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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 28th, 1928.

THE COLONY'S FINANCES.

REPORT FOR THE YEAR

HOT OF COLD DRINK,

Get one tin for trial Obtainable at all stores.

and Cafeshops,

Sole Agents. Hul and Hat Co.

(Alexandra Building) Hongkong.

FIBKE BOARD CARTONS

the modern and economical containers for all classes of merchandise. ACME STEEL STRAPS

a fast and efficient method of re-inforcing fibes borsa, crates bales, bundles and wood-boxes.

ACME TACK-POINT FASTENERS more easily driven and greater holding power. J. M. DA ROCHA & CO., Agents.

FIBREBOARD. PRODUCTS CO. OF SAN FRANCISCO.

ACME STEEL CO. OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK (6100

Bayer Tablets of

Aspirin

-Dissolved in a Glass of Water'

before sae, Yaqin Tablets of Aspirin,the urimalacă pala-onllevat are both easier te šake and quicker and strongue in action. Their pre-eminent qually and cariadały of očiaci have given zlar ka munverðar imitations. Many of these tandalone home been proved beyond question 3 be- injurious in he

} Original packages of

"Buy" Tablets of Aspirta «cus bu recognised by the Baper Cross

1927.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRADING CONDITIONS REFLECTED IN INCREASED RECEIPTS.

Under the bead of Police Force STAMP DUTY. PRO- svings were due to vacancies in the establishment and officers being on

leave.

Lapsing salaries and overestimat- İ ing the sum required for medicines : and surgical appliances were chiedy responsible for the savings in the Medical Department..

The savings in the Sanitary De- partment vote are accounted for by lapaing salaries, and deferring the purchase of a new refuse barge for which provision was made in the estimates.

SECUTION.

WING ON COOLIES SUMMONED,

WHAT CONSTITUTES - A RECEIPT?

Two delivery coolies employed by The Education Department show the Wing On Company were sum The Colonial Treasurer's reported savings as a result of lapsing moned before Mr. H. E. Kändsell at on the finances of the Colony for salaries and a reduction in capitate Central Magistracy yesterday moraing for issuing receipts with the year 1927 is largely a summary tion and building grants.

The Public Works Department out axing the necessary revenus. of the facts already published. The showed aaaring mainly due to stamps. statement, however, analyses the lapsing salaries and a tendency accounts in a concise way and to overestimate, requirements for

**other charges.",

advances explanations for the in- creases and decreases in revenue and expenditure of the various Gov- ernment departments..

REVENUE.

year

The total revenue' for "the amounted to 81,344,530 being $337,139 more than the estimate and 8912,054 more than the revenue in

1926,

Compared with that year there

were increases under all heads ex-

cept miscellaneous receipts and land salus, the most notable being an increase of $1,27,784, in, licences and internal revenue.

The principal sub-heads showing excess over the estimates were as follows:-

EXCIS8.

(z) Assessed taxes...... :.8 47,159 (6) Forfeitures........

(c) Hawkers licences

(f) Liquor licences

25,943 20,483 41,445

(e) Opium monopoly..... 344,371

Medical examination of emigranta

(7), Post Office message

fees

Mr. H. Dennys, who appeared for the defendants, submitted that the documents in question were not receipts given by the firm, but only

form of invoice.

The considerable saving under Public Works Extraordinary was brought about by the general policy of retrenchment pursued by the case last year in which the same His Worship recalled a previous Government Public works not of point arose. The Crown Solicitor an urgent character were postponed ibon agreed that in form the docu and work was delayed on such menta amounted to receipts if the schornes d'as - were already in pro-word "received" appeared on gress wherever this could be done them. without disadvantage.

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Mr. Dennys contended that even The saving shown under the head if the word "received appeared Charge on Account of Public Debt on the form, it did not make it was due to repayment of the greater a receipt within the meaning of part of the Local War Loan being the Ordinance. Dealing with one effected in the first half of the year of the documents on which appear- with a consequent saving of ined the words "00 gramophone re- tarest. The sinking fund invest- cords at £18.80 per dozen 842— menta realised sufficient to make any further contribution unacces sary and the provision for this was therefore allowed to lapse.

The scheme for the formation of a Naval Volunteer Reserve in Hons Kong was not proceeded with.

