HONG KONG DAILY PRESS
Legislative Council
ASIATIC EMIGRATION ORDINANCE AMENDED
Five Bills Pass First Reading At Meeting
A Bill amending further the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, and Bill amending the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, were passed following second and third readings at the Legislative Council meeting held yesterday "afternoon." Five other Bills were given first reading. I
On the motion of the Colonial Secretary, the Report of the Finance Committee (No, "11) dated December 22, 1938. was adopted. Approval was given, on the motion of the Attorney, General, to the order dated January 12, 1939, made by the Chief Justice ander section 32 of the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873. Ordinance No. 3, 1813.
STANDING LAW
COMMITTEE
The Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith. Colonial Secretary, made the fol- lowing announcement at the Legislative Council meeting yester- day:-
By Your Excellency's direction I rise to announce the appointment of the Standing Law Committee for 1939.
The following Members have been appointed and have agreed to
serve:
The Hon. the Attorney-General Chairman), the Hon. the Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs, the Hon. Sir Henry Edward, Pellock. Kt.. KC., LL.D., the Hon. Mr. T 1. Chau. C.B.E and the Hon. Mr. M K.. Le.
GENERAL
H.K. HOSPITALS' FINANCES
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Question By Sir Henry Pollock
Pursuant to notice, tas Hon. Sir Henry Pullock asked at yesterday's meeting of the. Legislative Council whether the Government had any stave- ment to make as to the finan- clal position of the Tang Wah and aliled Hospitals,
Replying, the Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith Colonial Secretary, said:-
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The question of increased finan- cial assistance to the Tung Wah and associated Hospitals has been under consideration for a con- siderable time. It came to a head INDIAN TO BE.
early in 1938 when the Tung Wan His Excellency the Governor, Sir The object of this bill is to au
SENT AWAY
Committee approached the Gov-, the Geoffry Northcote, presided at, the thorize the winding up of
was made ferment with a An expulsion order
request for meeting. Others present were His Government House and City Deve-
cover the deficit shown Excellency the General Ofcer opment Fund. This is a matter against an Indian. Ram Singh, 35, grant to
he appeared on the working for the year 1937 the unemployed when Commanding Troops, Major-Gen of considerable interest to eral A. E. Grasett, the Hon. Mr. N general public in view of the cir- before M. R. Edwards yesterday, equal to approximately $150,000.
Fund charged with entering the Colony L. Smith (Colonial Secretary), the cumstances in which that Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster (At was originally set up and Your without a valid passport and with torney-General), the Hon. Mr. W. Excellency has instructed me to J. Carrie (Secretary for Chinese give a full explanation of the rea ATäirs, the Hon. Mr. S.
underlying Caine sons
the Financial Secretary, the Hon. legislation. Comdr.
Harbour
proposed
being a vagrant
As the result of discussions which followed, certain important steps have been agreed for the improve ment of the financial control of the hospitals. In particular It has
Det-Sergt. Loughlin stated that defendant arrived on January 24 from Manila, his passport having been agreed that
He was expired in March 1937. re-expecting a remittance from his
He was sent to the
GF. Hole, R.N. (Retd.) The Fund was designed to finance
Master, the Hon. Mr. a large, specific scheme of F M. Henderson Director of development of an area including friends in Manila and would teave Public Works), the Hon. Mr. T. Hthe site of the former City Hall the Colony. King
(Commissioner or Police). and the site of the Government House of Detention,
the Hon. Dr. P. 8. Selwyn-Clarke, House and Colonial Secretary's
M.C. Director of Medical Services: the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson, Hon. Mr. T. N Chau, Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, Hon. Mr. S., H.
Mr. Dodwell. Hon. Leo
·D'Almada Castro. Hon. Dr. L' Shu-fan, and the Hon, Mr. A. L. Shields.
