THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 15, 1934.
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Question 2.
Item.
(a) What is the present position.
(b) Whether the staff
of the P.W.D. is sufficient to cope with the work.
Post Office and Government
Office Building at Kow- loon.
Magistracy at Kowloon......
New Mental Hospital
Government Employee's
Housing Schemes.
Sketch plans have been prepared and forwarded to Government and the question now awaits consideration with the 1935 Estimates.
Yes.
Site preparation is in hand and good progress is
being made.
Yes.
Sketch plans have been prepared and are now
under consideration by Government.
Yes.
(a) Senior Officers' Quarters, May Road. Work- ing drawings have been prepared and a con- tract for site preparation will be let in about six weeks time.
Yes.
(b) New Quarters at Peak Wireless Station. A contract will shortly be let for this work.
Yes.
(c) New Quarters for the Director of the Royal Observatory. The work is completed and the house occupied.
Anti-Malarial Work
Good progress generally is being made in the
following areas :—
Yes.
Stanley Peninsula, Taikoo, Sookunpoo,
Lyemun and Kowloon Tong.
6. The Hon. Mr. ROBERT HORMUS KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D., pursuant to notice,
asked the following questions :---
Will the Government be good enough to state :-.
(1) What are the existing postal facilities for the New Territories, and in particular for Taipo Market, Un Long, Tsun Wan, Castle Peak, Kam Tin, Sheung Shui and Shatin?
(2) If the existing facilities are inadequate, will the Government establish small post offices at all or some of these places, or devise other means whereby the inhabitants thereof may be enabled to send and receive letters and other postal matters with greater convenience and less delay than they do at present?
The Colonial Secretary replied as follows:--
1. The only direct departmental services maintained in the New Territories are furnished by a postman attached to the office of the District Officer, North, Taipo, who serves Taipo Market and by a travelling postman who proceeds by train daily to Sheung Shui and thence by bus to Un Long where he effects local delivery, collection and sale of stamps. Otherwise the New Territories is served from the various Police Stations which exchange closed mails with the General Post Office daily and which effect district deliveries and sale of stamps in addition.
The particular districts referred to other than Taipo Market and Un Long namely Tsun Wan, Castle Peak, Kam Tin, Sheung Shui and Sha Tin are served by the Police Stations.
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