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        "content_text": "294\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n8\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nroad surface having cost in February the sum of £65., and the stone arch also was commenced in January; therefore the average rate between the two years should be taken as the general probable amount for repairs in the year, or say 2d. per yard. The road being nearly 15 feet wide throughout is the cause of the difference of rate between it and the other roads. It is now in a very good state of repair, and sustained little or no damage during the typhoon.\n\nRoad from Aberdeen to Stanley, 7 miles.--This road estimated for, Rep. and Est. amount, £4965. 14s. 1d. (No. 1, of 1847) was intended to have been 15 feet wide throughout, with stone arches and parapet-walls in places where they were most required. Sir J. F. Davis, however, reduced the width to 10 feet and curtailed other works, and only authorized the sum of £2705. 14s. 4d. to be expended; of this sum £312. 16s. 4d. was expended during the year on this line are some of the heaviest stone bridges in the island, which considering the Chinese are not in the habit of building such, have been very tolerably executed, and particularly so, as the hot weather and frequent sickness of the overseers prevented their constant attendance thereon. The greater portion of the road was in the hands of the contractors at the time of the typhoon and previous rains, and therefore the expense of repairs fell upon them, but in general the damage was not excessive considering the unconsolidated state of the filling, unfinished drains, &c. Near the south end of the town of Aberdeen for a distance of 100 yards, and in Deep Water Bay for about the same distance, the wash of the sea carried away a considerable portion of the road; the former had been taken off the contractor's hands, and has not yet been repaired; the latter the contractor was obliged to rectify. In sheltered bays on the coast I formed the roads originally 4 feet above the high-water spring tides and 6 feet in other parts, but I now find that not less than 10 feet should be fixed upon for the level of a coast road, and even more than that if it is much exposed. If this road is to be maintained and properly protected, as indeed most of the roads require, there are several works which I would recommend to be executed, viz., a bridge and causeway at the waterfall in Staunton Valley, a parapet-wall on the hill above Deep-water Bay, and a bridge leading to the Sands, parapet-walls in two other places near Repulse Bay, and a bridge there also; these places are either exceedingly dangerous or inconvenient, as the road has either been cut out of the side of the cliff, or a rough retaining wall built, which leaves the drop from the road nearly perpendicular, and in one place the fall is 100 feet. The additional bridges are required, for at high water pedestrians must make a detour to pass the stream, and equestrians must wade or swim their horses over the ford. The details of expenditure during the year being given in full in the usual return, I shall merely remark that the disbursements on the new works in the formation of roads, bridges, and drains have amounted to £3221. 11s. 7d., and repairs, exclusive of convict labour, to the sum of £215. 2s. 6d. for roads and £186. 10s. 1d. for bridges.\n\n2. Buildings. The police station at Aberdeen, although nearly finished at the termination of the year 1847, was not completed until May; the contractor, having far exceeded his time, was fined by his Excellency the Governor in Council in the sum of $100, which was deducted from the balance due on the contract; the work has been satisfactorily executed, and is now occupied by police; the payment on account for the year amounted to £1088. 6s. 9d., making the total expenditure £2598. 2s. 5d., exclusive of some stores supplied by Ordnance Department.\n\nFor cutting the site of the church and Government offices, Report and Estimate, No. 5, of 1846, the sum of £1361. 12s. 0d. has been paid; the balance on the Estimate £341. 0s. 10d. will be expended in cutting rock and sloping the ground east of the church, previous to the opening of the same.\n\nGaols. On account of Rep. and Est. 5, of 1845, the sum of £1107. 8s. 4d. was paid, making the total expenditure £4045. 14s. 0d., leaving a balance of £423. 12s. 1d. for the construction of some works which it is intended not to carry out; the service may therefore be said to be completed. The final payment, £62. 10s. 0d., was made during the year on account of the boundary walls to gaol, Rep. and Est. No. 9, of 1846, which have been completed in a satisfactory manner. In consequence of the recommendations of a Board, which was appointed by Sir J. F. Davis, to make certain inquiries and suggestions regarding the gaols, for increasing the accommodation, improving the ventilation, supply of water, &c., a Report and Estimate, No. 4, of 1847, was prepared by me, embodying the whole of the propositions, and showing their cost of the same, would amount to £1634. 3s. 4d. At this period the gaol was very crowded, and an expenditure of £637. 15s. 0d. was sanctioned for the purpose of increasing the ventilation at once; and the report was transmitted for the consideration of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, who, upon the report of Lieutenant-Colonel Jebb, directed further inquiries and examination of the gaol, and it appearing that all the services proposed were not then necessary. His Excellency S. G. Bonham, Esq., in Council, sanctioned the expenditure of £2081. 11s. 7d. for an additional washing-room, and the formation of a covered way to connect the gaols A and B, &c.; at the termination of the year £1157. had been expended upon the service. The gaol buildings sustained very little damage during the typhoon, the estimate of the same being £15. 17s. 5d.\n\nIt having been thought advisable, by his Excellency the Governor in Council, that Coolies for hire should be confined to particular districts in the town, and that suitable covered stands or buildings for that purpose should be erected, a Report and Estimate, No. 7, of 1847, was accordingly prepared for the same, and the work commenced upon in March last and completed in June, the cost of the service being £1237. 5s. 2d.\n\nColonial Church. This building has not progressed so rapidly as was anticipated, much inconvenience and delay having been caused by the tardiness of the manufacturers of the windows, which have not even yet been received. It is much to be regretted that the funds for building have been found insufficient, the prices in the estimate having been originally framed too low by the late Surveyor-General, and it has therefore been found impossible to proceed with the tower above the ridge of the nave until more money is placed at the disposal of the trustees; from estimates I have lately made, the sum now required amounts to £8761. 17s. 4d. The church, however, has been so far completed that service may be performed therein if necessary, but the trustees think it better to defer the opening until the beginning of spring. The expenditure thereon during the year amounts to £3816. 17s. 4d.\n\nThe Miscellaneous work to Buildings comprises removal of stores and protection of buildings transferred to my charge, erection of flag-staff at Governor's residence, and pulling down the old Treasury for the preparation of the site for Government House; these services were authorized under Req. No. 47, of 1847, and 14, 16, 17, of 1848, and amount to £477. 14s. 8d.; of this amount, during the year, £247. 7s. 11d. was paid. The final balance for the repair of police stations and guard-houses, repairs of 1847, Report and Estimate, No. 3, was paid, during this year, amount to £271. 1s. 8d. Additional room being required for the Governor's servants, a small bungalow, abandoned by the proprietor on lot No. 141, was repaired for that purpose, which cost £17. 15s. 1d.\n\nSome depredations were committed at the cemetery; the entrance gates and doors of the chapel were injured, the hinges stolen, &c.; these were repaired and replaced for the sum of £64. 0s. 6d., Reg. No. 36. Ordinary repairs were effected to the bungalow on Hospital Hill upon its occupation by a new tenant, Reg. No. 48, £58. 6s. 8d.; the tenant expended about £120., and abandoned the building after the typhoon of the 1st September, which stripped off a considerable portion of the roof-tiles, caused the failure of a portion of the stable wall, and other damages unnecessary to mention, which were estimated at £115. 2s. 10d.\n\nTo the debtors' prison, magistracy, Sukunpu Police Station, Court-house, ordinary repairs were carried out for the sum of £267. 13s. 4d. The repairs to the residence of his Excellency the Governor during the year amounted to £14. 15s. 7d. The police stations at Sookewan and Stanley were improved and repaired to render the accommodation of the inmates more comfortable and healthy, roofs re-tiled, and floors ventilated, &c., estimated at £301. 15s. 11d.; expended £147. 15s. 10d., Req. No. 12, of 1848.\n\nStorm Repairs.--The island was visited by a storm or typhoon, as it is here called, which raged for five or six hours during the night of the 31st August and following morning. During the summer months heavy gales and storms always occur; but since the year 1841 nothing like the severity of the present one has been experienced, and, as might be expected, considerable damage was done to most of the houses in the town; some were entirely stripped of their tiles, walls injured, windows and venetians or jalousies blown in, and altogether the appearance of the town exhibited the terrible effects of the storm. The residence of his Excellency the Governor suffered as much as any in the town, but these repairs necessarily fell upon the landlord, as the house is not Government property. In the Report and Estimate relative to these damages the following are the amounts estimated for each colonial civil building-\n\nItems\n\n  \n    1. Governor's residence\n    £15\n    6\n    6\n  \n  \n    2. Magistracy\n    £14\n    18\n    \n  \n  \n    3. Debtors' gaol\n    £1\n    8\n    19\n  \n  \n    4. Gaols\n    £6\n    17\n    6\n  \n  \n    5. Guard-house ditto\n    £6\n    19\n    1\n  \n  \n    6. Supreme Court\n    £9\n    7\n    11\n  \n  \n    7. Post Office\n    £25\n    16\n    6\n  \n  \n    8. No. 1 Police Station\n    £22\n    1\n    10\n  \n  \n    9. No. 2 ditto\n    £39\n    12\n    11\n  \n  \n    10. Station Onch Bazaar\n    £0\n    16\n    6\n  \n  \n    11. Station at the Gap\n    £264\n    2\n    1\n  \n  \n    12. Bungalow on Hospital Hill\n    £115\n    2\n    10\n  \n  \n    13. Cemetery Chapel\n    £36\n    1\n    2\n  \n  \n    14. Harbour Master's\n    £44\n    4\n    4\n  \n  \n    15. Harbour Master's boat-house\n    £3\n    12\n    9\n  \n  \n    16. Government Offices (old), to sustain for a short period\n    £3\n    2\n    10\n  \n  \n    17. Bungalow rear of ditto\n    £3\n    2\n    4\n  \n  \n    18. Chinese Secretary's Office, estimate to pull down\n    £4\n    17\n    2\n  \n  \n    19. Barrack at Aberdeen\n    £12\n    6\n    11\n  \n\nOf these several items his Excellency the Governor decided no repairs should be executed on account of Nos. 1, 11, 14, 17, 18. The police station at the Gap was exceedingly damaged, the upper part of the east wall blown down, the north wall nearly destroyed, the whole of the tiles completely stripped off the roof, all the windows and venetians on the north and east sides broken to pieces, and, in fact, the whole a complete wreck; the inmates were obliged to abandon it during the storm, and as the site has generally been considered inconvenient for a police station for the present requirements of the town, the repairs were disallowed, and arrangements made for locating the police elsewhere for the future; most of the doors, windows, and venetians, were removed and placed in store.\n\nItem 14. Part of this disallowed, viz., for new topmast and repairs to flag-staff,\n\nPage 300\n\nPage 301",
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        "content_text": "120.\n\nweather and frequent sickness of \n\nthe overseers prevented their \n\nconstant attendance thereon. The \n\ngreater portion of the Road was in the hands of the contractors at the time of \n\nthe Typhoon and previous Pains, and therefore the \n\nexpense of repairs fell upon them, but in general the damage \n\nwas not excessive considering the unconsolidated state of the filling, unfinished drains, etc. Near the Southern end of the Town of Aberdeen for a distance of 100 yards and in Deep Water \n\nBay for about the same distance \n\nthe wash of the \n\nsea carried away \n\na considerable portion of the seawall; \n\nthe former had been taken \n\noff the contractor's hands, and has not \n\nyet been repaired, the latter the \n\nContractor was obliged to rectify.\n\n543\n\nthe coast. It \n\nIn sheltered bays formed the Roads originally 4 feet above the high water Spring tides and 6 feet in other parts, but I \n\nfind that not less than 10 \n\nfeet should be fixed upon for the level of a \n\ncoast Road, and even more than that if it is \n\nexposed. If this Road is to be \n\nmaintained and properly protected, \n\nindeed there \n\nare several works which I would recommend to be executed; viz: a Bridge and Conduit at the Waterfall in Staunton Valley, \n\na parapet Wall on the slope above \n\nDeep Water Bay, \n\nand a Bridge leading to the Sands, parapet \n\nwalls in two other places \n\nRepulse Bay, and a Bridge there also; these places \n\nare either...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n1. To be authorised by the present Junta as another abandoned site to become the \n\nThere are a number of other sites, such as the south side of Aberdeen Channel referred to bare, and bays in Repulse Bay and other bays, the expense of converting any other sites, such for instance at Stonecutters Island, would be considerable.\n\nThe attendant difficulty with a two considerable outlay to make it remunerative is speculation.\n\n### \n\nOn the North side of the Island, or in Victoria Harbour, the soils are sandy and very dredgeable, and not unstable, so that by building land and dredging to a proper depth, the expenses of cofferdams is avoided, and satisfactory docks might be formed, though probably at a greater outlay than on the South side of the Island. The only objection to such a scheme is that breakwaters are required to protect the entrances. (Certain proposals for Docks in Victoria Harbour were made by a private Company)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]",
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        "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]",
        "content_text": "OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL\n\n(Art. of the\n\nESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED FOR\n\n Roads out of Victoria.\n\nPLAN OR DESCRIPTION.\n\nThe Roads considered as \"out of Victoria\" comprise the Road to Aberdeen,\n\nItem 1.\n\nPokfulam Road junction 4 1⁄2 miles :- Pokfulam to Stanley inclusive of the lengths of rural surface repairs, water and Repulse Bay, when the Road follows the line of road is  miles: Stanley corner 7920 yards @ 3 sypraw and thence to Hong Kong to the boundary of Victoria at East Point, 1 1⁄2 miles - Teklam to Wongneichung 4 miles,\n\n  \n    16\n    2 1⁄2\n    99.-\n  \n\n• Sunday repairs to catchwater drains 1500 yards @ 3 - 12. 10. –\n\nmapet rrallo 2'6\" × 2\",\" spread with\n\n  \n    2.\n    350\n    50\n    you sods 01.\n    175.-.\n    grass.\n    286.10.\n  \n\nThe new pathway to the Peak from the Albany 1 3⁄4 miles. Pathway Aberdeen to Hauchi 3 miles. Pathway to Staunton's Valley from Wongneichung 2 3⁄4 miles.\n\nThe above description of repairs of roads forming 25 1⁄2 miles of Road varying from 10 to 28 feet wide and pathway of 5 feet wide forming a length of 7 1⁄2 miles.\n\nThe principal cause for expenditure on account of Roads in this Island is naturally one arising from damages resulting from acting upon its loose, sandy and unctuous soil; on those portions of the Roads when comparatively level the repairs described are generally unwashedly small; but as the gradient increases so does the damage notwithstanding the care which may have been taken.\n\n  \n    28.\n    13.\n    £315.3.\n  \n\nItem 2. Metalling repairs to Surface\n\n  \n    240\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    A\n    58.\n    13.\n    4\n  \n\nBars taken in the drainage, but by providing for the direct passage of the waters, or in the prevention of its accumulation by the formation of Catchwater drains, and in particular the construction of Road it frequently happens that even these latter become affected by the passage of water and that they are obliged to be pared and as specially cared for as the head Staff.\n\nSand filling at Repulse Bay, 20098 cubic yards @ 3/5 - 35.\n\nblocking up catchwater and other drains, including lands in both bays with\n\n  \n    natural consequence adding to the given rough stone pavement 300\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    fords final 6ft wide @ 1/6\n    22.\n    10.\n  \n  \n    \n    106.\n    3..4\n  \n\nslip\n\nThe Causes\n\nalso\n\nenlarge\n\nare\n\noccurence\n\nof frequent \"water in the side channels and\n\nof damage.\n\nApproved,\n\nas a\n\n(Signed) Hercules Robinson.\n\nGovernor.\n\nForward\n\n  \n    315\n    3\n    \n  \n  \n    315\n    3\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    350",
