CO129-543-12 Loans for public work 29-3-1933 - 20-12-1933 — Page 71

HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

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do are given on the last page of the memorandum by the Director of Public Works. Resolutions to cover the other two items, 2nd Cross Harbour Pipe and the Wireless Telegraph Station at the Air Port which are new works will be moved as soon as the authority of the Secretary of State has been obtained to charge their cost to loan funds.

I now move therefore:-

1 That this Council approves of the expenditure of $56,000 on the Aberdeen Valley Water Scheme during the financial year 1934 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony.

2. That this Council approves of the expenditure of $8,000 on the Shing Mun Valley Scheme 2nd Section Preliminary Works during the financial year 1934 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony.

3. That this Council approves of the expenditure of $1,735,000 on the Shing Mung Valley Scheme 2nd Section Gorge Dam during the financial year 1934 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony.

4. That this Council approves of the expenditure of $1,000,000 on the New Gaol at Stanley during the financial year 1934 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony.

5. That this Council approves of the expenditure of $320,000 on the Tytam Tuk Catchwaters during the financial year 1934 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony.

6. That this Council approves of the expenditure of $340,000 on the Air Port-Air Port and Seaplane Slipway etc., during the financial year 1934 which sum shall be met from a future loan and shall meanwhile be charged as an advance from the surplus balances of the Colony.

THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and the resolutions were agreed to.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved "That the rules dated the 31st day of August, 1933, made by the Chief Justice under section 48 of the Divorce Ordinance, 1932, and under section 9 of the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, be approved." He said: The laws of the Divorce Ordinance require that the rules made by the Chief

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