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3 Gov. 444 [an/mail]
Gues
10.8.34.
prepes als
for
Trache
considerations,
general
School
in
H. K.,
financial
etc.
Reques 13
tel
approval.
In September, 1933, Mr. White,
Principal of the Junior Technical School,
reported on the organisation etc. of Trade
Schools in Malaya with reference to the
institution of a Trade School in Hong Kong.
His report is under cover of (1). It is now
proposed to build a trade school. No details
are given of the building which it is proposed
to erect, nor any firm estimate of the cost of
the proposed building. The Building Contractors'
Association, who have agreed to do the work of
building at cost price, estimate that the
maximum cost will amount to $180,000 as against
the Public Works Department estimate of $260,000.
It is estimated that when the trade
school is in full running order (i.e. four years
after it is opened) the annual recurrent cost
to Government will amount to $26,420.
The financial outlook of the Hong Kong
Government gives some cause for anxiety and it
is of more than ordinary importance that
expenditure should not be sanctioned without the
most careful consideration.
It would have been
useful if we could have had some details of the
proposals, and it may be considered desirable
to ask for further information before the
expenditure on the buildings is sanctioned.
On
the whole, however, since it is clear that the
erection of buildings for the Trade School is
of