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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

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Under section 7 of the Tramway Ordinance, No. 10 of 1902, the approval of this Council is required for such an extension, and previous notification is also required to be given in the public press by the Company stating that it is their intention to apply for such approval.

This public advertisement has been duly given.

The extension in question covers the construction of a length of single tramway track approximately 170 ft. in length leading from the double tramway track in King's Road, over a portion of a public street of secondary importance, to the Tramway Company's new tram- car shed which will be erected on portions of Inland Lots Nos. 3546 and 4955.

There is no objection from the traffic point of view nor from the Public Works Department, and I therefore move:-

Resolved that the approval of the Governor in Council of permission to the Hong Kong Tramways, Limited, to construct a new single tramway track leading from the double tramway track in King's Road to Inland Lots Nos. 4955 and 3546 as shown in Enclosure (94)2 in C.S.O. 9365/04, and to maintain a tramcar shed on the said Inland Lots in connexion therewith be confirmed.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed to.

GASHOLDERS EXAMINATION ORDINANCE, 1938.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to make provision for the periodical examination of gasholders." He said: The Objects and Reasons for this Bill are set out in the Memorandum attached to the Bill.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.

Objects and Reasons.

The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-

1. The Object of this Bill is to enable the Governor in Council to make regulations for the inspection of gasholders.

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It results from a petition and other representations which have been made to the Government after a gasholder explosion which occurred at West Point, Hong Kong, on the 14th May, 1934.

3. The regulations in the Schedule place the obligation of carrying out periodical inspections on the proprietors of the gasholder; but provide that in the case of the annual examinations, to ascertain the external condition of all gasholders, and of the septennial examination, to ascertain the internal condition of gasholders more than fifteen years old, the proprietor's examiner shall be accompanied by a Government observer.

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