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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1913.

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DAIRY FARM NEWS.

FRESH MILK

No careful mother can afford to use any but Pure Fresh Cow's Milk.

Legislative coUNCIL. at nil events there ja reason to which appears in Government believe we are very shortbanded, estimates strange that the cost We understand that some ro- of resumption of the village aud Debate on the Estimates,

presentation bas been made on onltivated land was omitted. I tho subject, but what form it have referred over and over again Yesterday afternoon after we actually took we are not sure. to the happy-go-lucky manner in had gone to press, the Hon. The question, however, ap which estimates for public worke Colonial Seurotary, in Legislativ peore to va to be one of are yet drawn up, sad this is one Council, move the second rend- ing of the bill entitled "Anreat moment seriously affecting more instance. As I said on a or which may seriously affect, any previous occasion, if anyone Ordinance to apply & sum not one in the Colony. In order to Drried on work as this section of exceeding eight million eight satisfy the community that mat- Government work is carried on hundred and ninety six thousand, tere in this direction are on a they would inevitably be in the eight hundred and seventy Nix

Baby's health is of greater moment than the few dollars to the Public Service for proper footing, we would ask that Bankruptoy Court before very

a small Committee be formed of, lung." They would be glad 2 cents saved in using Tinned or other preserved milk the year 1914." In doing so ha palled attention to an amended, ve Justices of the Peace to have some assurance that within

go into the whole question ns to the next twelve months they The Dairy Farm Milk is Pure and Fresh and con- draft of estimates that bad just the supply of aurees in the Cor woull see Mongkokani complet-tains no preservatives of any kind been laid on the table, containing ernment hospitals, their pay, ed. Maybe extra means had to one or two alterations, and mak-allowances and all other kindred sound for making the area star 66. Dairy Farm

but ing certain allocationslearer,

questions reinting to the efficiency than it was at present, The Hon. Mr E. A. flawett, of this branch of our public they would like to know that the speaking on behalf of the Un-service. The unofficial members official members, dealing with tho question of Opium said that in presa this point very strongly and trust that your Excellency will connection with revenus there

Fre your way to agree to our was an increase of 14 millions request. If not, we would ask of which 13 Jukha are the

that these crearks, which are estimated profit of the now opium fully endorsed by all my enll- monopoly. The gross revenus

eagues, he forwarded to the Secre- therefore atands at abut 9)

tary of State for the Colonies, rs millions. This, of course, for the we believe that such an enquiry moment was very satiefactory, but

as we suggest willashow that there knowing as they did the trend of in need for a change in our nur public feeling at Home, and sing systdin. guessing as they might the pro- bable policy of the Home Govern- ment, they could not look upon

Public Works. Now, we come to Public Works thit very valuable source of the continued. That departmen- revenue derived from the oplum ia, we all know, the largest spend,,

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Summit 68

original scheme would ta com- Good, Clean & Wholesome Milk. SAMPLE COLLAR 40 CTS. pleted some time in 1914.

Concluding, the Hon Mr Hewett criticised "the Public Works

Department in the following THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.

terms.

There was another interesting little work I saw on the table the other day: the Report of the Director of Public Works for last year. In that document I came across the astonishing statement that the roads were maintained in good order throughout the year, I don't think there is any- one outside, certainly no one ontside the Government offices,

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wheal traffic, I do not think that anybody who drives on these roads can agree with the Director of Public Works that they are in thea estisfactory condition. You have

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trade as permanent income, and ing department in the Colourt who has the temerity to say so. must be prepared at very short the expenditure being 287 por The roads are not well maintain- notice to forego this altogether cent, of our total revenue. Flere ed. In parts they are a disgrace That being 10, it was necessary gain there has been a great into any place that calls itself crense salaries, somewhere civilised, and in wet weather they to husband resollrcos.

Among other itamos ho dewsbout $50,000. I will take a are almost impassiblp. It is now Day by lng.. attention to the letting of the old few items I wiel apecially to refer about two years since experi- to first, and then say what I have sta in tar macadem were mado. I think that we had occasion to to say on the department general see that tar macadam has criticise-if it was not lone in at the end. I have already been in force in Europe and was referred to the cost of building Amerios for a great number of the Legislative O nacil it certainly done elsewhere the quartore for subordinate officials, years.

