CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 607

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Congkong.

My Lord,

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With reference to Mr. Lyttelton's

Despatch No. 131 of the 23rd. of June, 1905, I have the

honour to transmit the enclosed copy of a letter from the

Secretary to the Hongkong College of Medicine and to

recommend that in view of Mr. Ng Li Ring's generous offer

the sites referred to in Sir Matthew Nathan's Despatch No.

135 of the 19th. of May, 1905, be granted free of charge

to the Hongkong College of Medicine for the sole purposes

of the erection of lecture rooms, laboratories, libraries,

offices, dissecting rooms and anatomy lecture rooms in

connection with the College, and for so long as the

buildings erected on the land are used for the above-

-mentioned purposes only, and on the distinct understanding

that the sum of $20,000 is expended on some of such build-

-ings before the end of March, 1909, which will be in the

beginning

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF ELGIN,

K.G.,

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