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There has been a fall of £2.381,895 in total deposits in the last year.

Improvement In June year.

Quarter

Greater Stability.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1933.

FIRE FIGHTING IN HONG KONG

Considerable Improvements

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for which have to be disconnected before going to a call.

When A Call Is Put Through On the point of efficiency, it may that interest readers to know when a call. is put through to the Fire Brigade, the ire appliances are on the move in a matter of seconds and certainly within a minute. At night, men on duty Aleep in their uniforms and boots by the side of the appliance and in the event of a call they only have to don their helmets and can be off. The local system is based on the system prevailing in the! London Fire Brigade..

its new home. The Wanchal Fire. Station was put up in about 1920, when a cinema was converted into the brigade's headquarters in that district. This station has recent- ly removed to a site slightly fur- ther down the road, and near the old No. 2 Police Station.

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The Kennedy Town station was acquired in 1923 when a part of the Sanitary Board Coolle's quar- ters in Belchers Street was taken over and a fire appliance housed there. It has now an ambulance

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The Mongkok station was no quired in 1924 and was at first a temporary station established at The growth and development of the Fire Brigade during the past the same, site as the present ata ten years has been considerable, tion, the place having formerly and the progress made by the de- been used as a Police Station. It partment entrusted with the work was found necessary to enlarge of fire" fighting has been enar- this station and it has now two mous. The men are now regularly, fire engines and an ambulancë.. It drilled daily by qualified officers, is understood that the establish- and a special drill takes place ment of a fire station in Shamsul- once a month at the Central Fire po is being considered and it may the be that the new station will be Station compound and at

in Kowloon. The either housed in the Shamsulpo Railway area drills lasts for about an hour and Police Station or very near it. a half and are by no" means mere

It. will be seen that the "Hong parades. They are what might be described as "wet drills" and water Kong Fire Brigade, which some- hoses and other apparatus em- times comes in for a good deal of criticism, is in fact performing a ployed at a fire are actually used. Care is also taken to make the difficult duty unusually well. The drills as interesting as possible so geography of the Colony does not that a varied programme is pre- lend itself to speed work, but in sented to those taking part. Any-spite of this the local Brigade has few that within a one who have seen these men at ! been trained to such a pitch of a fire can appreciate the value of efficiency

minutes of a call they are always these drills.

on the scene, whether the call be from a crowded area in Central district or whether it is from an isolated spot on our hillside, or in the mainland.

The Different Stations.

The Central Fire. Station, until 1923, was housed at Queen's Road in a block that has since been

In "Echoes of 1858" will be found pulled down and on which now stands Ho Tung Building. In 1923 an account of a fire in December it moved into David House and of that year with a description of when the present building was the way, in which the local equip completed in 1928, it moved into ment stood the strain.

There has been a conspicuous decrease in the amount of Aus- A slight improvement in bank-

tralian notes and cash with the log conditions is shown in the

Commonwealth Bank, the decline quarterly average figures of banks trading in Australia in the June in the last year being 28.378,818, term. There has been a small rise of which £2,521,740 represents the in advances, and a fall in deposits. decrease in the quarter. This re- indicating lightly more trading duction in cash reserves indicates greater confidence in the stability activity. The movements are fav- ourable to the banks, as recently of conditions generally. The re- deposits have so far exceeded ad-duction in cash hus reduced the proportion of cover for deposits. varices that there has not been

The ratio of cash to total deposits muth profit to the banks in the

is 15.04 per cent, this quarter, com- business. Any increase in advances is welcome, because it shows re-pared with 15.82 per cent. in March and 17.8 per cent. in June last year. turning confidence. Advances in- creased by £1,628,118 in the last Cash gives cover of 46.4 per cent. quarter. and they are £1,747,718 for call deposits, compared with greater, compared with the June '48.79 per cent. in March and 57.1

Deposits are quarter last year.

per cent. In June last year. If still large, but the lower rates of interest offered on fixed depost Treasury bills are included with have caused a steady decrease in amounts left with the banks in this way. Fixed or interest-bearig deposits are £1,995,801 lower in the quarter and 1262311 lower in the sear Deposits on current account not bearing interest are 221,043,957 lower in the quarter, "Dat they show an increase of €1,900,816 in the

cash-and they are the equivalent of cash, as they bear a promise of demand-there is redemption con cover of 8403 per cent of liquid assets for all deposits, against 89 tan March and 92.5 per per cent.in. cent in June last year.

