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provide at present, of be look to the heavy and urgent demands on our limited Colonial Revenue.
4. The fact is that, in this case, as in the case of the Gaol, of the Hospital, and other public Institutions at Stanley, the Number of persons to be provided for, and the Sanitary requirements of the present day, have outgrown the original buildings. And that these buildings were planned, in the first instance, with so little foresight that there is often no space for extension and improvement.
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5. On the whole, I am inclined to favour proceeding on the lines suggested by the Surveyor-General, and of expending, during the course of this Year, a sum of about twenty thousand dollars in the works most urgently required in connexion with the Police Stations. I shall be glad to be favoured with Your Lordship's instructions on this point.
6. I may take this opportunity of reporting that I yesterday inspected the new Police Station now in course of construction at Kowloon.