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themselves so strongly felt that it is very doubtful

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whether if the private nursing is not taken over by the

Government, it will continue to exist in Hongkong.

8.

The terms on which it is proposed

that the funds of the Association now amounting to some

$18,000 are to be transferred to the Government are, as

will be seen from the correspondence enclosed, as follows:-

(1). The Government to draw on the Guarantee Fund

of the Institution up to its full amount for the necessary

initial expenditure including the provision and fitting up

of quarters adjoining the Staff Quarters of the Government

Civil Hospital and the payment of passages if necessary.

(2). On the quarters being ready for occupation

the Government to engage the services of 2 nursing sisters

on the same terms as those on which the Government nursing

sisters are at present serving, but the engagement to be

for private nursing with the condition that after three

years wholly satisfactory service a sister shall be offered

the first vacancy that may occur on the hospital nursing

staff of the Colony.

(3). As soon as the Government Nursing Sisters

are available the Hongkong Nursing Institution to cease to

exist, the balance of its funds, if any, being transferred

to the Government.

(4). Either or both the nurses in the employ of

the Institution at the time Government takes over its work to be given the option of being transferred to Government employ under the conditions mentioned in (2) above, any time they have already served being counted towards the 3 years referred to in that condition. Failing their accept-

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