1921-10-27 — Page 1

Columbia Batteries

TO-DAY'S

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ANDERSON MEERA (ZATO

BUDGET

The

Hongkong Telegraph

FOUNDED THEY

No. 12,741

MEETING.

NO NEW TAXATION,

OVER SIX-AND-A-HALF MILLIONS. FOR PUBLIC WORKS.

Record Revenue and Expenditure.

General Financial Situation Reviewed.

service of the year 1922.*

A: the meeting of the Legislative Council held this afternoo His Excellency the Governor delivered the annual Budget Speech on the first reading of the Supply Bill for 1922 Rill intituled a Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding $16,450,131 to the public

At to-day's meeting the Bill was on formally moved and seconded and His Excellency addressed the Council. The second reading and the discussion of the measure the Unofficial Meters will take place at a subsequent meeting Main Features of the Budget.

$ 4,430.266

.16,590,519 16,111,990

1921

Estimated Revenue next year

Estimated Expenditure next year

4.968,795 17,276,280 20.207,980

Estimated deficit on the year's working for

1922 which will have to be provided for out of the credit balance in the bands of the Government

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under the bead of " Personal Emoluments" and also by a big sebem.tion of persons who evade the lies. A number of public work, the vote for Public Works by \ needed improvements in the under Item-107 is-an-afse-native -

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Under "Waterworks” procision is made for two small schemes at Taipo and Fanling both of which should prove remunerative.

Treasury.

Prison Department. The staff of Engineers has been completing the road to Victoria this under items 74 (a) and 15 (a). It is also proposed to spand a The staff at the Treasury has! A new post of Warder in increased in order to cope with Gap.

liem (g) provides a sum for sum of $100,000 improving the been slightly increased to cope charge of the Printing Shop has the many important works in with the additional work, and been included in the Prison hand and contamplated, and beginning the 100 fost road from surface of the existing main Under the beading “water- there is considerable increase Estimates, with the object of think it will be conceded, when Causeway Bay to North Point, roads, in the clerical salaries owing to eliminating waste, saving time, we come to consider the Publie but it in probable that the large

Works Extraordinary programme amount of filling required for re-works" provision is made for and generally increasing the

the

sites recently improving the distribution of eficiency of the Shop. This ap-for next year, that the increase claiming

is fully justified. Two items of sold at North Point will | water in Kowloon. Harbour Master's Department pointment was recommanded in

obtained

·As regards the New Territories. expenditure of $19 000 and $10,000 be In the Harbour Master's Do- valuable report made by the bave been inserted under Other extent from the route of this road under which heading New Kow- partment, a few additional posts late Mr. E. J. Naronia, $30,000 have been found necessary, and has also been inserted under Charges, in connection with the and the heavy cost of making is loon is included, it is hoped to mako à start with the gaol at it is anticipated that the revenue Special Expenditure og page 47overnment Quarry for upkeep will thus be reduced.

of Quarry Plant and Quarry Item (b) is for very necessary Ngan Shi-wan and to build■ will be increased thereby: In for the purebas- of a new in Stores. The increase in the widening of the road at Shanki- Police Station at Shatin, a new this department, the rotes under launch for use in connection

amount provided for Publicwan. Ham (i) in a 10 foot road Public Works Bungalow at Tripo Other Charges for Coal. Repairs with the Lai Chi Kok Prison Warks Recurrant is small, but as a level of about 800 feet which chiefly for the use of surveyors, and Stores for Lacoches have The old launch "V.G1" TU

I hope will be found ancient. will join the Peak Road at a and other buildings as set out in The total sum provided for rather lower level and eventually Items 94, 95 and 97. I would teen increased by the transfer to condamned and sold, and for ap the vote of ampants previously proximately five months of this paid by the Medical and Pri-on year the Department has paid for Public Works Extraordinary is connect with the road to be begun mention specialty Item 92 which Departments in connection with the hire of & launch, bat it is $6,611,300 no increase on the under Itam (m). It is expected provides for reconstructing three their launches. The Harbour proposed to purchase a

new arimate for the present year of that these roads will open up of the sheds at Lai Chi Kok at present used as a gaol, sa it is Department will for the future launch in 1932 which will be $1,643,900. The vote for this year old building shes.

