CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934 — Page 349

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for the many details necessary for the properly ordered

life of the community in general Police Stations,

Markets, Latrines and so forth, and I would include

among them the new residence for the Director, Royal

Observatory whose present combined and very cramped

House and Office makes work difficult and life

uncomfortable.

With these requirements satisfied,

There

no great sum remained available for the larger works

to which public attention is more easily drawn, and

Government had perforce to make a selection,

are in mind:- the Government Civil Hospital, the

Mental Hospital, Kowloon Hospital, the Kowloon Post

Office, the Vernacular Normal School for Women, the

Central British School, to mention the most prominent,

and Government has selected the Government Civil

Hospital, the Central British School and the Kowloon

Hospital as the objects on which attention should most

immediately be concentrated. It must not be thought

that the emission of the remaining schemes means that

their importance is ignored, and the choice was made

only after the most anxious consideration of all the

conditions. Perhaps I might refer particularly to

The

the omission of the Kowloon Post Office.

expansion of the Colony has made office accommodation

in Hong Kong very cramped; and the development of

Kowloon is not without responsibility for the extra

pressure.

In any case the time has come when

Kowloon