The principal heads showing ex- cess were as follows:-

EXCIS3,

received by Fong Kam," Mr. Denny's sigh this was a cash cale He explained that some customers instead of taking goods over the counter, asked for delivery to be made at their houses. In such cases invoices were made out triplicate, one being kept by the sales departanens at Wing On's, one by the cash department, and the other handed to the coolie who car- red out the delivery.

in

Miscellaneous services..8337,695 Charitable services...... 92,134 The vote for miscellaneous ser- Continuing, he said that, the vices was exceeded largely on ac- words received by Fong" may or the count of services of a special nature mean either the money

The coolie received the necessitated by the political situa- goods. 60,100

tion and for which no prevision was money after delivering the goods 53,838 made in the estimates. The cost of and handed it to the Company. transport of Government servants The memo was merely a matter of

book-keeping. was greatly underestimated and to a smaller degree this fault was apparent in several other items.

Several charitable grants which

47,109

107,184

THRILLS AND ROMANCE IN AN AMAZING. STORY OF MODERN PIRATES, WITH THE STAR OF "THE BIG PARADE" IN HIS FINEST ROLE !—

JOHN

TWELVE

OUT

GILBERT MILES

in

with

ERNEST TORRENCE -- JOAN CRAWFORD DASHING JOHN GILBERT as a fight- ing, love-making, death-defying, outlaw of the high seas? Qutside the twelve mile limit of the law, its story sweeps you-away beyond the usual limit of thrills, action and throbs!

A`smashing picture based on the famous stage play by William Anthony McGuire.

ADDITIONAL ATTRACTION

At 9.20 p.m. Only

THE FAMOUS JUVENILE ECCENTRIC DANCERS Miss CHERIE VALENTINE Miss TOMASITA BIRDWELL In An Entirely New Programme.

AT THE

QUEEN'S TO-DAY TO

SATURDAY

Usual Times and "Prices

In reply to Mr. Lindsall as to THE BURNING ROMANCE OF A LOVEABLE ROGUEI

when the words in question were placed on the invoice, Mr. Dennys said that it was dose after the

goods, foreign line... 28,680 could not be foreseen caused an delivery of the goods, but it did not

BAYER

(A) Post Office postage.... (K.C.R. passenger ser

vice, passenger, for- cign line ()K.C.R. gooda service,

#

(4) K.C.R. auxiliary ope- rations foreign haul- age (Leased lands (Crown

rant)

(m) Interest

(A) Compensation in lieu

of rates

(0) Other miscellaneous

receipts

Asahi Beer Invigorating & refreshing.

Sole Agents-

ASAH!

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA LTD.

HONG

INSURE

YOUR

MOTOR

CARS

WITH

GILMAN'S

"OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE POLICY.

[106

Yau Chiu Man, D.CL

KONG.

THEATRE ROYAL

HONG KONG.

€7,819

36,691 283,087

27,052

308,712 The above increases may be attri- buted generally to the great in- provement in local trading condi- tions. Items (4), (j) and (2) are due to the resumption of the through service to Canton and the large increase in (m) was brought about by the transfer of accumulat- ed interest on the money deposited in London towards the cost of the Singapore base.

The transfer to revenue of profit oa exchange and the surplus of the local war loan sinking fund result. edin (o) and increased sales of opium accounted for (e).

The principal sub-heads showing deficits compared with the estimates were as follows:-

- DEFICITS,

(a) Liquor duties

(6) Stamp duties (c) Tobacco duties (E.C.R: passengers ser-

excess on the charitable" services vote...

constitutes receipt by the' Com- The instructions of the The revenue for the year exceeded | P43. the expenditure by the sum of that no receipts were to be accepted Company were perfectly plain--

8499,471,

unless on their printed form and signed by an authorised person

COMPARISONS.

The following table shows the revenue and expenditure during the past five years:--

Revenue. 1923.824,783,783 1034,203,640° *1023...... 23,844,305 : 1920... 21,131,589

Mr. Lindsell asked if an invoice

handed over the counter to a pur-

chaser bore the word "received" Expenditure, would that not be a receipt?

