be found in the Colony for ratepayers' money than the building of new roads that offer prospects for the opening up of new building sites. The road to Ma Yue Tong is just of that type that satisfies all the arguments in favour of its construction, viz., access to sites unrivalled for the picturesqueness of their situation, superb scenery, easiness of levelling and forming, and the provision of a solution for the vexed bathing beaches problem. I am not alone in my advocacy of the Sai Kung Road as an extract from the speech of the President of the Hongkong Automobile Association on the 29th March last will show. Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy said:\n\n\"I should like to refer to the Sai Kung Road project in the New Territories. In his Budget speech on September 5th, 1929, the Colonial Secretary called attention to the proposed Circular Eastern Road. The wonderful possibilities of this enterprise have been stressed on many subsequent occasions. . . . All members of this Association earnestly hope that Government finances will soon render it possible to proceed with the Sai Kung Road scheme and your Committee is of opinion that any reasonable outlay in connexion with the proposed road will prove a sound Government investment.\"\n\nSuch then is the considered opinion of a group of business men.\n\nThe Kowloon Tsai Garden City Development, at an estimated total cost of $403,300, is an experiment the success or failure of which will be watched with considerable interest. It should not be too early at this stage to request that, in this important and extensive development, people of small means should be considered and afforded opportunities to acquire small areas for the building of their own homes. The laying out of large lots only might preclude people with little savings from purchasing land. The moment is opportune for proposing the erection of a weather signal-station on some conspicuous position on the Kowloon Tsai Hills that should be clearly visible from Kowloon Tong and Kowloon City. Reservations for sports grounds are a necessity that should not be lost sight of.\n\nThe erection of the wireless station at Hunghom for the large transmitter for broadcasting is a step in the right direction. My honourable friend, Mr. Shenton, with his usual thoughtful regard for social service in the Colony, has spoken of the benefits which broadcasting has conferred. His remarks are certain to be accorded the reception which they deserve.\n\nThe same honourable member in his complete competence has dealt with the question of air-mail and passenger services. His remarks cannot fail to arouse general interest. The logical development of our magnificent aerodrome at Kai Tak will hasten the\n\nPage 41\n\nI made the following changes:\n1. Corrected minor OCR errors (e.g., \"levelling\" was correct, no change needed).\n2. Maintained original paragraph structure.\n3. Added \"Page 41\" as per the original scan.\n4. Output in HTML format using `` tags.\n\nThe final output is in the required HTML format.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-12 Loans for public works- military finances 26-2-1932 - 7-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534005, "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": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "content_text": "27\n\n12\n\nis understood and appreciated, while the sums available for the common festivals are known; and the general satisfaction can to some extent be credited with the steady increase of the Temple Revenues.\n\n71. As a matter of general interest, it may be added that while some Temples own property, the Revenue for the most part and as a rule is derived from the sale by auction of the rights of Temple Keeper for a period of years, usually three. The Keeper charges fees for the performance of services and ceremonies, and has the monopoly of the sale of the joss paper, joss sticks, candles, and so forth required. And he not infrequently in addition receives donations from worshippers to whom the Temple has brought good fortune. The value of the Temples varies very widely, the highest rent now received being $18,700 a year, and the lowest $100.\n\n72. The following gentlemen served on the Chinese Temples Committee during the year:-\n\n(a) Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, Kt., Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., Hon. Dr. S. W. Tse, O.B.E.,- Chinese members of the Legislative Council.\n\n(b) Mr. Li Yau-tsun, C.B.E.,- Representative of the District Watch Committee.\n\n(c) Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, Mr. T. N. Chau, Chinese members of the Sanitary Board.\n\n(d) Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan - Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee.\n\n(e) Mr. Tam Woon-tong - Senior member of the Po Leung Kuk Committee.\n\n(f) Mr. Lau Ping-chai - Chairman of the Kwong Wah Hospital Committee.\n\n(g) Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Chairman).\n\n73. The Committee met on three occasions at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.\n\n1931:\n\n74. The following contributions were made during the year:\n\n$90,600.00 to Chinese Public Dispensaries Fund for erection of Yaumati, Wantsai, and Kowloon City Dispensaries.\n\n$15,000.00 to Tung Wah Hospital.\n\n$600.00 to Hunghom Chinese Public Dispensary.\n\n$2,000.00 to Kwong Wah Hospital in aid of the funds towards the expenses of the free maternity ward.\n\n13\n\n75. Temples taken over by the Committee during the year included the following:-\n\nTin Hau Temple, Hoi Chung Sham Island, Tokwawan.\n\nMo Tai Temple, Shamshuipo.\n\nPak Tai Temple, Shamshuipo.\n\nSam Tai Tsz Temple, Shamshuipo.\n\nTin Hau Temple, Shamshuipo.\n\n76. The Committee also advanced $2,000.00 to Chinese Public Dispensaries Fund for the construction of the Wantsai Maternity Hospital.\n\n77. During the year, four convictions for keeping unregistered Chinese temples were obtained.\n\nSTAFF.\n\nSecretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n78. Mr. E. R. Hallifax acted as Colonial Secretary from 1st January to 22nd April and went on leave from 11th September to 8th November. During these periods, Mr. A. E. Wood acted as Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n14th April, 1932.\n\nE. R. HALLIFAX, Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534043, "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": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932", "content_text": "Table XXXIII.\n\nGENERAL CHINESE CHARITIES FUND.\n\nStatement of Accounts from 1st July to 31st December, 1981.\n\n \n Receipts.\n $\n C.\n Expenditure.\n $\n C.\n \n \n To Balance........\n 155,538\n 72\n By Maintenance of Chinese Schools in Kowloon City\n 4,441\n 19\n \n \n Rent from Temple Keepers of :- Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City.\n \n \n Grants to:-\n \n \n \n \n Pak Tai Temple, Wantsi,\n 22,245\n 10\n Kwun Yua Temple, Chewanshan.\n 890\n 00\n \n \n Kwun Yam Temple, Chewanshan.\n 1,888\n 00\n Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan\n 758\n 00\n \n \n Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan\n 5,900\n 00\n Lok Shin Tong, Kowloon City for 1931\n 400\n 00\n \n \n Ngai Lo Shi (ex-temple keeper of the Fi Tam Kung Temple, Shaukiwan\n 1,929\n 30\n The Kaifong of Tunghom for the expenses of the free school in Kwan Yum Temple, Hunghom\n 1,200\n 00\n \n \n Fook Tak Che Temple, Shaukiwan........\n 500\n 00\n Tin Hau Temple, Yaurasti\n \n \n \n \n Pak Eung Temple, Quarry Bay,). Ping Chau Free School\n 95\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Sheung Tai Temple. Matanchung....\n 260\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n To T Temple, Shankiwan.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tam Kong Temple, Sungwongtoi..............\n 30\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Tin Hau Temple, Tokwawan..............\n 858\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Pak Tai Temple, Cheung Chan Island..\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kwun Yum Tempie. Hungaom..\n 70\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Committee of the Tin Hau Temple, Kow- Joon City\n 099\n 32\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2,015\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 165\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8,200\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Expenses for holding theatrical per- formatice at\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kowloon City\n 1,310\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Yi Pak Kong Temple, Quarry Bay....\n 600\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Ma Tan Chung\n 743\n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n Tin Hau Temple. Ping Chau island..\n 50\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Cheung Chau Island\n 466\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Chuk Neung Temple. Kowloon City.\n 1,400\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Tam Kung Temple. Wongneichung....\n 176\n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n Tin Hau Temple. Aberdeen\n 652\n 40\n \n \n \n \n \n Aplicbau\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shatin\n €13.75\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ping Chan Island.\n 850\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Pak Tai Temple, Hok Un, Hunghom.\n 300\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Che Kung Temple, Shatin.....\n 121\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Aberdeen\n 209\n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n Shamshuipo\n 2,338\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Hang Shing Temple, aplicheu..\n 200\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Kwon Yum Temple, Aplichau\n 292\n 49\n \n \n \n \n \n Tin Hau Temple, Wongueichung.\n 1,831\n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n Pak Tai Temple. Mataowai....\n 3,913\n 49\n \n \n \n \n \n Tin Hau Temple, Hai Chung Shum Island, Tokwawan\n 415\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Shing Wong Temple, Bridges Street,\n 75\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Mo Tai Temple. Shamshaipo...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Annual subscription to Confucius Society for expenses of the Free School at Yak Hu Kung, Wanchai\n 22\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Tio Han Temple. Shamshuipe\n 2\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Repairs to:- Haa Wong Temple. Kowloon City\n 800\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Chuk Neunz Temple, Kowloon City\n 155\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Tin Hau Temple, Shamshuipo\n 216\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Sam Tai Tez Temple, Shamshnipo\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pak Tai Temple, Shamshuipe\n 2,500\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n House Bents:- Property of au Wong Temple. Kowloon City...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Property of Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan\n 798\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 747\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,535\n 12\n \n \n \n \n \n Compensation & Resumptions from Public Works Department of :- Tin Hau Temple, Wongueichung...................................... New Kowloon Survey District Inland Lot No. 6143......\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 400\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,254\n 60\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,554\n 60\n \n \n \n \n \n M Grant from Education Department for Chinese Public School in Kowloon City\n 1,500\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Interest :- On Fixed deposit..........\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2,820\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 559\n 77\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,379\n 77\n \n \n \n \n \n Crown Rent\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Refund of security to temple keepers of: Hau Wong Temple, Sowloon City\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kwun Yum Temple, Chewanshan\n 520\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Fook Tak Che Temple, Shaukiwan\n 2,195\n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n Tam Kung Temple, Sungwongtoi....\n 80\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Kwun Yam Temple, Hengbom\n 118\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Yi Pak Kung Temple, Quarry Bay\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tam Kung Temple. Wongneichung\n 2,399\n 76\n \n \n \n \n \n Tin Hau Temple, Aberdeen\n –\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Refund to Tung Wah Hospital on account of the Tin Hau Temple, Yaumati.....\n 3,360\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Advertisement for tender of temple keepers\n 294\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Grant to Cheung Chan Kaifong for settling the outstanding accounts of electric charges\n 79\n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n Advance to Chinese Public Dispensaries Fund for the reconstraction of the Wantasi Maternity Hospital\n 67\n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n Transfer to General Chinese Charities Fund\n 922\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Expenses for removing the Tin Han Deity from Kowloon Tong to Yuumati\n 148\n 73\n \n \n \n \n \n Water account\n 130\n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n Fee for boundary stones\n 122\n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n Stamp duty on crown lease...\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Salary\n 6,124\n 73\n \n \n \n \n \n Stationery and printing\n 27\n 312\n 29\n \n \n \n \n Balance in Treneury\n \n \n 53,911\n 40\n \n \n \n To Surplus money transferred from :-- Kwno Yum Temple, Chi Wan Shan.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tam Kung Temple, Shaukiwan\n 6,184\n 46\n \n \n \n \n \n Yi Pak Kung Temple, Quarry Bay\n 4,862\n 80\n \n \n \n \n \n Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan\n 903\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Pak Tai Temple, Cheung Chau Island\n 6,233\n 42\n \n \n \n \n \n Tom Kung Temple, Sung Wong Toij\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tiu Ilau Temple, To Kwa Wan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tam Kung Temple, Wongneichong\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fook Tak Che Temple, Shaukiwan.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pak Tai Temple, Wanebai\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kwun Yum Temple, Hunghom\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tin Hau Temple, Aberdeen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sheung Tai Temple, Ma Tan Chung\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hung Shing Temple, Aplichau\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Kwan Yum Temple, Aplicban... . + Shing Wong Temple, Bridges Street\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n By Grants to:- Kwong Wah Hospital in aid of the funds towards the expenses of the free Maternity Ward for 1931\n \n \n 2,000\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3,096\n 00\n \n \n \n Chinose Public Dispensary Sham- shui po\n \n \n 1,435\n 62\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 866\n 28\n \n \n \n Kwong Wab Hospital for expenses,\n \n \n 2,500\n 00\n \n \n \n Chinese Public Dispensaries Fund\n \n \n 25,000\n 00\n \n \n \n for expenses\n \n \n 1,171\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7,500\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,034\n 59\n \n \n \n Chinese Public Dispensaries Fund' for the erection of the Yaumati,\n \n \n 3,639\n 86\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4,542\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 299\n 50\n \n \n \n Wautsai and Kowloon City Dis- pensaries\n \n \n 1,361\n 84\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,671\n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 90,600\n 00\n \n \n \n Tung Wah Hospital for expeuses...\n \n \n 15,000\n 00\n \n \n \n Chinese Public Dispensary, Hung- hom\n \n \n 202\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 600\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n -148,200\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 400\n 00\n \n \n \n Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City. To Ti Temple, Shaukiwan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Grant from Hong Kong Government!\n 89,326\n 38\n \n \n \n \n \n Interest :-\n 289\n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Salary\n \n \n 90\n 00\n \n \n \n Stationery and printing...\n \n \n 11\n 80\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 127,537\n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"J\n \n \n \n \n Chenng Chau Kaifong (for the purpose of wiping out the debts.)\n \n \n 1,400\n 00\n \n \n \n \n 35,000\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n Balance\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n On Fixed Deposit\n \n \n 19,282\n 61\n \n \n \n \n 1,018\n 43\n \n \n \n \n \n Current Account ..............................\n 433\n 73\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,447\n 16\n \n \n \n \n \n Total......\n 163,984\n 41\n Total......\n 163,984\n 41\n \n \n \n 39\n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n LI YAU TSUN,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total.\n 219,219\n 01\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 800\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2,000\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 127,387\n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 57\n 37\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 37\n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 30\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 120\n 00\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9\n 80\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 42,840\n 89\n \n \n \n \n \n Total..........\n 219,219\n 01\n \n \n \n \n \n Member of Committee.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n E. R. HALLIFAX, Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LI YAU TSUN,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Member of Committee,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n E. R. HALLIFAX, Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n73", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-4 Mui Tsai system 28-6-1932 - 28-11-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534532, "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": "CO129-540-17 Kowloon land lines- agreement between Government of Hong Kong- the Hong Kong Telephone Company and... 25-7-1932 - 7-4-1933", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-540-17 Kowloon land lines- agreement between Government of Hong Kong- the Hong Kong Telephone Company and... 25-7-1932 - 7-4-1933", "content_text": "13\n\n1.