CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10] — Page 95

310.363

No.

Hokong.

Fou

sir,

Goverment House,

Hongkong, 21st. July, 1903.

C.O.

94

31927

27 AUG 03

13584

I have the honour to acknowledge the re-

ceipt of your Despatch No. 179 of the 14th. May, and to in-

form you that I have again given my serious consideration to

the question of the Staff of the Public Works Department, and

am still strongly of opinion that the Department is in urgent need of another Executive Engineer and that neither the appoint-

ment of Mr. Jones as Assistant Director of Public Works nor

the appointment of a Sanitary Commissioner, if it wore decided

to create such a post, has rendered or would render such an

addition to the responsible Staff of the Department unnecessary.

I enclose a copy of a minute by the

2.

Director of Public Works, in which he shows reasons for his

belief that the duties which the new Public Health and Buildings

Ordinance will throw upon him are not identical with and are

independent of the duties to be performed by the Sanitary

Commissioner; and I would invite your attention to his renark

that where, in the Bill finally passed, the words

Commissioner" wore deleted, the words "Board" or "Medical

Officer of Health" were almost invariably substituted; and

"Sanitary

Pod July 192.

1

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

that the duties to be performed under the Ordinance by the

Public THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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