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        "document_key": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "In moving about the Harbor he will observe if any of the European vessels, &c., are out of place, or have their cables foul, directing them to move or clear hawse as the case may require.\n\nHe will encourage the Masters of Junks to take out Licenses informing them that their vessels must come round to Victoria to be registered.\n\nDirections for the Boarding Officers.\n\nThe Harbor, in reference to Boarding Vessels coming in, is divided into two Divisions, Eastern and Western, the line is to be one drawn from this Office to the N. W. boundary of Kowloon. They will take weekly turns with each division. On Sundays, after the morning report is completed one officer, in rotation, may have the remainder of the day to himself, the other is to continue on duty. At 9 A.M., 1.30 and 4 P.M., any intelligence that has been gathered is to be given to the Coolie in attendance, the former for the Morning and the latter for the Evening Papers, respectively as has been hitherto usual. Vessels arriving between that hour and Sunset are to be boarded on arrival. Lists of the ships in Port are to be kept corrected daily, a list of all arrivals and departures since the sailing of the previous European Mail is to be made out for the Editors corrected up to the day previous to the departure of the outgoing Mail. On the arrival of any steamers with Mails on board whether day or night they are to be boarded if between 4 A.M. and 10 A.M. by both Officers, the West division Officer will collect the reports, list of Passengers, &c. for His Excellency the Governor, the other one will receive and land without delay the parcels of \"Straits' Times\" and \"China Express.\" If between 10 P.M. and 4 A.M. the West Division Officer will do both duties. In the event of there being no letters or papers for the local journals a report of her arrival is to be sent to them. Men of War are to be boarded by the Officer in whose division they may anchor. As the Gun-boats are much alike in appearance a correct account of the number in Port on each evening must be borne in mind, that in the morning no mistake shall be made as to an arrival during the previous night. All Gun-boats are to be boarded on anchoring and any intelligence which they may bring is to be carefully noted.\n\nThey will board every Vessel arriving within the limits of their respective Divisions of the harbor, if the vessels' number is not up it is to be hoisted and remain so until the Captain shall have reported himself at this Office. A copy of the Harbor Regulations is to be given to each ship. A proper berth is to be pointed out for the ship to moor in, observing that, except in very few cases, Merchant Vessels are not allowed to anchor on the Men of War ground. They will report any Vessels shifting berth without permission and the Masters of any having a foul hawse are to be requested to clear their chains. Vessels clearing out are to be boarded to see that none are fitted without sanction for the carriage of Chinese Passengers, acquainting me with the result. They will take special care that the Steamer's Fairway is kept clear and that all the Buoys in the Harbor are kept in their places and properly painted. They are to come to me for orders at 10 A.M., 1 P.M. and 4 P.M. unless from circumstances they are unable to do so. At 7 P.M. a report, to be made out by the West Division Officer, is to be sent to me of all Vessels arrived or sailed during the day, this will be returned and it is to form the original report for the following morning, after filling in arrivals and departures during the interval. On boarding Vessels enquiries are to be made as to the state of Health of the Passengers and Crew, if there is small Pox or other infectious disease, the Quarantine Flag is to be hoisted and the Master is to be told not to communicate with the shore but is to await orders from me. Ships having Powder on board are not to anchor in the vicinity of other Vessels until the Powder is stored, special report of such Vessels arriving is to be made. A special report also to be made of any Chinese Passengers arriving at this Port.\n\nOn boarding newly arrived Vessels they are to gather what news they can such as weather, Vessels fallen in with, places touched at, and any other intelligence which it is important that the Government should be acquainted with. In the case of Mail Steamers, dates of leaving Suez, Galle and Singapore. With respect to other Vessels the date at which last place touched at should be noted. Immediate report of the arrivals of all Men of War, including all Gun Boats, is to be made to His Excellency the Governor and to myself. The Commandant of the Garrison to have foreign Vessels only reported to him. After Office hours these reports are to be sent to the residences respectively. They will find out from Masters of ships arriving from Ports in China or Manila if they have destitute seamen on board and if they have, from what Port and by whose order they were shipped, making immediate report to me of the circumstance.\n\nAs each wears a uniform by which he is recognized as an Officer of this Government, I must impress on them the necessity of preserving a respectful and proper bearing towards all those with whom they may come in contact.\n\nOn finding any unlicensed Junk at anchor at any other place than the \"Junk Anchorage,\" they will immediately seize and give her into the Custody of the Police. During the day they will each board at least Ten Junks making an entry in the book supplied for that purpose.\n\nDuties of Officers in Charge of Harbor Master's Stations.\n\nTo board all Junks arriving at the Station and twice during each day, and twice during the night in each week at uncertain times to visit the \"Junk Anchorage\" demanding to see the \"Anchorage Passes\" of at least Ten Vessels on each occasion and to satisfy themselves generally that there has been no breach of the Law.\n\nTo bear in mind that any unlicensed Junk anchoring in the Waters of Hongkong at any place other than a \"Junk Anchorage\" is strictly prohibited, and any Master of a Vessel infringing this Law is with his Vessel to be detained until the usual visit of the Harbor Master or his Assistant.\n\nGreat care is to be taken to enter in the Register all the particulars required by Section XI of the Ordinance; Licensed Fishing Boats and Special Permit License Boats are not required to report on arrival, but these Vessels are to be frequently boarded to see that they do not engage in any other business than that for which their Licenses are issued, and any Vessel found doing so is to be detained.\n\nTo be very careful of the Custody of \"Anchorage Passes,” “Special Permits,” and “Clearances.” As they will be supplied and their value charged to the Station, at the end of the month those remaining, and those soiled (which must be produced) together with the \"Receipt of Fees Book\" will be required to agree with the Number in charge or the deficiency will be an imprest against the pay of the Officer at fault.\n\nAll Junks, except Special Permit Licensed Junks and Licensed Fishing Boats, must have \"Anchorage Passes.”\n\n'Special Permits\" may be granted to unlicensed Junks for certain purposes such as going to wharfs to discharge or take in Cargo, to haul up for cleansing the Boats' bottoms, or undergoing repairs, or for any other good reason which the Master may give rendering his removal from the \"Anchorage for Junks\" necessary.\n\nNo Junks except Special Permit Licensed Junks and Licensed Fishing Boats are to leave the Stations without either a \"Day\" or Night Clearance;\" when the former is applied for it is only to be given in exchange for the \"Anchorage Pass\" (issued at the Station from which the Clearance is demanded) and should the Master of a Vessel be unable to produce one, she is immediately to be given into the Custody of the Police. The same Rule is to apply to \"Night Clearances,\" but in addition the Master is to be narrowly examined as to his reasons for desiring to leave the Station after dark and unless they are satisfactory the \"Night Clearance\" is to be withheld. No Junk whatever is to proceed to Sea during the prohibited hours without a Night Clearance\" for which the proper fee is to be paid.\n\nIn the case of applications for Licenses, the Applicants are to be desired to convey their Junks to Victoria and the Masters thereof must appear at this Office.\n\nThe Officer at Sowkewan will visit Sy-wan Bay once a week, and any Vessel, other than Special Licensed Boat or a Licensed Fishing Boat, found at anchor is to be seized.\n\nThe Officer at Stanley will visit the Creek at the head of Tytam Bay and West or Sogcow Bay once a week, and any Vessel found at anchor, other than a Special Permit Licensed Boat or a Licensed Fishing Boat, is to be seized.\n\nThe Officer at Aberdeen will visit Deep Water and Repulse Bays once a week, and any Vessel found at anchor, other than a Special Permit Licensed Boat or a Licensed Fishing Boat, is to be seized.\n\nDuties of Inspector and Assistant Inspectors of Junks and Cargo Boats.\n\nTo be up at Gun fire and report their presence to the Assistant Harbor Master and to execute whatever orders he may give; to board all Junks seen to be coming in and make entries in the Book supplied for that purpose; of the Junks at anchor to board at least Twenty each day and see that all ...\n\nNo Officer to tout for any Tavern, Boarding House, or Store.",
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        "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]",
        "content_text": "467\n\n7\n\n(2)\n\n(b.) The construction of a carriage road from the Village of Little Hongkong traversing comparatively level ground in a South Easterly direction to the Western shore of Deep Water Bay and from thence along the shore, connecting with the existing road at the North Western corner of the Bay.\n\n(c.) The improvement of the existing road from Taitam Tuk to Taitam Gap and\n\n(d) The improvement of the existing road from Chai Wan Gap to Shaukiwan.\n\nMr. GERSTON STEWART attended the meeting of the Sub-Committee on the 7th instant and explained that he considered that, if this project was carried out in the first instance, say to Deep Water Bay, he was of opinion that it would meet a much felt want by affording an opportunity to all persons of enjoying the Southwest monsoon in summer, and he anticipated that if the road was constructed it would be much used both by Europeans and Asiatics.\n\nHe advocated the completion of the project but, in view of the cost involved, he considered that the Government would have to do the bulk of the work. Looking, however, to the revenue derived by the municipality in Shanghai from a wheel tax, he thought it probable that the revenue derived from a similar tax in this Colony would be sufficient to pay the interest on any loan that it might be necessary to raise to meet the expenditure on this project.\n\nMr. STEWART mentioned, as instancing the popularity of his scheme, that in 2 or 3 days, with but little trouble to himself, he obtained nearly 200 signatures to his letter, which number he could easily have doubled since he forwarded his letter, as he has had further applications to sign from all classes of the community. The road Mr. STEWART proposed should be 20 feet in width, but, if found practicable, he advocated an increased width of 30 feet.\n\nMr. STEWART wished Mr. DENISON's letter of the 30th March and Report on the Proposed Road from Belcher's Bay to Taitam Tuk by Messrs. DENISON and KAM, which he handed into the Committee, to be considered in connection with this project and asked that any further details required as to route and cost of the road should be obtained from Mr. DENISON.\n\nMr. Denison's letter dated 30th March, 1897.\n\nIn this letter Mr. DENISON divides the road along the southern side of the island, connecting Kennedy Town with the existing road along the northern side of the island, into seven sections as follows:\n\nSec. 1. B-C from Kennedy Town to the Waterfall, Aberdeen Road.\n\nSec. 2. C-D from the Waterfall to Little Hongkong.\n\nSec. 3. D-E from Little Hongkong to Deep Water Bay.\n\nSec. 4. E-F from Deep Water Bay to Taitam Tuk.\n\nSec. 5. F-G from Taitam Tuk to Taitam Gap.\n\nSec. 6. G-H from Taitam Gap to Chai Wan Gap.\n\nSec. 7. H-A from Chai Wan Gap to Shaukiwan.\n\nIn their report, Messrs. DENISON and KAM advise an alteration in the route over a portion of Sec. 4, viz., from Repulse Bay to Stanley by leaving the present road on the eastern shore of Repulse Bay and contouring the southern and eastern slopes of the hills between Repulse and Stanley Bays.\n\n(3)\n\nMr. DENISON gives the following estimate of the cost of the several sections, the road being 20 feet in width and constructed at a level of from 15 to 20 feet above ordinary high water:\n\nSection 1, $60,000\n\nSection 3, $10,000\n\nSection 4, $5,000\n\nSections 5 and 6, $25,000\n\nSection 4 (amended route), $30,000\n\nTotal......... $130,000\n\nMr. DENISON attended the meeting of the Committee on the 9th instant and explained that he was of opinion that a fairly level road suitable for the passage of wheeled vehicles could be obtained from Kennedy Town to Shaukiwan, excepting from Taitam Tuk to Taitam Gap, round the southern shore of the Island, using such portions of the existing roads as are suitable, for the sum of $130,000.\n\nOver the section from Taitam Tuk to Taitam Gap Mr. DENISON considered the construction of a road suitable for wheeled vehicles to be impracticable.\n\nMr. DENISON had made no detailed survey and estimate and wished it to be understood that without such a detailed survey he did not consider it practicable to make a reliable estimate within 20 per cent.\n\nMr. DENISON concurred in the view expressed by Mr. STEWART that a road 30 feet wide would be better suited for carriage traffic than one 20 feet in width and that the construction of the road would open out building sites and render land in the vicinity of Stanley suitable for the erection of buildings for manufacturing purposes.\n\nMr. DENISON estimated that increasing the width of the road to 30 feet would involve an additional expenditure of $50,000.\n\nOn the 12th instant Mr. DANBY attended the meeting of the Committee and informed Members that he had considered the construction of a road as proposed by Mr. STEWART.\n\nMr. DANBY had, when in the Government Survey Department, been engaged on a similar project for the construction of a 20 foot road from Belcher's Bay to a point about one mile west of Aberdeen, but the project was abandoned as the cost was considered prohibitive.\n\nAs regards the present project Mr. DANBY considered that, speaking generally, the road should be at an elevation of from 75 to 100 feet above sea level so as to be well out of the reach of the sea during heavy south-westerly gales, and that in order that it should be suitable for carriage traffic the steepest gradient should not exceed 1 in 40.\n\nIt was difficult to see how, without the construction of a tunnel at a cost of $400,000, a road suitable for carriage traffic could be constructed from Taitam Tuk to Taitam Gap.\n\nMr. DANBY had considered the construction of this portion of the road on the slopes to the north of the present road and the best gradient obtainable would not be less than 1 in 15, so that carriages could not use it.\n\nMr. DANBY estimated the cost of the road from Kennedy Town to Shaukiwan including the portion from Taitam Tuk to Taitam Gap at a gradient of 1 in 15 at $225,050.",
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        "title": "CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920",
        "content_text": "## \n\n**Avenue 8100.**\n\n**HERBERT SMITH,**  \n**Solicitor.**  \nHS/IL  \nCOB Mark Lane 30232 London. 5.0.3.  \n\n**RES**  \n**IBEL 19 JUN 10!**  \n\nThe Under Secretary of State,  \n18th June 1920.  \nColonial Office,  \nDowning Street, S.W.1.  \n\nSir,  \n547  \nReference 26992/20.  \n\nWith reference to your letter of the 15th instant, I am desired to point out to the Government: -  \n**(a)** That the possibility of opening up Repulse Bay was first brought to general notice by the Promoters.  \n**(b)** That in the Promoters' development plans made in 1913 a Repulse Bay Hotel was shown there and this was discussed with one of the directors of the Hong Kong Hotel Co.  \n**(c)** That but for the Promoters' scheme it is extremely doubtful whether the Government would have built the road connecting Deep Water and Repulse Bays with Little Hong Kong, as no steps had been taken to do this until the Agreement had been sanctioned by the Secretary of State.  \n\nThe Government should understand that the situation in Repulse Bay has not, from the Promoters' standpoint, been altered at all by the opening of an hotel, as this was to have been one of the first efforts of the Development Co.\n\nThe Promoters must claim that they were the first to really make this district a possibility because their early efforts were generally considered as something quite new and they had to educate various parties to their point of view. The development of the South had previously been discussed, but not this portion.\n\nThe delay in submitting the statement was due to circumstances over which the Promoters had no control. They were waiting to ascertain what definite proposition could be put before the Government, and it was only a few...  \n\n(1)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "32\n\nFOR THE\n\nSWIMMING\n\nSEASON\n\nWe are displaying an excellent range of\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nRUBBER BATHING CAPS & SHOES\n\nSWIMMING FLOATS\n\nDo Not Fail to Inspect our Display of JANTZEN'S & JAEGERS'\n\nLADIES' AND GENTS'\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nIn all Colours and Attractive Designs.\n\nThose Pure Wool Costumes are unexcelled for their wearing qualities, comfort and style, and they always retain their shape.\n\nTHE SINCERE CO., LTD.\n\nHOTCHKISS\n\nDON\n\nFALST BROS.\n\nKIRKCALDY\n\nHONGKONG EMPORIUM\n\nAN OLD FAVOURITE BACK AGAIN!\n\nConnoisseurs will remember \"DON\"- the favourite Scotch Whisky of Pre-War Days.\n\nNOW for the first time since the war, we can again supply DON.\n\nSole Agents:\n\nN. S. Moses & Co., Ltd.\n\nWhy Your Printing Should be the Best.\n\nMost people characterise the standing of a firm by its printing. Shoddy, or even mediocre printing gives the impression of mediocrity.\n\nAs you judge a man's character by his habits so do you judge a firm by its methods: its printing, its correspondence, the promptness, and its general tidiness in business.\n\nMake sure your printing is good, clean, and has that touch of distinction which a first-class printer makes his speciality.\n\nUp-to-date and good printing is executed by\n\nSouth China Morning Post,\n\nTel. 440.\n\nLimited\n\n3 Wyndham Street\n\nHongkong.\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST.\n\nTHE\n\nECONOMY IN HOME BUILDING.\n\nTHE OWNER AND THE\n\nARCHITECT.\n\nBy Oswald C. Bering. Published by Robert M. McBride Company, New York $5.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBUILDER.\n\nFOUNDATIONS.\n\nBUILDING PROBLEMS IN HONGKONG.\n\nMuch more general appearance\n\nThe timber pile, both squared and round in a \"tree shape\", have been the most greatly used in the past. These are driven in by a falling weight, or steam hammer, until a specified resistance at each fall is obtained.\n\nTo-day the timber pile has largely been replaced by piles of concrete, steel and combinations of concrete and steel.\n\nConcrete piles can be divided into two classes, viz precast and cast in position.\n\nMr. Hertug has added another to the list that may be met with by architects in the East.\n\nThe \"ground\" in Europe is one of the most important factors of shares and limits average matter, and in addition the conditions of space.\n\nThe precast pile is cast very much in a similar way to that of the thinner pile, and is generally made with a pointed end, and land reclaimed are so found by the soil, or a metal shell is driven into the ground upon completion of all the piling and forethought for back that they can ease to be carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britain, that old or bedding upon \"bad ground\" make a compromise when it comes to inferior quality is not usually a paying proposition, land being generally purchased at rates which are less than the cost of reclamation, or at less than the extra cost\n\nWith the metal shell as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible general pile cure, the shed and the raundiena sufit upon waslabic soil.\n\nArchitects seem to feel pretty strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignorance of the lay Homes, base & valce in giving man, as well as over ambitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space is devoted in this bank to emphasizing the importance of selecting a good architect, and what is more, excending\n\na bilding site may range from portance of rebitecturo as the Dig ind waa an art. I must be honoured with\n\nin\n\nold allowed to haraan, and dzisi\n\nThe precast pi'e la cast ven in a similar way to that ef the thinner pile, and is generally\n\ngood agricultural pie cast in position may\n\nJo\n\nend, and lande reclaimed are so fond by the soil, or a metal shell\n\nInto the\n\nupon completion of\n\nall the pianting and forethought for hack that they can ease to be\n\nWhere the earth forms be mould, at any heantau! thing that is spoken of as cocinimes worth being carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nland metal lobe la driver\n\ncompletion.\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britale, that ocliving driving the tube, concrete is passed pared fo\n\nmake a compromise lard or bedding upon \"bad ground\"\n\ndown the tube, the tube being with-- when it comes to inferior quality is not n staally a paying propal-drawn as the couerote is placed. of materials or -guted dion, lana being reuerally pureba\n\nWith the metal sheli as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible: cunstances, he always indicates as than the cost of reclamation, meral ple cure, the shed and the a smaller scute, or simplified as ur et less than the extra cost\n\nraundiena sufit upon waslabic soil. Architects seem to feel pretty Tan exceptious are to the rase strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignoranes of the Jay Homes, base & valce in giving man, Ax well sa over ubitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space in devoted in this bank to emphasizing the mould mad, to hard rock, or six à bilding site may range from portance of selecting a good arritures varying between these two tect, and what is more, excending Mad, soft ground, or Ta pat fath in bi The aveti-\n\ning.\n\nTHA\n\nIvos sand,\n\nle care being driven into the quil, 5s pic care heirg collapsed when i rewnioz the necteurs depth, and removed, feaving the shell in the ground to form a road to take the concrete.\n\nThe slams for the metal shell are f that before placing the camareis.\n\nhe concrete can do seen, and that the near space to be recupied ly\n\nas the hole is Hired by the motul shell there is no risk of earth o\n\ntect ia a Dinette,\" says Mr. Hat ve of indefinite depth, or ground water becoming mixed with\n\nthickness of there untable soils, the concrete. safely carry the structur covering soi! sufficiently solid tej claimed Jun.