HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
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7TH MAY, 1914.
PRESENT:–
HIS EXCELLENCY THE Governor, SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. H. KELLY, C.B. (General Officer Com- manding Troops).
HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and the motion was agreed to.
HIS EXCELLENCY-In the report of the Finance Committee which has just been adopted, item No. 12 is connected with the building of the New Law Courts. That sum, I am sorry to say, was not adequate. Still, the remuneration of the architects could not be ascertained until
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney- the accounts were finally closed. The General).
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial Treasurer).
HON. MR. A. F. CHURCHILL (Direc- tor of Public Works).
HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER (Captain Superintendent of Police).
HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G.
HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C. HON. MR. E. A. HEWETT, C.M.G. HON. MR. E. SHELLIM.
HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK.
MR. M. J. BREEN (Clerk of Councils).
Minutes
The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed.
Financial Minutes
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, .by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 13 to 16, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and the motion was agreed to.
Financial
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THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, command of H. E. the Governor, laid on the table the report of the Finance Com- mittee (No. 4), and moved its adoption.
usual custom is that they are paid by a commission of 3 31 per
which cent., amounted to somewhere about $1,000. I thought it just as well to mention that.
Papers
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table the following papers:-Report of the Captain Superintendent of Police for the year 1913; report of the Registrar of the Supreme Court for the year 1913; report of the Police Magistrates Courts for the year 1913; report of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway for the year 1913.
Nursing Staff at Government Civil Hospital
HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, in accord- ance with notice of motion, asked:
1. When was the decision arrived at to increase the staff of the Medical Department by two Probationers instead of by two Sisters; between what dates were the Probationers advertised for, and in what news- papers?
2. Has it been found by the Government. as the result of experience, that it is an easy matter to engage Probationers possessing satisfactory qualifications? Do not such Probationers, as a rule, require, during the first year of their engagement, to be carefully supervised by the Sisters?
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