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CANTON'S BUDGET.

FIGURES FOR COMING YEAR.

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.. (Our Special Correspondent.)

REVENUE

REGULAR.

Markat ronts

| Plors and Wharves

Tax on housON... Vehiclo Hoencou Boat liceno08... Theatrical Foos Sanitary Ratos Aorated Water Tax... Stamp foos for titlo

doods...

**

Patent medicines Goldsmiths & jowollers Tax on processions... Subsidy from Prov.

Govt....

Municipal

4,000

5,600 1,500,000 460,000

103,600

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1924.

KONGMOON NEWS.

ANTI-PIRACY MEASURES. fOur Own Correspondent.)

Kongmoon, 14th May. 100,400 Since the rescission of the 205,600 order for the imposition of the 30,000 shipping tax, In the form of 20 por cent. Impost, on freight and 120,000 passenger chargos, an optimistic| 360.000 view has been taken of the 350,000 situation in the shipping ċirolos 10,000 horo, and although the strike has not boon formally called off, 240,000 it to generally bellovod that the 12,000 crisis has passed its olimax, and It will be only a matter of days before all the shipping services 6,200 connecting Canton with the principal inland ports will be fully 1,620,000 resumed. There may be certain 240 aide-issues, such as the organise-

tion of the Merohants' Marina) 187,608 Corps, but it is expected that a 43.000 satisfactory solution will', auto- 5,100 tatically come to pass now that the main question has boon settled. According to the local 5,000,000 papers, the tow-boats connecting. Canton with Shokki, Hokshan, 820,000 Kongmoon. and Tanshuilow, have mado an announcement to the ..$11,271.308 offoot that they will immediately

operations

thoir respective routes, but this has not boen confirmed from enquiries made at the Customs office.

Canton, May 14. Internal progress continuos In. Canton despite the stato of civil war provalling. In a way, the situation may be regarded as unique, for surely nowhere elso in the world is a similar sight to bo witnessed, of military factions. Publie advts.... ..... controlling a city and yet offoring|

EXTRAORDINARY. no obstacle to an ambitious pro- Municipal Property gramme of city improvements

ronts... and reforms to which tho Muni-Sales of cipality has committed itself. -Proportios

This is the thirteenth fiscal Gazelle aubscriptions year for Canton since the Miscellaneous collec- establishment of the Republio in

tions ... 1911, and as no projects involving Building pormits the expenditure of hugo Bums of Police fines monay can be pushed forward Refunds of Military without a steady inflow of ro- loansfromh Provincial venue, the Municipality has seti Government Itsolf the difficult task of finding Maloo oharges on pro fresh ways and means of raising| porty owners. the wind, und if some of the Ingenious ways of securing funds have hitherto not met with the approval of thoke who loso in the bargain, it has to be kept strictly in mind that conditions are abnormal. and no Government can last long without the moans of justifying Its oxistenco.

:

I was privileged to have a glimpse at the Budget Estimates of the Municipality for the forth- coming fiscal year which ends on June 30th, 1925, and the impres sions to bo drawn from it are in) unlimited optimism and confid unco in the carrying out of the buge constructional undertakings projected, and (b) vory, axhaustivo means of tapping avory con- cuivable and possible source of income.

Total...

EXPENDITURE.

REGULAR.

Maintenance of Financo. Commis.

Mayoralty stoner's Office ... Department of Public Public Works Dept.

Safety (Police. Pri- Public Houlth

Hons & Firo Brigado) Public Utilities ... Public Education Municipal

Auditor's Office Municipal Council (30

mombers)...

EXTRAORDINARY, Mayor's Building Ex-

tonsiun

Public Works Extra-

ordinary

New Fire Engines &

With regard to city improve-Finance Dept. ments, the main schomo cot templated is the driving through the Saikwan quarter of main roads, or maloos, as they are tormed, and a start has been made by the extension of the Westorn Bund along Shokki, which in self alone will cost $300,000 to completo. Tho maloos for this quarter are projected with con- sidorable disregard to the situa tion of the houses which lie in the path, but a schome of componea tion considered by the Muni-Rasumption of Privato cipality to be equitable to house- owners has been drawn up, subject) to deduction computed on thu

estimated constructional costs of

Stations... Now Municipal Hos Public Utilition

pital Public Education (new

froo scheme

for adults) Municipal Office Advisory Council

Auditor's

resumo

on

In response to a potition from $131,865 the Sunning Railway Company, the Canton authorities havo 222,576 instructed General Loung Hung 241,376 al to afford affective protection to the line. The petition states that the railway is throatoned 1.759,832 with a hold-up by bandits.

508,311

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In connection with the racont! 71,424 bandit outrages at Wong Chung) 564,353 village and the consquont puni- axpedition, led by tho 37,302 Sunwui magistrate, who holds also a military titlò, it is now re- 31,560 ported that some scores of the captives have been roscued. This should reflect credit on the 42,000 magistrate, and it is hoped that' 10,000 it will deter the bandits from

COFFEE worse doods in the near futuro,

TEA 5 403,944 for hitherto most of the bandits

havo hoon loft to do more or less CHOCOLATE 610,225 what they like with immunity and this has certainly acted as a -419,760.

spur to their activities. 3,000

In view of the recent piratical outrages on the West River and the abortive attemple of gunboate 716,500 to run down the piratos, the re- ispossible authorities have docid- 1,080 ed, it is said, to causo two forte 13,000 to be. erected at Ngan Ko Tsui and force of soldiers to be 500,000 stationde there. Moreover, an arinod launch will be attached to Total $11,278,798 these forts and placed at the The totals show a small excess disposal of the commanding

Properties

REPULSE BAY SEA..

