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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 19331

GREAT AMERICAN RECOVERY DRIVE COMING TO STANDSTILL

GOVERNMENT PREPARED FOR BUDGET DEFICIT

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MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.

· POLO GROUND.

In these hard times polo has inevitably lost support while the need of the Navy for more play- ing fields has been steadily grow- ing. Obviously the most suitable

Strong attacks on the Raosavalt recovery programme ato being mada by Mr. Clarence Darrow (left), the famous Amorican cri minal lawyer, Above he is shown addressing farmers in Ohio,

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that the subsidy to the Flying alte for the Navy was the polo | Club again appcars under Other ground and after careful con- in themselves but invariably sup-Chargco for, this aub-department sideration the Polo Club offered ply their customers (with licit and I am gind to be able to inform to forogo the remainder of their opium. The results more than them that there is every reason to present five year term and to ae": fullled our worst fears.

expect that the Club will be re- cept on the usual short case a stored to life in the near future. site in a losy accessible aren. The REVENUE ESTIMATE.

After considerable persuasion the site lies in the valley just to the That therefore_is_the_rotonueAir Ministry has withdrawn-its East-of-the-site-of-old-Kowloon position for 1983. For 1931 we objections to the establishmont of Tong village. Government will should not be justified in assum-a Flying School at Kai Tak and contribute the $18,000 shewn in lag that the forces which have the Government has agreed to the Estimates for certain perman- been depressing our revenue in allow the Far East Aviation Coment works such as levelling and 1033 will relax their pressure and pany the use of the aerodrome for stream diversion, and the Navy our estimate of revenue for 1984 this purpose for an experimental) will furnish the rest amounting is accordingly set at $31,731,625,period of two years and to pay it to $40,000, The ground is expect a figure which can hardly be called a subsidy not exceeding the $30,000ed to be ready about the end of -over-pessimistic when it is re- now to be voted and a similar sum next year and for the coming! membered that, 'as. I have just for the second year in return for winter the Club has very gener said, our revenue of 1933 apart the free training of a certain numously consented to the continued from windfalls cannot be expect-ber of Volunteers from the De-use at certain times of their pre- od to go much above $80,000,000. fence Corps and the provision of gent ground. Honourable Mem- On the contrary we may have cheap flying to the Club.

bera who have looked at Happy tended to optimism in some of our

Valley at the end of the football items. Import duty on liquors

season will realize the havoc that and tobacco are set at $1,000,000

on It is a matter of great regret will be wrought the Club's mid $2,800,000 respectively; opium that the Medical Department's carefully tended turf, revenue at $1,300,000 wherens the scheme have been among the worst revised estimate of receipts for 1933 under these items only sufferers from the pruning pro- amounts to $900,000, $2,600,000 cess which the Government in the and $1,200,000. As regards the interests of financial caution has less speculative items of increase felt bound to apply to its expen- for 1984, I may mention $25,000 diture. The regret is the greater

New Contral British School, an motor spirit where the reduced in that these cuts cannot but be

Buildings and site formation, price should send up consump a heavy disappointment to the

$50,000. To complete work on tion; $85,000 from the new Ferry Director of Medical and Sanitary

There are two main rea-realization are very speculative the site formation of this school. franchise under Licences and Services who has been and is de

Kowloon Hospital Out-patients Internal Revenue and a further voting so much effort to bring the sons for the abandonment of the and the Government does not sum of $23,750 under Miscellane- Medical and Health services up prosent house and site, the first consider a surplus of ton and a Department, $70,000. The exist- ous Receipts (Royalties): $240,000 to the best modern standard. being that apart from the ball-half millions to be more than a ing. accommodation in the main hospital block is totally inade- under the same head in respect of As Honourable Members pre room, the structure of the present safe margin,

quate to cope with the increasing the new Land Transport fran- aware we have been obliged to house is worn out and large sums

As many as 104 heads of ex-number of out-nallents. The now chisce: $600,000 increased water shelve again the provision of a are being expended to keep it in enditure for Public Works Ex-block will be sited at the Waterloo revenue: and $200,000 Increase in really modern Health Centre repair, the accommodation it may traordinary figure in the Estimates, Rond-Argyle Street entrance to Assessed Taxes, commonly known. Nevertheless it would be unjust be added being hopelessly in these excluding requirements such the hospital. It is one storey in as Rates. The last item is insert to any that the cupboard is more adequate. The second reason is ed with less confidence than the bare for the Medical than for that with the growth of motors Government House development, height and consists of a large others as although a good deal other Departments. For despite traffic on the hilly roads which the Shing Mun Valley Scheme and central waiting hall with consult ing and examining rooms opening of now building is still going on the considerable saving represent surround it, the house has become a new Gaol at Stanley,

off. there is reason to think we may be overbuilt and such a position though it makes for public health by spreading population brings in its train empty houses and flats en which rates have to be refund-

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POST OFFICE.

provided for two new

GOVERNMENT HOUSE. Lastly I come to the new head and City Government House development. I have already ex- plained the proposal for financing this scheme but I still have to give the promised explanation re- garding House.

the new Government

HONGKONG.