\n\nand\n\nHe e insistent on necessity of the architect knowing\n\nOne syle, where the fabe is: his clients understanding their\n\nHe-driven and withdrawn as la con-i needs, and the actual human fac have hoen ased for the disposti of the monid, attaches great value areas which ereta is placed the soil forming tors of thefe problem. The lay-earth, and rebash, come under the to ramming the earth at the foot Tan does not usually balanced picture or the problending or soft ground, which the gile to an enlarged base, over-lie good firm soll before commencing the concreting,\n\n14%\n\na\n\nQuality\n\nTOP NOTCH\"\n\n\"KING GEORGE IV\" Scotch Whisky\n\nSole Agents:\n\nGANDE, PRICE & Co., Ltd.,\n\nHONG KONG\n\nFresh Air on Top\n\nWHEN it is \"set fair\" with\n\nthe thermometer in this eighties\n\nyou CRO awoly command a refre sehga\n\nbreeze from your\n\nand is likely is mopese plans that The sides of water courses are and the camming of the concrete Electric Fan\n\nare inconsistent.\n\nTactful and Firm,\n\nIt is\n\natten of sor 2. var-lying is invera to ratosal, as placed.) The architect must be tactful may a exist, that is, a pool for the plic, and irregular sides which good firm button. The opposite which results in a bulbuions font tel bat in his criticiser. asstatis?, therefore, saleet himmering mud, or louse soft before pay atop a taken in the plays, ar buiting, Indeed, to help\n\nWhere had greend iz met with. the actual selection of the site the normal footings obtained he\n\nis claimed give greater skin letion.\n\nConcrete, it good, as a materiai | tor piles can be spoken of as per\n\nis unually a mistaka to scrno-widening walls un piers. under manent, whether in waler or in the zize in the matter of the custheir base, by bedek esate and ground ur \"hetween wind end of bis services. A selection of pain concrete, may not he efficient water,\" the\n\nIt will keep you fit until holiday-time, and suszała you at concert-pitch afterwards.\n\nOne unit of electricity will drive a small jan for 40 hours.\n\npositiva destrac-THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co., (1918) Ltd.\n\nat.\n\nthe rebt man will mean considersstrecoure over aning arca bu retive to other materials. able economy in purcheses snoduce the load to the amount per 01 subject to rot, at construction laier, and a personal quare foot, Part the soli wil carber. And doe's 201 corrode as does\n\nrunk from wond barers, as is m and artistic interest lu results. Recourse has then to be\n\nmade\n\nchanges, us\n\n50\n\noften it has\n\nArchitect expertaily young to other methods, such as spread and steel, s has the nd ones, make the mistake very often footings, piling, rafts, caissons,ntage, that, however pamarent ef giving a rapid estimate of cost, cylinders, sheel pillow, are a com wood piling sy he, i constantly teiling what the exact date o hinatione of these, according to the\n\nsaturated, there is rot the fear of commation will be. An experi-pe of strucuri and the nature decay if the line of sturation anced maz is too well acquainted of the soil. with finetusiona te the markei, The spread footing is the ineen found to do. There is and unfavourable labour candi-iment of the aormal convete rage, 46180 the increasing difficulty, tions, and uncertain whether to to give additional bearing aves.\n\ntowing the depletion spook Sognaticely on any of these The normal courete foundation foreste, to obtain timber of targe M. dering abould be expabic of wider then the frickenk it up rete may be found to be chaper. matera. God architecte, sage to a watt or pier, being bat ute seartling and when large scantlinga are required, the first cost of con- estimating within 10 per cent of ports, is subjected to but little or the cost. t is recommend that ho tention. he let out contracting directly, in stead of placing this function in the alone of another.\n\nThere are many ways of series\n\ning ccenomy, \"Ruild economical\n\n, but never cheaply,\" says M\n\nHeria, Econcutez depend agon\n\nBy eulanging. It is subjected to\n\ntalle stress in the underside,\n\n(1)\n\nRafii\n\no\n\nRaft foundations have become care into use since the introdie-\n\nand to take up this stress,, rotted of reinforced concrete. Pre-\n\nsteel jufte are inserted or the con- areta is relaforced with zods,\n\nFiling.\n\nWith cerisin scils and where the\n\nbe driven to\n\nVICK= to die introduction of reinforced aonercle, refta were co- steneten in plafa concrete, and sol being reinforced, were af thirdness.\n\n37622\n\nWith s raft the preseard on the\n\nthe nature of the plan, bup of atrasture resis apon the grandi,\n\ncortare, exbica o materials, resuficient piles may duction of regelremonts, market sonsolidate the earth sufferently to jail is diatributed over the waxi-\n\ncluziion. favourableness\n\ncarry the tend. Before driving them se possible, reducing the weather, etc. Cut out non-essen pilas the earth seemed a certain pure per square foot to a min tials first, he recomiende, bistoad space. After the piles are driver, roam, and if pemperly of making a\n\ndezigned, compromise\n\nthec in earth. plz piles, the earth in soft places. quality of materiale. He ecumer\n\nWith few ates and explains more extensive bulk of the driven pile,\n\nasing heen consolidated by the exceptions the site under buildings | ly and technically many others.\n\n1234 ke he movered sith au Supervious Bungalows.\n\nPiles for the purpose of conjayer. In most cases concrete is the solidating soda can be of tallar peatario! used, and this\n\nrerete\" made sufficiently thick\n\nface\n\nand restored, may form the raft.\n\nShowroom 62 Nathan Road, Kawi\n\n60 years ago!\n\nKAYIP\n\nThe Firm of MACKAY introduced LIQUEUR WHISKY Its success has led to the oxistence ni mszy fetior Brande offered under ritar title.\n\nMACKAY'S THE ORIGINAL- 1495EUR WHISKY\n\nBabe in face age and chore Bone pretation of Highland Whisky.\n\nTu Tubos na jou tuing Bred five leading divide throughout the int\n\nGaste no more than dory\n\nObtainable from all the leading\n\nstores in the Colony. WHOLESALE AGENTS-BRADLEY & Co., Ltd.\n\nCOLUMBIA\n\nNEW-PROCESS\n\nRECORDS\n\nMUSICAL COMEDIES\n\nSelection\n\n19\n\n465 THE GEISHA\n\n821 IRENE\n\n723 LILAC DOMINO\n\nWith badldings having basements, the basement level mag he balex\n\n666 MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS 932 BRIGHTER LONDAR\n\n12\n\n27\n\n645 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\n659 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\nTe duretes & chapter cach tepes to the used for beading country house. suburban town piles, but in several ecare pales of Aud semi-domestic. In the counhard materialy having no cobesion try and sobarben heuse it is a have been used, such as sacó, eliz importens to develop the exterior (kers, stores, pl.\n\nwater level, requiring reinforce! Surroundings as the interior de\n\nFrich pile of curò, stone or other ment against the opward ad in. tails. The arcaiteet must be con- Part materials, boles are formed ward presauce of water, the ruft earned with lawns, shrubbery, driving and removing pilas of useiber with the barzeniest walls, kennels.\n\nfilling thereoning a watertight box\n\nmaterials, aged in water bearing toil\n\nThe Puthor is heeed, or metal, and etc. arused at the surr of gull hole with the bead\n\nmen whe extat at having to with bearing les, that is plas A raft foundation may be mora \"pay an architect to design\n\nwhich support a structure, such as jerononteal, even when in itself it chicken coop\" Bungalows are a pier over open water and build costs more, then foundations taken\n\n¡Ay chase\n\nnot ganerally inexpensive, as ings on soft sort or liquid mud, the down to a low level, glling, when supposed. They must always bo freeistance against ponetration of the taking down of the founda! pleaned to ennform to the scythe pie may be obtained by its roations, the ailing roundings. The ideal way\n\nreaching sold ground, ot by dodge to dosing property.\n\n(Minders. Cylinders of iron and steel, and\n\nplanning a town house is to et tion of the soil against te sides,\n\nla group of people to share in les partiz by both it being driven\n\nlot having a common central gerte a suficient depth to stala treiufgrend coutrete, sinh tuto sott\n\nen and Como architectu friction, or support at its foot. style that can be planned har\n\nrol, water, wad and, and les moniously.\n\n279 FLORODORA\n\nVocal tems\n\n309 LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE\n\nAT\n\nANDERSON'S\n\nThe põe supported at its fot, with concrete, have been used. pose of being between groups of for that porting id a pie surround- Je some Chat:x eylinders have pites and giving rigidity.\n\nnd by water or liquid and giving surrounded groups or piles, the\n\nFor work of ar engineering\n\nHe discusses frateruity houses had the comparative lack of le rtle or na aters! support and piles being Srst drivan, the e7lindratare, enfssons of metal or rein. terest in their style. One of the friction, becomes a column and is ers, dropped over greaps of pites. forced concrete have heat, fosted Cardinal fundar.ontal guad subjected to siplar stresses to the ender resting on the bottom, to prition, suk architecture is dit \"the fecade those which columns are subjected and after the exlindars\n\n0:1 prepaved and plac shall express the par- to, and can be calculated as such. position, ing them\n\nare in beds, and filled with stones or son- prae of the building.\" The funda A feree, the concrete filling the spaces imental in move or leva nuylerted personally\" in the architecture of between the piles sed the naise sood supporting soils, in spite of in our semi-derarstic buildings. their homes. Throughout the vo- of the eslinder. By this mean, folical platements to the can-\n\nwith\n\n200-\n\nxk.\n\nCertain ally, ench as sund, are\n\nthe trury, providing they are not do a\n\nMr. Horing shows farther jamo one is coracleas of the au- support is obtained from amusement at the ladies who de there gesuire belief in the files. ne elinder and concrete position in which they can sore,\n\nand pure pemodse styles: atzo, portance and eigalheance of the inside binding thure who insist upon \"expressing Fart.-Christian Science Monitor piles together, serving\n\nthe pa\n\nof and to prevent spreading the elte\n\nthe par- can be enclosed by abeak piling, of\n\ntimber, iron, steel, er reinforced concrete. Sheet pillay, at comple tion, could be described as a box ariere, without top on bottom, enclosing the ground on which. the batting elands.\n\nScrew Piles\n\nThese are main! cylinders with \"screw\" anda, the pile being ra rolved and anteng the soil in a similar way to that of wood screw entering wood.\n\nTheir most frequent use is for light piers where the sea bottom le sand.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nTHE\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST,\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:\n\nPEAK HOTEL.\n\nTulographie Address: KREMLIN, HONGKONG.”\n\nAND\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACH HOTEL;\n\nKALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: \"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.\"\n\nHOTELS,\n\nLIMITED.\n\n43 association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits. Peking,\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL.\n\nTHE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON, First Class Billiard Room and Satoon Bar.\n\nSHIPPING\n\nSTRIKE SITUATION.\n\nDEARTH OF CHINESE KIVER CARGOES.\n\nArrical and Departures.\n\nJUNG VOYAGERS.\n\nCHRISTIAN COLLEGIANS ARRIVE AT CANTON.\n\nUdging the Searchlights.\n\nNEWS\n\nFRENCH FLAGSHIP.\n\n13\n\nP. & O. BRITISH INDIA, APCAR AND RASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIZA IRMOTROzed in ENGLAND) STATEO, JAVA ↳ OTTAMA, CREION, INDIA, PENSJAN GAFLF, WHAT IEDARA,\n\nKARTICA, ART & HOVE AFRICA, ANSA RAL-ANIA. INCLEDINU AR\n\nZNALAND & 4URENSLAND POSTA. RED HEA. WIEFT, ZUBOPY, KTO\n\nPENINNITLAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DAVET ROYAL MAIL UTKANADA\n\nSPER CONTRACT WI\n\nH. GYERSNXXT}\n\nIONS PROM TONGKONG ABOUT\n\n20th August.\n\nPENDING CHANGE IN NAVAL NARKUNDA...\n\nKIDDERPORE\n\nJEYPORA\n\nCOMMAND.\n\nKHYBER...........\n\nThe French battleship Jules\n\nNAGPORE\n\nof V140 Farry, ying the faz\n\nTILAWA TALAMBA\n\nTANDA...\n\nThe sixaution in the matter of\n\nAs was exclusively uncunced Admiral Prochos, Commander-in- ocean Donte shipping remains un- in the relature of the S. C. f. Post Ja Phart uime ago, a parts of Sqaadran, arrived yesterday over- sries and clearances varies but Americana left Hongkong toring and anchored in Kowloon ARAFURA\n\ntie. Cargoes are small in quan Canion by two fucks which were Bay as there are at present yo tity and few ju number. For the chartered For the purpose of berthe available in the man of yast fon; weeks shipments of more convering coroat and building war anchorage.\n\nthen\n\nThe usual ma\n\n0.334\n\n105\n\nDESTINATION\n\n42wers & wartorg-\n\n16,237 8th Sept., soon.rition & Fanuch.\n\n5,218\n\n17th Sept.\n\n0.114 19th September.\n\n5,83\n\njeet Soudna, Miles, London,\n\nLaterpell\n\n3465 September. patebay.\n\nBRITISH INDIA-LOCAH BAJURGS INDUTA\n\n10,000 24th September. 3'pore, Pung & Calcutta\n\n18,018 9 October.\n\nEASTENNÉ SUSTRALIAN RATING (SOUTH)\n\n16,9505\n\n8,000!\n\n2nd Sept.\n\nMaa, Sandokat Chnes. Is\n\n7th October Tarifle, B'ban, 'eer, &\n\nMethaurns.\n\nSADAMA win aga quli ni Turbo The 1. 9.3. Cu td. seatures will zien dil; of Shangkhu, B\n\nShaazhki, Dzsin. Debit, Kalam. The Timber Darwin, as her wine wich tho towing\n\nFrogweat conrad An the New Zaki, Tante\n\nas rand_nta\n\nSatan and soudit via Panama Canal.\n\nThe Ure 5.9. Company ateaders to the United Kingoeta 1,000 tons have beys rare, material to the Canton Christina {tional salutics were fired, and sise and now, even the local Chinese College under the leadership of the fing saiule in Vice Admiral whe may usually be depended upon 31r. Crumpton, No information Sinclair. which were duly re- to furnish small freights for river joald be obtained at the time turned. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor, Tels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkongingle package of cargo was ten who was acting as super Vion Admiral\n\nGnder the Persound Baparvicken and Matogoriană di\n\nFRANK L. COOKE.\n\nProprietor.\n\nKING EDWARD HOTEL. Electric lifts and Lighting. Telephone on each Floor, Hotel Launch Meets All Steamers.\n\nTol. Central No. 370.\n\nTelegraphle Address: \"VICTORIA.\" J. WITCHELL, Manager.\n\nST. GEORGE'S HOUSE. KENNEDY ROAD,\n\nPrivate Hotel, affording Every Comfurt.\n\nLARGE AND OF HARBOUR\n\nAIRY ROOMS. SPLENDID EXCELLENT CUISINE UNDER SUPERVISION OF THE PROPRIETKISS.\n\nLOSSIUS, Proprietress.\n\nFor te suply to\n\nThe only hotel in CANTON\n\ndirectly under European\n\nManagement.\n\nNAGPORE... 5,248\n\nSANJIS TO BHANGHAIR LAYER.\n\n26th August.\n\nHI\n\n......$10,000\n\nShanghai, Moji & Kobe.\n\n4th September. Sbbai, Moji kote. 6th September. Kebe.\n\nì deben re afrasimme wid subtrat in alteration without quiler. Wielan\n\nSTRAWERS. Parede og not mon than 21, x 16. × 7 th, will be prerived as ike Lumping's (not up lo egia on the day previous to unitis\n\nFanburding.\n\nB\n\ncestt, even though the pun la voly ether arough the Acerts The arrival of the dulos Perry KARMALA ......\n\nMac, are showing no Comandate of the Harbour Of is a proliminary to the charge OVET TILAWA design m despatch goods. Pas through which latter place in of the Commander-in-Chiership senzar hookings by the river sail- lucka cleared with no mention of at the squadron. Rear Admiral ings yesterday were good, but not 'pautengere other than Mr. Crnan- Basir is to be the successor of Fruchot, and will sen. ap.\n\nMules Michelet at as early data. 24 hours ending #sam yesterday Information has now been re After the command has been showed o vessels in harthour, of seived which confirms the state turned over, the Jules Ferry will which wery British, with 12 meu then made and this is to the leave for France, the new arrival arrivals and 11 doyartures. Bri- affect that the voyagers have becoming the Bugship in Lish shipping contributed six and reached Carton.\n\ntwo respectively, to these guzes. Warpon was reached at 2 a.. Arrival were the British ships on Sunday morning and taking Empress of Casada from Vancon- advantage of the darkness, the ver and Shanghai with 186 tour of junka alipped in ander the nearch- fouz, amigenium salphate aut Hights which awept the Back mails, Yut Shing from Bangkes Rear, without being detected. with 2,260 tons of rice and general There is no shipping activity\n\nThe\n\nstead,\n\nPARENTS PERTAINI\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nSHANGHAI DECLARED\n\nCHOLERA-INFECTED\n\nPORT.\n\nker\n\nand two bags of mails, Nam Sang in Canton, but sumbers of snail The following notice to muzinera: from Yokohama nt Shanghai boats are fraighting vegetables has been posted at the Harbour with 1,205 tena of general, tonius and produce from outlying die Once, seved by the authorities Revolutionary placards at Canton under date. August 13:\n\nHarbour Notification No. 1 of 1923. Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Custome and Representatives of Poreign Con- sale Bodiaz bave declared the port of Shanghai to be infected. AR vessels arriving therefrom either at Pantee or Whangea on and after this date are to be guvern\n\njing dangerous goods (firecrackerstricts. Tel. Central 116.\n\n(and matches) and 359 bags. of fare posted about the city treiting all, Jaining from Poochow and the people to take action agata\n\nforeig oppressore. Amoy with 50 tona ganerai and the mails, Hallie from Sulyon with gates to Alamen ure picketed 3.921 tons of ride and gear and the Chinese side to prevent any three bags of mail, Clearailah conuuunication with the defen Srum Sieganore and Hoi Nam with dore. Contradictory rumours are cur general, one bag of mulls and 200 deck paterpgera. the American reut with regard to the shipping\n\nTHE VICTORIA HOTEL,\n\nSHAMEEN,\n\nGuides\n\nand trips arranged for\n\nand special care\n\ntaken of TOURISTS. Cable Address 1 \"VICTORIA.\"\n\nEMPRESS LODGE.\n\nTel Kowloon. 296. fel. Add: \"presloge.\"\n\n8, Mudy Hoad, Kowloon Up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes walk from the Ferry Newly furnished, with latest sanitary bath- Under Barpervision of the Pro- Excellant ralaine.\n\nMom?\n\nprintress.\n\nPor termos apply to Mrs. M. O. MURPHY, Propristress\n\nPALACE HOTEL.\n\nTel. Address \"PALACE.” Tel. Kowiuon No. B.\n\nThres mátutes irom Kowlen Wharf, Ferry Wharf and RawaJ Station, Entirely Bater English Management. Eletele Light and Faus throughout. Every Rovin with Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Hilliard Rooms. turivalled Cuisine onder the personal supervision of the proprietor. Terma moderate, Special terms to families on appli\n\nJ. T. OXBEREY, Proprietor. tion to:\n\nSTATION HOTEL,\n\nTel. Add: \"Termotel” KOWLOON. Code used a.B.C. 5th. First class aud most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes' walk from Ferry. Moderate Larid and recst axel- lent cuisine auder entirely European tuanagement Monthly and Family rates can be arranged at mest reasonable terms.\n\nAPPLY THE MANAUERESS, Kowloon.\n\nTHE CARLTON HOTEL.\n\nUNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT. Splendidly Situated in the Heart of the European Secilon Convenient to the Ferry and to the Baalucss Centres.\n\nA First Class Besidential and Tourist Hotel with all the Convenienes of Homo. Large Airy Rooms. Hot and Cold Water.\n\nCuisine ander the Immediate Direction of the Proprietress Monthly and Family rates at moderate ternis.\n\nFor tartas upply to Mra M. BLAKE.\n\nTelephone No. C. 812,\n\nNu. 30, Lee House Street,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.\n\nTelegraphic address \"ASTOR”\n\nTelephone Contra! 10,\n\n13. Queen's Road Central: A first clase Hotel centrally located, large and airy rODINE, completely renovated and refinished. New Ulzing Room\n\nuidine. Meals a la Carte. Excellent\n\nMouthly Tickets for Fists and Duners. Under entirely new Management,\n\nH. A. VAZ, Nanager.\n\nROGATE.\n\nTel Address \"Rogate\" Kowloon,\n\nTel. 851.\n\n158-160 Austin Read, Kuwloun. Newly furnished. Up-to-date Priests Hotel. Excellent Oni sine. Moderate Term.. tinder personal supervision of the Proprietres\n\n\"ALBANY.\"\n\nResidential Hotel, Nos. 3 & 4 The Albany. Overlooking the Botanical Gardens. Under personal supervision of the Proprietress. Telephone Central 615.\n\nMADAM ASA UTANI.\n\nJAVANESE MASSEUSE. FACE MASSAGE. MASSAGE\n\n25, Wellington Street:\n\nMASSAGE HALL.