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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.-The unofficial members
prepared to accept these motions.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR.-All of them?
HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.-Yes, all of them,
are
H.E. THE GOVERNOR.—Then I will put it to the Council that the first motion be adopted:
(a) That this Council approves the construction of the works connected with the Shing Mun Water Supply Scheme as set out in Appendix VI (a), Head 1, Sub-Head 1, of the draft estimates of expenditure for 1930 at an estimated cost of $4,158,509.40.
(b) That this Council approves of a sum of $3,500,000 out of the said sum of $4,158,509.40 being charged to the Public Works (1927) Loan, and further sanctions the expenditure of $2,221,876.42 actually incurred up to the 31st December, 1928, the expenditure of $1,182,274.19 estimated to be incur- red during the financial year 1929 and the expenditure of $95,849.39 estimated to be incurred during the financial year 1930, which three last mentioned sums amount in all to the aforesaid sum of $3,500,000,
(c) That this Council approves the expenditure of a further sum of $579,150.61 on the said Shing Mun Valley Water Supply Scheme during the financial year 1930, which sum shall be met from a further loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony.
The motion was carried.
HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR.—I put it to the Council that the second motion be adopted:
That this Council approves the expenditure of a sum of $419,771.26 on Harbour Development as set out in Appendix VI (a), Head 2, Sub-head 1, of the draft Estimates of Expenditure for the year 1930 and authorizes this sum to be charged to the Public Works (1927) Loan, and further sanctions the expenditure out of this sum of the sum of $403,729.68 actually incurred to the 31st December, 1928, and of the sum of $16,041.58 estimated to be incurred in the financial year 1929. The motion was carried.
KAI TAK AERODROME,
H.E. THE GOVERNOR.-I put it to the Council that the third motion be adopted:
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