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limited are the means and opportunities
of this tropical rock,
to the preservation of health, but from
which unfortunately they
are debarred.
And how greatly
the health both
of
ladies
and children are tried by
the length and severity of the summer
of Hong Kong.
It has long been the opinion
of competent medical authorities that the acquisition of a ladies' recreation ground would be a public boon,
of the greatest sanitary importance,
varying
the dull monotony of life and inducing ladies to take
the exercise so
needful in the tropics.
They will have parties at long intervals,
hampered by the absence
of any
suitable
place.
We would point out that in
Bombay and other towns of India,
as also in Shanghai, small
concessions of
land have been
graciously made by the Local Authorities to the ladies of those places
for the purposes of public health and
recreations, and we submit that there
would be ample precedent in this
Colony for a Concession such as
we