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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS

GENERAL

QUESTIONS ABOUT REPORT OF

OF JUNK COMMISSION TO

TO BE ASKED IN COUNCIL

First Reading Of Four New Bills This Afternoon

With reference to the Report of the Commission which inquired into the alleged sinking of a fleet of fishing Junks by a Japanese submarine near Hong Kong on September 21, 1937, the Hon. Mr. M. K. La will ask at the meeling of the Legislative Council today at 3 p.m. whether the Government is now in a position to give any Indication as to when the Report will be published.

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At a meeting of the Comnail on March 9 the Colonial Secretary, In answer to a question by Mr. Lo, sald that the Report had been referred to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and that it was still under consideration and no instructions had been received as to its publication.

In pursuance to notice, the Hon.). The object of this Bill is to im- Mr. Lo will also ask:-

In regard to revenue in respect of water consumption:-

(1) According to actual receipts from January 1. 1938, up to the end of July. 1938. (or up to the end of the latest month in respecti of which actual figures are avail- able), what was the amount re- ceived in respect of 2 per cent. of the rates?

(2) In respect of the same period what was the amount received:

1. For meter and fire service rental?

.

For excess consumption?

1. For shipping and con

struction supplies?

(3) In respect of the same period what would have been the revenue received if the charges for water had been on the basis set out in Appendix 2 to Sessional Paper No. 4 of 1938, with separate figures for the separate categories therein shown?, thus:

Flat rates. million gallons at

$0.30.

Peak Supplies, million gallons at

50.50.

High Levels, million gallons at

$0.40. Shipping and Construction sup- plies, million gallons at $1.00,

FOUR NEW BILLS

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Four new Bills will be giren Arst reading upon the motion of the Attorney General. The Bills are:-

1. An Ordinance to provide for and regulate the supply of water.

The object of this B is to re- peal the Waterworks Ordinance,

1903, and the regulations made thereander and to replace them by an Ordinance and regulations In accordance with modern re- quirements.

The Bill is' drafted on the assumption that there is to be in future no general free allowance of water based on rateable valua" tion but that free allowances may be permitted in the case of hos- pitals and other approved institu- tions.

Provision has been made for the following new features:

Power to

cover water;

demand deposits to Payments for chargeable

Licensing of approved plumbers; Stamping of approved fittings; Charging fees for the privilege" of using main water for flushing: Separate floor hietering: and The representation of the water authority by authorized officers,

DOMESTIC SERVICE

2. An Ordinance to amend the Female Domestic Service Ordinance 1923.

The Mui Tsal Commission recommended that the em ployment of a female under twelve years as a domestic ser- vant should be prohibited by law, that the six months time Hmit for prosecutions for the offence of bringing an gistered Mui Tsal into the Colony should be removed and that a Mai Tsal shall cease to be a Mui Tsai on reaching the age of eighteen.

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RESUMPTION OF MUNIFICENCE OF H.K.-HANKOW TRAIN SERVICE

EXPECTED SOON

After two months contin- nous group bombing by the Japanese planes, the bridges, railroad and beds along the Kwantlen-Pakiang sector of the Canton-Hankow Ballway suffered considerable damage,

The daily inundation of the river added dieulties to road repairing.

The train service between Hong Kong and Hankow, and between Cantor and Hankow, has long been | suspended.

Up till the morning of August 29 the "road. repair work at #very sector had been completed "and service was resumed as usual.

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THE HAW PAR

BROTHERS

Recognition Made By Venerable Order Of St. John

The philanthropic principles and generosity in the cause of charity by the Haw Par brothers Messrs Aw Boon-haw and Aw Boon-par, are anco

more

evinced in coming to the assistance, as donors, of the Hospital at Cheung Chau

bears which already

their games and for which the Venerable Order of St. John has conferred on each of them the rank of Officer of the Order.

It will be recalled that these

Mr. Chen Yen-ching, Head Off- plement these recommendations cer of the Canton-Bankow Rail- other recommendations are being way, who previously personally In- dealt with in other Bills or by amendments to

spected the repair work has re- the regulations turned to Canton. and administrative action.

Mr. Chu Fel, universally known and popular the Air Defence Commander of the gentlemen have borne the cost of railway line, has also ordered re-adding another floor to the Inforcement of defence,

original Hospital building, mainly

3. An Ordinance to repeal and replace section 45A of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance. 1865, as enacted by the Offences Against the Per- son Amendment 1929.

Ordinance,

The following new section is substituted for Section 45A of the 1865 Ordinance!—

As the line has been repaired it with the idea of catering for early is believed that the Hong Kong-tuberculosis patients. But as а Hankow direct line will soon be building without equipment can- resumed.

not function usefully these two gentlemen have agreed to bear the whole of the cost of furnishing the extension. A nuraber of beds have been. Installed already, and other furniture and equipment will fol- low in due COLTSE.

AIR FRANCE

The control tower "at Kai Tak 45A (1) Every person who takes fashed 3 thunderstorm warning any part in any transaction the to the incoming Air France plane object. or one of the objects of at 11 am, yesterday.