821,571,005 Mr. Dennys replied that he did

so and produced a. 26,728,425 not think

voucher СКП Messrs. Witeaway's :28,268,817

form bearing the word "delivered" 23,524,716 1927. 91,344,538 20,843,068 and another from Messrs. Lane, As the above figures show there Crawford, Ltd., on which appeared Further, in a was a surplus of 83,211,858 in 1923 the word "paid." and a surplus of $499,471 in 1927. hotel, zid Mr. Dennys, one got an In 1924 there was &úcfcit of invoice for what was consumed, and 82,810,788, in 1995 a deficit off the waiter put the word

paid " 85,022,452 and in 1926 a deficit of it was as good as putting the word received," but that form would 82,303,134.

not be a receipt. Doubtless if one' asked for a proper receipt he would be given it. If that were not so then all the trading concerns in the Colony would have to adopt a new

PUBLIC DEBT:

✔

The inscribed stock loans of 188s and 1906 amounted to £1,485,733 and the sinking fund stood at £387,205 being £33,418 more than system the amount at credit of that fund

at the end of 1920.

The Local 6. per cent. War Loan $310,195

383,088 of $3,000,000 was fully repaid dur- 73,998 ing the year, $9,100,000 on May 1st and $900,000 on November 1st, and there remained a surplus in the sinking fund of $138,134 which was

vice, passengers, tome line incorongerenwoo 07,082 (e) Buildings, rent of ...... 20,478 Land sales 156,317 The new liquor duties failed to bring in the revenue anticipated and stamp duties proved to be over- estimated. The deficit in (d) is more than off-sot by the increases in other sub-heads of railway re- venue. Land sales proved to be considerably less than was expect

ed.

EXPENDITURE.

transferred to reventie.

The documents in the case, con- tended Mr. Dennys, were not legal quittances in that they did not come from the person who sold the goods. If the Company were sum- moned and not the coolie, the sum- ons could not possibly succeed, not mean acquittance. The law did because the word "received" did

Public Works Loan, 1927,

The first part of the 8 per cent. act demand a receipt, and any cas wastomer could take away the goods issued locally at par on November after paying for them in cash. The 1st, 1997. Applications, which were coolie did not sell the goods and invited from the public, amounted therefore could give no receipt for to $11,711,000 and bonds were allot-money paid against theez ted to the value of 89,000,000.

The first contribution to the sink- ing fund becomes due on October 31st, 1928.

GENERAL REMARKS.

In reply to the Magistrate, Mr. Dennys admitted that if the word authorised cashier of the firm, the "received" was put on. by the

document would have constituted a receipt. He pointed out, however,

Monday, July 2nd estimate and $2,079,551 less than the respectively. The figures not ac for a week, remarking to the police

at 9.15 p.m.

JACQUES THIBAUD

(The Great French Violinist)

FAREWELL PERFORMANCE.

AT THE

WORLD

Joh Barrymore

The

Hoved

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY

Orchestra

Interpreter

5.15 & 9.20.-0 2.80&-7.15.

SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S gripping story of the great

wheat country 1-

THOMAS MEIGHAN The Canadian

AT THE

STAR

“TWELVE MILES OUT!"

A TALE OF MODERN PIRATES.

TO-DAY TO SATURDAY Continuous 2:30 to 11:15.

rence. "Red's" morals are perhaps a trifle worse than Gilbert's and he has not the advantage of a lithe young body and a wonderful mouthful of teeth, so Gilbert gets away with the ladies and the ap plause of the audience.org

Joan Crawford plays "Jone," the lady who turns the dying hero into virtuous: paths" and she looks very

The total expenditure brought The total receipts and payments that in the present instance the to account amounted to $20,345,063 in the Treasury books during the coalie had no right to sig nit.

Mr. Lindsell adjourned the case being 81,460,637 less than the year were $52,331,638 and 851,511,012|

counted for under revenue and ex-officer in charge of the case that expenditure in 1923.

penditura relate to transactions would be as well to consult the The principal heads showing under various heads such as de law officers of the Crown on the FURTHER TRIUMPHS FOR TWO attractive in her pose of haughty savings were as follows:-

posits, advances, subsidiary coin, points raised by Mr. Dennys.

* SAVINGS,

Junior clerical servicc..............€ 27,307

Post Office ......

Harbour Department

Fire Brigade

Police Force.

Medical Department"

Sanitary Department

15.

Four other coalies employed by the Tai Chung Wah Company, re- „presented by Mr. Dennya, were also

10,200 remanded.

