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Surveying Instruments......$550.(To meet increas-
-d liabilities.)
CHARITABLE SERVICES:-
Grant in aid of Tung Wah Hospital,
Kowloon,
10.
.$2,100. (Portion of $8,500
approved in 0.0. D. No. 20 of 23rd.
January, 1908.)
Increases and decreases on certain
subheads of Public Works Recurrent result in a saving of
$5,500 on this head.
11.
The programme of new Public Works
Extraordinary for 1910 is even more modest that it was for
the current year. There are only 7 new items involving an
estimated expenditure in 1910 or $97,600. I have dealt with
each of these items in my speech in Council, but I append
a brief summary of the reasons which render each of them
necessary.
(a). Chinese Staff Quarters, Kennedy Town
Hospital: $3,000.
During the course of an inspection
which I made on the 4th. September, 1907, I observed that
several large and permanent matsheds were in very close
proximity to Kennedy Town Hospital. As they were built in a
cutting in the hill, access to them could only be gained
from the side of the Hospital, and they appeared to me to
constitute