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A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Recreation Grounds
Ordinance, 1909.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Recreation Short title. Grounds (Amendment) Ordinance, 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Recreation Grounds Ordi- nauce, 1909, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Recreation Grounds Ordinances, 1909 and 1914.
2. Section 2 (1) of the Recreation Grounds Ordinance, Amendment 1909, is hereby amended by the insertion of the words of section 2 "Chinese Recreation Ground" in the third line thereof after (1) of Ordi-
nance No. 35 the words "West End Park".
of 1909.
3. The following section shall be added to the Principal Addition of Ordinance :-~
new section to Ordinance No. 35 of 1909.
"4. The Governor shall have power to appoint a Power to
Committee who shall have power, subject to appoint
Committee. any regulations relating to the said Chinese Recreation Ground for the time being in force under the Public Places Regulation Ordinance, 1870, and subject to the approval of the Gov- ernor in any matter not dealt with in any such regulations, to manage the said Chinese Re- creation Ground and to expend for the benefit of the said Chinese Recreation Ground all revenue derived or to be derived therefrom."
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Objects and Reasons.
The Chinese Recreation Ground, which is situated at Possession Point near the western end of Hollywood Road and which has been set apart as an open space for the benefit of Chinese of the poorer class for over 30 years, is managed by a Committee consisting of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the two Chinese members of the Legislative Council. The powers of this Committee are vague and ill-defined, and the tenure of the ground and its appropriation as an open space are not ou a satisfactory basis. The object of this Bill is to provide that this open space shall be declared to be an open space for the purpose of public recreation within the meaning of the Recreation Grounds Ordinance, 1909, and to regularize and regulate the management of the ground by the Committee.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General,
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 386.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hongkong.
Disease.
Port or Place.
Restrictions in Force.
Authority.
Cholera.
Wuchow.
Medical examination; quarantine at the discre-Proclamation No. 22 dated
tion of the Health Officer.
24th November, 1914.