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unlikely that the Public Works Department will be able to spend the whole of this amount though it is not possible to indicate the exact items on which delay may take place, and with savings elsewhere it is anticipated that the total actual expenditure on Public Works Extra- ordinary will be more than fully covered.

5. The detailed memorandum on Public Works Extraordinary and Loan Works and the speeches at the two meetings of the Legislative Council render it unnecessary for me to refer to more than a few of the principal items in the Estimates. The most important of the new items under Public Works Extraordinary, Head 34, are :-

Subhead 1, New Government Civil Hospital, Subhead 58, New Central British School, and Subhead 99, Kowloon Tsai Garden City Development.

The new Government Civil Hospital has been on the programme of essential works for very many years and the new Central British School has been under consider-

ation almost as long. present accommodation being both unsuitable and inadequate, and I am glad to think that it is at last possible to

Both are urgently needed, the

commence these two urgently needed public works. carry commitments for future years but I do not doubt the capacity of the Colony to finance them.

They

New buildings

The

This

for these two institutions are long overdue. estimates for 1930, 1931 and 1932 contained provision for site formation for the new Central British School. site has been prepared but it has been decided to reserve it, owing to its proximity to the Kowloon Hospital, for a new Mental Hospital, which is urgently needed as soon

as funds can be made available.

A new site in the near

neighbourhood