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"Shines Like Good Deed In Naughty World”

Officer Administering Government's Tribute To Hong Kong

Legislative Council Meeting: Official Replies

Rent Restriction Legislation Not Favoured

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The official replies to points raised by unofficial members were made by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, the Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North, and the Officer Administering the Government Mr. N. L. Smith. at a meeting of the Legislative Council held yesterday afternoon in the Council Chamber.

said:

In his speech the Kon. Mr. Smith, touching on the Sino-Japanese troubles as affecting this colony

"I am reminded of a sentence in one of Mazzini's essays on historical method. "The historian." says he, "must always be impartial; but he should never be Indifferent." The rights and wrongs of the present unhappy confilet can be safely left. I would suggest, to the appropriate international tri- bunals or even to the judgment of posterity; but, as with the ideal historian, it would be wrong for us to be indifferent to the sufferings of our near neighbours."

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His Excellency paid tribute to the Inspector-General of Police and the people of this Colony for their good sense and steadiness during a most distressful summer.

"I venture to think that if certain spectators in Europe and in the Far East could see this Colony with our Japanese friends going about their business, quietly and unmolested, they might agree, that, in this respect at least, Hong Kong "shines like a good deed in a naughty world," concluded His Excel- lency.

The Colonial Secretary said:- In replying to the speeches which have been made on this mo- tion it will be convenient if I take the points raised in order, begin-

the speech ning with

of the Honourable the Senior Unofficial Member. It I am found to omit certain matters of importance, It is because these, will be dealt with by Your Excellency later in the afternoon.

ECONOMY MEASURES

member of the Senior Clerical, and Accounting Staff; and for the convenience of everyone, including the Police and the Legal profes- sion, he will be given a Court in which he will hear miner cases.

The cost of Atting up the Court is not great; beyond that no ex- pansion is involved only a certain redistribution of duties.

I am glad to learn that the re- cent street collection in aid of Typhoon sufferers met with a gen- erous response. The question of a grant by Government is now un- der consideration and I have no

I can assure the Council that we regret as much as anyone the absence from the list of certain works which have been entered | doubt. that proposals wit very under the heading "Essential" for many years past.

soon be put before this Council.

WATER SUPPLY

Intense Consumption Increase Unforeseen

Reservoir.

ders. that I doubt whether, without very heavy expenditure, any ap- preciable effect would be seen.

This is a matter of considerable importance and I do not wish to appear to dismiss it off hand. On the other hand, it is a problem which

concerns primarily

the Urban Council by whom it has. I believe, been discussed at length on several occasions.

I suggest therefore that those interested should, as a first step, communicate their views to the Chinese representatives on the Urban Council and should request them to take up the matter with that body.

POLICE DEFENDED

In this connection I should like to say a word. If that is necessary,

The main reason for their omis- economy. In sion is, of course, normal times we might well have I come now to the vexed ques-in defence of the Police. It has ventured

little B

further, and tion of water.

been suggested in more than one Without going into might even have hoped to accom-

details I may say that I doubt whe- quarter that Police officers often plish more without increasing ther anyone was to blame for not arrest hawkers simply in order to taxation; but, as things are. I foreseeing the immense increase in improve their records and not for the sake of the enforcement of law doubt whether anyone will really consumption that immediately fol-

and order. blame the Government for decid-lowed the completion of the Jubilee ing not to take the risk.

I wish that were really the case There are in certain cases also The highest weekly consumption because then the remedy would be subsidiary reasons. It is. I feel for the whole Colony in 1937 was obvious. I have often seen and sure, wise not to embark upon 23 per cent. higher than the re- pitled some wretched creature of dried such projects as

a bundle riew 1

leper

cord for previous years; in Kow-caught with asylum. a new infectious diseases

loon alone the excess was 31 per sticks, and yet one knows that it hospital, even a new mental hos-

cent. figures like this would upset would not need many months re- pital, during the interregnum be-

any estimate. Even so, the supplylaxation of effort for the Island tween the departure of one Direc-in the early part of this year would to be stripped as bare of vegetation tor of Medical Services and the have been adequate if the Jubiles as it is said to have been a hundred arrival of his successor.

NOT FINANCIALLY SOUND The alternative to raising ad- ditional revenue however secured. that is to say the financing of al and surdry works by means of à lean ls. I am advised, a proposi- tion that is not financially sound. There is an essential difterence between a market or a water sup- ply both of which bring in re- venue and say a Volunteer Head- quarters which is clearly a liabi- lity. It is true that the Hong Keng Prison was a loan work, but this was only approved for very special reasons.