Situated on the verge of the which is to transfer or confer.

sea and open to invigorating and wholly or partly, temperartly or forced to circle Hong Kong for half ment or tuberculosis patients and The Air France machine was health-giving breezes for the treat- permanently, the possession, cus- an hour and eventually landed at convalescents. the Cheung Chau tody or control of any other per- 11.40 am. son for any valuable considera-

Hospital

unrivalled, whlie tion. shall be guilty of a mis- were: M. Jullen Fontaine. Mme.stitution are unanimous in their

Passengers aboard the plare visitors who have

seen the in demeanor and shall be liable to Suzanne Fontaine, Mr. Shen Llang. praise. imprisonment for any term not Mr. W. L. Bond. Tsue Yee Pi, LI exceeding two years.

Tsing Tsung. Herr Holtz and Ling Kh Tal.

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OPENED IN 193

The main building was com-

1937 the extension was added. in November of that year. During pleted in 1934 and formally openedy

endowment fund it is hoped that

Although the Hospital has no

12 Every person shall be guilty imprisonment for any term not from the interior of China by cf a misdemeanor and liable to

Several of them had travelled

lawful authority, cr exceeding two years, who without Yunnanfu owing to the temporary excuse har-cancellation of all Chinese inland bours or has in his possession, cus- at services. tody or control any person with

the munificence of the Haw Par The plane will leave Kal Tak brothers, who have done much in respect to whom the temporary or tomorrow at 6 am. on the return the interests of St. John both here permanent possession, custody ör flight to Hanoi. control has been transferred or conterred for valuable considera- tion by any other person within or without the Colony.

(3) Nothing in this section, shall be construed as affecting the cus- tomary giving or receiving of pre-

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES

and in the Straits will inaugurate

an endowment fund in the near future.

In the meantime it is interesting to learn that the new addition. Two forthcoming marriages are accommodation for a Straits Red while apparently idle, has provided announced:-

sents on occasions of bona fide betrothals, weddings or adoptions.

(4) No prosecution section shall be instituted with Street, Tai Po Market. under this

out the consent of the Secretary

student. of No. 4 Percival Street, later afforded refuge to an ame- Mr. Alan Francisls Fung Chung, with the Chinese forces, and still Cross Unit dispatched to serve top floor, and Miss Wong Tamrican Mission School from Central ying student, of No. 10 Wai Yee China, which like other Chinese for Chinese Affairs; Provided that rant officer, Army Garrison Ser-

educational organisations was for- Mr. Joseph Henry Pittham, war-ced to seek refuge in this Colony. such consent shall not be neces-gearits Mess, and sary for the arrest of any person Gentry nee Bosworthick) en route Miss Amy suspected of having contravened to Hong Kong on the s.s. Ranchi, this section.

COMMISSION'S RECOM-

MENDATIONS

The Mal Tsal Commission 'recommended the revision of section 45A of Ordinance No. 2 of 1865 so as to remove the Imitation which restricts its operation to minors, to alter the method of expressing the exclusion of marriage and adoption from the scope of the section, and to remove from offences of this nature the six months time limit for prosecutions imposed by sec tion 20 of the Magistrates Ordinance. 1932 for the trial of offences which are not in- dictable,

NEW TERRITORY SANITATION

4. An Ordinance to amend the New Territories Regula- tion Ordinance, 1910.

regulations as apply to the urban

TOC H CHAPEL IN

A CATHEDRAL

areas of Hong Kong, Kowloon and Chichester Ceremony

New Kowloon,

It is proposed in these rules to deal with nuisances which may be the subject of summary prosecu tion in England under the Public Health Acts. On finding any such nuisance. the inspector would re- quest its abatement and, "if it were not abated, apply to a magis- trate to make an order..

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(BY AIR MAIL) Chichester, August 20. Chichester is the first Eng- lish cathedral to provide for Toc" H. a chapel within its walls.

This afternoon, at a service a't- The tended by a large congregation from owner or tenant of the premises all parts of the county, the Chapel on which the nuisance is found to of St. Thomas and St. Edmund in exist would then have an oppor-the North alle was set apart as tunity of contesting the making the spiritual home of Toc H in of the order, and breach of an Bussex, order, if made, would be dealt with At today's service the ceremony under the ordinary law. relating of lighting the Lamp of Mainten- to summary proceedings before ance was performed with the cus- magistrates.

tomary ritual by Mr. J. B. Hooper, The Attorney General will also of Brighton, as representative of move the second and third read- Toc'H in Sussex. ings of

The Rev. P. E. (Tubby) Clayton,

1. A Bill to amend the Band addressing the congregation, said Ordinance, 1935;

Chichester Cathedral was the Arst

The object of this Bill is to en- able the Governor in Council to lay down simple general rules for 2. A Bill to make better pro-one in Great Britain to recognize the prevention and abatement of vision for the prevention, and the work of The H by setting apart nuisances, it being considered punishment of sedition, and practicable at present to apply in

one of its side chapels to be a 3. A Bill to prohibit the impor-sort of homely guild shrine for the rural districts the same laws and tation of undesirable publications. movement.

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JAPANESE UNIT DECIMATED

Mahwelling, Klangsi, Aug. 31.

By a ruse the Chinese troops guarding. Chitso ling (Cock Head Hill) in front of Lushan decimated a Japanese unit yesterday morning na

The Japanese unit composed of 300 men tried to climb tip the hill to attack the Chinese. The lat- ter on the hilltop lay down on the ground and pre tended to be asleep. When the enemy got midway on the hill, they suddenly jumped up and showered hand-grenades on them

The Japanese were taken aback by the sur- prize attack. As the hill is very steep,, over 100 of them slipped, fell headlong down the hill and were killed (Central-News).""/>