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FINANCE COMMITTEE: SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES TOTALLING $181,360

Alleviation Of Distress

S.P.C. To Open Fifth Welfare Centre In

Yaumati

GENERAL

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETS

TO-DAY

Sir Henry Pollock's Assessment Query

At the monthly meeting held

His Excellency the Governor, Sir recently of the Executive" Cum-Geoffry Northcote, will preside ni mittee of the Boriety for the Pro-the meeting of the Legislative teciion of Children, the "urgent Connell to-day at 2.30 pm. need to open a fifth welfare centre Under the item "Questions" on

Supplementary expenditure totailing $181,360 will be request- ed at the meeting of the Finance Committee which will be held to-day immediately, after the Legislative Council meeting: / Under the bead of Medical De- Under the same head, $16,800 is partment (Medicine and Instru- | requested to Cover

the salaries ments), a sum of $70,000 is being ($144 per annum) and rent allow asked to supplement substantially ances ($24 per annum) of these the expenditure on medicines and 200 extra scavenging coolles from instruments owing to an increase July 1 to December 31, 1939. The by over 25 per cent. in the number employment of these extra coolies in the Yaumati, or Kowloon City, the Order of Business, the Hon. Bir of patients at Government Hos-has been necessitated for main district, was stressed.

Henry Edward Pollock," Kt,' K.C., pitals, and due to the added rea-taining streets and lanes in a clean The existing centres in Winchal, LL.D., pursuant to notice, will ask: -sons that medicines have also to and unlittered condition, owing to Pokfulum Road, Argyle Street and Has the assessment for the year be supplied to refugee camps and the increased population. and Sal Yeung Chol Street, have 1939/1940 been completed? If so, that the prices of such supplies thereby preventing the danger of proved of inestimable value in the will the Government give the have Increased.

epidemics. This proposal has, al-alleviation of distress and in the figures of the new rateable, values ready been LAUNCH FOR GOVERNOR

approved by the guidance and assistance given to compared with those for Finance Committee. A supplementary vote of $42,000

mothers and infants, and it is felt (1998/1939? *- is requested under Barbour De-

~POST OFFICE MAIL BAGS ~~—that the Society's work must The Financial Secretary war partment (special expenditure) to under the head of Post Office, Mall lated areas where it is hoped to

A sum of $10,000 is requested spread to the two densely popu-move the following resolution:- meet the cost of a new launch Bags, etc. It is stated that owing establish the arth centre. suitable for use by His Excellency

to the disturbed conditions in the Governor as well as for other China, the return of Hongkong fore

The Hon. Treasurer was there- purposes. The immediate building mail bags is subject to considerable the possibilty of securing suitable empowered to investigate of this launch has already received delay and this has caused a de- premises. the approval of the Finance. Completion of the stocks available for mittee.

SCAVENGING NEEDS Under the head Sanitary Depart ment, a supplementary vote of $24,375 is requested for the pur-. chase of five additional Refuse Lorries in order to improve the

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That the résolution relating to Widown and Orphans' Pension. Fund passed on the 1st day of June, 1938, be rescinded and that the following resolution be sub-

tuted therefor:-

It is hereby resolved that the resolution of this Council adopt- ed on August 2, 1902, requiring that pensions paid in England from the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Fund be paid at the rate of 3/- to the dollar shall not apply to any pension grant- ed on or after June 1, 1938, ex- cept in special cases where the Governor in Council has deem- ed it.equitable to sanction pay- ment at that rate.

Generous Grants immediate use. Extra bags will The Chairman, Sir Atholl Mac- also be required for use in con- gregor, expressed the Society's hexion Transit statistics to be taken in received from the Jockey Club

with the Postal Union gratitude for the generous grants. October and November this year. ($1,500), The Hongkong Footbal;

.REFUGEE TRANSPORT

Club ($750), the Committee of thei Owing to the large number of Kotewall Cup Competition ($300), scavenging of the Urban District by refugee sickness cases being trans-Messrs." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the employment of 200 extra ferred to and from Hongkong and ($310-part proceeds of a special scavenging coolles.

