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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
25
13TH JULY, 1916.
PRESENT:--
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.MG.
HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).
Hon. MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and this was agreed to.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table report of proceedings of Finance Committee, No. 4, and moved that it be adopted.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER second-
HON. MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney-ed, and this was agreed to. General).
HON. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial Hon. Mr. Pollock and the Govern- Treasurer).
HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX (Secre- tary for Chinese Affairs).
HON. MR. W. CHATHAM,
(Director of Public Works).
C. M. G.
ment Civil Hospital Nursing Staff
HON. MR. POLLOCK asked the following questions: ---
(1.)--With reference to the statement,
HON. MR. C. McI. MESSER (Captain made in answer to my questions concern- Superintendent of Police).
HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G. HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK,
K.C.
HON. MR. E. SHELLIM.
HON. MR. D. LANDALE.
HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK.
HON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK.
ing the Government Nursing Staff, at the last meeting of the Legislative Council, to the following effect: In a further telegram, dated the 8th January, Mr. Bonar Law stated that the Colonial Nurs- ing Association were unable to say when they would be in a position to recom- mend candidates," is it not the fact that (1.) The Colonial Nursing Association
MR. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk of have recently sent out a Matron and a Councils).
Minutes
The minutes of the last meeting were confirmed.
Papers
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table the annual report of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, for the year 1915
Financial Minutes
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table financial minutes Nos. 16 and 17, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Comittee.
Sister to the Staff of the Peak Hospital in this Colony (a privately-owned Institu- tion), and is it not the fact that (2.) The owners of that Hospital have recently heard from the said Association that an- other Sister would be willing to come out to Hongkong to join that Hospital, if required? (3.) - Is it not also the fact that between May, 1915, and April, 1916, nurses have been sent out by the Colonial Nursing Association, as follows:-(i.) To Government Hospitals in British East Africa, 3; British Guiana, 1; Ceylon, 4; The Federated Malay States, 1; Gambia, 1; Gibraltar, 2; The Gold Coast, 1; Nigeria, 7; Nyassaland, 1; Sierra Leone, 2; The Straits Settlements, 2; and (ii.) to Nursing Associations in Canada, 1; Ceylon, 1; The Federated Malay States, 2; Mauritius, 1; South Africa, 1; The Straits Settlements, 2; Western Austra-