\n\nMRS. 3. UZUNOVE\n\nHapert Massgeule,\n\n37, Queen's Road Central,\n\nA similar notice has been issued\n\ntaamer West Faralun from Los 10 the port, that gaining most Angeles and Manila with 196 tas iredence being to the edest that by the Excilay Regulations feri of general and President McKinicy to impose a tax of 23,000 or be the authoriting stentsin in\n\nthe Cunninginner of Commerce is the port of Canton. from Manila with 12 tone of\n\nvessels discharging, while 41. general and 10 bags of all, the monopoly has her granted to theviation to that port and Chin- German vereis Piala on Hardessane for a large sum, the x-\n\n(wengizo under date August 12.\n\nJourg and Marilu with 365 tona of\n\nyoueral and six bags of mai, the out of which is not naked. Japanese reasol Osake Mary from\n\nNAVY LAUNCH BLAZE. TWO MEN SENT TO HOSPITAL.\n\nMuch of this stegnation is due Two American seemen, the en-!\n\nCalcutta and Singapore with 320 by the Autenor for Sagapore and tons of general, nails chectical President Kinley and Bevenue products, and 13 bags of mail, the for Shanghai. Chineze ucastor Chung Hing from Kwangeheuwan with 180 tone of the increasing difficulty ofgineer and the electrician of abippers in obtaining export per- U. S. 8. Beaver's speed launch, firewood, vegetables and poultry.\n\nmita for lee, the stonks of which whlen was destroyed by fire at! Departures\n\nin the Colony, are now belevet in the Army and Navy Club landing Departure were the Brish be below is reserve margin. at Maul are now in the Set- vessels Isaching for Amoy, Pru- Another contributing factor berg General Hosptial. The men tecilaus for Shanghai, Japanese appears to be the belfer sung the jare badly burved, according to a Towels Koren Mora for Keelung, Chinese generally that something navy officer interviewed at the Tsuruga Alara For Shanghai, drastic is about to happen either place of the fire.\n\nlein Maru for Tallar Bay and on one side or the other. The\n\nflames completely demolished Jajo Man for Swate, the Datel more credulone point to the con- the high power engine and burned auction dredger G.G. Ideoburg Jucant exercising of seaplanes the inside of the launch, causing (Netherlands Harbour Works) fox and the large number of warships Jamage estimated at $5.00). The Macao, Tisondari for Bhunghai, jad present in harbour, as evidence forigin of the fire le vakowa. the Gormer vernal Pfalz for that the British Government is it was extinguished half an hour, Shanghai, the Chinese coaster about to take action. No amount of Jafter it started.\n\nThe been aboard and the crew Kazura fur drony and the tallat explanation will disillusion them, moter vessel Eaquino for Shang- and thts toeling is permeating the of the launch Genecock I put hal. Clearances were taken out lantize native commercial fabric.\n\nTHE\n\ncut the blaze.\n\nHONGKONG & KHAMPOA DOGK CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS MANIFESTO\", HONGKONG; UndesUsed: A1, A.B.C. Film Edition: Engineering: Fire and Second Edition: Western Union and Watking, Banson's Marcom.\n\nDock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.\n\nOIL TANK STEAMER \"PALUDINA.\"\n\n412, 0′ x 58′ 1′′ x 31′ 0′′ x 3,400 tons Lw. x 3,300 H..\n\nBuilt by THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO, LTD., at KOWLOON DOCK\n\nso the ordero THE ANGLO SAXON PETROLEUM CO., IND.. being one of fusimilar\n\nVessels built in those WORKS to the same order.\n\nPlease address enquiries to the Chief Manager :-\n\nR. M. DYEE. B SC.. M.IN.A.. Kowloog Dock. Hongkong.\n\nFor Tenage Rates, Unzufbooka, Farizate, may apply że\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co., Alamur\n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD,\n\nAgents for the following Services.\n\nAMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE BOSTON, NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS\n\n1st September.\n\nM.V. \"ELMBANK”-\n\nrta Suez Canai\n\nNEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE TELLERMAN & HUCKNALL BS. Co., Ltd.) 8,8. \"HALVERNIAN\" via Suez Canal 19th September. 3.S. \"WALTON HALL\"'\n\n7th Oe.ober\n\nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT \"ELLERMAN\" LINE (EILERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO. LTD.)\n\nSth September S.S. KNOWSLEY HALL\" For Marseilles, London, Dunkirk and Hamburg. MODERATE PASSAGE BATES TO MARSEILLES & LONDON\n\nMAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA ORIENTAL-AFRICAN LINE\n\nMiddle August.\n\nS.S. SURAT\" Leading for Maurities, Delagea Bay, Durham, East London, Alges Bay. Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay & Capetown.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading lawned to Betra, Quilimaine, Lio, Port Amelia. Sezambique. Chlude, Iabambane, Zanzibar, Houmassa, Kindlat, Vezi Nellat. Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay & Madagascar.\n\nAUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE. (Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. Co., Ltd.) Sallings from Singapore og 6th of every month by \"City of Palerma or \"Maistine\" to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne nad Sydney, and vice versa. Through Freight and Passenger doakings from flong- tong in conjunction with \"Elterman\" Lice or other services.\n\nFor freight or passage on any of the above lines apply to:-\n\nTel. C. 4791 THE BANK LINE, LTD.\n\nBOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF THE\n\n\"BLUE FUNNEL\" LINE. KOCHAN BS, CO, LTD & CHINA MUTUA), S.8. Co., LTD.\n\nAND\n\nAMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINK.\n\nELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 8.S. CO. LT).\n\nBAILINGS FROM BONOKONG\n\nrie Suez Canal\n\n8.. \"Laomedon\"\n\n6.5. \"Peteus\n\n5.8. \"Haivurnjan\"\n\nB.S. Teneer'\n\n1\n\n26th Augast.\n\n7 September.\n\n19th September.\n\n28th September.\n\nSteamers proceed vis Huer Chant or Panama Cagni st owners' option\n\nSubject to Change without notice.\n\nFor freight and particulses apply to:- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, or THE BANK LINE. 19. Bangkang,\n\nHongkong & Canton Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd.\n\nCat1 du\n\nCOMPANIA TRANSATLANTICA DE BARCELONA Spanish Royal Mail Line For MANILA, SINGAPORE COLOMBO, SUÈL. PORT Sam, BARCELONA & other SPANISH PORTS.\n\n3.8.0. LOPEZ I LOPEZ\"\n\n3.5. ISLA DE PANATU\n\n8.8, LESAZгI\"\n\nBAJ\n\n... for Yokosms, Koba, Koji & Shanghai.\n\nS.8. 187. DE PANAY”\n\n33. \"LEGAZPI\n\n... 3rd September. 2046 Votober.\n\n18th December,\n\n.. 8th Octobe\n\n2. Ja, 1986.\n\n30th Nov.\n\nThe manors of this Company are all eisused 200 41 at Lloyd'e and ar modern cottrenience for the enzufort and safety of sha\n\nEtte with wards and Doctor carrisé.\n\nO. D. BA'RRETTO, LA..\n\nFor freight andjur pannage apply to-\n\nCentral Avenue, B. C. CANTON.\n\nBOTELHO KROS.\n\nAvezzanīra Bailding.\n\nHangkang",
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        "content_text": "FORGED NOTES.\n\nJuly 16. Before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday, a Chinese timber merchant was charged with being in possession of three forged ten-dollar bank notes.\n\nEvidence was given of defendant's arrests with the notes in his possession when about to board the 3.8, \"Kinshan\" for Macao.\n\nMr. M. K. Lo, who appeared for the defence, said that the notes were given to the defendant by a friend in Canton. On his arrival in Hongkong defendant found that the notes were forged and decided to take them back to Canton. Mr. Lo submitted that there had been no intention of uttering the notes in Hongkong.\n\nHis Worship held there was a grave doubt in the case and discharged the defendant.\n\nCALIFORNIA COLLEGIANS.\n\nJuly 15 Brick Morse's California Collegiana, formerly the University of California Glee Club, boasts an exceedingly talented soloist in Mr. Clyde Diddle, a senior at the University and President of the organisation. He has been with the club for four years, and has made a trip to the Orient, to Alaska, through Canada, and to Europe, on each of which trips his work as bass soloist has been highly contributive to the success of the club.\n\n\"Ve Mas-\n\nDiddle, when interviewed said, \"In my opinion the programmes which we are presenting now are of the highest calibre possible. We have always presented numbers which have been good, but as we have gained experience, and guided by our friend and leader, C. R. Marae, we have reached a state now of which we can boast,\" ranging all of the way from Dvorak's \"Largo,\" from the New World Symphony, to soft shoe dancing by \"Sta\" and \"Monk\".\n\nDiddle's mellow voice can hardly be described. It is one thing that we cannot tell you all about. But one which you will still be talking about when you leave the theatre. His singing has been in popular demand around San Francisco this last year. You'll be thrilled if you hear him at the Theatre Royal on July 19 and 21.\n\nAt the Kowloon Magistracy on July 16, a Chinese was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment for loitering about in the vicinity of the Observatory early on Wednesday morning and creating a disturbance.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\n1\n\nTHIEF CAUGHT.\n\nJuly 16,\n\n\"That was a smart piece of work,\" remarked Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning when he was told that Mr. B. A. Hyder had caught a Chinese who was charged with the larceny of $20 from an old man at Des Voeux Road near the Wing On Company, yesterday forenoon.\n\nIt was stated by Inspector Spear that the defendant extracted the money from complainant's pocket and was seized by the owner. Defendant broke away by discarding the money and escaped in the direction of the Wing Lok Street wharf where he was caught.\n\nMr. Hyder's attention was drawn to the runaway by a whistle blown by the conductor of a passing tram car. He said that he ran down a side lane leading into Connaught Road anticipating that the man would come that way and got him just in time.\n\nDefendant was sent to prison with hard labour for three months.\n\nSTOLEN UMBRELLA?\n\nJuly 16.\n\nUnlawful possession of umbrella was the charge against a ricksha coolie before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning.\n\nThe article was believed to have been stolen, although the owner was not found. Divisional Inspector Blackman said that defendant was seen in Tal Wong Street carrying the umbrella and was arrested on suspicion by a constable.\n\nDefendant said he paid 40 cents for the umbrella and intended making a present of it to his wife.\n\nHis Worship: I see you are a perfect husband. Three weeks hard labour.\n\nThis summer throughout Hongkong there will be ten Vacation Bible Schools conducted by local Chinese Christians, beginning July 19. More than 1,500 children are expected to attend. These Vacation Schools continue for one month. They are under the direction of Mr. Chang King-suen, of the Chinese YMCA.\n\nThe recent murder of an office boy at Connaught Road Central was again mentioned at the Central Magistracy this morning when the alleged assailant, another office boy who was caught and brought back from Macao, was brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell. The case was fixed for hearing on Thursday next.\n\nMORE RED TAPE.\n\nFor the first time in three years as far as the \"China Mail\" is concerned the weather forecast for the first part of the week-end cannot be given owing to Government blunder, or red tape, or both.\n\nHitherto the \"China Mail\" has given the forecast on Saturdays, the same being obtained by telephone to cope with printing hours.\n\nBecause the No. 1 typhoon signal was hoisted, the Kowloon clerk-in-charge said that we must refer to the manager. The manager ultimately told us that the Government had supplied them with a list of people who may ring up the Observatory when the typhoon signal is up. The \"China Mail\" is not on that list.\n\nReaders who are in two minds as to picnics, recreation, excursions, sailings, cargo-working, business &c. will have to remain in the dark.\n\nThe reason for this withholding of vital information from the public must be made known.\n\nNo. 2998.—July 22, 1926.\n\nMOTOR ACCIDENTS.\n\nJuly 17.\n\nDivisional Inspector Peter Grant, of No. 7 Police Station, West Point, met with an accident while driving a motor cycle combination in Bonham Road shortly after noon yesterday.\n\nIn taking the turn near the Ying Wah College, the side car raised. The machine skidded and collided with a Hongkong Hotel motor bus which was just then coming round the corner.\n\nThe Inspector escaped with slight injury to his left knee, but he was able to get about this morning. Damage to the motor cycle was small, but the body of the motor bus had the paint work scraped off and the head lights were also damaged.\n\nStubbs Road Collision. Another accident occurred at Stubbs Road yesterday forenoon while Miss Stewart, of the Repulse Bay Hotel, was driving a motor car, but the occupants escaped injury.\n\nMiss Stewart's car collided with another car coming in the opposite direction and was slightly damaged.\n\nVOLUNTEER ORDERS.\n\nThe following is taken on the strength on July 12, 1926, and posted to the Reserve Company.\n\nNo. 1064 Pte. H. West,\n\nResignations.\n\nThe following are permitted to resign from the Corps:-\n\nNo. 827 Pte. W. D. Goodfellow, M.C. Reserve Company dated June 30, 1926.\n\nNo. 826 Pte. J. M. Walker, Reserve Company dated July 22, 1926.\n\nNo. 909 Pte. J. I. Litton, A. C. Company dated June 10, 1926.\n\nNo. 702 Pte. G. S. Hugh-Jones, Engineer Company dated June 16, 1926.\n\nStruck Off.\n\nThe following having left the Colony are struck off the strength, as from May 1, 1926.\n\nNo. 576 Pte. H. E. Hollanda, Armoured Car Company.\n\nNo. 967 Pte. J. F. Caldas, No. 4 Platoon.\n\nNo. 828 Pte. G. H. Gibson, Reserve Company.\n\nMiss Irene Frank and Dr. Ralph Gill were united in marriage at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Graham in Shanghai on Saturday afternoon, July 8. Mr. Drury officiated. Dr. and Mrs. Gill left for Singapore where they will establish their home. Mrs. Gill taught in the American School for one year and was a member of the church. Dr. Gill established a practice in Hongkong as a dentist.\n\nSCOUTS' WORK.\n\nNo. 6 Hongkong (Ellis Kadoorie School) Troop of Boy Scouts gathered at the School hall at Sookumpoo on Friday to welcome Sir Henry Gollan, the Chief Justice, who has shown a keen interest in the movement by presenting a challenge cup for inter-patrol competition annually.\n\nIn the awarding of the cup to the winning patrol, special attention will be paid to efficiency, attendance and conduct.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nCHINA PROVIDENT.\n\n241\n\nIn accordance with the Articles of Association the Very Rev. F. L. Robert, Messrs. H. P. White, T. G. Weall, Lee Koon-san and W. J. Hawker retire, and are eligible for re-election.\n\nA net deficit of just over two million dollars is the result of last year's working of the China Provident, Loan and Mortgage Co., Ltd., as shown by the books of the Company.\n\nSome months ago, an extraordinary meeting was convened at which a committee of six shareholders was appointed to investigate, with technical assistance, the financial position of the company, following some sensational disclosures.\n\nThe annual general meeting has been fixed for July 22, date, the report for the year ended December 31, 1925, will be presented, together with the statement of accounts.\n\nActual Profit.\n\nThe actual result of the year's working shows a profit of $46,125.57, plus $200,000 transferred back from Reserve, giving a credit balance of $246,125.57.\n\nThe party, which consisted of the following:- Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood (Director of Education), Mr. F. I. de Rome (Headmaster), the Rev. G. T. Waldegrave (Scout Commissioner), Scoutmaster T. K. S. Leung, Assistant Scoutmaster Yu, and masters of the School, adjourned with Sir Henry to the hall where the Scouts gave a display in signalling and ambulance work.\n\nMr. de Rome thanked Sir Henry Gollan for his attendance and interest in the Troop and spoke to the Scouts on the value of maintaining the efficiency of the Troop.\n\nSir Henry Gollan then addressed the gathering and presented the challenge cup. This was followed by a short speech by the Scoutmaster. The Scout Commissioner in a speech traced the history of the Troop, which was a good one, and commented on the Scout movement which was not only local but world-wide.\n\nThe various speeches were interpreted by Mr. K. S. Lam, who has just retired from the Scoutmastership of the Troop after several years' good service.\n\nCheers were then called for and the gathering dispersed after the singing of the British and Chinese national anthems.\n\nIt is notified in the Government Gazette with reference to the Vicar Apostolic Incorporation Ordinance, 1885, Ordinance No. 4 of 1885, and to Government Notification No. 118 of 1924, that the Right Reverend Henry Paschal Valtorta, Bishop of Lera, is now Vicar Apostolic of The Roman Catholic Church in this Colony.\n\nAuditors.\n\nThe accounts have been audited by Messrs. Linstead and Davis and Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming who are eligible for re-election.\n\nNotice has been lodged with the Company, by certain shareholders, that it is their intention to propose the election of Messrs. Lowe, Pingham and Matthews as auditors for the current year.\n\nAUDITORS' REPORT.\n\nThe report states:-\n\nWe beg to report to the shareholders that we have audited the foregoing balance sheet with the books, documents and vouchers of the Company.\n\nA snapshot taken at the recent motor-cycle and pony gymkhana, promoted by the Mounted Section and Armoured Car Companies of the Volunteer Defence Corps. Above are seen the Mounted Infantry taking up their positions for the tent-pegging.\n\nALLEGED ASSAULT.\n\nJuly 17. Complaints of the behaviour of certain people in the Happy Valley district which had led to disagreeable circumstances were referred to at the Central Magistracy yesterday when A. H. Hartman, of 11 Tai Wong Street, Wanchai, and H. M. Ismail, of 13 Sharp Street, were charged with assaulting two Chinese ladies.\n\nThe incidents deposed to took place on July 7 as the two Chinese ladies were walking back from the path leading to the Monument having accompanied their mother part of the way home after her visit to them at their home in Leighton Hill.\n\nThree road cyclists were alleged to have been involved in the assault which consisted of catching hold of the ladies as they passed and squeezing them.\n\nIn response to the girls' screams, it was stated, the brother of one of the ladies appeared on the scene and knocked one of the cyclists from his machine. A Chinese constable also made an appearance.\n\nThe shop from which the cycles were hired was communicated with and it was stated that the three men who had taken the cycles had erased their names. A clerk of the cycle shop was called to give evidence and he stated that it was the second defendant who had erased the names.\n\nAfter making the following adjustments, which are considered necessary:\n\nWrite off Property ... $895,539.02\n\nWrite off Investment Account ... 144,951.54\n\nTransfer to Reserve for Bad and Doubtful Loans ... 1,123,680.48\n\nTransfer to Reserve for Bad and Doubtful Debts ... 26,106.98\n\nTransfer to General Reserve ... 161,736.83\n\n$2,351,015.66 The result a debit balance of $2,107,790.09, plus $18,925.50 brought forward from last year, has leaving a nett deficit of $2,086,864.50.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has appointed provisionally and subject to His Majesty's pleasure, the Hon. Mr. Dallas Gerald Mercer Bernard to be an Unofficial Member of the Executive Council during the absence from the Colony of the Hon. Sir Edward Pollock, K.C., with effect from July 10.\n\nConsulting Committee.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor in Council has directed that the name of Mr. Frederick Lanchester Foster-Turner be added to the List of authorised architects.\n\nWe have not seen satisfactory vouchers in respect of the sum of $112,946, under the heading of work expenses made during the strike.\n\nIt appears to us that owing to the late allotment of certain shares, the dividend for the year 1924 was incorrectly paid, involving a small loss to the Company.\n\nUnder section 90 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, His Excellency the Governor in Council has ordered that the Chinese Cemetery, Mesara, J. H. Taggart and T. de Christian Meester retired from Kowloon Tong, known as New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 18, shall be closed from and after August 1, 1926.\n\nMr. W. J. Hawker was invited to join the Committee in place of Mr. J. H. Taggart.