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THE SECRETARIAT FOR

CHINESE AFFAIRS

"SIDE-LIGHTS ON LABOUR AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS

FACTORIES INCREASE DESPITE

SLUMP

The Secretary for Chinese affairs in his report for 1932 gives a comprehensive and interesting review of official and semi-official work among the Chinese Com. munity: Activities with regard to mui tsai, emigration, and the manifold activities of the Tang Wah Hospital are fully dealt with.

Important sections are devoted both to labour conditions and the factories in the Colony, and there is also a de- tailed account of the activities of the Po Leung Kuk.

We give a few extracts from the report, but the whole document, with its many illuminating tables and statisties merits study by all sections of the community.

MUI TSAI SUPERVISION

of

Inspector Fraser and his two view of the general dullness Assistant Chinese Lady Inspectors | trade.

The help of this department was have worked with conspicuous loyalty and diligence throughout also sought in the matter of a dis the year on work in connection with pute between masters and men in As usual mui-tagi, 6,184 visits were paid the cake-baking trade. to the homes of registered muisome interesting details were reveal- tsai. At the beginning of the year ed in connection with the mysteries the total number of mui-teci "war" 3,743 and at the end of the year this. had been reduced by 553 to n total of 3,188. This very consider able reduction is mainly accounted for by permanent departures from the Colony, restoration to relatives and marriage.

were

Fifty-Aye prosecutions rought under the mui-tani Or: dipance with fifty-four convictions. These prosecutions included forty- three cases of keeping unregistered mui-tsai, Sive cases of illireatment of registered muż-trai, two cases of illtreatment of unregistered mui-tsai and three cases of "payment of wages.

were

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1933

THE LEGISLATIVE SUPPLEMENTARY

COUNCIL

Water Supply To Higher Floors

DR. KOTEWALL'S QUESTION

ESTIMATES

CHILD WELFARE

WORK

DUE TO RAPID PROGRESS Rev. J. R. Saunders

WITH KOWLOON HOSPITAL

At to-morrow's meeting of the Finance Committee of the Legisla

tive Council, supplementary esti maters totalling $114,000 will be

Addresses Rotary Club

GOODWILL

presented. Of this 890,000 is request ROAD TO INTERNATIONAL ed for Kewloon Hospital exten- At to-morrow's meeting of the sign where work is proceeding Legislative Council, the Hon. Mr.ed for Kowloon Hospital exten- R. H. Kotewall. 'C.M.G., LL.D., faster than was anticipated. A sum of 89,000 is being asked for will ask the following question- In view of the complaints received a crematorium.

that water does not reach the third and higher floors of many houses on socount of insufficient whenever restrictions pressure

are imposed, will the Govern- ment grant permission to auch property-owners as may apply for "it. to have the water-pipes laid first to the topmost floors and thence downwards, instead of from the ground floors and up- wards as at present? If not, what are the Government's rea

The

move-

New Bills.

Colonial Secretary a to

That the Report of the Finance Committee (No. 6), dated June 29, 1033, be adopted.

The Colonial Treasurer to move the following resolution :-

"That this Council approves of the of the trade, and an amicable settle-additional expenditure of $38,487.20 on the Aberdeen Valley Water ment was reached in due course.

Scheme during the financial year 1832, which sum shall be met from. a future loan and sball, meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony....

The Attorney-General to move the first reading of--

The average percentage increase between 1931 and 1939 in the retail costs of food, clothing and firewood a fraction appears to have been aver 1 per cent.

Factories,

"A Bill to amend the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1831.”

The Hon. Mr. B. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., to move the first reading of-

The Attorney-General to move the second reading of—

"A Bill to amend the law relat-

ing to Opium.""

The Ordinance to amend the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1831, re- duces from three per cent. to two and a half per cent. the duty on Or pari-mutual "bets totalisator

principal authorised under the Ordinance.

