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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934.

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|complish this result without en- temporarily to increase the number croaching on our surplus balances of his Cadet assistants by one who remarks. A slump does not neces-to the extent of $1,880,452 thereby will act as Superintendent of the sarily mean less work in Govern-reducing our estimated surplus at Stamp Office during the leave of ment Departments and indeed in the end of 1935 to $10,710,807. the officer of the Senior Clerical some -cases it increases work. My Honourable friend the think this reserva excessive but I

their Some Honourable Members may and Accounting Staff who normal

ly alls that post. Colonial Treasurer has drawn my would ask them to remember that attention to one such case for be tells me

our heavy commitments run on fgr he la experiencing dif- Acuity in the collection of rates. Hitherto these have been

certain sources of revenue which

It is proposed also to increase the number of Assistant Assessors

to the

borstory ut

AVIATION

members.

and non-

the

"As stat-courage airmindedness In the Col- ed in the footnote to Sub-Head any it is, considered that, so far: 25 the present boat at Tai O nas

as the expenditure of public funds is been condemned. A motor boat is concerned this end can be achieved essential for patrolling and more properly by training mem- searchiny duty at Tai O and out- bers of the Volunteer Corps in lying districts" including Tung dying than by subsidising a Club

The Chung Launch No. 9 (Sub-Head 26)-19 British subjects among its fring

existing Police which includes ladies

beyond 1935 and it is essential to from one to two., One additional built in 1922 at a Chinese Yard now due for réplacement. It was keep funds in reserve if we are to

COMMERCIAL AVIATION Assistant is considered essential if

and paid be able to carry our major works assessments are to be carried out

purchased from stock. to completion. I should indeed in a manner which is fair both Government speciication, at a subsidy to

the boiler only being buit to

No provision has been made view the future with some misto the ratepayers and

for next year in respect of

Commercial Aviation. time of urgent necessity when This represents no change in the giving were it not that we have revenue.

Making deductions for piracy was rampant in local was chargeable water" and passing ters. The launch bas never been there is still no immediate pro- policy of Government. but 23 for payment refunds on secount of up to the standard of the remain-spect of the subsidy being requir vacant tenements have consider der of the feet and has required ed it has been considered inexped- ably increased the work of the constant attention to maintain a lent to continue to burden the reasonable state of efficiency. The Estimates with the amount of the existing No. 1 Folice Launch, the subsidy. The vote for the upkeep replacement of which is provided of the Aerodrome has been in- under Sub-Head T. Is a wooden vessel built in 1900

creased by $1,000 and retransferred It is not

to this Head from Public equipped with wireless telegraphy

Works and has ceased to be seaworthy in year it has been found necessary Recurrent. During the current other than fair weather. Provi- for 1930 to replace sion was made in the Estimates fire engine for the Aerodrome and to purchase a motor roller and a this. launch

ed as to whether a vessel of the "Personal but as some doubt was entertain-creases under "Other Charges” and

the Estimates show certain

type which could be built for the quent upon these purchases. sum of $100,000 provided would,

Emoluments"

satisfy the requirements of Police Department, certain repairs were carried out on the existing

we have not yet been able to tap Among these I would refer special. y to the Naval Arsenal Yard, part of the Victoria Gaol site, part of | Assessor's office, the Government Civil Hospital.site. the Kowloon Taal Development and the North Point reclamation.

HEAD 6.—-DISTRICT OFFICE. NORTH

with commendable speed and the number of late payers has not been out of proportion to the total Ratepayers are now begin ning to be more dilatory in pay- ment, resulting in more remind- ers having to be despatched This quarter, some 9,000 applications were despatched out of total of about 29,000 on the roll. This means a large increase work, including searches of Land Once registers, much correspon-From the sale of these areas we dence, and in some cases, resort to hope in course of time to replenish legal proceedings.

our depleted balances and when Some years ago, an Assistant Grown Solicitor our present commitments are was attached to the Treasury liquidated we hope then to be in leave although there is no prospect with two clerks and the names

a position to embark on some of of more than one Cadet officer be of all defaulters were, turned over

these many works the postponing employed at any one time to him to deal with. By arrangement of which is no less dis-the District Office, North, during ment with the Crown Solicitor, the appointing to the Government than | 1935. An additional Land Ballid Treasury took over the great part it is to the general public. ›

is also shewn, one officer at pre- of this work and much overlap-

sent being on leave. This is an ping and expenditure were saved

increase in establishment.. The If, however, the number of late

Crease

is tendered

if payment within the legal period provided

ment of an Assistant Crown Sol-

I do not propose to deal at any length with the details of the Heads of Expenditure on which I

The District Office, North under the system referred to in my re- marks on the Treasury has to pro- vide for two Cadet Officers Class' IK, one of whom is at present on

from the District Office, North, the third Land Bailiff will be trans ferted as a relief to the Fublic Works Department.

