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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1991.

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Shanghai had a mild toate of Hankaw's plight last week when the Whangpo over- flowed ili banks covering the Settlement with two or three feet of water in some places. Our photos shows the intersection of Carter and Avenue Roads after the water had com. menced to subsido, and a downtown section of the Settlement.

MUNICIPAL ISSUE DISCUSSED.

INTERESTING TALK AT ROTARY CLUB.

TRANSITION STAGE.

Members agreed to this course of action.

The Chairman then welcomed two visitors, the Attorney General Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster K.C.) and Mr. James Walker, of the Chartered Bank,

that no bathing pools will be pro- vided but that any

"self-governing town of Kow. loen's size--If it wonted bath- ing pools-would flout a loan and get on with the work."

Newspaper "Texts."

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When I was inked to rend paper before this club decided to articles as

In introducing the speaker, the Chairman raid Mr. Bellamy was re- cently secretary of the Hongkong take these newspaper Rotary Club and they were indebted my texts. I have a further title to him for all the work he had done to address you on the subject for them. He had been an official have chosen for the reason that I Municipal Socialism generally in many municipalities, small, have spent about 12 years in Muni- and its application to Hungkong medium and large. The last place cipal serving. As a chiof in particular were discussed at where he was employed ** an for the majority of that period ! yesterday's meeting of the Rotary official was at Liverpool, of which saw a lot from the inside, of what Club, which was held in Messrs. place his into father was the muuu- Lane Crawford's restaurant, under the chairmanship of the lion, ager of the Tramway Company, S. W. Tso.

Mr. Bellamy's Address.

An extremely interesting Mr. Bellamy sak:--in a bailing address was delivered by Mr. Larticle on June 12 last the South C. F. Bellamy, who referred to the China Morning Post dealt with possibilities

ຕ Municipal Munfelpal Amenities." The con- Council for Kowjoon.

cluding paragraph was na follows:

The Chairman rend the following telegram which had been received from the Tientsin Rotary Club:- "Tiertain Rotary Club called Chicago view Hankow flooda catastrophe urge headquarters re- commend Rotarians support all re- patable relief efforts. Urge similar action your Club:"

Mr. T'so continued:--Your Direc- |

"A former Governor of Hongkong, described himself as also the Mayor, and the Government as the Munici pality but if that is 80 we must request that the Govern- ment 'perform fully a Manici. palty's functions,"

In a leading article on June 22,

Hongkong Daily Press said, inter alia,

tors had a discussion on this tein- the gram just before tiffin and they decided to recommend you to take;

"Kowloon must be the largest joint action with the Tientsin town in the world without any

Club by sending a telegram

semblance of the usual ma- Rotary to Headquarters in support of the

chinery of urban government." Tientsin Club's action. I hope it Both the leading articles referrej will meet with your

to were in connexion with the luck Approval Those present having signifted of public bathing facilities in the their approval, the Chairman con-Colony and the proposal to provide tinued:We also considered the open a bathing pools to be flleri action our members could best take, from the sea. The Daily PP

any that the foeni Tung Wah article commences:

is taking action and is about to make an appeal to all sectious of the community for sub- Your Directors con- scriptions. sider the best thing is for all Rotarians, individually, to do their best to subscribe and in order to matter. get central action in the

"There are occasions when many of us wish that Kewizou had its own municipality, with power to go ahead with public works, that its inhabitanta want and are willing to pay for within reason.”

The article expresses the opinion

you are requested to send your that it is a foregone conclusion cheques to the Tung Wab Hospital,

At present the Tung Wah Hosow!

is making enquiries from

and I understand that Hospital in Hankow is doing relief work. They have also communicated with the Chamber of Commerce at Han- kow and I think they are doing i organising work in order to give immediate relief to sufferers.

SALESMAN SAM

(C'HON UP ON MAIN STREET WITH

OKAY-

¡ME, SAM- / WANNA LOOK OVER THAT) LETS GO, PIECE OF REAL ESTATE MY UNCLE

MADE ME A PRESENT OF

STALE STURGEON

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I will call the political working of the Municipal inachine, and it is m that feature I want chiefly to speak.

It is said that the Marquis of Ripon when Secretary of State for the Colonica-was in favour of Hongkong having a Municipal Council but that his successor in office- Mr. Joseph Chamberlain would not hear of it, and we were

in the Jubilee number of the Hongkong Telegraph that the then Governor, Sir William Robinson, re- ceived from Mr. Chamberlain "rap over the knuckles" because he- had sought popular opinion by means of a plebiscite as to whether there should or should not be an

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Unofficial majority on the Sanitary Board: Since that time residents |---- of Hongkong have probably come to the conclusion that a Municipal Council for Island matters is quite Runecessary. There are, however, many who consider that A re presentative body of men constitut

Kowloon ing a

Municipal Council would be a good thing, and would be a great help to the Government by relieving it of certain domestic and parochial Kowloon matters. One of the great dangers, however, would be the temptation to zealous and enterprising Council of embarking on Municipal trading which might prove unremunerative, New York Convention.

in 1903 there was held in New York a National Convention. on (Continued on Page 0.)

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