CO129-520-10 Tung Wah Eastern Hospital 28-11-1929 - 13-12-1929 — Page 5

Enclosure No. 1.

Extract from Hong Kong Hansard of 23rd September, 1929.

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The Chinese members of this Council have asked Government to make a substantial annual grant to the Tung Wa Eastern Hospital, of which the foundation stone was laid last year, and which will, I understand, be ready to be opened at the end of next November. No provision for such a grant was made in the draft estimates because the Directors of the Tung Wa Hospital were until very recently in doubt whether funds for the maintenance and working expenses of their new Eastern Branch Hospital could be found. A written as- surance has now been given by the Chairman of the Tung Wa Hospital on behalf of all the Directors to my Government through the Secretary for Chinese Affairs that they will hand over to their successors a sum of at least $100,000 specially raised for the Tung Wa Eastern Hospital Fund. I shall, therefore, be willing early in next year to recommend to this Council a supplementary vote of $25,000 as subsidy to the Tung Wa Eastern Hospital upon the distinct understanding, however, that in the unfortunate event of the Directors at any future time finding themselves unable to carry on for lack of funds, the Eastern Hospital and its management shall be handed over to Government.

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