CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917 — Page 581

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did not desire to avail themselves of it.

On the 4th November we received your reply saying

that you considered the delay and general position regarding

the proposed extension to be unsatisfactory and agreeing

to pay £200 monthly to the end of the war to the parent

Hospital in lieu of proceeding with the Hongkong Extension

scheme.

Accordingly a letter was written making this

nc. 1.

proposal as an alternative to your original offer.

We

no. 2 &

c.

also gave notice that, in the event of the Hospital Committee

deciding to proceed with the Hongkong Extension scheme, we

should move certain resolutions applying the principles

already agreed to in the resolutions of the 25th September,

by providing for separate accounting, storekeeping and

paid staff, including the matron.

These conditions were accepted at a meeting held an

the 10th and it was agreed that

the Hongkong Extension

should be proceeded with at No. 82 Eaton Square.

Three days later, however, the President of the

Hospital, who had been in the Chair at that meeting, wrote

to the Secretary, reopening the question of limiting the

expenditure on the Hongkong Extension to the funds made