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London, Jan. 14.
Car Parking Problem
IS KOWLOON SPACE ADEQUATE?
The Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo is to ask
Questions regarding the adequacy serlen of questions at to-morrow's Exchequer returns show that the or otherwise of meter parking spaces meeting of the Legislative Council re-total ordinary revenue, excluding self-in Kowloon are to be asked at to- garding the number of Europeans in balancing items, amounts to £479,-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Government service, and the policy 007,050, compared with £460,070,406 Counell by the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga. of the Government in
The questions to be asked are as regard
at the corresponding date of last year.
tax Receipts from
are follows: income officers who have done ten years'
with £94,-
1. Will the Honourable the Inspect service in the Colony but, not having 207,710,000, compared reached pensionable age, are never 482,000 for the same period of the tor General of Police stato theless willing to retire.
(a) what are the respective hum- last financial year. The returns cover: Mr. Lo's questions are in the follow-the second week of the last quarter
bors of motor cars, exclusive of buses, trucks and lorries, 10- ing terms:
of the financial year, in which the collection of income tax in heaviest, gistered for Kowloon for the past three years-1933 to 1935 and the receipts for the week were
Inclusive: £13,390,000, against £12,637,000 in the corresponding week of 1935.
1(1) What was the total number of European Civil Servants employed by Government at (n) end of 1923, (b) end of 1931, (e) end of 1936; (2) What was the number of persons con stituting the European Senior Clerical and Accounting Staff at the aforesaid periods?
2. What was the total amount of salaries paid to the Pubile Works De- partment Staff, European and non- European, in (a) 1923, (b) 1931, (c) 1935,
the
3. Bince the date of the Report of Retrenchment Commission (May "Puppet "In the Dog "Horan Sonso” | 3971) (a) what additions, if any. (b) Murder Casa" House"
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what reductions, if any, have been made in the European Staff on the Civil List?
(a) In view of the imperative necessity for retrenchment, what is the alley of Government in regard to European officers who, having done 10 years of service in the Colony, but not having reached personable age, are nevertheless willing to retire?
If under existing regulations there is no power to permit auch re tirements, will Government consider the question of amending such regu- Intions with the view to conferring such power, in order to save the beavy expense of paying the return passage for such officers and families who have only a further short perio to serve in order to qualify for pen- Flon?
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Receipts from surtax were also higher than in the same week of the financial year; though to date they amount to £10,190,000, compared with £10,245,000 in 1935.
Estate duties have yielded £60,950,- 000 to date, against £01,815,000 Ini year and a Budget estimate for the whole year of £80,000,000. Re- venue from customs and excise is 280,571,000, compared with £229,590,- 000 at this time last year.
Total ordinary expenditure is £078, 022,064, compared with £553,158,101 at the corresponding date of 1935- British Wirelenn.
U.S. STILL SPENDING
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(b) what are the facilities on Sailebury Road near the Star Ferry pler for the parking of motor cars; (c) what is the approximate supor
ficial ground area in each of the above three years allotted for the public parking of cara in that locality; and
(d) whether the ground area re- ferred to in Question (c),re- presents an increase during the past three years in proportion of Lo the larger nimbor privately owned cars in Kow- loon t
2. Does the Government consider the authorised parking space on Salisbury Road sufficient for the num ber of registered motor cars for Kow. loon?.
3. Should such area not be deemed adequate, by what further provision. if any, and where does the Govern- ment contemplate increasing the nc- commodation to meet suitably the growing demand for parking spacer within the aforesaid pron 7
4. Does the Government contemn- plate the use of the open space of Crown land lying between Middle Washington, Jan. 14. Following the testimony of Mr. Road and Salisbury Road and the Henry Morgenlinu, the Secretary of Ppen space on Salisbury Road adjoin- ing and to the east of the existing the Treasury, that the Government car park? If not, could not such
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REPRIEVE NOW ONLY would have raised a minimum of spaces, or any other piece of Crown $12,000,000,000 in the next seventeen-land In that neighbourhood, be ani-half months, the Senate Finance utilised, provisionally, for adding to Committee approved Senator Harri-
existing car parking spaces at Kow- loon Point 7 son's bonus bill by 15-12.
Senator Couzens, voting against the measure, said that Mr. Morgenthau alno said that the $11,000,000,000 minimum was needed for the remain- der of this and the next year's com- mitments. These included estimates of $2,000,000,000 for relief, which Bum was not taken into account in
of
(Continued from Page 1) bursts; and that these influences and
presence in prominent persuns from throughout the country distracted the jury and told against Hauptmann.
The
the courtroom
President Roosevelt's budget,
Senator Couzens said Mr. Morgen- thau estimated that this expenditure would bring the public debt of the end of the next fiscal year.-Reuter.
Mr. Burkinshaw, onu of Haupt- matin's lawyers, read the petition to a crowded courtroom. He attacked the speech of the New Jersey Attorney General, Mr. Willentz, to the jury, de-country claring it contained intemperate as- sertions and insinuationa,
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"SUBTERFUGE AND FRAUD" Mr. Willentz, roplying, described the petition as "subterfuge and fraud."
The judge held that if he granted the application he would be practically over-riding the New Jersey Court of Errors and the United States Supremie} 'U.S.
Court.
"Every known remedy in law has been used to save this prisoner from electrocution," he added.
