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urge
the
raising of a loan for
the purpose.
The only debt owing
by the Colony
is
one
of £200,000
raised for Defensive and other
Works in 1887. It is hoped that
this loan will be paid off in
1907.
If
so it cannot be
said that Hongkong has
paid more than a fair share
towards the
many public
works executed during recent
years in Hongkong.
1.
The second
proposal of the Surveyor General
is to build a Gaol Block, so as
to relieve the overcrowding.
It is scarcely fair that the entire
cost of such a building
as a New Prison should fall upon
the present generation, who I venture to think have already
paid largely
for the new
Gaol. This
was suggested
by
a dispatch written by
William Marsh in 1889, No 87
of the 16th
of March. I cannot
say that I am
in favour...