HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
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5. Will the Government consider the advisability of restoring, partially if not totally, the avenue that excited so much admiration, by commencing a programme of sapling planting in places where planting will not constitute a danger to wheeled traffic?
6. In future, in any matter affecting the amenities of the Peninsula, will the Government be good enough to ascertain, in the first place, the views of responsible bodies or organisations in Kowloon before carrying out decisions concerning which Kowloon residents may advantageously be consulted?
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY replied:-
1. Instructions were issued by Government that certain trees should be felled, on the recommendations of the Inspector General of Police after consultation with the Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Department, on the ground that they form an obstruction to traffic.
2. The treatment of damaged roadside trees is a routine matter usually attended to in February before the spring rains begin. When the trees in Nathan Road were treated the recommendations of the Inspector General of Police had not been received.
3. It is the intention of Government as at present advised to remove certain other trees, in particular those in the neigh- bourhood of bus stops and those at the corners of side streets.
4. The answer is in the negative.
5. Only such trees as are considered to constitute a definite obstruction to traffic are being removed. It is not therefore considered advisable to replace them.
6. The Government are at all times prepared to give full consideration to views expressed by representative bodies, but cannot see their way to give the specific undertaking asked for.
FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table the reports of the Finance Committee, Nos. 13 and 14 of 21st December, 1933, and 29th December, 1933, respectively, and Nos. 1 and 2 of 23rd January, 1934 and 21st February, 1934, respectively, and moved that they be adopted.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and this was agreed to.
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