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Sir,

Jonclosure 1.

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REG 1 SEP 10]

Registrar General's Office,

Hongkong,

30th June,

1910.

In 1907 the Government gave the Chinese Public Dis- pensaries a yearly lease of the triangular piece of ground in Kau U Fong adjacent to I.L. 1754 on which to keep/the ambulance and dead vans belonging to the Central Dispensary which is built on I.L. 1747. The Committee accepted this piece of land for want of something better they originally wished to obtain a pisce adjacent to the dispensary and only separated from it by a lane and Mr. Tsang King promised to build a shed in which to keep the vans. Mr.Tsang got into money difficulties and I went on leave, and nothing was done. Since my return Mr.Ho Kom-tong has promised to build the shed, but I wished to combine with it quarters for the ambulance coolies whom the Sanitary Department

In order to no longer wish to house in their coolies quarters. ascertain whether the site already granted us could be utilised, I visited it the other day with Mr.Turner, who tells me he questions whether there is even room for two dead vans and an ambulance on the site, and thinks that under the present Building Laws a building to house five coolies as well is out

of the question.

I see from 4465/05 C.8.0.which has been referred to me that I have no time to lose if I wish to securo on behalf of the Dispensaries Committee a suitable site in Kau U Fong, and I

Hon.Mr.A.if.Thomson,

Colonial Secretary.

therefore