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RUSSIANS IN HONG KONG.
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M.O.H., ON CHOLERA: PRECAUTIONS AGAINST CANTON STEAMERS.
At yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council, the' Director of Public Works, Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, wade an interesting announcement concerning the position of the second scation of the Shing Mun Reservoir Scheme.
The Director of Medical, and Sanitary Services, Hon, Dr. 4. R. Wellington replied to questions by the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock regarding the cholern question.
H.E. the Officer Administering the Government (the Hon. Mr. WF. Southorn, C.M.G.) presided, and, there were also present: The General Offeer Commanding (Major-General J. W. Saudi- lands, C.B., M.G., D.S.O.).
The Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax).
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The Attorney-General (Hon. Mr. C.,, G. Alabaster, K.C. 0.B.B.).
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. A. E. Wond).. The Colonial Treasurer (Hon, Mr. Edwin Taylor).
Hon. Mr H. T. Croney, C.BE. (Direttor of Public Works). Hon. Mr. T. H. King (Acting Inspector General of Police). Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole, H.N. (retired), (Harbour Master). Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services),
Hon. Sir Henry Pollock.
Hon. Mr, W. E, L. Shenton.
Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D.
Hon. Mr. J. P. Brago.
Hon. Mr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E.. LLAD.
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LABOUR.
MAN WHO COMMITTED THREE BURGLARIES.
Si,-Some days ago there ap- of the peated as article in one local periodicals which wonders nt the employment of Russians when there are Britons out of employ, and which suggests that hencefor ward Britons should be employed Arst wherever possible and ever. that the Russians should be re- peed by Brisons. Being well acquainted with a number of Rus- ians in Hong Kong, as well as with a nudber of Byitons periodic." ally in am out of employ, and having also often seen" the aitliude of
Charges of breaking into three Russian and British new arrivals. I would ask leave to express my
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the thatters.
Shamshuipo district and stealing personal opinion in No doubt, as in all spheres of life.
owners of steamers goods to a total value of R382 were (a.) Th thes who understand to adapt
plying between Canton and Hong admitted by Tsang Kwan Yau when themselves to the imperative of the
Kong will be notified that they ho was charged at the Kowloon Ma. time, succeed, whilst those who can.
should warn their ships officers and gistracy yesterday together with was jointly nos or will not adapt themselves to
careful watch Loung Chui, who stiff to keep against the entbarkation of sick, charged with him on the third-theft. persons and if a case of cholers or Sergeant Lamont explained that aboat empty-handed. The present Furgent need in all lines of busineservoir, the Hon. Mr. Creasy said: been completed and the sores have suspected cholera occurs during the the defendants were arrested in the
On Your Excellency's instructions been shipped home to the Consalt a reply to the telegram from the ing Engineers.
voyage to take the ship to the street with a quantity of goods. A have turned A.I.P.'s especially in shipping, including that thousands
herein the Tourist and Hotel aer-
Secretary of State for the Colonics The site chosen for the dam is quarantine anchorage and hoist the number of pawn tickets found in vices, is one of extreme economy. & ECONOMY Under present day conditions of has been sent, pointing cut that it that originally selected by the yellow sag instead of proceeding their possession led to the discovery "BUT FOR PLEASURE
ruthless competition it is often a
is the urgent wish of this Govern-P.W.D. the centre line being bush.to the wharf and generally to assist of the other goods. matter of either continuing under ment to take advantage of the next led some Afty feet upstream to eormance- allow for the extra width at tho strict curtailment of all exponers, dry season to make a
base. or of going out of business altement with the second section of the gather. It would not serve the Shing Mun Belieme and enquiring.
The actual second section of the Xation at all to go about demand. as to the amount of the expend Shing Mun Scheme as now project; ing high wages merely for being
Briton,' as it would be a rain on British businessmen to keep up the high pre-war standard of wages when we see all around us in the quested to state the date by which mediately upstream of the Shine will have. the Canton steamers met The Secretary for, Chinese Affairs
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Mr. R. A. C. North (Deputy Clerk of Council). SHING MUN SCHEME.
Speaking of the Shing Mun re-
ture which Messrs, Binnie
Sons
& Deacon catinate will be incurred during the current year. The tole- gram also asked that they be re
I five feet should borings on the site prove favourable. A series of coro ¡ drill barings on the sito have since
ed is the constrictions of a masonry dam giving an approximate depth a site im. of water of 200 feet on
the Health Authorities by all means
in their power,
The owners will also be naked to endeavour to pinec a doctor on each ship during the continuance of the epidemic.
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Mr. Fraser sentenced the first de- fendant to one year's imprisonment on all three counts, while the se cond defendant was sentenced to six months'
will consult with the District Watch. Committer with a view to advising the Sanitary Board as to
When Canton Steamers Arriva.
