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(Cuntinued from Page 10.) construction of the gaol in the Immediate future. In the opinion of the Government the project for rebuilding the Government Civil Hospital will have priority, therefore I do not think we are wrong in assuming it will be something Mke ten years bafors we have a new gaol.
Unofficials Confer
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Machines Approved. H. E. The Governor.-I would suggest that no change be made in the printing Estimates but that again the Government will give an undertaking to incur no expenditure for Increasing the printery without prior roference to the Legislativa Council understand that the view of the Unofficial members is that the large scheme should not be un dertaken.
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Apparently the Un- official members are not al- together clear in their minds
original Whether the
scheme, involving an expenditure of $40, 000, should stand. That we will go into later on and the question of staff can also be settled then.
The Colonial Secretary-I may take it that the two machines are definitely approved?
Hon. Sir Henry Pollock-Yes,.
upon. The same may be said with regard to the road between the gap above Sai Wan Bay and the gap leading down to Shok O. Ag to the gap abové Sai Wan Boy and Shaukiwan, there is a great deal of hilly country with pleasant pro spects upon which people could, if they were so disposed, have built, but they have not in fact done so.. Having regard to the important public works held up. I certainly do not think this is a time when we can afford to spend money un any portion of this Sai Kung Road. Therefore I beg to move ·
"That the item of 88,840,750 for Public Works Extraordinary be reduced to $3,640,750 by the omission from it of the sum of $200,000 for the proposed road to Sal Kung in the Estimates for 1930, being Item 110 on page 88 of those Estimates.".
I may say again I have conferred with my Unofficial colleagues on the question as to whether wa" should spend the money on this road or not, ond they were, and are still, with the exception of, I think, Mr. Braga, of the opinion that this money should not be spent.
Governor's Reply.
H. E. The Governor.-I am afraid this is a matter on which I cannot accept the views express ed by the Hon. Uno/Lcial Membor. In my opinion the time has now come whan we must set to work
Hon. Sir Henry Pollock should like to confer with my Unofficial colleagues on what you have just said. There is an alternative proposal made by the Government that we should accept the printing machines and a loss vote for the offices.
The Colonial Secretary definitely. that connexion I should like
The Sai Kung Road. Say that I am told by the
In connexion with the sum of Superintendent of the Gaol that a linotype machine will save the $3,840,760 for Public Works, work of about 20 compositors. Extraordinary, Hon. Sir Henry The Unofficial members having Pollock said-With regard to the conferred together, Hon. Sir question of making the road to Henry Pollock said. As the re Sai Kung, I think I may fairly are claim to have even more know. sult of the conference wo prepared to accept the vote ao lodge than Your Excellency of the far as it relates to the linotype country in question, because for and Rota Print machines. We 25 years I was cruising about in think the number of officers should a cruising yacht in the waters of be kept as at present. The now the New Territory and I quite ad- posts should not be inserted in mit that, this road would open up the, question whether the material i cannot agree that with so much Kowloon. It will never be deve- used for printing paper is of too expenditure held up on the Gov-loped by tramway as the Peak dis- good a quality as used in the ernment Civil Hospital, the newtrict on the island was developed; gaol and whether some economy prison, markets, improved system it can only be developed by motor can be effected.
of broadcasting and even carry road. It is not to the point to say H." E. The Governor. I gathering on imperfectly and incom- that houses have not yet been built along the Shek O Road or on the you are definitely of opinion that pletely with the the printery should not be ex-Causeway Bay, and Shaukiwan. hills above Sai Wan. This is a
question of providing hilly resi that we should be any the wiser dences for the dwellers in Kow in starting off on a new road for son, and I think it is most Im- Sai Kung or any portion of it.. portant that some opportunity to the Taipo should now be afforded those who With reference Road, it is quite true that the wish to live on the hilltops in Kov near part of the road is no doubt loon to do so. They cannot do within the waterworks reservation that along the Taipo Road, at least large until they get to the bills beyond aren, but there is a very stretch of the road before you get Taipo. When they get as far as to. Taipo which is more or less that, then, they are too distant high up, in a pleasant position from Kowloon to come in to their and which has not been built (Continued on Page 13.)
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 25th, 1929. the Estimates. Another point is a very beautiful district, but, Sir, and develop the hilly district above
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