CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7] — Page 270

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

135.

No.

gkong.

My Lord,

266

23785

Rut 2 JUL 06

Government House,

Hongkong, 30th. May, 1906.

In connection with the subject

recently referred to Your Lordship of a third Judge being

required for the Supreme Court of this Colony, I have the

honour to inform Your Lordship that though in my opinion

this requirement is not pressing at the present time such

provision will probably be necessary in the course of the

next ten years.

2.

In these circumstances it seems

advisable that provision should be made for a third Court

in the building which is now in course of construction

and of which the ground floor is approaching completion.

It has been suggested to me that

3.

this could most suitably be now done by dividing the

Library as at present designed into 2 apartments by inter-

-posing a floor, and utilizing the lower room thus formed,

which could be given a height of 19 feet in the clear,

88

A

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE BARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

80+ 1

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