Press advising the public to avoid"
vegetables. (b.) The Medical Department uncooked fruit and
on arrival and the Police, will re Mun Gorgo, giving, storage capaceive special instructions to regu welt reduction of the wage scale their Chief Resident Engineer may city of approximately 3,000 million late the debarkation of "passengers by 10, 50, and more per, cont. The be expected to arrive in Hong gallons, and, nisu of a subsidiary in such a way as to permit inspec
tion by the officers of the medical ssians being particularly freong, and instructions were asked cut off masonry Dam at Pineapple department. from preconceived idens of person for as to what preliminary works Fass approximately sixty feet high. rel and race superiority a far might, bd carried out departmental- more quick w "adapt themselves bely such as the approach road, pend- the changed conditions under the jing his arrival.
On receipt of this information it existing worldwide depression, whilst Britans, as proved by the will be possible to ask this Coun- a supplementary vote to very words of the writer of the eil for article. "naturally" refuse to work cover the expenditure during 1832
With your permission, Sir, I for $300 and prefer to go begging
the desirability of including other"
as cooling drinks, (c.) The Medical Department articles, such will also take steps to ensure that lettuce, etc., under these By Tawe., tire passenger decks, kitchens and e., prohibiting their sala cither lavatories of the ships are thorough-
Area of 2,000 Acres. The direct entchment area of thisly reservoir is 2,000 acres which in- cludes the 2,400 acres now "partial- ly Lapped" by the existing Shing Mun intake.
Tis estimated that this reser-
cleaned after the passengers totally or without a permit from have landed.
the Head of the Sanitary Depart- (d.) In addition I have been ment and the Medical Officer of instrumed to proceed to Canton and Fealth, get into touch with the Chinese
Anti-Cholera Vaccine. health authorities there
with a view to investigating any other methods by which infected persons
(8.)-With regard to anti-cholera
"from office to office" or to live shall give a brief statement of the voir will yield supply of 9.35 and inerchandise..may be excludedBoram this is not now recognised
on charity "at 30 cents a day
of
unless they can get a decent v.present position of the Shing Mun million gallons per day over our ing wage of $300 a month. The Scheme, Second Section, and driest known period, which means Russians have a different opinion the work to be undertaken by
an addition of 6.25 million gallons of decent living, and that is to stand on their own feet, without Messrs. Bienio Song & Deacon.
per day to the Colony's supply, outside help. at all costs, and to
the difference of 3 million gallons prove themselves as willing and
per day being the supply now hard working people, as they ar hotheless, but intend 1) settle
available from the existing intake down in the Colony for the rest of Mun Scheme as first proposed in their lives. As a matter of fact, 1992 consisted of three reservoirs and first section works
⚫ Scheme Explained.
The Second Section of the Shing
a large nuther of locul farmer known as the Gorge Dam, Shing Russian subjects have already "be come naturalised British aubjects. Mun Village Dam and Middle Hill permanently domiciled in Hong Dam with an approximate total Kong, It is fret that when a firm capacity of 2,000 million gallons. employs a Russinn, whether natur- alised or not yet, they know exaci- On later investigation at the site.
ip what they will get a willing it was found that the foundations and hard working employee, who
The Drip is estimated to take five years to construct at an inclusive' cost of $9,300,000, but it will of course ho possible to utilize the water from the reservoir as the work proceeds.
This does not exhaust the gravity
With regard to anti- If these steps fail to prevent or at cholera vaccine there is a Buf- least keep within reasonable bounds the introduction of the disease intoficiency of this material in the Colony to meet immediate needs Hong Kong the Government will have to take more drastic measures.and mere is being prepared, For preventing of the dissemina- tion af the disense within the Colony the following mensures will be taken
from vessels sailing for Hong Kong. remedy.
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New Regulations. (c.)-The dormant by-laws for the Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemic, Endemic, Contagious, or Infectious dincase made by the Sanitary Board on the 14th Decem- ber, 1926, and approved by the Legislative Council on the following 31st December will be brought into nor-in-Council. The by-laws are as follows:
las sot his will upon doing his of the Shing Man Village Dam
and were not favourable and it was deacetion of the Shing Mun Scheme force by declaration of the Gover- work intelligently, earnestly
as by means of catchwaters along well, as he has nowhere to go, and cided to abandon this site and raise the slopes of the surrounding bills nothing to build his future upon the Gorge Dam to give the addi- except his own work, wel! and cou
EL further pine scientibusly done, while in the case tional storage. The raising of the at least another 8,000 acres tan be
tapped producing of a Briton he looks for ense and Gorge Dam will flood out a portion privileges before he has proved hir earnestness and permanency. It of the Middle Hill Dam site mak million gallons approximately per therefore basically and mostly the ing it uncconomical and it has day without further reservoirs. The Briton's own attitude and his own therefore also been abandoned..