\n\n2.\n\n33\n\n46\n\nKOWLOON LANDLINES.\n\nunder Seal made this\n\nARTICLES OF AGREEMENT Nineteenth day of April One thousand nine hundred and thirty two BETWEEN HIS EXCELLENCY SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E. Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies (who and whose Successors in Office are hereinafter referred to as \"The Governor\") for and on behalf of the Government of the said Colony of the one part and THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED (hereinafter called \"The Company\") for and on behalf of themselves and The Great Northern Telegraph Company Limited of Copenhagen, Denmark of the other part WHEREAS by an Agreement dated the Sixth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen the Governor of Hong Kong granted unto the Company leave for the construction and maintenance of a row of telegraph poles upon Crown Land extending from Chatham Road, Hunghom, to the northern side of the bridge spanning the Sham Chun River and in accordance with the terms of such agreement the Company constructed and has maintained a row of telegraph poles AND WHEREAS the aforesaid Agreement expired on the 31st day of December One thousand nine hundred and thirty AND WHEREAS the Company has requested leave from the Governor to continue to maintain such row of telegraph poles as aforesaid together with an extension thereof to Kowloon Railway Station for a further period of fourteen years from the 1st day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty one which leave the Governor has consented to grant on the terms and conditions hereinafter contained NOW IT IS HEREBY WITNESSED THAT IT IS HEREBY AGREED AND DECLARED as follows (that is to say)\n\n5.\n\n6.\n\n5\n\nThe Governor grants unto the Company leave for the maintenance of a row of telegraph poles upon that property the property of the Crown extending from Kowloon Railway Station to the northern side of the bridge spanning the Sham Chun River (including across all bridges) which said property is now occupied by the Railway and is hereinafter referred to as \"The Railway Property\",\n\nLeave is hereby granted to the Company to maintain telegraph wires the number of which, subject nevertheless as hereinafter provided, is not to exceed three upon the said telegraph poles.\n\nLeave is hereby granted to the Company to carry and maintain the said wires through and in all tunnels, in which case such wires shall be of phosphor bronze or copper supported on brackets or be carried in a cable or cables supported on brackets, or be laid under ground, in such manner as may be required by the Manager of the Railway.\n\nThe position of all telegraph poles and brackets, the height of all wires and all other details of construction shall be such as to conform to the maximum or minimum structure gauge of the Railway, and shall be in all respects as the Manager of the Railway shall approve,\n\nSubject to the approval of the Manager of the Railway the Company shall be at liberty to attach additional wires to the said telegraph poles and brackets.\n\nThe Manager of the Railway may at any time require the Company to make, at the Company's own expense, repairs to or alterations in the positions of the Company's telegraph poles or brackets or the wires attached thereto or cables in the event of such repairs or alterations being in the opinion of the Manager of the Railway required for purposes of the Railway; in which case a minimum notice in writing of 24 hours shall be given to the Company to commence to carry out such repairs or alterations. In the event of the matter being urgent and the Company delaying or being unable to carry out such repairs or alterations immediately the Manager of the Railway shall be at liberty to carry out such repairs or alterations and the cost thereof as certified by the\n\n1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-540-17 Kowloon land lines- agreement between Government of Hong Kong- the Hong Kong Telephone Company and... 25-7-1932 - 7-4-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 534536, "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": "CO129-540-17 Kowloon land lines- agreement between Government of Hong Kong- the Hong Kong Telephone Company and... 25-7-1932 - 7-4-1933", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-540-17 Kowloon land lines- agreement between Government of Hong Kong- the Hong Kong Telephone Company and... 25-7-1932 - 7-4-1933", "content_text": "18\n\n1,\n\n2.\n\n3* \n\nKOWLOON LANDLINES,\n\nARTICLES OF AGREEMENT under Seal made this Nineteenth day of April One thousand nine hundred and thirty two BETWEEN HIS EXCELLENCY SIR WILLIAM PEEL, K.C.M.G., K.B.E. Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies (who and whose Successors in Office are hereinafter referred to as \"The Governor\") for and on behalf of the Government of the said Colony of the one part and THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED (hereinafter called \"The Company\") for and on behalf of themselves and The Great Northern Telegraph Company Limited of Copenhagen, Denmark of the other part WHEREAS by an Agreement dated the Sixth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen the Governor of Hong Kong granted unto the Company leave for the construction and maintenance of a row of telegraph poles upon Crown Land extending from Chatham Road, Hunghom, to the northern side of the bridge spanning the Sham Chun River and in accordance with the terms of such agreement the Company constructed and has maintained a row of telegraph poles AND WHEREAS the aforesaid Agreement expired on the 31st day of December One thousand nine hundred and thirty AND WHEREAS the Company has requested leave from the Governor to continue to maintain such row of telegraph poles as aforesaid together with an extension thereof to Kowloon Railway Station for a further period of fourteen years from the 1st day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty one, which leave the Governor has consented to grant on the terms and conditions hereinafter contained NOW IT IS HEREBY WITNESSED THAT IT IS HEREBY AGREED AND DECLARED as follows (that is to say)\n\n4.\n\n5.\n\n6.\n\nThe Governor grants unto the Company leave for the maintenance of a row of telegraph poles upon that property the property of the Crown extending from Kowloon Railway Station to the northern side of the bridge spanning the Sham Chun River (including across all bridges) which said property is now occupied by the Railway and is hereinafter referred to as \"The Railway Property\",\n\nLeave is hereby granted to the Company to maintain telegraph wires the number of which, subject nevertheless as hereinafter provided, is not to exceed three upon the said telegraph poles.\n\nLeave is hereby granted to the Company to carry and maintain the said wires through and in all tunnels, in which case such wires shall be of phosphor bronze or copper supported on brackets or be carried in a cable or cables supported on brackets, or be laid under ground, in such manner as may be required by the Manager of the Railway.\n\nThe position of all telegraph poles and brackets, the height of all wires and all other details of construction shall be such as to conform to the maximum or minimum structure gauge of the Railway, and shall be in all respects as the Manager of the Railway shall approve,\n\nSubject to the approval of the Manager of the Railway the Company shall be at liberty to attach additional wires to the said telegraph poles and brackets.\n\nThe Manager of the Railway may at any time require the Company to make, at the Company's own expense, repairs to or alterations in the positions of the Company's telegraph poles or brackets or the wires attached thereto or cables in the event of such repairs or alterations being in the opinion of the Manager of the Railway required for purposes of the Railway, in which case a minimum notice in writing of 24 hours shall be given to the Company to commence to carry out such repairs or alterations. In the event of the matter being urgent and the Company delaying or being unable to carry out such repairs or alterations immediately the Manager of the Railway shall be at liberty to carry out such repairs or alterations and the cost thereof as certified by the\n\n1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-540-17 Kowloon land lines- agreement between Government of Hong Kong- the Hong Kong Telephone Company and... 25-7-1932 - 7-4-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535001, "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": "CO129-541-1 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 29-7-1932 - 3-2-1933", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-541-1 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 29-7-1932 - 3-2-1933", "content_text": "1932\n\nHong Kong\n\nFile No.\n\n92690\n\n-L\n\nLaw of Piracy\n\nSubject.\n\n92691\n\nEstimates\n\n1933\n\n92692\n\nAgreements of Officers.\n\n92694\n\nEmpire Products Fair held at H. Kong\n\n92701\n\nShipping Dues.\n\n92705\n\nWireless Station at Hunghom Erection of\n\nof:\n\n92708\n\nNew sailors' and soldiers' home\n\n92410\n\n92717\n\n92718\n\n92719\n\nof\n\n92720\n\n92721\n\n92723\n\nservice.\n\nMr W. Russell · Brown Pensionability of Weihaiwei\n\nAlexander Black Removal : general inefficiency on grounds of general\n\nCheng Kwok You. Appl. for special leave to appeal.\n\nand enclosures.\n\nSoviet Union Petroleum Trust: Erection of an oil tank installation in H. Kong\n\nSale of Land to Tsang Fook Company\n\nMarine Lot Leases - Sale of : Marine Lot No. 295: Purchase of :", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-1 Piracy- case of Rex v. Chung Tam Kwong 29-7-1932 - 3-2-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535567, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n181\n\nthe construction of the first section of the Sai Kung Road to Ma Yue Tong is going to be a remunerative venture. With me it has become a conviction that no more profitable employment can be found in the Colony for ratepayers' money than the building of new roads that offer prospects for the opening up of new building sites. The road to Ma Yue Tong is just of that type that satisfies all the arguments in favour of its construction, viz., access to sites unrivalled for the picturesqueness of their situation, superb scenery, easiness of levelling and forming, and the provision of a solution for the vexed bathing beaches problem. I am not alone in my advocacy of the Sai Kung Road as an extract from the speech of the President of the Hongkong Automobile Association on the 29th March last will show. Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy said:\n\n\"I should like to refer to the Sai Kung Road project in the New Territories. In his Budget speech on September 5th, 1929, the Colonial Secretary called attention to the proposed Circular Eastern Road. The wonderful possibilities of this enterprise have been stressed on many subsequent occasions. . . . All members of this Association earnestly hope that Government finances will soon render it possible to proceed with the Sai Kung Road scheme and your Committee is of opinion that any reasonable outlay in connexion with the proposed road will prove a sound Government investment.\"\n\nSuch then is the considered opinion of a group of business men.\n\nThe Kowloon Tsai Garden City Development, at an estimated total cost of $403,300, is an experiment the success or failure of which will be watched with considerable interest. It should not be too early at this stage to request that, in this important and extensive development, people of small means should be considered and afforded opportunities to acquire small areas for the building of their own homes. The laying out of large lots only might preclude people with little savings from purchasing land. The moment is opportune for proposing the erection of a weather signal-station on some conspicuous position on the Kowloon Tsai Hills that should be clearly visible from Kowloon Tong and Kowloon City. Reservations for sports grounds are a necessity that should not be lost sight of.\n\nThe erection of the wireless station at Hunghom for the large transmitter for broadcasting is a step in the right direction. My honourable friend, Mr. Shenton, with his usual thoughtful regard for social service in the Colony, has spoken of the benefits which broadcasting has conferred. His remarks are certain to be accorded the reception which they deserve.\n\nThe same honourable member in his complete competence has dealt with the question of air-mail and passenger services. His remarks cannot fail to arouse general interest. The logical development of our magnificent aerodrome at Kai Tak will hasten the\n\n185", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535612, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 204, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "DEBATE ON THE BUDGET.\n\n(Continued from Page 15.)\n\nHON. MR. T. N. CHAU.\n\nI am jealous of the good name which Kowloon has earned as a place for safe investment and feel strongly that any attempt to besmirch its fair name cannot be condemned in too severe terms.\n\nA tendency has grown up of late towards belittling at least one of our old-established industries and of public utility concern on the other side of the harbour. In both have millions of dollars been invested and to both have the united efforts of zealous directorates, supported by shareholders' money, devoted time and complete concurrence in the views and sentiments expressed on grounds is a necessity that should not be lost sight of.\n\nThe erection of the wireless station at Hunghom for the large transmitter for broadcasting is a step in the right direction. My honourable friend, Mr. Shenton, with his usual thoughtful regard for social service in the Colony, has spoken of the benefits which broadcasting has conferred. His remarks are certain to be accorded the reception which they deserve.\n\nThe same honourable member in his complete competence has dealt with the question of air-mail and passenger services. His remarks cannot fail to arouse general interest. The logical development of our magnificent aerodrome at Kai Tack will hasten the extension of that district eastward. While workshops and offices will be built within the aerodrome itself, a demand for houses for the Europeans having business with the future air service will lead to the neighbouring hills being explored for residences. The road to Ma Yue Tong will facilitate the selection of sites presenting a landscape rivalling even Peak itself.\n\nTransport Fares.\n\nThe Council is still in ignorance of the recommendations of the Road Passenger Transport Committee. The present occasion is opportune for bringing into greater prominence an apparently forgotten statement by the Chairman of the Hongkong Tramways, Ltd., when presiding at the annual meeting of shareholders on 17th February. He said: \"After years of persevering labour, often thwarted by adverse circumstances, the future holds great promise for both these important undertakings; they form part of the Colony's substantial assets; they are very essential factors in the industrial life of Kowloon.\n\n\"Bear\" Tactics.\n\n\"Bear\" tactics that stoop to distortion of facts, deliberate attempts to create a stampede calculated to create among genuine small holders of stock and so to depress certain shares by questionable reprehensible methods regardless of their mischievousness, cannot be too strongly deprecated.\n\nIn these times of world industrial depression, the Colony needs, for the success of its trade and commerce, all the help it can rally around itself. Untruthful statements can do a lot of harm and are discreditable to their authors.\n\nPleads for Society for Protection of Children.\n\nIn expressing this concurrence, I desire to amplify one subject which the Hon. Dr. Kotewall has already dealt with rather fully, namely, the grant to the Society for the Protection of Children. I respectfully urge the request for an increased grant on Your Excellency's sympathetic notice. As Joint Honorary Secretary of the Society, I may add to the information given by the Hon. Dr. Kotewall that in 96 cases in the past ten months, the families concerned were without visible means; and in the whole of the 702 cases dealt with by the Society in that period, the average income worked out at a figure which allowed to each member of the family a monthly income of less than $3 out of which to provide food, clothing, and accommodation. In over 50% of the cases, the family had no means to pay for a single room but occupied only a 'bed-space.'\n\nNot only were the persons concerned miserably poor, but in more than 50% of the cases reported, the children were suffering from disease, and very frequently this was the direct result of insufficient food.\n\nThe figures of infantile mortality among Chinese children are abnormally high, and it must be overwhelmingly apparent to all that poverty with the resultant bad accommodation and insufficient food is a contributory cause.\n\nIf the dissemination of libellous rumours, damaging to the Colony's industries, should be persisted in to the detriment of its welfare, every endeavour should be made to effectively check this form of abuse and put a stop to pernicious actions hurtful to businesses that have cost much money and taken long years of patience and toil to build up and that must be protected.\n\nThe Government, in June last, sanctioned a further increase in fares which was put into force on July 1st, and although our receipts improved, the number of passengers suffered a considerable decline.\n\nIt is clear that the economic limit to which Kowloon fares can be raised has been reached. Although receipts per bus-mile improved by 3.21 cents, the expenses per bus-mile increased by 7.84 cents, of which 5.30 cents represents the increased cost per bus-mile for petrol.\n\nIt is a pertinent question whether the possibility of the introduction of trolley buses for Kowloon has been explored for the economical operation of the passenger transport service. If the question has been gone into by the Transport Committee, will the Government inform the Council what decision has been arrived at?\n\nHON. MR. S. W. T'SO.\n\nCommends the Policy of Caution.\n\nIn the Budget debate last year, I urged the Government to give every encouragement to the farmers in the New Territories to increase their agricultural production.