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CABLE AND WIRELESS LIMITED

Message Receipts

An index number will be issued in the for publication on the 20th of each month, and as the course of these traffic receipts has always afforded a valuable indication of world trading and com- mercial activity, it is hoped that, in addition to providing an in- dication of the Company's traffic for its starkholders, it will be found of value to observers of world economic conditions.

Index Numbers

These index numbers represent the estimated monthly receipts from traffic as related to comparable traffic in the year 1929. should be noted that since 1929 the operation in various overseas areas has been taken over at different dutes by the local associated companies, and the total figures-for, 1929 taken for purpose of com- parison in establishing the index 100 have therefore been adjusted when necessary by the omission of the receipts accruing in the areas affected. The index numbers, are, in consequence all shown upon

comparable bask

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

Monthly Agures reduced to working day average. Working day average of comparable receipts. year 1929-106,

1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 96.0 76.3 73.4 69.9 71.8 73.2 71.3 05.7 81.2 82.9 71.7 74.7 74.4 73.3 D4.5 79.0 77.8 704 72.8 78.2 76.0 94.9 74.5 71.4 71.8 11.6 74.6 88.2 68.8 67.7 70.7 73.1 72.5 86.0 66.6 84.7 70.1 0.1 70.2 80.8 84.7 63.2 67.5 68.0 83,7 82.1 61.809.6 65.0 · 70.7 57.1 81.4 73.0 71.4 67.9 70.3 75.5 82.5 77.8 73.2 72.1 73.6 73.8 80.4 79.0 73.0 71.8 71.3 .72.7 87.1 83.8 79.8 78.7 80.7 80.1

September October November December

PISTOL RECOVEREÏT

FROM RIOTERS

Rickshaw Foremen Seized In Chapel House

OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK FOR RUBBER

Steady Improvement Forecast

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936.

MORE BILLS TO THE NEXT TEN YEARS

BE PASSED

Legislative Council Meets To-day

At to-day's meeting of the Legislative Council the Colonial Secretary will move that the

(No. 2), dated March 19, 1936, be Report of the Finance Committee

adopted.

OF RADIO

Ullswater Committee's

Findings

London, April' The report of the Departmental Committee on the Future of Broad- The Colonial Treasurer will Lusting was issued to the press last mave the Liquor and Tobacco, mouth. The Committee has been in

Duties "resolutiona,

SOME BY-LAWS The Attorney General wl: move: 1. That the By-law made by the Urban Council under section

avistence eleven montly considering what changes would be desirable when the .B.C.'s harter expires

the end of the year: Lord Ults "water was its chairman."

The principal findings of the Committee aze-

CHARTER AND GOVERNORS The charter of the B.B.C. should be extended for ten years trom January 1, 1937

4 Controversial broadcast's should continue, discretion remaining in the hands of the B.B.C.

Attention should be directed to wards Parliament as the natural centre of political interest; Parlia mentary news should hold its place in the news bulletius; if broadcasts hy a Parliamentary observer" are continued, the observer should be provided with adequate facilities.

The B.B.C. should regularly con suit the Parliamentary parties on major political issues.

During a general election cam paign the time available for polical speeches should be alloted by agree ment between the parties; all political broadensting should cease three days before the poll.

Direct advertisement should re main excluded from the broadcast: service.

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3 of the Public Health (Sanita Mandiny the Postmaster General In the House of Coumons en tlon) Ordinance, 1935. on Februaid he was not yet in a position to ary 11, 1936, be approved

make any statement on what the 2. That the amendment to the subseqbent policy of the Govern Cattle, Swine, etc., by-laws made ment would be.. by "the Urban Council under sec-! tion $ of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance. 1935, oh March 17. 1938. be approved.

3. That the amendment to the Market by-laws made by the Urban Council under section 5 of Governors should uo be

"Sponsored" items need not be the Public Health (Food) Ordin- specialists or representatives of entirely excluded especially in the ance. 1935, on March 31, 1936, be particular interests or localities earliest stages of television broad- approved,

bad the putlook of the younger casting, but their admission should Keneration should be reflected it be carefully regulated by the R.B.C. some of the appointments made.

Responsible departments should The number of governors should take all the steps which are "within increased to seven; they should their power with a view to prevent be nominated by the Crown, on the ing the broadcasting from foreign 1ecommendation of the Prime

stations of advertisement program. Minister, for five years, and a retir-nes, intended for this country, to i ing governor should not be which objection has been taken,

That the amendment of the Conservancy by-laws made by the Urban Counell under section (XVI) of the Public 'Health (Sanitation) Ordinance 1935. op March 31. 1936. be approved.

BILL READINGS

"The Attorney General will move nominated; the salary of the chair- the First reading of- 1

uran shall be £3,000, and of each other number £1,000,-

"A B to amend the Buldings Ordinance. 1935.""