Item (j) provides for widening considered that the present sheds take charge of the running of specially designed for the accom was far larger than any vote for

The Disphone Fog Signalling these launches, and it is expect modation of prisoners, and will Public Works in previous years, and improving curves on Victoria would be unsafe in a typhoon. ed that greater efficiency will be essential when the new gaolo that Honourable Members will Road.

Item (t). This road will have | Installation at Waglan Island on has further at Ngau Shi Wan is completed. [be able to gauge the extent to

which the rapid development of the effect of opening Conduit the Canadian model should prose His Excellency's speech is given fully below, the main points result. Provision

been made under special expen-

Medical Department.

of great value to shipping. Road to wheeled traffic. the Colony is making it necessary of which may be summarised as follows:-

diture for the purchase of a new

Item (1) is really a new work Under roads the principat Under the Medical Department, to spend sums on roads, buildings. The Credit Balance on December 31st, 1920 was

launch for the Department to Estimated Revenue for the Current Year

replace H.D.2" and for making sums have been included pader reclamations and water works 25 none of the money voted for work is the continuation of the Emoluments, Other that were andreamt of a few this year has been spent. It is surfacing of the main road from Estimated Expenditure for the Current Year

certain changes in the lights a Personal Estimated balance of assets on December 31.

Green Island Gap Rock and Charges and Special Expenditure years ago. Many works that are proposed to begin a road from Lai Chi Kok to Castle Peak and Waglag.

in connection with the new Du- desirable, though not very argent, Wanchai Gap along the south falpo.

Items 102 and 105 (a) and (b) Patients Department at the Gov-ave bad to be dropped for the side of Mount Cameron where Imports and Exports Office. erament Civil Hospital. A sum present. I would mention in building sites are being applied described as the Kowloon Tong

for.

Development Scheme relate to a In the Imports and Exportsf $25,000 was provided in 1921 particular

Item (o) is required for a road targe boosing scheme, which has Department provision has been Estimates for the construction of Wanchai

be to give access to sites already been under consideration for some 2,931,720

made for additional staff, in-the building: and it is anticipat- which

time. It has been decided that Item (p) is for a road in front the best method of carryir"-"he The rerenus for the current year will be, roughly, a million and cluding four additional Revenue ed that this Department will be proceeded with before long as the sold on Victoris Road a quarter more than it was expected to be and the expenditure about Officers and ten Chinese Revenue working during part of next year. construction of houses on the pew

launch The increased cost of medical ap-road in the vicinity of Wanchai of building sites on the side of scheme into effect is for th

ernment to d the work a million and a quarter less than was expected. Instead of spend. Officers.

Item (q) provides for making ling and draining the ar ing neatly five million on public works this year it is expected that attached to this Department is by pliances and of materials gen-Gap and on Mount Cameron pro- the ridge in the Happy Valley.

ал exchange with the Police erally accounts for the increase ceeds. It is recognised that use

other charges on the ful in many ways as the road to the roadway in Queen's Road sell the land to a comp the sum will be $3,307,500.

East as resumptions become under certain . rest the Hill District will be, cheap The increased reveone expected next year is largely due to land Department, being replaced by a under

arrange for the sales. which includes the large sum recently realised on the Old Post motor launch, which will cost the Medical Department.

Sanitary Department. and rapid transit at regular in-possible,

Item (*) is required in accord-houses. The road prob tervals is necessary to a central Office site. It is also expected to get more money from Assessed Department less to run. Purchas taxes, liquor duties, stamp duties, tobacco duties, postage, railway, of Raw Opium is estimated at rents, interest, and conservancy contracts. Less money is expected $150,000 less than in 1921. Under total increase of $15,922 resulis point. Ae, however, no defalte ace with covenants entered into under item 101 (1) will give »

Under Item 104 a work, and the method of working wood Road with the road from next year from the Opium Monopoly. Small decreases are expected other charges a sum of $1,000 has from the additional staff required plans have been prepared for this to connect the houses da Broad-to the area from Kowloon. from China (ompanies Fees, engagement and discharge of seamen The Superintendent expects by eirs and the consequent extan

been included for liquor labels to cope with the increase of the the tramway has not been decided Morrison Cap, to Wanchai and $200,000 is provided for continuing

Yong-nel-chong Gaps.

the reclamation at Sham Shui-po. and Sunday cargo working permits.

