upon which subscribers wrote their names and the amount of their donation.
The original resolution therefore contained set forth the objects towards which subscriptions were solicited and given.
That form, if my memory serves me right, made mention of a Hospital to be built in Hongkong and not of a road between Kennedy Town and Aberdeen in particular.
RE 30 OCT 29
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Government House,
No. 1,274.
Hongkong, 27th September, 1899.
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Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 153 of 11th ultimo with reference to the expenditure of the funds subscribed for a memorial of Her Majesty's Jubilee in 1897.
The money was placed in the hands of Trustees, to be devoted
1. To the construction of a Road round the Island,
2. The building of a Hospital for Women and Children, and a Nursing Institute.
3. The Plans for the Hospital have been prepared, and the site acquired from the Government, and it is being proceeded with.
The construction of the Road has not been undertaken as yet for the following reasons.
4. Immediately after my arrival in the Colony I was addressed by the Director of Public Works by a letter dated 29th November 1898 in which he urged that some understanding should be arrived at with the Jubilee Committee on
The Right Honourable
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&c.
etc.