CO129-517-13 Proposal to amalgamate Sailors' Home with Missions to Seamen 3-6-1929 - 3-6-1929 — Page 4

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RECEIVED

Ber-51753/241

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tel 24 July

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8 JUL. 1929

OOL. OFFICE

Sir,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 3rd June, 1929.

RECEIV the

8 JUL 1929

COL

I have the honour to refer to Sir R. E.

Stubbs' despatch No.381 dated the 1st of October, 1924,

and your despatch No.379 dated the 28th of November, 1924, on the subject of the removal of the Sailors' Home from the original site at West Point. Owing to financial difficulties arising out of the strike and boycott in the following year, the Trustees were requested in September, 1925, to postpone the scheme for building the new Home at

Kowloon, and the matter then fell into abeyance.

2.

In October, 1928, the Trustees enquired

whether they might proceed with the re-building scheme, in reply to which they were asked for further details so

that this Government might consider its position and

possible commitments. On the 20th of February, 1929, the

Trustees then submitted a proposal for amalgamation of the

Sailors' Home with the Missions to Seamen.

3.

The existing situation and their proposals

are set forth in their letter of which copy is attached.

These amount in effect to the surrender of the pro po sed

site of the Sailors' Home at West Point and all claims to

the promised site at Kowloon in return for which they re- quest an increase of the promised grant of $100,000 making

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

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&C.,

&C.

&C.,