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He thought that some provision would have to be

made for agriculture, particularly irrigation

for

in the new territories, and fisheries, but the

Roula

remainder of the £1,000,000 should be used for

housing.

I while he might be

light

/ of light construction

Queris

King's

and thre foot had had to replace this by

Company ennstruction

(b) Education.

Bishop Hall had organised

tell

workers' schools which rapidly get into

Communist hands. The children now defied

headmasters whom the Government tried to

introduce. Mr Nicoll had thought that the

best solution would be to take over all schools

but this proposal was impracticable on financial

grounds. Bishop Hall had said that there might

be as many as 50,000 children not in school

clubdich out/nobody really knew how many were actually

involved. The Director of Education thought

that there was adequate schooling for the

Colony's permanent population. The Government

were building new schools

ols/and

schools and hoped to open

this year one new secondary school taking 800

pupils and one primary school for 1000 pupils.

added that the military authorities

Mr Nicoll

had taken the biggest secondary school in

Hong Kong for a Services hospital. He very

much hoped that it would become possible for

Sir Christopher Cox to visit Hong Kong some

time during the course of year.

(c) Medical. The Medical Department were

very active and the D.M.S. thought that the

diet was generally satisfactory and public

health good. In Chinese eating houses it

was a matter of common observation that the

food/