Aftr the decising one of the defence lawyers remarked, "This is the end." -Renter
STILL HOPING.
Trenton, Jan. 14. Governor Hoffman of New Jersey repented to-day that he has not de- cided whether or not to reprieve Bruno Hauptmann.
AWAITS COURT
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The proceeds are to be devoted to the St. John Ambulance Association New Territory Clinies and for the
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New Territorieswomen and chlidren in parcials of schools are
kindly naked to co-operate with the St. John Ambulance Association, which is in urgent need of funds for the main- tenance of the New Territories Bene- volent work, where lives of expectant mothers and sick chlidren depend upon the the ministrations of St. John nurses.
Washington, Jan. 14. A thousand million dollars are at sinke is a result of the Supreme Court ruling ordering the return of $200,000,000 by the Federal Govern ment to the Louisiana rice millers. The question whether the larger sum is recoverable depends upon whether The Attorney-General, Mr. Willoutz, the Supreme Court rules as uncon however, says he is reliably informed stitutional the amendment to the that the Governor intends to grant a | A.A.A., stipulating that in the event reprieve;
of the A.A.A. proving unconstitutional process tax payers should be able to DOLE STRIKE THREAT sus the Government only for such parts of the tax as could be provod to have been paid from normal pro
Mrs. Hauptmann visited her husband to-day in the death cell and emerged from the prison smiling,
"Richard is feeling well and is still hopeful that something will turn up for the better," she said
Hauptmann's spiritual adviser, the Rev. John Matthiesen, ale visited the condemned man. He says that Hlaupt mann has hopes that new evidence will save his life.
Hauptmana's attorneys obtained the prisoner's signature to an application of habeas corpus for presentation to
fits, and which was not passed on to RELIEF PAY REDUCTIONS ON the consumer.
than
U.S. PACIFIC COAST
Should the amendment be upheld it. is believed the Government will be
Los Angeles, Jan. 14. compelled to return much less
Threats of a dalo strike and hun. $1,000,000,000, the total of the pro ccasing tax thus far collected.ger march of the unemployed has brought the southern relief situation Reuler Special.
to the verge of violenco.
Federal Judge Warren Davis-United PROPAGANDISTS
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REPUBLICANS CAN'T GET TIME
Washington, Jan. 14..
ON BICYCLES
STUDENTS TOURING NORTHERN CITIES
(Special to "Telegraph")
Nanking, Jan. 16. Eighteen students of Tsinghua The National and Columbia broad- University, Peiping, which recently casting systems have refused to sell formed a Patriots' Propaganda Corps, the Republican Party time for a arrived here last night.
entitled They travelled the whole distance skits, series of drafuatie
"Liberty at the Oron
Crossroads, on the on bicycles,
grounds that such presentations would One girl joined the Corps from discuss national issues on a basis of Shantung and the whole party is pro dramatic licence instead of on res-ceeding furthor southwardUnited ponsibly stated opinion.
Lenders of the party bitterly as- salled this attitude affected "by the political party in power which gulates the Barance of your licences.") -United ProRK,
LEAGUE FINANCE
·IMPROVEMENT
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re-
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PHILIPPINES TRADE
Nanking, Jan. 14, China's drop from first to fifth place among the nations doing busi ness with the Philippines has awaken ed the Chinese Government to the necessity of helping Sino-Philippine
Mr. Louis Finesilver, their leader, has organised the jobless men on re lief and warned the County Relief Committee that they aro staging A strike on January 28 in which "blood- ahed may resul" unless the orders for reducing payments are rescinded. -United Press.
Speeding Test Cases.
Washington, Jan. 14. Mr. Martin, representing the ad- ministration, introduced a bill for speeding up Supreme Court tests of constitutionality. If the bill is en- acted and the Federal Courts accept it would eliminate lengthy tie-ups in the lower courts-United Press.
SALARY REDUCTION
CHINESE CIVIL SERVANTS
· PRESENT PETITION
In connection with the proposed eut of the salaries of Government sor- vants, it is understood that a peti- tion was recently presented by the Chinese Civil servants asking the Government to reconsider its decision. Practically all the officials concerned signed their names on the petition, giving as their reason the heavy in- crease in prices of all commodities. When the United States took over Yesterday, It Is understood the Philippines in 1896
a reply way received by tradors had a virtual monopoly in the Chinese Civil Servante Associa Philippines market for eggs, hams, tion, sponsors for the petition. silks and cottons. Intensified Japan, from the Colonial Secretary to
the ese competition has reduced pur affect that the representations were chases from China' to a comparatively being considered. low figure.
trade.
Chinese
Chinese
tho
Geneva, Jan, 14. Tho. Longue of Nations finances for 1935 are the best yet reported, with To check this loss, the ministry of
balance of nine million Swiss Industries is. oncourtiging
The R.E. W.Os' and Senior N.C.O.s! francs from receipts over expenditure. | manufacturers to study Japanese Moss will be holding its usual fort
One million franes will be placed to methods so that they may be able to nightly whist drive and tombola in reserve, and the balance will be used compete on no equal basis with the the Meas, Wellington Barracks, to reduce members' contributions for Japanese In the Philippines market. | Friday next, January 17, commencing 1937-Router's Bulletin Servico. Union NewON.
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