No. 2.
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HONGKONG.
No. 9
1911
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
PUBLIC WORKS
COMMITTEE
at a Meeting held on the 8th June, 1911.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of lis Excellency the Governor, July 6th, 1911.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM, C.M.G.), Chairman.
the Colonial Treasurer, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).
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Mr. WEI YUK, C.M.G.
Mr. CHARLES MONTAGUE EDE.
Mr. CHARLES HENDERSON Ross.
Royal Square,-Fencing in Gardens. (C.S.O. 4287/1904.)
The Chairman read the following minutes:-
Minute by His Excellency the Governor, dated 14th November, 1910.
the Colonial Secretary, dated 22nd December, 1910. His Excellency the Governor, dated 21st May, 1911.
His Excellency the Governor, dated 26th May, 1911.
The members of the Committee, who had studied the conditions on the ground, were of opinion that the pattern of the existing iron railings and granite pillars enclosing the gardens belonging to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank should be adopted for the gardens belonging to the Government on the following grounds :--
(a.) They are sufficiently elegant.
(b.) They are reasonably inexpensive.
(c.) They are sufficiently high to exclude intruders.
The Committee then adjourned.
Laid before the Legislative Council this 6th day of July, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils.
W. CHATHAM, Chairman.