Trade remained dull throughout the year and the factories of the Colony were working at much be low their full capacity. Sorte were on half time only (a most unusual thing for this Colony) and all were

A Bill to provide for the incor on short time with much depleted non-staffs. Complaints were generalporation of the Procurator in Hons from factory owners as to the harm Kong of the Fontifical Foreign Emigration.

ful effect of high tariffs and the Missions Institute." dumping of cheap goods. The im Malaya continued to repatriate port duties imposed in recent years Chinese in considerable numbers, by the Government of China has but this department is not in had the effect of practically closing position to give the total numbers the China market to Hong Kong thus repatriated to Hong Kong manufacturers and they have been during the whole of 1930. Up to compelled to seek other markets, June. so far as this department is notably in the Dutch East Indies concerned, the repatriation figures and the Straits Settlements. For a time these southern markets filled the gap caused by the loss of the China trade, but the depression in these countries with the consequent return to China of large numbers of unemployed labourers, has now lessened the demand for such ar This was the second year of ticles of local manufacture as cot- operation under the consolidated ton socks and singlets, rubber shoes and revised Tung Wah Hospital and Chinese foodstuffs. In spite Ordinance (No. 31 of 1930). The of the trade alamp, however, the amalgamation of all three Hos number of factories in "the Colony pitals-the Tung Wah, the Kwong continues to increase. In the elec Wah.. and the Tung Wah Eastern,tric torch trade for instance, there are now seventeen factories, where- -under the unified control" of to

ay in the previous year there single Committee has had an ex

we're but six. Enitting and wear elleat effect.

ing factories have also increased in number in spite of many failures, and together with the confection ery and perfumery factories afford occupation for large numbers of women and girls.

5,874 from Penang

388 from Singapore 326 from Sandakan and 876 from French Indo-China, Tung Wah Hospital and Man Mo

...Temple.

Funds amounting to more than 8400,000 were raised under the auspices of the Tung Wah Hos- pital for Shanghai refugee work, and were forwarded to the Kwong Shiu Kung Sho in Shanghai.

The number of children (that is, Two new wings, completing the existing scheme for the Tung Wah persons under the age of sixteen Eastern Hospital, were added and years) employed in factories shows opened by His Excellency the Gov- no tendency to increase and unless ernor in December. The cost was there should be a sudden boom in met from funds specially raised by trade with a demand for large num- the Directors themselves without bers of learners, there is no reason to fear any movement towards the

Section 4 brings this amending Ordinance into operation before the opening of the Autumn racing

season,

Pontifical Foreign Missions

Institute.

The Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Procurator t Hong Kong of the Pontifical For eign Missions Institute provides that the Procurator for the time being in the Colony of Hong Kong of the Pontifical Foreign Missions Institute shall be a corporation sole and shall have the name of "The Pontifical Foreign Missions Procurator in Hong Kong of the that name shall stitute" and in have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and shall and may have, and use a common stal,

In.

The items are as follow: Estimates, 1933...

Civil Service List

8725 The excess on this vote is due to the increased size of the Civil Service List.

Public Works Extraor

dinary-Hong Kong Coat burning Crema-" torium (of 2 cham- bers)

89,138

The importance of child welfare work as a basis of international friendship and service formed the subject of an address given at the Rotary Club yesterday by Rev. J. R. Saunders, who is on

visit to Hong Kong from Shiu- kwon. Mr. Saunders is the superintendent of an Orphanage and Children's Home in Shiu- kwan

Mr. T B. Wilson. presided

1

Davidson

memory of ** Jim ** who was responsible for introduc ing Rotary to Hong Kong.

A sum of 87,000 was provided over the meeting and during the for this service in the 1932 Sup-lunch Rotarians were asked to plementary Estimates (Resolution stand in silence for a while in of June 30, 1932), but "due to & change of site and a consequent al toration of plans, the original esti- mate will require a further 62,500 to complete. The work however was not put in hand last year, only supple- $349 being spent, and a mentary vote for the 66,638 which lapsed, plus the extra 89,500, a total of 80,138 is requested.

1,000

89,663

Mr Saunders said in part: No nation can live unto itself and prosper much less make a worthy contribution to the needs and de- mands of the world. The exceedin ly great importance of these prin. Brought forward...

ciples are plain to us all but how Supreme Court:-Fees to

we can make them vital and effect- Counsel and Solier-

tive in the affairs of the nations is tors in Capital cases 81,500 question of paramount import Provision made in Estimates, ance Many methods have been "suggested. I wish to lay before Owing to the assignment of Coun, you the importance of Child Wel se! and Solictor in a Criminal Ap-fare Work As the Basis of Inter- peal and in one further case in ostional Friendship and Service." Truly nations move forward on which His Honour The Chief Jus- tice considered that legal aid was the feet of childhood. The depen essential the normal expendituredent child is far more important than we once thought Banditry, has been exceeded.

