HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
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HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK asked:-
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1. Has the Government got any estimate of the cost of making a motor-road from May Road to Magazine Gap? If so, what is the amount of such estimate?
2. In the event of such a road being made, what would (approximately) be the saving of distance, as compared with the Stubbs Road route, in travelling by motor-car to Magazine Gap from
(i) The General Post Office;
(ii) The May Road Tram Station?
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS replied:-
1. $75,000.
2. (i) 2.4 miles.
(ii) 4.8 miles.
SANITARY BOARD BY-LAW.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved :—
That the amendment to By-laws made by the Sanitary Board under section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, on the 5th day of July, 1932, relating to Prevention or mitigation of epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease, be approved.
He said: "No. 9 of the by-laws for the prevention and mitigation of epidemic, endemic, contagious or infectious disease contained in Schedule B to the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903 as amended by notification No. 714 of 1926 is a by-law which is brought into operation only when the Governor-in-Council declares it necessary. Such a declaration has been made in connexion with the cholera epidemic and appeared in the Gazette on 24th June. On 5th July the Sanitary Board added two additional paragraphs to the by-law and these paragraphs require the approval of the Legislative Council."
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the resolution was approved.
SHING MUN SCHEME.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.-In 1931 it was decided to proceed with the construction of filters in connexion with the Shing Mun Water Scheme at an estimated cost of $160,000. The
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