CO129-628-7 The Tung Wah Hospital 1-10-1950 - 31-10-1950 — Page 5

Sec. 1/3093/50

SAVINGRAM

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To the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Officer Administering the Government, Hong Kong. Ent

From the Governor, Hong Kong.

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Date October,.......1950.

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Grateful for approval of a grant by private treaty of about 18,000 square feet of land between Kwong Wah Street and Waterloo Road, Kowloon, to the Tung Wah Hospital, incor- porated under Ordinance No. 31 of 1930, for the purpose of erecting quarters for the staff of the Kwong Wah Hospital. This hospital is one of a group maintained by the corporate body referred to above. I recommend that the main conditions of the grant should be as follows:-

(1) Lease term, 75 years from 23rd January, 1908. This

term is suggested to bring the lease in line with that of the main hospital building on the other side of Kwong Wah Street.

(2)

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Premium, nil.

(3) Crown rent, the nominal figure of 810 per annum.

(4) Building Covenant $300,000 within 12 months.

(5) User restricted to the provision of staff quarters

for the Kwong Wah Hospital.

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(7)

Prohibition against any alienation of the property without the consent of Government.

Reversion to the Crown without compensation in the event of any breach of the conditions of the grant.

2. The Kwong Wah is one of a long established group of charitable hospitals which has brought great benefit to the inhabitants of the Colony, particularly among the poorer classes. The land which it is proposed should be granted to them forms part of a garden of which the Tung Wah Hospital held a Crown lease which expired on the 30th April 1948. The intention is that, if this grant is approved, the existing staff quarters, which are inadequate for their purpose, will be converted into additional wards to accommodate more free and paying patients. It is hoped that the increase in fees from paying patients will be sufficient to cover the additional cost of staffing and maintaining the hospital so that it may not be necessary to raise the annual subvention granted by Government.

3. Executive Council agrees. properly approve this grant.

I consider that you may

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H. K. & PUP 14 OCT 1950