\n\nSubject to the above remarks, in our opinion, the foregoing balance sheet is properly drawn up as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the Company's affairs.",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nTUNNEL BOYS.\n\nJuly 17.\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, by the kindness of Mr. P. R. Warren of Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., ninety-one boys of the Diocesan Boys' School and three members of the staff went through the tunnel at Golden Hill.\n\nA launch was taken to Chun Wan, from which place the boys walked about one mile along the road and a second mile up the hill to the power house, which is situated between the two tunnels being made to bring the water from Shing Mun Valley.\n\nThe party was met by Mr. P. R. Warren and Mr. Crossley. About thirty of the senior boys were shown the power house and the machinery, and then went about 1,000 feet into the tunnel leading to the Shing Mun Valley.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nNARROW ESCAPE.\n\nJuly 17. Mr. W. Curtis, of the Duro Garage, had a remarkable escape from severe injury yesterday when travelling in a car which was being towed from Taipo after a breakdown. A Chinese driver who was with him was seriously hurt and was conveyed to the Kwong Wah Hospital.\n\nThe accident was due to the tow rope breaking, the impetus carrying the car over the edge of the road down the steep incline onto the foreshore (at the straight stretch of road running parallel to the sea front at Shatin). The car descended with force onto the rocks below, and Mr. Curtis and the driver were thrown out despite the fact that the hood was up.\n\nA breakdown gang which went out later in the day to salvage the car found it impracticable, in view of the difficulty of access, the incoming tide, and the damage sustained, to do other than retrieve certain undamaged parts.\n\nUpon enquiry at the Kwong Wah Hospital this morning, we were informed that the driver was progressing favourably.\n\nThe Hongkong Realty and Trust Company are calling up $2.50 a share on 170,000 shares. Such call will be payable at the registered offices of the Company on August 4.\n\nMr. J. H. Taggart, Managing Director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd., left Shanghai aboard the s.s. \"Prezident Pierce\" for the United States on the 8th instant. He will visit there and England before returning to the Orient about next November.\n\n[No. 2998.—July 22, 1926.\n\nTRAFFIC CHANGES.\n\nJuly 17.\n\nThe regulations set forth on pages 617 to 665 of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1844-1925, under the heading Vehicles and Traffic Regulation, are amended as follows:-\n\n(1) by the addition of the following paragraph to and at the end of regulation 54:-\n\n(2) \"Ice House Street, south of Queen's Road Central, is open to motor traffic upwards, that is to say, from Queen's Road Central, but motor traffic downwards, on such portion of Ice House Street, is prohibited.\"\n\nby the substitution in Schedule D of \"Ice House Street between Des Voeux Road Central and Queen's Road Central. Note. As to restricted traffic in Ice House Street, south of Queen's Road Central see regulation 54\"— for \"Ice House Street, south of Des Vœux Road Central.\"\n\nPIRATES AGROUND.\n\nJuly 17. Contradictory estimates were made as to the loot taken by pirates from the China Merchants Kwanglee, pirated near Hongkong on a trip from Shanghai to Canton direct.\n\nThe Kwanglee used to be a regular caller at Hongkong until the strike began.\n\nMid-day last Tuesday, the Kwanglee was a few miles off Repulse Bay. About this time, pirates who had disguised themselves as passengers on board took control in the usual manner.\n\nThe Kwanglee was taken to that notorious hotbed of pirates, Bias Bay, where the gang put ashore with their loot and some Chinese passengers for ransom. The steamer grounded; Captain Tollefson was released, and the ship proceeded to Canton, arriving there on Thursday. There was only one European passenger who has come down to Hongkong.\n\nAll the European officers lost various private property.\n\n[No. 2998-July 22, 1926.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nCOLONY'S FINANCES.\n\n1925.\n\nRevenue for 1925 Exceeds Estimates.\n\n  \n    Revenue\n    Expenditure\n    Surplus\n    Deficit\n  \n  \n    $23,244,366\n    $28,266,817\n    \n    $5,022,452\n  \n\nLESS THAN 1924.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. John Richard Carr, Assistant Supervisor in the Botanical and Forestry Department, to be Forest Officer, with effect from July 12, 1926, vice Mr. Frederic Cyril Goodman, resigned.\n\nROBBERY ATTEMPT.\n\nJuly 17.\n\nA Chinese was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morning with assaulting a school girl at Robinson Road yesterday in an attempt to steal.\n\nIt was stated that the defendant seized the girl by the neck, and her screams attracted people in the vicinity. Defendant ran away with a ricksha coolie and others in pursuit and was eventually caught while coming down the steps of Peel Street by a police messenger who happened to be there.\n\nDefendant was remanded for one week.\n\nBRISK BUSINESS.\n\nReview of Local Share Market.\n\nThe steady tone in our market, which we reported in our last issue, was fully maintained during the week under review, and a brisk business was done in most of the principal stocks for which full prices had to be paid as holders are evincing more optimism as to the future.\n\nThe position to-day is firm with buyers prevailing.\n\nThe Shanghai market is quiet.\n\nThe following are the principal alterations since last week:-\n\nBanks—Experienced a steady rise, sales having taken place at $1,120 to $1,235; they were in strong demand with buyers at $1,130.\n\nHongkong Lands:-Shared the general improvement of the market, and sales were effected at $66; buyers are still freely offering $66½, but it is doubtful if they could obtain any shares at less than the former price.\n\nCements: Continue neglected. In the ten years 1917-1918 to 1926-1927, the Rateable Value of the Colony has increased by $13,588,084 or 94.30 per cent.\n\nThe Expenditure for the year exceeded the Revenue by the sum of $5,022,452.\n\nThe Imports and Exports Department showed a decrease in expenditure of $173,266. Savings on most of the items contributed to this result, and a reduction in the quantity of raw opium purchased accounted for $125,045 of the total decrease.\n\nPhotos by Lea Fong.\n\nMr. W. G. Jarvis, of the Customs, and his bride, Miss M. Rothe.\n\nMinor casualties are reported among the compradore staff and passengers.\n\nPassengers departing for Manila on Thursday by s.s. Empresa of Russia included Mrs. K. and Miss M. Ahern, Mrs. F. Bourne, Mr. H. A. Conant, Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Fregean, Mr. H. F. Gourlie, Mrs. C. L. Mar-Callum, and the Rev. and Mrs. H. S. Potter.\n\n  \n    Year\n    Revenue\n    Expenditure\n    Surplus\n    Deficit\n  \n  \n    1921\n    $17,728,132\n    $15,739,652\n    $1,988,480\n    \n  \n  \n    1922\n    $22,291,065\n    $18,568,003\n    $3,723,062\n    \n  \n  \n    1923\n    $24,788,763\n    $21,571,905\n    $3,216,858\n    \n  \n  \n    1924\n    $23,209,640\n    $26,726,428\n    \n    $3,516,788\n  \n  \n    1925\n    $23,244,366\n    $28,266,817\n    \n    $5,022,452\n  \n\nThe following Interim dividends have been declared for the first half-year ending 30th June 1926:-\n\nThe Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation - at 2 - $26.79 payable on 9th August, 1926. Books close from 26th July, 1926 to 7th August, 1926.\n\nThe Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Co., Ltd.—$2 payable on 5th August, 1926. Books close from 23rd July to 4th August, 1926.\n\nSubject to confirmation, the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd., have declared a dividend of Tls. 84.\n\nBANKRUPT'S ACTION.\n\nThe debtor was then called and questioned as to the dealings. He gave a confused story as to another man having bought his junk when he (witness) went into bankruptcy. As the buyer of the boat did not understand fishing, he (witness) did the work himself. He denied that he received any money for this and said that any transactions he had conducted in the sale of fish went to the payment of wages, upkeep, etc., and that any balance would go to the purchaser of the vessel.\n\nAfter putting a number of questions to witness, the Official Receiver indicated that he desired the examination closed.\n\nLOCAL IMPORTS.\n\nThe chapter on local imports, in the latest fortnightly report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, reads:-\n\nCotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cotton Goods:--There is nothing to report. Market at a complete standstill. Deliveries exceedingly poor.\n\nCotton Yarn:-The demand has continued good, and a fair amount of business in spot and forward has been put through. Prices show an advance of $2 to $3 per bale, owing to the decline in exchange.\n\nQuotations are purely nominal:- No. 10s. $150/165; No. 12s. $155/165; No 16s. $175/185; No. 20. $190/195.\n\nHongkong Fires: Are firm with buyers at $595, but sales have taken place at $600, and less would not be accepted.\n\nHotels. Continued very firm with sales at $11.10 and $11.16, and there are still keen buyers at the latter prices.\n\nElectrica: Firmed up during the latter part of the week, and after sales at $67½ are now wanted at $68.\n\nABERDEEN FISHERMAN.\n\nAllegations were made by the Official Receiver, Mr. W. Tratman, at the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday that Wong Po-tai, an Aberdeen fisherman who had been adjudged bankrupt at the end of last year, had been carrying on business and receiving payments which he had not placed at the benefit of creditors but rather ...\n\nChina Sugars: Are in steady demand at $24, with sellers holding out for higher prices.\n\nFlour Market Report:-\n\nStocks: About 350,000.\n\nMarket: Steady.\n\nQuotations:-American Patent $4.20 per sack; American Straight $3.45 per sack; American Cut off $3.45 per sack; Australian No. 1 $3.50 per sack; Canadian Cut off $3.05 per sack.\n\nChina Lights: Were quieter, with only a few sales reported at $21 for Combined Shares.\n\nChina Providents: Continue steady, buyers still offering $6.05, but sellers holding out for more.\n\nSteam Boats: After a few sales ...\n\nSugar: Market dull.\n\nSaltpetre:--Stocks 12,000 bags.\n\nDead market. Absolutely nothing interesting to report.\n\nPage 242\n\nPage 243\n\n[No. 2998.—July 22, 1926.",
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        "content_text": "248\n\n24\n\nLAKE, NOT VALLEY.\n\nResidents' Anxious Night.\n\nResidents at Happy Valley and the neighbourhood spent an anxious night with the flood which commenced to rise shortly after midnight.\n\nThe race course this morning was transformed into a lake and a raging torrent of water brought down from the hills flowed between the Police and Craigengower Clubs.\n\nA miniature Niagara Falls was created near the old scene of damage below the Yeung Woo Nursing Home last year. The deep drain measuring 14 feet across, which was built to deal with the water from the hills, was completely covered with mud and sand. Two waterfalls were seen later in the morning when the water flowed across the road into the drain and again from there to the race track.\n\nMore Confusion.\n\nBehind the Jockey Club stand, the Protestant Cemetery wall gave way for a considerable distance and the earth brought down with the torrent filled the premises to a depth of several feet. Cement boulders which lined the side of the course behind the small ticket office were bodily removed and placed on the course. Slabs of granite brought from the road were seen everywhere on the race track and inside the football grounds. What was left of a tea booth was seen against a portion of the race track railing. Flower pots which adorned the track edge were taken away by the flood together with the bank on which they stood.\n\nBridge Threatened.\n\nIt will take several weeks of toil to remove the mountain of sand and mud on the premises and race track. At the Craigengower Club, the water just reached the door and furniture left in the verandah was carried away and a part of it was recovered this morning. Garden furniture at the top of the granite boulders being washed away down the nullah, could be heard and a retaining wall threatening from above sounded like ominous explosions.\n\nSTORM VICTIMS.\n\n(No. 2998. July 22, 1926.\n\nin the direction of Hongkong, although it is thought that it may curve northwards in the direction of Swatow before it arrives here.\n\nThe rescue tug was to be observed with steam up and ready for emergency this morning and the funneless H.M.S. \"Ambrose,\" undergoing its annual overhaul was moved to the buoy for greater security.\n\nPolice Quarters Struck.\n\nThe chimney of Acting Chief Inspector Aris's quarters at the Police quarters in Caine Road was struck in the early hours of this morning and considerable debris fell inside the house. As the remaining portion of the chimney is considered to be in a dangerous condition, the quarters in question have had to be vacated.\n\nOLD MEMORIES.\n\nThat memorable flood of May, 1889, exceeded to-day's violence. Mr. Yee Cheong, the portrait painter whose studio is next door to the \"China Mail\" was an eyewitness.\n\nHe maintains that the torrents of water, which swept down Wyndham Street were even greater 37 years ago.\n\nAs to-day, clubs were reduced to useless wood. He said, the rain \"scraped out all the loose mud of the higher levels and deposited them in the flat streets. It took months to clear the mess,\"\n\nCraigengower collapsed and the masonry portion of the bridge started at this spot was swept away by the torrent flowing into the Bowrington Canal, a portion of the road at the end of the bridge near the Tramway offices opposite the Roman Catholic Cathedral was washed away.\n\nMr. Yee Cheong also says that the storm flood started at almost the same hour as that of the previous storm flood.\n\nThe railway track of the Sang Lee contractors on the other side of the canal also suffered considerable damage by the foundations being washed away.\n\nFACTORY IN DANGER\n\nThe paper mill at Aberdeen (Tai Shing Paper Mill Co.) is reported to be in danger owing to the private reservoir at the top of the building having been carried away.\n\nJuly 19. Two well-known members of the South China Athletic Association, Messrs. Ho Ka-lau and Yew Man-kit, who went out for a row on Saturday afternoon had a narrow escape from death as a result of the squall which sprang up towards six o'clock.\n\nThe boat was near Cust Rocks when caught in the squall and rowing became very difficult. The two occupants eventually determined to conserve their energy and let the boat drift and fortunately the set of the current was towards Kowloon Bay instead of the numerous rocks in the neighbourhood. They were able to reach the shore and after sheltering for a time in a farmer's house they arrived at Kowloon City.\n\nBy Courtesy of Wah Tsz Yat Po\n\nChinese cruiser \"Hai Yung\" which was to have left for Pratas yesterday at 1 p.m. with Hongkong officials aboard is still in harbour, wireless messages having been exchanged between the vessel and Pratas as a result of which it was decided that it would be dangerous to attempt to make the shoal for the present.\n\nThe typhoon had not, at the time of the message, reached Pratas but seas were very high and wind force 5 and increasing.\n\nPreliminary arrangements are that the party which is to witness the inauguration of the wireless station on the shoal will leave on Tuesday next.\n\nA village at Kowloon city, entirely inundated, with the top of a desolate matshed showing.\n\nreats both here and at the other er 37 years ago.\n\nTHE TYPHOON.\n\nJuly 17,\n\nIf the typhoon does not diverge from its present path it is expected here on Sunday.\n\nThe American Consulate received the following from Manila last night:-\n\n6.55 p.m.. July 16.-Cyclone in Lat. 19deg. N., Long. 119deg. E.. moving N.W.\n\na.m.\n\nLater.\n\n8.30\n\n17th, typhoon in about 116deg. Long. E.. 20deg. lat. N., moving W.N.W.\n\nThis morning in the harbour there were indications of anticipations of the arrival of the typhoon which is slowly moving towards the Colony from the East.\n\nNo. 1 signal gave place to No. 4 signal which means that the gale is likely to come towards the Colony from the East.\n\nNo. 2998. July 22, 1926.]\n\nTHE AFTERMATH.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA\n\nJuly 20\n\nWith the Peak isolated and the only means of access to Repulse Bay via the Aberdeen Road (even this has to be negotiated very carefully); with mud inches deep everywhere in the main thoroughfares and in banks where it has been removed for transit purposes, Hongkong has still much besides the memory of its severity to remind it of the terrific storm which raged on Sunday night and Monday morning,\n\nMuch, however, has been accomplished as a result of gangs of men working under supervision until a late hour last night and early this morning. A tram service to the King Edward Hotel was possible first thing this morning and later in the day a restricted service to all districts was run. The Roads Department is concentrating on the clearance of the main highways and is able to promise provisional clearances very shortly.\n\nStubbs Road.\n\nStubbs Road and Magazine Gap Road have suffered more than any others, Stubbs Road more particularly between Bowen Road and Morrison Hill Road. Here, there are numerous landslides the worst slip being where the sand shooting goes across. This will require the clearing of enormous quantities of earth and rock but it is hoped by Friday to get a passage sufficient to enable cars or \"buses to negotiate Stubbs Road.\n\nMagazine Gap Road.\n\nIn the case of most of the other roads it is expected that provisional arrangements will be made which will enable the passage of traffic within a few days. Magazine Gap Road at one part is breached to its full width and it will be necessary to erect temporarily a bridge. The Peak Road is also partly breached in one place. The only means of access to the Peak, in fact, is by negotiating on foot the old Peak Road and Wanchai Gap Road, in the case of the latter some nasty gaps having to be negotiated.\n\nBefore the Aberdeen portion of the road was cleared sufficiently to allow of traffic the footpath from the Peak to Pokfulam was used by some residents who took car as far as Pokfulam and walked up via the reservoir.\n\nRepulse Bay Road.\n\nGood progress has already been made in clearing the new road to Repulse Bay from Bowen Road onwards. This is very largely clear. There are numerous slips in the neighbourhood of Shaukiwan but it is anticipated that the whole of the round-the-island road will be open by the end of the week.\n\n('aime Road.\n\nThe lower portion of Caine Road is closed to traffic by the subsidence of the bank near the Roman Catholic Cathedral and the opening out of the road through the Cathedral grounds, which accounted for the flooding of Wyndham Street through Glenealy. It is now possible to go through Glenealy as far as Caine Road, by chair or on foot.\n\nA large gang were at work this morning clearing the obstruction at Caine Road. A stream of water which still flowed from the hill has now been diverted into the side channel of Arbuthnot Road.\n\nThe easiest way to reach Caine Road at present is for motorists to proceed up Garden Road as far as the Peak tram station. Then Tower\n\nPhoto by Yong Ming.\n\nMAIL\n\nREPULSE BAY CONDITIONS.\n\nthis morning.\n\n25\n\nAbout 85 bags of mail coming from foreign countries were damaged in the cellars of the Post Office. Most of the mail came from Singapore, Seattle, and the Straits.\n\nParticulars as to the plight of Repulse Bay residents not available yesterday on account of their being virtually marooned have since been received. At 3 a.m. on the night, or rather the morning, of the storm, the water rushed down the hills with terrific force and swept through the big dining room of the Hotel, carrying all before it. The upper level districts were deprived of their daily mail due to lack of transportation.\n\nResidents in the Peak and the staff were early on the scene but until practically powerless to save the carpets and furniture from being damaged. At eight o'clock yesterday morning the lower floors and passages were flooded to within five inches of water, and with the kitchens under water breakfast was part of the dining room floor has sunk badly and it looks as though it will be some time before the former polished surface will be regained.