3,960

1,667,676

.248,424 28,153

$1,950,413

YOUNG DANCERS.

[BY OUR FILM CRITIC)

aristocracy:

Twelve, Miles Out" is a well. constructed story and achieves something of the of veracity of Treasure Island." There is a tang of the sea all the way through, and there was no doubt that last night's audience enjoyed the pic

mallocated atores, etc..

Subsidiary coins in stock on 90,738 December 31st were as follows: 105,025

50 cents .204, 19 40,449

John

Gilbert's new picture, 67,460 ..10, .,

"Twelve Miles Out," is a story of 64,459

CINEMA NEWS.

the modern pirates. The rum-tare: Copper ..... $107,208

AT THE WORLD,

running trade in America appears

The Dancers Education Department... 72,520

to be fraught with other dangers

The two juvenile dancers, Toma- Public Works Depart-

In The Beloved Rogue" John besides that of e ping the revenue sita Birdwell and Cherie Valentine, ment

183,164

oficers. Smugger fights with

an entire change of pro- The nominal amount of coins in Barrymore plays Francois Vilen, Public Works Extra-

ordinary

739,573 circulation was $17,914,370 and the famed eccentric poet of Siteenth smuggler and piracies seems as gramme last night. Their dances Military contribution".... 31,112 market value stood practically at century France. Dramatic inci common as arrests. At all events were not of quits auch a strenuous dents follow each other in such so the authorities of Hollywood re-order as those of the earlier por Hong Kong Royal Naval

formances, but they gained very Volunteer Reserve... 40,000

rapid succession that the produc- late.

hearty applause for each number, especially for the clever Dance Fantasie" which they did together.

Charge on account of

par.

tion affords a continual series of Twelve Miles Out" is the type

public debt. ... 259,837 SPAIN TO SOUTH AMERICA thrills, building up to a surprising of story that bloodthirsty young

The savings in the Harbour De partment were chiefly due to over-

Counsellor & Attorney-at-Law, Prices: $4, $3 and $2, estimating the coal and oil fuel re-

Undertakes all Chiness and

Farbign Legal Business,

Property registextion

speciality.

Supervises buying and sel-

fing of rest estate,

HEAD OFFICE:

81, CG EG SUR STRET

(2ND FLOUR), OANTON.

BOOKING AT MOUTRIE'S,

JACQUES THIBAUD

DIRECTION

STROK...

9414

quirements, the actual expenditure on this item being over 861,000 below the estimate. Only one in- stalment was paid on the now launch to replace the Victoria and in consequence a sum of $23,350 lapsed on this item. We

Savings in the Fire Brigade vate were mainly owing to personnel being below the authorised estab lishment and to the non-arrival of one of the light motor pumps pro- vided for in the estimates.

REGULAR ZEPPELIN

SERVICE1

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE. ]

chimax Conred Veidt, the German actor is cast as the arrogant, sus picious Louis XI.

gave

mon rejoice in; perhaps they may think that five women are too much in a caste of ten, but after all some ** At The Star.

provision must be made for the rest NEDERLANDSCH INDISCHE Thomas Meighan comes to the of the audience. John Gilbert

& HANDELSBANK. Star Theatre from today till loves, and drinks, and fights his Saturday in a thrilling picture of way through life with insolent the wild west entitled The Cana laughter on his lips. Wasee him DIVIDEND OF TEN PER CENT dian, a tale of love and adven in Spain cheating a friend out of atture in the wide open spaces of his boat and his girl in Holland The Hong Kong branch of the Handels Alberts. Beautiful Mons Palma where he takes another young lady Nederlandsch Indische plays a young English girl trans, and in America where he plays bank has received a cable from its planted to new country. The rum-rumner and pirate. His is not. head office in Amsterdam announc picture is entirely free from lurid a very "edifying role, but it is made ing that the bank has declared a melodrama seually associated with sympathetic by his opposition to dividend of ten per cent for the Western pictures:

Red McCue played by Ernest Tor years 1997

NEW YORK, June 96th. The Fax Brothers International Corporation has been awarded G.85,000,000 contract for the con- struction of an aerodrome. Seville, which will serve as a base for a Transatlantic air line..

Zeppelins are to be operated be tween Seville and Buenos Aires, where a similar aerodrome will be built