No. 5.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
at a Meeting held on the 31st July, 1903.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Director of Public Works (WILLIAM CHATHAM), Chairman.
the Colonial Treasurer (ALEXANDER MacDonald THOMSON).
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Sir CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, Kt., C.M.G.
CHARLES WEDDERBURN DICKSON.
ROBERT GORDON SHEWAN.
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School at Yaumati. (C.S.O.
9).
The Chairman laid before the Committee a plan and estimate for the construction of a School at Yaumati capable of accommodating about 180 pupils, and explained that the school was intended for Chinese children and was to be erected in fulfilment of the promise made to Mr. Ho TUNG when he sanctioned the exclusive use, for the education of European children, of the school built by him in Kowloon.
The estimated cost was as follows:-
Building, Fitttings,
Total,
$19,500
2,000
$21,500
The Committee unanimously agreed to recommend that a vote be taken to enable the work to be proceeded with at once.
The Committee then adjourned.
Laid before the Legislative Council this 10th day of August, 1903.
R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
25-11.8.08.
W. CHATHAM, Chairman.