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DEBATE ON BUDGET OPENS.

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as you, Sir, are well aware, we have, notwithstanding repented' in- creases in our water-supply on the Island during the past 25 years, constantly found ourselves under the "noceaalty (in some cases for periods of

of several weeks at a time) of having a restricted water-supp

in

a procedure which is not only convenient but also contrary to the interests of public health. We, therefore, consider it of vital impor tance that the original intention to carry the pipeline across the Harbour should be proceeded with forthwith

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1929.

oblo Mr. Ormsby Gore seents worth attention:

have

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There are great developments in front of us-bigger ships, many bigger ships than have ever before entered our Harbour, will be run- ning to this Port in the near future the moment able to deal with. -bigger possibly than we are at

Wuchow, two and a half hours from Kweilin and ten hours from Shunghal, one can gst rome concep- tion of the" great possibilities of aviation,

velopments are far ahead of any- thing yet accomplished in the British Colonial Dependencies.”

Military Contribution:

the Estimates and on page. 100 On page 12, Itam 88 of. we notice some rather puzzling figures regarding Military Contri bution.

We have an aerodrome in the course of construction; but avia Is the Government sufficiently tion is still backward in this "The Importance of adequate training in hygiene and proventive providing beforehand for the new Colony. Singapore has its flying medicine can hardly be overstated. conditions as regards dredging club financially supported by the Every practitioner in a tropical and buoy accommodation!

Straits Settlements" Government

For instance, the revised ea- elimate should be a sanitarian. The The Hongkong and Whampoa and a club at Colombo la under timate for 1929, $3,321,768 on value of measures for the protecDock Company is, we tion of the health of the

know, consideration, whilst

in India page 13 is not repeated on page are about 12 similar 100. and the

is well-notwithstanding the difficult times there recognised in

community Individual in Malaya, where through which the Colony has associations. Flying clubs, such Are we to understand that this as we refer to, can provide an arm latter figure and not the ap many successful pioneer workers passed, making gallant efforts to in the field of sanitation and anti- keep pace with the rapidly chang to the volunteers and the police proved estimate for 1929, which malaria measures

in case of trouble and at the same appears as $3,988,988 on both Bet an ing conditions of the port time those who example throughout the East. It widening the entrance to their big take up aviation on a more per- Military Contribution this year?

are prepared to

pages 12 and 100 is being paid for Chair of Kublic Health has not so biggest class of ship at present portunity to familiarize them tribution, we should also like to

therefore, that a

Dock in order to accommodate the manent basis are given an op-In connexion with Military Con far been regarded as essential in

contemplated, whilst the Kowloon selves with the science and virgorous department organised Wharf and Godown Company, is early staged.

in its know whether such Contribution for research and experiment, for keenly alive to the necessity of

Is paid upon profits from the Mr. Vaughan Fowler, the repre. post-graduate studies and refresher increasing its wharf accommoda- sentative of the Far East Aviation Colony's sales of investments. We courses in conjunction with the tion and negotiations to this and Company has laid before your Ex-submit that it is seriously open departments of bacteriology, patho are now in progress with the cellency a detailed scheme for a to question whether such profits logy and tropical medicine for Authorities concerned. It is to flying club similar to those I have ought to be subjected to Military additional training of the assistant

Contribution) Sanitary, and for instruction to be hoped that the Government already mentioned and we are glad to note that you have given' it the Inpectore in close associa will do all within its power to tion with the Singapore Municipal assist these negotiations to a Colony's financial support in the Health Department is urgently successful conclusion. The coat Budget for 1930. The very sub- to the Godown. Company of the stantial provision appearing on necessary extensions to cope with page 32 of the Estimates is in the altuation in the future will be dicative of your Excellency's be- considerable but is regarded

Hof, which we share, in this means essential in the 'interests

of communication in the future Port of the size and importance of and of its practical application to this part of the world and in particular of Hongkong's vital interest in it.

required."

AB

of a

All those remarks were made by me on behalf of the whole body of the Unofficial Members, but the matter of bringing the pipe-line across the Harbour was then viewed as being of such urgency and importance by my Unofficial Colleagues that my Honourable friend Sir Shou Son Chow (speaking on behalf of himself and his Chinese Colleague, Dr Kotewall) referred to the

Board of Health, matter again In his speech (see Hansard 1926, at page 78), in the In Hongkong there is at course of which, after referring present no Board of Health what- to the hardships which the ever, but the question seems well Chinese suffered from a policy of worth consideration whether it Hongkong. water restriction, Sir Shou Son would not be advisable for the Chow said!