HEAD 8-POST OFFICE AND WIRELESS

the

HEAD 11-ROYAL OBSERVATORY

A reduction is shown

const-

-

under

A sum of $250,000 was in-provision had to be deleted from the current year for a new No. Smith coll for the determination cluded in the draft estimates for the draft Estimates for a Schuster Police Launch with 3 pounder of horizontal magnetic force. It gung wireless telegraphy and

was considered that the purchase searchlight and capable of cruis- of this instrument which ing in rough weather. Owing to 325 would have to await

costs more financial stringency however the favourable financial conditions. launch, owing to her age, is re- Item was deleted. The existing

In regard to the allowances to stricted in her

computers for magnetic observa- cannot patrol the full extent of that the Director. Royal Observa- movements and tion at $200 each I would state her beat particularly in Mirs Bay. tory is attempting to train local in rough or Her usefulness for antipiracy work necessary degree of proficiency 25 unsettled weather officers on his present staff to the is therefore considerably curtall-Magnetic Observers in the ed. Of the other Police Launches that this will obviate the need of Nos. 2, 3 and 4, only one, No. 4 employing is a fast vessel and it is most de assistant to take exclusive charge professional sirable that there should be two of the Au Tau Magnetic Station.

another

hope

payers continues, steps will have would refer Honourable Members approved establishment of Land launch and the work of building "Other Charges." Under "Special to be taken to speed up collection. Lo the very full footnotes in the Batliffs is nine of whom six tin-a new launch was not proceeded Expenditure" it 13 regretted that Several alternatives present them-printed Estimates. There are how-cluding two Senior Land Balls with. selves of which the two most fea-ever certain points on which Hon-Department, two to the District are attached to the Public Works sible are: (a) an increase in the ourable Members may wish to have omce, North and one to the Dis- rate with a corresponding de-further information.

trict Office, South. These officers HEAD 2-COLONIAL SECRET- are interchangeable among the

ARY'S OFFICE

Departments mentioned but two in the Rating Ordinance, (b) a The surcharge in the case of delayed

anticipated retirement of are normally required by the Dis- certain Class 1 Cadet officers in trict Office. North. payments. Another alternative is the near future necessitates the number is insufficient to allow of As the total an increase

the present recruitment of two new Cadets. the transfer of an officer from the Treasury staff, or the re-appoint- As Honourable Members are aware Public Works Department to re- officers of the Colonial Administra place the officer on leave it has eltor to be attached to the Treative Service now undergo one year's been found necessary in view of sury with his staff and provision training in England before pro-such leave movements to increase of office accommodation. It is eeeding abroad so that with the the cadre from nine to ten. On hoped, therefore, that ratepayerswo years spent in Canton in the the return of the officer on leave will help the Government by pay study of Chinese it is three years ing promptly and so save extra

'rom the date of recruitment be expenditure which in its turn has forc an officer becomes available to be met by increased taxation.

for departmental work. The two

of this type to cover the waters NAVAL ARSENAL YARD

The allowance of $240 per an- unpassed Cadets in training"

In the East and West of the Before dealing with the Public referred to in the current Estimates

num to the Hong Kong Wharf & Colony respectively. It is proposed Godown Co,, is for hoisting the Works Extraordinary Vote I would have arrived in the Colony and

to build the new vessel with in-signals of the non-local code over ask Honourable Members to note proceeded

Two new, posts one Assistant ternal combustion engines giving their premises. These signals were that the sum of $500,000 has again the number of unpassed Cadets in Motor Driver are shown, for the In view of the increasing un-bour "Department at Signal Hill, to Canton, increasing Superintendent of Mails and one a speed of about thirteen knots. previously holsted by the Har- been inserted to pay the final in- Canton from three to five. They Kowloon Branch Office and under seaworthiness of the stalment to the Admiralty In will be replaced by the two "un- Special Expenditure provision is launch it is desirable that it owing to shortage of staff. The present Kowloon, but were discontinued respect of the Naval Arsenal Yard passed Cadets in training" whom made for the purchase of a motor should be replaced before the Company has holsted and Kellet Island. Payment has it is now proposed to recruit. been in abeyance for the last

mail van for Kowloon and the New next typhoon There are three new posts pro-

season and the signals free of cost to Government. twelve months and the exact date vided under Class VI. (b) Junior Territories. Pending the provision sanction of the Secretary of State for a number of years. Non-local of payment is still under corre-Clerical Service.

