1937-04-15 — Page 7

Governor's Farewell Speech-

To Council

(Centinued from Page 2).

by the end of next year the whole ; always been accompanied by of the Island will have been ren- | expressions of horror at the way dered reasonably immune from in which it has been desecrated malarial infection. It is probably in the past. Nullahs festooned general knowledge by now that the with naked water pipes; hills "Urban Council, which is the rule-hideous with houses; that look; making authority, has been ap- some of them... like inverted pack- prised of the Executive Council's | ing cases and some like magni- agreement with Dr. Wellington's fied septic tanks; slopes sore with recommendation for the compul-slicings on which no trenches of sory pasteurization of milk,

MÄLARIA WARNING'

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1937.

VALUABLE ESTATE IN KOWLOON

Bright Outlook For The

Construction Company

Presiding at the annual general meeting of shareholders of the Hong Kong Engineering and Construction Co., Ltd., held yes- terday morning, Mr. J. P. Braga said that he regretted that he could not make the happy announcement to the effect that a dividend for the year would be paid after the meeting, but, touching on the various sides of the business, the chairman gave the impression that prospects for the future were definitely on the bright side, especially insofar as the building scheme in Kow- loon was concerned

Kadoorie. "alternate directors for Sir Robert Ho-tung and Sir Elly Kadoorie, respectively, H. Braga (General Works Manager). B. Alves (Secretary) and the following shareholders: Messrs. A. M. Braga, H. R. Sequeira, E. Sahmet and S,

Sun.

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humus for the healing creepers have been provided; beaches ruin- I feel it my duty, however, to re-

ed by the substitution of semi-

pent the warning which I uttered

permanent "Sunny Nooks" and after the recent lamentable epide- "Better 'Oles" for the inoffensive

The chairman was supported by matshed:—what a testament mic of Shiga Dysentery that, in

of Messrs. J. Scott Haratón and M. H relation to malaria dysentery, and

human ugliness to have written | Lo ̈ ̈ ̈(directors), T. F. Lo and L many other diseases, Government in the book of natural beauty! al measures and regulations, how. We have recently made financial ever comprehensive and efficacious. Provision for the planting of trees cannot remove the necessity for and flowers; we possess, and have individual care and precaution.recently improved, a law dealing The chemy is too insidions for any sensible person to rest content with a single and outer line of defence. The King George V Memorial Parks will, I feel certain, bring light into the lives and air into the lungs of many poor people, young and old, who live in their congested en- vironments. I hope that the need for such cases in our two cities will never be forgotten or sacribeed to a too acute desire for revenue, from land sales. I was indeed gratified when the Urban Council recently pressed for the retention of the Kowloon old magistracy site as an open spacE.

with the control of advertise ments and aky-signs: "the local press publishes regular articles on Rature's rich endowment of our countryside and does not fall in a preper castigation of those who despoll and ugly.

ARCHITECTURAL CONSCIENCE

Nevertheless I have misgivings about the local public conscience, and indeed the local architectural conscience, being right and sound yet in this matter. A house should be not merely a thing to be com- fortably, lived in by its tenant but a thing that can be locked upon without discomfort by others. Large and beautiful areas suitable VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT My views regarding the para-

for residential purposes will short- mount" claim of the Volunteer ly be approachable by the road movement for support require that leads up through the Cus- perhaps no reiteration. Neverthe-toma Pass and by other less I do repeat my appeals, partly because I feel so strongly about them and partly because I wish

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to make this addition--that I re- xard as volunteer service not only. though primarily, membership of the H.K.V.D.C. and the H.K.N.V.F.

but service in their nursing unit. In the St. John Ambulance Brigade and on the sub-committees of the local Defence Committee. Work such as that done by Mr. J. H. Taggart on the Food Supplies sub- committee is of a rare order and Importance and I am glad to have the opportunity before I leave of mentioning it from this chair.'--

AIR SERVICES

་་

I am glad to have seen the in- auguration of the Imperial and the China National air services to Hong Kong. The American Clipper Ser- vice is due to start within a month, and the Eurasia Company is now knocking at our doorway in the skies which, I hope, will.very short- ly be thrown open to them. Hong Kong is in fact now securely and

permanently on the world's air

new

roads. I sincerely trust that the Administration and people of this Colony will see to it that the de- velopment of these lands shall not spell their disfigurement.

