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No.93.

Sir,

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53556/39

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

9th February, 1939.

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I have the honour to refer to correspondence

on the subject of the Tung Wah Hospital resting with */53656/38 your despatch No.303 dated 23rd September, 1938.

Enclosure No.1.

Enclosure No.2.

2.

I enclose the Hansard report of a full

statement which was made in Legislative Council on 2nd

February, 1939, in answer to a question which the

Honourable Sir Henry Pollock, Kt., K.C., LL.D., at my

request asked at the meeting.

3.

The medical Committee referred to in

paragraph ↑ (d) of that statement was appointed in

December, 1938, after considerable discussion and is

already in active existence. I enclose for your

information a copy of the Gazette Notification on the

subject.

4.

The vote for $150,000 for the year 1937,

to which your despatch has special reference, was

unanimously approved at a meeting of the Finance Committee

of the Legislative Council which immediately followed the

Council meeting of 2nd February.

5.

I trust that the steps which have now been

taken will put an end to the series of financial crises

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&C.

&C.,

&C.,

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