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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
War Expenditure
The Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000) in aid of the vote Mis- cellaneous Services, War Department Expenditure.
THE CHAIRMAN-This is to complete the sum required under the arrangement by which the Colony bears the expense of the prisoners of war. This will carry us on to the end of the year.
The vote was agreed to.
Recreation Grounds
The Governor recommended the Council vote sum of three hundred and eighty dollars ($380) in aid of the vote
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Public Works, Recurrent, Hongkong, Miscellaneous, Maintenance of Public Recreation Grounds.
THE CHAIRMAN-About three years ago quarters were built at Breezy Point, and the West End Park playground there, which had been used by three schools for some years, was taken up by the quarters and the Government undertook, in conse- quence, to make a new playground at a cost of $2,500. That ground was laid out, but it has since been found that owing to the making of the ground a large amount of water has come down the bank bringing a lot of rocks, etc., on to the ground. The channelling has also been blocked up, and it has become a breeding The work cost place for mosquitoes. $386.98, and the balance required is $380.
The vote was agreed to.
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