THEFT FROM CEMETERY
Sentence
of
Wa5
Office buildings. There was pald Into the Fund the proceeds of the sale of a part of the City Hall site
six weeks to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and it was passed by Mr. R.AD. Forrest at proposed in due course to pay.int the Central Magistracy on Wong the Fund the proceeds of the sale Kong. 25, when he appeared yes- of other land in this area as deve-terday. charged with theft of a lopment proceeded on the basis of flower vase from the Protestant The five Bills given first reading a detailed plan drawn up and re- Cemetery.
ferred to in the 1934 Ordinance"
were:-
A
NEW BILLS
A Bit to amend the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1935.
A Bill for the Repeal of the Government.House and City Deve- lopment Scheme Ordinance, 1934. and for the appropriation
to the general revenue of the Colony of any balance standing to the credit of the Fund at the Treasury esta-' blished under section 4 of that or- dinance.
A B to amend the Prevention
of Eviction Ordinance, 1938,
A Bill to amend the Evidence Ordinance, 1889,
A B to amend Section 45A of the Offences Against, the Person Ordinance, 1865, as enacted by the Offences Ágatast the Person Amendment Ordinance. 1938,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE AND CITY DEVELOPMENT FUND Regarding the second Bl Attorney-General said:—
the
It was the hope that the proceeds that area no longer appeared of these sales would be sufficient practicable; accordingly it
was
to pay for the rebuilding of Gov-proposed that the re-building of Government House, and the pro-
ernment House and Government
cices and also for the provision vision of other public buildings on uf a new City Hall in replacement the sites in question should be of that demolished,
Ananced from revenue, and that the balance in the Fund should, 15 a preliminary, be transferred to revenue.
LATE GOVERNOR'S OPPOSITION
The operation of this scheme was suspended for various rea- sons and when Slr Andrew Caldecott became Governor he indicated his opposition to the whole scheme because be dis-
liked the Idea of Intensive development of the Govern- ment House and neighbouring sites, and was до convinced of the necessity of re-building Government House itself. The whole subject was, therefore, In abeyance when Your Ex- cellency assumed the Govern- ment.
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The intention to proceed at once with this plan was stated by the Financial Secretary in paragraph 1 of his Memorandum on the. Financial Position
published in connection with the estimates for * 1939 and referred to also in his
speech in Council introducing these! estimates. The present bli is, therefore, only intended to give formal sanction to a plan which has already received the tacit ap proval of Council.
of
I effect, the original plan When Your Excellency had con- re-development of the sites in sidered the question your views question has been abandoned and were set out In a memorandum
It is proper, therefore, that the with the scheme designed to Anance It unofficial members of this Council should be declared as abrogated: was published as an enclosure to it follows that the preservation of Sessional Paper 13 of 1938, relating a fund created ad hoc' would not to the programme of Public Works only serve no useful purpose-1! You expressed the view that it would actually be misleading. was advisable to proceed with the building of a new Government House on the Magazine Gap site, while agreeing with Sir Andrew Caldecott in disliking the proposal for the Intensive, development of Government House and neighbour- ing sites.
You made it clear. Sir, however. that you envisaged the ultimate
CITY HALL IN DUE COURSE At the same time I have Your Excellency's authority for saying that the Government does intend in due course to provide a new City Hall for public use in the Colony. One
of the great difficultles, bow-. ever, is to find the right site. Neither what remains of the old
buliding of a new City Hall either site nor the site suggested in the
rendered
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(a) The committee shall pre-" pare and adhere to a proper annual budget and shall suomi. annual accounts aua.ted by an auditor approved by the Gov- ernment.
(b) The annual budget shah be approved by the Permanent Advisory Committee already es- tablished.
The medical and chari- (0) table work of the hospitals shall be separated.
It is intended that separate budgets shall be prepared for each of these two functions and that the premises used for medical and hospital purposes shall, as far as possible. be separated from those. used for the other great charitable werks for which the Tung Wah thr Hospital organization hag long been well-known, namely the rellet of distress, however caused, the care of destitute and aged persons and the burial of the dead.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
3, 1939. -PAGE 7-
TO-MORROW
IS
DEFINITELY
THE
LAST DAY
OF OUR
WINTER SALE
FINAL REDUCTIONS
LANE •
IN ALL
DEPARTMENTS
CRAWFORD • LTD.