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ed by un exchange rate of 1s 3d intolerably noisy. Another factor Among the main heads of ex- to the dollar as against 1s 2d, the in the case is the development penditure are: Department's total charges for scheme on the plan before you. 1984 are a lakh and a half higher Even if it were desirable to leave than 1988. In the matter for present site of Government House Public Works also the department untouched, the scheme involves cannot be said to have been new buildings which must detract starved. Apart from the new considerably from such amenities Civil Hospital, the accommodation as the site still enjoys. of Kowloon Hospital has been

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accommodation for the adminis- trative staff. The top floor will consist of two European flats.

Port Works

U.S.

THOROUGHLY ALARMED

SERIOUS GROWTH OF STRIKES

RISING COSTS OF LIVING

WASHINGTON, SEPT. 27. REALISATION' IS GROWING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY THAT THE NATIONAL RE- COVERY ADMINISTRATION HAS APPARENTLY REACHED THE END OF ITS ACCOMPLISHMENTS "AND A WIDESPREAD FEELING IS SPRINGING UP THAT THE NATURAL FORCES OF RECOVERY. MUST NOW BE LEFT TO EMERGE.

No blame is attached to President Roosevelt by those who declare the recovery programme to have failed. It is thought that the measures taken will be immensely valuable in their long-range effect, but no attempt it now made to hide the belief that the prosperity drive has lost its forward impetus,

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Real wages are lower than in July despite the fact that employ ment and money wages Increased by 8.6 per cent. and 9.2 per cent. respectively.

New York, Sept. 27. News of strikes spreading through several important fields of industry was doubtless an im- portant factor in the weakness of of the stock market;

There is, indeed, a fear that things may grow worse instead of better. The gravity of the situation is revealed and emphasised by the statistics of the Na- tional Industrial Conference Board showing that real earnings during August declined by 1.8 per cent. The figure is derived by offset- that are good for something-that ting wage increases against price you can eat."

"But unless the wealth of the inercases,

world is put back in the hands of those who produced it, tinkering is useless. Producing wealth' is the cupiest thing we do. But the captains of industry have ouchred Formation of Dumping Ground

you out of your heritage, by New Government Civil Hospital,strnet & rubble mound to retain the ut Kun Tong, $300,000.—To con-

These increases were, however, putrid bonds and worthless stocks, $600,000-To complete general rite ait removed by proposed dredging more than offset by an 8.9 per cent. There is not too much of anything. development and cover the cost and in the harbour, and to provide a decline in actual working hours The trouble with this country, and erection of steel framework of controlled dumping area for City and by the rise in the cost of Hy-with the world, is that we have not the main hospital bluck.

learned to distribute wealth," The postal facilities available

refuse. The area ultimately re-ing.

The failure of the banks to per in New Kowloon and other parts very materially enlarged and

Upper Levels Police Station, claimed will be available for de-

MARKET WEAKNESS. of the New Territory are behind $70,000 towards the building of

mit the expected flow of credit to I will now sum up the results. $50,000.-The construction of this velopment. the times and to remedy this pro-n now out-patients department is The estimated totals are-ex-station has been long delayed. The Dredging, $224,000-To permit industry is being seized upon in vision has been made for five more down for next year.

penditure $33,442,605, revenue proposed building is sited between the commencement of a dredging some quarters to support allega- postal clerks and eleven more CHARITABLE SERVICES. $31,731,625, leaving a deficit of High Street and Hospital Rodd ap scheme to provide a greater depth tions that the bankers are op- postmen. In addition funds are The attention of the Government $1,711,070. The present year is proximately on the area occupied in the approaches to and vicinity posed to the Roosevelt programme.

