CO129-517-13 Proposal to amalgamate Sailors' Home with Missions to Seamen 3-6-1929 - 3-6-1929 — Page 7

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JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.

Hong Kong, 20th February, 1929.

Sir,

I have the honour to address you in reply to

yours of December 15th, 1928, with reference to the

proposed amalgamation of the Sailors' Home in Hong Kong

with the Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong, and as the

proposed scheme is so largely bound up with the projected

purchase of the Sailors' Home by the Goverment it is

thought desirable that I lay the facts before you in a

comprehensive form.

The Sailors' Home was founded in Hong Kong many

years ago through the instrumentality of Messrs. Jardine,

Matheson & Co., Messrs. Gibb Livingston & Co., and the

P. & 0. Company, which had and still has for its object

the provision of a refuge for Merchants' Seamen calling

at this Port. In 1925 the Trustees of the Sailors'

Home were incorporated by Ordinance No.5 of 1925 and

have since been carrying on under this Ordinance.

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The Sailors' Home was self-supporting, but recently, having regard to changed conditions, it has

been found to be situated in the wrong part of the town,

and it is now being carried on at a financial loss.

The Missions to Seamen is a world-wide

organization and as far as Hong Kong is concerned, is

incorporated and carried on in this Colony under Ordinance

No.10 of 1919, it has for its objects the propagation of the principles of the Church of England and the provision

of a refuge for Seamen of His Majesty's Navy as well as

It carries on its operations

for the Merchant Service.

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