[ { "id": 226487, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]", "content_text": "Graft vonden\n\npublic worker\n\nthink hd Ames misunderstands this dispatch\n\nat least it appears to one to hear a\n\ndifferent\n\nmeaning\n\nfrom that\n\nI Strachey, who I think examined the financial, which he suffers & not to imply any intent to exceed the state But he list nood\n\nme one the be presented but atements of the God with a view to the preparat\" of the extimate indus\n\ntumn how this\n\nthis dispatch with the forme\n\nthat awn modefped to L Palmerston a previous communicat hd be made to\n\nthuy be clone\n\nby beading\n\na copy of this & be\n\ntha\n\nSir J. 7 Davis. 26th February, 1848.\n\nto\n\nThe Earl Grey.\n\npo 31.\n\n1 Inclosure.\n\nReceived\n\n1847, and reporting\n\nBook\" of Houshing for Transmitting the \"Blue\n\nr\n\nthe state of the Colony.\n\nAt : Merivale\n\nThis is a most flourishing account of the pregrets o Ilong Kong. It will have to be laid bespre Part\n\nwith other similar.\n\nafe 24\n\nJepits on the Blue Books\n\nat Cetorices.\n\n64 22/4/48.\n\nAm. And 22\n\nThis 16d be undead.\n\nwith 818. Gangbang - what\n\nis placed with her. Ellics paper.\n\nIhave planned\n\nkenn lagellers here\n\nonly confirms proven the but\n\nSusie het. Duri\n\n? \n\nExcess atte\n\nto Marle\n\nVotes.\n\nWill Continitates\n\nCabin wishes in\n\nthis the be drated.\n\nIn ko\n\npe the line Grot - any excep ming be appled to pubin work, but the Partrose\n\n量\n\nA\n\n193\n\nMr. Elleit\n\nI have ausuead\n\nLond\n\nGrey's inte on this draft.\n\nD442/6.\n\n7.7.8.9/6.\n\nKo Jum\n\n2\n\nLA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229738, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "Mr Menizle \n\nHere \n\nnot seen any heard that Mr. qualified for the proposed. Then I have \n\nreport from the \n\nwas considered \n\nOffice for which he \n\nTreasury, \n\nhas been \n\nto look \n\nfor the Letter to the \n\nConnnonce this appointment \n\nhas been forwarded. \n\nThere is no \n\nalterian \n\nZies \n\nvery agree to theory \n\nno mode, \n\nbut \n\nhalf pace \n\nBlackall will \n\nhim. But the \n\nto applied to, & I doubt receiving their become Secretary \n\nRefree Tuesday-o \n\nwhich day St. Hare states that be is to sa \n\nday \n\nW Blackwood \n\nExauch the necessary instrumicat as surely 18. \n\nIf the intent of the Rexing were purely Mained today, Mein Mach hall \n\nMonday, \n\nproceed in \n\nthe Minch letter might \n\nPreconsomended, \n\nall. \n\n17/2. \n\ncan see no \n\nClaton \n\nselly be shared. \n\nhacer \n\nMafor \n\ntom 7174 \n\nTrosary \n\nd quantified - by \n\nFriese ud. prediably sex son objection \n\nM. Hare, supporn tem avaux of salary being. \n\nMr Merinde I learn it. \n\nto the \n\nExora has not \n\n1389. Hong long. \n\n226 \n\n6.0.17 Fething. \n\nit is \n\nJohn Hare G. \n\nMr Merinte \n\nReleases you w. pass this \n\nPecheater \n\net me. \n\nFir. \n\nIn answer to your \n\nLetter of yesterday's \n\nI am directed \n\nby \n\nyou \n\nEad \n\nM. Hare Grey to inform you \n\nproperes sailing in \n\nthat as he has not yet \n\nreceived \n\nThursday next. \n\n17/2. \n\n7.1764 \n\nacy \n\nCommuni: \n\ncation to the Lords \n\nCommissioners of the Treasury stating that you \n\n022-27 \n\nqualified for the Office at Hong Kong to which you \n\nhave been nominated \n\nLowshing must, satte", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235425, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "content_text": "AGE \n\nLaw \n\nOfficers \n\nForeig : \n\nar weet \n\n23hur J.! \n\nPer Ellist \n\nI do not see that there is anything for this Department to do on the subject of the present letter. It may perhaps be as well to let the E.A. Commissioners have a Copy of it for their information.\n\n27 \n\n24.toon \n\n6255 \n\n10 151. \n\n154 \n\nSony Ayay \n\nMy Lord \n\n100 \n\nSuperintendency of Trade \n\nHoushing. Sch. 15.1854. \n\nI have received your L'ships despatch No.96, dated July 18th on the subject of the atrocious malpractices, of which Chinese Coolies have been the victims, at the Princa Islands. I observe that the attention of H.M. Govt is again directed to a traffic overflowing with abases\n\nClarendon \n\nk.h. \n\n46. \n\nx. l.. \n\nabases", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246272, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "105\n\nof the proceedings 7\" Instant,\n\nExecutor Council on the\n\nonly app\n\naled a the\n\nwhich ont\n\nEtte\n\n261\n\nOf the 14th is quite sufficient, independently of\n\nMr Pin: smitt's Protimony,\n\n1\n\ntravenoble man,\n\nto darccred me\n\nBy ad\n\nto satisfy the mind\n\nthat\n\nfirepared by\n\nMr Day's nomination. this Executive, Before\n\nended me, that is to day, before.\n\nLoceded Ever la the Accent\n\nthey had.\n\nthis had fr00 of their sentence\n\ntuns sha\n\nformality\n\nCouncil\n\noner i\n\nGerrament Notification\n\n-\n\nThis Excettincy the Gos\n\nhas been pleased temporarily to appoint John Day Tay? to officiate\n\nte to officiate as Attorney General\n\nOf Hongkong\n\nMe from\n\nin the place of the Han Chisholm. Anstey Exy = who is decopended from\n\nthe excrcise of his functions until It's M's pleasure.\n\nby known\n\n134 order\n\nSigned: M. T. Bridges\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong\n\n7 August 1855.\n\nJuspr\n\nThere is no other notification of my\n\nfrom\n\nwhich it is to\n\ncension beside this, and the date is that on\n\nwhich it took place, am d take effect.\n\nSheron me\n\nletter from\n\nMr Day has Mr. Kingsmall, from wohwich it appeare that, after A Conversation with the Dirut. Gover apparently Doughs by\n\nthe batter, he has denied that for wer\n\ntold any person that Mr. Day had canvassed- for the past.\n\nDay\n\n02\n\nthat it had been\n\npromverd te\n\nMr. Ereprot vetemnly what I glated in\n\nmy\n\nand\n\n14\n\nPustecript to any letter of the \"J\" Instant, appended to Raptricate\n\nI refer to the letters appe\n\nadding a\n\nLetters from W. Green! and Capt. Kosten, R.E.. 15th August 15\n\nNr 2. of the present tatter, without a No: d of Comment upon the unhappy position who which A. Kingomill has been thus thawk..\n\ninfluence which It can comprehend\n\n16)\n\ntam olar\n\nOn 1\n\n1858\n\nAnd Compr\n\nCompassionate\n\nto Day having given\n\nkenor, that so far\n\nStatement non as\n\nfalse appled for\n\nand that\n\nsmy\n\nto butin here.\n\nthat 00\n\nfar Canrafaed,\n\nas tr\n\nme this mor & of\n\nconcerned,\n\nby\n\nhimself,\n\n6. Mengomilla\n\nwitherly\n\nthings mill\n\nrepudiated\n\nMo\n\nwas the only person whe\n\nI am bround.\n\noffer during preneoty\n\nBack the Circumstance\n\nas this Ex.\n\nOr e\n\nCorn\n\ndoubting that the\n\nbefore they\n\nfor betering\n\nara L..\n\nthey\n\ncutore Cun\n\nabove stated Bhan\n\ncillors, who mere.st\n\nvered, Alice is ora\n\nhad decided\n\nmade the pray\n\nIngers\n\npretences for\n\non this appointment, clear for him to take it.\n\net to add that I have come slavon\n\ntt. at an attempt is also bein\n\nmy may\n\nmnade to\n\nF M 18 complaint phasement of the reouts\n\nhis\n\nto Carl Grey, houshing\n\nthe\n\nbe years\n\nsuspension from office during\n\ninly Endreanoured &\n\nfor paran, mainly\n\ncars 1847-8.\n\ninduce the\n\nLieutenant Governer, then Colonial Secretary\n\ndecbmit the infamous Extortions of his Chinese Comprodon\n\nministerial or official prorating.\n\nto m\n\nself defence I beg leave to append\n\nto the same Duplicase of this letter.\n\nto phon that\n\nQ\n\nprinted Copy Containing\n\nmeme nas\n\nof some portions of that Correspondence, Com Enough\n\nCabonet Cuines mired up with the she cities of the Compradore,\n\nfact Committed in his name, and that Carl Grey, after f\n\nThat\n\nB742\n\n**\n\nthe\n\nseason.\n\n- given by\n\nhim for his conduct, and for the puspension Mr. Gurrant, andered that the arreaAA of the\n\nشهره\n\nte Polary\n\nof the batter from his suspension down to the abolition of his Office, should be paid to trim thus haller\n\nDeciding\n\nand no\n\nthat thor e\n\ntown ot\n\nMas\n\n37 orun d\n\nfor his Conduct, for that of the authorities by whom\n\nhe was suspended from office.\n\nW\n\nantil last neck\n\nread a pine of that Corses.\n\nMr. Farn\n\nearr and the\n\num diui\n\nthinking it\n\nMujhi", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247852, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 526, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "152 trong trong RECEIVED\n\n5 JAN\n\n521\n\nFinancial 1860. Government Offices, Victoria,\n\nadme Juyor. 18 January (8.\n\ndmiralty\n\nHoushing, 14th November, 1859.\n\nMy Lord Duke,\n\nI have the honour to\n\nreport (with reference to Sir Road B. Lytton's Despatch 138 of 9th April last) that the Rev. M. Irwin, Colonial Chaplain, has refunded the full sum\n\n£90. of Ninety Pounds, due by him to the\n\nNaval Department and that the Agent Victualler is instructed\n\nto pay that amount to the\n\nAdmiralty accordingly\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke\n\nAc.\n\nNewcastle,\n\nAc.\n\nMe.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 251056, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7]", "content_text": "Page 157\n\n4970. Mong trong\n\n64\n\nFinancial way Government officers, Tretorn\n\nRECED\n\n31 MAY\n\n1861.\n\nVictorin\n\nHoushing, 15th April, 1861.\n\nJ 4 My Lord,\n\nI have the honor\n\nII Ito forward for your Grace's approval Report and estimate 10 13 of 1861 for the construction. He 13 5 1861\n\nStreets in Suburbs, East and West, amounting to\n\nof\n\n$1,406.\n\nHis Grace\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle,\n\nto\n\nIn Percules Robinson\n\nThe Duke of Newcastle\n\nNB.\n\n/årelomu.\n\nReceived\n\nin Victoin.\n\nConstruction of Pier\n\n1722 1801 In the\n\nReport and kelimele\n\nDuburitten on apponl\n\nNo.\n\nXe.\n\nXo.\n\nPage 158\n\n (Note: The original text does not contain \"Page 158\", it is assumed that the original scan has it, if not, this line should be removed)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256071, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "page_number": 399, "title": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "content_text": "## RECEIVEDS \n2 MAY 1863 \n\n2. My Lord Duke, \n\nOn the 13th March, 1868, \n\"Of the British Barque Ardville\" was \nwrecked on the Pratas Shoal, the Crew and Passengers (Chinese emigrants for San Francisco) \nto 180 in number being brought to Hong Kong by two Chinese junks. \n\nHis Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong, \nThe Master and his wife \ngave a promissory note for $2,000 \nto the Liky (or Linky) \n63, \nFinancial \nTrake \n4948 \n4335 Hong Kong. \n\nLoon \na.s \npossible \nas \n\nthem to Hong Kong. \n\nprison all \nHoushing, \n387 \n\nThe Like of Newcastle, K.R., \nAc. \nAc \nyre.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258706, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "PAYMENTS of an unusual or special nature made in the Colony of Hongkong, for the Quarter ended 37th December 1863.\n\nDescription, &c.\n\n \n Houshing\n 238\n 2\n 3166\n 13 April\n \n\ndam dicitia ZM A Hamilton Eny\n\nIn Be Johnson gast- Sie Mogen 9 J. Interne\n\nInfardwell n 3166. Tras.3766 1\n\nSecretary Cardwell to transmit to you the Raid before the other\n\nI. Masury the Thanal Returns for Endring the quarter 31 Dec. 1863 which have been Received from the Governor of Hongkong.\n\nWith reference to one the items on the return 8.4 Lembolec that Ifardwell would be glad Charn\n\nWhether then Lordshihen\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format as requested (HTML using for paragraphs), and to apply the rules for OCR proofreading:\n\nPAYMENTS of an unusual or special nature made in the Colony of Hongkong, for the Quarter ended 31st December 1863.\n\nDescription, &c.\n\n \n Houshing\n 238\n 2\n 3166\n 13 April\n \n\nA Hamilton Eny In Be Johnson gast- Sie Mogen 9 J. Interne Infardwell n 3166. Tras.3766 1\n\nSecretary Cardwell to transmit to you the Raid before the other I. Masury the Thanal Returns for Ending the quarter 31 Dec. 1863 which have been Received from the Governor of Hongkong.\n\nWith reference to one the items on the return 8.4 Lembolec that Ifardwell would be glad Charn Whether then Lordship...\n\nLet's correct and reformat according to the given instructions:\n\nPAYMENTS of an unusual or special nature made in the Colony of Hongkong, for the Quarter ended 31st December 1863.\n\nDescription, &c.\n\n \n Houshing\n 238\n 2\n 3166\n 13 April\n \n\n...dam dicitia ZM A Hamilton Eny\n\nIn Be Johnson gast- Sie Mogen 9 J. Interne\n\nInfardwell n 3166. Tras.3766 1\n\nSecretary Cardwell to transmit to you the Raid before the other\n\nI. Masury the Thanal Returns for Ending the quarter 31 Dec. 1863 which have been Received from the Governor of Hongkong. With reference to one the items on the return 8.4 Lembolec that Ifardwell would be glad ... Whether then Lordship...\n\nRevised to fit the exact HTML format and applying the rules:\n\nPAYMENTS of an unusual or special nature made in the Colony of Hongkong, for the Quarter ended 31st December 1863.\n\nDescription, &c.\n\nHoushing 238 2 3166 13 April\n\nA Hamilton Eny In Be Johnson gast- Sie Mogen 9 J. Interne Infardwell n 3166. Tras.3766 1\n\nSecretary Cardwell to transmit to you the Raid before the other I. Masury the Thanal Returns for Ending the quarter 31 Dec. 1863 which have been Received from the Governor of Hongkong.\n\nWith reference to one the items on the return 8.4 Lembolec that Ifardwell would be glad ... Whether then Lordship...\n\nLet's directly output in the required HTML format with proper corrections and minimal changes:\n\nPAYMENTS of an unusual or special nature made in the Colony of Hongkong, for the Quarter ended 31st December 1863.\n\nDescription, &c.\n\n \n Houshing\n 238\n 2\n 3166\n 13 April\n \n\nA Hamilton Eny In Be Johnson gast- Sie Mogen 9 J. Interne Infardwell n 3166. Tras.3766 1\n\nSecretary Cardwell to transmit to you the Raid before the other I. Masury the Thanal Returns for Ending the quarter 31 Dec. 1863 which have been Received from the Governor of Hongkong. With reference to one the items on the return 8.4 Lembolec that Ifardwell would be glad ... Whether then Lordship...\n\nThe final version in HTML format is:\n\nPAYMENTS of an unusual or special nature made in the Colony of Hongkong, for the Quarter ended 31st December 1863.\n\nDescription, &c.\n\nHoushing 238 2 3166 13 April\n\nA Hamilton Eny In Be Johnson gast- Sie Mogen 9 J. Interne Infardwell n 3166. Tras.3766 1\n\nSecretary Cardwell to transmit to you the Raid before the other I. Masury the Thanal Returns for Ending the quarter 31 Dec. 1863 which have been Received from the Governor of Hongkong. 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Whether then Lordship...\n\nThe best representation is thus given directly in the required HTML format.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "content_text": "Houshing (\n\n10°7\n\n6385\n\nShe & Robison\n\nInmate 12\n\nUn Johnson. 14\n\nSi Mogen 15.\n\nMr Forlosene\n\nMhardwell\n\nJul\n\n13\n\nCnja\n\n239\n\n20 Jul obx\n\nthis\n\nThane to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch\n\n20 62 of the 7th inst., succeeding\n\nAm\n\nconformation the\n\nHongkong Ordinance 2005\n\n71864\n\nproby to amend the laws\n\nSlabtor\n\n& Creditor.\n\nThere\n\nhuo Clauses\n\ntri\n\nThe can we has been Expanded\n\nThe Ordinance which,\n\nNotwithstanding Men Ballis\n\nto appear\n\nJu C.\n\namendment Viz\n\nClauses.\n\n189\n\nThe 56th clause authorising\n\nthe Court of Hongkong\n\nexercise species\n\nOr\n\n&\n\nanyth\n\nversion regare\n\nThe 56.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "content_text": "ووه\n\nHoushing 64. 6527\n\n257\n\n11 July\n\nof Die It Rolmis on\n\nSir\n\nI have to acknow\n\nledte\n\nth\n\nThe receipt of your despatch\n\nr.. 64 of the\n\n9 May last.\n\nto\n\naber\n\nab\n\nconvey to you Myths gracious conformitien\n\n& allowance of the Ordinance 207 91864 for compiling \" a new Edition of the \"Ordinem obresting? Iconcur in\n\nthat\n\nA\n\n//\n\ny\n\nJour\n\nopens\n\nintelligith\n\ncothetion of the Laws of\n\nwill Darthly.\n\nthe Colony\n\nat service\n\nhe of quat\n\nThe Com\n\nAfter re-examining the text and following the given instructions:\n\n1. **Reorder and reformat the text**: The original text appears to be a jumbled mix of OCR output. Reordering it for better readability and sense, we get:\n\nH. E. Sir\n\nHongkong, 11 July 1864\n\nNo. 6527\n\n257\n\nSir,\n\nI have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 64 of the 9th May last.\n\nI am to convey to you My Lord's gracious confirmation and allowance of the Ordinance No. 7 of 1864 for compiling \"a new Edition of the Ordinances in force in the Colony\".\n\nIt will be serviceable to have an intelligible collection of the Laws of the Colony at large.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n\nThe Commander ...\n\n2. **Corrected spelling errors**: \n - \"ووه\" is not relevant to the context and seems to be a non-English character or word, possibly a result of OCR misinterpretation. It is left as is because the instruction is not to remove or translate non-English text unless it disrupts the English text's meaning.\n - \"Houshing\" -> \"H. E. Sir\" (assuming \"H. 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Hansford 22 Sex\n\n221\n\n25 June 1869\n\nSam decuted Export\n\nTh...\n\nGrow with to whom Joh that the Lado Cound of the to whion you\n\nTracing to\n\nhitte of the 28 Dec\n\nuferred\n\n... \n\nhave stated\n\nSchend up\n\nabphealin\n\nbring ancer I fou als\n\nthe Treasury\n\nthat\n\nThe treasurer d\n\nthe Bond grain.\n\nzom apft\n\nA. 1\n\nMaalin of the Branch\n\nMit at Houshing\n\nwill be thund\n\nZ.R.S.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280947, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "page_number": 430, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "MR\n\nTBCG\n\nbuttered &\n\nHonghong\n\nThe Butt Nation\n\nHoushing\n\nMINUTE APRÈS\n\nNota 15 Valland\n\nSul Rovers Bt\n\nMonsell Zorislava ville\n\n44036\n\nдну\n\nMy Ease 416\n\n23 April 1869.\n\nhord\n\nI am duscled\n\nI Eal Granith Eschmartide\n\nThe mist of gou\n\nlette atte 11 det\n\ninform some that you\n\ncharge\n\nyou refer\n\naccompany\n\nCom &\n\nLodstache went\n\nto which\n\ndid not\n\nthat\n\nneration\n\nJr. M.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 172, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "The Muda Ser\n\nof State of\n\nWUTE\n\n3\n\nM. Herbert\n\nMusthalle\n\n1870\n\nMARE.\n\n10 vend\n\nHoushing\n\n848.2955\n\nIntered\n\n2606 Mauch 10.1870.\n\n2521 Mauch 7.