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69026 A#NKE+A¤+X## TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23. 1919.

TO-DAY'S COUNCIL MEETING.

DEFENCE CORPS ORDINANCE REPEALED. the regulations that were import

VOLUNTARY SERVICE TO BE DEALT WITH BY SPECIAL

COMMITTEE.

GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE OVER POLICE DISCONTENT. At present all he was at liberty

GOVERNOR AND MR. POLLOCK AT VARIANCE

The Hon. Mr. Claud Severn, CIM.G. Colonial Secretary,

The Hon. Mr. J.H. Kemp. C.B.E., Attorney General.

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The dissatisfaction amongst the the new members of the Police Force was evidenced by a case which was brought by the Captain) Superintendent of Police to the notice of Mr. J. R. Wood at the Police Court to-day, when P. C. (81) Denis Lavender, attached to the West Point Police, was charged with insubordination by refusing to go on duty.

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present the men who had return owing to any misrepresentation to answer without notice, but with POLICE TROUBLE. ed from active service. He or misunderstanding the Govern- | all due deference that observation thought that such a represent-meat was willing to repatriate | did not apply to his question. It ative committee as that would be them if necessary. Thereupon would surely be quite easy to able to produce regulations that 12 man expressed their desire to answer at once whether or not would be satisfactory, for it was be repatriated, and unless there | cɔmmunication had been made to is some change in the situation the Secretary of State by telegram ant. The regulations of the old in the interval which must upon that alleged offer made to Defence Corps were drawn up necessarily elapse before passages the recruits when the left Home. with great care and they were can be secured the men will be In asking that question he was taken from the Territorial Force given the opportunity of return-following the well-known practice regulations. They had beening home.

not only of this Colony but also found very suitable and he was -When all the men applied | of the House of Commous. sure they would be well suited to for have arrived and men who His Excellency said that with any Volunteer Corps whatever. went home to serve in His regard to the practice in this Forces return the Colony he confessed he spoke Majesty's to bay was that he should recom- Police Force should be in a merely from his knowledge of the mend that the number of drills fair position to deal with the les as they stood. If it bad should be reduced and also the increase in crimes of violence, bren the custom to ignore those

His Excellency the Governor nuraber of days in Camp. He Should it however be found rules he submitted that it was

last evening entertained Vice- could not conclude without once that the force requires fur-time that that custom was

Admiral Saturo Horiuchi, I.J.N., more thanking the old Defence ther strengthening the necessary abolished. The Hon. Member Mr. Wolfe said The facts to dinner at Government House. Corps for their magnificent increases will be recommended had made a reference to the are "that the defendant was The other guests present were:→→→ A meeting of the Legislatives $2,750.50 in aid of the vote services in the past and he trusted forthwith to the Sacratary of practice in the House of Com- brought to a defaulters' parade H.E. Major-General F. Ventris, Council was held in the Council Miscellaneous Services, Furniture that when the first parade of the State. The number of mea (1) mons but there were many things and I had reason yesterday C.B.; Captain J. A. Willcor, Chamber to-day when those for Lysbolt, The Peak: new corpe was held he should on point duty (2) on patrol duty, in the House of Commons that morning to Sae him for being AD.C.; Commodore V. G. Gurner, Furniture. $2,675.50; valuers see not only most of the old is being increased as new man were not followed here. That he absent from duty on Saturday RN. Pay Lieut. Com. A -present were :---

Governot (Sir fee, $75. H. E. the

faces but many more of men arrive and has been increased thought was one of them. He night and being drunk. Holbora, OBE. R.N.; Captain Edward Stubbs, $6,000 in aid of the vote Public who had returned to the Colony since the beginning of the year. hid had experience of other I fined Reginald..

him $5 and also Shosaku Harada, IJ.N., HLJ Works.

3.-In * K.Č.M.G.) presiding.

