4.5.0.
97 of 1883.
Tung-wa Land-slip,
(3.) Read:-A Petition from the Committee of the Tung-wu Hospital, dated the 1st ultimo, praying that the Government might bear the expense of repairing the land-slip at the back of the Tung-wa Hospital, which in the estimation of the Surveyor General would cost about $1,000.
Read also:--The Registrar General's and the Surveyor General's reports on the Petition, dated respectively the 8th and the 19th May, 1883.
The Committee finding that the Tung-wa Hospital is a useful charitable institution among the Chinese Community and that the Tung-wa Hospital Committee have recently spent a large sum of money in erecting a number of smallpox wards in connection with the Hospital, are disposed to overlook the error of judgment, on the part of the Directors in permitting the excavations adjoining the Hospital to be carried to a greater extent than was safe, and under these circumstances recommend that a moiety of the cost of constructing a retaining wall, such moiety not to exceed $1,000, be voted, to be paid only on a Certificate by the Surveyor General that the work has been properly done.
Mr. PRICE dissents, as the Tung-wa Committee were duly warned by him that a land-slip would occur unless a retaining wall was built,
The Chairman adjourns the Committee sine die.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
W. H. MARSH, Chairman
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