\n\n171\n\n7 March 1870\n\nI am directed by Earl Granville\n\nto transmit to you for\n\nthe information of\n\nthe Earl of Clarendon a copy of a dispatch from the Lord of Hongkong\n\nreporting upon\n\nConsul Robertson's\n\ndespatch\n\nExplanation as to the\n\noccurrence of Piracy,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281462, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "content_text": "## Minute \nThe Honourable M'Herbert, M Wansell, Ku Granville \n\nMay 22 - 16 May 1870 \n\nShave the honour to acknowledge receipt of \nThe Sir R Shandones' despatch No.887 of the 12th instant to confirm the application of \nMr Welsten to supervise the Jumbo Depot in succession to \nMr W Mason, deceased \n\n## Wine from Hongkong \nAdo the Afrin Host \n\nHoushing 881.4857 \n/Z Blura", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281793, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "page_number": 355, "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]", "content_text": "## Houghong \n20.0144 \n\nThe Offin Adend \n\nIntered \n\nthe God of Houshing \n\n20. \n\n352 \n\n9 July 1870 \n\nI have Backnartige \n\n4: \n\nV/Matura 8/7/70 \n\nThe nipt of zou \n\nInstabat & da depatite to 20 of the \n\nSors Kimberly \n\nMu \n\n10 May Emlosing. \n\n## Copy of \nalette Jou \n\ndmstelland applying \n\nの \n\nhehalf of the J. N \n\nJapan \n\nFelegraph Chine & Safen \n\nExtensions for permissin в Ганд \n\nHoughong \n\na call at \n\nIn ach \n\nX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283513, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "a copy of a Report from The Emigration Committee to whom these departments were referred.\n\nI approve of the proposed Ordinance and instruct you to submit it to the Legislative Council.\n\nE.C. 24 April 1870.\n\nwhen passed, to be sent to the Dept for the confirmation.\n\nI have referred for the consideration of the Legislative Council the question of allowing Emigration from Hong Kong under the Governor's license, and Extracts I should wish for a report from you on that part of Mr. Walcott's letter which relates to the possibility of obtaining Chinese labourers from startag for the West Indian Islands.\n\nAn attaz...ed the Council's commencement with M. Jonnard and by thin... \n\n## appears to be a broken table or list, however, there is not enough information to reconstruct it properly.\n\nHowever, rewriting the given text in Markdown:\n## Report from The Emigration Committee\na copy of a Report from The Emigration Committee to whom these departments were referred.\n\nI approve of the proposed **Ordinance** and instruct you to submit it to the **Legislative Council**.\n\nE.C. 24 April 1870.\n\nwhen passed, to be sent to the Dept for the confirmation.\n\nI have referred for the consideration of the Legislative Council the question of allowing Emigration from Hong Kong under the Governor's license, and Extracts I should wish for a report from you on that part of Mr. Walcott's letter which relates to the possibility of obtaining Chinese labourers from startag for the West Indian Islands.\n\nAn attached... the Council's commencement with M. Jonnard and by thin... \n\n84 | Houshing & the United State \nappears to be the start of a table, but it is incomplete. \n\nLet's reformat the available information into a more readable format.\n\n## Correspondence Details\n| Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 24 April 1870 | E.C. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "## colle Entraren Manila \nStrughang Anyafson. \nIt will be russang \n6 \ncommummati \nauthern's can \nwith \nthe Spanish Gort Leppe \nto your \nbe grow \nC. to land \nthe cable \nColonis \nof the referen \nit \nthe nautt \nforwarded to you as con \nas practicett.\n\nThe Untertel ostate \nFanju Min Fomin \n1370 \nAshun 13 \nHoushing \n3077 \nMine Ins \nGodoy 25 March 1870 \n\nHeret \nWith referents Zoulette of the mit Iam dualia fant \nGrawith 6 trammit 6 \n172 \nYou for the common ofthe ral of flaunden Wün \ncommfonden. \nShah \nhe \nIn \nCo. 17 Mark \nof \na \n22 Mar \n\nThis Dept & the Ramille \n2. Horgery Sulmann thush \nthe subgut \nCofssor. Noghoy No \nStraits \nCo.. \n& Mustean, \non \nof the monopoly granted \nto that Co. by the \n\n## Proofread Text\n\nColle Entraren Manila \nStrughang Anyafson. \nIt will be russang \n6 \ncommummati \nauthern's can \nwith \nthe Spanish Gort Leppe \nto your \nbe grow \nC. to land \nthe cable \nColonis \nof the referen \nit \nthe nautt \nforwarded to you as con \nas practicett.\n\nThe Untertel ostate \nFanju Min Fomin \n1370 \nAshun 13 \nHoushing \n3077 \nMine Ins \nGodoy 25 March 1870 \n\nHeret \nWith referents Zoulette of the mit Iam dualia fant \nGrawith 6 trammit 6 \n172 \nYou for the common ofthe ral of flaunden Wün \ncommfonden. \nShah \nhe \nIn \nCo. 17 Mark \nof \na \n22 Mar \n\nThis Dept & the Ramille \n2. Horgery Sulmann thush \nthe subgut \nCofssor. Noghoy No \nStraits \nCo.. \n& Mustean, \non \nof the monopoly granted \nto that Co. by the \n\n## Reconstructed Text\n\nCollier entered Manila. \nStruggling Anson. \nIt will be rushing \n6 \ncommunicati \nauthority's can \nwith \nthe Spanish Govt Leppe \nto your \nbe grow \nC. to land \nthe cable \nColonis \nof the reference \nit \nthe naut \nforwarded to you as soon \nas practicable.\n\nThe Undertel ostate \nFanju Min Fomin \n1370 \nAshun 13 \nHoushing \n3077 \nMine Ins \nGodoy 25 March 1870 \n\nHerewith \nWith reference to your letter of the 14th instant, I fant \n... to transmit to \n172 \nYou for the common of the rail of flaunden Wün \ncorrespondence. \nShah \nhe \nIn \nCo. 17 March \nof \na \n22 Mar \n\nThis Dept & the Ramille \n2. Horgery Sulmann thus \nthe subject \nConfessor. Noghoy No \nStraits \nCo.. \n& Mustell, \non \nof the monopoly granted \nto that Co. by the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 286301, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "content_text": "Houst of Commons.\n\nAdmiral's Agent Ce\n\nThe officer 70 8642 Houskan, Houshing.\n\nMINUTE PAPER.\n\nM. Menda 256 8642 71 (this case) Inform for. LP. (S. & winding 1130 Az atme RM378 Entered\n\nMr Round so Aay! 34/P Sir. 31 Aupisk 1871\n\n\"I have the honour to inform you that in reply to an application from Mt. Marke fring 31/8\n\nWhy a Such : 4-8859 10 July M.Micaire ут\n\nFrom the Belgian Minister at this Const, of which I'm enclosing a copy, it is stated that there was no objection to the issue of an Exequatur to Hippolyte Nicaise, at present Vice Consul for Belgium at Hongkong; and that the Notification of his appointment appeared in the Gazette of the 8th September.\n\nIt is also stated that the Notification was made in the Hongkong Government Gazette.\n\nPage 71\n\n \n...\n\nbad as Consul for Belgian to the gazetted at Hongkong; and that the\n\nHoject thing made monal at Hongkong counts.\n\nfor Belgium or any\n\nRu Exequitar was issued by HM in the 29th July.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 286468, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "page_number": 424, "title": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "content_text": "Wr.8. 11700.71. Hong Kong $23 11700\n\nFor heade\n\n# MINUTE PAPER.\n\nIn the Straits draft I have just sent on to you, no mention is made of the Houshing arrangements.\n\nBut we might answer this by saying that when the Treasury sanction is received, London/Kimberley will cause the necessary instructions to be telegraphed to the Governor.\n\nRidh 29/1/71\n\nSee 11538\n\nNo remounts of the H.K. Mules may be ordered until the sanction is received.\n\nRm 29/4 K Nov 30/71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 289535, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "H \n\n1745 Houshing \n\n2785 \n\nIndeyed \n\nDowning Street, \n\n20 March 1872 \n\n306 \n\nJust \n\nИ\n\nIn reply to \n\nyour \n\nLetter \n\nof the 14th inst., \n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to acquaint \n\nyou, for the information of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, \n\nthat Señor Don José Navarro \n\nresident in the neighbourhood of Macao \n\nand Hongkong \n\nappears to be \n\nthe Governor has been instructed to report whether he is aware, or \n\nnot, of any objection to his appointment as Spanish Vice Consul at Hongkong \n\nand \n\nhe is not aware \n\nof any \n\nobjection, he has been instructed to recognize him in that capacity.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \n\nfor Foreign Affairs\n\nYour most obedient Servant, \n\nRHM \n\nROBERT G. WHERBERT.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302425, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "page_number": 586, "title": "CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8]", "content_text": "## \n\nThey are now no better than they were; affairs are now complicated by differences with the Acting Chief Justice upon other matters besides this. The Haffam matter is not the only or first heard of irregularity.\n\nI shall ask for a proper report on the Still case; if not sent in this interval.\n\nLyall Still became bankrupt some 1.5 but 12 years before Iwuch & Houshing Estate has then been wound up - The Judge shall ask to explain this delay - send him Mr. Bridges `(881)` letter & Mr. Jardine's remarks that always appear suspicious.\n\nAdd this question to the wire about the wound off.\n\nM. 10/10.\n\nRules - Wait a little to see what the Judge decides before writing this.\n\nOn taking any action on 12:51.\n\nM. Since writing the above I have seen the papers about Mr. Haffam's appointment. **The Ordinance 1587 1867:-** I am sorry to say I was incorrect yesterday in stating that Mr. Alexander had not been Official Assignee.\n\nThe Ordinance provides for the appointment of special Official Assignees in particular cases when the Registrar might not act: Mr. W. Haffam then the Clerk of the Supreme Court at $300 a year, was specially appointed Official Assignee of this estate because of Mr. Alexander's family and pecuniary relations with one of the partners.\n\nHuffam has paid away £10,000 at last. Under the circumstances of his position and salary, and of his experience as appointee to large affairs, it is remarkable that no security was taken. I think £2000 would have been a reasonable sum to demand. It is remarkable that the Chief Justice did not warn of official supervision over him.\n\nLewis also was acting Treasurer and Official Assignee in 1865 which Mr. Alexander was acting.\n\n24. 18/10.\n\nIn reply only at present.\n\nIn Ir. H. Beach requires a full & complete report of the defalcation such as he understands Huttensssey is about to send; and asks for his observations.\n\nbi 12857.\n\nIn Bridges' letter.\n\nAnd inform Mr. Bridges that the Secretary of State has at present but very imperfect information on the subject and is expecting a full report from the Governor. At present he is quite unable to say where responsibility lies.\n\nThis is my answer to defalcation has...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303487, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "## \n\n75\n\nCommercial Community do not seem to favor that and the growth of the town. Some of the European Bankers also urged me to reduce the Stamp duties which, in the ordinary course of business, they now pay. But I have not been able to give to Keswick or the Bankers those particulars of reducing the taxes to which they drew my attention.\n\nThough the Revenue of \"Houshing\" and the Colonial balances have never been so large as at this moment, yet looking to the depression of trade elsewhere and to the fact that some of the leading European and American houses are making little or no profits, they prefer to lay by a reserve fund for future contingencies than to spend the Treasury surplus in reducing items of taxation, which, compared with similar imposts in other Colonies, are exorbitant by no means.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305633, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "content_text": "# \n370 \n\nErection. 139. Certainly \n\n14. Although for love etc purposes, the Cheere moved to wake themselves with the brannary Eughobe Words of Command.\n\ntion Ms. bo secret Locutie, need be framed in Houshing Clause. luckily to 1457 relative and hearty to exist any reference of family Chinese turning soldier in Hongkong. \n\nNumber be recenter when homes de no family the oxture of Moushions & The nearness the \"Cooke Cospos Vor ratened with our War 164 in which the late China Service stack enforcement fus Chinese do not fras sufficient proof that the \n\nC \nques 2. F theme credit for.\n\n15. It, then differential Stoned w/ a drople buy unpertant post being left Sholay in there. of Clinical.\n\n16. Yes - \n\n17. Judean Troops (Seth, or fortiles), Sunds from folum bears, and and as Reflemen. \n\n10. blue. If an im ... bec uflag to Question P 19 \n\n20 leo. It is sumatul bus what they think. that the for dis kim disapproval of the forvatin the late Castic Corp: latte? Whalern these hurn it desafeproval tas, to for as bee effect on the cortir these to har And ted that is : the most crespodent pout for the Conccdechow.\n\n13th February 1880, hendid & Victron part", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308403, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "the munster say something \n\nabout the alleged bite \n\nof $15,000 \n\nK \n\nthe manager \n\nfrand of the form Rm 15/5. \n\nformer. \n\narnice \n\nMr Meade \n\nThe Attorney General's report has now \n\ncome & is annexed; \n\n385 \n\nLitigation; \n\nwe have received here \n\naffic Papers. \n\n4 \n\nfor notice the matter in the London'd \n\n4 \n\nChina Telegraph of d 8 \n\nJanuary Cost (herewith)) I then was watching papers for \n\n\" \n\nfuller reports \n\non t \n\nAsuvation. \n\nonly deals with \n\nthe \"special jury\" charge in par. 6 Mr Nelson's letter. \n\nTherewith \n\nThe suit of Pilman v. Houshing Club (par. 13 of Mr Nelson's letter) is now concluded; see China Telegraph (h) of May 16. p.405; the Plaintiff losing, but each side \n\nThe \"Opium \" seems not to be paying costs. \n\n204 Ended. \n\n? Reply that Lord Kimberley sees no sufficient reason to institute Inquiry into the administration of justice in this case; and then refer to par. 2 of the despatch \n\nFor Treads \n\n& Jaucerd. \n\nar \n\nabove. \n\nG.W. I. \n\n24 May \n\nwith regard to your question what the \n\noutting has fallen \n\nMt Meade \n\nlan oles \n\n48 May 26. \n\nThe Attorney General \n\nhas satisfactorily explained his \n\nrefusal to take \n\nSummoning \n\nAC \n\nany \n\nsteps for \n\nspecial during \n\nupon Mt Nelson's applications. \n\nNevertheless the thing \n\nJustice summed up for the conviction of der Pitman who was convicted by \n\nby the Jury \n\naccordingly. So far Mer helson has \n\nFarm \n\nno ground of complaint \n\nBond although", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320526, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 490, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "# DRAFT.\n\n## ng Mang no. 118 oas.\n\nX X\n\n**MINUTE.**\n\nP 484 Houshing 8441 Johnson 6 June\n\nSir, \nMr. Je Robeek 6.\nMr. Wingfield.\nMr. Bramston.\nMr. Meade.\nMr. Herbert.\nMr. Courtney.\nLord Kimberley.\n\n8 June 1882.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Seid. Pope Hennessy's despatch no. 31 of the 21st of February last, forwarding `L.7. Price` the \"Tramways Maintenance 1882", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354480, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "Master, the Commodore and the Consul at Chefoo (copies attached).\n\nAs the Harbour Master deferred to the Commodore's opinion that 200 miles a day was a fair rate and as the Consul admitted that the proclamation was not justifiable if regard were had only to the British vessels then employed on the line, the matter was again referred to Executive Council along with the letter from the 16th June, Minister at Peking urging suspension and the Proclamation was accordingly revoked by another, No. 4 of 19th July.\n\n(signed) A. M. Thomson.\n\n19th May, 1894\n\n1893.\n\n12th July\n\n1893.\n\nCopy\n\nNo. 4.\n\nSub-enclosure 1.\n\n211\n\nIs the Hongkong Emigration Ordinance applicable to steamers carrying emigrants from Chefoo to Vladivostock?\n\nSir,\n\nBritish Consulate, Chefoo, April 19, 1893.\n\nI have the honour to request you whether I should put in force the regulations of the Hongkong Ordinance No. 5 of 1874 and No. 1 of 1889 in the case of steamers clearing from this Port to Vladivostock with more than twenty Chinese passengers, the British steamer, the \"Kowshing\" being one lately to instruct me.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354491, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "222\n\nmaterially alter the case except to favour my view, for the breakdown. or other delay might take place after leaving the last port of call when the ship would already have been several days out from her original Port.\n\nThe voyage from Hong Kong to Singapore is fixed for emigration purposes at 9 days, the direct distance is 1440 miles, there are several ports a ship might call in en route if she so pleases, but that would not absolve her from the provisions of the Emigration laws.\n\nThere is also, I venture to think, sufficient in the Consul's letter to satisfy that some safeguards are needed - 1,500 emigrants in a 2,100 ton ship for instance. The \"Howshing\" may have special accommodation for emigrants, but of all the ships carrying emigrants from Hong Kong lost or short voyages for the years, the largest number that any ship has been licensed for is 1250, except in the case of the S.S. \"Parthia\" which was specially allowed to be measured for space on a second deck, on account of exceptional accommodation, and even under these special circumstances she was only licensed for 1368.\n\nThese are the views of the Emigration Officer on the subject, I do not expect Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. to agree with them, nor indeed the Chamber of Commerce either,\n\nTo", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354496, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 230, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "227\n\n· Emigration to Vladivostock began in March 27th. A list of steamers going thither, from which you will observe that between March 27th and April 25th, 10,155 coolies emigrated.\n\n \n Vessel\n Nationality\n Tonnage\n Date of Clearance\n No of Coolies\n \n \n Morich\n \n 156\n 1893 March 27\n 200\n \n \n Vladimir\n \n 715\n 30\n \n \n \n Stigo Maru\n \n 871\n Clearance carried.\n \n \n \n A\n Japanese\n 771\n April 3\n \n \n \n Baikal\n Russian\n 713\n \n \n \n \n Rowshing\n British\n 1355\n \n \n \n \n atomura Maru\n Japanese\n 1157\n \n \n \n \n Vladivostock\n Russion\n 678\n \n \n \n \n Hosang\n British\n 1127\n \n \n \n \n Ise Maru\n Japanese\n 771\n \n 400\n \n \n Baikal\n Russian\n 713\n May 1\n 2000\n \n \n Vladimir\n \n 715\n \n \n \n \n Kowshing\n British\n 1355\n June 2\n \n \n \n readinuir\n Russian\n \n \n \n \n\nThe above figures, for which I am indebted to the Custom House, speak for themselves. Only two of the steamers that left in April were British. Both were vessels of superior class, the Rowshing claiming to be the best and fastest steamer in North China; and Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. have justly complained that the Japanese - to say nothing of the Russians - have overcrowded their steamers. But whether, if the act were in force, the Kowshing would have been accused of overcrowding with 2,000 passengers for 800 tons is at least an open question.