I trust Your Lordship will see
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fit to express satisfaction at the manner in which the
General Committee, the sub-Committee, and the Investigating
Committee carried out the work of collecting funds and
distributing relief, work which I am sure greatly lessened
the period during which the evil effects of the typhoon
were felt in the Colony. This work was very arduous and
the services of Sir Paul Chater, Chairman of the General
Committee, of Mr. Hewett and Mr. Hunter, Secretary and
Treasurer to that Committee, of Mr. Brewin, Chairman of the
Sub-Committee, and of Mr. Fung Wa Chun, Chairman of the
Investigating Committee, are specially worthy of Your Lordship's notice.
4.
The Committee suggest that the
balance of $35,255.42 should be taken charge of by the
Government as a trust fund to be used as the Governor may
from time to time direct in assisting people resident in
the Colony who may on future occasions suffer loss by
storms. I have on behalf of the Government accepted this
charge.
5.
Referring to the 42nd paragraph of the Despatches above quoted which dealt with the
question