Item (t) provides for much The refuse dump ref-rred to The increased expenditure next year, is largely accounted fo-this system to simplify the detection of the Department's scris, it is decessary to increase have been included in Public 5m which will probably not be

alignment of the ro de mention-method of dispo ing of refuse to of public works. No less a sum than $6,611,300 has been set asid. liquor duties.

ispert.

that of dumping at sea, which Miscellaneous Services. Works Extraordinary on beball; for public work-which easily constitutes a record for the Colony.

The greater portion of the whole Item ( is for raising and has certain disadvantages. The lo: the Department. e... Bath-į Most of this sum will be spent on concluding works already in band,

Under Miscellaneous Services i

Dustations, Cattle sum to be vored is absorbed by paving the Prays at Kennedy dump will eventually when con- but there is promised more government quarters on Leighton Hill.

The works already in progress, acc Town where it has sunk below solidated form a valuable reclam- the beginning of a new building for Saigingpun School, a sma on paz 30. Honourable Members Deper and small markets.

works for the proper level.

ation. bungalow for Government House, first expenditure under a schem will find the following changes of Department also requires a new need only reter to

Under "Drainase" provision is to remove Queen's College from ita present site to a larger site or importance. $1.700 has been added:am launch and refuse juuks bich provision is now made for

have been inserted the first time.

Io Hongkong made for completing the sewer Caroline Hill, a new market for Causeway Bay, a ministure ria to the Bathing Beaches vote to which

from Wanchai Gap to the sa range for the Volunteer Headquarters, various important road im-provide for the additional heachas items of Special Expenditure: under the heading Builli ge provements, a new cattle and wine depot at Yanmath extension of a Stonecutters. The vote for the all of which entail a farther in-Item 3 has been increased to near Aberdeen and for drainage the Kawloon Fire Station, an underground chamber at the Obser University is made up of the cresse of stati and of certain provide for six more houses on on the road to Wanchai Gap and vatory, the development of Kowloon Tong and many other minor annual grant of $50.000, 8,000 votes under other charges, e.g. Leighton Hill in two blocks of Repulse Bay Toe last named

Under Post Office, provision works. The expenditure on roads, as will be seen below, will be interest at 6 per cent. on the out. Fuel. Coal, Light, Disinfectants. three each. Item 4 has been in work will be paid for by leases!

standing balance of $600,00 cf

creased to provide more accom- of land.

has been made for the morgan- Botanical and Forestry particularly heavy.

the Government contribution and

modation that was originally in- Under Miscellaneous Worke, isation of the staff of the Caps Department. Further instalment of $100,000 |

tended. Item 10 provides a auItem 25 is fo the construction of d'Aguilar Wireless Station_on Conservancy Contracts 43.100

to be paid at the end of the year. Under the Botanical and Fores for beginning, the new building the new Queen's Stampe wharf. transfer from the Naval Author- 1,334.000 Land sales

A sum of $3,000 has been inserted try Department a new post of for Seiyingpan School on a site Iter 26 for enlargement of the ities to the Colonial Governments The last item includes the Hi Excellency said-on-balance of the large sum realised for the first time for the running(upervisor has been created for on Boabam Road, which will Government depot at 132 Tsi- Increased work in connection ourable Members of the Legis-by the recent sale of the site of expenses of Government motorwork in connection with planta- probably be acquired during nextimui where all the work in con- with the provision of Wireles

The $100.000 provided intions in remote districts. cara.