\n\nNo fatal accident has taken place owing to the ... *Two 'kweens decks. Gross tonnage 2134 tons. $ Gross tonnage 1783 tons.*", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354503, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "a \n\nbe \n\nday, 4/2 days ought to \n\ncalculated \n\nas the time. \n\n-ordinarily occupied on the \n\nThis \n\nto consult \n\n234 \n\non the propriety \n\nof taking coolies to Madras- \n\nstock. \n\nvoyage. \n\nbe \n\nreasonable \n\nargument would be enough if Messrs. \n\nJardine Matheson & Co. had \n\nthe \n\nmonopoly of the trade. \n\nor if the only rivals to their \n\nwere full powered \n\nVessels \n\nor mail steamers, but if \n\na \n\npaying passenger trade is started, \n\ntramps of the worst \n\nocean \n\ndescription may compete, and unless the Chinese Passengers \n\nare kept in force, I must give \n\n5 knot 300 ton \n\nadvantages \n\nand \n\nprivileges \n\nas the 13 knot, double decked, \n\n2000 \n\nton \n\n\"Howshing. \n\nI add that last \n\nof one \n\nyear \n\nthe master \n\nof Mr. Milo Möller's \n\nsailing vessels, well known \n\non \n\nthe coast of China, came \n\nforward against uncalled for restrictions imposed on \n\nBritish vessels, or \n\nto drive the trade into ves-\n\nsels of another flag by \n\nimposing \n\nBritish Merchants to \n\nexpenses from which others are \n\nexempt, but when there is \n\na \n\nmanifest and \n\ncrying \n\nevil \n\nI feel that I must do all \n\nin my power to stop it, no matter whose pockets suffer, and when the safety of hu-\n\nman life is in one scale \n\nand a few dollars in the other, I should be \n\nwanting \n\nin my duty if I did not allow the former to weigh \n\ndown the latter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355885, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "# \n\nThe emigration to Vladivostock began last year on March 27. The following list of steamers proceeded thither from Chefoo between that date and April 25.\n\n| Vessel | Nationality | Gross Tonnage | Number of Coolies Carried | Date of Clearance |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| \"Novich\" | Russian | 156 | 30 | March 27 |\n| \"Vladimir\" | Russian | 1893 | 650 | - |\n| \"Iso Maria\" | Japanese | 771 | 1352 | April 3 |\n| \"Baikal\" | Russian | 713 | 200 | - |\n| \"Kowshing\" | British | 1385 | 800 | - |\n| \"Satsuma Maru\" | Japanese | 1157 | 1583 | - |\n| \"Ga Parese\" | - | - | 14 | - |\n| \"Mladivostock\" | Russian | 678 | 350 | - |\n| \"Higo Maru\" | British | 1127t | 1100 | - |\n| - | - | 871 | 20 | - |\n| - | - | 2184 | 2000 | - |\n| - | - | 1483 | 800 | - |\n| - | - | 715 | 25 | - |\n| \"Pritos\" | German | 1085 | 25 | June 2 |\n| \"Howshing\" | British | 1355 | 715 | - |\n\nIt appears from this list that 10,185 coolies emigrated during the period in question. The steamers were supplied by the Chinese Customs authorities. On the other hand, the navy of there are d... the hips Carrying costie sly overcrowded, is of considerable length. 156 is not a teamers run Treaty Rost, only Chinese to Vladivostock. Page 715 April 25.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363521, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "supposed to have collected Sam Yu's bribes, that he had heard of the Wa having Gambhiny house for the last 2 or 3 years one of his lodgers was a Chinese detective, whose name mention appears in list It as in receipt of hush money paid to him the list shown by Chi Tsai Kam.\n\nExtreme is Chan Wai Enclosure t Nutt's A Tukhol statement, it contains nothing of importance excepting that it shows that there was such a person Acfuit who sold seats at the Hoshing Theatre. She also admitted that Interpreters knew all the Police by Sight.\n\nThe demed that he had ever been to N°3 East Street or that be knew Lam Yin the latter however identified him.\n\nEnclosure &R. Enclosure & R contains Yeung Fai's statement when identified by Sam Min, he asked whether Sam Mim paid the money to him personally.\n\nThe corroboration of Sam Men's statement as to the existence of a man called Khwai Jan Hai which means \"Fast Flower\" (former Stoi). Saye that he believes that this man was to pay bribes to Inspectors, Stanton, Qunary, and Bader, and speaks to having seen Kwai Jan Hai constantly at the key Quarters.\n\nPage 357", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363608, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 442, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "Daily Press 19th July 1894.\n\nTHE POLICE SCANDAL.\n\nINSPECTOR WITCHELL BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE.\n\nAt the Police Court on Saturday, before Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, C.M.G., Jub Witchell, Inspector in the Hongkong Police Force, was placed in the dock by Inspector Duncan on charges arising out of the police scandal.\n\nMr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., appeared to prosecute on behalf of the Attorney-General, being instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys (Crown Solicitor). The defendant was not represented by counsel.\n\nThe proceedings were opened in the following manner.\n\nHis Worship-Mr. Francis, have you any case?\n\nMr. Francis-Yes, sir. It is a charge, I am sorry to say, against Inspector Witchell for neglecting his duty as a police constable and accepting bribes.\n\nHis Worship-Do you appear to prosecute?\n\nMr. Francis-I appear here for the Attorney-General and am instructed by the Crown Solicitor.\n\nHis Worship-Do you wish me to hear the charge at once?\n\nMr. Francis-I shall be very glad if you can hear it at once.\n\nHis Worship (to the Captain Superintendent of Police, who was sitting at the table next to Mr. Francis)-Mr. May, I see you here. Are you watching the case?\n\nMr. May-I am watching the case.\n\nHis Worship-Will you take a seat up here?\n\nMr. Francis-I think it will be better for the present if he does not.\n\nHis Worship-Very well, then,\n\nMr. Francis, in opening the case, said--The charges in this case are laid against Mr. Witchell. They are:----\n\n(1) That he, being an Inspector of Police in and for the colony of Hongkong, did, at Victoria, in the said colony, on the 7th March, 1894, and on divers dates thereafter, unlawfully and in breach of his duty as such Inspector as aforesaid, neglect to report to the Captain Superintendent of Police the existence of unlawful gambling houses in Wa Lane, and Cheung Hing Lane, Victoria, aforesaid.\n\n(2) That he, being an Inspector of Police in and for the colony of Hongkong, did at Victoria in the said colony, on the 11th March, 1894, and on divers days thereafter unlawfully, wilfully, and corruptly accept divers sums of money from the keepers or managers of sundry unlawful gambling houses in Victoria aforesaid to refrain from reporting to the Captain Superintendent of Police the existence of such gambling houses and to protect the said gambling houses.\n\nBoth the offences are offences at common law and not under any Ordinance or any Act of Parliament. In respect of the first offence I would refer your Worship to \"Archbold's Criminal Pleadings,\" page 892 of the 19th edition, from which it appears that any neglect of duty by an officer of justice is a misdemeanour and punishable as such. With reference to the second charge I would refer your Worship to \"Russell on Crimes,\" 16th chapter, where the offence of bribery is fully defined. The facts in the case are very simple. First, there will be no difficulty in proving that the Inspector is a constable enrolled under the provisions of the Hongkong Police Ordinance, that he holds the position of Inspector of Police, and that it is a general duty imposed on all constables by the Police rules and regulations, published with the authority of the Government under the Ordinance, that constables are to report if they have reason to suspect the existence of public gaming houses. Now the case, so far as it is known to the Crown, amounts to this: The colony is divided for certain purposes, especially in connection with this gambling business, into a certain number of sections. A special officer is in charge of each section with the special duty of restraining and putting down all public gambling within that section. Now it would appear that gambling was going on in the section Queen's Road and Jervois Street, over which Inspector Witchell was presiding at the early part of the year. Certain complaints were forwarded to the Captain Superintendent of Police and attention was directed to this street with the result that certain active measures were taken and gambling was put an end to for the time being in respect to this district. It would appear also that, before these gambling houses in this district were put down, Inspector Witchell had been deriving a considerable profit--something in the shape of $7 a day--from the gambling houses within his district and that when the gambling houses were closed he lost this income. He then took steps, knowing the existence of gambling in some neighbouring district for which he was not responsible, and suffering apparently from this loss of income, to send communications to the owners or managers of gambling houses in the adjoining district saying that he was aware of the existence of these gambling houses and although they were not in his district he could take effective steps to have these gambling houses closed, and asking them if they could not make him certain allowances or payments. As the result a payment was made to him for a period of three months of at least $1 a day, or $30 a month. I think we shall be able to prove that the payment was continued for three months, if not for a longer period. Therefore, the first offence with which he is charged is that it having come to his knowledge that gambling was going on anywhere in Hongkong, whether in his district or not, he failed to report it; secondly, that he accepted money from the keepers or managers of the gambling houses and failed to take steps to put down the houses as his duty required of him.\n\nDefendant (pointing to a man in court who was in the custody of Acting Chief Inspector Mackie)-I beg to draw your Worship's attention to that witness who, I presume, is going to give evidence against me. He was sitting in court during the whole time the learned counsel was making a statement and has heard every word.\n\nHis Worship-Is he a witness?\n\nMr. Francis-Yes.\n\nDefendant-He was removed from gaol under somebody's direction in charge of Inspector Mackie.\n\nHis Worship was understood to say that if the man was a witness he ought not to have been in court.\n\nThe man was thereupon removed from the court.\n\nEvidence was then called.\n\nHon. Francis Henry May said-I am Captain Superintendent of Police. The defendant is duly enrolled as a member of the Hongkong Police Force. He has been an Inspector of Police for the last two years. He has had charge of what is known as No. 1 section of the Central District. The section extends from the Central Market to the Kowshing Theatre and all the section of the town between Queen's Road and the Praya within those limits. His special duties in that section were to suppress illegal gambling. I produce a copy of the Police regulations. Rule 73 reads-\"Constables are to report if they have reason to suspect the existence of a public gaming house, but they are on no account themselves to go in nor suffer anyone else in for the purpose of obtaining proof.\" That rule is in force and binding now. There is a lane called Kwai Wa Lane in No. 1 section. At the end of last year, I returned from leave on the 7th October, and between that date and the end of November I received a large number of communications complaining of gambling in Kwai Wa Lane. None of those communications were received by me from the defendant.\n\nDefendant here asked Counsel to repeat his last question, which was done.\n\nWitness-I should like to alter that statement, I think the Inspector did apply for one or two warrants. I would not be sure if the information of the gambling was supplied to him by me. I rather think it was.\n\nMr. Francis-His application for these warrants was after you received the communications and after you had complained to him?\n\nWitness-I would not swear to that, but I am positive that after my return to the colony the first intimation I had of the existence of gambling in Kwai Wa Lane was received from other sources than the Inspector. I issued four warrants in all.\n\nPage 7\n\n \n...\n\n...\n\nPage 7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363611, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "page_number": 445, "title": "CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8]", "content_text": "I limit the production of the book to the two entries the Captain Superintendent of Police has read out, and I will take any steps that are wanted to keep the book undisclosed.\n\nMr. Francis--I ask your Worship for these translations to be made by Mr. Brewin, who is a sworn translator, and not by any other translator.\n\nThe Magistrate--I have no objection to that. Witness--I understand, your Worship, that you will return this book to my custody.\n\nHis Worship--I shall return the book to your custody. Only these two entries are in the custody of the Court and they will remain so. I shall hand the book over to the constable in charge of the case.\n\nHis Worship and Mr. Francis here had a private consultation at the request of his Worship.\n\nDefendant--Are these two entries you have found in your seizure at No. 3, East Street the whole of the entries in connection with me?\n\nWitness--Yes.\n\nThe first entry is $1.10 and the second one, $1--Yes.\n\nAnd entered in Kum's account--Yes.\n\nAre you quite sure I am known to the Chinese as No. 17--Yes.\n\nCould you state what days intervened between the warrants that were obtained for Kwai Wa Lane--29th October, 4th November, 10th November, and 24th November.\n\nEach gambling district is defined and one Inspector put in charge of each district--Yes.\n\nIs an Inspector allowed by the rules of the Force to take out a warrant in another Inspector's district?--He is not allowed to take out a warrant at all without permission.\n\nIs there an order prohibiting an Inspector taking out a warrant in another Inspector's district?--There is no such order.\n\nAre you quite sure?--To the best of my knowledge no such order has been issued by me and I do not remember reading such an order.\n\nI will read my order relating to gambling. Gambling in the Central District. Inspector Witchell will take charge from Central Market to Kowshing Theatre below Queen's Road Central. Inspector so and so takes charge of No. 2 section. Inspector so and so takes charge of No. 3 section, etc. Inspector Stanton will assist the above Inspectors in the suppression of gambling.\" That order is dated 12th May, 1893. That was three months after I took charge of the Force. That order has remained in force since.\n\nI think in the Police regulations you will find that no Inspector is allowed to take out a gambling warrant except in his own district?--There is no reference in the Police regulations to these gambling districts. That order is a departmental arrangement made by myself.\n\nThen there is not an order to the effect that no Inspector is allowed to take out a warrant in another Inspector's district?--Not to my knowledge.\n\nRegarding No. 2, Wa Lane, have you visited that house?\n\nYou have not seen the house?--I have seen the house, but I have not been inside.\n\nCan you describe the entrance to it--where the entrance is?--I am not sure how the lane is numbered. I think it is at the Lower Lascar Row end.\n\nMy reason for asking this is that I understand a charge was brought against the master for gambling at No. 2, Wa Lane. My answer is I am not quite sure at which end of the lane the entrance is, whether it is at the Hollywood Road end or the Lascar Row end. I rather think it is at the Hollywood Road end. There is nothing particular about the entrance.\n\nYou say $1 a day has been paid?--Yes. But is there only one entry of that amount being paid.\n\nMr. Francis--That is a matter for argument and not a question.\n\nThis concluded the cross-examination of the witness.\n\nThe witness's evidence was then read over to him. The notes of His Worship made the witness say that the other entries in the book did not refer directly or indirectly to the defendant.\n\nWitness--I did not say \"indirectly.\" His Worship--I am inclined to think you said it.\n\nWitness--Well, it is not material.\n\nAfter the whole of the evidence had been read, witness said he wished the word \"indirectly\" struck out.\n\nDefendant--Then how about the other entries? The witness suggested before that they did not apply directly or indirectly; now it is altered to directly.\n\nHis Worship--I think you are entitled to further question the witness on that point.\n\nMr. Francis--The next statement of the witness, I think, gets over the apparent difficulty; it completely covers the same point. He said \"These are the only entries I find that relate to him in particular.\"\n\nWitness--To the best of my knowledge and belief I did not say \"indirectly.\" If your Worship thinks you can trust your memory so far I will leave the word in.\n\nHis Worship--My memory consists of taking the words down as they were spoken.\n\nMr. Francis--The probability is that I put the question in that form.\n\nWitness--I am prepared to say there is nothing in the list except those two entries that could implicate the Inspector in any way.\n\nDefendant--Do those two entries refer to a daily account?\n\nWitness--They do.\n\nWhat is there in that book that causes you to think it refers to a daily account?--I know from my examination of other account books that it is a daily account.\n\nDefendant--I should like those other account books put in. Can that be done?\n\nMr. Francis--Is there anything in that book that has been put in, beyond these two entries, that shows they are periodical payments, or do they simply appear as two entries without date or any indication of how, when, or where they were made?\n\nWitness--In this book--\n\nThere are simply two entries?--Yes.\n\nAs payments--In this book there are simply these two entries.\n\nDefendant--That does not refer to any other book?--No; it refers to no other book.\n\nAnd no other books refer to that?--No.\n\nHis Worship--Are you able to let me see those other account books?\n\nWitness--I say there is nothing in those other account books which directly refers to this account book.\n\nMr. Francis--You mean to say you have inferred from what you have seen that they are daily payments. You do not know as a fact?\n\nWitness--I infer that.\n\nWhat you have done is to state as a fact that you know they relate to a daily account. \"I know this from the other account books.\"--Yes.