Government to establish such a "We, therefore, urge no matter Board, under the Presidency "of what other rainor plans the Govern- the Honourable Dr. Wellington, pages 24 and 26 the provision in We have noted with pleasure on ment may have in mind for increas for preventive and research work. the Estimates for re-establishing no matter what reasons, the Govern-seeing that the present powersa statistical department under the ment may have for not proceeding of the Sanitary Board in regard aegie of the Import and Export with the Shing Mun scheme, some to Public Health are very scheme for bringing water across defined.

Office. We agree that these the Harbour should be carried out

The question also arises whether statistics ought to embrace all as soon as possible."

this Colony ought not to contri-thus give a clear indication of phases of Hongkong's trade and schools for research into tropical Hongkong's commercial position. diseases.

Playing Grounds.

ing the water supply on the Island,

Advice Disregarded.

The Government, however, thought fit to disregard the united advice of the Unofficial Members of this Council in the matter with the result that more than eighteen months of valuable time

were wasted, in failing to take steps to bring the water across the Hare bour, and indeed the pipe-line will, apparently, it probability

ill

bute more than it does now to

In Ceylon, Maldya and the Dutch

Statistics of the Port:

a staġe

Agricultural Education, Another of our pressing local needs is the provision of adequate Instruction in agriculture

one branch of and sufficient recreation grounds. ought to form

has arrived the Government's

This Colony education

at curriculum and to be taught

in ita develop in the Government and Vernacular mert when this matter has to be Schools.

faced fairly and squarely, seeing that it is part of the curriculum of every school in this Colony to

of outdoor exercises and physical Report of the Director of Educa acre by culture. One has only to read the tion in order to appreciate this, and on any day and at any time one has only to wander through any part of the Colony to get an a year or two we shall according-page 74, points out the proved util- idea of what a hold the love of

months.

Passing on, we note from your summary of the cost of our water works and their maintenance that

not be complete for several East Indies much has been accom-Instil into every scholar the value

largely increased per plished, the rice-crops baving been scientific means alone, and many new cereals and plants have been do not consider that the introduced. receipts from water services give

The Right Honourable Mr. Orms a reasonable return on our past by Gore in his above mentioned Re- expenditure and you hint that in port, when dealing with Ceylon, at

you

ly have to pay extra"taxation in ity in Canada and other parts of sport is getting on all and sundry. the Empire of cinema films as a It ranges from the small boy who

respect of water.

In the course

of your speech,

Sir, at the last meeting of this Council you enid:-

Native Lecturers.

Mr. Ormsby Gore also points out (on page 123), when dealing with Java that, in that laland, the best

lecturers.

Quarry Bay Road,

Seventy Foot Road Between Causeway Bay and Quarry Bay, We see from the Estimates for Public

Worka Extraordinary (Item No. 18 on page 84) that a sum of $15,000 is budgeted for in connexion with a small portion of this road.

The portion of the road from Ah King's Slipway to the South China Athletic Association Bathing Home Government's Contribution.

House is one of the most difficult the new Labour Government, Colony, and we consider that the At the same time we hope that and dangerous roads in this which is promote

obviously anxious to continuation and completion.. of the interest of the this road for the full distance be- Colonies to the utmost of its tween Causeway Bay and Quarry power, will see the reasonableness Bay should not only be taken in making a larger contribution than without further delay. In fact we Government hand, but should be completed of the Imperial

regard it as most unfortunate that the work on this road should have been delayed for so long.

£100,000 towards our aerodrome.

We feel that this matter of a much larger contribution being made by the Imperial Government is of so much importance that we make no apology for quoting the following extract from the speech made by my Honourable friend, Sir Shou-son Chow, voicing the collective views of the Unofficial Members of this Council, in his

1928 at page 85): budget speech of the 4th October 1928 (see Hongkong Hansard of

Sai Kung Rond.

We notice on page 88 of the Estimates (Item 110) that it is Proposed to construct a new road from Kowloon City to Sai Kungrat an estimated cost of about $1,170,- 000.

Whilst we are of the opinion, that having regard to the great "The inability of His Majesty's rapidity with which the Kowloon Government to contribute more Peninsula is developing it is de- than £100,000 towards the cost of sirable to provide facilities for the Aerodrome instead of paying further development and expan- three-fourths of the total cost is sion, we are of the opinion that very disappointing to the com- there are a number of schemes for munity, after it had been told that the Secretary of State for the more pressing than the proposed Colonies had actually proposed to

pposed to Sai Kung. Road, and which need the Imperial Treasury three-fourths putting in hand and completion of the cost as being Ita equitable before this proposed rond is brought share of the outlay...

that under consideration. Many of

the Secretary of State would not those schemes we are indicating have accepted this

earntations

us &

contri Government to inondase itki ing up of motor-roads, with plea- |

representing the Imperial Cove - to-day. For the above reasons, ment's just obligation unless it had we are of the opinion that it is appealed to him as eminently fair, premature to proceed with the pro-

I may say does to

to us, we posed Sai Kung Road.

