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(c) Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Mr. T. N. Chau,—Chinese members of the Sanitary Board.
(d) Mr. M. K. Lo,—Chairman of the Tung Wa Hospital Committee.
(e) Mr. Ma Chui Chiu,—Senior member of the Po Leung Kuk Committee.
(f) Mr. Ho Sing Chau,—Chairman of the Kwong Wa Hospital Committee.
(g) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Chairman).
Mr. Chan Tin Shan succeeded Mr. Ma Chui Chiu in April as the representative of the Po Leung Kuk Committee.
31. The Committee met on 10 occasions at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs. Mr. Wong Kwong Tin acted as honorary secretary with the assistance of Mr. R. R. Todd of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
32. During the year contributions amounting to $8,000.00 from the surplus funds of the Tin Hau and Tam Kung Temples at Shaukiwan were made towards the cost of the new Shaukiwan public dispensary, and a sum of $28,000.00 from the balance to the credit of the Tin Hau Temple at Yaumati was granted to the Kwong Wa Hospital for the new Maternity Block. The committee also advanced from the general fund a sum of $3,000.00 towards the reconstruction on a new site of the Pak Tai Temple at Hok Un, the original temple having been demolished in the course of improvements in the locality.
33. Temples taken over and let by tender by the Committee during the year included the following:
Pak Tai Temple, Cheung Chau Island,
Ngai Yee Pak Kung Temple, Quarry Bay,
Tam Kung Temple, Wong Nei Chung,
Tin Hau Temple, Aberdeen,
Pak Tai Temple, Hok Un,
Tin Hau Temple, Ping Chau Island,
Hung Shing Temple, Aplichau,
Kun Yam Temple, Hung Hom.
THE WATER SHORTAGE.
34. Figures and facts concerning the water famine of 1929 will be found in the report of the department concerned but some recognition seems appropriate here of the exemplary patience shown by the Chinese Community in the face of great discomfort and often of actual hardship. For, some six months wide areas of the City were entirely dependent on water carried from street fountains. Those who could afford to hire carriers did so, though many found the cost a serious burden. Others