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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH, 1923.

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No. 8, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

HONGKONG."

DAIRY FARM NEWS

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DURING

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When the Ductor prescribes ho expects the Draggist to fill the prescription with Pure Drugs. The quality of our Drugs, Medicines and Toilet Goods is not surpassed Have the Doctor's Prescription filled here and the result will, bo satisfactory

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THE LIQUORS ORDINANCE AND THE CHIT SYSTEM.

STATEMENT BY THE HON, MR:

A. R. LOWE,

Fifthly H. Sir Henry May-ampli- fed the previous point by recalling that to his astonishment a Hotel Manager in London refused to cash or recept his cheque for £10, even though he explain: The Hon. Mr. As R. Lowe laid on the ed he was Governor of Hongkong, and table of the Legislative Council yesterday to the liongkong and Shanghai Bank to that at great inconvenience he had to go the following statement of the groundset cash to pay his bill. To my mind this of bis dissent from, the opinion of the only shows the trend of thought in the majority of one only which defeated the mind of the speaker in thinking it right motion brought forward at the Council Meeting held the 0th September alvo cating the repeal of Section 3 of the Liquor Qrdinance, 1917 —

To the President nu. Honourable Members of the Legislative Council" of Hangkang

In pursuites of notics I beg to my before this Honourable Council, the following Statement of the grounds of my dissent from the opinion of the majority of one only, which defented the motion brought forward at the Council Meeting held on the 6th September, 1991, for advocating the repeal of Section of the Liquor Ordinance, 1917,

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Sixthly.The Government bave recent- by reduced the Stamp Duty on cheques. from 10 cents to 5 cents, presumably in deference to my remarks on robberies at Part of my. the last Budget Debate remarks rend as follows: "It has Jon heen recognised that robberies, from Europeans are practically non-existent because Europeans hardly ever carry, any chair hire. Robberies from business and money beyond a few cents for current private houses are chiefly interred from the knowledge that dealings therein are P.&O.BANKING CORPORATION ennducted in cash, and the probability is that large cash sums are available on the premises at all hours. The more payments "by "cheque are in vogne, the necessity for cash in band is reihwest to a minimum, and the incentive to rof. bery is removed. To help this movement I suggest that the duty of ten cents on cheques he reduced to one rent:"

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First. Because the clause was "origi. nated by the late Governor, Sir Henry May, as the minimum he could force on this Colony in place of the much more drastic tagasure he had in mind to reduce the consumption of alcohol not only in Hotels but in Clubs; he actually made a statement in Council (Häamara p. (9) "that the object of the bill was nat to stop drinking which, to my mind, was untrus kl enie lated to throw dust in the eyes ol More and more Europicans appeur to the Members present and the public at use the Hotels in Honakong mausged by large. Further, the eash chit system the Hongkong Hotel Co. (nul, presum which the Bill tacitly brought into being ably, the other Hotels as well), and, if was a child of the brain of the Colonial the chit system is interfered with, as Secretary, the proposer of the clause in secni's likely all these Europeans will Council, who hid introduced a somewhat find it necessary to carry hates and more similar ensure in the Club of another silver. Bag-snatching from European country which has for its actual object'kidlies is not unknown in the Colony, and the curtailment of credit by planters who I am inclined to think pocket-picking and rushed back from the Club to their prac even are violent efforts are not betond tically inaccessible homes in the country the capabilities" of native robbers if the and evaded their commitments. I have European men provide such inducement no dent the remedy was effectual, but in the future as will make the verture there are no inaccessible places in this profitable. At present European sea- Colony and this reason does not therefore faring men are the only ones who are apply here

supposed to carry cash in their pockets, Secondly-The Ordinance..was rushed ud for sonic years past the Government through the second and third reader has exercised a paternal care, ever those in une day on which the Estimates for who leave the piers after dusk in sam the year were also brought forward, be- pans by stationing police there who note.

down particulars and tho rushers of the sides much other business. The mange paus in criler to provide evidence ments of the leading Hotels protested when the passenger fails to reach bis against the interference which the Clause

ship. Whether the percentage of miss would cause then and their customers, ing has been kept down since this sys- No reasons for the measure were printed teur.was inaugurated is not known, but, } on the Bill, and the Government shelved presumably, the cost of it is found to be RESERVE FOND any attempt at a compromise or amend worth while. It is generally understood. ment by refusing 20 ̊ reply to criticismų

that the Colony is under policed, al- The Government only presented gir | though European lives are probably sufer explanations and reasons on the day it in Hongkong than in London and "other" self a procedure which prevented the large cities, and I contend this is attri petitioners placing before Han. Members butable to the fact that European resi such argararat 24 they would have dents are not worth while rohhing or thought

Botel necessary.

managers killing. Anything, therefore, which tends are very much more subject to restricto increase the carrying of money should. tions and to the supervision of the Gov in my opinion, he condemned under pro ernment and the police then any other sent locul conditions, and consequently trader, and well conducted "houses I voted for the clause to be repealed." naturally object to any unecessary adili- tions to these restrictions. It, therefore, appears to tue that the rushing through of this measure, which an official meucer supporting the Government des cribed as much ado about nothing," wax unfair.

