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He thought that some provision would have to be
made for agriculture, particularly irrigation
for
in the new territories, and fisheries, but the
Roula
remainder of the £1,000,000 should be used for
housing.
I while he might be
light
/ of light construction
Queris
King's
and thre foot had had to replace this by
Company ennstruction
(b) Education.
Bishop Hall had organised
tell
workers' schools which rapidly get into
Communist hands. The children now defied
headmasters whom the Government tried to
introduce. Mr Nicoll had thought that the
best solution would be to take over all schools
but this proposal was impracticable on financial
grounds. Bishop Hall had said that there might
be as many as 50,000 children not in school
clubdich out/nobody really knew how many were actually
involved. The Director of Education thought
that there was adequate schooling for the
Colony's permanent population. The Government
were building new schools
ols/and
schools and hoped to open
this year one new secondary school taking 800
pupils and one primary school for 1000 pupils.
added that the military authorities
Mr Nicoll
had taken the biggest secondary school in
Hong Kong for a Services hospital. He very
much hoped that it would become possible for
Sir Christopher Cox to visit Hong Kong some
time during the course of year.
(c) Medical. The Medical Department were
very active and the D.M.S. thought that the
diet was generally satisfactory and public
health good. In Chinese eating houses it
was a matter of common observation that the
food/