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was until very recently alse accommodated in Beaconsfield"

The large additions to the Staff of the Sanitary Beard, however,

made it necessary for the Inspector of Schools to give up the

rooms hitherto used by him, and he has since been provided

with temperary accommodation in College Chambers, Glenealy,

at a cost to the Goverment of $60 a month. This mount will

also be saved by the removal of the Inspectorate of Schools

to the new buildings on the Praya Reclamation.

5.

The Audit Office has for many years been

provided with rooms in the Colonial Secretary's Office. It

has now become absolutely necessary, in view of the increase

in the Colonial Secretary's Staff, to resume passession of

the rooms so lent. One of them has already been resumed, and

the Local Auditer and his Clerk are at present accommodated

in one room only.

6.

In connection with the project of build-

ing these new Offices the Sanitary Board recently recommended

that on Sanitary grounds no Chinese employees excepting such

caretakers as were necessary for each set of Offices should

be housed in the buildings. The Department chiefly concerned

in this question is the Post Office, as there are 80 Chinese

Pestmen employed in that Department. It was reported by the

Acting Postmaster-General that he laid ne special stress upen

the advisability of quartering his Chinese Staff on the pre-

mises provided they were accommodated in the neighbourheed,

and accordingly I consulted the Executive Council on the

question. The Executive Council advised that no Chinese,

except caretakers, should be allowed to reside in the new

buildings, and that you should be asked to sanction the pre-

-vision