\n\nHis Worship--I think the defendant ought to see those other account books.\n\nWitness--I see no objection as long as the books are returned to my custody.\n\nAre you able to produce the books that led you to that inference?--I can produce them.\n\nWitness then went to his office and after an absence of a few minutes he returned and said--I find, your Worship, that the production of any other book will not carry my evidence any further as to that being a daily account. I say that to the best of my knowledge and belief it is a daily account.\n\nHis Worship--You do not know it from an examination of the other account books?--I say to the best of my knowledge and belief it is a daily account, but I will not swear it is a daily account.\n\nDefendant--From what facts have you derived that opinion?\n\nMr. Francis--I do not think, your Worship, that is a question the defendant is entitled to ask. I am afraid that later he will have information on that point.\n\nHis Worship--I think the defendant is entitled to ask from what sources the witness derived his opinion.\n\nDefendant--I do not wish to press the question.\n\nHis Worship--As the case proceeds you will understand more, probably.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-276 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 590, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "Am. Jelasse.\n\nJK.R. H. wirker \n\nEvil 'No' toke \n\nBut to this say \n\nregret arrangem. \n\nmadh for my \n\npreclude the posedelity by a bit to Houshing \n\n## Eastern Dept \n\n| | 1900 | 1901 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 41472 | 586 | 2 January 191 |\n\nMy dear Sir Arthur,\n\nI enclose a copy of a message from the Governor of Hong Kong asking that the Duke of York should visit the colony. A copy has been sent to His Highness with...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378191, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "## Detention of the Tartar\n### Chinese agitators\n\n**RE** No. 13095 \n**REC** 20 APR 00\n\n| Date | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 Dec | Disturbances in S. China |\n| 15 | Hand carli for Bod Goos |\n| | Boundary |\n| | New Territory |\n| | Passage of Chinese troops through new combin |\n| 13 | Reform movementy in S. China. Arms read by Og. Viceroy of Canton requ. |\n| 16 | man of New Territory |\n| | Shipment of arms in Germon vesach |\n| 21 | Do Quarantine Regins in Siam. |\n| 22 | Orms for Vladivostock, attacks on Bril: vessels, Philippine Janda |\n| 23 | Refrom movement in China. Raw Opin Ore ce |\n| 26 | Hof Commons 1900 |\n| 27 April | کیا (Subject.) Kracie in West Kier |\n| 30 | back Co., 30 Admy asti stips taken for the suppression of |\n\nLast previous Paper. 15. Mr. Moon,- To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether he can state what has been done by the Viceroy of Canton in reference to Sir Henry Blake's proposal that he should assist in freeing part of the West River from pirates (China, No. 1, 1900, No. 411), and whether, on the whole, the nuisance has been abated.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n(1) \n(2) \n16. Mr. Moon,- To ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. which of the various forms of arbitration mentioned in the correspondence of December last (China, No. 1, 1900, Nos. 431 and 446) has been adopted for the Kowshing case.\n\n17. Mr. Mr. Moon,--To ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, whether a water police force, provided with fast steam launches to repress piracy on the West River, has now been established (China, No. 1, 1900, No. 405): And, whether any telegraphic report has been received as to the examination of the Upper Yangtze, appointed to be made in the month of April by Her Majesty's Ships `Woodlark` and `Woodcock`.\n\n(Monday 4 May) \nIn W Hamellow \nReust as regards (1), which is the only question that affects conserus us, think the answer might be of a general nature-L.C. that the result of uitenrow that took place between the 15th and the fort the Viceroy...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388424, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 600, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "# \n\nlong as there is a good investment offering we can always obtain \nmoney from home even if it has to be turned into silver as wit-\nness the Hongkong Tramways which will be built entirely by home \ncapital. If a man receives £15,000 from England he must invest \nit in something out here, the ultimate return will depend en-\ntirely on the course of silver and of trade with a silver using \ncountry and the result of his investment will be just as proble-\nmatical as it would be under present circumstances. China will \nalways be the predominant party in every transaction with us and \nwe cannot dictate to her in what currency she will do business \nwith us. She is our biggest customer and we can only hold her \ncustom by offering her every facility we can. Whether Hong Kong \nchooses to keep its accounts in gold or silver will not sway \nChina in favor of gold. The trade and investments of Hong Kong \nmust and will be governed by silver as long as China's trade is \nin silver and the introduction of a gold standard here will ins-\ntead of producing stability only add another element of confusion \nto investors and of inconvenience to our customers.\n\nRobt. Heures \nHoushing...\n\nPage 600\nPage 601", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "page_number": 421, "title": "CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904", "content_text": "## Houshing 80 279 \n\nMe hatte au \n\nHallin 19 \n\nYes. 198 \n\nverbal instructions \n\nDrafts. \n\nHoughing. = 31927. \n\nsee 833/00 \n\nSix \n\n21 \n\n418 \n\nJe Sept 1904. \n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 314 of the 11th August with regard to the payment of horse allowance to Mr. W. W. M. Koch while acting for Mr. Thanson.\n\nI have to point out that much of the confusion, which has arisen in this matter might have been avoided if I had been informed at first that Mr. Thanson's allowance was being drawn while he was on leave. Colonial Regulation No. 124 is explicit in this regard.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-327 - Individuals - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 454669, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8]", "content_text": "## Correspondence on Financial Assistance to Kwangtung Govt.\n\nIt is extremely difficult to subsidise, and scarcely encourages sound finance in all sources and the necessity in conserving wartime resources seems to be a certain argument against spending money when it can ill be spared on charity in China. It is rather extreme, but...\n\nGovernor Houshing, Your letter July 13.\n\nDeeply regret, I cannot authorise any proposed expenditure in the present financial circumstances. Despatch by mail, pointing out how expenditure within the colony has had to be limited, expressing regret and so forth.\n\nOn this occasion, the Kwangtung Govt. have asked for assistance, and I don't think the Govt. should refuse a public grant, which, as the calamity is greater than last year's, can scarcely be less than we gave before. The Chinese are so charitable themselves that they appreciate the virtue in others, and I think this money will be well laid out for political purposes, especially at a time when Japanese action tends to bring us unpopularity in China. I would therefore approve, asking him to make corresponding economies in other directions as far as possible.\n\nCharity begins at home; and I am not convinced that the political return will be exactly what it is worth. I consider that we are not in a position to make a public grant, though there will be private consultations, but he will struggle. It is for the Governor to make the situation known to H.K. but it makes it impossible for him to propose a grant from public funds.\n\nI should let him have his way. Canton is so intimately associated with H.K. that it is conceived to be worth a great deal. Keeping good terms with it and showing practical sympathy in a disaster like this is valuable.\n\nAs per correspondence dated 12.7.15 and 14.7.15.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-423 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481015, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-456 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1919 [10-12]", "content_text": "yed. \n\ncopy course Ca. say \n\nthat when they receive \n\nmisters from for they to adjusts the tempe \n\nincreases on v.sewall pensions \n\nWhe \n\n. \n\nLine \n\nhave \n\nanthoused in asterance. \n\nHEC \n\norangetip \n\npangatlon coated \n\nyou \n\nto stadillo laidly \n\nhesion which it will have gennetta \n\nTwe \n\nroughhier \n\nDISBURST \n\nTS \n\n23 \n\nBrought forward \n\nH.M. Treasury :-Treasury Chest Payments into \n\nLaw charges \n\nLords of the Admiralty:-Miscellaneous services \n\nSecretary of State for India :- \n\nIndian Expeditionary Force-Advances by Paymasters \n\nMiscellaneous services \n\nPensions \n\nRemittances from India... \n\nInland Revenue:-Income duty refunded, 19 \n\nMunitions Department:-Miscellaneous \n\nMinistry of Pensions \n\n... \n\nNational Health Insurance Commissioners \n\nMaternity Benefits \n\nPostmaster-General:-Postage Stamps \n\nStationery Office:-Charge account \n\nDRAFT. 24 \n\nمحمد \n\nMr. \n\nMr. \n\nMr. \n\nHlong \n\nMINUTE. \n\nCothen $/ope \n\nMr. Grindle. \n\nJalano \n\nSir H. Lambert. \n\nSir H. Read. \n\nSir G. Fiddes. \n\nCol. 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Candidates for appointment...\n\nCancelled by letter of 15th August.\n\nHoushing SLE between apes of 22 and 24 14 August this year.\n\nCigan H. 6. HEAD.\n\nFROM Lau Glubb FOR CIRCULATION:—\nMr. Brunet\nMr. Collins\nMr. Grindle\nSir H. Lambert\nSir H. Read\nSir G. Fiddes\nMr. Wood\nMr. Churchill\n\nPrevious Paper Gov 10/10 52787/20 Kopy Anad 3 Jan T3117 2051\n\nHONG KONG DATE 26 May SUBJECT Rect 38690 588 Pee? AUG 21\n\nProposed geological survey. Two copies correspond with Dir of Geological Survey. Thinks suggestion regarding apps of geologist might be adopted & request necessary adots. be inserted. Indicates salary, etc. Thinks 1 year will suffice to Comfts to serving.\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ger.-D. Major Purse | 5625 |\n| MI. Bottomley | 1018 7/h Frow litth 50811/20 |\n\nHave you any obsons A.E.Ù. VAJ 11.8\n\nI should hesitate to send a copy of the letter from Dr. Pascoe without omitting the reference to the Head of the Mineral Resources Bureau - who is not Dr. Evans.\n\nSubsequent Paper 48000 {) (37730) Wt. 4710/10 Gp. 169 40000 5-21 W & B Lid.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548338, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "HONG KONG:\n\nCLOSED UNTIL\n\n102\n\nHOUSING COMMISSION\n\n60129/55\n\nCONGESTED AREAS AND THE TUBERCULOSIS SCOURGE\n\nPrevious Subsequent\n\n53558/38 R83 22/2\n\nIn Castle 21\n\nSat 21\n\nStanton 1.3.35\n\nMr. Jowell\n\n2 83 eurls\n\nIn Caster\n\nith 12\n\n13. 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Peel (5.0)\n\nShortly.\n\n18 Patun\n\nHuton\n\nSn T. SHy\n\n(Skyscrapers are\n\n21/2/35\n\nto see\n\nthe only\n\nHK)\n\nsolution in HK\n\nAs bontan\n\n1.3.35\n\n2\n\n18\n\n35\n\nCommission\n\n(2) Ealicut from\n\nRegd. 53578/35 H∙IC.\n\n2.1c. Gazette no 22\n\nof 10.5.35.\n\naccordance\n\nwith minutes\n\nCM & Alistan\n\n12/0/05 MyEnt.\n\n13.6 whe\n\n30.a. §. 336\n\nappointing\n\npublications\n\nmay\n\nuseful.\n\nJuds\n\n27.5.35\n\nReclamation\n\nCommission\n\nRequest\n\nany\n\nregarding\n\nslum\n\nclearance\n\nthat\n\nbe\n\nApproach 17/4 Health with request-\n\nas in last sentence of\n\nRarand\n\n2/7/35\n\n2\n\nUpon reviewing the original text and the output, I noticed that the original text contained some OCR errors and formatting issues. Here is a corrected version in HTML format as requested:\n\nC.I.D.\n\nMedical\n\nH.\n\n53558/35\n\n(1) See\n\nW. Peel (S.O.)\n\nShortly.\n\n18 Patun\n\nHuton\n\nSn T. SHy\n\n(Skyscrapers are\n\n21/2/35\n\nto see\n\nthe only\n\nHK)\n\nsolution in HK\n\nAs bontan\n\n1.3.35\n\n2\n\n18\n\n35\n\nCommission\n\n(2) Extract from\n\nRegd. 53578/35 H.C.\n\n2.1c. Gazette no 22\n\nof 10.5.35.\n\nin accordance\n\nwith minutes\n\nCM & Alistan\n\n12/0/05 MyEnt.\n\n13.6 whe\n\n30.a. §. 336\n\nappointing\n\npublications\n\nmay\n\nbe useful.\n\nJuds\n\n27.5.35\n\nReclamation\n\nCommission\n\nRequest\n\nany\n\nregarding\n\nslum\n\nclearance\n\nthat\n\nmay be\n\nApproach 17/4 Health with request-\n\nas in last sentence of\n\nRand\n\n2/7/35\n\n2\n\nI made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected \"CI'd\" to \"C.I.D.\" (likely an abbreviation for Criminal Investigation Department).\n2. Removed or corrected non-English characters and nonsensical words.\n3. Corrected \"Se\" to \"See\".\n4. Corrected \"S.O.\" (assuming it stands for Senior Officer, though the original was \"5.0\").\n5. Corrected \"Ealicut\" to \"Extract\".\n6. Corrected \"heve\" to removed (not necessary).\n7. Corrected \"accerdance\" to \"in accordance\".\n8. Corrected \"whe\" (context unclear, possibly \"when\" or another word).\n9. Corrected \"Juds\" (possibly \"Judges\" or a date, \"27.5.35\" is likely a date).\n10. Corrected \"Rarand\" to \"Rand\".\n11. Made minor spacing adjustments for readability.\n\nThe text still appears to be somewhat disjointed and may require further context or clarification for a more accurate correction.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548340, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "Subject\n\n4 obrons\n\n\"\n\nG.D.\n\nM Gaut.\n\n17\n\nappears by\n\nNo Action except\n\nThat m\n\n77/14\n\nwe may\n\nas well find a copy\n\nof the\n\nThe dep.\n\nSBBAN\n\ncopy of the despatch\n\nYes. I copy of\n\nmight also be sent to Df AR\n\nWallington C. (Director of Medical Services, A.K.) who is in London on leave (address:\n\nAncillary Mansions Hotel, Distonia\n\nSt., S.W. who may wish to\n\nconsult with the tuberculosis and housing\n\nexperts\" at the top.\n\nH\n\nArpantan\n\n24/8\n\nDESIN 2 DER STATUIL\n\n10.7.35-\n\n20 M/N\n\n(copy 3)\n\n2 4 JUN 1935\n\nfr.A.K. Wellington", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548341, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "6 DAK Wellington\n\nLicks: (5) + states that suggested consultation\n\nof\n\n• Fitting\n\nAwart\n\nanswer to (x).\n\n18 Rosten\n\nA to\n\nau\n\n31/7/35\n\nWellington has spoken to me about this. He has obtained a great deal of useful information.\n\nWhen we send out the information supplied in report, it should include haut...\n\nlo 4\n\na com or 6.\n\n31/7/\n\n7. MK\n\n9.\n\n8. 35\n\nwith\n\nRef(4) Ground leaks of publications dealing with Hong Kong, copies available from Mruso.\n\n? Ack (3)\n\n(3),\n\nUnclose documents noted in exact. to (9) (including document still to be obtained).\n\nFinal para of desp say that it was also suggested to Dr. Wellington, but he should consult the relevant experts at the Hong Kong Government.\n\n16/8/35\n\nSistine/n/Pr. Da\n\nLibrary.\n\n3078.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548342, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "5\n\n8 To H. Kong\n\n354\n\n(3 Aust. a/c. 6 x and to 7 & Ausra)\n\n4 SEP 1935\n\n&\n\nA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548343, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr. Bucíli 3078\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir C. Parkinson.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\njs\n\n504\n\n53555735\n\n86\n\nSi\n\nR\n\nD3 Lent\n\n- 4 SEP 1935\n\nDRAFT.\n\nwith\n\nHoy lim\n\nMo. 354\n\nony.\n\n13\n\nno 336\n\n-3\n\nEncl.\n\n+ en #\n\nhave with\n\n7\n\n5. Welling. 29\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nreferring in your letter.\n\nto my\n\nown.. 1 a\n\nrelating in the\n\nColony, there are difficulties\n\nin compliance with the\n\ndespatch,\n\nTo you\n\nbody of legislation\n\nLocum in 5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "7\n\nbesoing\n\nthe\n\nIlaw cleace tick ous\n\nHi my classes in\n\nThis common\n\nthe\n\naccom nows if\n\nlisi-\n\n2.\n\nmig y\n\n11. way saggio na to I.A.R\n\nWeeing in\n\nrecepi\n\nof your despolia,\n\nMãe we\n\nthe d\n\nconsule.\n\nrelevant\n\nexpands up to mi\n\nmisting of idealih.\n\ninclves you your infor\n\na copy of a\n\nin which\n\nde action\n\n(Sgd.) 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MALCOLM MacDONALD", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548345, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "Telegrams- \"Localise, Parl, London.\" Telephone-Whitehall 4300. Please address any further communication on this subject to- The Secretary.\n\nTo H. Kong. (5) Lugg NATIONAL FOR SCHEME MEN DISABLED Please quote the following reference 96034/3/2.\n\nMINISTRY OF HEALTH, WHITEHALL, S.W.1. 9th August, 1935.\n\n8 Sir,\n\nRECEIVED 10 AUG 1935 With reference to your letter of the 24th ultimo reference number 53558/35 I am directed by the Minister of Health to enclose a list of Acts of Parliament, Circulars and other official publications dealing with Housing and Slum Clearance.\n\nCopies of these documents may be obtained in the usual way from H.M. Stationery Office.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nI am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, S.H.Wood.\n\nSCHEDULE.\n\nACTS OF PARLIAMENT.\n\nHousing Act, 1925 (amended by Housing Act, 1930).\n\nHousing Act, 1930.\n\nHousing Act, 1935.\n\nCIRCULARS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS.\n\nCircular 1138 dated 19th August, 1930, on The Housing Act, 1930. (Price 6d.)\n\n1331 dated 6th April, 1933, inaugurating a 5 year slum clearance campaign. (Price 1d.)\n\n1425 dated 31st July, 1934, enclosing Memorandum on the principal provisions of the Housing Acts and Public Health Acts in relation to the maintenance of dwelling houses in a reasonably fit condition for human habitation. (Price 2d.)\n\nHousing Manual on the Design, Construction and Repair of Dwellings, 1927. (Reprinted 1934) (Price 9d.)\n\nRe-housing Operations under the Housing Act, 1930. Typical plans of tenement and other dwellings, 1933. (Price 1/4.)\n\nExtracts from the 15th Annual Report (1933-34) of the Ministry of Health. (Price 1/-.)\n\nPage 10\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th inst. (No. 53558/35) together with a copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong regarding the appointment of a Commission to enquire into the housing difficulties of this Colony.\n\nAs suggested I have consulted the housing experts at the Ministry of Health and at the London County Council.\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "I have visited and inspected (a) the Grosvenor Estate \n\n不\n\nthe Westminster Borough Council 16) the China Walk Estate \n\nthe London County Council \n\nI have the honour to be \n\nFrom obedient servant Anson, Wellington ... in ... - Sanitary Shore \n\n10my Kong.