HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
More Hospital Accommodation
Item 10 provides for the reconstruction of the Victoria Hospital and the building of a maternity wing. A committee was recently appointed to advise on the matter and their recommendations have
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Item 28 is in respect of furniture for officers' quarters. It has been decided with the approval of the Council to provide heavy furniture for all quarters occupied by European officers.
Item 30 provides for a Marconi Bellini Direction Finder which it is proposed to install at Cape D'Aguilar in order to assist shipping during the foggy season.
Item 31 provides for the reconstruction of Queen's Statue Wharf which is long overdue.
Item 11 refers to a proposal to build a new hospital to relieve the pressure at the Civil Hospital where the demand has out grown the accommodation. It is the in- tention to allow private practitioners to
Item 37 is in respect of the Eastern Dis- have wards in which they can see their trict Filter Beds which are urgently requir own patients in the new hospital. The
ed to improve the waiter service in the question of site is bound up with the Mili-eastern part of the Colony and to allow tary Lands questions, and it may not be for water supply for the houses on Broad- possible to make a
year.
commencement next
Item 12 provides for a building for an outpatient department for the Government Civil Hospital, which should be of great use both to the Government and to the Univer- sity.
Item 13 is in respect of the rebuilding of Saiyingpun School on a site on Bonham Road near the University, which it is hoped to acquire. The site affords ample space for a large school on modern lines.
Road Construction on the Island
Under Roads, item 16, I may call atten- tion to the road from Bowen Road to Deep Water Bay, which will provide quicker communication with the southern side of the island; to the road from Taitam Gap to Cape D'Aguilar, which will open up new country; to the road from Wan- chai Gap, past Magazine Gap, to Chamber- lain Road, which will open up the Peak to motor traffic; to the widening of Garden Road; to the widening and improvement of the Shaukiwan Road, which forms part of the scheme for driving a 100ft. main road along the line of the present Praya
East out to Shaukiwan.
It is not proposed to proceed with the scheme for widening Queen's Road East, as the expense is enormous, and on the completion of the Praya East Reclamation there will be a 100ft.. road close by and parallel to Queen's Road East.
Under item 17 provision is made for a cable from the Observatory to Stonecutters Wireless Telegraph Station for the purpose of sending out time signals.
wood Road. Item 37, 8-inch main from North Point to Shaukiwan, is in connec tion with the same scheme.
Item 38 provides for an additional main to the Peak which is necessary to cope with the increasing demand for water at the Peak.
Item 41 provides additional plant for the Peak Pumps. Temporary arrange- ments ments for a water supply to Mount Cameron are proposed under item 42 in order to encourage the development of building sites which have been opened by the Wanchai Gap Road.
Item 43 provides for a water supply to Repulse Bay.
Items 45 to 48 are in respect of next year's expenditure by the Government on the Praya East Reclamation scheme.
The commencement of a new Police Station at Yaumati is provided for under item 49. Space is being left for the erec- tion of a Magistracy which will before long be required on the Kowloon side.
A Hospital for Kowloon
The sum of $50.000 is inserted under item 51 in respect of the Kowloon Hospital. Lt is proposed in the first instance to com- mence with a small building which will he capable of expansion when the needs of Kowloon become better known. It is considered desirable that the main hospital establishments should continue to be on the island.
Item 53 provides for a Police Station at Mongkoktsui, which is required to cope with the increasing population in that neighbourhood.
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