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mourners who wish to accompany the coffins to the

cemetery will be transported at specially low fares.

At

the cemetery itself it will be necessary to construct a

railway branch line with a station, waiting rooms, etc.,

more farewell pavilions, and offices and quarters for the

cemetery staff.

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The total cost of the scheme is estimated at

approximately half a million dollars and as no funds for

this purpose are provided in the current 1940-41 estimates

I have to request, in accordance with Colonial Regulation

No.265, Your Lordship's covering approval of the following

items of supplementary expenditure which have already

received the consent of the Finance Committee of the

Legislative Council in Finance Message No.9 of 1940-41:-

(a) Head 30, Public Works Extraordinary,

Miscellaneous, Chinese Cemetery at Wo Hop Shek,

This sum is made up as follows:

.$180,000.

(i) Resumptions for road and

railway extension.

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.$25,000

(ii) Road formation.

.$30,000

(iii) Water supply.

.$30,000

(iv) Quarters, shelters,

coolie-lines and fare-

well pavilions..

.$95,000

Total.... .$180,000

(b) Head 14, Kowloon Canton Railway, Special

Expenditure, Railway accommodation works for the

Chinese Cemetery at Wo Hop Shek,

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(c) Head 26, Sanitary Department, Special

.$108,000

Expenditure, Five Coffin Junks........$ 23,500

(d) Head 26, Sanitary Department, Special

Expenditure, Fur Coffin Lorries......$ 20,000

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