Speaking generally of public manner in which the old Post which, as matters now go, is un-

Σ can only repeat Office was rented for two years to questionably a sound stop to take worke,

more than & Chinese who was able to reap in the interests of the Govern- what I have said on a very large profit because his ment and the Civil Service gener-one occasion in this Council. The And that ally. On page 92 there is a vote view we take is that the work is tonder was accepted.

I know brings up the question of letting of $100,000 for a wireless station for from satisfactory. out work and being rigidly guid. This, as your Excellency is aware, what lay on the sabject will fall

is a matter to which we have more or less on deaf ears, will be A Paving Experiment... 56 ed by tender. amongst business people when Kiven considerable attention for received with acant consideration Chiness Y. M. C. d... 56 tenders to ann some years past-ever since we and less sympathy, and will pro- Appointment calling for ounce that "the highest or any found how efficiently a wireless bably be forgotten before we leave The Atlantique

station could be worked and we this room, but I can assure your Sale of Work.......... 57 teader need not necessarily be accepted," but the Govern- very much regret, and are very Excellency that after many years' ment apparently, I presume, are much disappointed, that another experience in the Colony, and

been allowed to after watching the growth of the are satisfactory, and I traat they required by regulations to accept year has

boing Colony, not only the unofficiel will prove even more so. I hope a tender. The rent for the old pass without Any use Post Office is absolutely ridicul. made of that vote. It was taken members but the general public that here again the Government ous, and should never have been out of the 1913 estimates, and hold the opinion that there is will make representations to the

and again appears in 1914. We room for radical reform. We proper quarter urging on accepted.

trast that you are in a position to have an opportunity only once a construction of the line to Wa- Recognition to Mr. Alabaster give us some assurance that we year of criticising the work of chang, because until weare linked

Coming to the judicial and will

pase Government officials, when the up with Central Asia our line legal department, he said the Un- another, typhoon season without hon. gentleman opposite (the cannot be expected to pay.. official Members thought that a this valuable protection to life Director of Public Works) favours The Hon. Mr Shellim rowly for them. The motor-car has to substantial recognition should be and property tsing installed. us with some renirke which are attention to the fact that the vote wead its way through this slow given to Mr. Alabaster for the The correspondence between the neither convincing nor satisfac-of $2000 passed for provision of traffic and the drivers are very ap compilation of his very valuable Government and the Chamber of tory and the department goes on bathing facilities had not been to be blamed for any acciden work, in the form of a, testimonial Commerce was published in the io aame old slipsbod, happy-gutilised The exceriment of the that might take place. We should Tramway Company had been an bave had enough money to or a fee. He was of the opinion papera this morning, and I am lucky way.

interior ol that Mr. Alabaster should receive only worry I cannot endorse the not less than £500 sterling remark of the Colonial Secretary press upon your Excellency-gested that the Government Mountain Lodge, and we should and that would be a very small that there will be no undue de- and in speaking as I am doing should have the beaches improv-not be in the painful position of amount to pay for such valuable lay in carrying out the work." now I am speaking with the whole ed, the rocks removed and a matteding our Governor living in a

(Continual on page 101 work.,

As long ago na last December the Colony at my back; there is no shed erected as a shelter against Another point to which I wish matter was put in band at Home. doubt about that-the necessity rain.

Onol Extension.

for improving the unsatisfactory The outstanding feature of the to refer, said Mr. Hewett, is that of the burees in the Govern- The question of gnol extension work of this department. More Hon. Mr D. Landale's speech was ment hospitals. It is generally an was an old question, and it was use should be made of the Public the reference to raising short lcaos admitted that where possible perhaps almost too late to speak Work Committes. That is formed for public works.