CHILD SLAVERY IN CEYLON

An Odious Traffic

HOW THE

"

ADOPTION

SYSTEM

and where therefore very grave suspicion of unhindered foul play has arisen.

Sold into service" is slave- trading, whatever effort may be made to cover the practice by some less malodorous term; in Ceylon they do not hesitate to call iniquity by its proper name.

Nearly a hundred years ago

The system in Ceylon, Eke every Clarkson, the Abolitionist, and his friends protested against the set- other slave system, tells its ghast- ting up of the Liberian Republicly story in the treatment of the because it was proposed to create that State without placing experi- enced administrators in effective control. Clarkson predicted disas- ter-and now we know that he First Liberia has was right. shown, now Ceylon seems like showing, that it takes many gene- rations, to evolve humane and en- Ughtened administration in tro- pleal.countries. When a Cistitu- tion was given to Ceylon two years 1g0 everybody hoped that the. people of that beautiful island would rise to their responsibilities and begin in earnest to remove some of the blots upon its name. For two years we have waited, and there are still few signs that a stop has been pub to, the practice of the buying and selling of children. According to the 1928 Anti-slavery Convention, the buying and selling of human being, is slavery.

The 5,000,000 people have the Government of the Colony in their own hands. It is true that the Governor, Sir Graeme Thomson."

sláves. No doubt many of them, as the editor of the "Times of Ceylon" has said, are treated very well, but he also said that the system is slavery of a truly ter- rible type," and that.. " prosecu- tions in the courts have shown that sometimes these hapless mites are brutally thrashed; sometimes they are burned by "red-hot irons and firebrands; sometimes pins and needles are thrust between their finger-nails and the flesh, sometimes hot chillies are rubbed into their eyes. Almost invariably they are rubbed into their eyes Almost invariably they are over- worked; in innumerable cases they are underfed. I have never known a case where they received any "wage."

Evidence of Torture.

The police courts do indeed tell a tragic story. In Lady Graeme Thomson's report this year there is a typical case quoted of a son venting a "horrible revende upon

is the British official head, but he his father's little "slave" of ten is a constitutional ruler with a years of age, for refusing certain State Council of fifty persons, pfinfamous proposals. The cries of whom forty-six are elected, whilst the executive and, legislative gov- ernment of the island is in the hands of responsible Ministers.

Local Efforts.

Lady Thomson, the wife of the Governor, has placed herself at clie head of a Colombo organisation far as local custom and vested whose object it is to mitigate, so interests will permit, the suffering! of the little children' who 'are bought and sold in Ceylon. But the standard of philanthropy in Ceylon must indeed be low If, as there is every reason to suppose, the wife of the Governor finds her-

lack of support owing to the indi- self hampered on every hand by ference of the wealthy Ceylonese and white planters

In Ceylon adoption" 18 the blessed word used to cover up, a peculiarly odious traffic. In the Lady Thomson's committee this report and its annexes issued by year, we are told

told that

the child during the burning and branding brought. a crowd to wit- ness it: When prosecuted the son of the owner of the child asked that he might be pardoned!

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The press of Ceylon has been altogether admirable in its support of Lady Thomson's committee. In one editorial upon her work we of " adoption " the child is acquir are told that in nearly every case a. servant. One of the edas tragedies of these children, who are bought and sold is that they are little tots of four to six years of age, and, as the Ceylon Obser- ver" says: They are often burnt and beaten because they are inapt, and troublesome, in certain cases they are overworked and under-

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