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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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PRESENT:--

286 AUGUST, 1917.

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

HIS EXCELLENCY MAJOR-GENERAL F. VENTRIS (General Officer Commanding Troops in China).

HON. MR. CLAUD SEVERN, C... (Colonial Secretary).

HON, MR. J. H. KEMP (Attorney General).

HON. MR. McI, MESSEA (Colonia! Treasurer and Captain-Superintendent of Police).

HON. MR. E. R. HALLIFAX Mecre- tary for Chinese Affairs).

HON. MR. W. CHATHAM, Co. (Director of Public Works).

HON. MR. WEI YUK, C-4, G- HON. MR. LAU CHU PAK. HON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK, 1-0. HON. MR. R. G. SHEWAN.

HON. MR. C. E. ANTON.

Hos. M. S. H. DODWELL.

Mr. A. G. M. FLETCHER (Clerk

Councils).

Minutes

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1916 Medical and Sanitary Reports ful the year 1018; Report of the Director of Education for 1916. Also quarterly return of excesses on sub-heads, met by savings under heads of expenditure; report on the West River Flood Relief Fund, 1914, report of the Committee appointed to report on the teaching of English.

Financial

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of HE. the Governor, laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 0 to 32, and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.

THE COLONIAL TREASURER second- ed, and this was agreed to.

Rent Allowances

H.E. THE GOVERNOR, with reference to the financial minute recommending a vote of $30,000 for rent allowances," said :- In Financial Minute No. 81 the Council is asked to vote a sum of $30,000 under the beading Miscellaneous Services, Rent As hon. members are of Allowances.

aware, the Government haş during recent years engaged in building quarters for the subordinate European Staff, in- cluding Overseers, Revenue Officers, Railway Staff, and Sanitary Inspectors,

The minutes of the last meeting were and practically the whole of this staff confirmed.

Papers

is now adequtably housed. In the estimates for the last three years the | Council has voted rent allowances for certain European married officers on THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by | small salaries, pending the erection of command of H.E. the Governor, laid on quarters to be occupied by such officers the table the following papers: Report at a moderate rental; and in the estimates ni the Post Office for the year 1916; report | for the current year provion has been en the New Territories for the year 1916: made for commencing the erection of Report of the Police for the year 1916; these quarters at Leighton Hill. These Report on the Botanical and Forestry rent allowances approximate to the Department for the year 1918; Report of difference between the rents which the the Kowloon-Canton Railway (British married officers in question re in Section) for the year 1916: Report of the fact paying and the rents which Director of the Royal Observatory for the Government proposes to charge the year 1936; Report of the Registrar when the quarters are available of the Supreme Court for 1916; Report for occupation.

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