Postal has recently been drawn to the expected to close with a surplus of by the old Police Taining School of the Naval Camber, Kowloon and Kiosks to be erected at Sham Shui widespread and Increasing dis- nsuets over liabilities of $18,300,- It will be five-stories in height and the Kowloon wharves. A portion Po and Kowloon Tong respectively. tress, which the bad times have 801 including the million and a comprise, in addition to the usual of the total cost will be borne by The Post Office also claims another brought upon officers of the Mer-quarter from the City Hall site. station accommodation, four flats the Admiralty and the Hongkong important Item, namely n new cantile Marine, His Excellency The end of 1984 should therefore for European married officers, and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Post Office at Kowloon Point. I accordingly appointed a Commit-see a reduced surplus $11,598,781, quarters for six single European Company, Ltd. need/hardly remind the Council tee under the chairmanship of the or deducting the million and a officers, sixty Indian and sixty that complaints-from-the-public of Attorney General to investigate quarter-just-mentioned, under ten Chinese policemen_ami____interpre- the inadequacy of the present the facts and make recommenda- and a half millions. This is an ters Kowloon Post Office have not been tous for the future. Among the re- incrense on the limit set last year

In New York, there are between ments, which carry into the future. 75,000 and 100,000 workers It is now apparent that the Ad- few. At the same time complaints commendations of this Committee but things have not been going is the creation of a permanent well for the trade of the Colony

___who___have_downed tools in ministration is taking steps to -from-varioue-Government-Dopart

clarify its position in regard to various trade. ments that their office accommoda- committee to deal with deserving and we have large commitments to

Kowloon Magistracy, $120,000. Civil Engineers who hope during

the future of the national cur- tion is quite inadequate for their cases and the appropriation an- face, $2,300,000 more for the new

nually of an adequate sum for Civil Hospital, $410,000 for Senior The work consists of the erec-1934 to complete the excavation expanded and expanding activities that purpose which has been fixed Officers quarters, $335,000 for the tion of a Magistracy Building on for the dam and the erection of

The dollar based on commodity

•have been equally insfatent.

values so adjusted that its pur- provisionally at the $20,000 Shaukiwan Road, $482,000 for the the borders of King's Park and plant, to quarry and place about (Government therefore proposes as shown

chasing power in terms of goods as sub-head 17 of this Central British School, not to mon-adjoining Gascoigne Rond. The 300,000 tons of rock and about soon as funds will permit to erect head. I feel sure that Honourable tion the final half million for the building will be of three stories 20,000 cubic yards of concrete in Chester, Pennsylvania, being the desire of the Administration Several thousand are eat at would be constant is apparently

Land of which the present Kow-like Hongkong such a step is fully revenue rises again will have to large

probably on the lot of Crown Members will agree that in a port Naval Yard. All these, unless the and contain in addition to the two the dam, to drive and line with mostly employees of the Ford at the moment. In the meantime

Court Roomis, a small concrete the diversion tunnel to loon Post Office occupies one justified.

There Juvenile Court, waiting rooms, control the river through the dam. Company's works, which has been corner-n block of office buildings

closed down indefinitely. are of course credits to come in stores for records, cells and de- Now Gaol at Stanley, $1,000,000. seven or eight stories high which

respect of the site of the present tention room, quarters for mes--To complete alte preparation and At Paterson, New Jersey, it is will hold not only an enlarged

Civil Hospital and the Naval Yard. sengers, etc., Magistrates' Cham-commence the construction of Post Office and Fire Station but

but the amounts and the dates of hers, solicitors room and office boundary walls and buildings,

the silk factory workers who are on strike. The number sub-treasury, a branch of the Medical Department and several

runs into many thousands.

other sub-departments..

WELCOME

BREAD DELIVERY STOPPED, Breadeart drivers are on strike

DEFENCE.

an-

achenie for a Royal Naval Volun

It will be observed that the teer Reserve rejected in 1929 has been ravived. As, already nounced, in the press considerable TEMPORARY Building. enthusiasm for this scheme is As this scheme could not be being shown by the sea-minded started without first removing the section of the community and be present Post Ofee and the needing advised in the light of closer for a large Post Office is pressing examination that competition with it is proposed next year to erect the land corps need not assume on the corner site lying betwoon serious proportions, the Govern the Children's Playground and ment has felt justified in bringing Nathan Road a temporary Post the schemo before the Council Office building, at a cost of afrosh. I may add that if the $30,000.00 as shown on page 102 of Council shares the Government's the Estimates.

views it is hoped to introduce the necessary legislation at a very AIR SERVICES."

early date so as to enable those Under Air Services provision is on the waiting list to start work made for the staff that will be ne- and training this year, in which cussory for the proper operation ease a Supplementary Vote for the of our aerodrome as a Commercial necessary expenditure will be re- Airport. When togulnr air ser quested.

vices to and from Hongkong will

como into existence I am unfor

MILITARY CONTRIBUTION.