\n\nfstate\n\nThe Under Secretary, Colonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548347, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr. Bush 1417 fs.\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir C. Parkinson.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley,\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nte\n\n୨ AM\n\n53558735.\n\n512\n\nR18 JA\n\n122~\n\n2 4 JUL 1935\n\nsuli was omit to you\n\nDRAFT.\n\nI All Welling wom\n\n2\n\nMay Su\n\nتها\n\n3\n\nTouhou unde)\n\nRafs\n\nthe\n\nacs.\n\nhas been\n\nLomy of\n\ndest\n\nrecevis fore\n\nn Holing req\n\nin Comm\n\nwho the housing\n\ndiffimetis\n\nD a\n\nthe appt.\n\nL\n\n- Colmy\n\n2. 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NL.\n\nwisting of Health on\n\n9 te.\n\n(Signed) H. R. COWELL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "No. 336.\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n14th May is not present, but 27th May, 1935 is, so it is likely to be 14th being a typo and should be kept as is.\n\n27th May, 1935.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a copy of a Proclamation, dated 10th May, 1935, appointing a Commission \"to enquire into the housing difficulties in Victoria and Kowloon with special reference to over-crowding and its effect on tuberculosis and suggest steps which should be taken to remedy existing conditions\". The decision to appoint this Commission was actually taken by Sir William Peel with the concurrence of the Executive Council on the 31st January last, but it was considered expedient to delay announcement of the appointment until the new Buildings Bill (see Sir William Peel's despatch No.243 of 15th April, 1935) had been passed.\n\n2.\n\nAs regards the composition of the Commission, Mr. N.L. Smith, the Chairman, is the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Mr. R.M. Henderson is the Director of Public Works. Sir William Shenton is an Unofficial Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and a leading Solicitor. Mr. R.H. Kotewall is the Senior Chinese Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council. Mr. W.J. Carrie, a Cadet Officer, is Head of the Sanitary Department. Dr. G.W. Pope is the Medical Officer of Health. Dr. Li Shu-fan is an Unofficial Member of ...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nSIR P. 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As regards the composition of the Commission, Mr. N.L. Smith, the Chairman, is the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Mr. R.M. Henderson is the Director of Public Works. Sir William Shenton is an Unofficial Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and a leading Solicitor. Mr. R.H. Kotewall is the Senior Chinese Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council. Mr. W.J. Carrie, a Cadet Officer, is Head of the Sanitary Department. Dr. G.W. Pope is the Medical Officer of Health. Dr. Li Shu-fan is an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR P. 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Smith, the Chairman, is the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. Mr. R.M. Henderson is the Director of Public Works. Sir William Shenton is an Unofficial Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and a leading Solicitor. Mr. R.H. Kotewall is the Senior Chinese Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council. Mr. W.J. Carrie, a Cadet Officer, is Head of the Sanitary Department. Dr. G.W. Pope is the Medical Officer of Health. Dr. Li Shu-fan is an Unofficial Member...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.\n&C.,\n&c.,\n&c.,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548350, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "- 2 -\n\n15\n\nthe Sanitary Board and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yeung Wo Private Hospital. Mr. G.G. Wood is a partner in Messrs. Leigh & Orange, one of the leading firms of architects in the Colony. The Secretary, Mr. W.H. Owen, is an Architect in the Public Works Department, and recently passed the examination for the Royal Institute of British Architects' Diploma for Town Planning.\n\n3.\n\nThe Commissioners have only just commenced their labours and I shall forward their report as soon as it is received. The existence of serious overcrowding in the older parts of the City of Victoria has constituted a hitherto insoluble problem in this Colony for very many years, largely owing to the expense of expropriation and rebuilding, and the difficulty of rehousing the working classes in areas close enough to their work to avoid excessive cost of transport. It is understood that in recent years similar problems in England have been tackled with some measure of success, and I should be glad to receive any publications in connection with slum clearance and rehousing of the working classes, which you may consider would assist the Commissioners in their enquiries.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nW.D. Southor.\n\nOfficer Administering the Government.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548351, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "No. 22.\n\nSE\n\nVol. LXXXI.\n\n16\n\nET\n\nDIEU\n\nMON\n\nDROIT\n\nThe Hong Kong Government Gazette\n\nPublished by Authority\n\nFRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935.\n\nNotification\n\nNo.\n\nPROCLAMATION-\n\nNo. 2-Appointment of a Commission to enquire into Housing Conditions\n\nTurn Page. Notification\n\nOVER Page.\n\nNOTICES-Continued.\n\n373\n\n568\n\nTropical Trading Co., Ld. struck off the Register\n\n592\n\n374\n\nAPPOINTMENTS, &C.—\n\nCancellation of Memorial of Re-entry on Inland Lot No. 1907\n\n592\n\n375\n\nTrade Mark-Renewal of registration of, by\n\n363\n\nExequatur empowering Mr. K. Midzusawa to act as Consul General of Japan at Hong Kong\n\nThe Stirling Bonding Co., Ld.\n\n593\n\n376\n\n570\n\n377\n\nTrade Marks-Renewal of registration of\n\nTrade Marks- Renewal of registration of\n\n593\n\n593\n\n364\n\nLieut. L. G. S. Dodwell relinquished his Commission in the Army Service Corps Cadre of the H.K.V.D.C.\n\n378\n\nTrade Marks Nos. 266 and 263 of 1921 to be removed from the Register\n\n594\n\n570\n\n379\n\n365\n\nSecond Lieut. F. W. T. Ross promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the H.K.V.D.C.\n\nTrade Marks Nos. 275 and 375-394 of 1921 to be removed from the Register\n\n594\n\n570\n\n380\n\nUnited Kingdom Patent\n\n595\n\nNOTICES-\n\n366\n\nElection of a member to serve on the Sanitary Board\n\n570\n\nGazette Extraordinary.\n\n367\n\nNext Criminal Sessions to be held on the 20th May\n\n570\n\n368\n\nNotice to Airmen No. 3 of the year 1935\n\n571\n\n369\n\nNotice to Airmen No. ... of the year 1935\n\n572\n\nNo. 21.\n\nMonday, 6th May.\n\n370\n\nRegister of Medical and Surgical Practitioners\n\n573\n\nHONOURS-\n\n371\n\nDental Register\n\n591\n\n372\n\nList of persons authorised to sign death certificates\n\n362\n\n592\n\nList of persons awarded The King's Silver Jubilee Medal\n\n563\n\nThe following Notifications are published,\n\nBy command,\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "Page 568\n\nTHE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 10, 1935,\n\nTHE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 10, 1936.\n\n669\n\nNo. 2.\n\n[L.S.]\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nW. PEEL,\n\nGovernor.\n\nBy His Excellency Sir WILLIAM PEEL, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nWHEREAS by the second section of the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, it is enacted that the Governor in Council shall have power to nominate and appoint Commissioners under the Public Seal for the purpose of instituting, making, and conducting any enquiry that may be deemed advisable and for reporting thereon:\n\nAND WHEREAS the Governor in Council has deemed it advisable that a Commission be appointed to enquire into the housing difficulties in Victoria and Kowloon with special reference to overcrowding and its effect on tuberculosis and suggest steps which should be taken to remedy existing conditions.\n\nNOW I, Sir WILLIAM PEEL, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, hereby appoint-\n\nThe Honourable Mr. N. L. SMITH,\n\nThe Honourable Mr. R. M. HENDERSON,\n\nThe Honourable Sir W. E. L. SHENTON, Kt.,\n\nThe Honourable Mr. R. H. KOTEWALL, C.M.G., LL.D.,\n\nMr. W. J. CARRIE,\n\nDr. G. W. POPE, L.L.M.R.C.P., and S.I. (Ireland), D.P.H.,\n\nDr. LI SHU-PAN, M.B., Ch.B., D.T.M. & H., F.R.C.S.,\n\nMr. G. G. WOOD.\n\nto be Commissioners for the purpose of instituting, making, and conducting such enquiry:\n\nAND I do also appoint the said Honourable Mr. N. L. SMITH, to be Chairman of the said Commissioners:\n\nAND I do also appoint Mr. W. H. OWEN, to be Secretary to the said Commissioners:\n\nAND I do further, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, order and direct that the said Commissioners shall have all the powers, rights, and privileges set out in the third section of the said Ordinance:\n\nAND I do further require the said Commissioners, to report to me their findings and their recommendations in the matter of the said enquiry at as early a date as possible.\n\nGiven under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria, Hong Kong this 10th day of May, 1935.\n\nBy Command,\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nGOD SAVE THE KING.\n\nPage 669\n\nNo. 2.\n\n...\n\nPage 18", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548353, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "Page 570\n\nTHE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 10, 1935.\n\nAPPOINTMENTS, &c.\n\nNo. 363.-The King's Exequatur empowering Mr. KOSAKU MIDZUSAWA to act as Consul General of Japan at Hong Kong has received His Majesty's signature.\n\n4th May, 1935.\n\nNo. 364.-The following relinquishment of Commission has been approved by His Excellency the Governor, with effect from 18th April, 1935:---\n\nLieutenant L. G. S. DODWELL, Army Service Corps Cadre of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.\n\n7th May, 1935.\n\nNo. 365. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the promotion of Second Lieutenant FREDERICK WHITE THOMSON ROSS to the rank of Lieutenant in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect from 6th April, 1935.\n\n10th May, 1935.\n\nNOTICES.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nNo. 366.-Pursuant to Rule 2 in Schedule C to the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, it is hereby notified that a vacancy on the Sanitary Board which necessitates an election has occurred through the expiration of the term of office of Dr. Li SHU FAN, M.B., Ch.B., D.T.M.&H., F.R.C.S. (Edin.).\n\nNominations of Candidates to fill the vacancy are invited.\n\nEach nomination must be in writing, must be signed by two electors, countersigned by the candidate and delivered to the Presiding Officer at the Courts of Justice not later than 1 p.m. on Wednesday, the 22nd day of May, 1935.\n\n10th May, 1935.\n\nE. P. H. LANG,\n\nPresiding Officer.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nNo. 367.-It is hereby notified for general information that, pursuant to section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, His Honour the Chief Justice has ordered that the next Criminal Sessions for the despatch of the business of the Court shall be held on Monday, the 20th day of May, 1935, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.\n\nE. P. H. LANG,\n\nRegistrar.\n\n9th May, 1935.\n\nPage 571\n\n(The rest of the content is not available in the given text)\n\nPage 570\n\n(Three lines at the bottom, likely page numbering information)\n\nPage 571\n\n \nhas been corrected to proper format as per the instructions. 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I would have appointed it before but we had so much on the stocks. It is a serious problem and I feel that it must be tackled.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548355, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935", "content_text": "1\n\n53558", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-553-4 Proposed appointment of Housing Commission to investigate congested areas 18-1-1935 - 4-9-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558466, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-7 Housing Commission Report- minutes 6-12-1938 - 21-12-1938", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-567-7 Housing Commission Report- minutes 6-12-1938 - 21-12-1938", "content_text": "1938\n\n53558\n\n53558\n\nCLOSED UNTIL\n\nHOUSING COMMISSION.\n\nREPORT\n\nCo129\n\n129/561/7\n\nPrevious\n\n53558/325\n\nSubsequent\n\n53558/39\n\nR.83\n\n27/11\n\nMr. Royzes. 6/11. Your Gent\n\nDv Smart\n\n1942\n\nEconomic Diesel 14/13. nce 0 21\n\n83\n\nKrome pat during Sk\n\nFILE A.\n\n(21937) 25870/60 8,000 10/37 M. & S., Ltd\n\nGp.641", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-7 Housing Commission Report- minutes 6-12-1938 - 21-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558467, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-7 Housing Commission Report- minutes 6-12-1938 - 21-12-1938", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-567-7 Housing Commission Report- minutes 6-12-1938 - 21-12-1938", "content_text": "'H' 'Report's' \n\n5358/38 \n\n1. Report of Housing Commission. \n\nGayan 54328/46 \n\nThis report can scarcely be considered a very satisfactory result of three years (nominal) work. In short, the Committee have abandoned any attempt to make detailed recommendations. The important recommendations briefly are:- \n\n1. That a permanent Town Planning and Housing Committee be formed to advise Government on town planning and housing matters. \n\n2. That a permanent Town Planning and Housing sub-Department of the Public Works Department be created. \n\n3. That when that preliminary work has been completed, it should be subject to review and criticism by an acknowledged expert. \n\nThese seem to be obvious steps which the Government should have little difficulty in effecting, and the sooner, I think, the better. \n\nWe need not consider the matter in detail until the Governor's recommendations are received. The memo at Appendix 2 of the report is of interest meanwhile. \n\n? Wait for Governor's recommendations. \n\nP. Roger. \n\n6.12.38. \n\nIt is an immensely difficult problem in Hong Kong, and the Commission has not unexpectedly found it beyond their powers of analysis to make constructive suggestions. They have, moreover, laboured under the disadvantage of having to survey a vast area and pin down ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-7 Housing Commission Report- minutes 6-12-1938 - 21-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558468, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-7 Housing Commission Report- minutes 6-12-1938 - 21-12-1938", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-567-7 Housing Commission Report- minutes 6-12-1938 - 21-12-1938", "content_text": "of supply artificial conditions in \n\nthe Colony which served to \n\nemphasise \n\nthe particular basic \n\ndifficulties of the local \n\nproblem.\n\nFor the first time in its history, \n\nhowever, the Colony has had to \n\nundertake recently \n\nthe \n\ntask of controlling the influx \n\nof persons from \n\nthe border \n\nwith some success, \n\nThis experience may encourage \n\nThe Governor to \n\nforesee the possibility of coping \n\nwith \n\nthe problem of overcrowding \n\n& \n\npoverty \n\nin \n\nH.K. \n\nwhich has \n\narisen \n\nfrom half a century of \n\nlaissez faire in \n\nthe Colony \n\n& insecurity of life & property \n\nin \n\nChina.\n\nPage 4\n\nPage 4\n\nPage 4\n\n...\n\nto deal with \n\nthe same problem", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-7 Housing Commission Report- minutes 6-12-1938 - 21-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564403, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "# 53558\n\nN \n\n102 \n\n**CLOSED UNTIL** \n\nPrevious \n\n1939 \n\n53558/38 \n\n**HOUSING CONDITIONS** \n\n`cori/576` \n\n1/516/1 \n\n12. 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Hansard of 18.10.38\n\n2. Gov. sust (2) 2·2·59\n\nJubrite oboons, on Loving conditions\n\nIt is, I think, quite clear that any comprehensive Housing Scheme for Hong Kong will need to be accompanied by some scheme designed to make available large areas of suitable land in the central part of the City. As an example, a proposal has already been mooted (it is yet in its very elementary stages) for removing the military from their present sites in the central areas.\n\nThe attempt to finance such a scheme by the raising of a loan would not, I should think, be entirely satisfactory, since it would mean that Government could only undertake schemes likely to prove remunerative; whereas it might be desirable from a social point of view to embark upon schemes which are not likely to prove sufficiently remunerative to bear loan charges. And in any case most of the schemes would only show returns from land sales, etc. over a fairly long period. It therefore seems desirable to have available a large fund for meeting initial expenditure raised if possible by other means than a loan.\n\nFor this reason the Governor suggests utilising part of the income, and if necessary part of the existing surplus also, of the Exchange Fund. The present surplus of the Fund stands at somewhere about $20,000,000 and in June last showed an \"excess\" :", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564405, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "\"excess\" surplus of $4,000,000.\n\nThe current net income from the Fund is between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 annually.\n\nThe proposal outlined by the Governor is that an initial sum of, say, $5,000,000 should be transferred from the Exchange Fund to a new Improvement Fund, which would receive annually half of the net addition to the surplus of the Exchange Fund. If necessary, the Improvement Fund could borrow further sums (though probably this would not be necessary), the charges being met by the annual payment from the Exchange Fund. As it would also receive the proceeds of land sales from schemes undertaken from it, these additional payments might in time prove unnecessary.\n\nThe Fund thus constituted would be used for rehousing schemes and germane matters, i.e., ordinary governmental construction schemes, not for ... mabeg ...\n\nThe possibility of utilising part of this surplus of the Exchange Fund had already been raised in a letter from Mr. Caine to Mr. Clauson at 21 on `15117/18/38 Economică`. It was then stated that it was not contemplated that any of the surplus should be used in relief of ordinary revenue; and this is restated by the Governor in paragraph 6 of his despatch. At 22 on that file, it was agreed that the currency is already over-secured; and it was therefore suggested that one way of using the surplus would be to convert it into a capital fund, the interest of which, together with the interest on the main fund itself, should be used in relief of the public revenues.