174 plus their subscription. They were only raised lately to penalise more heavily residents in the Colony who persistently used the Nurses and refused to subscribe. Perhaps you may on consideration find yourself able to take the lower fees as a fairer estimate of the cost.
On hearing from you finally on the whole question we propose to call a Meeting of guarantors and original founders, to obtain their sanction to the transfer of the existing Association to Government.
I remain, etc.,
(Sgd.) Robert N. Piggott,
Hon. Sec.,
Hongkong Branch of the
C. N. Association.