Kowloon, the amount provided for performance of the alm "Boys' A further sum of $1,042 is re-transport for the year 1939 under Town"), and for $500 from Mr, W. quested for salaries for the drivers Fire Brigade (Transport) is now K. . Eu and Mr. Ea Keng-loon, of these lorries.

exhausted and a further sum of who generously donated money

NEW LEGISLATION $2,500 is requested to meet this ex-gfts received on the occasion of

The Attorney General Will move penditure to the end of this year. their marriages..

the First. Second and Third read- MENTAL PATIENTS

The case report for May showed ings of Under Charitable Services a total of 202 new cases, while no (Transport and Bubsistence of fewer than 1,228 cases were as- Lunatics) a sum of $1,100 is re-sisted during that month, The quested, owing to the high cost of average monthly income per head transport of mental patients to the was $1.68, there berg some cases Fong Chiven Mental Hospital at absolutely destitute with no in-. Canton...

come whatever.

TWO SOLDIERS BOUND OVER

Larceny Charge

Conviction

Convictions on charges of larceny of $15 against Private Stephen Vincent Ward and of larceny of $24.40 against Prvate Louis Remer. both of the Middlesex Reriment, were recarded at Kowloon Court yesterday, when both defen- dants were bound over in $50 each to be of good behaviour for 12 months.

NOTIFICATION FEES

Under

Medical Department (Notification Fees for infections diseases) a sum of $3,000 is re- quested. It is stated that tuber- culosis did not become a notable disease until January 18 this year and consequently no provision was mads in the 1939 estimates for fees payable to practitioners notifying] this disease. The vote is requested to cover these payments.

A.K. BISLEY, TEAM. Under Msicellaneous Services,

H.K. BANKS NOTE-ISSUING ORDINANCE

the

At to-day's "meeting of Legislative Council the Attorney General will move an Ordinance to extend for a further period the powers of the Chartered Bank of India, - Australia and China, the

Ward and Remer were ordered sum of $1.000 is requested to cover Hongkong and Shanghai Banking to pay back to the complainants, the expenses of members of the Corporation and Tau Teat, a P. W. D. coolle, and Hongkong Rifle Association Team Kwok Chan, the money alleged selected to represent the... Colony to have been stolen fom them, or at the Imperial Meeting at Bisley.

to undergo three weeks and a

month in prison.

TWO DISCHARGED

Private Arthur David Smith and

DUTCH SUBJECT

FINED

Bank of India, Limited, to make, the Mercantile

The Ordmance will be cited as the Issue, re-issue and circulate notes.

Note-Issuing Banks Extension of Powers Ordinance, 1939.

The legal powers of the banks in Hongkong to issue notes expire Johannes Coenraad Klausz, af on July 12, 1939. It will be neces the Midddlesex Regiment who No. 8. Hart Avenue, a Dutch sub-sary at a future date to revise

Private Alfred Jenkims, also of

had on

the night of June 17ject, was fined $10 by Mr. R. A. D. the conditions on which notes are entered the ground floor of No. Forrest at the Central Court yes-issued, but meanwhile it is desired 14, Shum Chun Street, in com- terday, for failing to report his to enable the banks concerned to pany with Ward and Remer, where departure from the Colony.. carry on as at present, and the they are alleged to have posed as

Defendant went to Shameen, proposed police officers and to have search Canton, and was stated to have provides for the extension from ordinance accordingly ed the persons of four men who sent a letter to the Passport Office time to time to the banks' powers were playing mahjongs, were dia- reporting that he had been in of issue. charged.

Shameen from June 7 to June 15, Ward was accused also of having when he had acteally arrived in assaulted Tsui Tat. but was not the Colony on June 14.

convicted on this charge,

Capt. Marah, “of the Middlesex

"Regiment, who watched the .pro-

son, and the latter $3.95 when

INDIAN MEDICAL

No Change of Policy.

The proposed new ordinance is concerned only with the machinery for the issue of notes and will in

"A Bill to extend for a further period the powers of the Char- tered Bank of India, Australia and China, the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation and the Mercantile Bank of In- dia Limited to make, issue, re- issue and circulate notes."

The Attorney General will move the Second and Third readings of-

"A Bill to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899."..... "A Bill to amend the Telecom- munication Ordinance, 1936."