Extraordinary. Hong-since the war. There were many

the Estimates for Colonies and in no case, to his made an order that he should not M.S. Adzuma; Eng. Capt. Tekino. H.E. the General Officer Com-kong. Lugard Road Extension, who had returned above the age 1919, 160 Europeans were provid-knowledge, were supplementary be put on special duty for which Kawakami, 1. J. N., HIJ. MS,

for: $4,000 in aid of the vote Fublic of 21 or 22 who would really beled

On Troops (Major-

22nd. Decem- qüestions taken at the meeting. he usually got a little extra Tokiwa; Lieut. manding the

Com 8. 1919, the General F. Vertris).

Works, Extraordinary, Hong-trained men and who would not ber,

European

money, as I considered him to be Shimada, I. J. N.; Flag Lieut. HOUSING SCHEMES, 163 exclusive of kong, road contouring Mt. Gough require any recruit training at strength was

unfitted to be trusted with special Tatsuo Matsuoka, I. J. N.; The Hon. Mr. Pollock gave duty of that kind. from Findlay Road to Gough Hill all, but there was certain the two officers who have died

The next I Capt. J. W. Carrington, D.3.0, Road.

number of younger men who had within the last week. The nur-tice that at the next meeting of heard of him was when I was R.N., H.M.S. Carlisle; Com, C. reached the age of twenty since bar of European Police provided the Council he intended to move rung up about six o'clock in the P. Talbot. D.S.O., RN, H.M.S. the armistice and those were the for in the 1993 Estimates is 183.the following two Resolutions, erening yesterday by Inspector Ambrose; Com. R.B. McCowan, Macdonald, who informed. the D.S.O., RN, H.M.S. Alacrity; men he would like to see as Forty-eight European recruits amely

1. That, with a view to giving that the defendant had gone Lieut. Cel. F.H. Griffiths, RM, recruits. He was quite sure that have been engaged in England they would not hang back when during the year, of whom 23 have facilities for commercial expan- round to the charge room and they saw their seniorsjoining up. arrived and 13 have not yet sion, a Committee of the Legisla definitely informed him that he

to success the arrived. Ter recruits are at pre-tive Council be appointed, consist refused to do any more duty. new Corps. (Hear, hear and sent on their way to Hongkong,ig of His Excellency the General I instructed Inspector Mac. applause).

baring just lef: Victoria. B. C. Oficer Commanding and two donald to tell him that it was Oncial and three Unofficial accompanied by 2 European

a serious matter to refuse to go Police Officers just released from

Members of the

Legislative on duty and. would bring Counell, for the purpose of con- him before your Worship unless military duty.

Of the 168 on the strength on sidering and reporting to this he did his duty in the ordinary 22nd December, 1919, 3 are on Council upon the resumption by manner. At midnight last night leave, 8 are still on Active Sarthe Hongkong Government of the he came down to the charge room rice and 2 are on their wey from Military Establishments on the and informed Inspector Mac- Victoria as stated above. There Queen's Road and the terms and are 155 in the Colony at present. conditions of such resumption. In this connection it should also

2. That, the various Housing be noted that the Indian force Schemes for different sections of has been brought up to strength, the community in various dis being only 2 below the 1919 tricts of the Colony be now re- Chinese Police over and above Public Works Committee of the the number provided for in the Legislative Council, with power to 1919 Estimates which provide for thas Committee to make suggest ions as to the carrying out and 412 Chinese Police.

4.This has already been re-financing of such schemes and as cognized and the necessary re

the improvement of the commendations have been made, methods of communication with They are now awaiting the the outlying districts which are approval of the Secretary of sought to be developed by such State.

schemes. 5-£7,270 including all ranks of Europeans excepting Superin tendents.

The Hon. Mr. C. Mc I. Messer. O.B.E., Colonial Treasurer.

The Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax. O.B.E.. Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

The Hon. MF. W. Chatham. C.M.G. Director of Public Works. The Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Capt. Superintendent of Police.

The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock. E. C.

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The Hon. Mr. E. V. D. Parr. The Hon. Mr. R. G. Shewan. The Hon. Mr. J. Johnstone. The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak. The Hon. Mr. Ho Fook.

Mr. J.A.E. Bullock. acting

Clerk of Councils.

FINANCIAL,

REPEAL OF MILITARY SERVICE

ORDINANCES.

