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expenditure in 1935 on works such as the new Government
Civil Hospital, Central British School, Senior Officers'
Quarters to which the Colony is already committed. I would also point out that it is proposed to charge to
ordinary expenditure the Harbour Dredging and its
ancillary work, the formation of the dumping ground at
Kun Tong, which appear as items 90 and 91 on page 104 of the printed Estimates, although in the original proposal to you regarding the dredging it was advocated that the cost should be charged to Loan, as was done in
the case of the harbour dredging in 1927 and 1928. As the scheme will eventually provide an area of reclaimed land available for disposal, the cost might reasonably be charged to Loan Account and it is possible that, if at a later date too heavy a drain is made on Revenue
Account, I may recommend that the cost of the scheme
be transferred to Loan Account. I have addressed you
separately regarding these two works.
6.
Another item on which I am addressing you separately is the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, sub- head 33 on page 86 of the printed Estimates. Circum- stances have changed since 1929 when this proposed
scheme was rejected, and it has now received the
unanimous support of the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council, as well as given rise to con- siderable enthusiasm in the sections of the community
from which the force will be recruited.
7.
The criticisms and questions of the Unofficial Members were all fully dealt with in replies of my officers and by the address which I myself made at the
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