CO129-530-3 Supplementary Expenditure- reports of the Finance Committee and quarterly returns 13-2-1930 - 7-6-1932 — Page 148

No. 4.

REPORT OF

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

AT A MEETING HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HONG KONG,

on the 19th March, 1931.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (Mr. EDWIN RICHARD HALLIFAX, C.M.G., C.B.E.).

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the Colonial Treasurer, (Mr. CHARLES MCILVAINE MESSER, O.B.E.).

Mr. HAROLD THOMAS CREASY, C.B.E., (Director of Public Works).

Sir SHOUSON CHOW, Kt.

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Mr. WILLIAM EDWARD LEONARD SHENTON.

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Mr. JOHN OWEN HUGHES.

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Mr. ROBERT HORMUS KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.

Mr. JosÉ PEDRO BRAGA.

Mr. Ts'o SEEN-WAN, O.B.E., LL.D.

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Mr. CHARLES GORDON STEWART MACKIE.

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Mr. JOHN JOHNSTONE PATERSON.

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Mr. NORMAN LOCKHART SMITH, (Clerk of Councils).

The Committee met pursuant to summons.

The Committee having considered the items of Supplementary Expenditure

Nos. 196 to 198 of 1930 and Nos. 9 to 11 of 1931, in Message No. 4 of 16th March,

recommend that they be authorised.

E. R. HALLIFAX, Chairman.

Adopted by the Legislative Council on the 2nd April, 1931.

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