The year. Item 11 is for small nection with reinforced concrete Telegraph on ships and the issue lative Council: In submitting for the old Post Office and Supreme 1921 special allowance on vote for Brushwood clearing has bungalow in the grounds of Gov-piles, paving slabs and road sut of 1-cenres for Wireless Telegraph your consideration the Estimates Court, which is not due till early

salaries disappears with the been increased by $2,500 to make ernment House to supplement the facing is carried on.

necessitates a larger staff. of Revenue and Expenditure for next year. Stamp duties are

Items 28 to 49 require no the year 1922, I feel that you will fully realising our expectations vision or salaries provided for provision for the clearing of inadequate bedroom accommoda-

elsewhere.

larger areas adjoining bouses and tion of the House. I referred to

special comment. Large sums (Continued on Poge 6) concur with me in regarding our while the amount collected for

Police Department.

roads in connection with the this matter in speaking in the are provided under the bending financial position as quite Tobacco duties is now actually

campaign against mosquitoes Estimate last year. Item 12 is waterworks" for developments satisfactory.

more than the revenue from

The large increase both in organised by the Sanitary Board, the first expenditure under to meet the increased consump The year 1920 finished with a opium before the commencemen: Personal Emoluments and other This

work bes necessitated scheme for removing Queen's tion of water which taxed the balance of revenue Over ex-of the Monopoly.

charges in the Police Department various small increases in the College from its present site to existing means of distribution penditure of $200,078.41 and a Passing now to the principal is mainly due to the fall in staff of the Department also. much large site on Caroline Hill severely during the balance of assets over liabilities decreases in the revenue, the exchange, there being "a Education Department. A Committee appointed last year months. I would take this op of $4.490,266.31.

figures for the opiam Monopoly Irge

reported very unfavourably on portunity of remarking that s It is now estimated that the bave been further reduced by European officers on sterling

In the Education Department, the present buildings, and the careful tamination of all pos- Crown Land at Pokfulam will revenue for the current year will|$500,000, and again I would salaries.

other an increase of $52,837 is provided development during taly

Vernacular few

the last sible catchment areas in the be sold by auction at the P.W.D. amount to $16,590,519 or $1,254-remark that though unfortunate increase of importance is due to for subsidies

taste for Island shows that we are ap- on October 31.—PayTM 4. t. 169

than original from & Enancial aspect, this the provision of an additional Schools. This is in some degree feidgames among the Chiasseproaching the limit of our water **The Kingdom of Youth" is estimate. This change is due to decrease is gratifying from Harbour Launch, and the trans-compensated for by a reduction has rendered it essential

supply sud that in the not distant the big picture at the Cornet the large sums realised recently wider point of view. Other large fer of a steam lausch from the of $18.667 in the item "Capitation that any site to which the prin future it may be necessary to tap while Geraldine Farrar in The by the sale of Crown Luoda decreases are.

Imports and Exports Department Grants." It is hope by means of eight Government School is to be

Stronger Vow" tops the bill at which more than balance a pro- Cina Companies Fees $56,270 in exchange for a motor boat, these subsidies to extend educa-ansferred shall not

only be

Under Item 56 provision is the Kowloon Theatre-Pago 12 spective deficit in the estimated Engagement and Dis- These charges have opcessitated tional facilities to a larger pro easily accessible, but shall have made for the work in connection

Notices referring to the revenue from the sale of opiam, charge of Seamen 20,500 an increase both in Personal portion of the poorer classes ample grounds for recreation of with the Praya Es-s Reclamation amalgamation of the Hongkong and in the estimated revenue Sunday Cargo Working

Public Works Department. every kind These conditions are Scheme which will be necessary Hotel Company and the Steam from-stamp duties owing to the Permits...

25,000 coal, repaire, etc., for launches. In the department of Public folfilled by the site chosen and as during the year.

Laundry Company appear on Ordinance increasing the duties The expenditure for next year It has also been necessary to Works & very large increase of soon as plans for the new school Io Kowloon large sums ar Page 4. not having been passed until May. is estimated to amount to $20,- replace a worn-out launch by expenditure is shown under the are approved an estimate of the provided for work on the hospital The J.C.J.L. advisa consignees The expenditure for the cur- 207,950, being $2,858,830 more new launch. Hence the provision head of "Personal Emoluments." cost will be placed before Hon- and police stations at Taumati of cargo of the arrival of the as. reat year is now estimated at that the original estimate and for two new launches under After careful consideration the ourable Members. I may point and Mongkokisui. Item 60 pro- Tosari-Page 4 $16,111,990 or $1.237.160 less than $4,095.990 more than the revised (Special Expenditure. Prosimon