\n\nThe present scheme seems to me to provide an", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564406, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "An admirable and most useful outlet for such surpluses; particularly since, on the showing so far, revenue for 1939 is equivalent to about 109 per cent. of the same period for 1938. So far only the principle is involved, since the Governor has not consulted the Executive Council; but we can approve the principle and authorise discussions as in paragraph 9 of the despatch.\n\nAnd register copy of this despatch on the Hong Kong Exchange Fund file (`15117/18/38 Economic Secret.`).\n\nA.N. Salsworthy 17/3\n\nI think that this proposal is ingenious & sound, as any proposal would be which came from Caine, who is of course the author of it, but the position of the Fund is not what it was on the 30th of June. Since then there has been a serious depreciation in the value of securities in that Fund which, if I remember rightly, wipes out nearly the whole of the second half-year's income. This cannot of course go on indefinitely, but it might go on a bit longer.\n\nI suggest that you should reply that while we agree in principle with the scheme, which deserves high commendation, the present situation is so unsettled, in particular the danger of further depressions in the value of the Fund's securities cannot be excluded. In these circumstances, we will not object to the proposal being ventilated, but that it must definitely be regarded as a proposal only which...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564407, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "## \n\nDiscussion cannot be initiated until the position is secure.\n\nI am sending a copy of the criado.\n\n### \n\nI should be glad to have your views. This is in connection with `15117/26/1939` Economic facts which have some bearing on the matter today.\n\n20.3.39\n\nI see no objection to the discussion of this proposal, as proposed in the despatch; and agree to the action it is suggested should be taken. This is, broadly, a self-denying ordinance. H.K. is entitled to the disposable surplus of their Exchange Fund, and to their net annual income from their currency, worked out in accordance with the prescribed methods. They now indicate that they may earmark this from their normal revenue sources, and devote it to the purpose stated.\n\nI see no possible objection to that; it implies that if they do so, they are prepared to make other arrangements for the service of their current expenditure.\n\nThere will doubtless be considerable difficulties if a scheme on these lines is ever adopted; and one major difficulty may be the raising of loans, based on the income derived from the Exchange Fund,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564408, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "when that income may be subject to violent fluctuations owing to changes in the value of the securities held, and when the Colony must still--as explained--look to the Exchange Fund for assistance if the Colony should experience acute financial difficulties\".\n\n3. I think we should let the Treasury have a copy. I doubt whether they will like it!\n\nThe 31st March, 1939.\n\n21/3/39\nAction as proposed with copies of correspondence to Treasury.\n\nHom 21.3.39.\n\nYou will see projects for the utilisation in due course of Surplus of the Exchange Fund that the Treasury suggested that it should be reserved forwards a possible contribution from China Markets in the New Territories.\n\n28/3...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564409, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "## \nDy of 5) for `1517/15/25` d. `151/7/15/2016` \n17/3.\n\n3. to Hikona. **SECi** (3 lusol :) \n4. To. Treas. (w/c 2+3). Pa- \n\n18.4·39.\n\n**ORIG. ON 53668** \n`53668/39` \n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** from conf. deop. from you.. \ndated 14.12.39. \n\nR for record fummally, \nPutty \nH. K.\n\nmals reelin \n4/40", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564410, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "## DOWNING STREET.\n13 March, 1939.\n\nSir,\n\nI have etc. to Parly. U.S. of S. Secretary of State.\n\n(2) DRAFT.\n\n**HONG KONG GOVERNOR SECRET FURTHER ACTION.**\n\nCopy of (2) and this dft. to Treasury, lf. for inf. lapy to Treas...\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your secret despatch (2) of the 2nd of February with regard to certain associated questions concerned with the future planning of the urban areas of the Colony, with reference, inter alia, to the improvement of housing conditions and the possible means of financing housing schemes.\n\n2.\n\nC. O. \nMr. Pilbeam \nMr. Gout 28 \nMr. Cowell 30 \nSir C. Parkinson. \nSir G. Tomlinson. \nSir C. Bottomley. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nPermt. U.S. of S. \n`53558/39 Hong Kong` \nC.A. \nR 30 MAR \nD3 Apul \n\nPage ... \nWt. 31698-35. 10,000 2/37 T.S. 640. \n(*589-150) Wt. 9987-44. 5,000 5/37 T.S. 640.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564411, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "## 9 \n\n2. \n\nWhile I agree in principle with the scheme outlined in your despatch, which deserves high commendation, the present situation is unsettled and, in particular, the danger of further depreciation in the value of the Exchange fund's securities cannot be excluded. In these circumstances I will not object to the proposal being ventilated in the manner suggested in para. 9 of your despatch, but it must definitely be regarded as a proposal only which cannot be initiated until the ... position is more secure. \n\nI have, etc.. \n**(Sgd.)** MALCOLM MacDONALD \n\nPag 1 \n\nCopy to Treas 4. \n**MX SECRET(2)**. \n\nSir, \n\n53558/39 \n\n10 \n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.** \n2nd February, 1939. \n\nI have the honour to address you with regard to certain associated questions, to which I have from time to time referred individually, concerned with the future planning of the urban areas of the Colony, with reference, inter alia, to the improvement of housing conditions. \n\nOne of the basic difficulties of any improvement of housing conditions for the poorer classes of the Colony is the shortage of suitable building land in the central areas in which, for practical reasons, it is essential that such housing should be found. Considerable assistance, both direct and indirect, could be given to any big housing scheme by a comprehensive programme aimed at making available larger areas of suitable land, both through the removal from the central areas of activities which it is not essential to carry on there, and through the formation of new sites whether by reclamation, drainage or levelling: another means to the same end might be the encouragement of suburban developments for the more comfortably placed classes of people, whose removal from the central areas might gradually reduce the pressure on space there. \n\n3. \n\nOne such scheme, on which I am addressing you separately, aims at the removal of a considerable part of the military establishments now occupying valuable land in \n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,** \n&C., &C., &C. \n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564412, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "## 2.\n\nThe centre of the city of Victoria. This, in conjunction with the removal of Government House, which is already in hand, will give an opportunity for the re-planning of a considerable and important section of the city. A scheme of a different character, which is also under active consideration, is the reclamation of a further section in front of the present Praya or water-front between the Royal Naval Dockyard and the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Pier. There are other possibilities of reclamation and site formation elsewhere, particularly in Kowloon and the New Territories. Schemes have also been put forward from time to time for the removal from the central or suburban areas of Victoria of other activities, e.g., the Dairy Farm and the University, which would free land for other development as well as having advantages from the points of view of public health and University development respectively.\n\n## 4.\n\nAll these are schemes which require individual examination; the Town Planning authority, which it is intended to establish, would, when it is in operation, have to be consulted about them, and I do not at present pretend that I am satisfied of the desirability of all of them, even in principle. I am not seeking your approval for any individual schemes.\n\n## 5.\n\nStill less am I seeking your approval. I do desire, however, to request your consideration of the possible means of financing schemes of this kind with the general object of replanning and improving the urban area of the Colony. Many of the suggested schemes should in the course of time prove remunerative, but it may well be many years before receipts from land sales, etc. could cover initial expenses. It would, therefore, be of very great advantage to have available a fund of considerable size from which", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564413, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "## 3. \n12 \n\nThe initial expense could be met. A case could be made out for the raising of a loan with this object. On the other hand, it might well be desired to undertake some schemes which would be definitely worthwhile from the social point of view but which might not show a financial return sufficient to cover the charges on a loan; and I should be reluctant to confine the operation of such a fund to schemes which could be shown to be self-supporting.\n\n## 6. \nI venture to suggest, therefore, that the Colony would be amply justified in utilizing for the purposes of such a fund part of the income and possibly part of the existing surplus of the Exchange Fund. Taking the recently published figures of the position at 30th June, 1938, the Fund's assets exceeded its liabilities by approximately £1,100,000. After allowing a depreciation reserve of ten percent on that part of the liabilities which was not covered by assets in cash or deposits, there was an \"excess\" surplus of over £250,000, approximately $4,000,000. The position of the Fund to-day is stronger still and its current net income exceeds $4,000,000 per annum. It will, I think, be agreed, therefore, that the surplus is already more than sufficient to cover any contingency against which it is reasonable to provide and that there is no necessity from the currency point of view to accumulate any further surplus. On the other hand, I am definitely of the opinion that it is at present, at least, undesirable that either the excess cover or any part of the income should be treated as available for the purposes of general revenue except as a last resource if the Colony should experience acute financial difficulties. The income derived from that Fund is to a very large extent a windfall and I think it should be used for some major purpose of long-term benefit to the community at large.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564414, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "## 4. \n\nThe kind of proposal I have in mind is that an initial sum of, say, $5,000,000 should be transferred from the Exchange Fund to a new Improvement Fund and that that Fund should receive annually one half of the net addition to the surplus of the Exchange Fund. If necessary the Improvement Fund might have power to borrow further sums, the charges on such loans being met by the annual payments from the Exchange Fund, but probably such borrowing would not be necessary as developments are unlikely to proceed so rapidly as to require large scale financing in a short period of years. The Fund could be treated as a revolving fund, receiving the proceeds of land sales from schemes undertaken from it, so that in time additional payments into the Fund might become unnecessary.\n\n## 7. is missing, assuming it was a page number or section header not related to the content.\n\n## 8. \n\nSuch an Improvement Fund would be regarded as available for substantial schemes of re-planning, reclamation, etc. Those which I have referred to would come within its purview but it would not, of course, be confined to them. I should not rule out from consideration the undertaking from the Fund directly of large scale re-housing schemes. I should not, however, contemplate its use for ordinary governmental construction schemes, e.g., the building of hospitals.\n\n## 9. \n\nThis is at present only a preliminary suggestion. The details of any such plan would require a great deal of further discussion both locally and with you. Since, however, the whole financial basis of the plan rests on the utilization of the Exchange Fund money I have thought it essential to refer the principle of such utilization to you before making any suggestion for the creation of such a fund locally, and I have not yet consulted my Executive Council on the subject. I should", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564415, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "## \n5.\n\n14 \n\nbe glad, therefore, to know whether you would see any objection to the discussions of such a possibility, first with Executive Council and later with unofficial members of Legislative Council, using, of course, only the public figures of the Exchange Fund's position as already issued from time to time.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nCurt. Watherston\n\nGovernor.\n\n164", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564416, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "# HOUSING\nThe actual report of the Housing Commission, which will shortly be in the hands of members, is short but pregnant and there is appended to it a thoughtful and informative study of the principal features of Hong Kong's problems of this nature, made in the light of the past experience of other countries. This appendix is stated in the report to be \"only one of a series of memoranda\" which Mr. W. H. Owen, the secretary of the Commission, compiled for the consideration of members. I endorse very strongly the high commendation which the Commission gave to Mr. Owen's valuable services to them.\n\nThe report brings out the essential interdependence between slum clearance, hygienic housing of the poorer classes and town planning and, wisely, it makes no pretence of being final: its main recommendations, briefly summarised, are\n(1) That surveys of many different kinds should be put in hand at once, in order to establish the facts of the case:\n(2) that competent authorities be set up for that purpose:\n(3) that expert advice be sought when these preliminary investigations have been made, before remedial expenditure is begun on a large scale.\n\nThere are several other suggestions of less, but far from insignificant, importance, some of which, at any rate, could be put into effect in the near future.\n\nThe paragraph which deals with the requisite surveys is so cogent and comprehensive that I quote it here:-\n\"Before the actual clearance of slums can be undertaken, it will be necessary to prepare a survey of local industry and housing, each in relation to the other; to prepare a survey of existing buildings, particularly houses, in order to find the number and condition of those which are unfit for habitation; and to conduct social surveys in order to determine the economic condition of the people and their capacity to pay for improved housing.\"\n\n## Authority\nAuthority, containing technically equipped members, whose functions would be to make these investigations and, subsequently, to submit for Government's consideration programmes of town planning, slum clearance and housing, which, when approved, the Authority would carry out.\n\nIn order to ensure liaison between the Urban Council and the Town Planning Authority I consider that the Chairman of the Urban Council should preside over the Authority. I hope that voluntary helpers will be forthcoming for the conduct of the social surveys which are necessary for this purpose: these will provide a field where University students would find plenty of scope and I trust that it will appeal especially to them.\n\nA fundamental issue is raised by the Commission's observation that there is no escape from the social evils resulting from excessive population—excessive, that is, relatively to the number of people who could subsist themselves properly upon the wage-fund available in Hong Kong, in the words of the Commission \"so long as an enormous reservoir of population exists at our door, unless it is a remedy which presents very serious difficulties, namely restriction of immigration.\" Such a policy of restriction would, I agree, be a momentous innovation, as far as Hong Kong's history goes, though it is commonplace in other parts of the world: nevertheless I hold that it is our duty to face facts and to do right accordingly.\n\nHow the reform of housing and town planning is to be financed is a matter which can safely be left to the future: it is quite obvious that such schemes as may be approved after the facts have been ascertained can only be put into execution on a plan which will extend over a long period of years; it is also apparent that it will be costly though not necessarily non-remunerative in the long run: further consideration at the present time of how the initial costs are to be covered would be futile.\n\nMy recommendations to the Secretary of State for the Colonies will be on these lines, unless in the meantime I am persuaded to the contrary. The whole subject is of first-rate importance and I do not wish to stampede public opinion upon it: I shall, therefore, not submit any such recommendations until the members of this Council have had time to form and express their own views. On the other hand, the matter is not one which permits of indefinite postponement: I hope, therefore, that critics of the report and my expressed intentions will deliver themselves with no long delay.\n\n## Housing Conditions\n15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564417, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939", "content_text": "## Page 53558", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-1 Proposed schemes for improvements in housing conditions 13-10-1938 - 13-4-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "1951\n\n25/2403/16\n\nHONG KONG and PACIFIC\n\nHONG KONG\n\nDEVELOPMENT\n\nHOUSING PROJECT.\n\n1951\n\n54403/16\n\nCLOSED UNTIL\n\n1982\n\nPrevious\n\n12818/17/1950\n\nSubsequent\n\nHKP313/126/01 * SEE AKP313/2/01\n\n4531\n\n60129/677/3\n\nFILE A\n\nWt. 24406 5566 11m in 7 sorts 10/50 TCP/JB", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599345, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "Desp 14\n\n10/2/51\n\n2\n\nMr. Atkinson.