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Office to provide the necessary accommodation. $4,500 has

been inserted for the construction of a permanent stairway

leading from the ballroom at Government House to the ground

below for the convenience of guests. I have included

$8,000 for an additional room at Queen's College to re-

-place the very limited and temporary accommodation at

present available for the normal class and to provide for

its expansion next year in connection with a scheme for

supplying the Anglo-Chinese Schools with a trained native

staff (see Education Estimates). $2,200 has been estimated

for a market at Aberdeen on the recommendation of the

Sanitary Board. The work will be productive. Plans of the

various buildings are enclosed.

The sun inserted under "Communica-

-tions" for new roads in Kowloon will be devoted to the

extension of Robinson Road and of Argyll Street which will

cross it at right angles and connect Yaumati with the

railway station of that name; and, as far as funds will

permit, to the development of main thoroughfares in the

Conclosure 7.

peninsula upon which the future of tramways so much

depends. The construction of a road from Castle Peak to

Pingshan, to be extended as soon as money becomes avail-

-able though Unlong and Santin to Shataukok, will absorb

most