No. 1.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
PUBLIC
OF THE
WORKS
COMMITTEE
at a Meeting held on the 16th May, 1907.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Director of Public Works (WILLIAM CHATHAM), Chairman.
the Colonial Treasurer, (CHARLES MCILVAINE MEsser).
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Mr. EDBERT ANSGAR HEWETT.
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Mr. EDWARD OSBORNE.
Mr. WILLIAM JARDINE GRESSON.
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Branch Post Office in Wanchai District.--(I in C.S.O. 10152/04.)
The Chairman explained that the opinion of the Committee was desired on the question of the site upon which the Branch Post Office should be erected. It was originally intended to alter No. 3 Police Station, in Queen's Road East, to adapt it for a Post Office but the building was found to be in such a defective condition that it was ordered to be pulled down. The Postmaster General had since represented that it would be preferable to locate the Post Office on the Praya and had suggested that it should be in the vicinity of No: 2 Police Station.
After discussion, it was unanimously agreed to recommend that the building should be erected on the reclamation adjoining No. 2 Police Station.
New Path from May Road to Barker Road-(C.S.O. 3411/1907.)
The Chairman laid before the Committee a plan showing a proposed path extending from a point in May Road adjoining the Tramway to a point in Barker Road close by the Victoria Hospital and explained that it would form a much more direct route from the City to the Victoria Hospital than either of those existing at present. It would also connect up with the existing path from Barker Road to Plantation Road. The estimated cost of the work was $3,000.
It was unanimously agreed to recommend that the path be made.
The Committee then adjourned.
Laid before the Legislative Council this 23rd day of May, 1907.
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils,
W. CHATHAM,
Chairman.