\n\nI am pleased to note that in Your Excellency's speech, I desire to associate myself with the views which have been so fully and ably expressed by the Senior Unofficial Member, Sir Henry Pollock, also by the Senior Chinese Member, the Hon. Dr. Kotewall on the Budget; and to congratulate the Government for presenting to this Council a Budget framed on the basis of safety and caution.\n\nI feel that so long as the value of the dollar is uncertain and while trade depression is still among us, a policy of caution is extremely wise and desirable.\n\nSubordinate Staff Promotions.\n\nMy honourable friend, the Senior Chinese Unofficial Member, whose oratorical fluency is such a feature of the annual debate on the Budget, has adequately commented on the change of Government policy which is about to initiate a system admitting of promotions of a limited number of members of the subordinate staff to a new section of the clerical and accounting staff.\n\nSince I first had the honour of a seat at this Council table, I have consistently and persistently advocated the claims of the local men to promotions and to a just recognition of their merits.\n\nI consider it therefore an economy to encourage these schools. For, every fresh taxation means further burden on trade and increase to the cost of living.\n\nTurning to the estimate under Head No. 25 Education Department, I find that the capitation grants have been increased from $180,000 to $217,500 for the coming year; but no increase has been made on subsidies to Urban Elementary Vernacular Schools in Hongkong.\n\nWhatever may be said of these schools, they do supply an elementary education to thousands of poor children. If the Government were to provide schools for these children, it would cost the Colony an enormous sum of money.\n\nThere should certainly be more dollar-and less sterling-paid posts with corresponding economy to the Colony.\n\nAid to Children.\n\nAs my Hon. Colleagues who spoke before me have already dealt fully with the Budget, there remains little for me to comment on. But I should like to add my voice to the appeal made by the Hon. Mr. Shenton and the Hon. Dr. Kotewall for an increased grant to the Society for the Protection of Children.\n\nThe good work done by this Society and its financial position have been fully set out by the Hon. Dr. Kotewall in his speech. It only remains for me to emphasize its need of financial support and associate myself with the Hon. Members in asking for an increased grant to this deserving institution.\n\nAN EDUCATION MATTER.\n\nRecent letters appearing in the senior morning newspaper suggest the possibility of the introduction of midget taxis into Kowloon.\n\nAs the Estimates under Head No. 28, services, no rickshaws have been licensed for miscellaneous to ply for hire in the Homuntin and Kowloon Tong areas, a cheap labour service such as is contemplated is bound to reduce travelling expenses in the case of those residents whose slender purses do not afford them to permit of the luxury of the ownership of a motor car.\n\nThe Normal School for women is being housed in rented premises which proved to be most unsuitable. The need of a building of its own is very urgent.\n\nThe Hon. the Colonial Secretary has, in his speech, recognized its urgency but building operation is deferred to other more important works.\n\nAs the grant for building is not so large as compared with other large schemes, I urge the Government to keep the matter in sight and sanction building operation at the earliest possible date.\n\nKowloon's Fair Name.\n\nWhen I rose to address the Council this afternoon, I spoke with some enthusiasm on the industrial expansion of Kowloon.\n\nKowloon is looked on by many as a \"Promised Land\" to be jealously guarded and conserved as the precious heritage of pioneer settlers whose descendants have made Kowloon their permanent home in the Colony.\n\n(Applause).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535720, "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": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "Page 369\n\n20\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\nHead 26. Kowloon Canton Railway.\n\nPersonal Emoluments,\n\nNew Posts\n\n4,676\n\nAbolition of Posts\n\n2,588\n\nStipulated Increments\n\n7,678\n\nChanges in Personnel\n\n14,231\n\nOvertime Allowances\n\n500\n\nHigher Rate of Exchange\n\n17,913\n\nActing Pay\n\n289\n\nOvertime & Other Allowances\n\n550\n\nTransferred from:\n\nSenior Clerical & Accounting Staff\n\n10,700\n\nJunior Clerical Service...\n\n44,324\n\nTotal\n\n68,167\n\nTotal\n\n$ 35,282\n\nSub-Head.\n\n2. Advertising\n\n8. Conveyance Allowances...\n\n10. Furniture\n\n11. Goods Wagons-Repairs\n\n11. Lubricants\n\n20. Power, Fans & Light\n\n26. Stations, Buildings, etc.\n\nTotal\n\n46\n\nOther Charges.\n\nSub-Head.\n\n700\n\n3. Ballast\n\n450\n\n37\n\n4. Bridgework\n\n200\n\n250\n\n6. Coal\n\n10,000\n\n1,500\n\n9. Formation...\n\n500\n\n4,500\n\n32. Uniform\n\n500\n\n740\n\n1,788\n\n9,515\n\nTotal\n\n11,650\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nSub-Head.\n\n34. Electric Lighting\n\n35. Painting Shop...\n\n5,670\n\nLo Wu Water Supply\n\n2,500\n\n12,200\n\nBoiler...\n\n32,400\n\n36. Flush System\n\n3,600\n\nFencing at Yard, Hunghom\n\n10,500\n\n37. Furniture\n\n1,650\n\nRepairs to Carriage Shed\n\n2,600\n\n38. Taipo Pier-Repairs\n\n10,000\n\nRepair to Staff Quarters\n\n800\n\n39. Protection Works\n\n300\n\nStaff Quarters, Shatin\n\n1,800\n\n40. Locomotive boilers-reconditioning\n\n34,286\n\nTaipo, Filling in\n\n1,200\n\n41. Rewiring Workshops\n\n9,000\n\nShelter, Yaumati\n\n1,100\n\n42. Cable Workshops\n\n6,850\n\n43. Shelter, Fanling\n\n1,200\n\nTotal\n\n84,756\n\nTotal\n\n52,900\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges...\n\nSpecial Expenditure\n\nTotal\n\nDeduct Decrease...\n\nNet Increase\n\n \n Estimates 1933\n Estimates 1932\n Increase 1933\n Increase.\n Decrease.\n \n \n 68,167\n $5,282\n \n \n \n \n \n 9,515\n \n 11,650\n \n \n \n \n 84,756\n \n 52,960\n \n \n \n \n 162,438\n \n 99,832\n \n 99,832\n \n \n \n \n $\n 62,606\n \n \n \n $ 1,021,631\n \n 959,025\n \n 62,606\n \n\nPage 369\n\n20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535847, "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": "CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932", "content_text": "1932\n\n92705\n\nHONG KONG\n\nCLOSED UNTIL\n\nPrevious\n\nSubsequent\n\n92705\n\nWireless Station\n\nCo\n\n129/541/6\n\n83\n\nK or Jameson 1/o\n\nMr McSweeney 12.10\n\nhilalder Mm. Vernon\n\n(2\n\n2 papers\n\n13/x\n\nthe Cover PUT BY\n\nFILE A.\n\nAt Hunghom - Conection of\n\n(74658) Wt. 15109-30 30,000 in 4 sorts\n\n11/31 P. St. G. 101/32 B", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535848, "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": "CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932", "content_text": "0.a. Ge for 424 9.9.32 2 Estimates 1933 States the sum of $44,000 has been inserted draft Public Works Extraordinary for execution of a wireless Station at Sungham for \"broadcast\" \"transmitter. Asks for approval by telegram for this expenditure & for commencement of work.\n\nI do not think we need to object to this proposal on the grounds of expense and there is I suppose need to consult the P.W.D.\n\nSubject to observations by G.D. Telegraph approval requested in para 4.\n\nno\n\n12.10.32 about I have sent the pp. of the General question. It's sad taking over The principal wider services.\n\nMads wireless + Agreement accepts the in draft Broadcasting from Coy's exquivitions (Supplementary) overly of its ought to it is do 10 effect.\n\nI think Have we the fact thingh Line Ical this wie be If ite Coy. Love necessary Good washing\n\n \n Levwith 47 flagged 92640 Levenrito.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535849, "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": "CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932", "content_text": "Page 424\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG,\n\n9th September, 1932.\n\nI have the honour to inform you that a sum of $44,000 has been inserted in the draft Public Works Extraordinary Estimates 1933 for the erection of a wireless station at Hunghom for the broadcast transmitter. At present the transmitter is at the Peak Wireless Station, but it is desired to utilize this station solely for reception purposes, as the existing receiving station at the Observatory in Kowloon has proved unsatisfactory.\n\nExhaustive tests have been carried out at the proposed new station at Hunghom and the results have been satisfactory. It is desired to commence the work as soon as possible so that the buildings may be completed and dried out during the dry season. It is anticipated that even though the work is started this year, no payments in connection with it will have to be made until next year.\n\nI have discussed the matter with the Unofficial Members of Legislative Council and they are unanimously in favour of the scheme, which will be equally necessary whether the Colony's commercial wireless services are taken over by the Merger Company or not.\n\nI should be glad to have your approval by telegram for this expenditure and for the commencement of the work at once.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nW. THOMAS SHEPHERD\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.P.\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\netc.\n\nPage\n\nEND\n\n12.10.32\n\nThe Supplementary Agreement is an ad interim arrangement ancillary to the principal agreement. It is perfectly clear that the latter excludes broadcasting.\n\nI think you can safely share what is proposed.\n\nR.V. Vernede\n\n13/x\n\nTolk Itkone Tel No 141\n\nDESTROYED UNDER STATUTE\n\n21.10.32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535850, "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": "CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932", "content_text": "Page 92705\n\nLO 15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-6 Erection of wireless station at Hunghom 9-9-1932 - 9-9-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 537103, "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": "CO129-543-17 Marine Surveyor's Department- vacancies and applications 19-4-1933 - 13-2-1934", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-543-17 Marine Surveyor's Department- vacancies and applications 19-4-1933 - 13-2-1934", "content_text": "(b) The names and addresses of other persons to whom reference can be made may be added here, if desired; and the Secretary of State will obtain such additional reports as he may deem necessary. (See also Section 13.)\n\nMr. Hinghom, Assistant Superintendent Engineer.\nShina navigation bureau.\nMessrs Cutterfield of Surive.\n\n16. Mention here any applications for employment under any other Government Department which you have made previously or are now making.\n\n17. Candidates for Police appointments state their (1) height, (2) weight, and (3) chest measurement (expanded).\n\n| Height | Weight | Chest measurement (expanded) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| ft. in. | st. lb. | inches |\n\nYou are requested to paste hereon an unmounted photograph of yourself.\n(Any photograph of recent date which provides a good likeness is sufficient.)\n\nSignature of Candidate\nDate: 16th November 1933.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-543-17 Marine Surveyor's Department- vacancies and applications 19-4-1933 - 13-2-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 538060, "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": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934", "content_text": "# Head 20.-POLICE FORCE\n\n## Approved Estimate, 1933\n## Estimate, 1934\n\n### POLICE FORCE,—Continued.\n\n#### Personal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward | 578,538 | 556,970\n---------|----------|----------\n\n### NUMBERS.\n\n| 1933 | 1934 |\n|------|------|\nEuropean Contingent.—Land & Water.,-Contd. | 38 | 39\n| 41 | 44\n\nSub-Inspectors, (£370 to £430 by £15 annually)............. | | \nDo., Good Conduct Medal Allowances, 2 at £4. 10s. each, and 7 at $30 each. | | \nSergeants, (£260 to £350 by 2 annual increments of £20 and 5 of £10) | 272,239 | 258,912\n\n| (1) | (2) | (3)\n|------|------|------\n536 | 354 | \n(1) | (4) | \nDo., Good Conduct Medal Allowances, to 1 at £4. 10s. 0d, and 1 at £9. 0. 0. | 77 | 216\n(5) | 137 | 139\nDo., Lance Sergeants, (£190 to £240 by £10 annually)... | 549,196 | 517,106\nGood Conduct Medal Allowance 1 at £13, 10s, 0d., and 2 at $30 each. | | \nAllowances to Detective Force, 56 men at $144 each | | \nLanguage Allowances... | 25,950 | 27,180\nDrill Instructors Allowance, to 2 at $144 each | 288 | 288\nActing Pay | 10,250 | 9,220\n(7) | | \n\n### Indian Contingent.\n\n1 Assistant Superintendent, ($2,100 to $3,000 by $150 annually) | 3,000 | 3,000\n33 | 62 | \n2 Inspectors, ($1,200 to $1,800 by $100 annually)........ | 2,400 | 2,555\n(8) | 2,040 | 1,970\n3 Sub-Inspectors, ($900 to $1,020 by $60 annually) | 3,360 | 3,302\n(3) | 16,370 | 16,322\n1 Sergeant Majors, ($780 to $840 by $30 annually) | | \n26,260 | 26,262\n(3) (9) | 1,200 | 1,200\nSergeants, ($440 to $520 by $20 annually). | 198 2nd Class, at $336 each | 208,260 | 215,700\n(10) | | \nLance Sergeants, ($396 to $420 by $12 annually) | | \nRent Allowances to above | 330 | 210\n(3) | 22,356 | 24,222\nGood Conduct Medal Allowances | | \n(5) | 576 | 576\nLanguage Allowances | 60 | 60\nDrill Instructors Allowances to 12 at $48 each | | \nDetective Allowance to 1 at $60 | 297 | 284\n(7) | | \nActing Pay | | \n\n### Chinese Contingent.\n\n#### Cantonese.\n\nInspectors, at $900 each................ | 1,800 | 1,800\nSub Inspectors at $840) each | 2,520 | \nSergeants, at $720 each | 1,440 | 1,440\nPrincipal Chinese Detectives, at $720 each | 1,440 | 1,440\n26 Sergeants, at $480 each | 12,480 | 12,480\n42 Lance Sergeants, at $396 each | 16,632 | 17,028\n(12) | 305 1st Class, ($312 to $360 by $12 annually). | | \n507 | 526 Constables | \n221 2nd Class, ($240 to $300 by $12 annually). | 162,369 | 166,247 (13)\nRent Allowances to above | 11,580 | 11,580\n22 Female Searchers, (1 at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially and 22 at $156 to $204 by $12 triennially each) | 3,840 | 4,123\nDo., Rent Allowances at $48 each.. | 1,056 | 1,104\n|| (14) | | \nAllowances to Detective Force | 10,000 | 10,000\nGood Conduct Medal Allowances | 1,170 | 1,170\nLanguage Allowances | 854 | 390\n(5) | | \nDrill Instructors Allowances to 2 at $48 each | 96 | 96\nCarried forward | 2,178,156 | 2,125,568\n\n(1) Higher rate of exchange.\n(2) One new post for C. I. D. work at Yaumati.\n(3) Changes in personnel.\n(4) Three new posts; one for C. I. D. work at Yaumati, one for Searching Squad Kowloon, and one for Aliens and Passport office.\n(5) More allowances payable.\n(6) Two new posts; one for detective work at Mongkok station, and one for Deportee and Records office.\n(7) Less acting pay required.\n(8) Stipulated increments.\n(9) One new post for H. E. the Governor's bungalow at Fanling.\n(10) Fourteen new posts; four for H.E. the Governor's bungalow at Fanling, two for Kowloon hospital, six for traffic posts at vehicular ferry wharfs Jubilee Street and Jordan Road, and two for patrol duty in Sham Shui Po district.\n(11) Five new posts.\n(12) One new post for searchers at Water Police Station.\n(13) Nineteen new posts; nine for searchers at Water Police Station, five for traffic duty in Hollywood Road. Wyndham Street and Queen's Road/ D'Aguilar Street, two for Larceny Squad Kowloon, one for Deportee and Records office, one for detective work in Hunghom and Kowloon City, and one for detective work on Police cruising launches.\n(14) One new post.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-1 Estimates 1934 4-10-1933 - 17-4-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544883, "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": 189, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## K 34\n\n244\n\nand his father Cheng Tin (who has a licensed newspaper hawker stall at Pottinger Street) had done their best for over two months to find their son. The mother identified the boy at the Remand Home and he was restored to her later before the Police Magistrate (Kowloon).\n\n(3) Yuen Chau, aged 16 (Chinese age). This boy stated that he had no fixed place of abode, but after being in the Home a few days admitted to the Probation Officer that he had run away from home and gave his address as No. 93, Mo Wu Street, 2nd floor, Hunghom. The Probation Officer found his parents, who stated that he had been missing from home for three months. He was later handed over to his father at the Juvenile Court.\n\n(4) Leung Wing, aged 15. This boy stated that he had no fixed abode, but after being in the Home for four days gave his true name to the Probation Officer as Chan Sze Hoi, and No. 80, Portland Street, 3rd floor, as the address of his uncle. By order of the Magistrate he was handed by Police to his uncle Chan Pak Kuen to be sent back to the country to his mother.", "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": 544975, "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": 281, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "## Table XXVI\n### HUNGHOM DISPENSARY\nStatement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1953.\n\n| Expenditure | $ | C. | $ | C. | Income | $ | C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 1,267.90 | | | By Balance | 242.16 | |\n| Payment through Secretariat for Chinese Affairs | 2,034.00 | | 468.00 | 58 | | | |\n| Payment through Local Committee | 3,029.85 | | 3,000.00 | 1 | | | |\n| | | | 3,469.00 | | | | |\n| Balance with local Committee | 1,410.39 | | | \" | 780.50 | |\n| Grant from General Chinese Charities Fund | | | | | | | |\n| Balance at Secretariat for Chinese Affairs | | | | | | | |\n| Total | 6,716.40 | | | Total | 6,716.40 | |\n\nLO YUET CHO, \nChairman.\n\nLI KIT TSUN, \nAccountant.\n\nA. E. WOOD, \nSecretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\nPage 368", "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": 544982, "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": 288, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "# CHINESE TEMPLES FUND\n## Statement of Accounts from 1st January to 31st December, 1933\n\n| Expenditure | $ | cts. | Receipts | $ | cts. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| To Balance | | | Rent from Temple Keepers of: | | |\n| \" | | | Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City | 1,435 | 00 |\n| | | | Pak Tai Temple, Cheung Chau Island | 824 | 00 |\n| By Maintenance of Chinese Public School in Kowloon City | 37 | | Pak Tai Temple, Wantsai | 947 | 38 |\n| Grants to: | | | Sam Tai Tsz Temple, Shamshuipo | 18,025 | 00 |\n| Chinese Public Dispensary, Hung Hom, for 1932 and 1933 | 4,486 | 42 | Tam Kung Temple, Shaukiwan | 4,200 | 00 |\n| Lok Shin Tong, Kowloon City for 1933 | 2,940 | 00 | Che Kung Temple, Shatin | 2,918 | 00 |\n| The Kaifong of Hunghom for the expenses of the Free School in Kwan Yum Temple, Hunghom | 1,941 | 00 | Kwun Yum Temple, Hung Hom | 5,882 | 00 |\n| Committee of Tin Hau Temple, Kowloon City | 1,670 | 00 | Tam Kung Temple, Wongneichung | 3,951 | 75 |\n| Expenses for holding theatrical performances at: | | | Hung Shing Temple, Aplichau | 1,896 | 40 |\n| Kowloon City | 5,215 | 68 | Tin Hau Temple, Shamshuipo | 908 | 00 |\n| Cheung Chau Island | 1,200 | 00 | Yi Pak Kung Temple, Quarry Bay | | |\n| Sheung Tai Temple, Matauchung | 400 | 00 | Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan | | |\n| Tam Kung Temple, Sungwongtoi | 1,200 | 00 | Hau Wong Temple, Tai O | 67 | 50 |\n| Tin Hau Temple, Tokwawan | 200 | 00 | Kwun Yum Temple, Chewanshan | 465 | 50 |\n| Tin Hau Temple, Ping Chau Island | 70 | 00 | Fook Tak Che Temple, Shaukiwan | 860 | 00 |\n| Aplichau | 3,070 | 00 | To Ti Temple, Shaukiwan | 272 | 00 |\n| Ping Chau Island | 605 | 00 | | | |\n| Shatin | 600 | 25 | | | |\n| Aberdeen | | | Tin Hau Temple, Aberdeen | 458 | 50 |\n| Tai O | | | Ma Tau Chung | | |\n| Tin Hau Temple, Aberdeen | | | Tin Hau Temple, Wongneichung | 75 | 00 |\n| Ma Tau Chung | | | Shamshuipo | | |\n| Tin Hau Temple, Wongneichung | | | Pak Tai Temple, Shamshuipo | 187 | 50 |\n| Shamshuipo | | | | 650 | 00 |\n| Pak Tai Temple, Shamshuipo | | | Pak Tai Temple, Hunghom | 1,400 | 00 |\n| | 1,400 | 00 | | 700 | 00 |\n| | 700 | 00 | Mo Tai Temple, Shamshuipo | 121 | 00 |\n| Mo Tai Temple, Shamshuipo | 300 | 00 | | 300 | 00 |\n| Annual subscription to Confucius Society | 300 | 00 | Kwun Yum Temple, Aplichau | 300 | 00 |\n| Kwun Yum Temple, Aplichau | 200 | 00 | | 200 | 00 |\n| Shing Wong Temple, Bridges Street, for expenses of the Free School at Yuk Hu Kung, Wantsai | 50 | 00 | | 50 | 00 |\n| Chuk Neung Temple, Kowloon City | 300 | 00 | | 4,021 | 00 |\n| Tin Hau Temple, Hoi Chung Sum Island, Tokwawan | 4,021 | 00 | | | |\n| Repairs to: | | | Pak Tai Temple, Hunghom | 225 | 75 |\n| Free School, Kowloon City | 300 | 00 | | 1,248 | 10 |\n| The Guard House, Po Chu Tam, Tai O | 120 | 00 | | | |\n| Sam Tai Tsz Temple, Shamshuipo | 11 | 20 | | 460 | 75 |\n| House Rents: | 431 | 20 | Shing Wong Temple, Bridges Street, for expenses of the Free School at Yuk Hu Kung, Wantsai | 500 | 00 |\n| Property of Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City | 785 | 80 | | 520 | 00 |\n| Property of Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan | 608 | 36 | Chuk Neung Temple, Kowloon City | | |\n| Property of Mo Tai Temple, Shamshuipo | | | Tin Hau Temple, Hoi Chung Sum Island, Tokwawan | 241 | 63 |\n| Tin Hau Temple, Wongneichung | 25 | 00 | | 2 | 00 |\n| Pak Tai Temple, Hunghom | 351 | 20 | Repairs to: | | |\n| Hung Shing Temple, Aplichau | 55 | 00 | Free School, Kowloon City | 300 | 00 |\n| | 1,745 | 36 | The Guard House, Po Chu Tam, Tai O | 120 | 00 |\n| Sheung Tai Temple, Ma Tau Chung | 19 | | Sam Tai Tsz Temple, Shamshuipo | 11 | 20 |\n| Tin Hau Temple, Ping Chau Island | 89 | 50 | House Rents: | 431 | 20 |\n| Chuk Neung Temple, Kowloon City | 116 | 50 | Property of Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City | 785 | 80 |\n| Sam Tai Tsz Temple, Shamshuipo | 1,440 | 00 | Property of Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan | 608 | 36 |\n| | 43 | 83 | Property of Mo Tai Temple, Shamshuipo | | |\n| | 300 | 00 | Tin Hau Temple, Wongneichung | 25 | 00 |\n| | 996 | 83 | Pak Tai Temple, Hunghom | 351 | 20 |\n| Interest | 809 | 58 | Hung Shing Temple, Aplichau | 55 | 00 |\n| Refund of security to the lessee of Kam Kuk Yuen, Kowloon City | 17 | | | 1,745 | 36 |\n| | 80 | 00 | Sheung Tai Temple, Ma Tau Chung | 89 | 50 |\n| Total | 104,928 | 37 | Tin Hau Temple, Ping Chau Island | 116 | 50 |\n| Transfer to General Chinese Charities Fund | 38,020 | 00 | Chuk Neung Temple, Kowloon City | 1,440 | 00 |\n| Advertisements | 55 | | Sam Tai Tsz Temple, Shamshuipo | 43 | 83 |\n| Crown Rent | 261 | 10 | | 300 | 00 |\n| Water account | 62 | 05 | | 996 | 83 |\n| Stationery and printing | 38 | 75 | Interest | 809 | 58 |\n| Premium in respect of N.K.I.L. 2064 | 42 | 15 | Refund of security to the lessee of Kam Kuk Yuen, Kowloon City | 80 | 00 |\n| Fee for boundary stones | 820 | 00 | Total | 104,928 | 37 |\n| Grant to Tai O Kaifong for the purpose of wiping out a debt due on account of local public works | 64 | 00 | | | |\n| Cost of making a brick well and a latrine for the Che Kung Temple, Shatin | 500 | 00 | | | |\n| Balance | 800 | 00 | | | |\n| | 49,985 | 61 | | | |\n| Total | 104,928 | 37 | | | |\n\n## C 65\n## Table XXXIII\n\n泉右李 \nMember of Committee. \nA. E. WOOD, \nSecretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\nPage 375", "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": 544983, "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": 289, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "# GENERAL CHINESE CHARITIES FUND\n## Statement of Accounts from 1st January to 31st December, 1933\n\n### Expenditure\n\n| To Balance | 20,760.44 | By Grants to:- | |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Surplus money transferred from:-- | | Tung Wah Hospital for expenses... | 17,000.00 |\n| Chuk Neung Temple, Kowloon City | 200.00 | Chinese Public Dispensaries Fund for expenses | 19,000.00 |\n| Fook Tak Che Temple, Shaukiwan | 700.00 | Children's Playground Association.. | 1,000.00 |\n| Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City. | 17,000.00 | Tung Wah Hospital for expenses.... | 8,000.00 |\n| Kwun Yum Temple, Hunghom | 2,200.00 | Tung Wah Hospital for Kwong Wa Hospital for expenses.... | 33,500.00 |\n| Kwun Yum Temple, Che Wan Shan. | 600.00 | Tung Wah Hospital for | 25,000.00 |\n| Pak Tai Temple, Hung Hom | 150.00 | Tung Wah Eastern Hospital for expenses | 600.00 |\n| Pak Tai Temple, Wanchai | 2,700.00 | Tam Kung Temple, Sung Wong Toi | 850.00 |\n| Sheung Tai Temple, Ma Tau Chung | 250.00 | Tam Kung Temple, Wongneichong | 1,850.00 |\n| Shing Wong Temple, Bridges Street | | Tam Kung Temple, Shaukiwan | 1,600.00 |\n| | | Tin Hau Temple, Shaukiwan | 1,700.00 |\n| | | Tin Hau Temple, To Kwa Wan | |\n| | | Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hospitals for free Burials | 17,000.00 |\n| | | Tung Wah, Kwong Wa & Tung Wah Eastern Hospitals for Medicine | 7,500.00 |\n| | | Chinese Public Dispensary Shamshuipo | 350.00 |\n| | | Tin Hau Temple, Wong Nei Chung | 170.00 |\n| | | Yi Pak Kung Temple, Quarry Bay | 2,500.00 |\n| | | Chinese Public Dispensaries Fund | 750.00 |\n| | | Pak Tai Temple, Cheung Chau Island for expenses | 9,500.00 |\n| | | Mo Tai Temple, Shamshuipo | 600.00 |\n| | | Pak Tai Temple, Shamshuipo | 1,200.00 |\n| | | Tsan Yuk Hospital for expenses | 5,000.00 |\n| | | Po Leung Kuk for expenses... | 7,000.00 |\n| | | Sam Tai Tsz Temple, Shamshuipo. | 300.00 |\n| | | To Ti Temple, Shaukiwan | 3,200.00 |\n| | | Tin Hau Temple, Shamshuipo | 70.00 |\n| | | Tin Hau Temple, Ping Chau Island | 800.00 |\n| | | | 180.00 |\n| | | Donation from the Navy Day Committee | 38,020.00 |\n| | | Chinese Public Dispensaries Fund (amount reserved for the erection of a new Shamshuipo C. P. D.)... | 500.00 |\n| | | Salary | 115,000.00 |\n| | | Cheung Chau Kaifong for rent of a dispensary and maternity wards for 1 year from June 1933 to May 1934 | 5,500.00 |\n| | | Grant from Hong Kong Government | 180.00 |\n| | | Amount collected by Tai O Kaifong for street improvement in 1934..... | 600.00 |\n| | | Refund of balance from the grant of $600 to Kaifong of Cheung Chau for rent of the dispensary | |\n| | | Interest | 115,000.00 |\n| | | Ping Chau Kaifong for equipment of the Village Guards | 200.00 |\n| | | Ping Chau Kaifong for maintenance of the Village Guards | 100.00 |\n| | | | 79.06 |\n| | | Balance | 80.00 |\n| Total.... | 175,131.42 | Total...... | 571.92 |\n| | | | 16,671.42 |\n| | | | 175,131.42 |\n\n**Member of Committee.** \n**A. E. WOOD,** \n**Secretary for Chinese Affairs.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546024, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "Head 26. KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY\n\nApproved Estimate, 1934. Estimate, 1935.\n\n$ $ $\n\n910,648 880,713\n\n79 816,348 803,673\n\nKOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY,-Continued.\n\nOther Charges,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n$ $ $\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nSub-heads:-\n\n \n 34\n Reinforced Concrete Gantries in Carriage Shed\n 6,800\n \n \n \n 35\n New Permanent Pale Fencing\n 18,000\n 3,900\n \n \n 36\n Reconstruction of Sheung Shui Station\n 24\n \n \n \n \n Signals and Switches.\n 7,000\n \n \n \n 37\n Reinforced-Concrete Road Level Crossing\n 2,200\n \n \n \n \n E-5-6 Maintenance of Signals\n 1,100\n \n \n \n \n Points and Crossings\n 2,500\n 1,100 2,500\n \n \n 38\n New Traffic Quarters at Lowa\n 6,400\n \n \n \n 39\n Smoke Stacks in Running Shed Hunghom\n 2,700\n \n \n \n 35\n \n 3,600\n 3,600\n \n \n 40\n Flush System to Latrine for Female Carriage Cleaners\n 600\n (1)\n \n \n 41\n Semi-Rotary Furnace for Cast Iron\n 3,450\n \n \n \n 25\n Sleepers,\n \n \n \n \n 42\n New Body-work for 4 Coaches.....\n 40,000\n 40,000\n \n \n \n E-5-5-2 Sleepers\n \n \n \n \n 26\n Stations Buildings and Staff Quarters.\n 40,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 25,000\n 40,000\n \n \n (1)\n \n 25,000\n \n \n \n 43\n Reconditioning Two Locomotive Boilers\n 17,143\n 30,000\n \n \n 44\n Permanent Coal Stage at Locomotive Yard\n 3,000\n 200\n \n \n 45\n Permanent Shelter for Coaling Coolies\n 2,200\n 150\n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n E-5-7-2 Repairs, Stations and Buildings.\n \n \n \n \n \n Maintenance of Turret Clock\n 5,000\n 5,500\n \n \n \n \n 1,800\n 340\n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n E-5-7-3 Repairs, Staff Quarters\n 3,000\n 3,000\n \n \n \n E-5-8\n \n \n \n \n \n Repairs, Central Mechanical Works\n 1,200 (4)\n \n \n \n \n \n 9,300\n 10,040\n \n \n 27\n Stores.\n \n \n \n \n 46\n Extension of Yaumati Station Yard\n 6,700\n \n \n \n \n Heavy Repairs to Taipo Pier\n 400\n \n \n \n \n Temporary Matshed Sheung Shui Station\n 1,000\n \n \n \n \n Two Additional Second Class Coaches\n \n \n \n \n \n Six Stones' Train Lighting Equipments....\n \n \n \n \n \n Three Motor Cars ....\n \n \n \n \n \n Typewriter for Accounts Office\n 2,500\n \n \n \n \n \n 99,200\n 21,308\n \n \n \n \n 13,682\n 450\n \n \n \n E-2-4-1 Stations........\n 4,000\n 4,000\n \n \n \n E-3-1-5 Locomotives, Miscellaneous Stores....\n \n \n \n \n \n E-3-2-3 Carriages and Wagons, Miscellaneous Stores\n 6,000\n 6,000\n \n \n \n \n 4,500\n 4,500\n \n \n \n \n 14,500\n 14,500\n \n \n \n New Underground Cable at Kowloon Yard\n \n \n \n \n \n Rewiring of Chinese Staff Quarters, Kowloon\n 2,500\n \n \n \n \n New Telephone Switchboard, Kowloon\n 1,200\n \n \n \n \n Improvement to Taipo Market Station, (South)\n 2,500\n \n \n \n \n Extension to Painting Shop......\n 300\n \n \n \n \n \n 500\n \n \n \n 28\n Telegraphs.\n \n \n \n \n \n E-5-14-2 Maintenance of Telegraphs and Telephones\n 2,250\n 2,250\n \n \n \n \n 2,250\n 2,250\n \n \n 29\n Tools and Plant.\n \n \n \n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n \n \n \n \n \n Total Kowloon-Canton Railway\n 232,133\n 103,800\n \n \n \n \n 1,142,781\n 984,513\n \n \n \n E-4-8-1 Plant (Workshops)\n 4,000\n 4,000\n \n \n \n E-1-8-2 Tools (Workshops).\n 2,000\n 1,500\n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n E-3-9-1 Plant (Main. of Way and Structures).\n 750\n 750\n \n \n \n Personal Emoluments.\n \n \n \n \n \n E-5-9-2 Tools (Main. of Way and Structures)\n 1,500\n 1,500\n \n \n \n \n 8,250\n 7,750\n \n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n30 Transport.\n\nE-1 GENERAL EXPENSES.\n\nE-1-7-4 Transport\n\n \n \n 1934\n 1935\n \n \n \n 400\n 300\n \n \n (3)\n \n \n \n \n \n 400\n 300\n \n \n E-1-8 GENERAL MANAGER.\n \n \n \n \n NUMBERS.\n \n \n \n \n E-1-3-1 Salaries.\n \n \n \n \n \n 1934\n 1935\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Manager and Chief Engineer, (£1,400 to £1,600 by £50 annually)\n 24,534\n 21,611\n \n \n (8)\n \n \n \n \n E-1-7-6\n \n \n \n \n Uniform for 6 Stores Watchmen, 1 Office\n \n \n \n \n Junior Clerical Service:—\n \n \n \n \n Attendant and 1 Messenger\n 420\n 350\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Class II, ($2.700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)..\n 3,300\n 3,300\n \n \n E-2-3\n \n \n \n \n Station and Train Staff\n 4,825\n 4,250\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Class IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)....\n 1,586\n 1,686\n \n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n Uniform for 7 Watchmen\n 475\n 400\n \n \n 27\n \n \n \n \n E-3-1-1-4 Uniform for Drivers, Firemen, Pointsmen.....\n 680\n 550\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n E-4-11-3 Uniform for Watchmen\n 630\n 500\n \n \n E-5-12-6 Uniform for 5 Watchmen and 3 Sub-Inspectors...\n 470\n 400\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n Office Attendants, (1 at $252 to $300 and 1 at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n Messenger ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n 444\n 446\n \n \n (9)\n \n \n \n \n \n 180\n 180\n \n \n \n 7,500\n 6,450\n \n \n 33\n \n \n \n \n Motor Cars and Lorries, Running Expenses.....\n 8,000\n 7,000\n \n \n \n 8,000\n \n \n \n (3)(5)\n \n \n \n \n \n 7,000\n \n \n \n E-1-3-2 Allowances.\n \n \n \n \n Office Attendants, and 1 Messenger, Rent Allowances to 8 at $48 each\n 141\n 144\n \n \n Total Other Charges\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n 466,373\n 910,648\n \n \n \n 453,224\n 880,713\n \n \n \n 30,188\n 27,367\n \n\n(1) The major portion of renewals in 1935 will be wooden sleepers instead of concrete sleepers.\n\n(2) Heavy repairs to Kowloon Station building to be undertaken.\n\n(3) Considered sufficient.\n\n(4) Considered necessary.\n\n(5) Government cars and lorries on mainland maintained by Kowloon Canton Railway.\n\n(1) Considered necessary.\n\nCarried forward\n\n(2) Amount required to pay for the remaining materials ordered in 1934.\n\n(3) The present station building is in a dilapidated state.\n\n(4) Reinforced concrete Road Level Crossings in place of wooden sleeper type, which are unsatisfactory.\n\n(5) Four more coaches to be rebuilt.\n\n(6) To recondition two boilers which are 20 years old.\n\n(7) Retention money.\n\n(8) Changes in personnel.\n\n(9) Stipulated increment,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546120, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 253, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "303\n\nKOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY,—Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\nOther Charges,—Continued.\n\n78\n\nHead 26. KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY\n\nHead 26. KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY\n\nApproved Estimate, 1984.\n\nEstimate, 1935.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1934.\n\nEstimate, 1935.\n\nKOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY,-Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\nBrought forward\n\n910,648\n\n880,713\n\n70\n\nBrought forward\n\n816,348\n\n803,673\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nSub-heads:\n\nSub-beads :-\n\n34 Reinforced Concrete Gantries in Carriage Shed\n\n+\n\n35 New Permanent Pale Fencing..\n\n6,800\n\n(1)\n\n18,000\n\n3,900\n\n24 Signals and Switches.\n\n36 Reconstruction of Sheung Shui Station\n\n37 Reinforced-Concrete Road Level Crossing\n\n7,000 (3) 2,200\n\nE-5-6\n\nMaintenance of Signals\n\n1,100\n\n\"\n\nPoints and Crossings\n\n2,500\n\n1,100 2,500\n\n38 New Traffic Quarters at Lowu\n\n(4)\n\n2204\n\n6,400\n\n39 Smoke Stacks in Running Shed Hunghom\n\n2,700\n\n3,600\n\n3,600\n\n40 Flush System to Latrine for Female Carriage Cleaners\n\n600\n\n(1)\n\n25 Sleepers.\n\n41 Semi-Rotary Furnace for Cast Iron\n\n3,450\n\n42 New Body-work for 4 Coaches....\n\n40,000\n\n40,000\n\nE-5-5-2 Sleepers\n\n26 Stations Buildings and Staff Quarters,\n\nE-5-7-2 Repairs, Stations and Buildings.\n\n40,000\n\n25,000\n\n(1)\n\n43 Reconditioning Two Locomotive Boilers\n\n17,143\n\n30,000\n\n40,000\n\n25,000\n\n44 Permanent Coal Stage at Locomotive Yard\n\n3,000\n\n200\n\n45 Permanent Shelter for Coaling Coolies\n\n2,200\n\n150\n\n46 Extension of Yaumati Station Yard\n\n(7)\n\n6,700\n\n400\n\n5,000\n\n5,500\n\nHeavy Repairs to Taipo Pier\n\n1,000\n\n18\n\nMaintenance of Turret Clock\n\nE-5-7-3 Repairs, Staff Quarters\n\n1,300\n\n340\n\n3,000\n\n3,000\n\nE-5-8 Repairs, Central Mechanical Works ........................................\n\n1,200\n\n(4)\n\n9,300\n\n10,040\n\nTemporary Matshed Sheung Shui Station Two Additional Second Class Coaches Six Stones' Train Lighting Equipments.. Three Motor Cars\n\n2,500\n\n99,200\n\n21,302\n\n13,632\n\n27 Stores.\n\nE-2-4-1 Stations....\n\n4,000\n\n4,000\n\nE-3-1-5 Locomotives, Miscellaneous Stores..\n\n6,000\n\n6,000\n\nE-3-2-3 Carriages and Wagons, Miscellaneous Stores\n\n4,500\n\n4,500\n\n14,500\n\n14,500\n\n28 Telegraphs.\n\nE-5-14-2 Maintenance of Telegraphs and Telephones\n\n2,250\n\n2,250\n\n2,250\n\n2,250\n\n29 Tools and Plant.\n\nTypewriter for Accounts Office\n\nNew Underground Cable at Kowloon Yard Rewiring of Chinese Staff Quarters, Kowloon New Telephone Switchboard, Kowloon Improvement to Taipo Market Station, (South) Extension to Painting Shop..\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\nTotal Kowloon-Canton Railway\n\n1,200\n\n450\n\n2,500\n\n2,500!\n\n300\n\n500\n\n!\n\n232,133\n\n103,800\n\n|1,142,781\n\n984,513\n\nE-4-8-1 Plant (Workshops)\n\n4,000\n\n4,000\n\nE-4-8-2 Tools (Workshops).\n\n2,000\n\n1,600\n\n(3)\n\nE-5-9-1 Plant (Main. of Way and Structures)\n\n750\n\n750\n\nE-5-9-2 Tools (Main. of Way and Structures)\n\n1,500\n\n1,500\n\n8,250\n\n7,750\n\n80 Transport.\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\nE-1 GENERAL EXPENSES.\n\nE-1-7-4 Transport\n\n400\n\n300\n\n(3)\n\n400\n\n300\n\n31 Tunnels.\n\nE-5-3\n\nTunnels.......\n\nE-1-3 GENERAL MANAGER.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\nE-1-3-1 Salaries.\n\n500\n\n150\n\n(3)\n\n500\n\n150\n\n1934 1935\n\n32 Uniform.\n\n1\n\nI\n\nManager and Chief Engineer, (£1,400 to £1,600 by\n\n£50 annually)\n\n24,534\n\n21,611\n\n(8)\n\nE-1-7-6 Uniform for 6 Stores Watchmen, 1\n\nAttendant and 1 Messenger\n\nOffice\n\nJunior Clerical Service :-\n\n420\n\n350\n\n1\n\n1\n\nClass II, ($2,700 to $3.300 by $150 annually).