The first reading was moved of Bill intituled An Ordinance, to repesi the Military Service Ordinance 1917. and the General Military Service Ordinance, 1918.

He wished

The Bill was read through all its stages and passed.

The main object of this Bill is to abolish compulsory service for local defence, the necessity for

POLICE MATTERS.. which has now passed. The Bill The Hon. Mr. John Jchnstone also proposes to repeal the asked the following questions Ordinance which introduced 1. Will the Government give compulsory enrolment for service any information regarding the outside the Colony. When the Bill present dispute concerning the becomes law those members of the ray of certain recently arrived Hongkong Defence Corps who Eiropeans for the Police Force? were formerly members of the 2. In view of the recent armed Hongkong Volunteer Force or robberies and acts of violence Hongkong Volunteer Reserve will committed in the heart of the

Amongst the financial minutes referred to the Finance Committee revert automatically to their City do the Government consider Estimate of 481. There are 73ferred by the Government to the were the following:-

other charges, iron bunks.

allowance on salaries.

also

to

Hon. Mr. J.H. Kemp, K.C., C.B.E., Hon. Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G. Hoa. Mr. C. Mel. Messer, O.B.E Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. E.R. Hallifax, OSE. Hon. Mr. N.J. Stabb, O.B.E; Captain B.N. Taylour; RN.; Mr. E. Suzuki, Mr. S. Yasuda, Mr. T. Inouye, Lieut. Com. Shichiro Miyoshi, I.J.N., Mr. AE. Wood, Mr. R.AC. North.

After dinner. His Excellency donald that he was still of the gave an entertainment in the Ball same opinion, that he still Boom for the Officers and Mid- declined to perform his duty. shipmen of H. L. J. M. S. Tokiwa I then had him put on the charge and H. 1. J. M. S. Adzuna. sheet.

His Worship:-The charge against you, Denis Lavender, is that you last night at midnight refused to go on patrol duty. therefore misconducting your self as a constable. You plead guilty or not guilty? .

your

DAY BY DAY.

At the Choral Eucharist at St. John's Cathedral at 7.45 am on Defendant: Guilty,

Christmas Day, Adeste Fideles Worship. All I should wish to will be sung during the procession say is that if I was not in a fit and introit. The Kyrie and condition to do special duty. Sanctus will be from Stanford in was not in a fit, condition to go B flat and the service Merbecke. on patrol duty.

His Worship:-Your explana- tion does not improve your posi-

6 and 7.-In view of the answer Finance Committee, His Excell. tion at all. It seems to me you Committee of the Hongkong

$1.925 in aid of the vote Fo ice former status and ranks in those the present Police Force (includ. bodies, but the Ordinances ing the recently joined members) and Prison Departments, Police, relating to those two bodies of sufficient strength to adequate will require revision and itly deal with same either (1) by $2,000 in aid of the vote Public is proposed to introduce legisla-increasing the number on point: Works. Extraordinary. Hong-

tion for that purpose as soon as duty or (2) patrol duty? latrine in possible. kong: erection of a

Simultaneously with 3. If, as seems reasonable in Duddell Street.

the coming into operation of this view of recent events, the reply $5,000 in aid of the vote Public Bill it is proposed to issue a

the Works,

to question No. 2 is in Extraordinary, Hong proclamation cancelling the call-negative, will the Government kong, miscellaneous water works.

GREETINGS AND FAREWELL $240,000 on account of Mis-ng out of the Volunteer Corps give any information regarding for actual military service the steps to be taken or which cellaneous Services, special and

On the resumption of the

At a meeting of the General 3 proclamation have already been taken to in-

Council at the conclusion of the cancelling the enrolment crease the numbers of the Euro- $69,250 in aid of the following of the members of the Volunteer pean Police Force ?.

to question 4 questions 6 and 7 votesMiscellaneous Services: Reserve 1.5 members of the

do not arise. I would add, how. ency the Governor wished all the have been seriously insubordinate Boxing Association held on the