"GOODBYE" ".

are such as to make 'confusion worse confounded. It is not dif- Aldalt to realise, therefore, that the business of contracting in the peculiar conditions now appertai ing to this Colony are fraught with unforeseeable dangers which can | easily resolve themselves

hazardous risks which a cautious policy must refuse to take.

Into

ACCESSORIES for

THE SUMMER

Washable Summer bandbags, white beaded natural string, etc.

Summer gloves, white & natural cotton, white silk, polkadot, net, etc.

Shoes-Sandals, Court shoes, Oxfords, etc.

erc

Belts-white kid, string,

LANE CRAWFORD

SHAREHOLDERS" WISDOM CHAIRMAN'S SPEECH

"These remarks lead me to re- Addressing the meeting the fer to the wisdom of the abare- chairman said:

holders when, at an extraordinary "Your Directors regret that it general meething on August 31 has not been possible to present | 1931, you decided to embark on a you with an account that might scheme of land purchase, develop- have been accompanied by the ment and house construction to pleasing announcement of a divi- which it becomes a pleasant duty

the conclusion dead at

of this for me to turn to-day on behalf meeting. Satisfaction may, how of the Board. It gives me very ever, be derived from the fact that great pleasure to inform you that the operating expenses of your the site formation of your valu- undertaking were kept within its able Estate within K. I. L 2857 was practically completed at the earnings. It is when the various appropriations and what we con- end of last year, except for a por- alder to be advisable depreciations tion of face cutting on a alte which have been made that the showing had been designed for the erection is one of adverse balance of $11,- of storage tanks for non-potable water for domestic purposes. This, 223.84. Divdends unclaimed for

was before permission was obtain- more than five years, amounting to $1,041.30, have been forfeited. A able for drawing water from the Reserve item of $15,175.12 has been Government mains for the water- transferred to Profit and Loss Ac-| carriage system forming part of count, and does not now appear the 'complete scheme. Meanwhile, in the Balance Sheet. This trans- three houses and a bungalow have That completes my imaginary chapter headings though I could. fer has been utilized to augment been completed for the Company, the amount appropriated for de- and all are occupied. "Another has if time permitted, add quite a

preciations, and in this respect the has been constructed for a private number more. One addition un-

of six semi- fortunately is necessary, and it Board has had the bencat of the owner. A block bears the sad title of "Goodbye." technical advice of the Company's detached houses will be finished, To all my colleagues in the public auditors in the manner of the pre we hope, before the end of May service I offer my sincere gratisentation of the Accounts under this year. Filing for foundations

consideration.

for a detached house of the larger tude for hard, loyal team-work. I

"Much as the Board would have type has been done, and buildings wish my honourable friend" and right hand, Mr. N. & Smith, every lked to be able to address you to- of the walls forthwith proceeded Plans for more houses of success during the period of his day in a different keynote from with

the detached and semi-detached administration, and I know from the refrain of a somewhat monu- personal experience that he will tonous regularity in recent years, types are under preparation, also find in Mr. R. A. C. North a most it is matter for sincere regret that complete drawings with detailed able and untiring coadjutor. I the Directors have again to re-plans for another bungalow-a type have appreciated more than I can mark on the keenness of competi say the atmosphere of cordial tion which we have had to race co-operation which has enveloped and tried to overcome during the all my dealings here with repre- period under review. For this rea- sentatives of the Fighting Ber-son you could not have failed to vices. And last but far from least notice, I think, that the ordinary tender my humble and grateful Directors have reduced their fees admiration to all those generous by half the amount they are en of such essential services as water which was pensions, $732,141.08. subscribers and self-sacrificing titled to, thus lightening expend!- workers who keep the flag of ture by a sum of $4,000. voluntary Social Service so proud-

ly dying over our Colony...

* A GREAT EMPORIUM

TENDER REJECTED

of building, which finds so much favour with potential tenants.