In opening, however, he drew trained pursos abould be sub-of the removal of the Gaol. Still, of experienced business men who stituted for the old-fashioned the question needed the serious have had a great deal of practical attention to the Public Work hospital attendant, generally a consideration of the Government experience, not only in Hongkong Committee, to which he had been man, and often an intirely un- and the removal of the site to the but elsewhere. That brings me appointed on taking a seat on the

THE trained one, with which we had outskirts or Kowloon would be to the delay of many public works Concil. As far as he knew, it Thore rarely, if ever, met and it had to satisfy ourselves, oven a few far better than allowing the pre-of which I have spoken. years ago. This policy has been sont building to exist in a badly is the erection of the wireless never been consulted regarding endorsed by successive Secretaries overorowed state. The site of the station. I admit that that is not the very large expenditure on From

and JAPAN. of State and encouragment has old goal would prove very valu-the fault of the local Government public works which were proposed

The above steamer having ar- Still that work should baby the budget. been given by the Colonial Office able to the Government.

Then three was the Tytam carried out at once. We are After remarking that the centre rived. Consignees of cargo are for some years past to extend the use of trained nurses in our reservoir scheme. The or called upon to spend large sums of the town was no place for a hereby notified to send in their hospitals abroad. In view of the iginal estimate was little for the Tytan reservoir. Certain gaol, and suggesting its removal Bill of Lading for countersigna- the outskirts. or Kow ture, and to take immediate delivery of cargo from alongside. number of hospitals, now in over $2,000,000. It had now works recommended by the to

Cargo impeding discharge or existence in the Colony, the been increased by very nearly Sanitary Board could not be pro-loon, the hon. member said

The question of raising loans remaining on board after 3 pm, number of nurses at present eug-four lakhs, making $2,400,000 ia ceeded with because we had not aged by the local Government The sum spent on this work laat sufficient funds to carry them for the Public Works Department 23rd inst. will be landed at Cou Poems to be altogether inadequate. year was disappointingly small, out, and there is still a large sum has also been mentioned by the signees risk and exponse and The result of working shorthand-and only $400,000 is put down to be spent on the typhoon refuge, hon. member of the Chamber of delivery must then be taken from

I am very strongly the hazardous and/or extra hazar- ed is that the nurses are often to be apent this year. They did I consider it would be cheaper if Commerce. subjected to an undue strain not feet satisfied in their own a great deal of this work was of opinion that this is the only dous Godowns of the Hongkong owing to long hours, having minda that this work could not be carried on and paid for by short fair and business-like way of and Kowloon Wharf and Godown to attend to too large a pushed on more quickly. Only a loans raised for Ive or seven yeare financing the many works which Co., Ltd.

No Fire Insurance whatever number of patients at one few years ago they suffered from a by the Government, It would be are contemplated in this Budget, will be effected.

No claim will be recognised time and with entirely too little serious water famine, and they better to press on promptly instead such as the wireless telegraphy opportunity for the rest and re- thought that no steps should be of dawdling along. With regard installation, which I am sure will after the goods have left the creation which is so necessary to omitted in pushing forward the to the Post Office, all I have be very shortly commenced, the steamer orDodowns and all goods women engaged in so arduous completion of this work at the to say is that the irregu gaol extension, the waterworks, remaining undelivered on 29th which the and the typhoon refuge. If this inst at 6 pm. will be subject to and important a profession, while earliest possible moment. They lar manner lu we understand is is not infre- would also be glad to know Siberian, mail arrives is really method of financing these works rent.

All chafed and otherwise dam quently the case that a nurse "on-when a commencement will unsatisfactory, I don't: kadn were adopted, we should be in a gaged in maternity cases has at he made collecting water for exactly where the fault lies, but I very much batter position. It aged cargo must be left on board the same time to attend to other this reservoir, because once com- trust that the matter having been would hardly have been necessary or in Godown and examination of patients. The matter has recent pleted it would take many years referred to hero; the Government to lary the liquor taxes at been much disonased in to fill. The question specially will again maks representations all. I alwaye understood that private circles and the unofficial refered to by His Excellency a to the Secretary of State calling they were originally levied in members are aware that consider fortnight ago was the cost of this attention to the improvement order to replace the opium able feeling is felt in certain work." "It certainly app red to which might and ought to be revenue, which we suppose will quarters the whatever may haus-I would not say surprising, malo to this tarvica With re-shortly be loat to the Colony. We happening other departments because, speaking for myself, I got to be Kowloon-Canton rail- would have sufficient money to re- of the Government service; here am not surprised at anything way, the accounts put before us pair the roads which are open to Hongkong, 33rd Oct., 1913. [984

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