You are

22ad inst., Sir William Res 4. In view of the greatly in-

to your superiors. New Government Offices-Volunteer Force, so that mem-creased cost of living in this ever, that, if the Council agrees,

members a merry Christmas and a electric fans and light, $2,400;bers of those two bodies will Colony as elsewhere in the world the Government proposes pend- happy New Year. He also referred sentenced to one month's' im- Davies in the chair, it was with hard labour. I decided to hand the sum of £100 prisonm-nt Lifts maintenance. $350. Print-

to the fact that the Council-was revert to their former peace will the Government consider the ing the receipt of the Secretary losing the Hon. Mr. Shewan at [We learn that F. C. Lavender to the Captain Superintendent of BindingMiscellan-status. These proclamations will ing and eous papers, $8,000; Ordinances.take effect from and after the advisability of & substantial in. of State's decision to pay all the end of the year, after having joined on the 27th June last and Police to be forwarded by him to Regulations, and Reports, $500 31st day of December, 1919.

crease in the pay of the N.C.O. European Police Constables the been a meme year, consider was one of those who applied the widow of the late Warder

Speed. stationery, $18,000; transport of

period on and off. He regretted and men on the European Branch present maximum salary of that. In introducing the first read- of the Force? Government Servants, $40,000.

grade as from the 1st. of January that his own experience of Mr. England in consequence of the ing. His Excellency said that he

The Hon. Mr. Pollock said that 5. What would an increase of

Last night the annual Christ- $27,500 in aid of the vote bed explained in his remarks to 30% on these men's salaries cost arising out of question 1 he would Shewan was not very long but dissatisfaction they felt in regard

to the matter of pay. He is alleged mas draw took place at the Kow- the Defence Corps on parade that the Government?

like to ask a supplementary ques-

from the debates he had read be noticed that Mr. Shewan had to have given the Captain Super-loon Cricket Club. The number tion, this being whether the Government has communicated

been of great assistance to his intendent of Police his promise of tickets sold, about 1,700, was in enjoyed Mr. Shewan's vigorous others, pending the settlement of whilst the prizes numbered shout remarks on many occasions. He the pay question. He bas denied 400 and included turkeys, suck- thanked Mr. Shewan for his that he ever gave such promise, ing pigs, hampers, Christmas and we learn from him that he puddings, cigare and cigarettes, great assistance to the Council.

a and many other seasonabis com- Replying, Mr. Shewan said had been nearly four years that he was retiring because he prisoner of war in Germany and had reached an age when he was one of those who experienced ought to a younger the unpleasant attentions of the Huns following a refusal to manu-. facture munitions intended for

Public Works, Extraordinary Hongkong, Communications,

for

passage

back

to

Tytam Gap to Shaukiwan, imthe auxiliary forces of the Colony 4 is in the negative, will the with the Secretary of State with predecessors and all must have of good behaviour, together with excess of any previous year,

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it was intended to reconstitute 6. If the reply to question No.

a view to ascertaining whether

proving existing road.

$2,986.37 in aid of the vote and in order that things might be ation of a committee to enquire on a voluntary basis as before, Government consent to the form- Kowloon-Canton Railway, special

arranged satisfactorily it was into the matter, and

any promise was made to the expenditure, grinding machine

proposed that a new Bill should for workshop.

7. Will they appoint as mem-police recruits of an increase on $40,000 in aid of the vote Public be introduced early next year bers of that committee two or their arrival here.

and that meanwhile steps should more civilians whose knowledge

His Excellency the Governor Works, Recurrent, Hongkong, be taken to consider in what way of the position by reason of their said that it was the practice in Water Works, maintenance of the new organisation should be employment of considerable num.1 that Council that notice must be

$12,660 in aid of the vote Police point & Committee for the drafting fits them to give authoritativa to ask the Hon. member to give man. He believed there was a

City and Hill District.

works, $800:

were

notice.

great future in front of Hongkong and be referred particularly to use against British troops]. the need for the Canton-Hankow Railway.

His Excellency said that that. vers, important matter was not being lost sight of..

The Council then rose.

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and Prison Departments-Pes of that Bill and the General advice on the subject! sages and bonuses in liep of Officer Commanding (Major Gen-

The following answers

Later in the Council meeting passages.

eral Ventris) had agreed to pre- given by the

Mr. Pollock again raised the point, $4,000 in aid of the following side.