WATER AND DRAINAGE "There are as yet ac buildings on the south western portion of the estate. This stage of develop ment has to await the provision and drainage. When this has been supplied, attention will be devoted to that part of your property to make it revenue earning.

• LTD.

The

Ladies Salon

MEZZANINE FLOOR,

The House of Quality & Service

FINANCIAL RETURNS

Expenditure And Revenue

The

for the

financial returns year 1936, tabled at the Legislative Council yesterday, disclose a net increase of $1,221,883.77 under ex- penditure, the biggest item of

The largest decrease was in milit- ary contribution, 3482.703:02.

Under revenue there is a net

gest suim being in duties, $1,754, increase of $1,612,434.28, the lar- 834.66; while miscellaneous re- ceipts showed a decrease of $623,-

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

At the meeting of the Legisla tive Council held yesterday after- noon the Colonial Secretary moved that the Report of the Finance Committee (No. 2). dated 10th March, 1937, be adopted.

map, and in capital letters too.

WATER SUPPLY AND GAOL POPULATION: Although the privilege has fal-

"In one particular branch of the len to me of opening the Shing Mun Dam and the new Prison at

the manufacturing business, which Your Directors feel that in your Hong Kong is a smail place in had been fairly remunerative in land development and building Stanley I must nevertheless con- which to find packed together so the past, the 'Board did its best to scheme you are operating on safer fess considerable uneasiness both many large and important in-secure a contract for the current ground. While results may not 774.88. as regards our water supply and terests; the interests of a great year's supply on a basis of profit appear spectacular, we gool population. The exact post-port of a great emporium, of a that, we thought, might have hesitation in stating that your pre- have no tion regarding the former is being great fortress. and of B set forth in a sessional paper. At multi-racial community. Without nection we have to admit disillu- residental area of Kowloon with great proved unassailable. In this con- sent undertaking is providing the an expense of about three million good will and sympathetic under-slonment, however. Much to our several types of buildings which dollars on catch-waters. pumps standing the interplay of those in- regret, aur tender was not ac form a real and valuable asset of and mains (an amount which can terests might easily lead to fric- cepted. be raised under the existing Loan tion and sectionalism. The con-

your Company, while they offer to Ordinance) you will be able to get trary happily obtains. On the substantial

"Several Invitations to tender for its patrons housing accommoda- and to distribute all the water

constructional con- tion pleasing in aesthetic exterior great stone which marks the com- tracts have been received by the and meeting the most exacting re- that the great new dam can col-pletion of the Shing Mun reser- Company during the year. Tempt- quirements in intertor lay-out, with leet and retain; but unless sys- voir there has been engraved the ing as the invitations appeared to modern appliances like electric tematized anti-waste measures are

Latin title of a well known psalm.be, they needed very careful con-water-heaters and refrigerators, devised and enforced betimes our

When your new City Hall is built sideration, and in the end it was two cities are bound to be con- I suggest that its foundation stone with some reluctance that the veniences of up-to-date homes.

which are such indispensable con- fronted once more with an insuf- be engraved with another such Board came to the conclusion "to ficiency of supply. I hope there-title. It Ecce Quart Bonum," leave well alone," "In the light of Light and Power Co.'s special raté 1938."

"In this connection the China fore that the need for an anti-

and stands prefixed to the psalm subsequent events, the decision was waste section of the Water Works

which in the English authorised one on which we may now con- Branch of the Public Works De-

version begins, "Behold, how good gratulate ourselves; for the sudden partiment will not escape attention and how pleasant it is for breth-world-wide demand for fabricated when the estimates for next year ren to dwell together in unity!" steel, round steel bars and metal are under consideration. The pro- (Applause), ・・ blem of the growing prison popu-

manufactures generally has led to THOSE PRESENT lation appears at the moment still.

a paucity of supply amounting al- more grave and dimeplt. It may

Present at the meeting were:- most to a famine in this part of however "be" that the recent in-

His Excellency the Governor, the world. No relief from this Sir Andrew Caldecott, KCMG.. acute situation is apparent at the crease is due to an àmelioration

C.B.E of local economic conditions; that

moment.