Communism and the destructive $6,000 forces of our civilisation find their Owing to the large increase this most fertile soil in homeless neglect year in the number of Distraints ed childhood. Certain diseases and Executions requiring employ-pass rapidly from one child to an- ment of a greater number of extra other; thus so in the ideals of ten watchmen a supplementary vote for der childhood. The Soviet leaders 88,000 is requested.

ara wise in that they have sought to plant their iden's in the child- hood of their nation. Should we not lav over larger stress upon the dependent childhood of our day in creating the ideals for the future nations?

Supreme Court:--Watch-

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Police Code Book, Police Force-Expenses in connection with new edition of Police Service Regulations 8900 A new edition of the Hong Kong

Reminiscence of the Boycott. Police Regulations is urgently re- quired. In addition it is consider: Many of us shall never forget the ed desirable to prepare a "Hong boycott of 1923 and 1926. It look Kong Police Code" on the lines of ed like that every Chinese in the Police Code issued to the Lon- Kwang Tung was against the pep doh Metropolitan Police. This ple of the West. Hon. Mr. Jami work will require the full time of son, Senior Consul-General in Can-. a senior officer for a period of two ton said, "I do not know how years. No such officer is available many of the Chinese think about us, from the active list. It is there- but I know one man is our friend fore proposed to grant an allow and that is Dr. C. C. Wu. When ance of $150 per month to ex Chief a boy he had been helped by friends, Inspector Paterson now on leave in North America and England. prior to retirement.

He never forgot the kindnesses he Kowloon Canton Rail-

received.

way: -Conversion. of Car Shed to Staff Quarters

Brought forward

......

In 1998 the Chinese leaders and their friends organized The Nation- 8410a Child Welfare Associations of $18,673 China. Dr. H. H. Kung is chair- man of this Association. There are many prominent men and women associated with him in this work for the dependent childhood of China. This child welfare pro- Additions 890,000 | |gramme is based on the best Provision made in Estimates, thought and the wisest results of years of experimenting in the na- With proper 8180,000.

More rapid progress has been tions of the west.

Kowloon Hospital. Public Works Extraor

dinary Kowloon, Buildings Kowloon Hospital

The corporation shall have power made with this work than was ex-adjustment China wishes to use to acquire, accept leases of, pur-pected and it is anticipated that these principles to help her lay the & further sum of 200,000 cán be foundation for dependent child- chase, take, hold and enjoy any

drawing on the funds of the Hosald conditions when the factories lands, buildings, messuages or tene. spent this year. As the estimate hood.

pital.

With the approval of the Secre- tary of State the site of the old Po Leung Kuk, which had been riginally granted by the Crown for Tung Wah Hospital purposes. is to be utilised for the erection of houses or shops. It is hoped that some 820,000 annually will be derived from this source.

Labour.

were staffed mainly by children.ments of what nature or kind, and Chinese factory owners now realis also to invest moneys upon mort- that child labour is not economic- ally cheap. No European firma employ children under the age of

fifteen years.

Prosecutions.

The Pu Kong Children's Home.

for the total cost remains unsiter- ed the balance that will be requir gage of any lands, buildings, mes-less by this amount.

ed next year to complete will be

Pu Kong Children's Home or suages or tenements, or upon the

The International Friendship Or- mortgages,

Public Works Extraor debentures, stocks,

phanage at Shui Chow; Kwang dinary :-New Terr debentures, stocks, funds, share,

Tung Province exists to embody tories, Buildings. or securities of any government,

Garages at Tai Po $4,400 these principles of welfare. This municipality, corporation, company,

The St. John Ambulance Brigade Centre in South China had plans or person, and also to purchase acquire and possess vessels and has kindly placed at the disposal to receive 400 to 500 orphan boys other goods and chattels of what of the Government an additional and girls, give them a practical ambulance which was built and education, feach each boy and girl nature and kind so ever."

equipped specially for the New one or more trades so when they leave the Home they will be able to The corporation shall further Territories of wages has been mainly unchang cases occurred where prosecution have power by deed under its seat It is proposed to station the "am make a living and serve others. ed, but unemployment box been was necessary, as against ten the to diapose of any landa, buildings, bulance at Tai Po This will acces The Pu Kong Home is similar to

previous years. Convictions were secured in each case with fines of etc. belonging to it,

The slackness of trade is reflected in the reduction in the number of cases, where women and children Labour conditions in the Colony were found working during prohi- during 1932 were quiet. The level bited hours at night. Only two

more marked. The building trade, however, showed considerable ac tivity.