The House of Quality & Service
(d) All matters relating to the medical administration of the Hospitals will in future be under the control of a Medical Com- mittee appointed by His Excel- lency the Governot. This com- ADMIRAL RETURNS
mittee has already been set upj and its membership WIS ал nounced
the Government Gazette of December 16, 1938. It fricludes the Honourable
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H.MS Kent, flagship of the China Station, and H.M.S, Falmouth returned from Manlia yesterday.
The Commander-in-Chief of the
board the
Director of Medical Services. of China Station, Vice-Admiral alr his deputy
twa Percy, Nable, was on (Chairman),
Kent, members of the Tung Wah Hospital Advisory Committee. three members of the Board of FIRING PRACTICE Directors of the Hospital Com-) mittee, the
Firing practice seawards will be Visiting Medical
carried cut from Devil's Peak Fort. Superintendents of the Tung Wah, Tung Wah Eastern and Fort Collinson, Fort Stanley. Furt
Davis and West Fort, Stonecut Kwong Wah Hospitals.
(e) Chinese herbal treatment ters, between 9 am and 6 pm. for medical inpatients is for the to-day. present to be provided in certain specified wards in each of the hospitals to those who spon- taneously ask for it.
(D) Future investments of the Tung Wah funds will be in gilt- edged securities instead of in mortgages and property. INVESTIGATION INTO ACCOUNT "Investigations of the accounts
investigations.
of patients partly as a result of the present hostiles.
(c) to reduced income from investments,
(d) to the partial drying up of the flow of subscriptions in favour partly of the claims of war charities.
as part of a large public building scheme now foregone is adequate of the hospitals have already been Government has every confidence "Under these arrangements the including new central Government in area of offices or in some other way. Itland until more land is
suitable in situation, made during 1937 and have fully that the valuable work done in was shown in your memorandum available by the removal of the satisfed the Government of the the past for the Chinese com- and in the principal memorandum
accuracy of the accounts as sub-munity of the Colony by the Tang present buildings below Govern- on the Public Works programme ment House or in some other way,
mitted and of the satisfactory Wah and associated Hospitals will A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. that the balance of about $839,000
nature of the system of It is impracticable to proceed with
BC not only continue but will increase in the Government House and City the actual construction of a new counting, subject to certain minor in value and that the existing co- Development Fund should so some City Hall
improvements recommended by operation between the Directors: way to meet the contemplated ex-
Government will be penditure of the new Government of a general scheme of re-planning|
That must be considered as part the Accountants who made the and the
strengthened without any change House, but would certainly not of the area which is to be made
“A supplementary vote for the in the fundamental characteristic sufficient to meet it all.
of an additional sum of of voluntary institutions supported available. It is pertinent to refer, grant OLD CITY HALL SITE in this connection, to the speech $150,000, the approximate deficit in the main by private contribu- It was also demonstrated that made a Council by the Honour for the year 1937, is being sub- tion.
the It is indeed hoped that the as- there might be further receiptsable the Senior Member on Novem-mitted at the meeting of from the sale of the remainder ber 10 when he indicated that the Dance committee which follows surance of efficient administration of the old City Hall site and pos- unofficial members supported the immediately the meeting of this which is afforded by the steps now
taken will encourage the chartt-: sibly other portions of the area proposed building of a new Gov-council. This deficit was due:- covered by the original scheme ernment. House on the ground (a) to increased expenditure ably-minded members of the com- *but the general principle of a self-riter alla" that it is an essential due to attempts to improve the munity to continue and increase
contained scheme financed wholly preliminary to the re-planning of
standard of treatment,
their support of this worthy foun- from the proceeds of sales of land this area.
(b) to the increased number' dation.
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