\n\nThe \"President Madison\" and the \"Empress of Russia,\" tried all roads at an early hour, were scheduled to arrive in Hongkong last Sunday, The Shaukiwan Road was obstructed yesterday afternoon.\n\nLooking along Des Voeux Road Central, on July 19, eastwards, along the Hongkong Hotel front and the new Realty building, with Alexandra Building on the left. The mud and height of the flood left visible marks on the surroundings.\n\nAlbert Road, along Wyndham Street past the Dairy Farm to the Central Police Station, and up Arbuthnot Road. The junction at Caine Road has now been sufficiently cleared for both up and down traffic through Arbuthnot Road.\n\nKowloon Roads.\n\nWith regard to Kowloon, both the coastal and Taipo Roads are closed, the worst slips being the other side of Tsin Wan. Two bridges have been carried away. Temporary bridges will be erected and it is expected to make provisional arrangements for passage of traffic by the end of the week.\n\ned by landslides which made passage impossible, and the new road to Hongkong was found to have a gaping hole halfway across the road just at the top of the hill leading to Repulse Bay.\n\nTHE POST OFFICE.\n\nThe General Post-Office was arrived only\n\nThe delay was due to the typhoon which the liners encountered.\n\nby\n\nPRINTERS LOSS.\n\nDamage of $10,000 was suffered by the Ye Olde Printerie Ltd.\n\nwhose establishment is located at the basement of the China Building.\n\nThe damaged goods consisted mostly of cover papers, art papers, and coloured papers and machinery, approximately valued at $10,000.\n\nThe damaged goods are only insured against fire but not against water. The Fire Brigade was called to the scene to pump the water and which was over 4 ft. deep.\n\nat the time of going to press, the Brigade was still at work.\n\nMED-\n\nIt will probably take the management over a week to clear the place from water and debris, and to completely resume business.\n\nWANCHAI DISTRICT.\n\nIn the long list of damage in the Wanchai district no one is reported to have been killed or injured as a direct result of the flood.\n\nA Chinese electrician was taken to hospital yesterday with injuries received in a fall from the first floor verandah of a house at Stone Nullah lane. He was repairing an electric light wire by leaning over the verandah and fell to the ground on receiving a shock.\n\nBAY VIEW DISTRICT.\n\nA feature of the damage in the Bay View district was the disappearance of the market at Tai Hang village. 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        "content_text": "2\n\nLO.A.G\n\nD.A.G\n\nof\n\n345\n\nRequests telegraphic approval\n\nof the\n\n8.7.32\n\nthe sale to the Cory\n\nan area at Repulse Bay for development purposes\n\nThe intention is that the Hongkong Realty & Trust Company should take back to Form Rural Building Lot 200 (387,300 sq ft)\n\na total area\n\nR.B.lots\n\n& take up Rural Building Lots A,B&C (the\n\nof which is 523,000 sq.ft.). R.B. Lots B&C, amounting to 300,000 sq ft, represent the original R.B. lot 200 with some modifications\n\n& R.B. Lot A will be a new\n\nPremium to be paid on the three lots A, B & C totals\n\n$34,850 and the total annual rental will\n\nbe $2,400. We are not told the present rental of R.B. Lot 200\n\nThe company is to build a large beach pavilion with bathing houses, swimming pad, restaurant & dance floor. Existing\n\nmatsheds on the beach are to be moved to another site to which a road will\n\nbe constructed, the company contributing\n\nThe scheme\n\nappears to be well thought out & should\n\nimprove the amenities of the Colony\n\nOffice\n\nApprove by telegram\n\nHilder\n\n15.8.32\n\n16\n\n7.8.32",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nNo. 345.\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG, 8th July, 1932.\n\nEncl. No. 1.\n\n2018.31\n\nEncl. No. 2.\n\nQus. tel. No.\n\nI have the honour to address you on the subject of the proposed sale by private treaty of an area at Repulse Bay, marked A and shown edged blue on the enclosed plans, to the Hong Kong Realty and Trust Company. The sale of this area 'A' to the Company forms part of a larger scheme embracing as well the two contiguous areas 'B' and 'C', shown edged red and green respectively on the plans.\n\nA copy of the particulars and conditions on which it is proposed to grant all three areas to the Company is attached. The area 'A' is at present an unsightly undeveloped lot through which a stream passes to the sea. It is much overgrown with brushwood and offers obvious risks from a Sanitary point of view. It would be in every way more satisfactory that it should be cleaned up and properly developed.\n\n2.\n\nRepulse Bay is the most popular bathing beach in the Colony, and its popularity continues to grow. Hitherto bathing has been from matsheds or bathing huts erected by private individuals at their own expense on small areas on the beach under annual license from the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "- 2 -\n\nGovernment. There are now one hundred and fifty-two such matsheds on the beach, and there is no room for more. Moreover, except for one public shed which has only twelve cubicles, there is no provision for those persons who are not fortunate enough to own a matshed. The time has in fact come when the beach should be more fully developed, and this it is now proposed to do.\n\n3. The Hong Kong Realty and Trust Company already owns Rural Building Lot 200, cross-hatched 'black' on plan, which is practically identical with the areas 'B' and 'C'. They acquired this lot in 1921 and erected on it six residential bungalows. The terms on which they hold it do not, however, permit of its development in accordance with their present scheme, nor is it large enough for that purpose. The scheme, stated briefly, is to erect on area 'C' a large pavilion containing some twenty-four family and two hundred and forty single bathing boxes, and a swimming pool for use as a fresh water plunge in the summer and as a sea water pool in the winter. On the first floor, there would be a restaurant and dance floor. On area 'B' would be erected not more than fifteen houses. Area 'A' would be used for the erection of staff quarters in connection with the pavilion on area 'C' and as a parking place for cars.\n\nAs part of the scheme, it would be necessary to remove the eighty-seven matsheds at present in front of area 'C'. Accommodation for the owners would be found on the beach at the end of the road shown coloured...\n\n5",
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        "content_text": "- 3 -\n\ncoloured brown on plan 2.\n\nThe Company by special condition 17 undertakes to pay a sum of $55,000 towards the cost of this road. This sum will be sufficient to cover the whole cost of the road to the southern boundary of the Company's property, and half the cost from that point to the end.\n\n4.\n\nI am satisfied that the scheme will add considerably to the amenities of the Colony, and that the grant of area 'A' to the Company is a necessary feature of it. The matter has been under consideration for over twelve months; it has from time to time been discussed with my Executive Council, both generally and in detail, and has now been unanimously approved. I should therefore be glad if I might have your approval for the disposal of area 'A' to the Company on the terms proposed. As detailed plans, drawings, etc. will have to be prepared, and as it is most desirable that work in connection with the scheme should be commenced immediately the present bathing season closes, I should be glad to have your reply by telegraph.\n\nBy\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nWod. Southor.\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.",
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        "content_text": "891\n\nFROM ABEROE£* \n\nLANDE & SURVEY • \n\n1/2/32 \n\n0 \n\nA \n\nAREA 133000 SQ. FT. (ABOUT) \n\nB \n\nAREA 216000 SQ. FT. (ABOUT) \n\nR \n\n6. L. 200 \n\nAREA \n\nC \n\n174000 SQ. FT \n\nBAY \n\nREPULSE SCALE 50 FT. = 1 INCH \n\nTO \n\nTYTAK \n\nR. B L. 177 \n\nR BL. 178 \n\nSEWER \n\n1. \n\nAREA 670 \n\nSQ. FT. (ABOUT) \n\nR. B. L. 15A \n\nPage \n\nMIDDLE SPUR \n\n500 \n\n300 \n\n200 \n\n100 \n\nRBL.172/ \n\nR B L. 167 \n\nL153 \n\nR BL. 142 \n\nREPULSE BAY \n\n(Chung Hom wan) \n\nOFF \n\nFILÉ \n\nLANDS & SURVEY \n\n16.6.34 \n\nP. W. D. \n\n* \n\nROW \n\nATER \n\n600 \n\n500 \n\n400 \n\n300 \n\n200 \n\nRB.L. 168 \n\nNEW \n\nSCALE 8\" = 1 MILE. \n\n159 \n\n1182 \n\n206 \n\n183 \n\nRBL \n\n158 \n\nRBL 251 \n\n177 \n\nR.B.L \n\n178 \n\n593* \n\n500 \n\n400 \n\n300 \n\n200 \n\n100 \n\nSTANLEY \n\nPage \n\nPage \n\nP.W.D. \n\nEnclosure No. 2. \n\nFORM FOR HONG KONG AND OLD KOWLOON. \n\nReg. No. \n\nA1 \n\nEXCHANGE OF LAND. \n\nParticulars and Conditions for leases of the Pieces or Parcels of Crown Land described in the first Schedule hereto (hereinafter called the \"New Lots & C respectively and shown edged blue, red & green & marked A, B on the attached plan), for a term of 75 years to be granted by private contract in exchange for the surrender of the piece or parcel of Land described in the second Schedule hereto, (shown hatched black on the plan) with the option of renewal at Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING for one further term of 75 years. \n\nFirst Schedule. \n\nPARTICULARS OF THE NEW LOTS. \n\nBoundary Measurements. \n\nRegistry No.Locality.Contents in sq. feet.Premium.Annual Rental.\nN.\nS.\nE.\nW.\nR.B.L.Repulse Bay133,000 (about)$6,650.00$11\nRepulse Bay216,000 (about)$10,800.00\n174,000 (about)$17,400.00\n\nSecond Schedule. \n\nLOT TO BE SURRENDERED. \n\nRegistry No.Locality.Contents in sq. feet.Annual Rental.Remarks.\nR.B. L. 200.Repulse Bay387,300\n\nGeneral Conditions of Exchange. \n\n1.—(1) The Lessee shall sign forthwith the Agreement hereinafter contained for completing the exchange according to these conditions and the Special Conditions hereinafter contained. \n\nPage 10\n\n9\n\nPage 11",
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        "content_text": "2 \n\n(2) On registration of such agreement the Crown Lease or (as the case may be) Tenancy agreement of the piece or parcel of land described in the Second schedule hereto shall be deemed to have incorporated therein the following additional covenant condition or stipulation----- \"Should the lessee his executors administrators or assigns at any time hereafter enter into an agreement with the Crown to surrender the said piece parcel of ground or any part thereof the Lessee his executors administrators assigns shall execute such surrender within 21 days of a written request by the Land Officer so to do sent to him or them by registered post at his or their usual or last known place of abode or business. And if the Lessee fails to so surrender, a right of re-entry on the said piece or parcel of land shall thereupon accrue to His Majesty.' \n\n2. The Lessee shall at his own expense surrender to the Crown Building Lot No. ... Rural ... when required by the Land Officer.\n\n200\n\n3. The Lessee shall pay into the Colonial Treasury within seven days of the date on which possession shall be given to the Lessee the sum of $34,850.00 (being premium)... \n\n4. The Lessee shall on demand and prior to the issue of the Crown Lease, (or leases if more then one shall be required) pay into the Colonial Treasury on behalf of His Majesty the King, the sum of $8.00 for and in consideration of each boundary stone which shall be fixed by the Director of Public Works at each angle of the new Lots, (or any other Lots into which the same may be divided prior to the issue of the Crown Lease or Leases) properly cut and marked with the Registry Number of the Lots and the number of the Lot.\n\n5. The Lessee shall apply to the Director of Public Works for the new Lots to be set out on the ground and shall not commence any operations for building thereon until the Lots shall have been so set out by the Director of Public Works. If the Lessee shall erect any building otherwise than in due accord with the alignment of the Lots so set out as aforesaid he shall when called upon by the Director of Public Works so to do demolish such building and shall rebuild upon the correct alignment. If the Lessee shall when required by the Director of Public Works so to do fail to demolish any such building as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works to cause such building to be demolished and the Lessee shall on demand pay to the Director of Public Works the amount certified by him to be the cost of such demolition. A certificate purporting to be signed by the Director of Public Works as to the alignment of any building or as to the cost of demolition shall be final and conclusive evidence as between the parties hereto as to the facts certified therein.\n\n10\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\n...\n\n...\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "7.XX. The Lessee of the new Lots shall build and finish, fit for occupation, before the expiration of ........36.. calendar months from the date on which possession shall be given to the Lessee, in a good substantial and workmanlike manner, one or more good and permanent buildings upon some part of the Lots with such materials as may be approved by the Director of Public Works, and in other respects in accordance with the provisions of all Ordinances, Bye-laws and Regulations relating to Buildings or Sanitation as shall or may at any time be in force in the Colony, and shall expend thereon a sum of not less than $50,000.00 on Lot A, $70,000.00 on Lot B & $100,000.00 on Lot C in rateable improvements. Provided that notwithstanding any default by the Lessee in complying with this condition, and notwithstanding the acceptance on behalf of the Crown of any Crown rent or rates or other payment whatever, the Director of Public Works may in his discretion, and whether the Lessee consents or not, fix at any time and from time to time any extended period for the completion of the said buildings in substitution for the said period of ..36...... months, and thereupon the obligation hereunder of the Lessee in question to complete the said buildings shall be taken to refer to such substituted period, and the right of re-entry reserved in these conditions shall arise upon default of completion within such substituted period as if it had been the period originally provided.\n\n8. X The new Lots to be treated as land acquired after the passing of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.\n\n9. XX No sewage or refuse water will be allowed to flow from the new Lots to any of the adjoining lands whether belonging to the Crown or to private persons; neither shall any decaying, noisome, noxious, excrementitious, or other refuse matter be deposited on any portion of the Lots and in carrying out any works of excavation on the Lots no excavated earth shall be deposited on the Lots or (with permission) on Crown Land adjoining, in such manner as shall expose the slopes of such excavated earth to be eroded and washed down by the rains, and all such slopes shall be properly turfed and, if necessary, secured in place by means of masonry toe walls. The Lessee shall see that all refuse matters are properly removed daily from off the premises.\n\n10.XX The Crown Rent of the new Lots shall commence from the date on which possession shall be given to the Lessee who shall pay into the Colonial Treasury a proportionate part of the annual rental specified in the Schedule hereinbefore contained on the next half-yearly day on which Crown Rent is payable and thereafter shall pay such annual rental by equal half-yearly payments on the 24th day of June and the 25th day of December in each and every year during the term of 75 years hereinbefore mentioned. And the Crown Rent of Rural Building Lot No.200 shall cease.\n\n11.XX The exact boundaries of the new Lots shall be determined before the issue of the Crown Lease. In the event of any excess or deficiency in area being found to exist as compared with the area specified in the First Schedule hereinbefore contained the amount to be paid by or to be refunded to the Lessee in respect of such excess or deficiency will be calculated at the rate of ... cents per sq. ft. Rent will be adjusted to the nearest even dollar at the rate of $200.00 per acre per annum. For the purposes of this condition the Lessee shall be deemed to be the person to whom the Crown Lease shall be issued for the Lot, or, in the event of a subdivision of the Lot before the issue of the Crown Lease, the person to whom the Crown Lease shall be issued for that portion of the Lot designated the Remaining Portion.\n\nSpecifically: 13 cents per sq. ft. for Lot B, 18 cents per sq. ft. for Lot C.",
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        "content_text": "6. The Lessee of the new Lots shall execute and take up the Crown Lease for the Lots when called upon to do so by the Land Officer, for which purpose all estates or interests whatsoever in the Lots or any part thereof created since the date of this agreement by way of mortgage, Charge or otherwise then outstanding shall thereupon forthwith be previously reassigned or satisfied and all endorsement by the Land Officer on these conditions that plans of the Acts or any specified part thereof are in the Land Office and that the Crown Lease thereof must be taken up before any further dealings with the Lots or such specified part can be registered, shall be deemed to be a sufficient requisition to that effect, and shall pay to him, therefor, the prescribed fee. In the event of more than one building being erected on the said Lot the Lessee may be required to take up a separate lease for the site of each separate building and shall pay the Land Officer the prescribed fee for every additional lease so required to be taken up, provided that in the event of more than one lease being issued to the same person the fee for every lease exceeding one shall be $30.00.\n\nComplying with these conditions, and notwithstanding the acceptance by the Crown of any Crown rent or rates or other payment whatever, the Director of Public Works may in his discretion, and whether the Lessee consents or not, fix at any time and from time to time any extended period for the completion of the said buildings in substitution for the said period of ...36... months, and thereupon the obligation hereunder of the Lessee in question to complete the said buildings shall be taken to refer to such substituted period, and the right of re-entry reserved in these conditions shall arise upon default of completion within such substituted period as if it had been the period originally provided.\n\n8. The new Lots to be treated as land acquired after the passing of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.\n\n9. No sewage or refuse water will be allowed to flow from the new Lots to any of the adjoining lands whether belonging to the Crown or to private persons; neither shall any decaying, noisome, noxious, excrementitious, or other refuse matter be deposited on any portion of the Lots and in carrying out any works of excavation on the Lots no excavated earth shall be deposited on the Lots or (with permission) on Crown Land adjoining, in such manner as shall expose the slopes of such excavated earth to be eroded and washed down by the rains, and all such slopes shall be properly turfed and, if necessary, secured in place by means of masonry toe walls. The Lessee shall see that all refuse matters are properly removed daily from off the premises.\n\n10. The Crown Rent of the new Lots shall commence from the date on which possession of the new Lots shall be given to the Lessee who shall pay into the Colonial Treasury a proportionate part of the annual rental specified in the Schedule hereinbefore contained on the next half-yearly day on which Crown Rent is payable and thereafter shall pay such annual rental by equal half-yearly payments on the 24th day of June and the 25th day of December in each and every year during the term of 75 years hereinbefore mentioned.\n\n11. The exact boundaries of the new Lots shall be determined before the issue of the Crown Lease. In the event of any excess or deficiency in area being found to exist as compared with the area specified in the First Schedule hereinbefore contained the amount to be paid by or to be refunded to the Lessee in respect of such excess or deficiency will be calculated at the rate of ... cents per sq. ft. Crown Rent will be adjusted to the nearest even dollar at the rate of $... per sq. per annum. For the purposes of this condition the Lessee shall be deemed to be the person to whom the Crown Lease shall be issued for the Lot, or, in the event of a subdivision of the Lot before the issue of the Crown Lease, the person to whom the Crown Lease shall be issued for that portion of the Lot designated the Remaining Portion.\n\n... 18 cents per sq. ft. for Lot C.",