Major staff vacancies should be advertise and appointments made on the recommendation of

constituted selection

"A Bio enable effect to be given to an International Conven- 'specially tion for the Suppression of Coun-board.

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terfa ting Currency, signed on be- All facilities should be given for half of His late Majesty at Geneva any representative organisation on the 20th day of April, 1929, to which the staff may wish" to set apply to foreign coin certain en- "p.

to assimilate

EMPIRE BROADCASTING Empire service should receive ex- press authorisation and should be fostered and developed, and the ap propriate use of languages other than English should be encouraged. Television finance for two years ahead should be reconsidered by the Television Advisory Committee in the autumn of 1938. Television

Shanghai, Apr. 17. The service pistol of C.P.C. 1853, Yi Chun-iuen, which was taken from him during Tuesday morn- ing's not at the Markham Road Bridge, was recovered in Chapel early yesterday morning by Settle ment detectives austed by the Bureau of Public Safety.

The weapon, was found concealed in a house only a stone's throw from where the Chinese constable of rubber was the opinion express-custody and care of persons or of central and regional special sale at a low fixed price a standard

artments relating to British coin, gramme staff should ab portion of the surplus remaining The should have a claim upon a pro- the penalties for public controversy, but the private after deduction of 75 per cent of importing and exporting counter- lives of the staff should in other the net revenue from licences. felt coin and So amend

certain respects be free from control by the relay exchanges and the technical The ownership and operation of enactments relating to forgery, B.B.C. coinage and extraditon."

Shanghai, Apr. 18. That an optimistic view might be taken of future results with the selling price of rubber as it is to- day, and that the company might look forward with confidence to a steady improvement in the position

Ordinance, 1910."

A critic of the B.B.C. should not development of wire broadcasting "A Bill to antend the Midwives be disqualified from broadcasting the Post Office and the control of in general shoulci he undertaken by The General Advisory Council "A Bill to consolidate and amend should continue and there should relayed programmes by the B.B.C. The B.B.C, and the wireless trade the law relating to the establish- lea general advisory committee in should jointly examine the possibi ment of asylums for the detention cach region as well as a full system lity of designing and putting on

was seriously injured by rickshawed by the chairman at the annual unsound mind, and others." rioters on the bridge. Det, Sergt. meeting of the Shanghai Kelantan

J. Bradley and Chinese detectives raided the house at 1 a.m. and arrested two rickshaw foremen "found on the premises. The pis- 101, with its full load of cartridges, was discovered under some cloth- ing belonging to one of the men. Both prisoners were handed over

Rubber Estates Ltd, held At 9 Avenue Edward VII yesterday yesterday morning. The directors present at the meeting were Messrs. J. A. Tuiner. (chairman). H. Kadoorte and W. T. Mellor, in addition to Messrs. C. F. Shackle- ton and W. H. Sturrock, represent-

advisory committees.

The term of appoinment should receiving set. be four years, but there should be no har against reappointment.

The Attorney General will move the Second reading of

"A Bill to amend the Midwives The committees should be as widely Offences Ordinance, 1932.”

representative of varied interests as

"A Bil to amend the Stonecut-possible, so that not only experts ters Island Ordinance, 1889."

"A Bill to amend further the Companies Ord'nance 1832."

*A El to regulate the Deporta-'

to the Settlement authorities yes-ing the secretaries and general tion of Undestrable British sub- terday afternoon.

managers. 502,100 shares were re-Jects." presented by the attendance;

In his speech, the chairman

It was reported yesterday that the injured C.P.C., whose face was terribly lacerated by the rioters, i said in part:- was continuing on the road to re- i

The profit for the year amounted covery at the Paulun Hospital. to $12,987.25 which is considerably where he was taken in an ambul- ance after the disturbance, Twenty-six men are on remand. on charges of rioting and intimida- tion, as a result of the encounter. ---(N.C.D.N.).

CHINESE NOMINEES

TO COUNCIL

Pekan Li. Feng Ping nan Ke-appointed

Shanghai, Apr. 17. Mr. Pehan 14, a member of the Rate Assessment Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Council, has been re-nominated to the post by the Shanghai Realty Owners' As- sociation for the municipal year 1936-7, while Mr. Feng Ping-nan, land commissioner, has also been re-nominated by the same organ- ization.

less than the figure for the pre- vious year. This decrease in pro- it is due to a reduction in the crop in accordance with the restriction scheme and to increased labour costs, without a corresponding in- crease in the price of raw, rubber. The stapdard production for the year was fixed at 396,100 lb. and for 1936 it has been fixed at, 342,150 lb. The average price realized during the year was Straits Dollar Cents 10.94 per lb. which is slightly less than in 1934. A more optimistic view may be taken of future re- sults with the selling price as it is to-day and I think we may look forward, with confidence, to a steady improvement in the post Bon:

No difficulty was experienced in obtaining sufficient rabour and the health of the labour force was very good throughout the year.

"A Bill to make provision for a levy on the salaries of public officers in the Hong Kong Govern- ment Service.”