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The only Europeans I know who carry money are certain card-players, whâ," from motives arising from a curious form of pride unknown to "old stagërs."'pre- fer not to sign or accept chits due on the first of the following month.

Seventhly. At last Thursday's debate His Excellency the present Governor on the question of the repeal of the admits the question is one in which two dijectionable clause, the Hon. Mr. Flet opinions are possible because it concerns cher explained that he would vote against the internal managenent of the Hotels the repeal though he spoke with some and their clients, and said he doubted diffidence and no overwhelming convic whether if he were starting with a clear tios, as he could not claim the advan-Daten field he would make such a clause law, tage of knowing as mack about drinking in bars as the Hop. Mr. Shovan claimed Moreover, both in 1917 and 192), it was conteniled by the representatives of the over the Hon. Mr. Pollock in 1917.

contend that if he knows so little about Justices of the Peace and the Chamber the subject in dispute the moral value of Commerce that the clause was merely of his vote is negligible, though it ne vexatious and unnecessary, yet the Hotels doubtedly influenced his official col browbeaten by the Government leagues who were the only Members to into acquiescence in a measure originat- ing in an honest but hysterical effort support him. The rest of his speech re- by impractical on to win the war Oxford giving credit to the suas of well- To-day the only people who support to-do parents, and other matters irrele.. the retention of the present law are vant to the supply of "drinks" to the Government officials who do not mix public in Hongkong. The only exception freely with the users of Hotels for the was his attempt to minimise the limeul reason they have no need to do so. No-ties of dealing with "Leys thing, therefore, in the above leads me Colony. I can. however, substantiate to believe it is a vital necessity to relain from my experience as an Auditor to

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in 1917 apparently influenced the passing known to London har tenders and waiteri of the Bill by remarking that “in the about the percentage of liquor and cash case of a well-known resident it will it is possible to Squeeze out of the always be possible to get money (to pay proprietor and/or the customer which is for drinks) at the office of the Hotel. not known to and taken advantage of To my mind there is no difference be by the Chinese "boy, but under the tween signing an LO.U. for a rood som chit system it is possible to reduce the and spending (in drinks) the "proceeds various forms of squeeze to a mini- on more than one occasion than in sign mam. Mr. Fletcher's conclusion that the ing an 10.U. for the exact cost of the sale of drink must, he larger under the drinks on each occasion. Further to sign credit than under the cash system I for drinks is no would not care to deny, for it is true of the chit dr bill. different in moral efiget from signing. an the sale of any class of goods, hut there LOU. It may, however, help hypo-is a limit to every man's capacity and crite togetude himself that ho has signed the hours within which he may buy drinks so drink chits in that particular month, in fotels. Self-respect also, is n brake and I dissent from any attempt to help to over-indulgence in well conducted or create hypocrites,

Hotels, especially those which the other FourthlyA great point was made by Rex frequent Hotel-keepers are bound the Hou. Mr. Shewan that nowhere cise by law to supply drink for ensh to any in the World could anyone tender a chit person who demands it whilst sober, and in any Hotel har. This, to my mind, is past experience has shown that, at the a misstatement; as chits are the rule principal Hateis, at any rate, drunken 67, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL AGENTS for Hongong and South Chins and not the exception throughout the Bess is not only not encouraged but Far East in the hotels and Shopt if the strictly barred if only for fear of losing the licence, to put it on no higher ground. purchaser is known to be good for pay

Mr. Fletcher's early troubles will doubt," inent. Moreover, as numitted by the Ilon. The Colonial Feerntary at the time, the practice of chalking up, £418- tonier's drinks was an ancient practice and perhaps the effort had helped to in the village Inus of England. His Ex- make the successful man we see to-day cellency the Governor in 3017 followed avstem bas its disadvantages but in In any opinion, therefore, the credit dp Mr. Shewan's statement by declaring: Hongkong, taken as a whole, the advan that the thit system was not against the letter of the law though it is against the tages outweigh them. principle of it,

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