The Attorney General moved the First reading of -

"A Bill to amend the Deporta- tion (British Subjects) Ordinance,

for Electric Hot Water Heaters and "A Bill to amend the Advertise- Thermal Storage Cookers should go. ments Regulation Ordinance, far to popularise the use of these 1912" domestic appliances..

A Bill to amend the Public (Sanitation) Ordinänce,

Health

"Judging by the number of in- quiries constantly reaching us, the 1935." prospect is definitely encouraging "A Bill to amend the law relat- that there will be eager tenants ing to poisons and the registration for the additional houses the Com- of pharmaceutical chemists." pany is about to build as soon as

DAUGA, NEW MEMBERS 20 occupation permits for them are

Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie; (Colonial is to say, to increased opportuni- oficer Commanding, Major-Gene- uveries when it was possible to

HIA Excellency the General Moreover, the uncertainty of de-issued by the Building Authority Newill, and Hon. Mr. M. T. John Treasurer), Hon. Commdr. (JME. tles for begging and thieving by ral A. W. Bartholomew. CB. book earlier orders, and the con-

son took their oaths of allegiance stant rapid rise of prices, would "The ingrudging co-operation of as new members of the Council. tion during the worst of the de- CMG, CBE, DAO.; pression. The position however The Colonial Recretary Hon; have rendered the fulfilment of ex- the members of the staff so cheer needs very careful watching and Mr. N. L. Smith);

plicit obligations under any large fully given at all times must be

those who came nearest to starva-

for

Hon. Mr R M. Henderson (Director of Puble Works);

LOYALTY OF STAFF

R. W. F. DANCE

The Junior N.C.0's of the Royal

I have already ordered the com-.. The Attorney General (Hon. Mr. contract a matter of serious an- matter of favourable comment and 'pilation of data on which a ruri-

C. G. Alabaster, K.C.. Q.B.E.). xiety, not to mention unanticipated grateful recognition. Many have ning review of it may be com-

The Secretary

Chinese losses, which ordinary foresight been the occasions when our stati mencer and continued.

Affaits (Hon. Mr. R. AC. North): could not possibly have provided have had to work into the late Welsh Fusiliers will hold their The Colonial Treasurer (Hor against Little short: of a pro- hours of an evening when there isual monthly, dance at the Hotel- Mr. W. J. Carrie);

were urgent and pressing duties to Ceel on Saturday April 17. The routine. The answer to such calls will be in attendance by kind has been a ready response by permission of Lt Col D. AL Bar- emclent and prompt service ren-

chard and Omcera. dered which I feel it incumbent on me to acknowledge on the one oc- casion afforded to us each year and to thank those to whom the Board's appreciation is due

phecy, the prevailing conditionsform beyond the ordinary day's dance baid of the R. W. Fraillery

54 EXPRESSIÓNS OF HORROR

The Hong Kong Travel Associa- tion, to which the Treasury pays a dollar for dollar annual subsidy up Hon. Commander B. Newill, to a maximum of $15,000, has ze- R.N. (Retd) (Harbour Master); cently opened an. Information Hon Dr R Wellington, Bureau at Kowloon, and has pub-CMG. (Director of Medical Bor- lished an illustrated guide to Hong vices);

#

Kong I have met a large num Hon Mr. T, H. King (Laspector ber of visitors during the past

year," but - their enthusiasm over our exquisite, scenery has nearly

General of Police); wi

Hon Mr. 3. T. Paterson;

Hon. Mr. T.-N. Ohau;

Hon Mr. M. Klo:

Hon. Mr. M. T" Johnson." Hon. Mr. A. W. Fughes; Hon. Mr. Lea D'Almada e Castro, Jun; BORD

Hon Dr. Shu Far

Mr. A: G. Clarke (Deputy Clerk of Councils).

This wax seconded by Mr. J. Beatt Barston and carried unanimously." Messrs Mr. H. Li, and J. Scott- Barston were re-elected directors Mr. Brags then moved the adop | and' Messrs". Lowe Bingham and ̈ tion of the report and accounts. Matthews were re-elected auditors.

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