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The Bluff,

Peak, 12th. March, 1901,

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The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary.

Dear Sir,

At a Jeneral Meeting of the Residents of this Colony held in the City Hall, on Saturday, the 9th, instant it was unanimously resolved to establish a Nursing Association in Hongkong, for the purpose of providing Private Nurses who shall be available for the Community. Such an Institution cannot be self- supporting, owing to the distance of this Colony from home, which will entail on the Association the cost of passage-money, in addition to the salaries and maintenance, when unemployed, of the Nurses engaged.

As has been pointed out by His Excel- lency the Governor, the establishment of such an organization, sup- parted and controlled by the Community is likely to affect a 000- siderable saving of the Public Funda.

I am directed by the Committes of the Hongkang Nursing Association to ask you to be good enough to bring these facts to the natice of His Excellency the Governor, in the hope that His Excellency may see fit to recommend a grant to the funds of the Association.

I have etoi,

(Sd.) Catherine Gibba,

Honorary Secretary, Hongkong Nursing Association.