No. 5.
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No. 1919
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HONGKONG.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
at a Meeting held on the 14th November, 1919.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency
the Governor, 23rd December, 1919.
PRESENT:
The Honourable the Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM, C.M.G.), Chairman.
the Colonial Treasurer, (CHARLES MOILVAINE MESSER, O.B.E.). Mr. Ho Foок.
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ABSENT:
Mr. EDWARD VICTOR DAVID PARR.
The Honourable Mr. CHALONER GRENVILLE ALABASTER, Ó.B.E., attended the meeting by request.
Proposal to construct a small trough-closet and urinal at Barker Road Station. (C.S.O. 3160/1919.)
The Chairman submitted plans showing the levels of the roads in the vicinity of Barker Road Station and the position in which it was proposed by Government to con- struct the convenience. The position was on the hillside immediately to the north of the Station and below the level of Plantation Road, the roof of the proposed structure being about level with the road. With regard to the two sites suggested by the Sub-Commit- tee of the Sanitary Board in their report dated the 14th August, 1919, he explained that, owing to their distance from the Station and the steepness of Plantation Road, it was extremely improbable that the existing nuisance would be remedied if the convenience were located on either of them. He mentioned that trough-closets existed in several parts of the City, in proximity to houses of a superior class, occupied by Europeans, and no complaint with regard to these had reached him.
Mr. Alabaster stated that he had not realized, from the plan submitted to the Sani- tary Board, that the site proposed by the Government was in the position which had been explained. He therefore withdrew his opposition to the proposal.
It was unanimously agreed to recommend that the construction of the convenience in the position proposed by Government be proceeded with.
W. CHATHAM, Chairman.
Laid before the Legislative Council this 23rd day of December, 1919.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Clerk of Councils.