\n\n1.\n\nNow that you have returned from your tour I should be glad if you would have a look at the extremely interesting and encouraging proposals contained in (1) opposite. In the absence of professional advice on this complicated question the file has been held up for some time and we should, I think, endeavour now to deal with the various points arising as rapidly as possible.\n\n2. To my mind Hong Kong has in (1) \"turned up trumps\" on this question of housing. They have not as yet had a chance to consider in detail all the points which we raised in our despatch at (10) on 12818/17/50. In fact whilst we were busy thinking out the terms of that despatch Hong Kong were busy thinking out the pilot scheme which has now been put to us in (1) opposite. In the circumstances it is, I think, encouraging that, as the Governor points out in (1) opposite we appear to have reached broadly similar conclusions on the question of the lines which housing development in Hong Kong should take.\n\n3. The Governor accepts our view that the best way of tackling housing in Hong Kong is to set up an Improvement Trust having considerable powers and independence and charged with the task of housing and planning. He does not, however, propose to set this up at once and indeed, as is clear from (10) on 12818/17/50, it was never our intention that he should precipitately set up such a body. In (10) on 12818/17/50 we recommended that pilot schemes should be carried out before large scale development started, mainly I think, with the idea that experience could be gained before the Trust was formally set up; and the Governor's proposals in (1) opposite are for precisely such a pilot scheme. He differs from us in detail however. In paragraph 5(vii) we suggested that an interim committee, which could later develop into the Trust should be given the job of undertaking the pilot schemes; we also recommended that in the early stages at any rate housing and planning should be handled together. The Governor does not quite meet us on this as he proposes that after site development for the pilot scheme is completed the actual housing work should be turned over to the Hong Kong Housing Society. However, I think he meets us sufficiently. The planning aspects of the pilot scheme have been considered, presumably in the Public Works Department, and it has been ensured that the scheme does not clash with any of Sir P. Abercrombie's suggestions and although Sir Patrick's word is not infallible (in fact too often his schemes have been found to be rather over-idealistic and unrealistic) it is clear that Hong Kong intend to be guided in general terms by his ideas. The actual design of the flats forming the scheme has also been done in the Public Works Department (by the Acting Chief Architect) with the advice of a representative committee. I think we can assume that the housing and planning aspects of this scheme have been given sufficiently closely connected consideration.\n\n4. If you agree as to this point then the only remaining query on the scheme submitted in (1) to my mind is the question of the cost of site development. In paragraph 9 of our despatch at (10) on --/50 we recommended that the activities of the Trust, the creation of which we had suggested, should aim at being self-supporting over a specified period of time and, from what I can remember of our discussions at the time the despatch was being prepared, we certainly envisaged the cost of site development as being part of the costs of the Trust and as being therefore part of the costs which the ...\n\n/income", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "3\n\nOn the other hand, we also emphasised in para. 9 that the money available under Hong Kong's Colonial Development and Welfare allocation, which the Governor proposed to devote to housing for the lower-paid strata of Hong Kong's population (i.e., about £600,000), should not simply be spent on building so many houses but should be looked upon rather as money available to set in motion a much larger development; we mentioned in this connection pilot schemes, surveys, research, etc. There seems to me little doubt that, despite the fact that we had not specifically envisaged the money as being spent on site development, the Governor's proposals in (1) opposite fall within our general suggestions. The Governor argues forcibly that, owing to Hong Kong's peculiar position and the already congested nature of the areas within easy reach of industry and commerce, in which it is desired to build most of the Colony's low-rent housing for the lower-paid part of the population, the cost of site development, if it were included as part of the expenditure which any housing scheme had to meet from its income, would force up the rents which would have to be charged to a level too high for that section of the population for which the housing is being designed, and the whole object of the scheme would thus be defeated.\n\n5. Whilst agreeing in principle that the housing which is undertaken must be planned so as to be self-supporting, the Governor wishes to exclude the cost of site development and to treat this as a non-recoverable outlay to be met from C.D. and W. funds. It seems to me that this form of use of C.D. and W. money can legitimately be looked upon as using the C.D. and W. money to \"set in motion larger developments\". Further, it also seems to me (though Finance Department will no doubt advise on this) that no complications will arise, if the money is used in this way, over the point which we raised with Hong Kong in the telegram at (7) on 12818/17/50. The expenditure of money on site development can, in my view, be looked upon as an essential pre-requisite to an important self-supporting development scheme in the Colony; without such expenditure, the scheme cannot come to fruition. Alternatively, if it is any easier from the Finance Department's point of view, in the light of what was said in (7), we can view expenditure on site development as part of the cost of a housing scheme in which, of necessity, the resulting flats must, owing to conditions in the Colony, be let at an uneconomic rent. The difference is only one of approach, and I am sure Hong Kong would fall in with the alternative suggestion I have made above if it is considered more appropriate, since the plain fact remains that, without C.D. and W. assistance, in the form of a grant, the housing development which is envisaged in (1) opposite cannot go ahead.\n\n6. The actual application made in (1) opposite is only a small one, and the C.D. and W. assistance sought is only £13,500, and the number of flats to be produced is only 370. The scheme is, however, a pilot scheme, and we are warned that other similar schemes involving applications for C.D. and W. assistance totalling nearly £250,000 will be forthcoming in due course; this programme will produce about 2,500 small flats.\n\nThis programme in itself is only a first instalment in a large development designed to meet the Colony's housing needs. With a vigorous Director of Public Works like Mr. Bowring, we can, I think, expect things to go ahead rapidly. In any event, it is, I think, clear that we must take all our decisions of principle on this matter now, as schemes following the small one at (1) opposite will be on similar lines; indeed, we are specifically asked in (1) for our approval in principle to the proposal that Hong Kong should proceed on the lines indicated in (1).\n\n7. The", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599347, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "The actual cost of erection of both the flats dealt with in the application in (1) and the more extended initial programme of 2500 flats for which C.D. and W. assistance of nearly £250,000 will be needed, will be met by loans from the Hong Kong Government estimated to total nearly £1,000,000. These loans will doubtless be made to the Improvement Trust when that body is constituted. As noted above, however, the Governor proposes to entrust the erection of the 370 flats in the pilot scheme to the Hong Kong Housing Society and he wishes therefore to make a loan to this body for this purpose; the amount of the loan is to be approximately $2,000,000 (i.e. £125,000) and the Governor seeks our approval for this. I have looked through the aims and objects of the Hong Kong Housing Society in Appendix 'E' to (1) and they appear to meet the points as to efficient management, etc., which we made in our despatch at (10) on 12818/17/51.\n\nAs (i) the Governor proposes to require the Society to become incorporated and assuming that in the incorporating ordinance aims and objects similar to those in Appendix 'E' to (1) are given legal force and (ii) the Society is prepared to merge itself into the Improvement Trust when that body is formed (this should presumably be laid down in the incorporating ordinance too), I can see no objection to the Society being responsible for the pilot scheme when the sites have been developed and I think subject to (i) and (ii) above we should convey our agreement to the Governor making the necessary loan to the Housing Society.\n\nThis is rather a complicated matter to deal with as it involves one or two points of principle. I suggest that the simplest method of handling it is for a normal C.D. and W. memorandum for the pilot scheme to be agreed in the Office and put to the Treasury as soon as possible. This will throw up all the points of principle involved not only in the pilot scheme but also in the more extended subsequent programmes. Once therefore that we have Treasury approval for a C.D. and W. scheme in some form for the pilot scheme we shall be able to reply to (1) (a) on the specific point of the pilot scheme (b) on the general points of principle raised in respect of which our approval is sought (c) on the question of the loan to the Housing Society.\n\nI therefore attach the draft of a C.D. and W. memorandum as a first shot. Finance Department may wish to adopt the alternative approach I have suggested above as a matter of tactics. Otherwise ? as in draft.\n\nPerhaps you will pass the file on to Mr. Hall and Mr. Armitage-Smith when you have dealt with it?\n\nB. Pandang\n\n17.4.51.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "(1596) WtY.21290/995 9/50 1,305,000 JC&S Ltd. Gp736/208\n\n(REGIMEAN)\n\nCODE 5-33-0\n\nReference...\n\nMR. HALL\n\nIt is very encouraging to read that Hong Kong is acting so quickly. The other day I met Mr. J. M. Richards, Editor of \"The Architects' Journal\" and Architectural Correspondent to \"The Times\", who has recently returned from a short visit to Hong Kong. He spoke highly of the P.W.D's. architectural work and of W. W. C. Shewan, the Chief Architect.\n\nI have some comments to make on the design and construction of the flats, but think these might best be made in a personal letter to Shewan. I would like to see the papers again later. I note and accept the comments made in paragraph 10 of 1 on the undesirability of communal kitchens, etc.\n\nTo do so, I see no objection to the interim proposals for construction and administration of the housing. It looks as if a principal problem for housing in Hong Kong, at least on the island, is the acquisition and development of sites. There is something to be said for keeping these separate financially from house building. For example, it may be desirable, and more economical, to develop a larger area than is needed immediately, and even to lease part of that area for private development such as shops or lower middle-class housing. The difficulty of obtaining suitable sites underlines the need to consider town planning side by side with housing. Too often elsewhere I have seen sites which are least level and most expensive to develop left for low-cost housing. If the cost of site development is to be the subject of a C.D. and W. grant, it is very necessary to ensure that it is carried out economically. I have every confidence that the present P.W.D. will do this.\n\nG. Anthony Atkinson\n\nG. ANTHONY ATKINSON\nColonial Liaison Officer\n24.4.51\n\nMr Annitage. Smith.\n\nI am afraid this is a somewhat long memorandum but unless you particularly want it shortened, we can let it go. I am content with it as it is.\n\nHllall\n27/4\n\nN.A. Annitage - Suitto", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "C.D.W(D) NO 2035\n\n6\n\n5, 5. 51\n\nm 3 do do Shoup (Hey). W/copy (2) -comps 9.5.51\n\n4 to Dawn Agents - 5/2copas (2) - comps -7.50 Craw\n\nNo. 2 was agreed at yesterday's meeting with The Treasury. Scheme number is D 1602. I have drafted OF Flegan Joncernor, Hong Kong: Member -11/5 dir. Hall.\n\nThe Treasury and ourselves were, of course, concerned only with the cow scheme at yesterday's meeting. You will no doubt consider whether the sentence in our Draft which I have bracketed properly for you is part of this telegram, and whether other any comment (1) is called for.\n\nI might say here that we shall have to look closely at the implications of establishing the improvement in est, from the point of view of money to be brought in to this in que administration. Accounts Department should ...\n\nJ.N.A. Armitage. Smith Mrs Petterick 16 Squeak, Mall 1575\n\n11/5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599350, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "For Palmer.\n\nVin Please\n\nace\n\nx\n\nX\n\nFor Lairclough's minute of the 17th April.\n\nweeks\n\nIn (1) the Gov: seeks approval for the setting aside of $15 million of the Development Fund for financing Lower Cost Housing in H.K. and for a loan of $2 million to be made to the Hong Kong Housing Society who are to be entrusted with the building of 370 flats in their pilot scheme.\n\nThe aims and objects of this Society are set out in Appendix 1.\n\nApproval has been given for a grant of $13,500 from C.D. to cover the cost of preparing the sites for the first scheme.\n\nIn principle agreement meets for C.D. to assistance to the cost of preparing the sites of about 2,500 small flats. (Annex 2).\n\nLe may also approve the setting aside of $15 million for financing housing and for a loan of $2 million from this to be made to the Hong Kong Housing Society for the building of 370 flats in the pilot scheme,\n\nas discussed.\n\n17/5\n\nP. Petheries\n\n17/5\n\nMull\n\n18/5", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599351, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "18 MAY 1951\n\nCDxW extract Treasury discussion\n\n10. S\n\nDesp. 53\n\n4.6.51\n\nLegal Jobrin tut de Patria\n\nFor The Petace\n\nIhr Hall.\n\nThe Hong Kong Housing Society has been entrusted with the building of 370 flats under the Pilot Scheme of large scale housing development scheme in Hong Kong.\n\nThe Society, not being a corporate body, cannot hold a property in its own name, and the purpose of this Ordinance is to provide for its incorporation to enable it to carry out its aims and objects more effectively.\n\nSubject to legal observations...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599352, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "Page 616\n\n9/7 Il pryson & time 6.3.\n\n1. Petheneesh a 1/2,7\n\nWoteritt Kong Jap! 18005.\n\n9/7 atome 9 3 — 11 JUL 1951\n\nCrastum 25/9.\n\n5412 Pl. see minute 1/5\n\nKos. Cloch 1/10/2 •110-\n\nWould you please receive within the Improvement Trust is formed or in a month's time which ever is earlier.\n\nJenfowell 10/0.\n\nPage 616", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599353, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "Sect. file No.3/3281/51.\n\nNo. 53\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n10th June, 1951.\n\nEnclosure No. 1.\n\nEnclosure No. 2.\n\nEnclosure No. 3. Enclosure No. 4.\n\nEnclosure No. 5.\n\n5 Enclosures.\n\nI have the honour to submit for the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the following Ordinance intituled:-\n\n2. \"An Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Hong Kong Housing Society.\n\n##\n\nAn explanatory report by the Attorney General showing the reasons and occasion for passing the Ordinance is enclosed, together with a statement that in his opinion assent may properly be given. Two copies of the Gazette Supplement containing the Ordinance are also enclosed.\n\n3. The Ordinance was introduced and passed as a private Bill and in accordance with Article XXVII of the Royal Instructions a certificate under my hand is transmitted herewith.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nGOVERNOR.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nJAMES GRIFFITHS, M.P.\n\nK. & P. 11 JUN 1951\n\n%Page 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599354, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2\n\nHONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1951.\n\nExplanatory observations in accordance with Article XXVIII of\n\nthe Royal Instructions.\n\n11\n\n1. This Ordinance was passed with one amendment on the 16th\n\nMay, 1951.\n\n2. The reasons for enacting this Ordinance are set out in the\n\nObjects and Reasons to the Bill. A copy of such Bill is attached.\n\n3. The amendment effected at the Committee Stage, referred to Clause 9 of the Bill whereby the words \"for the time being\" were deleted and replaced by the words \"and of any amendment thereto.\"\n\n7\n\n4. The Bill was introduced and enacted as a private measure. On the proposal being made so to legislate, I gave consideration to the question whether or not this legislation should include, or separate legislation be proposed as a Government measure, to make provision on the lines of the Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845. (8 & 9 Vict. c.16.)\n\n5. I did not so propose since so to do would have further\n\ndelayed and perhaps discouraged public spirit in assisting in the solution of the housing problem in Hong Kong for persons of small income. However, if the example of the Hong Kong Housing Society be followed by the formation under statute of Housing Societies within which philanthropy is not the aim, legislation of general application to\n\nensure control of the principles of the Act above mentioned will need\n\nto be considered.\n\nHONG KONG,\n\n29th May, 1951.\n\nAttorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599355, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "A BILL\n\nINTITULED\n\nAn Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Hong Kong Housing Society.\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Hong Kong Housing Society Incorporation Ordinance, 1951.\n\n2. In this Ordinance-\n\nInter-pretation.\n\n\"Constitution\" means the constitution of The Hong Kong Housing Society approved from time to time by its members for the time being.\n\n3. The Hong Kong Housing Society shall be a body corporate (hereinafter called \"the Corporation\") and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and may have and use a common seal, and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the Corporation may deem fit.