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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

Curbing Heroin Traffic

If all these and other, ap- proaches fall, it may be neces- sary to make spitting à nul- sance panishable by law as In other countries.

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· HEALTH SERVICES

of what the expense would be and whether such an expenditure! would be justifled. A similar sur- vey was. I understand, undertaken for the United Kingdom Civil Ber- vice some ten years ago." As re- kards Mr. Shield's figures it is

(6) Expansion of Health Ser-justifiable to point out that the vices, etc. The foundation of a exchange rate of the dollar in the Chair in Public Health and Pre-Estimates for 1929 was 2/-; It is ventive Medicine at the University of Hongkong now being consider- ed and the expansion of the Health Division of the Medical Department of Government which has been ap; proved by this Council should go

also worth repeating that the new, salary scales now being gradually fritroduced have as one of their chief objects the reduction of the Colony's pension bill. This, how- ever, is not to deny that that bill

a long way towards solving the is a heavy, and in its nature an various factors concerned in the increasingly heavy, burden on the problem of contral of tuber- Colony's finances. .culosis.

FIER LEASES

As regards the expiration of the

I apologise, Sir, for the length of this reply which only touches the fringe of the subject, but Per leases in 1949 it would not be trust that Your Excellency may proper for me to say more on a think it desirable. that Honourable subject which is at present the Members of Council should be subject of correspondence with the aware of the steps that are being Chamber of Commerce than.. to taken to deal with the serious state that no avoidable delay in "problem referred to in the speech deciding this vital question will be

of the Hon. Dr. Li Shu Fan.

permitted.

COL. SECRETARY'S

REPLY

The Hon. 'Colonial Secretary, said in reply: I have listened with 'great interest to the speeches of Honourable Unofficial Members both on the subject of the 1939 Budget and on the more general: subjects of public policy which fo is very proper should be mention- ed in the course of this debate.

Many of the more technical

The Government welcomes the action taken by the Chinese representatives in this Council In regard to the heroin traffic. This is essentially ‘a matter on which public opinion could have much more in- fluence than the ordinary pro cesses of law, and any steps which will mould that public opinion are most gratefully acknowledged by the Govern- ment.

As regards the hawker problem, points have been dealt with by my or which Eon, Mr. M. K. Lo has Honourable Colleagues the Direc- also spoken, I would say that this tor of Public Works and question has been deliberately put the Director of Medical Services; in the hands of the Urban Coun- and I understand that Your Excel- cil and it would hardly be proper lency proposes to deal with the for the Government, without very closing words of the Sentor Unoff-serious reasons, to impose its views cial Member's speech.

It remains therefore for me in closing the debate only to mention a few outstanding questions.

Two members have pointed out the great practical difficul- ties and also the possibility of constitutional objections which might stand in the way of im- posing any restriction on im- migration from China to which Your Excellency made a brief reference at the last meeting of this Council, and I can only assure the Council that these are very fully appreciated by the Government. .

The points raised by Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau and Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo will be kept very carefully in view should the time 'come for this question to become practical politics.

TAXATION

on that body. The Urban Council as a strong Chinese representa- tion and there is little fear of the

views of that population being dis- regarded.

NEW QUEEN'S COLLEGE

· Government sympathises with

the aspirations of certain Honourable Members for a new Queen's College. The speech of the Hon Mr. M. K. Lo is almost an admission that the matter is not yet pe, from an educational point of view, for a decision at the pre-" sent time; and I can only promise that this important question, will receive the earliest possible atten- tion.

LOCAL CANDIDATĖS

The views of the Honourable Mr. D'Almada on the subject of fuller employment of local candidates in the

accord Government service with the policy of the Government. The Hon. Mr. Chau has also re- have not had time to collect ferred to the proposed enquiry in-statistics but an analysis of the to the general question of taxa-Budget figures, notably in the tion. The Committee which is to Medical, Police and Sanitary de- make this enquiry has not yet partments, would clearly indicate even been appointed but I am sure the magnitude of this process in that I can promise that full con recent years. sideration will be given not only

to the well-known local objections

The Honourable Dr. LA Shu-fan

The

to any form of income-tax but has raised three minor points be- also to the necessity of giving the sides those to which the Honour- general public every facility for able the Director of Medical Ser- expressing its views on this ques-vices has already replied:

subsidies to various tion which, as Your Excellency has

charitable already said, must shortly be of institutions were very carefully paramount importance.

considered in Belect Committee and I have nothing to add to the remarks which I made earlier in The Honourable Member, who the debate. As regards the represents the Chamber of Com restrictions on motoring doctors merce has raised two vitally im- and the preservation of game in pertant points. My Honourable the New Territories I can at this Colleague the Financial Secretary stage only promise that, these will has authorized me to say that be examined at an early date. there is no fundamental objection I cannot closer

or without again

SURVEY OF PENSIONS

to the actuarial survey of pensions thanking my Unofficial Colleagues, suggested and it is only a question in the name of the Government

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1938.-PAGE

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