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two more Sub-Officers and three more Ambulanco Attendants.
The motor general service tender provided under
Special Expenditure is required for the conveyance of fire
brigade apparatus. At present equipment is piled on to the
fire engines, which are in consequence scriously overloaded. It is proposed to have one tender for Hong Kong and one for
Kowloon, but for next year provision for one only is made.
The pedestal hydrants, 40 in all, are in the Public Works
Department Store but can only be released on payment. Thirty
will be installed next year, leaving ten to be installed in the following year. The Government Civil Hospital and the
Mental Hospital are both in serious nced of improvement from
the fire point of view. It is therefore necessary to make
their fire fighting apparatus efficient, though as it is intended
to rebuild both institutions as soon as funds permit, the
expenditure has been kept down to the minimum. The Dennis
Turbine Pump is a replacement which will bring the Brigade morc
up to date. With the present tendency to erect higher buildings it is essential that the Fire Brigade should be
equipped with apparatus to reach the upper floors of these
buildings.
The necessary provision is made under sub-head 18.
HEAD. 16 SUPREME COURT.
The post of Deputy Registrar at £970 has been abolished.
Halsbury's"Laws of England", which I am informed are constantly referred to in Court by Bench and Counsel, are being published in a new edition. It is very necessary that the Judges and the Attorney General should be posscsscd of the
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