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        "content_text": "12.XX When the Conditions herein contained have been complied with to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works, the Lessee of the Lots shall be entitled to Lease s from the Crown, of the Piece of Ground comprised in such Lots for 75 years, commencing on the 12th day of January, 1922, at such Annual Rental payable half-yearly on the 24th day of June and the 25th day of December, in each and every year as is specified in the Particulars of such Lots before contained; and such Crown Leases shall be subject to, and contain, all Exceptions, Reservations, Covenants, Clauses and Conditions inserted in the Crown Leases of similar Lots in the Colony of Hong Kong or which may be required for the purpose of carrying out any of the General and Special Conditions herein contained affecting the Lot.\n\nshall also title thereto. The Lease shall contain a proviso that the Lessee is to have the option of renewing the Lease for one further term of 75 years at Crown Rents to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING.\n\n13.XX Should the Lessee neglect or fail to comply with these conditions or any of them, His Majesty shall have full power to retain the property so surrendered or agreed to be surrendered by the Lessee and also to retain any premium which the Lessee may have paid and also re-enter and take possession of the new Lots either by public auction or private contract at such time and place and in such manner as to His said Majesty shall seem fit.\n\n14.IX Possession of the new Lots shall be deemed to have been given to the Lessee, and to have been taken by him from the date of a letter from the Director of Public Works stating that the new Lots are at the disposal of the Lessee.\n\n15.XX The expression \"Lessee\" used herein shall in every case include the Lessee or Lessees and where the context so admits or requires executors, administrators and their assigns and in the case of a corporation its successors and assigns.\n\n16. The foregoing General Conditions shall be read and construed as varied or modified by the Special Conditions hereinafter contained.\n\nTHE SPECIAL CONDITIONS HEREINBEFORE REFERRED TO.\n\n1) The Lessee shall within three months of the date of this Agreement supply to the Director of Public Works (hereinafter called \"the said Director\") a general layout plan for the whole of the three lots showing the positions, levels and nature of the buildings which it is proposed to erect and such layout plan shall be subject to the approval of the said Director. The whole of the three lots shall be developed by the Lessee to the satisfaction of the said Director in accordance with the approved layout plan and no alteration shall be made in positions, nature or dimensions of the buildings shown on such plan without the consent in writing of the said Director.\n\n(2) Except with the consent of the Governor not more than 15 houses shall be erected on Lot B and the Purchaser shall not erect on the said Lot B any buildings other than detached or semi-detached residential premises of European type with garages and all proper out-buildings thereto.",
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        "content_text": "-5-\n\nAJ\n\n13\n\n(3) Except with the consent of the Governor not more than 8 houses shall be erected on Lot A and save as hereunder mentioned the Lessee shall not erect on the said Lot any buildings other than detached or semi-detached residential premises of European type with garages and all proper out-buildings thereto PROVIDED that the Lessee may in lieu of the whole or any part of such premises as aforesaid erect on the said Lot such servants' quarters and garages as the said Director may deem to be necessary in connection with the use of Lot C.\n\n(4) The Lessee shall remove the existing bungalows Nos.2, 3, 4 & 5 on Lot C and shall erect in lieu thereof a pavilion on the lines of that shown on the plan dated July, 1931, prepared by Messrs. Palmer & Turner or on such other lines as the said Director may approve. Save as aforesaid the Lessee shall not without the consent of the Governor erect any building on the said Lot C.\n\n(5) The design of the exterior elevations, plans, height and disposition of any building to be erected on any of the said three lots shall be subject to the special approval of the said Director and no building shall be erected on any of the said three Lots save in accordance with such approval.\n\n(6) The Lessee shall construct substantial retaining walls, where necessary, to obviate landslips in the event of his cutting away the hill to level or develop the site, or to protect any filling in connection with the same. Should a landslip occur as the result of such cutting or levelling the Lessee shall on demand pay the cost of making good any damage done thereby to Crown Land or property and shall indemnify the Government and its officers from and against all actions, claims and demands arising out of any damage resulting from or brought about by such landslip.\n\n(7) The Lessee shall construct to the satisfaction of the said Director such drains or channels as that officer may consider necessary to intercept and carry off storm-water falling upon or flowing on to the lots from the hillside and the Lessee shall on demand pay the cost of making good any damage to Crown Land or property caused by such storm-water and shall indemnify the Government and its officers from and against all actions, claims and demands arising out of any damage or nuisance caused thereby.\n\n(8) The Lessee shall dispose of all drainage, sewage or sullage from the lots in such manner as may be required by the said Director. The Lessee shall at his own expense and to the satisfaction of the said Director lay all such drains and sewers as may be necessary for conveying drainage, sewage or sullage to the existing Government sewer and shall on demand pay into the Colonial Treasury such sum as the said Director shall certify to be the cost of making the necessary connections with the said Government sewer. Such septic tanks as may be required shall be constructed by the Government and the Lessee shall on demand contribute towards the cost thereof a sum not exceeding $10,000.00.\n\n(9) If the Lessee shall require provision of a water supply from Government Mains for any of the Lots he shall on demand pay for the installation thereof such sum as may be required by the said Director. Payment for such installation shall not involve the implication that the Government will be able to maintain a supply.\n\n(10) The Lessee shall not interfere with any existing drain or nullah until any necessary diversion thereof has been completed.",
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        "content_text": "(11) Notwithstanding anything contained in Special Condition No.26, the training of the nullah leading from the bridge at the North Eastern end of Lot A to the sea shore and partly on the said Lots and partly on Crown Land shall be carried out by the said Director on such lines as he shall think fit and the Lessee shall on demand pay into the Colonial Treasury a sum not exceeding $22,000 to defray the cost of such training.\n\n(12) Any reconstruction of nullah walls roof or invert which the said Director may consider necessary by reason of any building erected or to be erected on the Lots shall be carried out by the Government at the cost of the Lessee and the Lessee shall on demand pay into the Colonial Treasury such sum as the said Director shall certify to be the cost of such work.\n\n(13) The Lessee shall found to such depth as the said Director may require any walls which may be erected in the vicinity of any nullah.\n\n(14) The Lessee shall not obstruct or interfere with the existing Government sewer between Lots A & C or the flow of water in any nullah or Water Course. The Lessee may use surplus water from any nullah or water course for flushing purposes and for the supply of fresh water for a bathing pool or pools only. The position of any intake and the construction thereof shall be subject to the approval of the said Director. Water from nullahs may not be used for domestic purposes.\n\n(15) The said Director and Officers authorised by him shall at all times have free access to all sewers, nullahs or water courses on the said Lots for the purpose of effecting repairs to, inspecting, or cleansing the said sewers, nullahs or water courses.\n\n(16) The said Director shall be at liberty without the giving of any notice to the lessee to open up any of the said lots or any building thereon for the purpose of effecting alteration of, repairs to, inspecting or cleansing any nullah waterway or sewer and the said Director shall make such reinstatement as may be necessary.\n\n(17) The Government shall within one year of the date mentioned in general condition No. 14 construct a new road, as shown coloured brown on the plans attached to these conditions to the full extent shown on plan No. 2 and the Lessee shall on demand pay into the Colonial Treasury the sum of $55,000.00 towards the cost of such work. The Lessee shall not obstruct or interfere with the existing motor road to Rural Building Lots Nos. 158 & 159 until the new road to these lots is completed and open to traffic.\n\n(18) For the purpose of allowing access to Lots A & B rights of way thereto from the Repulse Bay - Stanley Road shall be given over Crown Land on lines to be approved by the said Director. The Lessee shall at his own expense construct roads or paths on the pieces of ground over and along which such rights of way shall have been given at such time or times and in such manner as the said Director may direct and shall uphold maintain and repair such roads or paths and everything forming portion of or appertaining to them to the satisfaction of the said Director and shall be responsible therefor as if he were owner thereof. Alteration of the public road to which such rights of way are given absorbing any portion of such pieces of ground or affecting the gradient of any road or path shall not give rise to any claim by the Lessee but shall at his own expense carry out all necessary alterations to such roads or paths constructed by him.\n\nAny ...",
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        "content_text": "7 ****** \n\nA1\n\n(19) The Government reserves the right to construct, in such a manner and at such a time as the said Director shall think fit, a promenade along the whole beach. The cost of construction of that portion along the South West boundary of Lot C shall be borne by the Lessee.\n\n(20) The Lessee of the new Lots shall pay the cost of removing any Chinese graves at present on the areas, if such removal becomes necessary; the work to be done by the Tung Wah Hospital Authorities.\n\n(21) The Lessee must notify the Superintendent of Botanical and Forestry Department in the event of requiring the removal of any trees from the new lots, which may interfere with building operations. Such trees will be removed by the said Superintendent.\n\n(22) The Lessee shall pay into the Colonial Treasury, on demand, the cost of diverting or removing any cable, telegraph or telephone line, sewer or culvert, which the Director of Public Works may consider it necessary to have removed or diverted.\n\n(23) The Lessee shall pay into the Colonial Treasury on demand the sum of $2,000 towards the cost of removing and relaying the existing Government water main traversing the said lots.\n\n(24) The Lessee shall have the right of free and uninterrupted access to the sea covering the area running immediately parallel with the frontage of Lot \"C\" for the purpose of the use of that Lot as a public bathing pavilion and pleasure resort, but save as aforesaid shall not have any right whatsoever over the foreshore and seabed in front of the said Lot.\n\n(25) After the formation of the road mentioned in Special Condition No.17, the Lessee shall be allowed to use the Beach Road to the North West boundary of the Lot as long as it remains open to the public. Such use does not extend to motor buses.\n\n(26) In so far as the Particulars and General and Special Conditions of Sale relate to Lot A (coloured blue), the same shall be subject to the sanction of the Secretary of State for the sale of the Lot by private treaty, and if such sanction shall be refused, the Lessee shall be at liberty to reconsider the whole scheme.\n\nLABZ\n\n15-",
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        "content_text": "8 XXXXXXXX\n\n \n\nAl\n\nMEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BY THE LESSEE.\n\nMemorandum that.......\n\nof.......\n\n..... \n\nthe Lessee whose name is hereunder written has this day agreed to exchange the Lot and premises as set out in the foregoing particulars for the new Lot on the terms and conditions herein before contained, and, as such Lessee, hereby agrees to carry out the exchange on the said terms of and subject to the said conditions and fully to observe and perform the said terms and conditions and to be bound thereby and the Director of Public Works on behalf of His Excellency the Governor ratifies and confirms the said exchange on the above terms and conditions.\n\nDated this..............day of........... ...........193......\n\nSignature of Lessee..............\n\nWitness to Signature of Lessee\n\nOccupation\n\nAddress..........\n\nName of Interpreter (if any)..........................\n\nOccupation\n\nAddress\n\nWitness to Signature of the Director of Public Works.\n\nDirector of Public Works.\n\n16 END",
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        "content_text": "Sub-head 8-Miscellaneous, $15,000.-The vote is available for all Departments and provides funds for small works which arise during the year but are considered too small for a separate vote. 9.—Waterworks—(a) Miscellaneous, $8,000.-Provides for small extensions to subsidiary water mains and other miscellaneous minor works.\n\n(b) Meters, $140,000.-To provide for the supply of meters throughout the year principally to the Rider Main Districts.\n\n10.-Port Works, $5,000.-Covers expenses incurred in taking soundings, borings, and for preliminary investigations in connection with new and proposed harbour works, foreshore dumping etc.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\n\n11.-New 100-foot road between Causeway Bay & Ming Yuen, $140,000.— A Contract has been let for the sum of $231,550 for excavating about 350 yards lineal along the centre section of the road and depositing surplus hard material at the Eastern end, approximately between Power Street and the Government Quarry at Tsat Tse Mui.\n\nThis will leave a further length of the road at the Western end to be completed, to connect with the existing road at Causeway Bay, where heavy rock cutting is necessary. 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This sum includes any necessary land resumption.\n\n15.-Wongneicheong Old Road Improvements, $30,000.-This sum is required to meet road expenditure arising out of further building development in Wongneicheong Valley.\n\n16-10-foot path to Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station, $25,000.-To continue and complete a 10-foot wide Access Road to the Wireless Station at Cape D'Aguilar. A section of .5 miles is already completed and this vote is to complete the remaining length of 1.25 miles.\n\nThis road will greatly facilitate the transport of personnel and stores to the Wireless Station.\n\n17. New road from Island Road to Stanley, $60,000.-This sum covers the cost of construction of a loop motor road .6 miles long to connect Island Road with the new Wong Ma Kok Gaol Road near Stanley Police Station. It will also provide access to new development in the district.\n\nSub-head 18.-Kennedy Road Widening. $30,000.-To continue the partially completed Kennedy Road Widening Scheme dealing particularly with that portion behind the Magazine.\n\nThis should allow of through traffic and to some extent relieve congestion in the Wanchai-Queen's Road East area.\n\nDRAINAGE.\n\n19.-Additional Septic Tank at Repulse Bay, $15,000.-Recent development in this area has tended to overload the existing septic tanks. In order to relieve this, it is proposed to instal an extra tank which will be sited along the South-West arm of the bay.\n\n20.—New Sewer-Wongneicheong Gap to Island Road, $27,000.—To construct a sewer to pick up drainage from new development along this road. Each lot connected has to pay a proportion of cost so that eventually most of the original outlay will be refunded to Government.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\n21.-Chinese Cemeteries, laying out new areas, $6,000.--To provide for additional burial areas in existing cemeteries.\n\n22.-Colonial Cemetery, laying out new areas, $7,000. To provide for an extension to the burial area within the boundaries of the Colonial Cemetery Happy Valley.\n\n23.-Tsat Tsz Mui Quarry: Covering to mixing plants, new high tension cable and a transformer house, $10,000. To continue work on the protection of plant and provision of electric power to machinery.\n\n24.-Tsat Tsz Mui Quarry: Extensions and Improvements, $10,000.-The development of the quarry is now approaching a stage which on economic grounds calls for a natural extension of the layout. The sum requested is to meet this expenditure and provide for the erection of plant already in the Colony.\n\n25-Rewiring of Government Buildings, $25,000.---This sum is required for the replacement of defective and dangerous electrical wiring in Government buildings.\n\n26. Twelve E. H. T. Disconnecting Joint Boxes for Cable to Cape D'Aguilar, $5,700. For breaking up this cable into sections to facilitate testing and location of faults and thereby reduce probability of lengthy breakdowns.\n\n27-Laying telephone cable from the main route Victoria Gap-Gough Hill, $7,000. To continue the policy of placing Government telephone cables underground considered an economy in the long run.\n\n28-Laying telephone cable between G.P.O. and Cable Hut at Happy Valley, $42,000.--This portion of the main cable from the G.P.O. to Cape D'Aguilar has only 3 pairs of lines spare. As further calls may be made on the cable, it is advisable to provide an adequate reserve by duplicating the existing cable.\n\n29.-Reinstatement of Government Retaining Walls, $20,000.-These walls are examined annually and this vote provides for the repair or reconstruction of any walls which are considered dangerous.\n\n30-Central Police Station: Extension to Store, $1,200-The existing store is very cramped. It is proposed to enclose part of a shelter and thus form an extension to the East of this store.\n\nPage 388\n\n \n\nPage 388 \n\nPage 388",
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        "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937",