"A Bill to continue and amend the Sterling Salaries Conversion Ordinance, 1937."

"A. Bill to amend the Naval Volunteer Ordinance, 1933, and provide for Naval Defence."."

"A B to amend the Rating Ordinance, 1901."

"A Bill to amend the Danger- ous Goods Ordinance, 1873,"

A Bill to amend the Pensions Ordinance, 1932.".

A meeting of the Finance Com- mittee will be held immediately after this meeting.

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MAINTENANCE CASE DISMISSED

His Excellency the Commander- Admiral Sir Percy Noble, who left in-Chief of the China Station,

Singapore on Wednesday in HMB

The summons brought against Kent at the conclusion of the Lam Fong-leong, Police Reservist, Anglo-French Far East defence residing at No. 56 Belchers Street, conference, will arrive in Hong: first floor, by La Wah-hing, for kong on Saturday."

Also returning is H E Major-Mr. R. Edwards at the Central maintenance, was dismissed by

Sir Percy Noble will leave for Wethatwel on Monday.

DEPORTATION ORDER

CHARGES Bentence of six months hard

dence did not satisfy him that the His Worship held that the evi-

for that of a "t fat" wife. marriage ceremony was, meant

Chay Yong-yam, mother of the defendant, stated that she arrang ed the union between defendant

and complainant."

no way affect the present arrange./Gen: A. E. Grasett General Oficer Court yesterday. ceedings on behalf of the de- MUSSIONS TO CHINA change value of the Hongkong China, who also took part in the ments for maintaining the ex-Commanding the British Troops tri fendants, submitted that the larceny charge against Ward and

Dr. M. R. Cholkar, Deputy dollar by means of the operations parleys. Remer could not hold, as the Leader of the Indian Medical of the Exchange Fund,

Mission to China, returned to As recently stated, the Hong- former had 21 cents on his per- Hongkong yesterday from Yennan, kong Government has no inten- searched at. Mongkok Folice in North Shens, and is at present tion of making any change in Station.

staying as the guest of Mr. K. B. present policy in that matter or Vaidya at "No. 30, Village Road, of permitting any variation of the They had drawn $1 and $5 on Happy Valley. He will be leav-present level of exchange beyond their pay, respectively, the daying for India on Saturday by ordinary commercial fluctuations, labour was passed on Tang Wing. Association Committee in Shang- At a meeting of the American before, and it could be reasonably s. 8. Conte Blancamano," contended that the money in

The objects and reasons state 32, who was charged with breach hat held this month the following Dr. Cholkar is returning to India that in the case of all three banks of deportation order, when he ap- oficers were elected to serve for their possession was not stolen

on expiry of his term, while Dr. the note-issuing powers expire on peared before Mr. B. A. D. Forrest the next twelve months; Chair- money.

Atal, the leader, and three other July 12 1939. and the object or at the Central Magistracy yesterman, Mr. J. Fistere: Vice-Chair SERVICE RECORDS Indian doctors forming the Mis-this Bill is to extend the period (day. Capt. Marsh stated that Ward slon, are remaining behind in for another twelve months, sub- He was banikhed for 10 years Treas. Mr. J. T. 8. Reed: Hon. man, Mr. R. McMullen; Hon. did not have a good service re- Yennan till the end of the year.ject to a proviso enabling the on June 26, 1935. cord, but that Remer's record was Dr. Cholkar took more than a Legislative Council to further ex- Chim Fim, who was banished lowing were elected to act as Sec. Mr. W. A. Adams. The fol- exemplary. Remner, when ordered month to come down here from tend the period by resolution, in on May 13, 1938 for 10 years was chairmen of sub-committees: to pay - $24.40 compensation to Yennan, and had to travel via the case of any or all of the said sentenced Kwok Chan protested, denying Stan, Chungking, Chengtu, Hal- banks, for any period or periods labour, by Mr. T. J. Houston, at son: American Bchool, Mr. G. to one year's hard Civilan Relief, Mr. P. M. Ander- that he had taken any money phong. He was in China with the not exceeding twelve months at the Central Court yesterday, from Kwok

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