\n\n3,300\n\n3,300\n\nE-2-3\n\nStation and Train Staff\n\n4,825\n\n4,250\n\n1\n\n1\n\nClass IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)...\n\n1,586\n\n1,686\n\n(9)\n\nUniform for 7 Watchmen.\n\n475\n\n400\n\n\"}\n\nE-3-1-1-1 Uniform for Drivers, Firemen, Pointsmen..\n\n680\n\n550\n\n(3)\n\n2\n\n2\n\nE-4-11-3 Uniform for Watchmen\n\n630\n\n500\n\nE-5-12-6 Uniform for 5 Watchmen and 3 Sub-Inspectors...\n\n470\n\n400\n\n1\n\n1\n\nOffice Attendants, (1 at $252 to $300 and 1 at $192\n\nto $240 by 12 triennially) Messenger ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n\n414\n\n446\n\n(9)\n\n180\n\n180\n\n7,500\n\n6,450\n\n83 Motor Cars and Lorries, Running Expenses.....\n\n8,000\n\n7,000\n\n(3)(5)\n\nE-1-3-2 Allowances.\n\n8,000\n\n7,000\n\nOffice Attendants, and 1 Messenger, Rent Allowances\n\nto 3 at $48 each\n\n141\n\n144\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\nCarried forward\n\n466,373\n\n910,648\n\n453,224\n\n880,713\n\n30,188\n\n27,367\n\n(1) The major portion of renewals in 1935 will be wooden sleepers instead of concrete sleepers.\n\n(2) Heavy repairs to Kowloon Station building to be undertaken,\n\n(3) Considered sufficient.\n\n(4) Considered necessary,\n\n(5) Government care and lorries on mainland maintained by Kowloon Canton Railway.\n\n(1) Considered necessary.\n\nCarried forward\n\n(2) Amount required to pay for the remaining materials ordered in 1934.\n\n(3) The present station building is in a dilapidated state,\n\n(4) Reinforced concrete Road Level Crossings in place of wooden sleeper type, which are unsatisfactory.\n\n(5) Four more coaches to be rebuilt.\n\n(6) To recondition two boilers which are 20 years old.\n\n(7) Retention money.\n\n(8) Changes in personnel.\n\n(9) Stipulated increment.\n\n302", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546168, "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": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 301, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "Increase.\n\n20\n\nDecrease.\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nSub-Head.\n\nSub-Head.\n\n34. Reinforced Concrete Gantries in Carriage Shed $ 6,800\n\n35. 44. Reconstruction of Sheung Shui New Permanent Pale Fencing...$ Permanent Coal Stage at Loco-motive Yard 14,100 2,800\n\n36. Station 7,000\n\n37. Reinforced Concrete Road Level Crossing 45. Permanent Shelter for Coaling Coolies 2,050 2,200\n\n38. 39. New Traffic Quarters at Lowu Smoke Stacks in Running Shed Hunghom 6,400 46. Extension of Yaumati Station Yard 6,300\n\nHeavy Repairs to Taipo Pier ... 1,000 2,700\n\nTemporary Matshed, Sheung Shui Station.. 2,500\n\n40. Flush System to Latrine for Female Carriage Cleaners 600\n\n41. Semi-Rotary Furnace for Cast Iron Two Additional Second Class Coaches 3,450 99,200\n\n43. Reconditioning Two Locomotive Boilers Six Stone's Train Lighting Equipments 21,308 12,857\n\nThree Motor Cars 13,632\n\nTypewriters for Accounts Office. 450\n\nNew Underground Cable at Kowloon Yard 2,500\n\nRewiring of Chinese Staff Quarters, Kowloon 1,200\n\nNew Telephone Switchboard, Kowloon 2,500\n\nImprovement to Taipo Market Station (South) Extension to Painting Shop 300 500\n\nTotal..... $ 170,340\n\nIncrease. 42,007\n\nTotal..... Increase.\n\nDecrease.\n\nPersonal Emoluments $ 33,082 $ 49,868\n\nOther Charges 9,500 22,649\n\nSpecial Expenditure 42,007 170,340\n\nTotal 84,589\n\nDeduct Increase.. $ 242,857 84,589\n\nNet Decrease $ 158,268\n\nEstimates, 1934. Estimates, 1935. Decrease, 1935 $ 1,142,781 984,513 $ 158,268\n\nDecrease.\n\nHead 27.-Defence.\n\n(A) Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nStipulated Increments New Post 557 Higher Rate of Exchange 1,560 375\n\nChanges in Personnel 42\n\nRent Allowances 48\n\nAdjutant, Pension Contribution Acting Pay 145 910\n\nTotal..... 980 Total..... 2,657\n\nOther Charges. \"\n\nSub-Head.\n\nSub-Head.\n\n4. Armoured Car & Motor Machine 2. Allowances for Officers and Gun Section $ 250\n\n12. 7. Camp Expenses 10. Equipment Flying Section Fuel and Light 1,400 110 100\n\n3. 62 Ammunition 869 900\n\n9. Equipment for the Engineer Company and Signals 450\n\n11. Equipments and Upkeep of Arms 187\n\n17. Uniforms, including Boots 1,281\n\nTotal.... 1,860 Total.. 3,749\n\nN.C.O.'s undergoing training in England\n\n5. Band Allowances $", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547904, "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": "CO129-552-9 Regulations concerning landing armed men from foreign warships 24-1-1935 - 17-6-1935", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-552-9 Regulations concerning landing armed men from foreign warships 24-1-1935 - 17-6-1935", "content_text": "Only His Majesty's ships to anchor.\n\nTable M.\n\nRegulations for the protection, management and Navigation of the waters of the Colony, etc.\n\nPage XX\n\nXX\n\nXX\n\nLong Harbour and Jones Cove.\n\n10. No ship, other than His Majesty's ships, shall anchor in the bays known as, and shown on the Admiralty charts as Long Harbour and Jones Cove in Mirs Bay.\n\nXX\n\nXX\n\nXX\n\nPage 17\n\nLimits of Foreign Man-of-War Anchorage in Kowloon Bay.\n\nAll vessels to be moored.\n\nNo examination etc., of shores or waters of the Colony.\n\nLanding of foreign soldiers within harbour limits.\n\nForeign Man-of-War Anchorage.\n\n12. The foreign Man-of-War Anchorage is in Kowloon Bay to the eastward of the Hunghom Peninsula and within the following limits:-\n\nOn the west.- The meridian of 114° 11′ 30″ E.\n\nOn the south. A line 081° from Blackhead Point light.\n\nOn the north and east. The five fathom line.\n\n13. All vessels are to be moored.\n\n14. Foreign ships of war shall not make any examination or survey of the shores or waters of the Colony, either from such ships or by means of boats or otherwise.\n\nLanding of foreign soldiers and sailors.\n\n15. Foreign soldiers or sailors, if unarmed, may be landed in the Colony within the harbour limits, without the prior consent of the Governor; Provided that, when it is desired to land a number of men exceeding one hundred, notice must be given to the Colonial Secretary, in order that all facilities of which local conditions admit may be given. Applications for permission to land armed parties in connexion with funerals or to take part in public ceremonies of an exceptional nature must be addressed to the Governor through the Colonial Secretary. No application is necessary in the case of officers.\n\n15A. No foreign soldiers or sailors shall be landed in the Colony outside the harbour limits from any vessel without", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-9 Regulations concerning landing armed men from foreign warships 24-1-1935 - 17-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549710, "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": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 119, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "Head 8.- POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\nHead 8.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\nApproved Estimate, 1935.\n\nEstimate, 1936.\n\n(A)-POST OFFICE.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n1 Personal Emoluments\n\nOther Charges.\n\n333,502\n\n325,347\n\n2 Carriage of Mails :-\n\nTransit Charges\n\n150,000\n\n140,000\n\n(1)\n\n3 Cleansing Materials, Utensils and Washing\n\n1,200\n\n1,300\n\n|(2)\n\n4 Coolie Hire\n\n400\n\n400\n\n5 Incidental Expenses\n\n800\n\n1,000\n\n(2)\n\n6 Mail Bags, Parcel Boxes, Date Stamps and Scales\n\n4,000\n\n4,000\n\n7 Printing\n\n500\n\n500\n\n8 Rent of Branch Offices,\n\n7,500\n\n7,500\n\n9 Stamps.....\n\n10,000\n\n9,000\n\n(3)\n\n10 Telegrams\n\n600\n\n600\n\n11 Transport\n\n1,200\n\n1,200\n\n12 Uniform and Equipment\n\n8,000\n\n7,500\n\n(4)\n\nTotal Other Charges\n\n184,200\n\n173,000\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n13 Pillar and Letter Boxes\n\nMotor Mail Van.....\n\n500 1,800\n\n500\n\nTotal Special Expenditure\n\nTotal A-Post Office\n\n2,300\n\n520,002\n\n500\n\n498,847\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\nNUMBERS.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n1935\n\n1936\n\n1\n\nCadet Officer, Class I, (£1,500 to £1,800 by £50 annually)\n\n26,250\n\n21,600\n\n(4)\n\nSenior Clerical and Accounting Staff:\n\nChief Accountant, (£820 to £1,050 by 7 of £30 and 1 of £20)\n\n15,750\n\n12,600\n\n(4)\n\nI\n\n1\n\nSuperintendent of Mails, (£600 to £700 by £25 annually)..\n\n10,500\n\n8,400\n\nPersonal Allowance at £50 annually\n\n750\n\n600\n\n} (4)\n\nLanguage Allowance\n\n330\n\n330\n\n6\n\n6\n\nAssistant Superintendents of Mails, (1 at £460 to £560 by £20 annually, 3 at £250 to £445 by 6 of £15, 2 of £30 and 3 of £15, 2 at $4,000 to $5,000 by $200 annually)\n\n31,300\n\n27,890\n\nLanguage Allowance to 1,..............\n\n(4) 120 (5)\n\n5\n\nClass I Postal Clerks, ($3,500 to $4,500 by $200 annually)\n\n20,316\n\n20,333 (6)\n\n10\n\n10\n\nClass II Postal Clerks, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually)\n\n30,815\n\n31,543\n\n(6)\n\nDo.,\n\nLanguage Allowance to one,.\n\n240\n\n240\n\n13\n\n13\n\nClass III Postal Clerks, ($1,900 to $2,600 by $100 annually)\n\n27,824\n\n28,436 (6)\n\n14\n\n14\n\nClass IV Postal Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually)\n\n23,758\n\n24,320 (6)\n\nCarried forward\n\n187,833\n\n176,412\n\n(1) Considered sufficient.\n\n(2) Increased postal facilities at Hunghom and Sai Wan Ho.\n\n(3) Decrease in requirements,\n\n(4) Higher rate of exchange.\n\n(5) Stipulated allowance. (6) Stipulated increments.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549711, "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": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "NUMBERS.\n\n1935 1936\n\nHead 8.-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS\n\n(A) – POST OFFICE,—Continued.\n\nPersonal Emoluments,-Continued.\n\n124\n\n \n \n Approved Estimate, 1935.\n Estimate, 1936.\n \n \n Brought forward\n 187,833\n 176,412\n \n \n \n 17\n 17\n \n \n Class V Postal Clerks and Shroffs, ($1,100 to $1,400 by $100 annually)\n 22,319\n 22,736\n \n \n \n (1)\n 50\n 53\n \n \n Class VI Postal Clerks and Shroffs, ($480 to $1,050 by 1 of $60,1 of $160, 3 of $50 and 2 of $100)\n 40,521\n 42,006\n \n \n \n (2)\n 6411\n \n \n \n Learners at $420 each\n 2,520\n 2,520\n \n \n \n 4\n 1\n 11\n \n \n \n 70\n 82\n 880\n \n \n \n 70\n \n \n \n \n Launch Officers, ($1,550 to $2,100 by $50 annually) Head Postman, ($475 to $600 by $25 annually). Postmen, 1st Class, ($350 to $450 by $20 annually).\n \n \n \n \n \n Do, Rent Allowances at $48 each.... Postmen, 2nd Class, ($276 to $348 by $12 annually)\n 6,553\n 6,653\n \n \n \n (1)\n 600\n 600\n \n \n \n 4,525\n 4,600\n (1)\n \n \n \n 528\n 528\n \n \n \n \n 23,401\n 23,525\n (1)\n \n \n \n 90\n \n \n \n \n Do., 3rd Class, ($204 to $264 by $12 annually)\n 19,872\n 21,803\n \n \n Do., Rent Allowances to 61 at $48 each, and 99 at $24 each\n 5,112\n 5,304\n \n \n \n (3)\n (3)\n \n \n \n \n 2\n 2\n \n \n \n Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n 313\n 312\n \n \n \n (4)\n \n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowances at $48 each\n 96\n 96\n \n \n \n 16\n 16\n \n \n \n Do., Mail Bag Coolies, ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n \n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowances to 10 at $48 each and 6 at $24 each\n 2,501\n 2,496\n \n \n \n (4)\n \n \n \n \n Overtime Allowances to Clerical Staff, Postmen and Coolies\n 624\n 624\n \n \n \n 10,000\n 10,000\n \n \n \n 2\n ลง\n 2\n \n \n Motor Drivers, 1 at ($550 to $650 by $50 annually and 1 at $550 to $650 by $25 annually)\n 1,200\n 1,220\n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n 1\n \n \n \n Do., Carpenter, ($300 to $360 by $12 annually)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowance\n \n \n \n \n \n Painter, ($324 to $384 by $12 annually)\n \n \n \n \n \n Do., Rent Allowance\n \n \n \n \n \n Acting Pay\n \n \n \n \n \n Rent Allowance to 1 at $72\n 144\n 72\n \n \n \n (5)\n 頭\n \n \n \n \n 360\n 360\n \n \n \n 48\n 48\n \n \n \n 384\n 384\n \n \n \n 48\n 48\n \n \n \n 4,000\n 3,000*\n \n \n \n (6)\n \n \n \n \n Total Personal Emoluments\n 333,502\n 325,347\n \n \n \n 23\n \n \n \n\n(1) Stipulated increments.\n\n(2) Three new posts increased postal facilities at Hunghom and Sai Wan Ho.\n\n(3) Eight new posts-increased postal facilities at Hunghom, Sai Wan Ho, Kowloon City, Shou Son Hill, & Stanley.\n\n(4) Changes in personnel,\n\n(5) Rent allowance to one only required.\n\n(6) Less acting pay required.\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549752, "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": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "179\n\n78\n\n# Head 26. KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY\n\nApproved Estimate, 1935.\n\nEstimate, 1936.\n\n## KOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY,-Continued.\n\nBrought forward\n\n## Special Expenditure.\n\n \n €\n 880,713\n 715,590\n \n \n Sub-heads:-\n \n \n 34\n Double-Wire Signalling at Yaumati Station\n 4,300 (1)\n 3,000 (1)\n \n \n 35\n Conversion of Taipo Market Station into a Crossing and Train Token Station\n ...\n 25,300 (2)\n \n \n 36\n Re-railing Beacon Hill Tunnel\n 2,200\n \n \n \n 37\n Reinforced-concrete road level crossings..\n 2,300\n 1,300\n \n \n 38\n Wiring Shatin Station for Electric Light\n 1,300\n 1,500\n \n \n 39\n Creosoting Plant\n ...\n \n \n \n 40\n Provision of fans in eight 3rd Class Coaches..\n 1,920\n \n \n \n 41\n New Boiler for Class B locomotives\n 24,000\n \n \n \n 42\n Reinforced Concrete Gantries in Carriage Shed\n 6,800\n 340\n \n \n 43\n New Traffic Quarters at Lowu\n 6,400\n 320\n \n \n \n New Permanent Pale Fencing\n 3,900\n \n \n \n \n Reconstruction of Sheung Shui Station\n 7,000\n \n \n \n \n Smoke Stacks in Running Shed, Hunghom\n 2,700\n \n \n \n \n Flush System to Latrine for Female Carriage Cleaners\n 600\n \n \n \n \n Semi-Rotary Furnace for Cast Iron\n 3,450\n \n \n \n \n New Body-work for 4 Coaches....\n 40,000\n \n \n \n \n Reconditioning Two Locomotive Boilers\n 30,000\n \n \n \n \n Permanent Coal Stage at Locomotive Yard\n 200\n \n \n \n \n Permanent Shelter for Coaling Coolies\n 150\n \n \n \n \n Extension of Yaumati Station Yard\n 400\n \n \n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 103,800\n 64,280\n \n \n \n Total Kowloon-Canton Railway\n 981,513\n 779,870\n \n\n## Personal Emoluments.\n\nDetails of the foregoing.\n\n### E-1 GENERAL EXPENSES.\n\n### E-1-3 GENERAL Manager.\n\n#### NUMBERS.\n\n### E-1-3-1 Salaries.\n\n \n \n 1935\n 1936\n \n \n 1\n Manager and Chief Engineer, (£1,400 to £1,600 by £50 annually)\n 21,611\n 17,889 (8)\n \n \n \n Junior Clerical Service:-\n \n \n \n \n 14\n Class II, ($2,700 to $3,300 by $150 annually).\n 3,300\n 3,300\n \n \n \n Class IV, ($1,500 to $1,800 by $100 annually).\n 1,686\n 1,786 (9)\n \n \n 2\n Office Attendants, (1 at $252 to $300 and 1 at $192 to $240 by $12 triennially)\n 446\n 463\n \n \n 1\n Messenger ($156 to $204 by $12 triennially)\n 180\n 184\n \n \n (9)\n \n\n### E-1-3-2 Allowances.\n\n \n Office Attendants, and 1 Messenger, Rent Allowances to 3 at $48 each\n 144\n 144\n \n \n Carried forward\n 27,367\n 23,766\n \n\n(1) Considered necessary.\n\n(2) Re-railing every 7 years, now overdue.\n\n(3) Second part of a 3 years' programme,\n\n(4) For treating wooden sleepers.\n\n(5) Fans to be installed on a years' programme; 1st year's programme.\n\n(6) Retention money.\n\n(7) Non-recurrent.\n\n(8) Higher rate of exchange.\n\n(9) Stipulated increments.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549800, "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": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 209, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "Head 26.-Kowloon-Canton Railway.\n\nPersonal Emoluments.\n\n \n Stipulated Increments\n $\n 9,477\n \n \n New Posts\n \n 14,539\n \n \n Higher Rate of Exchange\n \n 1,128\n \n \n Changes in Personnel\n \n 17,871\n \n \n Abolition of Posts\n Decrease.\n 12,662\n \n \n Rent Allowances\n \n 296\n \n \n Overtime Allowances\n \n 3,400\n \n \n Personal Allowances\n \n 129\n \n \n Temporary and Miscellaneous Allowances\n \n 6,610\n \n \n Acting Pay\n \n 5,143\n \n \n Total\n \n 60,650\n \n \n Total\n Increase.\n 10,605\n \n\nOther Charges.\n\n \n Sub-Head.\n 3.\n Ballast\n $\n 1,000\n \n \n \n 4.\n Bridgework\n \n 100\n \n \n \n 6.\n Coal\n \n 81,655\n \n \n \n 9.\n Formation and Line Protection\n \n 500\n \n \n \n 10.\n Furniture\n \n 100\n \n \n \n 12.\n Incidental Expenses\n \n 50\n \n \n \n 13.\n Locomotive Repairs\n \n 8,750\n \n \n \n 14.\n Lubricants\n \n 9,300\n \n \n \n 20.\n Power, Electric Fans and Light\n \n 400\n \n \n \n 22.\n Rails and Fastenings\n \n 4,600\n \n \n \n 23.\n Rents\n \n 1,177\n \n \n \n 25.\n Sleepers\n \n 8,500\n \n \n \n 26.\n Stations Buildings and Staff Quarters\n \n 1,500\n \n \n \n 27.\n Stores\n \n 2,500\n \n \n \n 29.\n Tools and Plant\n \n 750\n \n \n \n 30.\n Transport\n \n 50\n \n \n \n 31.\n Tunnels\n \n 850\n \n \n \n 32.\n Uniform\n \n 1,750\n \n \n \n 33.\n Motor Cars and Lorries, Running Expenses\n \n 1,000\n \n \n Total\n \n \n \n $119,805\n \n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\n \n Sub-Head.\n 34.\n Double-wire Signalling at Yaumati Station\n $\n 4,300\n \n \n \n 35.\n Conversion of Taipo Market Station into a Crossing and Train Token Station\n \n 6,080\n \n \n \n 36.\n Re-railing Beacon Hill Tunnel\n \n 25,300\n \n \n \n 37.\n Reinforced-concrete road level-crossings\n \n 7,000\n \n \n \n 38.\n Wiring Shatin Station for Electric Light\n \n 1,300\n \n \n \n 39.\n Creosoting Plant\n \n 1,500\n \n \n \n 40.\n Provision of fans in eight 3rd Class Coaches\n \n 600\n \n \n \n \n Flush System to Latrine for Female Carriage Cleaners\n \n 3,450\n \n \n \n \n Semi-rotary Furnace for Cast Iron\n \n 40,000\n \n \n \n \n New Body work for 4 Coaches\n \n 1,920\n \n \n \n 41.\n Reconditioning Two Locomotive Boilers\n \n 30,000\n \n \n \n \n New Boiler for Class B Locomotives\n \n 24,000\n \n \n \n \n Permanent Coal Stage at Locomotive Yard\n \n 200\n \n \n \n \n Permanent Shelter for Coaling Coolies\n \n 150\n \n \n \n \n Extension of Yaumati Station Yard\n \n 400\n \n \n \n 42.\n Reinforced-concrete Gantries in Carriage Shed\n \n 6,460\n \n \n \n \n New Traffic Quarters at Lowu\n \n 3,900\n \n \n \n \n New Permanent Pale Fencing\n \n 3,000\n \n \n \n \n Reconstruction of Sheung Shui\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Smoke Stacks in Running Shed, Hunghom\n \n 2,700\n \n \n Total\n \n \n \n $100,940\n \n \n Total\n \n \n \n $61,420\n \n\n239", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549824, "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": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "27/\n\nsub-heads of \"Other Charges\".\n\n9.