        "content_text": "Houses Wrecked\n\nAt Taipo Hui it is conservatively estimated that 80 per cent of the houses were demolished partially or completely, and it may be one or two days before all the debris can be removed and a proper estimate be made of the exact number of villagers killed.\n\nAbout 300 yards from the Taipo Bridge, which was badly torn up, where repairs were still under progress yesterday afternoon, 30 sampans and fishing boats were washed ashore to a distance of 200 yards from the beach. A number of fishermen were there attending to their dead, and salvaging what was left of their meagre belongings.\n\nOne of them said that some 40 sampan people were killed when their craft were wrecked.\n\nLabourers worked on the damaged bridge throughout the day, and it is expected that it will be available for motor-traffic by this afternoon or tomorrow, according to a workman who was questioned.\n\nNEW INSTRUMENT\n\nAnemograph to Register Winds Up to 200 M.P.H.\n\nThe Royal Observatory was unable to register the maximum wind velocity during the height of the typhoon, due to the fact that its instrument does not take records higher than 125 miles per hour.\n\nWhilst this is more than sufficient for all normal purposes, it has long been realised that a better instrument is desirable.\n\nGovernment has now, however, undertaken to supply the Observatory with an instrument capable of registering gusts up to 200 m.p.h. This, it is understood, will be available next year.\n\nALMOST RAZED\n\nSMALL BOYS HAVE HARROWING TIME\n\nFOOD SHORTAGE\n\nA SHORE SURVEY\n\nSome Damage Done At Queen Mary Hospital\n\nThe Queen Mary Hospital stood up to the storm fairly well, but the seventh floor was littered with glass and portions of ceiling, presenting the appearance of having come through a bombardment.\n\nThe operating theatre was swept clean.\n\nPOST OFFICE FLOODED\n\nFlooded to a depth of over one foot during the typhoon of Wednesday night, the Post Office basement presented the appearance of an indoor swimming pool in the morning, and firemen were still working at draining the building yesterday.\n\nFortunately, there were only about 40 mail bags in the basement instead of the usual five or six hundred, so that only a few bags were wetted and these not extensively. The parcel mail had been raised beyond the reach of the water.\n\nRURAL ORPHANAGE\n\nThe Taipo Rural Orphanage for boys, managed by the Chinese Anglican Church Body in Hongkong, with Bishop Hall as Chairman, and another orphanage school for girls about 100 yards away, managed by the Church Missionary Society, were both affected, but the Rural Orphanage suffered very severely and its two buildings were partly demolished.\n\nSome 20 Chinese orphans and their two Chinese teachers had a narrow escape from death or serious injury when their school room and wooden dormitory, situated near the 13th milestone on Taipo Road, were wrecked by the typhoon.\n\nMINOR DESTRUCTION\n\nBut P.W.D. Bill Will Be Very Large in Aggregate\n\nInterviewed yesterday by a reporter of the S.C.M. Post, the teacher, a Mr. Li, said that when he realised that their house, which was recently erected at a cost of $800, was in imminent danger, he called all the boys together with a view to taking them to the girl's school, as the latter house was considered more substantial.\n\nAs the teachers and boys were waiting outside the dormitory for a chance to dash to the neighbouring building, the two Rural Orphanage houses collapsed. With the typhoon at its height, it was found impossible to get to the neighbouring building, and in fact, the teachers had a hard time getting the 20 small boys together.\n\nOne of the little fellows was blown off his feet, and in rescuing the child, Mr. Li suffered an injury to his wrist, which was bandaged yesterday.\n\nLater in the morning, Miss Vincent and Miss K. Langford went out in their swimming costumes from the girls' school to bring all the 20 boys to safety. Apart from receiving a bad shock, none of the children suffered injuries.\n\n\"But the most unfortunate thing is that the new school was opened on September 1, and the very same evening the two houses were smashed up by the typhoon,\" said the teacher.\n\nFood Shortage\n\nThe Chinese police quarters at Gough Hill Station were swept away by the wind during Wednesday night.\n\nRAILWAY DAMAGE\n\nCanton-Kowloon Track Quite Impassable\n\nFORTNIGHT FOR REPAIRS\n\nObviously hit by a great wave during the height of the typhoon in the early hours of Thursday morning, the track of the Kowloon-Canton Railway has been extensively damaged in numerous places over a length of seven miles between Shatin and Taipo Market.\n\nThere are big wash-outs at various spots, the most serious damage suffered being at the point where the railway skirts Tolo Harbour, where the rails are hanging over the embankment, practically into the harbour.\n\nAt several points, the embankments have been completely washed away.\n\nThe railway engineering staff is working day and night carrying out repairs, but Major R.D. Walker, the Manager, stated yesterday that the line cannot possibly be opened until September 13 at the earliest, and even this date is dependent on favourable weather.\n\nIn the course of the interview, the principal of the orphanage, Mrs. A. Blanchett, told the reporter that the orphanage was facing a serious shortage of rice as their telephone had been disconnected since the typhoon and there was no means of getting in touch with Kowloon City.\n\nThrough the reporter, Mrs. Blanchett sent a message to her missionary friends at the C.M.S. Heep Yunn Girls School for a big bag of rice to be immediately rushed to the orphanage.\n\nCASTLE PEAK\n\nFrom another source, it was learned that several casualties occurred along the Castle Peak Road.\n\nA Chinese was killed at the office of the Hong Kee Ming Company, Shing Mun; a boy was killed at Sai Lok Kok village and another at Tin Kau. Two deaths occurred at Sheungshui, where ten houses collapsed.\n\nThe body of a Chinese male was washed ashore, and a Chinese male and female were washed up at the 114-mile beach.\n\nMost of the matsheds on Castle Peak Road have been destroyed, only a few concrete and wooden structures remaining.\n\nA Dairy Farm coolie, Ho Man, aged 36, was injured when a door flew and struck him.\n\nMANY DEATHS\n\nTyphoon Toll In Hongkong And Kowloon Grows\n\nInternal injuries were received by Li Wing, aged 43, of the Wing Lee contractors' matshed at Ma Shu Wan, where a matshed collapsed.\n\nA woman, Lai Kwai-lin, aged 35, of No. 27 Yuchow Street, sustained severe burns when she accidentally touched a broken electric wire.\n\nMore than 50 dead bodies of men and women were removed to the Public Mortuary on Thursday by the police. These people met their deaths through house collapses, stepping on live electric wires, falling signboards, or drowning.\n\nAn unknown yacht that capsized in Cheungshawan caused injuries to Lai Yan, aged 52, an employee, who was in the yacht at the time.\n\nTHIEF ACTIVE\n\nMiss M.M. Tyrrell, of the Peninsula Hotel, reported that the door of her matshed at Repulse Bay was blown off during the gale, and property comprising a gramophone and some records were stolen.\n\nWhile walking along Hollywood Road, three men, Sung Wah, Chan Yuet-sing, and Sun Wai, were injured at different times through falling signboards.\n\nChan Chuen, aged 68, and Tong Ip, aged seven, a girl, were injured when a hut in which they were living at Kowloon Tong collapsed.\n\n2\n\n35",
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        "document_key": "CO129-586-5 Centenary of the occupation of Hong Kong 8-7-1940 - 26-1-1941",
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        "title": "CO129-586-5 Centenary of the occupation of Hong Kong 8-7-1940 - 26-1-1941",
        "content_text": "# JANUARY 25, 1941\n## SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST-HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, CENTENARY SUPPLEMENT\n\n### PROMOTIONAL ARZIU KOIRAN ARMATRAJU TEKRAR ZE\n\n## MANY COLONY PLACE-NAMES RECALL EARLY CELEBRITIES\n\nIn any consideration of historical associations, place-names must always play their important part: thus are prominent men of the past, or some incident or association, commemorated. Often it is the only memorial to a pioneer who deserves to be remembered; and this applies to Hongkong.\n\nRoads, hill-tops, bays and beaches, and localities in the Colony have in most cases some association which is of interest; and some of the more important of these from the point of view of old-time commemoration, are given here. A few already appear in other sections of this supplement.\n\nIt is not proposed to deal with the Chinese place-names, as these alone would require a great deal of space: in most cases, they go back before the British occupation.\n\nA few localities have specially interesting associations, and include two villages on the south of the island. These are Stanley and Aberdeen—the latter particularly puzzling to newcomers—but are merely examples of a period when picturesque native names were changed to suit the idea of some local official who wished to honour the powers in London—in this case, in 1845, it was decided to honour Lord Stanley, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Earl of Aberdeen, who was Foreign Secretary. Two streets are also named after them. Lyndhurst Terrace was completed at that time and named after Lord Lyndhurst, who was Lord Chancellor of England; and Cochrane Street, adjoining, commemorates the Commander-in-Chief of the China squadron at the same period, Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane.\n\nOne obvious name is Stonecutters Island, where quarrying had been in operation. Not so obvious, and often wrongly interpreted, is the naming of Repulse Bay and Sulphur Channel: these are both after naval craft which were out here in the early years.\n\nA photograph taken about forty years ago, showing the Time Ball tower on its former site opposite the Water Police Station. The view is down Canton Road.\n\nIt will be noticed that in this list, many of the names are attached to some Peak and Kowloon roads, and some, having been omitted previously, were used when new streets were laid out on the Praya East reclamation. Other streets, both old and new, commemorate former Colonial Secretaries or other officials.\n\nThe naval and military surveyors, who did all the survey work before the Public Works Department had come into being, made full use of their opportunities, and both ships and commanders were commemorated. Hongkong peaks (besides the obvious commemoration of the Queen in Victoria Peak) were named after Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, who was Commander-in-Chief of the naval forces out here at the time of the occupation of Hongkong, and Major-General Sir Hugh Gough, the General Officer Commanding the troops in China at the same date (there is also a Gough Street). Commander (afterwards Vice-Admiral) Sir H. Kellett R.N., (whose ship, H.M.S. Starling, gave its name to Starling Inlet, only had a peak named after him, but also a shoal off Green Island, and the islet which the R.H.K. Yacht Club occupies. Belcher's Bay and Belcher's Street are named after Sir Edward Belcher, R.N., who carried out the first survey of Hongkong harbour, in 1841, aboard H.M.S. Sulphur.\n\n### GOVERNORS COMMEMORATED\n\nA peak and a city street commemorate an early Governor, Sir Henry Pottinger; and other past administrators and Governors honoured in the naming of streets (in their chronological order) are Mr A. R. Johnston, Sir John Davis (Mount Davis), Major-General Aguilar, Sir Samuel Bonham, Major-General Sir J. ... \n\nMr J. R. Morrison was a German missionary who acted as interpreter for Captain Elliot, and later came to Hongkong, becoming Chinese Secretary in 1843 after the death of Mr Morrison, his father.\n\nBlackhead's Point, where the signal station is at Kowloon, behind Holt's Wharf, is named after a merchant of German origin, established here in the 'fifties, whose name was anglicised from Schwartzkopf.\n\n### GREAT POISON PLOT\n\nTwo by-streets in the central city area of interest are Zetland Street (named in connection with Zetland Lodge, alongside), and Duddell Street, which recalls Mr George Duddell, who was appointed Government Auctioneer and was also made contractor to the troops in 1857.\n\nTo make a comparison between trade, finance, population, public health and other statistics of the early days of Hongkong and the present time, it is necessary to refer to the year 1844. No records are to be found between 1841 and 1844 time. In January, 1857, someone at the bakery mixed arsenic with the bread, but used such a quantity that after very little had been eaten the effects were felt, and the attempt failed: though some 400 Europeans became ill, some of them being in a serious condition.\n\nIn 1842, there was present a garrison of 700 men. In 1939 the total population of the Colony was estimated at 1,050,256, based on the 1921 census, and is probably larger to-day.\n\n### SOME OF THE CIVILIANS\n\nTo come to civilian pioneers, we have Morrison Hill probably jointly named after Mr J. R. Morrison, son of the famous sinologue the Rev. Dr Robert Morrison (who died just over six years before Hongkong became British possession), and his father.\n\nThe first record of the European population occurs in 1844, which shows that 454 non-Chinese were resident here. In the same year, 538 ships, total tonnage 184...\n\n## UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD.\n**(Incorporated in Hong Kong)**\n\nEstablished over a century with Branches and Agencies throughout the World.\n\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| General Manager | A. W. Hughes |\n| Manager for the Far East | A. H. K. Cobb |\n\nALL CLASSES OF INSURANCE\n\nRates, etc., on application to the BRANCH OFFICE, UNION BUILDING, HONG KONG\n\nTelephone No. `28081`\n\nThe Society's HOUSEHOLDERS' COMPREHENSIVE POLICY affords complete protection for household and personal effects against the risks of FIRE, Explosion, Lightning, Earthquake, TYPHOON, Flood, BURGLARY, HOUSEBREAKING, THEFT.",
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        "title": "CO129-590-25 Accounts of events leading up to surrender and subsequent treatment of prisoners- etc 23-4-1942 - 28-9-1943",
        "content_text": "183\n\n-14-\n\nbombing and shelling of Aberdeen and 2 determined bombing attacks on H.M.S. CICALA which had been firing on enemy batteries on hills above Repulse Bay. At about 1000 nine bombers attacked CICALA and the ninth scored hits with a straddle of 5 bombs which holed her but did not explode to any great extent. MTB 10 received signal to all MTB's from S.N.O. Aberdeen 'CICALA on fire take off crew'\n\nand proceeded alongside taking off all officers and crew, and on consulting with the Commanding Officer, Lieut. Commander Boldoro, R.N. (retd.) MTB 09 was instructed to hasten the sinking of CICALA with depth charges and this was done. After putting crew of CICALA (some wounded) on shore at T-head pier, MTB 10 proceeded down Aberdeen Channel to contact the flotilla and at the narrowest part came under shell fire which wounded the First Lieutenant, who was landed, and Chief Petty Officer Gilbert Thomas D/J 96352 late Coxswain of the CICALA, taken in his place, together with a telegraphist from CICALA to cope with V2's W/T work. As I had been Commanding Officer of CICALA from May 1940 to April 1941 I was well acquainted with this Chief P.O. and found him of great assistance to me particularly in his cheerful and tactful attitude to officers and ratings. I recommend him for Warrant Rank under the A.F.O. which allows such promotion to C.P.O's within 3 years of pension.\n\nIn the afternoon Japanese were reported along Aberdeen Industrial School Road, and ratings on shore were sent to reinforce. The S.N.O. X instructed V2 to stand by for special mission with Mr. F.W.K. MTB's crews loaded special iron rations, arms, stores and equipment for this purpose.\n\nH.M.S. ROBIN under S.N.O.A. moved inshore in Aberdeen Channel and fired 50 rounds from 12 pdr. at ridge whence enemy gun had shelled Aberdeen Channel. MTB's lay to the west of Aberdeen Island carrying out the following duties. MTB 10 went to T-head pier to carry army ammunition to Stanley but it did not arrive. MTB's 07, 09, 11 and 27 received the following alarm signal. 'Boats in harbour from Holt's wharf passing west of Dockyard + and went in * attack. They entered harbour but found no boats, 11 and 09 firing some rounds at drifting lighter only. After this 07 and 09 anchored at Sandy Bay\n\nand 10, 11 and 27 at Telegraph Bay.\n\nThe following signal had been sent by Commodore to S.N.O.(R) XDO. V2. 'Should you be forced to withdraw from Aberdeen send all you have afloat including ammunition and petrol to Sandy and Telegraph Bays Try to send M.T.B. Oil in vevo 1540/20'.\n\nDecember 22nd. On Monday, December 22nd, the Robin was dive-bombed by a stick of 9 bombs but not seriously hit. MTB10 was not alongside at the time but waiting at T-head pier for military ammunition and anti-tank mines which were taken to Stanley military pier, here the Sergeant-Major in charge of the garrison asked for 3.7 howitzer ammunition. On return, MTB 10 was slightly fired on by some form of 0.5′′ machine gun. At 1800 having arranged for same the 3.7 howitzer ammunition came down in lorry to T-head pier and loading on to MTB 10 commenced; but the shelling from field guns on a commanding ridge to the east increased so much that one-third of ammunition was taken to load on MTB 07 lying out of sight. There were no casualties in MTB 10 with the exception of one live duck designed for Christmas killing, which was killed by a splinter earlier than intended. Some mortar fire wrecked glass in Industrial School. Other MTB's this day prepared stores and arms for possible escape.\n\nAt 1900 MTB 10 and 07 proceeded to Stanley pier after dark\n\nthere was some very slight sniping at the pier but the ammunition was delivered without trouble. The chief European guerrilla leader, Mr. F.W.K. remained on board MTB 10.\n\nDecember 23rd. On Tuesday, December 23rd, MTB's collected stores and arms and clothing for possible escape overland. Some MTB's lay outside harbour after collecting stores but for the sake of communications MTB 10 remained. There was considerable shelling of the harbour from field-guns on commanding ridge. I understand the Canadian troops left Bennett's Hill this day which was then held by the Navy.\n\nDecember 24th. On Wednesday, December 24th, MTB's 10, 07 and 11 were in harbour\n\nremainder to the west of Aberdeen Island or in Telegraph Bay. During the forenoon shelling of the harbour was again considerable. F.W.K. proceeded to Hongkong for information and returned to MTB 10 and all\n\nMC.",
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        "title": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945",
        "content_text": "57\n\nthan coal and firewood.\n\nFirewood supply is critical. Contracts have been made for supply from the New Territories of about 3,700 tons in October and another 1000 tons may be expected from an area in the region of Repulse Bay. Lt. Col. Bass has been in Borneo arranging cutting and supply, but it will be necessary to arrange transport from there. Firewood has been used in place of coal to keep the China Light and Power Company going. The Chinese have looted large quantities of wood from private houses and other places.\n\nShortage of transport has been a great handicap. When British Units landed they commandeered all the vehicles which they regarded as necessary for their work. This may have been necessary at the time but it has created a situation which will take time to straighten out.\n\nThe Civil Affairs transport provided for in the War Establishment has not yet arrived. Meantime, however, a certain Pool has been formed and requirements are met, according to the degree of urgency.\n\nThe Harbour Master also comes within the orbit of this Department. He has located, arranged for the repair and commissioning of certain ex-Japanese vessels. The ships are being used to bring essential foodstuffs into Hong Kong, though questions relating to their ownership and nationality are outstanding.\n\nOne vessel, the s.s. \"Rose\" has been detained in Kwang Chow Wan by the Chinese Authorities there.\n\nMain navigational lights and buoys are being re-established, though Cape Collinson Lighthouse and Gap Rock Lighthouse will require major construction. The Junks Registration Office has been re-established. The Yaumati Government Slipway and Repair Yard are in operation. The records relating to the Hong Kong Shipping Registry have been destroyed, and these will have to be replaced from London together with all stationery necessary for new registrations and the usual shipping office activities.\n\nIn the Industry Section Mr. Colledge has visited local manufacturing companies and reports that local manufacturing has largely ceased. The dockyards, sugar refinery, cement works and cotton engineering works will require extensive repair. In the cotton industry, however, the looms and knitting machines were found to be in good condition. The rubber canvas shoe factories are in a position to produce 20% of their former output, whilst the safety match, felt hat, peanut oil, electric-torch and leather shoe industries are ready to commence work as soon as raw materials in reasonable quantities are available.\n\nFinancial assistance has been requested by the Managers of the last named group in order to bring back skilled staffs to Hong Kong.\n\nCertain utility companies have commenced work on a reduced scale.\n\nThe China Light & Power Co. Ltd.\n\nThe Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd.\n\nThe Hong Kong Telephone Co. Ltd.\n\nThe Hong Kong Tramway Co. Ltd.\n\nThe Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Co. Ltd.\n\nThe China Motor Bus Co.\n\nThe Kowloon Motor Bus Co.\n\nThe ferries and public land vehicles require early repairs.",
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