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Sondroure 6.

HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

7TH MAY, 1914.

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PRESENT;-

1 EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, SIR FRANCIS HENRY MAY, K.C.M.G.

15 EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. H. KELLY, C.B. (General Officer Com- maning Troops).

HO MR. CLAUD SEVERN (Colonial Secretary).

Hos Ma. J. H. KEMP (Attorney General

HON. R. E. D. C. WOLFE (Colonial Treasurer)

HON. MA. F. CHURCHILL tor of Publly Works).

ed. and the motion was agreed to.

HIS EXCELLENCY-In the report of the Finnce Committee which has just been adoted, item No. 12 is connected with the building of the New Law Courts. That sum am sorry to say, was not adequate. Still, the remuneration of the architects could not be ascertained until the accounts are finally closed. The usual custom is that they are paid by a cent., which commission of 3 per

I amounted to somewhere about $1,000.

(Directhought it just as well to mention that.

HON. MR. McI. MESSER (Captain Superintendent of Police).

HON. MR. WEI YUK, C.M.G. Hos. Mr. H.E. POLLOCK, K.C. Hos. Mr. E. A HEWETT. C.M.G. HON. MR. E. SHELLIM. Hos. MR. LAT HU PAK. MR. M. J BREEA (Clerk of Councils).

Minutes

The minutes of the st meeting were confirmed.

Financial Minutes

by

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. command of H.E. the Governor. laid on the table Financial Minutes Ms. 13 to 16, and moved that they be referred to the Fiuance Committee.

THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and the motion was agreed

Financial

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table the report of the Finance Co- mitter (No. 4), and moved its adoption

Papers

THE COLONIAL SECHETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid on the table the following paper-Report of the Captain Superintendent of Police for the year 1913: report of the Registrar of the Supreme Court for the year 1913; report of the Police Magistrates art for the year 1913; report of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railey

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Nursing Staff at Government

Civil Hospital

Hos. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, in accord ance with notice of motion, asked:-

1.- When was the decision arrived at to increase the stuff of the Medical Department by two Probationers instead of by two Sisters; between what dates were the Probationers advertised for, and in what Dews- papers?

2. Has it been found by the Government. as the result of experience, that it is au easy matter to engage Probationers possessing satisfactory qualifications? Do not such Probationers, as a rule. require, during the first year of their engagement, to be carefully supervised by the Sisters?

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