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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 30, 1916.

FINANCIAL MINUTES.--The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 8 to 12, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee:-

No. 8.---Lighthouses, Installation of an Aga Light at Cape

Collinson,

No. 9.--Peak School, Furniture for Quarters,

$

1,325.39. 814.00.

No. 10.--Public Works, Extraordinary, Telephone Cable

across the Harbour,....

7,500.00.

13,306.81.

No. 11.-Fire Brigade, Motor Fire Engine and Pump, No. 12.--Public Works, Extraordinary, Wireless Tele-

graph Station,

1,457,55.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question put and agreed to.

QUESTION. Mr. POLLOCK, pursuant to notice, asked the following question :-

Will the Government provide, at an early date, the same facilities to the public

for bathing at North Point and West Point as last year 2

The Colonial Secretary replied.

QUESTIONS. Mr. HOLYOAK, pursuant to notice, asked the following questions:

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1. Will the Government state whether the registration in Hongkong of any German trade marks has been renewed since the outbreak of War?

2. Assuming that the registration of any such trade marks has been renewed, will the Government state what firms have been granted renewals and whether instructions will now be given for the cancellation of any such renewals?

3. Will the Government give instructions that all German trade marks registered in this Colony shall be cancelled, or at any rate that no further renewals of the registration therefor shall be granted during the present War?

The Colonial Secretary replied.

SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION BILL.The Colonial Secretary addressed the Councie and moved the First reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to authorize the Appro- priation of a Supplementary Sum of Three millions nine hundred and forty-seven thousand and twenty-seven Dollars and forty-one Cents, to defray the Charges of the year 1915.

The Colonial Treasurer seconded.

Question--put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

ALIEN ENEMIES. (WINDING UP) Amendment BILL.The Attorney General moved thl First reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend further the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinance, 1914.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

TRADING WITH THE ENEMY AMENDMENT BILL.The Attorney General moved the First reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend further the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question-put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.

PHARMACY AND POISONS BILL.-The Attorney General moved the First reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and to the Regulation of the Sale and Use of Poisons.

The Colonial Secretary seconded.

Question--put and agreed to.

Bill read a first time.