It seems to hope that further strong

complete will be

I be made to the fallacy to suppose that the open- Imperial

to the full three sant building-altes on them, must fourths. The Aerodrome, while it necessarily lead to building deve- will be a valuable local asset, will lopment, and in this connexion we be a a still more valuable Imperial need only point to the Tai Po asset as a vital link in the com- Road, built thirty years ago, the munications of the Empire." The present Unofficial Members Castle Peak Road, the short road

unanimously endorse the above of this Council, who now number over the hill to Repulse Bay and eight against six a

the Shek O Road, view expressed by all the Ub official Members last year."

But Sir, we do not see why means of disseminating instruction plays with a shuttlecock in the the present residents of this regarding the best agricultural streets or kicks a ball about in Colony should be saddled with practices, the result of experiment-Statue Square to the vast crowds long past expenditure upon water-al work and research, and the who attend football and other works which has been paid from prevention of insect-pesta and plant matches.

Your Excellency has appointed time to time out of revenue, nor diseases, and he also points out that can we agree with the principle the Films Committee of the Empire a Committee to go into the ques- that all Government expenditure Marketing Board is now engaged in tion of providing more playing- ought to produce a revenue which formulating plans for an inter- grounds, and no doubt we shall re- will give a reasonable rate of change of instructional films be- ceive many valuable recommenda- we most. interest on the capital expended. tween different parts of the Empire. tions from them, but

strongly urge on 'the Government the conversion of certain large areas into what we would like to describe for want of a better The aim of the Government is

term, as "Municipal Recreation to give every house connected with

Areas", and in particular we have the waterworks, both on Hongkong method of reaching the agricultural in mind the low level area between Island and the mainland, a fall peasant has been found to be by Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay, and supply of filtered water throughout means of a staff of trained native the area round the foot-hills of the year." We venture, however, to express grave doubts whether, unless the be given in the above mentioned and the Shatin Valley,

Also we suggest that instruction Kowloon known as "The Park", Government very speedily indeed schools in sanitatión, hygiene and gets on with the construction of anti-malaria measures, and that the big dam at Shing Man, it wi endeavours be made to instruct the be reasonably practicable for the peasants in the outlying districts Hongkong it is desirable to en- Government for some years to of the New Territories in the above courage the coming together of come to discard the rider-main subjects by means of trained native the various nationalities in extent system.

friendly intercourse. What better We would, therefore, most Likewise, under the heading of means can there be to assist this strongly urge the Government to Education, we suggest that the cur- than in the field of sport and on press on with the plars for the riculum of the University and of all the Public Recreation Grounds of contruction of the big dam in the other teaching institutions where the Colony? Shing Mun gorge and with the English is taught should include a

Whilst dealing with the subject building of the dam itself.

review of the progress of this of recreation grounds, we desire to We do not know whether the Colony from 1841 up to to-day, upon draw attention to the fact that present position of uncertainty is similar lines to your Excellency's the recommendations of the Kow due to divided opinion within the interesting review of the progress loon Residents' Association regard Government or not, but what we of the Colony from 1896 till 1926, ing the making and equipping of do suggest is that your Excelleney as reported in the Hongkong Han- sufficient playing-grounds for the might appoint an advisory Com-sard for 1927,,at pages 58 to 65. children of Kowloon have not yet mittee from the residents of the

been carried out by the Govern- ment, and in Colony with technical knowledge,

particular

..lecturers.

More Markets Needs,

revenue.

K. RA. Recommendations.

In a cosmopolitain Colony like

who, we feel certain, will be able The cost of living tends steadily we desire to ask why no pro- to assist in arriving at definite upwards and we require markets vision has been made in the recommendations and whose and yet more markets to be built in Estimates for 1930 for the promis. advice will, we believe, be of order conveniently to serve the dif-ed children's playground between great assistance to the Govern- ferent districts of this Colony, and Salisbury Road and Middle Road. ment.

incidentally it may be remarked We would also inquire why suf that markets produce considerable fielent fencing has not yet been put Public Health.

round the children's playground In our opinion a small market in Chatham Road, ns has been Next we turn to the question of which was unanimously recommend repeatedly urged upon the Govern malaria. We note with pleasure er at a meeting of all the members ment the advent to this Colony of the of the Sanitary Board and which Honourable Dr. Wellington, one need only cost about $10,000 should of the experts on this subject, be erected in Kowloon Tong, be who, wo understand, has been cause that settlement is a long dis working OD # comprehenalve tance from any exlating market. scheme for the improvement of We note with regret that, owing the Public Health of the Colony, to shortage of staff and pressure of and whose recommendations we other work, little progress has hope to see shortly laid upon the been made this year with the Saf table of this Council.