\n\nHead 2, C.S.O. and Legislature.\n\nThe Secretary of State was requested to select one candidate for the Cadet Service consequent on Mr. Lloyd's death. Since then we have learnt that we are losing another Cadet Officer on transfer to another Colony, but it is not proposed to recruit any one in his place. Footnotes (4) and (5) make it clear I think that the Cadet Staff of the Secretariat does not consist of nine officers, but of five only.\n\nHead 4 - Treasury.\n\nI have already explained the reasons for the increases in the staff of this department. The addressograph equipment under Special Expenditure is required for additional plates etc. for addresses, and a cabinet in which to store them.\n\nHead 6 District Office, North.\n\nThe rating of the New Territories will entail the keeping and posting of registers and an additional clerk will be required for this work. He is shown under the three Class VIB Clerks.\n\nHead 8, Post Office and Telegraphs.\n\n(A) Post Office.\n\nTwo new postal kiosks, similar to that at Kowloon City which has been so successful, are to be erected next year at Hunghom and Sai Wan Ho. Better postal deliveries are also to be given to Kowloon City, Shou Son Hill and Stanley. This means small increases in the numbers of Class VI Postal Clerks and third class Postmen, and on sub-heads 3 \"Cleansing Materials\"; and 5, \"Incidental expenses\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550949, "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": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "# \n## KOWLOON'S NEEDS \n## Mr. Braga Suggests Work On Roads \n## TERRITORY GARDENS \n\nThe Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga said:- Your Excellency, I propose to direct my remarks on a few subjects more as a matter of policy than in criticism of the Budget proposals. We are passing through admittedly depressed times calling for sympathy and co-operative efforts in an earnest endeavour to provide a solution to real difficulties. I cannot recall past programmes of Public Works Extraordinary of major importance appearing without a single item, as is the case for 1937. The only item of consequence is scheduled under \"Loan Works\" for the commencement of a new Central Market. This being the case, attention is necessarily drawn to the question of the general staff of the Public Works Department. It may appear anomalous, however, that, without any large-scale public works, the Budget should be burdened with architects' salaries alone amounting to $157,209 in 1937.\n\nWhile inviting your Excellency's attention to what strikes more or less an unsatisfactory position, I would like to offer a suggestion. The eleven architects are technical officers with acquired experience who are not easily replaceable, and for that reason full advantage should be taken of their available professional services at the present time in making preparations and plans for the future construction of major public works when funds become eventually available, such as the Post Office and Government offices in Kowloon. Both these are referred to in the report of the Director of Public Works for 1935. An important extension of the Kowloon Hospital, viz., the maternity wards for Chinese patients, should not be further delayed.\n\nI am making no reflection on the holder of the office designated as \"Inspector of Furniture\" on p. 97 of the draft Estimates; but, it seems open to question if it is really necessary that an officer such as described should be paid a sterling salary equivalent to $8,560 next year. If in the discharge of his duties no special technical qualifications are called for, then in the interest of economy the present post is one that should be transferred to the dollar grade as soon as possible.\n\n## Roads Maintenance \n\nI still regard the Roads Maintenance Vote as wholly insufficient. To neglect roads so that they fall into a state of such serious disrepair as can be pointed out in Kowloon and the New Territories during the current year, is a policy that works out much more expensively in the long run. On this subject I would like to state that the Kowloon Residents' Association has requested me publicly to bring this question to the notice of your Excellency and this Council.\n\nI would like to go even further and state that Government should immediately take in hand what I might describe as essential road works. In this connection, I would urge the completion of the road from Argyle Street to Tam Kung Road. It only requires the widening and surfacing of the path from the approach road to the new Central British School to the Riding School—a length of about 300 or 400 yards to provide the logical connection by road between Kowloon Tong, Mongkok, Kowloon Hospital, etc., on the one hand, and Hunghom and Tokwawan on the other. Does it not appear strange that the Kowloon Hospital cannot be reached from anywhere at Tokwawan by car without having to travel the circuitous road round to Kowloon City?\n\nAnother path which should be similarly treated is the one running parallel with the railway between Waterloo Road and King's Park, thereby providing a through motor road from Waterloo Road to Gascoigne Road, and considerably shortening the distance from Kowloon Tong and Homuntin to King's Park and Chatham Road.\n\nI submit that the cost of these two very necessary improvements would be inconsiderable and would be fully justified. The saving in time which would be effected and from the Star Ferry wharf would be of great benefit.\n\nGovernment is to be commended for having widened the junction of Waterloo Road and Argyle Street. This used to be a danger spot for traffic, but where Waterloo Road should be at its widest (viz., at its junction with Nathan Road) it is actually at its narrowest. The dangerous bend at this point should be eliminated and thus make more room for the daily growing traffic flowing into Nathan Road.\n\nThese are outstanding road works not involving a great deal of money calling for immediate attention in Kowloon. I shall now deal with road requirements in the New Territories.\n\nThanks, I feel, are due for the construction of a new motor road through splendidly wooded country full of wild bird life from upper Shatin Road leading to the Shing Mun Valley.\n\n## Tsun Wan's Growth \n\nWith the completion of Tsun Wan Market, this district is gradually assuming the air of a growing township. The motor highway in the vicinity of the village is now much too narrow for the daily increasing traffic, and when it is remembered that the open ground by the roadside is utilised by the enterprising owners of the pineapple plantations as an open market for retailing the luscious fruit with the harvesting of the midsummer crop, the roads office of the P.W.D. might usefully consider the provision of a very necessary road improvement in this district. In particular, I trust Government will immediately widen the dangerous bend in the road just before Tsun Wan is reached.\n\nAgain, there are still several sharp hairpin bends near the Kowloon Reservoir which are a positive danger to traffic. The Roads Engineer probably finds his limitations in the indispensable provision of funds. The restriction need not be carried to the point of continuing a condition that is considered unsafe for speedy wheeled traffic. The bridge at the Reservoir and another in Shatin Valley at Tai Wa village just before reaching the railroad tracks, both require to be replaced. They are too narrow for two cars to pass abreast and, furthermore, were not designed, I am sure, to take the heavy loads now carried over them daily. Shatin village road is also capable of widening. The motorist, especially in view of the higher taxation on petrol and motor car licences, has a right to expect that these matters should receive prompt attention.\n\nWithout great expense also certain parts of the Castle Peak and Taipo Roads could be widened to give more room for pedestrians and people carrying bulky loads where they might be clear of motor traffic. Trees at present along the road need not be removed, but could mark the boundary for motor traffic, and behind the trees an extra stretch could be added to the road for use by pedestrians only.\n\n## Typhoon Damage \n\nIn speaking of trees, I feel that attention need only be drawn for the Botanical and Forestry Department to see that those up-rooted by the recent typhoon on the roads in the New Territories as well as in Kowloon will soon be replaced. Some information might be usefully given on the question of the water supply to the Castle Peak district. Beyond the bare official statement that a small supply scheme was investigated in the Colony last year, some indication of the intention of the Government regarding the prosecution of this scheme should be forthcoming.\n\nFor the benefit of many residents in various parts of the Peninsula I should like to urge, for the serious consideration of the Medical and Sanitary Department, that market gardens situated in the immediate vicinity of residential places should be completely done away with. Complaints are constantly made that the gardeners are in the habit of freely using nightsoil as a fertiliser, and no number of warnings deters them from carrying on the serious nuisance, which is a menace to public health.\n\nMuch can be said regarding the unsatisfactory condition of the Homuntin Cemetery. It is a seriously debatable question whether the shutting down of this cemetery for more burials and its transfer out of a central residential area has not now become imperative.\n\nAt any rate, the matter is one that should be looked into by the President of the Urban Council.\n\nThe health of the community should also be catered to by allocating more open spaces and playgrounds, especially in congested areas. This is notoriously lacking in the Homuntin district. Children in this locality can be seen in large numbers daily making use of the public roadways for games.\n\n## Bathing and Broadcasting \n\nIt has been truthfully said that we have the sea on almost every side of us and yet the majority of the citizens of this Colony are denied the amenities of its bathing beaches. It is the duty of the Government to make ample provision at least for the better health of its people, and a special point should be made to provide more public bathing beaches, especially on the Peninsula, with proper facilities for dressing, which should be made easily accessible to the residents of the Colony next summer. The minority class of the well-to-do can afford their well-appointed glorified pavilions and shacks. What about the majority of the middle class who are as little provided with an abundance of money and as badly off for a lot of time after office hours to indulge in this most popular form of healthful and beneficial recreation? Government may take a timely hint in earmarking definite large beach areas in Hebe Haven with the completion of the Customs Pass Road extension.\n\nPage 70 \nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556207, "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": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "ENCLOSURE 2.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\nHONGKONG'S WORST TYPHOON\n\nWIND REACHES 164 M.P.H.\n\nFIRE DISASTER DEATHS EXCEED 100\n\nTHIRTY-ONE PERSONS BELIEVED DEAD\n\nAN ENTIRE BLOCK INVOLVED\n\nFIERCE GUSTS DRIVE BIG SHIPS ASHORE\n\nWEST POINT BLAZE SEVERAL VESSELS BELIEVED TO\n\nThe heaviest loss of life throughout the period of the typhoon was that in the disastrous fire which broke out in nine four-storey buildings in West Point during the height of the storm. Thirty-one persons were afterwards reported missing, and of these seven have been definitely found dead. As the bodies were brought out of the blazing buildings they were piled on the Praya preparatory to being removed to the Public Mortuary, but huge waves swept them all into the sea, and only seven bodies were recovered yesterday.\n\nThe premises involved were 131-139 Connaught Road West. The Central Fire Station received the first call shortly before 4 a.m., and fire appliances were immediately rushed to the scene, under the supervision of Mr. J. C. Fitz-Henry, Acting Superintendent.\n\nThe outbreak started, it is believed, at No. 131, the ground floor of which was occupied by the Tak Sang, rice-dealer. On the arrival of the fire engines, the blaze had already spread to the adjoining two houses. The fire-fighters were rendered helpless by the strong winds, but eventually succeeded in bringing two hoses into action. Unfortunately, by this time, the other houses had also been ignited, while those where the outbreak started were burning through. The street was flooded and the handicap under which the members of the Fire Brigade had to work could be gauged by the fact that the water was at one time up to the waists of the men.\n\nAs the fire engines arrived, a woman with a baby on her back was seen to jump from the top-storey of one of the buildings. Both she and the child were killed instantaneously. The ground floors of the buildings in question were occupied mostly by rice-dealers, and there were also two garages.\n\nTribute to Police Interviewed, Mr. Fitz-Henry paid great tribute to the splendid work and assistance given by the Police under Sub-Inspector Nolloth. The tremendous force of the wind made the work of subduing the fire almost impossible. Water in the roadway was waist-high; and it was found impossible to send the jets of water more than a few feet into the air, as the wind immediately transferred them into spray. It was two hours before anything could be done, and another three hours before the fire could be controlled. The collapse of Jubilee Street at one time during the night threatened to prevent the fire engines and ambulances from coming out of the station. A gang of coolies, however, were soon on the job and cleared it away partly, so as not to interfere with the work of the Brigade.\n\nMANY COLLAPSES\n\nSeveral Killed on Island And in Kowloon\n\nTHE BE TOTAL LOSSES\n\nMANY KILLED IN FIRE\n\nHongkong is recovering again from another typhoon. The swift-moving cyclone which formed east of Manila a few days ago lashed the Colony from midnight Wednesday until after dawn yesterday. Irresistible gusts continuously swept the streets, smashed plate glass windows, tore heavy signboards adrift, ripped and overturned parked motor cars and shifted everything movable.\n\nThe Observatory states it was the fiercest typhoon yet experienced in Hongkong. At 125 miles per hour the wind instruments at the Observatory ceased attempting serious register. An unofficial recorder declares the force reached 164 miles per hour. The barometer dropped to the low record of 28.298.\n\nHuge waves surged over the Praya, reaching almost to Queen's Road. Mariners on the harbour spent a night of unrelieved labour and anxiety. Among the many ships in harbour were some laid up because of the war, or under repair at docks and without steam. A score of these broke loose from their doubled moorings and careered drunkenly about the harbour in a macabre dance. Among them was the Van Heutsz with 1,260 passengers on board. Most of them grounded comfortably. A few are in bad position. One, the coaster An Lee, after colliding with three warships crashed stern first on the Central Praya wall and remained there poised with forepart in the water.\n\nAt the height of the storm a tenement block of nine four-storeyed houses in the Western District went afire and 15 inmates perished.\n\nRain, totalling 5.5 inches, persisted until 10 a.m., while relieved residents ventured from barricaded dwellings to survey shambles debris everywhere, much damage to property, some 20 ships ashore, scores of smaller craft sunk, and thoroughfares, with drains choked, a foot deep in water.\n\nThe shore damage, as usual, is largely superficial, but in the aggregate very great. Several buildings were unroofed, old houses collapsed, garden walls were blown down, roads blocked by landslides, fallen telegraph poles and uprooted trees.\n\nNo estimate of total damage is possible. Casualties are estimated at more than 100.\n\nWIDESPREAD DAMAGE\n\nA spectacular effect of the gale was this huge lattice-work formed by the scaffolding on the Central Fire Station, blown down into the street by the strong gusts.\n\n--Staff Photographer.\n\nCASUALTY LIST\n\n \n An Lee,\n aground on Praya;\n back broken and complete wreck.\n \n \n Asama Maru,\n aground in Sai Wan Bay,\n no passengers; expected to be refloated shortly.\n \n \n Bonneville,\n hard on Stonecutters Island;\n little damaged.\n \n \n Dashing,\n high on rocks,\n Ching Hue Island.\n \n \n Eng Lee,\n hard aground,\n Kowloon Football Ground.\n \n \n H.M.S. Cornflower,\n aground\n Tonnochy Pier, Wanchai.\n \n \n Gertrude Maersk,\n aground Green Island\n but later towed to Kowloon Dock; damaged in collision.\n \n \n Feng Lee,\n high on rocks adjacent to\n Kowloon Dock.\n \n \n Hong Peng,\n ashore at\n Taikoo Sugar Refinery.\n \n \n Hsingking,\n aground at\n Capsing Island lighthouse.\n \n \n Hunan,\n ashore at\n Ping Chau.\n \n \n India,\n S.O.S. for assistance when drifting in harbour\n but later safely moored.\n \n \n Kalgan,\n drifted from\n Cust Rock west of Macao. After passing Pratas and moored at Kowloon Wharf with severe damage from collisions.\n \n \n Kausing,\n total wreck on\n Hue Island; all crew saved.\n \n \n Kwangchow,\n ashore on\n Lamma Island, probably a wreck.\n \n \n Luhsing,\n aground off\n Lower Laichikok Road.\n \n \n Mao Lee,\n sunk off\n Kellett Bank.\n \n \n Severn Leigh,\n S.O.S. for assistance\n \n \n \n Sheng Lee,\n hard aground off\n Chinese bankers' bathing shed, North Point.\n \n \n Shuntien,\n adrift in harbour\n but later moored.\n \n \n Shenandoah,\n sunk off\n China Light Company and Power Company's works.\n \n \n Talamba,\n aground in\n Lyeemoon Pass.\n \n \n Tymeric,\n aground at\n North Point.\n \n \n Tensing,\n aground at\n Stanley Bay.\n \n \n Van Heutsz,\n sunk off\n Green Island.\n \n\nTHREE DROWNED\n\nForeigner Loses Life When Launch Sinks\n\nSOLDIERS' FINE WORK\n\nThe captain, owner and two members of the crew of the Portuguese 180-ton motor-boat, Perola, drowned, when the vessel sank in Cheungshawan Bay about 3 a.m. yesterday.\n\nThe casualties were: Drowned: Manuel Rodrigues, Master, aged about 36; Li Lam, seaman, aged 56; Leung Khai-shui, Second Engineer, aged 31.\n\nMissing: Francisco Xavier Guerreiro, Owner and Chief Engineer, aged 39, of Woosung Street.\n\nSaved: Kam Hing, cabin boy, aged 21.\n\nThe last-named had a remarkable escape, for he clung to a piece of the wreck until he was rescued about four hours after the sinking.\n\nThe boat was built by the Kwong Fook Shing shipyard only last year. After making one trip to Macao, she returned to the Colony, sometime ago, and was lying off Cheungshawan Bay.