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was until very recently also accommodated in Beaconsfield.
The large additions to the Staff of the Sanitary Board, however,
made it necessary for the Inspector of Schools to give up the
rooms hitherto used by him, and he has since been provided
with temporary accommodation in College Chambers, Glenealy,
at a cost to the Government of $60 a month. This amount will
also be saved by the removal of the Inspectorate of Schools
to the new buildings on the Praya Reclamation.
5.
The Audit Office has for many years been
provided with rooms in the Colonial Secretary's Office. It
has now become absolutely necessary, in view of the increase
in the Colonial Secretary's Staff, to resume possession of
the rooms so lent. One of them has already been resumed, and
the Local Auditor and his Clerk are at present accommodated
in one room only.
6.
In connection with the project of building these new Offices the Sanitary Board recently recommended
that on Sanitary grounds no Chinese employees excepting such
caretakers as were necessary for each set of Offices should
be housed in the buildings. The Department chiefly concerned
in this question is the Post Office, as there are 80 Chinese
Postmen employed in that Department. It was reported by the
Acting Postmaster-General that he laid no special stress upon
the advisability of quartering his Chinese Staff on the premises,
provided they were accommodated in the neighbourhood,
and accordingly I consulted the Executive Council on the
question. The Executive Council advised that no Chinese,
except caretakers, should be allowed to reside in the new
buildings, and that you should be asked to sanction the provision