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885 and $50 respectively.

Legislation.

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Additional Reductions

In

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Public Works Extraor

dinary: Kowloon, Buildings 64, Ma-.. taukos Cattle Depot. Lairage

The Objects and Reasons state ed cost of $2,400, of the present and the Muller Orphanage at Bris In February trouble occurred in

that the education of adults to Police garage. be estimated cost tol a Bilk-weaving factory employing a

priesthood for the purpose of the of this is: 82,000, making a total Hong Kong is the gateway to A South China for foreign commerce for the two garage of 84,400. number of Shanghai workmen.

The writer Iission work having been entrust- A further important step for- After investigation by this depart

has traveled over several provinces in South Chim, but he has never ment, it was arranged that the ward in the industrial legislation ed to the Institute by the Holy See vote for this sum is accordingly read Weetern ideals.

of the Colony was taken with the in Bengal, Burma and other cities.quested. management should pay expenses

gone beyond the lights of the passing of the Factories and Work in India, the Shan States, Hong of repatriation to Shanghai..

Asiatic Pretroleum Company and In August a dispute arose in shops Ordinance No. 27 of 1832, Kong and Central China the sc

the Standard. Dil. Agents of the connection with the Chinese Com- This new Ordinance consolidates quisition of land and other here

8700 British-American Tobacco. Cs, and positors' Union. Detailed enquiries under one heading all the regula ditaments and premises for the

As a result of modification in de- other Western firms are found regard to hours of work, and al-shops, and besides affording scope seminary is necessary for the pur sign it has been found that it will everywhere in the interior. These were made by this department with tions governing factories and work erection and maintenance

be-possible to complete the work forces are making a contribution lowance for food and other points for further expansion, it carries pose aforesaid and incorporation is

the important new regulation reconsidered desirable,

this year at a total cost of $10,700 to Chine, but in the work of Child

2 84,300 less than the originst Welfare we have the opportunity- estimate. Only #10,000 has how in Hong Kong to lead in making a ever been provided in the current far more important contritation year's Fatimstea: 's vote for the

of. a

affecting compositors in local Chin-quiring all factories and workshops The Bill follows the form ususi ese newspaper offices..

A more serious dispute took place to be registered at the office of the in Incorporation Ordinances of this in September arising out of a neti. Factory Inspectorate. This regis nature particularly Ordinances Now, tion, for increase of wages made by tration of factories has been urgent 18 of 1997, 27 of 1999 and 9, of 1931. employees in junk building and ly seeded for many years and may caulking establishments at Cheung be expected to lead to an improve-

ment in general factory conditions:

large proportion of the accidents occurred in the shipbuilding yards, most of them being due to falls or

balance pt $700 is, therefore re-u quested

(Contentied" in "Page (6)

ints

and

Brought forward 8113,773 Hong Kong General 293 connected to nullah supplies.

Water Works.

various convenient, 20 8300] that these stand Works Two water wagons for street be put into working

imsted cost of 2700 for to injury from falling materials, Washing and channel fushing are at n There was again welcome free now ready for use in Victoria To which amount a supplementary dom from the scalping accidents conserve main wate especially invote is now requested.

it is deur which were formerly so frequent the dry winter, sese

mong women workers in the knit able that these wagons should draw ting factorien,

wafer from disused standpipes

Sha Wan, Aberdeen and Shauki and the gradual disappearance of fatal) for the preceeding year sean. A number of men went on the more undesirable type of tens strike and some new men from out side the colony were taken on. ment house factory There was, however, no unanimity either among the workers or the employers, and some of the latter The total number of accidents granted increases while others sin factories during the year fused. The time chosen for an ap. ninety-one of which five were fatal, plication for increase of wages is compared with seventy-two (five cerns to have been inopportune in (Continued at foot of next column)

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