\n\nThe bodies of the Captain and the two Chinese were recovered shortly before noon near the vicinity of the Ching disaster.\n\nThe three Chinese rescued were loud in their praises of the excellent work of the soldiers at Shamshuipo who made indefatigable efforts to save the boat's crew.\n\nMR. C. W. JEFFRIES, DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL OBSERVATORY\n\nWhen issuing his official report on the gale yesterday morning, Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Director of the Royal Observatory, declared that it was the most intense he had ever known.\n\nIt is doubtful if a storm of greater severity has ever visited the Colony.\n\nThe wind force was of such an intensity that the register of the Observatory's anemograph was incapable of recording the gusts. The barometer minimum of 28.298 was the previous lowest reading of 28.590 on August 18, 1923.\n\nShortly after dawn yesterday morning the instrument recordings showed that the wind did not drop below 140 m.p.h. Two gusts in the early morning topped the index paper and it is estimated they were approximately 164 miles an hour.\n\nOne record, at least, was proved, as .292 lower than the existing low record established on August 18, 1923.\n\nMr. V. Sorby, General Manager of the Hongkong Electric Company, stated yesterday that his anemograph recorded 160 miles per hour.\n\nBetween 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. in Hunghom, near Bailey's shipyard, three were killed and one injured in another collapse yesterday morning.\n\nCollapses on the Island occurred at 234 Queen's Road Central, 11 Nullah Lane, 1B, Western Street, 1A Centre Street and 47 Third Street. In all these accidents there was only one fatality, at the collapse at Third Street. One man was killed and four were injured.\n\nTIMELY EVACUATION\n\nCOURAGEOUS ACTION\n\nEuropean Saves Six Chinese From Shenandoah\n\nThe hulk of the Shenandoah, once a luxurious yacht, ran aground near the wharf of the China Light and Power Co., Ltd. in Kowloon Bay, with ten Chinese aboard.\n\nDozens of trees were uprooted by the gales during yesterday.\n\nWASHOUTS\n\nNathan Road Blocked In Many Places\n\nRESCUE HEROISM\n\nPolice and Civilians Do Good Work\n\nCHINESE SAVED\n\nSome splendid rescue work carried out by a party of Revenue Officers and Police sergeants along the Praya. Seven of them—C. P. O. Buller, Mr. W. Ward, Sub-Inspector Goddard, Sergt. Davis, Sergt. Scott, Sergt. Hayward and Mr. Ellis linked together by ropes ventured out in treacherous weather to rescue crews from ships, and to save little children who were stranded in huts along the Praya.\n\nDarkness added to the terror of the night and the tremendous difficulties confronting the rescue party. Nevertheless, they succeeded in saving some 70 lives, all of whom received treatment for various injuries, none of them very serious, in the Imports and Exports Department.\n\nUnhappily it was found impossible to obtain enough dry clothes and several of the unfortunate men had to spend the early hours up to dawn in blankets.\n\nOne of the most dramatic episodes occurred about 5.30 a.m. when one of the Taikoo tugs was sunk as it approached the An Lee which had been driven ashore on the Praya. The line of the rescue party rushed to the scene and took six of these men off.\n\nAt the De Luxe Garage in Nathan Road employees had a narrow escape when the roof collapsed.\n\nA man and a child were killed when a house collapsed at the corner of Ma Tau Wei and Po Wah Wan Road.\n\nAt 7.20 a.m. the No. 8 signal (gale expected from S.E.) was hoisted. When the barometer read 28.298 it was .292 lower than the existing low record established on August 18, 1923.\n\nOver 160 M.P.H\n\nRAILWAY\n\nThe Kowloon-Canton Railway suffered damage from the gale, although the extent of the damage is not yet able to be accurately estimated.\n\nTwo washouts on the line were reported between Shatin and Taipo, but the entire train service has been suspended indefinitely and the head office is awaiting fuller reports as to the extent of the damage.\n\nARMY OFFICER'S BRAVERY\n\nCaptain Rybot, of the H.K.S.B.R.A., was responsible for an act of extreme bravery.\n\nA Great Name and a Great Gin—GORDON'S DRY GIN\n\nDISTILLERY, LONDON, ENGLAND\n\nKelly & Walsh, Ltd., Chater Road, Hong Kong.\n\nTHE CITADEL $6-50\n\nDr. A. J. Cronin's new novel\n\nThe unoffending profession of medicine has in these days sustained attack by two novelists of distinction, Sinclair Lewis and Dr. Cronin. Mr. Lewis wrote from without; Dr. Cronin's assault is upon interior lines. In \"The Citadel\" there are presented three types of good doctor: the general practitioner possessed of competent knowledge and a big heart, the physician or surgeon possessed of special qualifications, also with a big heart, and the bacteriologist, who, being less subject to temptation, needs, perhaps, less cardiac capacity. Against these stand the pompous old humbugs of the villages and country towns and the ill-conditioned sharks of the great cities.\n\nAll this is doubtless very true. But it is true not only of the doctors but also of humanity. What is not true is that a district of London called \"Harley Street\" is shark-infested, so that an honest man practises there at his peril. Dr. Cronin would deny, certainly, that he had made any such suggestion; but it is in this sense that his indictment has been read by many.\n\nIt may be conceded that, within limits, Dr. Cronin has presented a lively tale full of more or less dramatic incident.\n\nHONGKONG FOOT\n\nRINGWORM\n\nBAYER\n\nTRADE MARK\n\nFUNGOL\n\nSPECIFIC FOR HONGKONG-FOOT RING-WORM AND OTHER MYCOTIC INFECTIONS OF THE SKIN\n\nBayer Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, Germany.\n\nONLY FOR EXTERNAL USE.\n\n'FUNGOL'\n\nA scientifically prepared specific for the treatment of Fungus Skin Infections\n\nThe new 'Fungol' cure for Hongkong Foot, which is now obtainable from all pharmacies, quickly stops itching and prevents the infection from penetrating further into the tissues.\n\n'FUNGOL' is a colourless preparation which leaves no stain, greatly simplifying the treatment of Hongkong Foot, and, above all, destroys the causal agent preventing the further spread of the infection.\n\nREACHES MACAO\n\nHeavy Damage To Fishing Craft\n\nMacao, Sept. 2. A severe typhoon struck Macao in the early hours of the morning after causing great damage to fishing craft here and ashore also.\n\nJunks sheltering in the inner harbour were torn loose and wrecked on the shore in many places.—Our Own Correspondent.\n\nROBBERY DURING STORM\n\nDuring the height of the typhoon at 4.30 a.m. yesterday, three men entered the first floor of 1080 Canton Road and robbed Lo Shiu-yuen, described as a kept woman, of money and jewellery to the total value of $540. Some loss of life is feared.\n\nThere were three other inmates of the house at the time. One of the robbers was stated to have carried a revolver.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564792, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "9 \n\nyear so that a 15-month supply is required for two years. Similar considerations apply to camp pay for ten artillery officers, and training expenses for artillery camps.\n\nThe provision of two additional modern armoured cars (Sub-head 25 $24,000) is considered necessary for the efficiency of the units concerned.\n\n## HEAD 6C. DEFENCE, AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS\n\nThe increases in A.R.P. personnel have already been provided for in 1939 by supplementary vote.\n\n### Special Expenditure\n\nA programme for civilian defence was explained to the Finance Committee at the time of the consideration of Finance Message No. 6 of 1939. The 1940-41 provision completes that programme.\n\n## HEAD 9. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT\n\nThe expenditure on the Trade School, both Other Charges and Personal Emoluments, is amalgamated for the first time with other votes.\n\n### Teachers Training College\n\nThe establishment of a Teachers Training College for non-graduate Anglo-Chinese and Vernacular Masters was approved in April last by the Secretary of State and work commenced in September. The College will be staffed by a Principal, three British Masters, three University Trained Non-British Masters, and eight servants (Office Attendant, etc.). The three British Masters to be taken on by the College will be replaced by University Trained Non-British Masters.\n\nSUB-HEADS 29 to 40 cover the equipment for the College and the running expenses other than salaries. There will be a saving of $5,000 on lecturing staff at the Trade School as a result of the establishment of the College.\n\n### SUB-HEAD 17\nThe provision of library facilities for schools is inadequate. Hitherto only two schools have possessed libraries, and these have been due to voluntary gifts. It is proposed to provide a small sum annually for each of nineteen schools so that libraries may be gradually formed in each school.\n\n### SUB-HEADS 27 AND 28\nThe provision is calculated in accordance with expected demands under the new Vernacular Schools Subsidies Code.\n\n### SUB-HEAD 41\nUnder the new Vernacular Subsidy Code, the following grants are expected: \n| School | Grant |\n| --- | --- |\n| Diocesan Girls School | $35,000 |\n| Munsang College | $15,000 |\n| Heep Yunn Girls School | $12,000 |\n| Hunghom Kaifong School | $1,240 |\n\n### SUB-HEAD 49\nIt is proposed to introduce the use of films for educational purposes, a practice already well established in Great Britain and elsewhere. The machine will be moved from school to school, and a library of films will be gradually formed.\n\n### SUB-HEAD 51\n$1,200 is being provided for a multitone Speech Machine for the School for the Deaf, a grant-in-aid school largely dependent on voluntary subscriptions. In addition, a grant of $220 for laboratory equipment is being made to the Diocesan Girls School under the new Grant Code.\n\n### Personal Emoluments\n\nUniversity Trained Masters increase from 70 to 79. Three of these are replacements of other posts involving a net saving; the remaining six are additional posts due to the establishment of the Teachers Training College.\n\n## HEAD 10. FIRE BRIGADE\n\nThe addition of Air Raid Precautions auxiliary fire service and the large increase in the work of the Brigade, particularly in the field of ambulance services, during recent years, has necessitated increases of staff. These are one Assistant Station Officer (£260 rising to £350), one Motor Driver ($500 rising to $650), one Ambulance Dresser ($900 rising to $1,140), and two Ambulance Attendants ($252 rising to $300). Except for the first, these are temporary posts.\n\nPage 423", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564795, "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": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "page_number": 378, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "# HEAD 14.-The increased cost of stamps is due to provision for a special Centenary Issue, and it should be balanced by extra revenue.\n\n## Personal Emoluments\n\nOwing to increased public demands particularly in the Registration and Parcels Branch and to the opening of two new offices at Tsun Wan and Shaukiwan, twelve more Class VI Clerks and fifteen more Class III postmen are required.\n\n# HEAD 20B. WIRELESS\n\n## SUB-HEADS 13, 16 AND 17.—These are replacements of worn out and obsolete apparatus. \nThe short wave transmitter will also give protection against piracy to a degree not formerly possible. The expenditure is productive of a rapidly growing revenue; receipts from wireless receiving licences alone increased from $100,000 to $135,000 from 1938 to 1939 and the increase is expected to continue.\n\n## SUB-HEAD 14.-Emergency petrol electric equipment for Air Raid Precautions purposes is required at four stations.\n\n## SUB-HEAD 15.-The provision of a separate transmitter for distress and safety calls is necessary to comply with the International Radiocommunication Regulations.\n\n## Personal Emoluments\n\nTwo new posts of Technician Class III and two of Mechanician Class III are required to staff the new short wave marine transmitter (Sub-head 17). One new post of Rigger, one of Carpenter and one of Night Watchman are required for the new Station at Hunghom.\n\n# HEAD 20C. BROADCASTING\n\nThe reasons for the proposed increases are as follows:-\n\n1. The rapid increase in wireless receiving licences (Head 20B, Sub-head 13 etc. supra) calls for improved programmes.\n2. Two years' Royalties and Reuter fees are payable during the fifteen months involved.\n\n# HEAD 21.-PRISONS DEPARTMENT\n\n## SUB-HEAD 24. \nThe provision of 44 additional sewing machines, making a total of 100 in use, will enable the Prisons Department to supply most of the uniforms required for Subordinate Government Officers.\n\n## Personal Emoluments\n\n1. In accordance with the recommendations of a Colonial Office Committee, the title of Officer replaces that of European Warder.\n2. No increase in the staff of senior officers was made when the Stanley Prison was opened as the main prison of the Colony. It has now been found that owing to the extent of the latter, two senior officers are insufficient. A third with title Assistant Superintendent on a scale of £500 to £820 is accordingly proposed. At the same time, the scale of salary of the Superintendent has been raised from £600 rising to £850 to £820 rising to £940. For the same reason, it is considered necessary to increase the staff of Officers by four in order to exercise effective control.\n3. The opening of the Victoria Remand Prison entails one additional Principal Officer and four additional Officers.\n4. Owing to the great increase in the productive work of the department without an accompanying increase in the number of skilled prisoners, it is considered necessary to promote the Principal Officer in charge of this work to a new post of Principal Industrial Officer (replacing his former post) on a slightly higher salary and to create under the Indian Staff three new posts of tailor, carpenter and smith on the scale of $1,000 to $1,300.\n\nPage 427", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573419, "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": "CO129-588-6 Provision of Chinese cemeteries 6-12-1940 - 28-2-1941", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-588-6 Provision of Chinese cemeteries 6-12-1940 - 28-2-1941", "content_text": "## \n8 \n\nThe numbers of burials which have taken place in \"coffin cemeteries\" (as apart from urning cemeteries) in the urban area during the past few years: \n\n| Year | Number of Burials |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1930 | 15,935 |\n| 1931 | 18,197 |\n| 1932 | 19,706 |\n| 1933 | 17,751 |\n| 1934 | 18,177 |\n| 1935 | 20,165 |\n| 1936 | 23,336 |\n| 1937 | 30,876 |\n| 1938 | 35,570 |\n| 1939 | 44,405 |\n| 1940 | 40,824 (nine months) |\n\nThere are four large cemeteries in the urban area which are at present being used for burials. Three of these, at Chaiwan, Caroline Hill, and Kailungwan, are situated at the eastern end, centre, and western end respectively of the Island of Hong Kong; the fourth is situated on the Customs Pass Road in New Kowloon. It is obvious from the above table that, as exhumation cannot be carried out for at least seven years after burial, the number of exhumations in recent years has lagged far behind the number of fresh burials. This means, of course, that the cemeteries have had to be enlarged. \n\nWith more attention now being paid to town planning, it is realized that the cemeteries, especially those on the Island, are occupying or encroaching on land which might be put to better use as building sites; in cases where this objection does not at present apply, the Military Authorities object, on account of defence requirements, to further extensions. The three cemeteries on the Island will, it is estimated, be full at the end of this year, and it is then proposed to close them and to transfer all burials to the cemetery in New Kowloon. The present acute shortage of burial space in the urban area has, however, been foreseen for some time, and in June 1939, Sir Geoffry Northcote directed that investigations should be carried out with a view to the formation of a large cemetery in the New Territories.\n\n## \nThese investigations have been completed, and an area of some 260 acres capable of extension if necessary to over 1,000 acres - situated at Wo Hop Shek, near Fanling, and accessible by rail and road, is considered to be eminently suitable for the purpose of both a cemetery and an urning ground. My Executive Council has approved in principle the setting apart of this area as a cemetery under Section 6A(2)(a) of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, and preparations are now in hand for the opening of the new cemetery as early as possible in 1941. When the new cemetery is opened, all burials will take place there, and the cemeteries in the urban area will be formally declared closed.\n\n## \nIn view of the poverty of the vast majority of the population, it is essential that the cost of transporting the dead to this new cemetery be kept as low as possible, and to this end, it is proposed that Government should provide free transport by junk across the Harbour from the Island of Hong Kong to Kowloon and by rail from Kowloon to the cemetery at Wo Hop Shek. It is proposed that coffins be collected at one or more depots on the Hong Kong waterfront and removed by coffin junks to Kowloon and thence by lorry to a railway siding at Hunghom, where they will be put into coaches attached to a funeral train which will convey them to the cemetery. Farewell pavilions will be erected at Hunghom for the convenience of mourners whilst any... \n\nPage -3-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-588-6 Provision of Chinese cemeteries 6-12-1940 - 28-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582410, "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": "CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947", "content_text": "## DAMAGED UNITS OF ACCOMMODATION BY DISTRICTS—HONG KONG.\n\n### TABLE 1, Sheet 1.\n\n#### CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS.