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Tsun Wan Reclamation.
While on the subject of industries, I would not like to miss this the Department of opportunity of offering congratulations to Government concerned on the businesslike expedition displayed in pushing ahead with contingent works in connexion with the large private reclamation of the Tsun Wan foreshore. From an industrial point of view, with the advent of electrical power, I envision the genesis of a flourishing and important township in the Tsun Wan district of the New Territories with the completion of this important reclamation. Like the Shan Tseng Bay district, Tsun Wan enjoys the unenviable reputation of being very malarious; the workmen employed there are subject to this form of ailment in a malignant form. I can appreciate how research work has first to be undertaken before remedial measures can be undertaken on a large scale. However, in his counted desire to assist private enterprise, I trust the Honourable the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services will endeavour to take early and effective steps to rid Tsun Wan and Shan Tseng Bay of malaria, the extensive existence of which cannot but seriously retard the rapid development of districts that are so full of promise of becoming important industrial centres in the New Territories in the near future.
Kowloon Amenities.
I have carefully searched the Draft Estimates for a sum of $1,000 which has been promised for forestry work in certain areas in Kowloon, and principally for ornamental trees in the parks and open spaces of Kowloon Tong. To my regret, I cannot discover any such item of proposed expenditure. This small sum of money would be very well spent and help to improve that part of New Kowloon as the "Garden City" on the mainland.
It is a matter of common knowledge that the series of open-air regimental band concerts which has just concluded were a source of infinite enjoyment to some hundreds of Kowloon residents during the few hot summer evenings when they were provided with excellent and thoroughly enjoyable music supplied by the military bands on the grounds of the Kowloon Football Club. The Finance Committee of this Council voted a sum of $1,200 for band concerts during 1930. It is not such a large sum that it might not appear as a recurring item each year under Miscellaneous Services. I hope my suggestion will receive Your Excellency's favourable consideration.
New Territories Circular Road.
My hope of an initial vote for the preliminary construction of the first section of the Circular Road in the New Territories as far as Ma-Yue-Tong has been doomed to disappointment. I looked in vain for the re-inclusion of the item that first appeared in the Estimates for the current year. I am conscious of the fact that the
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