"When Dawn Game" the original estimate. Owing to estimate for the current year. has also been made in Special Secretary of State has sanctioned out that the amount which will be vider for a cattle and swine depot various causes it was impo-sible The increases and decreases Expediture for two additional the spate of continual incre-realised by the sale of such por- at Yaumati, the necessity for advertised by the World Theatre to begin several of the larger under each department are set search lights. These are intended ments for all engineers to date tion of the present site of Queen's which has been urged by the to commenca to-morrow-Pago 4. from the 1st January. 1921. The College, as may be available after Sanitary Board.. Under Item 61 The Robert Dollar Co. advise public works until the year was out in the sessional paper which for two of the four large cruising two assistants of the Director of the area has been laid out to soit provision has been made for be consignees of cargo of the arrival well advanced with the result has been laid on the table. Ia launches of which one has already that the sum that will probably order to make Revenue and Ex-been provided with a search Public Works bave been granted city developments, will go far to ginning the e nstruction of quar-in port of the Se. Grses Dollar

salaries of £1,000 rising by incre-pay for the new College.

ters for the scavenging staff. The

Page 4. be expended is $3,367,500 instead penditure balance it will be light. It is intended to provide meats of £30 a year to £1,150. En- Item 15 is for a small market extension of the Fire Station of $4,967,400.

I necessary draw upon our the cost of a search light for The estimated balance of Assets balancee to the extent of the remaining launch in the gineers begin on a salary of £460 in the neighbourhood of Cause-(Item 62) is for the accogl rising by increments of C20 away Bay, and Item 16 is for anmodation of the firemen for „over Liabilities at the end of this $2,931,720 if the large sums pro-Estimates for 1923.

до Toom in year to £700, and by increments underground miniature rifle range whom there is year is now estimated at $4,968, vided for Public Works Extra-

Fire Brigade.

of £25 a year to £950, while at the side of the Hongkong the Police Station. Item 65 pro- 795,

ordinary are expended.

It will be observed that the In connection with the re-officers in Executive charge of Volunteer Defence Corps parade vides for an underground cham- For next year the Revenue is

The closing rate of the dollar estimated to amount to $17,276,amount required for Personal organisation of the Fire Brigade Sub-Departments draw, & charge ground, which will be most use ber at the Royal Observatory for

and other on demand to-day was Ze. 87źd in sessional allowance of £100 a year. There ful for training during the winter. the Seismograph 260. The principal increases over Emoluments

considerably as recommended

The Ta- Under "Communications" the delicate instruments.

The Weather. the estimated revenue for this larger than before. This is due paper No. 7 of 1921, it has been are strict efficiency bars at £600

first five items are for works maining items for buildings re- year are as follows:

both to increases of salaries in thought advisable to separate and at £700.

I feel sure that this recognition already in progress, and it is quire no special comment. $159 800 several departments, and to all the Police Department and Fire

Under the heading roads " 2 p.m. Barometer: 30.04. Tém- 279,400 sterling salaries being reckoned Brigade entirely in the Estimates of the excellent work, done by expected that all except the first 100,000 at twelve dollars to the pound for 1922. The 1rge increase in officers of the Pablic Works item will prove remunerative the principal work of construction perstare76. Hamidity-56. 444,500 under the sliding scale authoris the latter ie du entirely to pro- Department will be gratifying not undertakings I may mention is the 100 foot road from Bham 95,000 ed last year. There will be vision being made to carry into only to Honourable Members, that one piece of land opened up Shai-po to Kowloon City, with 77.500 savings on all sterling salariee so effect the recommendations made but to those ontside this Council by the new road to the Paak sold the nullah to carry the large 52,400 long as the exchange ralue of the by the Captain Suparintendent who are daily brought in contact a few days ago for $30,000, which stream from the east side of the

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with the results of their labours. is exactly the estimated cost of railway?, Provision is made for pum 40,000 dollar is above 2/6.

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