Hon. Colonial The Attorney votes:-Public Works, Recurrent, would assist him in drafting the

General Secretary:-

saying he would like to raise the matter on a point of order. His Kowloon Maintenance of Water measure and the Commandant of

1.A number of recruits who Excellency the Governor had just Works, $3,000: Water Account, the Defence Corps, had agreed to arrived recently represented to

Dow made an observation with

Plantation Road, it was extremely (Meters, &c.), $1,000.

work on the Committee. Repre- the Government that on signing regard to the practice of the

improbable that that the existing $3,800 in aid of the following sentatives of officers and the rank their agreements they were pro- Council in regard to questions-

nuisance would be remedied if the votes: Public Works, Recurrent, and file would also be appointed. mised in some cases a substantial, notice being given of questions to

convenience were located on New Territories: Typhoon and He thought that the Committee in others a 450 increase, over be put. He did not for a moment

The following report of a meet-either of them. He mentioned Rainstorm Dameges,

$3.000 would be competed by representa- and above the amount of salary dispute that that was so by the ing of the Public Works Com- that trough-closete existed in Maintenance of Laichikak Water- tives from the employers, whom stated in their agreements and regulations of the Colony but it mittee held on November 14 was several parts of the City, in he had asked the Chamber of that they were further informed was the practice in the past, laid on the table--The Chairman proximity to houses of a superior $13,700 in aid of the following Commerce to nominate. A Cora that such increase if not already and it was also a well-known submitted plans showing the class, occupied by Europeans, and tes-Kowloon-Canton Rail- mittee formed on that line would, approved would be approved by practice in the House of levels of the roads in the vicinity no complaint with regard to these y-Locomotive, carriage, and

he might hope, draft a voluntary the time they arrived in the Commone, for members to be of Barker Road Station and had reached him. Mr. Alabaster 4gon expenses, coal $13,000 Ordinance most suitable for the Colony. On arrival they found allowed to ask questions arising the position in which it was pro stated that he had not realised, weanling Branch Line, coal, $700.

that the question of the proposed out of answers. He was not posed by Government to con- from the plan submitted to the *$4,000 in aid of the vote Fublic requirements of the Colony.

The first reading was agreed increase. in salaries was speaking without some ex-struct the convenience. The Sanitary Board, that the site Yorks, Recurrent, Kowloon,

still under consideration perience of the Legislative position was on the hillside im- proposed by the Government was Hyphoon and rainstorm damages.

and it is net settled Council of this Colony when mediately to the north of the in the position which had been $3,500 in aid of the vote Public On the second reading Major yet. In reply to their represente making that remark. He frat Station and below the level of explained He therefore with- orks. Extraordinary, Kowloon, General Ventris said that he tions they were informed that a took his seat in the Council as Plantation Road, the roof of the drew his opposition to the P.. scellaneous drainage works. might be expected to say a few substantial increase had been Attorney General so far ago as proposed structure Boing about proposal. It was unanimously $900 in aid of the vote Public words on a Bill of that kind. The recommended to the Secretary of February 1896, over 23 years ago, level with the road. With regard to agreed to recommend that the Works Extraordinary, Hong- Bill itself was nothing, but it was State but that no payment of in- and since then for over two-thirds the two sites suggested by the Sub construction of the convenience tong, additions and alterations to on the future that he wished to creased salaries could be made un-of his time he had been either an Committee of the Sanitary Board in the position proposed by Gov- Shaukiwan Police Station.

say a few words.

He would til the Secretary of State's appro- official or an unofficial member in their report dated the 14th ernment be proceeded with a $3,000 in aid of the vote Police ask permission to add one more val had been received. However if of the Council He quite August, 1919, he explained that resolution approving the and Prison Departments, subsis-member to the Committee and any men considered that they, realised that some cupplementary owing to their distance from the erection of this convenience was tance of prisoners.

Ithat would be a member to re- 'had been brought out to the Colony questions might be difficult Station and the steepness of adopted by the Council

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