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The HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1892.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 483.
The following Minutes are published.
By Command,
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 26th November, 1892.
No. 24.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Thursday, the 10th day of November, 1892 :-
table.
PRESENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART), President. The Director of Public Works, (The Honourable FRANCIS ALFRED COOPER), Vice-President. The Captain Superintendent of Police, (Major-General ALEXANDER HERMAN ADAM GORDON). The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES). NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
LAU WAI CHUN, Esquire.
The Honourable Dr. Ho KAI.
JOHN DAVID HUMPHREYS, Esquire.
JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.
Dr. JAMES CANTLIE.
ABSENT:
Minutes. The minutes of a meeting held on the 27th October, 1892, were read and confirmed.
New Member.—The President addressed the Board and welcomed Mr. LAU WAI CHUN to his seat at the Board's
Mr. LAU WAI CHUN replied.
Mortality Returns.--The returns for the weeks ended the 29th October and 5th November, 1892--which had been circulated to Members-were laid on the table.
Cattle Depôt.-A Minute from the Honourable Colonial Secretary informing the Board that the question of constructing a cattle depôt for the Kau-lung district is receiving the attention of the Honourable the Director of Public Works and that plans and estimates for the proposed work will be prepared by him as soon as practicable was read.
Defective Drains.-A report by the Surveyor on the condition of the house drains at Nos. 64 to 74, (even numbers) Market Street; 11 to 31, (odd numbers) Pound Lane; to 8, Fuk On Lane; and 1 to 8, Ping On Hong was read.
The Vice-President moved,—
That the owners of the houses in question be called on to re-drain them in accordance with the law governing
house-drainage and to execute the other repairs recommended by the Surveyor in his report.
Mr. EDE seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Public Laundries.-Two Petitions--which had been circulated to Members-from the Public Washermen praying that they be permitted to continue to use the public streams for their trade purposes were laid on the table and the Minutes on the circulating cover read.
A discussion ensued.
It was agreed that a reply be sent to the Honourable Colonial Secretary in the sense of the Minute on the subject matter of the Petitions by Mr. EDE, and that in the meantime the Secretary draft a memorandum on the whole subject of public washing in the Colony for the consideration of the Board.
Notices to abate a Nuisance.-A Petition-which had been circulated to Members-from the Salt Fish Dealers in the Sai-ying-poon district requesting that the notices which had been served on them to abate an alleged nuisance be reviewed and withdrawn was laid on the table and the Minutes on the circulating cover read.
A discussion ensued.
It was agreed that the legal questions raised by Mr. FRANCIS, Q.C., in his Minute on the circulating cover be transmitted to the Honourable Colonial Secretary with a request that they be referred to the Honourable Attorney General for his opinion. It was also agreed that the Petitioners be informed that the questions raised in their petition are under consideration.
Adjournment.-The Board then adjourned till Thursday, the 24th day of November, 1892.
J. H. STEWARt Lockhart,
President.
Read and confirmed this 24th day of November, 1892.
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Secretary.