SERPENT.

these maloos and the additiona! of expenditure over income which officer. valuo automatically given to such will be "made good somehow." portions of property adjacent to stated Mr. Wu. Comparisons with these roads as are not resumed previous figures show how on- by the Municipality. forthcoming year's Budget the penditures have increased in In the ormously both incomes and ex- difference becomes revenuo in the amount of $300,000. It was

recent years: -- admitted that all expenditures 10th fiscal year $100 000 9283 240 for improvements of the city th itsolf are contingent on the main- *120 tenance of poaceful conditions and the keeping of actual war, fare from the city'e limite.

The biggest item set out under the heading of Regular Income, estimated to amount to a million)

and a half dollars, is a proposed Police Tax imposed on houses. Next in productiveness comes the now tax Imposed on patent modicines.

monty.

3.h

Receipts Expead.

68 263 6,805 000

11 274,30 11 238 798

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DUMB TO SPEAK.

One of the fifty churches which, Ponnant satirically says, wero voted by Parliament "to give tolls us of an interesting, expori-

A woll-known local yachtsmanj It has to-be distinctly under- this part of the town the air of once he had at Ropulse Bay last stood that whatevor taxos are the capital of a Christian coun- Monday morning whon some imposed by the Canton munici try," St. George's, Hanovor: distanco from shore. pality are purely operative within square was two hundred years old looking over the side of his yacht He was the elty Iteolf and are ontirely a few weeks ago.

and obsorvod, a snake's head rais soparate, from provincial noods, Hanover-square was formerly ed a couple of inches above the which are served by such sources in the vast parish of St. Martin-surface of the water, moving to- as liquor and gambling revenue. In-the-Fields, from which it was wards bim. When the roptile come Howevor the Provincial authori- the fourth parish to be carved near enough it was observed to be ties, are not entirely insensible to out, and St. Cigorgo's was one of about five to six feet long, some Canton's requirements, and have the fifty churchos planned in the four inches or so in circumfer par-marked a sum of $240,000 as ecclesiastical development of the ence, and greenish yellow in its contribution to city improve Metropolis undertaken in the colour with black bands.

reign of Queen Anne to redress swam just under the surface, and The disposal of Municipal pro- the inconvenient and growing could be soon very clearly. Tho perties is expected to yield the mischiefs which rosult from the yachtsman and big sum of $1,620,000, whlist increase of the Dissenters and

ono of

his

were merely tuned electric cir there are also hopes that the Popery."

hands" followed the suake in a

cuits uftor the manner of a wire- The architect was dinghy, but when they overtook

loga sot. The vowel sounds were $5,000,000 loaned to the Kwang James, a pupil of Gibbs, the the reptile it appeared to dive, Artificial "Vocal" Chords. Produced by a loud speaker, p tung Government for the carrying designer of St. Mary-le-Strand going down spirally until out of on of the war will be refunded to und, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, sight,

parently by depressing a row of the Municipality sometime dur- whose influence onn be traced in from the above dosoription our strumont speak by means of an to the passibility of the dumb How to make a scientific in. keys. These experiments point ing the year, Jowellors and the Hanover-square ohurch. goldsmiths are assured of polico

zoological export puts the snake artificial tongue has been domon-I boing ablo to speak by regulating From the time of the second of down as a fairly common marine strated by Sir Richard Paget bo. 1 the air in an artificial mouth box protection of their property but the Georges until the middle of species, to be found in all the fore the Institute of Electrical with their fingers. they will be subject to a "luxuries the last century St. George's tropical seas. Land snakes somo Engineers tax."

Church enjoyed a monopoly of times take temporarily to the Coming to expenditures, the fashionable

Sir Richard, taking a small budgetted amounts provide for which the St. Goorge's Marrow of circumstances, and they do air through it by a rubber tube, weddings, from water, but only under the stress dummy voleo box, and blowing tho construction of maloos, & Bono and Clea vor largo now municipal hospital, re-derived a handeomo income, divo. All soa enakos, it might be was able to make the box produce Club not swim with caso nor can they no manipulated his finger that he formatories and prisons, Main- In one year His Majesty's added, aro vonomous.. tenance of the public health and Royal Poal," as the club was

vowels and words, Tho magical safety involves an expenditure grandiloquently, styled draw as

box also called 'on' Sir Oliver of nearly three millions, to which much as £480 for their attend-

Lodge and Professor Boys by has to be added the $5,500,000 for ace. the construction of the malood.

Regarding 80 casks of Chinese taining an orgau road as a sub-pipes for the Nila Mula Hydro- namo, A model was used con- supply of wolded and riveted stool These are the two outstanding which took place at St. George's, ical Officer of Southwark, after Pairs of pat-shaped resonators Power Co., Ltd., was floated five Of the fashionable weddings egg yolks condemned by the Mud-siltute for the vocal chords, Electris project for which tho Tata items on the expenditure sido. the most memorable is that of voluminous correspondonoo bo- gave the effect of the mouth years ago. The project entaile

For the following figures of Nolson's Emina, revenue and expenditures, with favourite model, who was marri- Health, Ministry and the Gorman a human being.!

Romney's tween the Foreign Office, the cavity and spoke the vowels like the formation of a lake by dam- accompanying explanatory notes, ad to Sir William Hamilton, on Ambassador, the consignment

ming the valleys of the Nils and I am indebted to Mr. S. Y. Yu, September 6, 1791; her name sent to Hamburg for commerele invented by Dr. Ecoles was loped on the lines of the Andhra Another instrument recently Müla rivers, and it is to be dove- Bouralary of tho Canton

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