CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3] — Page 343

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Sub-Enclosure 2.

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Petition from ett Kwan Hoi-Chin,

Wa

Chairman of the Sungta Hospital.

Petitioner, after having carried on

trade in Valifornia for

time,

returned to Canton about ten year ago,

when his friends

1cre

good enough to show their kindness to him by electing

manager

him.

of the Man On Inverance.

Company, which post he has held for years. Last year, the community

feie

or sur

of Hongkong honoured him by electing him to the position of Chairman of the Jung Na Hospital . In the is the moon (Jesse 18806)

the Cocuton Floods occurred,

of that

4 years when the Directors of the Hospital under.

-took the work

of relieving the distressed, which they contimed until the middle of the 7th moon (August, 1885). A balame. of over eight thonernd dollar ($8,000) then remained, which gradually increased by remittances from foreign

pook to over

thirty

one thousand dollar.

($31,000)