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Kowloon should be provided with at least branch offices

where residents can do their Government business without

coming across the harbour. A comprehensive view of

the requirements in this direction is called for, and

the probability is that a large building which will

include an ample Post Office will be necessitated in the

near future. The conclusion therefore was that the

Kowloon Post Office should wait to take its place wich

the other requirements of the Peninsula

which are also urgent but which perhaps get rather less

than their proper share of public attention.

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requirements

The loan works proposed are fully detailed in

the memo by the Director of Public Works and I have

only to add that should further funds for the new

Waterworks be required the Government will not hesitate

to come to this Council and ask for them.

Everything

possible has been done to impress on the Consulting

Engineers the necessity for expedition; and the

Government is satisfied that they are fully awake to

the situation, and will make a beginning in time to

ensure that the opportunities afforded by the coming

dry weather are not wasted. At the next meeting of

Council, it is proposed to put forward a number of

resolutions in connection with the Loan Expenditure

for 1933.

That, Sir, concludes my remarks on the

Budget for 1933.

Hong Kong has so far perhaps fared

rather

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