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did not desire to avail themselves of it.
On the 4th November we received your reply saying
that you considered the delay and general position regarding
the proposed extension to be unsatisfactory and agreeing
to pay £200 monthly to the end of the war to the parent
Hospital in lieu of proceeding with the Hongkong Extension
scheme.
Accordingly a letter was written making this
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proposal as an alternative to your original offer.
We
no. 2 &
c.
also gave notice that, in the event of the Hospital Committee
deciding to proceed with the Hongkong Extension scheme, we
should move certain resolutions applying the principles
already agreed to in the resolutions of the 25th September,
by providing for separate accounting, storekeeping and
paid staff, including the matron.
These conditions were accepted at a meeting held an
the 10th and it was agreed that
the Hongkong Extension
should be proceeded with at No. 82 Eaton Square.
Three days later, however, the President of the
Hospital, who had been in the Chair at that meeting, wrote
to the Secretary, reopening the question of limiting the
expenditure on the Hongkong Extension to the funds made