ot a new permanent Post Offee in for the Colonies has been obtained signals Although these

are considerably more spondence with the Secretary of clerks appear in the departmental Kowloon which has had to be for work to be commenced this complicated and the payment pro- State for the Colonies, but is not Estimates of the C.8.0. they are condition of the Colony, the pre-000 will be required for this pur-financial outlay is considered rea-

deferred owing to the financial autumn. It is estimated that $70,- posed to

cover the Company's unlikely to fall within the next really intended a financial year.

In ises previously occupied by pose during the current year, sonable. which officers may be drawn to Messrs. Alex Ross & Company as leaving a balance of $180,000 for The Public Works Extraordinary relieve clerks in other departments vote has been reduced

from absent an sick or casual leave In a garage will be used as a tempor. 1935.. $3591,950 in 1934 to $2.990.450 in cases where the departments have that under Sub-Head -Rent of cantile Marine Office" that it has it is considered desirable to unify It will be observed under "Mer- I would refer to the revision of 1935. For the details of this ex-not sufficient staff adequately to Branch Offices-$6,000 additional is been found necessary to create a

ambulances under Sub-Head 14. penditure I would refer Honourable carry on their work in the absence provided for next year., This is new post of Members to the memorandum sup- of the officers on leave.

Assistant Shipping

the Government Ambulance work plied by my Honourable, friend the

really an interdepartmental pay. Master while the Chinese Read under one Department. The "Fire" HEAD 3-SECRETARIAT FOR Director of

ment as the land on which the Clerk (Class 1) who retired in May all the ambulance work except in Brigade at the present time does Public Works. A

CHINESE AFFAIRS perusal of this memorandum will

Garage stands is railway land and of this year after thirty-four years Tsal-appears. It has been cus-loon-Canton Railway. It is hoped application to the Colony of the hand propelled, are supplied by A new post-Inspector of Mul the $6,000 will be paid to the Kow service has not been replaced. The the cases of lepers and mendie- ants where wheeled ambulancea, tomary in the past for the insper that the additional expenditure re-provisions of the Merchant Bhip the Sanitary Department which tion of mui tsaf to be carried out rerred to will go some way to meet ping (Safety and Load Line Con- has thirty-three such ambulances gramme of commitments most of by a senior Sub-Inspector seconded the desires of the residents of ventions) Act 1932 is expected to and six carrying ambulançes.

for increased postal add considerably to the duties

and responsibilities of the offer atted small motor cars, one on is considered that two suitably a personal allowance of £50 per holding the post of Deputy Ship: either side of the Harbour, would annum to the Superintendent of ping Master, and it is essential Malls was granted with the ap that a qualled officer should be suffice for the work and proval of the Secretary of State for available to act for the Deputy the wheeled hand ambulances to the Colonies from the date of the Shipping Master during the late dispensed with. The

on leave. It has Ambulance (Sub-Head 15) is to death of

been possible in the past to disreplace one of the large Albion

Ambulances purchased

in 1921

Indicate the lines on which the Government has worked. We have endeavoured to carry peditiously our already heavy pro-

on ex-

pool from

ary Post Office. It will be observed

the local

HEAD 12-FIRE BRIGADE

It

enable

Motor

The officer at Kowloon from the Police. which are for works long overdue but we have inevitably been forced present seconded has done good facilities. *o postpone all new works except but would in the natural course of work in the post for several years those which are regarded as essen- ttal. Of these I assume there will events revert to the Police next he 'no differences of opinion about year and it has been considered the need for the Trade School desirable, in view of the Import the Building Contractors ance of the work, that the specializ Association has generously offered ed experience which he Das Superintendent of Mails. *k construct at cost price. Invite ained therein and his aptitude been continued in anticipation of pense with such relief by means The chassis of the ambulances is attention to subheads 33 and 80--for the duties of a post which calls the Secretary of State fer the Yards for storage of sand.

for considerable tact and dis Colonies further approval expenditure has been forced on cretion, should not be wanted. The

Government, therefore, on the al

which

This

the Government by the rapid ex.

the

senior Assistant It has

Owing to the obscurity as to the

ter's absence

the

of the temporary appointment of pbsolute, and any spare parts re a retired Master Mariner resident in the Colony whose services are red have to be specially made. no longer available or by