Ying Pun new market, only $20,000

› Open Spaces. There is also the vital question of earmarking unbuilt-on spaces. as lungs for the Colony; open spaces for dwellers in the con- geated districts,

Aviation

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year ago,

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

We see, from page 100 of the Estimates, that it is suggested that a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserva should be created in this Colony and that in the coming year a sum of $28,265 is there budgeted for ps the first year's expendi ture..

Broadcasting. Broadcasting is an important modern method of communication, of which this Colony has not availed itself to any considerable

We are of opinion that the We are not here referring to the formation of the Royal Naval transmission of musical

pro Volunteer Reserve may to a cer grammes for "bright young tain extent detrimentally affect people," but to something for more the Volunteer Defence Corps, and important; things that are likely that that Corps serve a far more to contribute to make Hong useful and practical purpose, kong the commercial centre of We consider that the Royal a large area that is to say, Naval Reserve is unnecessary here the distribution of all kinds and that naval work should be of market quotations, shipping left to " the Navy; and news, news of the world, in short we shall vote against the item for everything that is likely to be of its establishment in the Appro interest or value to commerce and priation Bill for 1930. This item. shipping...

does not include the sum of $2,832, apparently through inadvertence, mentioned on page 100 of the Estimates, for the proposed per sonnel of that Reserve.

To-day our range is about fifty miles but with an expenditure of about $200,000 and an annual con- tribution of about $80,000 wa could have an effective range of 400 miles.

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Canton-Kowloon, Railway: the merchant at a place like Wu- Our railway to the border shows. chow. What a boon an effective a better return than before, but broadcasting system from Hong-it can hardly be regarded as a kong would bef

successful venture until such time On the value of broadcasting for | as the Hankow Canton Railway is propaganda purposes we need not completed and the loop-line at dwell, for that is apparent. The Canton is, built. Right Honourable Mr. Ormsby We desire to take this opportu. Gore, in his Report already re-nity of assuring your Excel- ferred to, after pointing out that leney that all sections of this We now turn to aviation, made in Ceylon in the development you in your untiring efforts to considerable progress had been community most heartily support In the meantime we heartily being spent out of a vote of $200 Following as we must, the gen-of a broadcasting service, says, maintain the most friendly rela approve of the new staff to assist 000. We especially urge that this eral trend of events in China we him in his labours which is pro-building be vigorously proceeded posed in the Estimates for 1930, with during the coming year, and cannot help being struck by the oh page 129, in regard to Javations with the Chinese Authorities for bitherto Dr. Wellington has that the full proposed allocation of keen interest taken by the Chinese "There are no less than six broad in the neighbouring provinces of been rather in the position of a $200,000 for 1930 be spent during made by them to create a net-tainment and education are trans with the Chinese Central Govern in aviation and the efforts being Java News, information, enter. Kwangtung and Kwangsf and also work of services in various parts mitted to listenere in different ment at Nanking, of the country,

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When one considers the dif- telegraphy there is the very large negotiations for connecting Ca- AMUSING INCIDENT AT THE malarin-bearing kinds of mosquito, Hongkong's one great asset is the ficulties of communication, the high-power long and short wave ton with Hongking by telephone especially at Repulse Bay, Stan Harbour; almost everything which distance to be travelled and the station at Malabar and a newer will prove successful, because ley and Taipo and in the Kowloon produces prosperity is ranged round general want of modern facilities, short wave station nearer every link which, joins Hongkong foothills.

it. Hongkong without her Har- and when one realises that we are Bandoeng. These commun cate to Canton is of mutual benefit to In this connexion the following bour, her shipping, her godowns by air travel only about aix hours direct with Europe and with the both places. quotation from the Report, already and her docks might as well not from rankow, two hours from United States of America!" and (Continued on Page 8:) referred to, of the Right. Honour. exist.

lówer down he says: “Such de-

"General without an army,

There can be no doubt that It

the coming year. !-

Port Facilities.

casting transmitting stations in

We also trust that the rumoured

THE

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"PHYSICAL” NOT

"FISCAL

BESSIONS.

The intricacies of the English language word responsible for somewhat amusinge; misunderstand-

NATHAN ROAD

ing at the fupreme Court this morning when Mr. Hing Shing Lo oroas-examining a witness, naked whether one man had physioni: superiority over another one.

Sir Henry Golfan looked puzzled for a moment and naked counsel what he had said

Mr. Hing Shing Lo said he had referred to "physical periority.

Bir Henry Gólan-Ohl1-thought you said fiscal