tunately not yet in n position to' In connection with the other say. China is not a party to the section, Military Contribution, It International Air Convention and gives me great pleasure to be able the question of granting rights of to announce that after prolonged transit and landing rights in their negotiation with the War Ofice, Country to non-Chinese air lincs is the Secretary of State for the still unsettled. While traffic with Colonies has accured for the or over China will not constituto Colony very material increases the whole of the trade we may in the items of revenuo exempt hope to see at our airport, It will from contribution, I need not cater occupy a very large place at any hore upon the deballs of these ex- rate in the early stages. Until cmptions which are to a certain therefore the matter of landing extent retrospective and will re- rights has been arranged commer-duce the oxpenditure for the cur cial air servicos to and from Kai rent year. They havo beon em- Tak must hang fire. It may seem bodied in 'n draft amending Ordin Tromature in these circumstances ance which in now before the -to-engage an Assistant Superin- Seeretary of State and will when tendent for thé nerodrome bútithe | approved by him bo introduced in- Superintendent le due for leave to this Council in the usual way. next year and even with the trafle In addition to rolloving the an- now oxisting or in sight It is îm-nual expenditure, the concessiona possible to leave the nerodrome should also release a certain por- without a trained officer in chargo, tion of the liability under this As regards traffic in sight head which appears as a Susponse. Honourable Mombers will notice Account in the financial stato-

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be niet from our reserves.

THE

KOWLOON. Buildings

OVER-ENTHUSIASTIĊ

ADDITIONAL WORKS.

Shing Mun Valley Scheme- 2nd Section,

Gorge Dam, $1,736,000,~This work is being carried_out_by. Sir Alexander Binnie, 'Son and Deacon,

PRICES

STRIKE CRISIS Meanwhile, the strike situation throughout the country is growing steadily worse;

The position may be summed up, roughly, as follows:

- General business news, however, is considered bullish,

During the last fortnight the impossibility of foreseeing the Government's credit and currency policies has caused business men to-besitata-in-making-commit--

At Detroit, a strike of motor-dar

workers and tool workers in-rency. volves at least eight thousand-

met.

the commodity markets will be reasonably steady and it appears that an increasing number of cot- ton producers are keeping their. staple off the market.

BUSINESS HESITANCY.

The feeling of depression en- gendered by the hesitancy of business under the workings of

in Philadelphia, causing a rethe NRA has apparently been a striction of bread deliveries. factor strongly contributing to n This affects fow, resulting only crystalisation of the Administra- in a little inconvenience. tion's attitude in respect to Its. At Pittsburg, the conl strike is monetary policy for the future. rapidly spreading and the It is felt in many circles that number of miners out all the authority granted the Execu- over the country runs into sixtive by Congress to reduce the figures.

gold content of the dollar by 50% Bight thousand steel workers are may soon be translated into

in voluntary idleness at Weir terms of reality. This may hap ton, Pennsylvania.

pen sooner than many expect:

Commodities stood up remark- ably well in to-day's market.--Pèr

NEW YORK COMMENT.

Discouragement over the Na-Swan, Culbertson and Fritz. tional Recovery Administration

experiment is lending the

Roosevelt Administration deeper SUNBATHERS TRAPPED into gravo Internal crisis,

declares the Republican "Now

York Herald Tribune,

or

"Whether the country knows' It

not," declares this paper, "official circles in Washington are tending to become discouraged

BY TIDE

RESCUE BOAT NEARLY CAPSIZES

Two sunbathers were surround- over the experiment of the N.R.A." ed by the tide and trapped for The paper declares that the some hours on the rocks at difficulties derive from the fact Ilfracombe, North Devon, recently, that the N.R.A. has given rise to The perilous position of the sun-

DARROW SPEECH.

In a speech at Kinsman, Ohio, Mr. Clarence Darrow said ---

an inflationist movement.-Reuter. bathers, Miss Byatt, of Kingston-

road, Staines, and Mr. M. C.. Tebbutt, of Newton-road, North- ampton, was noticed by thousands | of holidaymakera from Helo Bench, "The presidont is brave, honest, beach attendant, and Mr. N. Lowis and two men, Mr. Chamberlain, a and protty intolligent, I am hope put out in a boat to go to their ful, but there is much I do not

ald understand. How can it help to After taking aboard the two destroy food, and cotton, and visitors, the boat on its return to clothing?.

ahoro struck a bad patch of water, "They're going to pay farmers which was accentuated by the wash not to farm. They're going to of passing steamer, and wWAS bring back prosperity to the coun nearly capsized. After skilful try if they have to kill every hog rowing, however, the boat reached-- In it. (I mean the kind of hogs land safely.