Provision is made Immediate future of the Govern secondment of a Boarding Officer, officers at $180 each Owing to for charge allowances to four Chinese Sub- haustion of the sand supplies or vice of the Secretary for Chinese ent wireless telegraph services The Staff of Boarding Officers the shortage of Europeans in the the Colony and the work is to be Affairs, proposes to transfer this there is practically no change in has however, been reduced by undertaken in pursuance of a ficer to the Secretariat for Chi- respect of Wireless Services for

one as a result of the adoption Chinese Sub-Omcers in charge of Brigade it is necessary to put scheme for conserving sand sup-nese Affairs as Inspector of Mul next year.

of a recommendation of the Re- plies for the benefit of consumers Tsal on a salary scale equivalent

trenchment Commission and it centain Sub-Stations, These men within the Colony. A Bill to give to that of an Inspector of Folice.

car no longer supply the neces-perform the same duties as a effect to the new scheme will be reduction of one Bub-Inspector

sary reket.

European Assistant Station Ome laid before the Council at an early

has been made in the Police date. It is anticipated that the

Estimates In respect of this scheme will not only pay for itself

transfer. but will bring in a small addition

HEAD 4-TREASURY to the revenue when it is in full

The Acting Colonial Secretary. operation. Of the major works commented in his Budget speech which have been postponed because last year in connection with the they had not reached a point at personal emoluments vote for the which delay was impracticable 1 Treasury on the obscurity result- refer with special regret to the new ing from the allocation of general market at Wanchal and the new staff such as Cadet officers and Government quarters on May clerical officers to individual de Road.

partments and some explanation

HEAD 9-IMPORTS AND EXPORTS The partial re-arming of Revenue officers with Webley Scott re- volvers has become necessary owing to the gradual deterioration of the weapon's now in use some of which have already been condemned a unserviceable.

In view of the defalcations at er would perform in charge of a the Government. Gunpowder Depot Station. As the employment of at Green Island it has been found Chinese Bub-Officers for the work necessary to put a more respon ng the Europeas establishment

obviates the necessity of increas sible quicer in charge and an oficer on a sterling scale replaces provision of such charge allowan the locally recruited officer who ces is considered equitable and absconded,

economical

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HEAD 10-HARBOUR DEPART- MENT AND AIR. BERVICES

The proyalon of three ambul- under Harbour Department which There are certain re-groupings

.; (B)-AIR SERVICES (N ance dressers in 1934 has proveć The Government, after careful a success and has led to greater while they complicate the depart consideration, has decided to disciency in the Brigade by the mental Estimates for 1935, will continue the subsidy to the Fly-reller of Sub-Officers for purely simplify those of future years Aing Club and to devote the whole re duties. It is considered de- In spite of the heavy pruning seems required in respect of the large increases shown in Special of the annual subsidy of $30.000 sirable to recruit three more for of the Public Works Extraordinary Estimates for 1935 when it is sought Expenditure but this is mainly to the training of Volunteers in 1935. There will then be sufficient

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vote there remains an expenditure to compare them with these of due to the trovalon of launches nying and the maintenance of the ambulance dressers to man the SPECIAL DINNER DANCE

of nearly $3,000,000 and when to 1934. The Acting Treasurer, Cadet and launch engines, for other denying emciency of Volunteers along Hong and Kowloon Ambul- this is added the estimated ex officer Class L, has reverted to partments such as the Police and ready trained The Government ances penditure of $4,727,679 from lax Postmaster General. There rethe Imports and Exports Depart is prepared to continue the sub

LEGAL DEPARTMENTS funds I think the Colony can he mains provision for three Cadet ment. It will be observed that sidy in respect of any present

That able, and devoted Gove congratulated 1 on being able to Officers Class II. as in 1934. One Bub-Head 20 New Launch to remember of the Flying Club who ment servant, the Crown Bolfe finance so large a programme of of these is at present on leave. In place Hp. 1 $10,000 is a re-vote, has actually commenced dying but, who attains the age of works at a time of serious depres addition to the two Cadet officers The delay in construction is due has not obtained the A Certificate year is proceeding on les

Class II normally employed at the to certain experiments which had up to a total of Arteen hours ny Spring prior to retirem Treasury as Assistant Treasurers to be carried out in the Modeling for each such member. While take this oppor the Treasurer proposes next year. Tank at The National Physics Lathe Government is anxious to en-

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