The Attorney General will move the Third reading "of-

but the listening public also and the younger generation in particu lar should find a place on them MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Minor issues, measures of domes the policy, and matters of day-to- day management should be left to the free judgment of the corpora, tion.

The Minister responsible in res and culture should be a selected" pect of broad questions of policy.

Cabinet Minister in the House of "A Bill to amend and consoli Commons, free from heavy depart date the law relating to tele- mental responsibilities and prefer- communication "*-

OBSTRUCTING "A CONSTABLF

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ally a senior member of the Gov ernment; this Minister should have the right of veto over programmes and the duty of defending the Broadcasting Estimates in Parlia ment; technical__control, sheuld re- Wu Chi (49) unemployed was man with the Postmaster General, bound over in the sum of $30 b The B.B.C. should have the right Mr. QAA, Macfadyen at the Kow- to state when it is broadcasting an toon Magistracy yesterday on aannouncement at the request" of a charge for resisting arrest and ah-Kovernment department. structing a European Constable in the execution of his duty.

The right of direct Government control in case of major national ergency should be maintained. The licence fee should remain at

I was alleged that the accused, was seen by Sergeant Rodger at 10s..

lung. Street, Bhamshupo Market The share of licence revenue among a crowd of hawkers. On allocated to the Post Office should the European Constable's approach be a percentage to cover coste, re- defendant was waving his hands viewed every two years. about and behaving in an excited The share of the remaining net manner. Bergt. Rodger could not revenue to be allocated to the say whether defendant was warn television should be not less than B.B.C. for purpoans" other than In enclusion, gentlemen, I shoulding the other hawkere. In attempt 75 per cent of current receipts. Ilke to record our thanks to Mr. ine to arrest the man, a struggle Holdemess, our manager, and to took place and Sergt. Rodger re-

The balance should be regarded Mr. LA, who is on the standing his subordinate staff, to the visit cerved a scratch on his face.

as potentially available for the needs of broadcasting, and when committee of the Association, hasing agent and to the agents in

all needs have been met held many important posts” in a Penang for the successful manner

surplus remaining may equitablį. group of real estate companies and in which they have carried out

be assigned to the State. organizations, Mr. Feng has been their duties. Identified with a number of in- dustrial and commercial establish- ments and also public activities 'for many years.~(N,C,D,N,).

Family quarrels intruded them- seves in the Central Court yester- day when Wong An Bheung, 22, married woman and Ho Ah-pin, 22, spinster appeared before Mr. B. F Balfour charged with dis- orderly conduct in Turg Street. The defendants were bound over in bonds of, $20 to keep the peace for six months. *

night women and one man were charged before. Mr. W Schoñeld yesterday at the Central Court with the possession of tree wood at Wanchai Gap Road: They were al bound over in bonds of $50 for one year.

There being no questions, the following resolutions were passed:"

That the directors' report and statement of accounts for the year ended December 11, 1835, as pre- sented be adopted, proposed by Mr. W. Mellox and seconded by Mr. H. Kadooris.

That the appointment of Mr. H. Kadoorie as director be confirmed: proposed by Mr. J. A. Turner and seconded by Mr. W. Mellor. Y

That the appointment of Mr. W. Mellor as a director be confirmed: proposed by Mr. B. Kadoorle and seconded by Mr. JA/Turner.

That Mr. J. A Turner ne re- elected a firector of the company; proposed by Mr. W. Mellor and seconded by Mr. E. Kadoore.

The accused te`d the Magistrate that he was struck several times. He asked for compensation, as he had to see a doctor!

DONATIONS

Street. Sleepers

any

to

The Exchequer share for the year 1936 should, ba limited £1,050,000 (exclusive of the income tar payable by the B.B.C.),

Capital, expenditure should be defrayed from surpluses of revEN US over current expenditure, but the limit of short-term borrowing might The Street Sleepers' Ehelter Bo- he raised to £1,000,000; major clety beg to acknowledge with items of contemplated capital ex- grateful thanks the following penditure should be stated, when donations:-

the Broadcasting Estimates are. presented to Parliament,

$22.

Per "8. C. M. Post" in memory of the late Mr. E. Moy Fungongo.m ME. R. Hancock in mem; ory of the late Mr. E Mow Fung Previously acknowledged 3,362.72

$3.389.72

Current expenditure should be shown in a limited degree of detail in the annual account and sup- plementary particulars be given in the annual report.

CONTROVERSY AND POLITICS

Continuing present practice, the B.B.C, should refrain from broad casting its own opinions on current affairs,

That Mesers. Lowe, Bingham and The three shelters were closed on The broadcast news service should Matthews be re-elected auditors of the 18th Instant when a hot meal be unbiased and dispassionate; the the company; proposed by Mr. C. was given to all the mates, It B.B.C should have a free choicezas Shackleton and seconded by Mr.is hope that the shelters will be to the sources and methods of ob

ze-opened on December

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