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The Queen Mary Hospital was built from revenue and a request for permission to finance it from a loan was refused by the Secre- tary of State for the Colonies.

HEROIN FIENDS "No Punishment Too Severe For

Sub-Human, Creatures"" Although one may feel that no punishment can be too severe for those sub-human creatures who Krow rich by poisoning men and women with heroin. It is doubtful whether the imposition of the punishment of flogging would help much to lessen the traffic, and the proposal has obvious objections

It is generally speaking. probability of being found

the

Réservoir had filled in 1936: the shortage was in fact entirely due to lack of rainin autumn and early spring and had nothing to do with the capacity of the aque- duct or with the distribution sys- tem

In October

atili last we were hoping for an unseasonable down- pour but it never occurred to me that anyone would base strong hopes ön #reservoir that was nearly empty at the beginning of the dry season,

COST OF WATER The great problem of the cost of water which has been so long a subject of argument and debate is now, I hope, in a fair way of being solved. The Financial Secretary has undertaken an investigation of the whole matter, and I feel that there is nothing that can usefully be said pending the receipt of his report.

A few months ago I was interest- ed to read in one of the Canton papers-I think the Canton Gazette an article on the hawker pro- blem in that City. I was interested because I had heard it argued that Canton had solved the problem by simply disregarding it.

That may have been so in the

which have been pointed out by past but if so It would seem that the construction of wider" streets the Secretary of State,

and the introduction of modern out ideas of sanitation and traffic rather than the severity of the control have rendered some torm punishment, which deters evil- of regulation essential. doers and, with this end in view, The fact is that the hawker sys- the Budget contains provision for tem to a great extent takes the the extension of investigation place of various systems of poor through the employment of batter relief, and in a country where there qualified detective officers and of are unfortunately many hundreds at assistant to the Monopoly of thousands living on the edge of Analyst.

starvation, systems of poor reller are apt to be overworked.

UNRESTRICTED HAWKING Would Bring About Intolerabie State of Affairs. In present circumstances. I teel ALWAYS THREE MAGISTRATES sure that anything like ubrestrict- Ever since I can remember, un-ed hawking would quickly bring til a year or so ago, there have about an intolerable state of af- been three Magistrates at the fairs. Central Magistracy, the third be- A large increase in the number ing known as the First Clerk and of institutions for the aged and Magistrate.

of reformatories for street arabs and of homes for beggars and disabled persons might bring come rellet but there is such a vast reservoir of distress and poverty here and beyond our bor-

To the searcher after economy the proposals for the provision of an additional court at the Central Magistracy sound more alarming than they really are.

It has always been the intention that a young cadet officer (as soon as one can be spared) shall take on the work as before in place of the present First Clerk who is a

destitute,

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years ago.

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Similarly, multiply the shoe- shiners by fifty and who could walk. on the pavement? I am far from satisfied that this effort is un- necessary,

CASE BOOKS What They Mean To Police Officers

I have to admit that there are such things as case books, but not that they are worthy of the impor- tance they sometimes assume in Court proceedings. The official re- corde of a police officer's service contain no mention of the number of convictions which he has obtained. The case book is a sub- sidiary record not without its uses when the value to the community of a police officer's services is under consideration. It contains details of important cases in red, and of unimportant cases in black ink.

It hardly seems necessary to point out that black entries are regarded as being of little or no importance. Red entries are im- portant, and rightly so.

With regard to the cost of the Police Force it should I think be made clear that the estimate for 1935 was just under three million dollars (at 1/4). Two and a half million dollars was the expenditure in that year when exchange rose as high as 2/6; when the 1936 es- In preparation the timates were rate was taken as 1/8. So that any increase in the cost of the Departments entirely due to the higher cost of sterling.

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HOSPITAL DIETS The Director of Medical Services informs me that the diet in the third Class Ward of the Tsan Yuk Hospital is the same as; that in other Government Hosp'tals, but that Chinese patients in Maternity Hospitals often prefer salted eggs and cabbage which are given them on request.

There are five air rings and eighteen bed rests on the Hospital Inventory. More could be supplied if thought necessary but serious operations are now seldom per- formed at this Hospital which has since July of this year been used for maternity cases only.

With regard to the Cholera Epidemic I think it is only fair to the Medical Department

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