\n\n| STRUCT. COND. | KENNEDY TOWN | CENTRAL DIST. | CENTRAL | WAN CHAI | CAUSEWAY BAY | TAIHANG | QUARRY BAY | SHAUKI-WAN | PEAK | OTHERS | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. European Class I (Unit: 40' x 60') | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| A | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| C | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| D | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| E | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 2. European Class II (Unit: 20 × 50') | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| A | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| C | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| D | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| E | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 3. Chinese Class I (Unit: 20 × 50') | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| A | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | 18 | | | | | | | | | | 18 |\n| C | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| D | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| E | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 4. Chinese Class II (Unit: 15 x 50') | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 5. Chinese Tenement (Unit: 15' x 40') | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| 6. Office Building (Unit: 20 × 60') | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| A | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| C | 11 | 12+* | | | | | | | | | |\n| D | 48 | 26 | 18 | 3 | 4 | | | | | | |\n| E | 44 | 21 | 6 | 20 | 1800 | 11 | | | | | |\n| Total | | | | | | | | | | | 89899 |\n\n...\n\n| STRUCT. COND. | KENNEDY TOWN | CENTRAL DIST. | CENTRAL | WAN CHAI | CAUSEWAY BAY | TAIHANG | QUARRY BAY | SHAUKI-WAN | PEAK | OTHERS | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| Total | 6 | 91 | 196 | 194 | 74 | | 20 | 80 | 30 | 131 | |\n\n## DAMAGED UNITS OF ACCOMMODATION BY DISTRICTS—HONG KONG.\n\n### TABLE 1, (Contd.) Sheet 2.\n\n#### CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS.\n\n| STRUCT. COND. | KENNEDY TOWN | CENTRAL DIST. | CENTRAL | WAN CHAI | CAUSEWAY BAY | TAIHANG | QUARRY BAY | SHAUKI-WAN | PEAK | OTHERS | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Factories (Unit: 50 x 100') | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| A | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 8. Stores (Unit: 15′ × 50′) | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| A | 32 | 2 | 8 | 20 | 16 | | | | | | |\n| B | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| E | 239 | 1210 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 20 | 9 | 21 | 11 | |\n\n## DAMAGED UNITS OF ACCOMMODATION BY DISTRICTS–KOWLOON.\n\n### CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS.\n\n| STRUCT. COND. | STAR FERRY | YAUMATI | MONGKOK | HUNGHOM | KOWLOON CITY | KOWLOON TONG | SHAMSHUIPO | LAICHIKOK | OTHERS | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. European Class I (Unit: 40' x 60') | | | | | | | | | | |\n| A | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | 10 | 6 | | | | | | | | |\n| C | 10 | | | | | | | | | |\n| D | 10 | | | | | | | | | |\n| E | 10 | | | | | | | | | |\n| 2. European Class II (Unit: 20′ × 50') | | | | | | | | | | |\n| A | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | 14 | | | | | | | | | |\n| C | 42 | 30 | 18 | | | | | | | |\n| D | 53 | 20 | 42 | 98 | | | | | | |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582411, "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": "CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947", "content_text": "## DAMAGED UNITS OF ACCOMMODATION BY DISTRICTS–KOWLOON\n\n40\n\n### TABLE 1, (Contd.)\n\nSheet 3.\n\n#### TOTAL CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS\n\n| STRUCT. COND. | STAR FERRY | YAUMATI | MONGKOK | HUNGHOM | KOWLOON CITY | KOWLOON TONG | SHAMSHUIPO | LAICHIKOK | OTHERS | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **4. Chinese Class II (Unit: 15′ x 50')** | | | | | | | | | | |\n| A | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | 36 | 8 | 29 | | | | | | | 105 |\n| C | | | | | | | | | | |\n| D | 12 | 1 | | | | | | | | ... |\n| E | | | | | | | | | | 162 |\n| | 10 | 10 | 10 | 56 | 20 | | 10 | 19 | 10 | |\n| | | | | | | | | | 22 | |\n| **5. Chinese Tenement (Unit: 15 x 40\")** | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | | | | | | | | | | |\n| D | 15 | 4 | 57 | 225 | 220 | 16 | 51 | 118 | 79 | 471 |\n| | 27 | 210 | 175 | | | | 140 | 150 | | |\n| E | 761 | 1,083 | 216 | 981 | 1,888 | 31 | 10 | | | 3,751 |\n| F | 18 | 1 | 50 | 591 | 748 | 233 | 120 | 1,586 | 87 | 1,482 |\n| | 264 | 75 | 120 | | | | 67 | 189 | 304 | 3,751 |\n| **6. Office Building (Unit: 20′ × 60')** | | | | | | | | | | |\n| D | | | | | | | | | | |\n| E | 10 | | | 11 | 17 | 30 | 26 | | | |\n| **7. Factories (Unit: 50 x 100')** | | | | | | | | | | |\n| D | | | | | | | | | | |\n| E | 1 | 24 | 7 | 15 | | 8 | | | | |\n| **8. Stores (Unit: 15′ x 50')** | | | | | | | | | | |\n| E | 24 | | 14 | | | | | | | 858 |\n| | | | | 35 | 5 | 30 | 30 | | | |\n| | 16 | 86 | | | | | | | | |\n\nHong Kong, 18th February, 1946.\n\n(Signed) L. W. AMPS, \nLt. Col. R.E. \nS.O. I. (C.A.) Works, Buildings & Lands.\n\n### TABLE 11. SUMMARY OF DAMAGED UNITS OF ACCOMMODATION & THEIR CAPACITY\n\n| BUILDINGS CLASSIFICATION | AVER. NO. PER UNIT | PERMANENTLY PLACED | PERSONS TEMPORARILY DISPLACED | TOTALS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | HONG KONG | KOWLOON | | |\n| European Class I | 6-A | 199 | 1,324 | 2,757 | 3,759 |\n| Offices | 8-A | 419 | 1,470 | 1,445 | |\n| Chinese Tenement | | 755 | 3,670 | | 8,217 |\n| Chinese Class II | | 535 | 372 | 135 | 540 |\n| Chinese Class I | | 1,308 | 2,220 | 203 | 812 |\n| European Class II | | ... | ... | ... | 3FESZ |\n| Stores | | 504 | 888 | 1,050 | 1,440 |\n| Factories | | 144 | 1,296 | 468 | |\n| Totals: | | 37,590 | 27,570 | 65,160 | 82,170 |\n| | | 216 | 426 | 642 | 2,166 |\n| | | | | 86,655 | 74,182 |\n\nHong Kong, 18th February, 1946.\n\n(Signed) L. W. AMPS, \nLt. Col. R.E. \nS.O. I (CA) Works, Buildings & Lands.\n\n41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-595-6 Building Reconstruction Advisory Committee Report 9-4-1946 - 10-6-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589157, "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": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "# MEMORANDUM ON THE FUTURE ADMINISTRATION\n\nOF THE\n\nPORT OF HONG KONG\n\n9.7\n\n## PART I\n\n### HISTORICAL AND INTRODUCTORY\n\n1. Several schemes for the development of the Harbour and Port of Hong Kong have been devised. After the war of 1914-18 a fresh impetus was given, a Sub-Department of the Public Works Department created, and later a separate department, the Port Development instituted under Mr. John Duncan as Port Engineer. In 1922 or 1923 Mr. Duncan presented a voluminous report. On receiving this report the Secretary of State for the Colonies considered that if such extensive development of the Port of Hong Kong was envisaged, an examination by Consulting Engineers should be carried out. At considerable expense, therefore, a visit to Hong Kong was made by one of the senior partners of Messrs. Fitzmaurice Coode & Fitzmaurice and a further voluminous report presented. Shortly thereafter Mr. Duncan, Port Engineer, broke down in health and retired.\n\n2. These two reports suggested extensive reclamation in Hunghom Bay, with the creation of several deep water wharves, transit sheds and godowns in direct communication with the Railway. Junk Wharfage was also provided. Deep water wharves were also recommended for North Point. Extensive reclamation in front of Connaught Road for nearly its whole length, and at Kennedy Town, was also advised, with passenger clearing depots, transit sheds, etc. for river and coastal traffic.\n\n3. Partly because it was never proved that there is any real need for this very extensive and very expensive development of the Port, partly because the wharves in Hunghom Bay seem to be badly sited, but mainly because of the financial crisis following on the General Strike and Boycott of 1925-26 these two reports have been pigeon-holed and are now of little more than historical interest. This is so at least for the present though circumstances may change and make necessary the considerable development suggested. The parts of the Reports dealing with development on the Island of Hong Kong must however be given some consideration at the present day.\n\n4. So far as we can recollect these two Reports did not deal with the management of the Port though they would, if implemented, have resulted in the Government entering into competition with private enterprise by its ownership of wharves, transit sheds and godowns.\n\n5. Hong Kong has, perhaps, been unfortunate in the management of its Port affairs. A definite policy has been lacking and affairs have drifted along. To meet the desire of the Shipping and Commercial Community for some policy of development in the future, a Harbour Advisory Board was created about 1931 with membership in 1941 consisting of the Colonial Secretary, Chairman, the Financial Secretary, Director of Public Works, Harbour Master, Mr. T. N. Chau, C.B.E., J. K. Bousfield, W. H. Lock, and Commander F. W. Crowther, R.N. (Rtd.) with the 2nd Assistant Colonial Secretary as Secretary. It is understood that this Board never once met.\n\n6. It is well known that all Pier leases expire in 1949 but Government has so far not announced any policy covering this important feature of the Port after that date. It was the urgency of this problem that brought Sir David Owen to Hong Kong in 1940-41.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594514, "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": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "## (o) Education Sub-Committee\n\nAn interim report submitted by this Sub-Committee was circulated to members for consideration at a later date. The amended terms of reference to include cultural facilities were read and accepted. The names of members invited to serve (Mr. W. N. Tam, Dr. J. P. Fehily, and Mr. George White) were also read, and on the recommendation of the Director of Education, approval was given that a lady should be co-opted to this Sub-committee if someone suitable could be found.\n\n## (d) New Territories Development Sub-Committee\n\nMr. Barrow reported that five meetings had been held and that the personnel remained unchanged.\n\n## 4. PUBLIC HEALTH SUB-COMMITTEE'S FINAL REPORT\n\nThe Honourable D. M. S. in presenting his report asked that he might be allowed to amplify a few points on behalf of his committee. His fellow members felt that Housing is an extremely important matter in any development scheme in Hong Kong, so much so that this had been emphasised in the report even to the extent of encroaching on the grounds of the Housing & Town Planning Sub-Committee.\n\nThe provision by Government of a Tuberculosis Sanatorium has been placed low down on the priority list on the assumption that the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association will raise funds from the local community and so save Government capital expenditure, provided that suitable sites are made available free or at a nominal cost by Government. Enquiries have already been made concerning two sites.\n\nThe Honourable Dr. S. N. Chau, Chairman of the Association, supported the Honourable D. M. S. and stressed the fact that a sanatorium is very much needed here. Mr. Dhun Ruttonjee, Treasurer of the Association, emphasised the fundamental importance of a suitable site being made available and thus freeing the Association funds for capital expenditure; he hoped that it would be possible to raise about 1 1⁄2 million for this purpose.\n\nThe Chairman promised to clarify this point in his report that is being prepared for the Secretary of State.\n\nOne other point in connection with Housing was made by the D. M. S. He said that it might be possible to obtain funds from a source other than the C.D. & W. fund, namely, the Lord Mayor's Fund. Contributions were made to this specifically for sufferers from air raids in the Far East, and he felt that a proportion might be appropriately used for the re-housing of persons who had their houses destroyed by air raids and shellfire during the war.\n\nThe Chairman asked whether the Honourable D. M. S. had any particular areas in mind, and he mentioned Hunghom, which had been destroyed by American bombing, and Kennedy Town area, which had been destroyed during the original bombardment of the colony by the Japanese. He added that his committee felt that two model ...\n\nPage 15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594852, "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": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "# MEMORANDUM ON THE FUTURE ADMINISTRATION OF THE PORT OF HONG KONG\n## PART I\n### HISTORICAL AND INTRODUCTORY\n\n1. Several schemes for the development of the Harbour and Port of Hong Kong have been devised. After the war of 1914-18, a fresh impetus was given, a Sub-Department of the Public Works Department created, and later a separate department, the Port Development, instituted under Mr. John Duncan as Port Engineer. In 1922 or 1923, Mr. Duncan presented a voluminous report. On receiving this report, the Secretary of State for the Colonies considered that if such extensive development of the Port of Hong Kong was envisaged, an examination by Consulting Engineers should be carried out. At considerable expense, therefore, a visit to Hong Kong was made by one of the senior partners of Messrs. Fitzmaurice, Coode & Fitzmaurice, and a further voluminous report presented. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Duncan, Port Engineer, broke down in health and retired.\n\n2. These two reports suggested extensive reclamation in Hunghom Bay, with the creation of several deep water wharves, sheds, and godowns in direct communication with the Railway. Junk Wharfage was also provided. Deep water wharves were also recommended for North Point. Extensive reclamation in front of Connaught Road for nearly its whole length, and at Kennedy Town, was also advised, with passenger clearing depots, transit sheds, etc. for river and coastal traffic.\n\n3. Partly because it was never proved that there is any real need for this very extensive and very expensive development of the Port, partly because the wharves in Hunghom Bay seem to be badly sited, but mainly because of the financial crisis following on the General Strike and Boycott of 1925-26, these two reports have been pigeon-holed and are now of little more than historical interest. This is so, at least for the present, though circumstances may change and make necessary the considerable development suggested. The parts of the Reports dealing with development on the Island of Hong Kong must, however, be given some consideration at the present day.\n\n4. So far as we can recollect, these two Reports did not deal with the management of the Port, though they would, if implemented, have resulted in the Government entering into competition with private enterprise by its ownership of wharves, transit sheds, and godowns.\n\n5. Hong Kong has, perhaps, been unfortunate in the management of its Port affairs. A definite policy has been lacking, and affairs have drifted along. To meet the desire of the Shipping and Commercial Community for some policy of development in the future, a Harbour Advisory Board was created about 1931, with membership in 1941 consisting of the Colonial Secretary, Chairman, the Financial Secretary, Director of Public Works, Harbour Master, Mr. T. N. Chau, C.B.E., J. K. Bousfield, W. H. Lock, and Commander F. W. Crowther, R.N. (Rtd.), with the 2nd Assistant Colonial Secretary as Secretary. It is understood that this Board never once met.\n\n6. It is well known that all Pier leases expire in 1949, but Government has so far not announced any policy covering this important feature of the Port after that date. It was the urgency of this problem that brought Sir David Owen to Hong Kong in 1940-41.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595891, "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": "CO129-622-4 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 28-1-1949 - 16-2-1950", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-622-4 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 28-1-1949 - 16-2-1950", "content_text": "INVOICE NO. 005.\n\nThe Accountant General,\n\nGovernment of Hong Kong,\n\nPrince's Building,\n\nHongkong.\n\n31\n\nHong Kong, 28th May, 1946.\n\nDr. to the Jardine Engineering Corporation, Ltd.\n\nClaim in respect of order placed by War Supplies Board prior to 8/12/41\n\nTo\n\nCost of M.S. Bars, Plates etc., the property of the Chinese Government, Ministry of Communications requisitioned by the Hongkong Government War Supplies Board prior to 8/12/41.\n\n \n Place of Storage\n Quantity - Tons\n Godown No.\n \n \n North Point\n 1913.5\n Godown No.4\n \n \n Kai Tack\n 239.6\n Godown No.3\n \n \n Hunghom\n 1.5\n \n \n \n \n 2154.6\n \n \n \n Less miscellaneous pieces not included in requisition...\n 170.0\n \n \n \n \n 1984.6\n @ $115.0.0 per ton\n \n \n \n $229,769.0.0\n \n \n\nAttached hereto is a copy of \"Form E. Return of stocks of metals for the month of November 1941\" made to the Metals Controller verifying the above quantities.\n\nThe Jardine Engineering Corporation, Ltd.\n\nAlex Kidd. Branch Manager.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-622-4 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 28-1-1949 - 16-2-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 595893, "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": "CO129-622-4 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 28-1-1949 - 16-2-1950", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-622-4 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 28-1-1949 - 16-2-1950", "content_text": "The Metals (Licensing, Usage and Price) Control Order, 1941.\n\nForm E.\n\nReturn of stocks of metals for the month of November (to be rendered within one week from the end of the month)\n\n \n Serial No.\n Metals.\n Unit.\n Place of Storage.\n Stocks in hand at beginning of month.\n Stocks received during the month.\n Total.\n Stocks disposed of during the month.\n Stocks in hand at end of month.\n Remarks\n \n \n 1/340\n M.S.Plates, Bars\n Tons\n Godown No. 1, North Point.\n 1,913.5\n \n 1,913.5\n \n 1,913.5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Godown No.4, Kai-tack.\n 239.6\n \n 239.6\n \n 239.6\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Godown No.3, Hunghom\n 1.5\n \n 1.5\n \n 1.5\n \n \n\nI hereby declare that the above is a true statement of my stocks of, and transactions in, the metals specified during the month.\n\nAll stocks are now reserved by War Supplies Board except 170 tons miscellaneous.\n\nSignature\n\nAddress 14 Pedder Street. For and on behalf of the Chinese National Govt. Ministry of Communications.\n\n33", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-622-4 War damage compensation- requisitioned railway stores and materials 28-1-1949 - 16-2-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]