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We also approve of the appointment of the Second Assistant Assessor, to attend to the proper rating of tenements, and also of the Inspector of Tenements and the Senior Clerical Officer who are to assist him in his task.
As regards the considerable increases in Personnel in the Police Department, we have no objections to offer, as we believe that an adequate Police Force is very essential in this rapidly growing Colony and we trust that the desirability of increased Police protection in the outlying districts of Taipo, Fanling, Sheung Shui and Kwan Ti will be borne in mind.
As regards increases in
in the Personnel of
of the Medical Department, we fully agree that the suggested increases are necessary, but we would add that we consider that anti-malarial measures are most important and we should be glad to have an assurance from the Honourable Director of Medical and Sanitary Services that, in his opinion, his anti-malarial Staff is sufficient, and, if he does not consider it sufficient, we should like to know in what respects he considers it to be insufficient.
We hope that, in the new Government Civil Hospital, provision is being made for the open-air treatment of tuberculosis, and we should like to see a sanatorium built for tuberculosis cases. We approve of the recent anti-spitting regulations, and we consider that propaganda as to the dangers of spitting should be extensively circulated by the Government both by means of printed leaflets in the Chinese language and by street speakers.
We shall watch with interest the experiment of substituting Asiatic for European Inspectors, and we hope that, with the course of training mentioned in the Hon. Colonial Secretary's speech, it will prove to be a success.
We approve of the training of four students for teaching as provided for in the Budget.
I pass on now to the Memorandum of the Hon. Director of Public Works on Public Works Extraordinary, upon which the Unofficial members desire to make the following comments:
In regard to item Eleven, new road between Causeway Bay and Ming Yuen, we have already approved of the Government proposal to reduce the width of that road for the time being and as a temporary measure to 75 feet, because we understand that such reduction will enable the whole length of the road which is a main artery to be put through and got into operation quicker than if the original width was adhered to, as we gather that the extra widening from the 75 foot mark to the 100 foot mark would entail dealing with a great deal of rock which would be both slow and expensive work. At the same time the original scheme of a 100 foot road should, in our opinion, remain on the Government's town-planning map, as a project to be carried out in the near future.
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