lack of understanding of precept The Gorge Dam therefore after
day business difficulties which de
ers and to accuse them in a weiled
is
catchvaters constitute what known as the third section of the
ried out when found necessary.
bar him from potential jobs, and to further investigation was moved Shing Mun Scheme, and will be car- place, the blame merely on employ slightly upstream and raised to give way of a miserly attitude towards a depth of water of 175 feet and their own countrymen, does not the project was submitted to Göy- rueet the question. If a Russian
ernment, employed it is a certain proof that
Yours, etc.,
NEUTRAL.
Questions on Cholera.
The Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, relative to the question of cholera, asked:-
Is there a suficiency, in this Colány, ol~
As this structure would have been be is worth his pay, and it Britons
1. What measures do you IB- would be wise and willing to ren of very considerable magnitude, ex- der their employers the karac ser vice under all conditions, as the ceeding in height almost any axist-commend should be adopted by the Russians do, they would not finding dam in Englund, the Secretary Government for the prevention of the spread or cholera from Centon to Hong Kong i themselves unemployed for long-of State for the Colonies before approving the scheme advised that Hong Kong, June 29.
it should be examined by the Con- [Local employers will judge sulting Engineers, Mosárs. Alex. whether there is any foundation ip fact for Neutral's ideas of Russian Binnie Sta & Deacon. Consequent- virtue. Admittedly a decent Rusly, the site was visited by repre- sian is better than a British beach, sentatives of the Consulting Engin-commend should be taken by the
amber, hut the average Briton out eers in January, 1531, and October, here gets a good salary because he 1931.
in worth it, in honesty, efficiency
Work on the Dam.
and reliability. There are, ho
The Consulting Engineers report- ever, largo numbers of British neonie showing the traditional ed favourably on the whole scheme umlity of their race, on salaries and on the worlds kizendy complet- very much adjusted to modemed but suggested that the dam I should be raised a further twenty- conditions-ED, KK.D..]
i. Anti-cholern serum, (i) Other anti-cholera remedies
and medicines 7
If not, what steps do you re- Government for remedying such defciencies, if any
M.OH. Replies,
The Hou. Dr. A. R. Wellington, in reply, Bard-
1.The Goverment does not con-
(a)-The Governor-in-Count maw at any time and from time to time declare an occasion to exist in any district or districts, which, for the provention, a as possible or mitigation of any. epidemic, endemic, contagious or
disease, infectious
necessitates the coming into force of the Following by-laws. and thereupon and on the application of such declaration in the Gazette, and
Concerning anti-cholera remedies and medicines there is "auliuient stock in the Colony to meet all re- quirements.
Other Businesa, The following Bills passed their first readings:-
"A Bill to amend the Mer chant Shipping Ordinance, 1809.**
"A Bill to amend further the Crown Solicitors Ordinance, 1910"
The following Bills passed through their final stages:
A Bill for the resumption of the City Hall.”
"A Bill to amend the Liquors Ordinance, 1937."
"A Bill to consolidate and amend the law regulating the granting of Pensions, Gratuities. and other Allowances in respect. of public service."
ant Pensions. Government
In regard to the last of these so long as any such declaration Bills, there was an amendment in
shull subsist. the said by-laws
shall be in force in the district clase 19, the following words being added after the word "thrre- or districts to which the same are
under" in the tenth line:-" or or may be applied. Subject as aforesaid, the end by-laws shall the rights and obligations conferred
ör imposed by section 1 and 3 be in abeyance.
of the Pensions Ordinance. 1932, on (b.)-No person shall sell or ör in respect of any judes or other offer for sale any fresh fruit, unpublic officer in the service of this loss the same in whole, that is Colony at the commencement of
thia Ordinance." to any, uncut and unpeeled.
(e)No person shall sell or affer for sale ice cream or any chilled preparation ог frozen commonly known as " ice-cream"
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The Hon, the Attorney-General; in respect of the above ancudment; "said: The object of this amend
unless the seller halds a permitment is to make it clear that officers: in writing in that behalf signed now in the service of the Colony by the head of the Sanitat De will patinue to be governed by partment and by the Medien the same machinery of retirement for age as now exista under thin two Oficer of Health.
sections of the "Ordinance of 1882, Officers joining hereafter will be automatically retired under the pro visions of clause. 10.
Banitary Board Warning. :- (f)-The Sanitary Board has already issued a notice in the sider that the situation as it stands funtinued at foot of nees relamu 1
The Council adjourned in 15 7 Thursday next.
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