\n\nPowers of Corpora-tion.\n\n4. The Corporation shall have full power-\n\n(a) to acquire, by purchase, lease, exchange or otherwise, hold and enjoy land, buildings, messuages, tenements of what nature or kind soever in the Colony of Hong Kong;\n\n(b) to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, vessels, goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever;\n\n(c) to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in the Colony or in any government bonds or on mortgage of any land, buildings, messuages or tenements in the Colony, or in or on debenture, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business in the Colony;\n\n(d) to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any land, or buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenture-stock, funds, securities, vessels, goods and chattels for the time being vested in the Society, upon such terms as the Society may deem fit;\n\n(e) to erect any buildings, messuages or tenements and effect any improvement thereto;\n\n(f) to borrow money upon such terms as the Society shall think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription;", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599356, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "Vesting of property.\n\nMembers.\n\n2\n\n13\n\n(g) to enter into any agreement and engage any contractor or other agent; and\n\n(h) generally to do such other things as may appear to be incidental or conducive to the aims and objects of the Corporation as provided by its constitution, or the purposes aforesaid or any of them.\n\n5. The land, buildings, messuages, and tenements in the Colony belonging or purporting to belong to the unincorporated Hong Kong Housing Society, and all moneys, securities for money, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever the property of the unincorporated Hong Kong Housing Society or purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the Corporation, but subject as regards the said land, buildings, messuages, and tenements, to the payment of the rents and observance and performance of all the covenants, conditions, and reservations contained in the Crown Lease under which the same are respectively held.\n\n6. The Corporation shall consist of such members as are provided by its constitution.\n\n7. All the existing members of the unincorporated Hong Kong Housing Society at the date of the passing of this Ordinance shall be the first members of the Corporation.\n\n8. The existing constitution of the unincorporated Hong Kong Housing Society shall be the constitution of the Corporation, but the same may be changed or amended by the Corporation at any time and from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the constitution for the time being in force.\n\n9. A copy of the constitution of the Corporation and of any amendment thereto, and a list of the names and addresses of the members of the executive committee of the Corporation to the time being, certified in each case as correct by the chairman of the executive committee or by the secretary of the Corporation, shall be forwarded to the Registrar of Companies for registration.\n\n10. The Corporation shall pay such fee for registering any document with any public registry as may be payable under any enactment relating thereto.\n\n11. Any person may inspect any of the documents registered by the Corporation in pursuance of section 9 hereof, upon payment of such fee as may be payable under any enactment relating thereto.\n\n12. All deeds, documents, and other instruments requiring the seal of the Corporation shall be signed by the chairman of the executive committee and the secretary of the Corporation or by such other person or persons as the executive committee shall from time to time appoint, and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents, and other instruments.\n\n13. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs and Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from, or under them.\n\nI. Objects and Reasons.\n\nThe object of this Bill is to incorporate The Hong Kong Housing Society.\n\n2. The Society has existed since April 1948, as a purely social welfare and non-profit-making body. Its aims and objects are to provide, found, secure, promote, encourage, and operate housing and its associated amenities on such economic basis as is suitable for persons of small income in the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\n3. It is provided by the Constitution of the Society that the income and property of the Society, whencesoever derived, shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the aims and objects of the Society as set forth herein; and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred, directly or indirectly, by way of dividend, bonus, or otherwise howsoever by way of profit, to the members of the Society, but there is nothing therein provided which prevents the payment, in good faith, of remuneration to any officer or servant of the Society, or to any member of the Society in return for any services actually rendered to the Society, or the payment of interest at a rate not exceeding the current rate chargeable by bankers in the Colony on money lent, or reasonable and proper rent for premises demised or let by any member to the Society.\n\n4. It is also provided in the Constitution of the Society that in the event of its winding up, its assets, if any, after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, shall not be paid to or distributed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599357, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "- 4\n\n15\n\namong the members of the Society, but shall be given or transferred to some other institution or institutions, having aims and objects similar to the aims and objects of the Society, and which shall prohibit the distribution of its or their income and property among its or their members to an extent at least as great as is imposed on the Society under or by virtue of the provision aforesaid, such institution or institutions to be determined by the members of the Society at or before the time of dissolution, or in default thereof by a judge of the Supreme Court having jurisdiction in regard to charitable funds and if so far as effect cannot be given to the aforesaid provisions then to some charitable object.\n\n5.\n\nThe Hong Kong Housing Society, not being a corporate body, cannot hold any property in its own name, and it is, therefore, thought desirable that it should become a corporate body, in order to enable it to carry out its aims and objects more effectively.\n\nHong Kong,\n\nC. Y. KWAN & Co.,\n\nSolicitors for The Hong Kong Housing Society,\n\n4A, Des Voeux Road, Central.\n\n20th April, 1951.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599358, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 3\n\n1.6\n\nHONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1951.\n\nAttorney General's Certificate.\n\nI am of the opinion that His Excellency The Governor\n\nmay properly assent to the abovementioned Ordinance in the name\n\nand on behalf of His Majesty.\n\nATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBER,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n16th May, 1951.\n\n[Miss]\n\nAttorney General.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599359, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY INCORPORATION\n\nNo. 17 of 1951.\n\n105\n\n17\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo. 17 OF 1951.\n\nL.S.\n\nI assent.\n\nA. G. GRANTHAM, Governor.\n\n17th May, 1951.\n\nAn Ordinance to provide for the incorporation of the Hong Kong Housing Society.\n\n[18th May, 1951.]\n\nBe it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:\n\n1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Hong Kong Housing Society Incorporation Ordinance, 1951.\n\n2. In this Ordinance—\n\nInterpretation.\n\n\"Constitution\" means the constitution of The Hong Kong Housing Society approved from time to time by its members for the time being.\n\n3. The Hong Kong Housing Society shall be a body corporate (hereinafter called \"the Corporation\") and in that name shall have perpetual succession and shall and may sue and be sued in all courts in the Colony and may have and use a common seal, and may from time to time break, change, alter and make anew the said seal as to the Corporation may deem fit.\n\n4. The Corporation shall have full power—\n\n(a) to acquire, by purchase, lease, exchange or otherwise, hold and enjoy land, buildings, messuages, tenements of what nature or kind soever in the Colony of Hong Kong;\n\n(b) to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, vessels, goods and chattels of what nature or kind soever;\n\n(c) to invest moneys on deposit in any bank in the Colony or in any government bonds or on mortgage of any land, buildings, messuages or tenements in the Colony, or in or on debenture, debenture-stocks, stocks, funds, shares or securities of any corporation or company carrying on business in the Colony;\n\nPowers of Corporation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599360, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "106\n\nNo. 17 of 1951.\n\nVesting of property.\n\nMembers.\n\nExisting become members.\n\nExisting constitu-\n\nHONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY INCORPORATION\n\n(d) to grant, sell, convey, assign, surrender, yield up, mortgage, demise, let, reassign, transfer or otherwise dispose of, any land, or buildings, messuages, tenements, mortgages, debentures, debenture-stock, funds, securities, vessels, goods and chattels for the time being vested in the Society, upon such terms as the Society may deem fit;\n\n(e) to erect any buildings, messuages or tenements and effect any improvement thereto;\n\n(f) to borrow money upon such terms as the Society shall think fit, and to raise money by public or private subscription;\n\n(g) to enter into any agreement and engage any contractor or other agent; and\n\n(h) generally to do such other things as may appear to be incidental or conducive to the aims and objects of the Corporation as provided by its constitution, or the purposes aforesaid or any of them.\n\n5. The land, buildings, messuages and tenements in the Colony belonging or purporting to belong to the unincorporated Hong Kong Housing Society, and all moneys, securities for money, goods, chattels, and effects whatsoever the property of the unincorporated Hong Kong Housing Society or purporting so to be are hereby transferred to and vested in the Corporation, but subject as regards the said land, buildings, messuages and tenements, to the payment of the rents and observance and performance of all the covenants, conditions, and reservations contained in the Crown Lease under which the same are respectively held.\n\n6. The Corporation shall consist of such members as provided by its constitution.\n\n7. All the existing members of the unincorporated Hong Kong Housing Society at the date of the passing of this Ordinance shall be the first members of the Corporation.\n\n8. The existing constitution of the unincorporated Hong Kong Housing Society shall be the constitution of the Corporation, but the same may be changed or amended by the Corporation at any time and from time to time in accordance with the provisions of the constitution for the time being in force.\n\n८.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599361, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY\n\nNo. 17 of 1951.\n\nINCORPORATION\n\n9. A copy of the constitution of the Corporation and of any amendment thereto, and a list of the names and addresses of the members of the executive committee of the Corporation and of any amendment thereto, certified in each case as correct by the chairman of the executive committee or by the secretary of the Corporation, shall be forwarded to the Registrar of Companies for registration.\n\n10. The Corporation shall pay such fee for registering any document with any public registry as may be payable under any enactment relating thereto.\n\n11. Any person may inspect any of the documents registered by the Corporation in pursuance of section 9 hereof, upon payment of such fee as may be payable under any enactment relating thereto.\n\n12. All deeds, documents and other instruments requiring the seal of the Corporation shall be signed by the chairman of the executive committee and the secretary of the Corporation or by such other person or persons as the executive committee shall from time to time appoint and such signing shall be taken as sufficient evidence of the due sealing of such deeds, documents and other instruments.\n\n13. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of His Majesty the King, His Heirs and Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other person except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 16th day of May, 1951.\n\nR. W. PRIMROSE, Deputy Clerk of Councils.\n\nPRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY NORONHA & CO., LTD., GOVERNMENT PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599362, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 5\n\nTHE HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY INCORPORATION ORDINANCE, 1951.\n\nCertificate in accordance with Royal Instruction XXVII.\n\n20\n\nIn accordance with Royal Instruction XXVII and Standing Order 30(1) of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong the Hong Kong Housing Society Incorporation Bill, 1951, was published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette on 20th April, 1951, and again on 27th April, 1951.\n\nNotice of its intended introduction into the Legislative Council was advertised in the South China Morning Post on 16th April, 1951, and 17th April, 1951, and in a vernacular paper, namely the Kung Sheung Daily News on 16th April, 1951, and 17th April, 1951.\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n2nd June, 1951.\n\nGOVERNOR.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599363, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE ACT 1944.\n\nExtract from note of discussion with Treasury on 10.5.51\n\n9. Hong Kong\n\nC.O.54403/16/51 I.F.36/187/025\n\n10.5.51\n\nBuilding of flats - pilot scheme.\n\nGrant of £13,500 (CDW(D)No.2035).\n\nAgreed.\n\nScheme D.1602.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599364, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "COLONIAL OFFICE\n\n5 22 54403/16/51\n\nPRIORITY SAVING\n\nFrom the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\nTo the Officer Administering the Government of HONG KONG\n\nDate 19th May, 1951\n\nNO. 469\n\nX Saving\n\nYour despatch No. 14 of the 10th February.\n\nHousing Scheme.\n\nI agree generally with your proposals and approve your proposal for the setting aside of $15 million of the Development Fund for financing housing.\n\nI approve the grant of £13,500 from Colonial Development and Welfare Fund to cover the cost of site formation for the pilot scheme (Scheme No. D.1602), and also the loan to the Hong Kong Housing Society of approximately $2,000,000 to meet the cost of the erection of the flats.\n\nI agree in principle to Colonial Development and Welfare assistance to meet the cost of developing sites, providing road access and water and drainage connections for approximately 2,500 small flats.\n\nTwo copies of the Colonial Development and Welfare Memorandum are enclosed.\n\nSECER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599365, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "C.O.\n\nMr.\n\nMr..\n\nDC\n\nDraft\n\nTELEGRAM * Priority\n\nTo:-\n\nRepeated to:-\n\nBetheneck 14/5.\n\nLalmer\n\n715\n\nMr. Hall 18/5 France\n\nSir\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nS. of S.\n\n2 copies of 2 (attached).\n\nDistribution:-\n\nI confirm Draft\n\nPriority * SAVINGRAM\n\nThe word Priority may be entered here, if necessary.\n\nSov:\n\nHong Kong.\n\nPriority:-\n\nNil.\n\nReply urgently required.\n\nImportant.\n\nImmediate.\n\nMost Immediate.\n\nC. D.\n\nFor transmission 18 MAY\n\nIn Clear\n\nCode\n\nCypher\n\n.\n\nFile No.-\n\n54003/16/51.\n\nSent.\n\nhours.\n\n24\n\n19 MAY 1951\n\n28 MAY 1951\n\n131.469.\n\nRestricted Confidential. Secret. Top Secret and Personal.\n\nFour deadated The the of the\n\n10 Lebi.\n\nHousing scheme.\n\nagree generally\n\nally with\n\nyour proposals and approve your draft for the setting aside of $15 million of the Development Fund for financing Housing.\n\nI approve the grant of\n\n1 copy Thin Parker (£501) £13,500 from Colonial Development\n\nFurther action:-\n\nand Welfare Fund to cover the copies of a (attached) of situ formation for the pass Gov. Many tong\n\nWt. 21408/757 10m 7.48. & Co 51/3\n\nW.t 20277/474 50m 7.49 Wa. & Co. 51/9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599366, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "scheme (Scheme NoD 1602). and also the loan to the Hong Kong Housing Society of approximately \n\n$2,000,000 \n\nto meet the cost of the \n\nerection of the flats. \n\nagree in principle \n\nto C. D and to assistance to meet the cost of developing sites, providing road access and water and drainage connections for approximately 2,500 small flats. \n\nTwo copies of the P. and M Memorandum are enclosed. \n\nSECRET. \n\n24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599367, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "TELEGRAM/\n\n*\n\nC.O.\n\nTo:-\n\nMr. Arantage Suid\n\nMr. inle\n\nSir\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nS. of S.\n\nRepeated to:-\n\nDistribution:—\n\nwhet\n\nAles. But\n\njn im Parken (5.5.01)\n\nFurther action:-\n\nopel of 10.2 (attached)\n\nI lovemo, Hong Kong.\n\nW.t. 20277/474 50m 7.49 Wa. & Co.51/3\n\nW.l. 28261 5326 30m 10.49 Wa. & Co. 51/3\n\nFile No.\n\nSAVINGRAM\n\n• The word Priority may be entered here, if necessary.\n\nHong Kong\n\n54403/10/51\n\nSent.\n\nhours.\n\nPriority:-\n\nFor transmission :—\n\nNo.............\n\nNil.\n\nReply urgently required.\n\nImportant.\n\nImmediate.\n\nMost Immediate.\n\nIn Clear\n\nCode\n\n-Єypher\n\nRestricted. Confidential. Secret.\n\nTop Secret and Personal.\n\n10.14.\n\nYour despatch\n\nBuilding of flats.\n\nI agree\n\nproposals.\n\n£13,500\n\nseverally\n\nwith your\n\napprove grant of development of\n\ntwo sites\n\nNo. D. 1602) and agree\n\nScheme\n\nin\n\nprinciple is\n\n...for developing sites\n\nfor about\n\n2500\n\nSmall flats.\n\nI also\n\napprove\n\nloan\n\nproposal", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599368, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "paraplegia\n\n2. queues\n\none of\n\nNo.\n\n2035\n\nmemorandum\n\nfollow.\n\nSELLER\n\n26", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599369, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "54403/16/51\n\n1/3\n\nHONG KONG\n\nBUILDING OF FLATS PILOT SCHEME\n\nGRANT OF £13,500\n\n27\n\nC.D.W.(D) No. 2035\n\nA large proportion of the population of the Colony lives in conditions of appalling overcrowding and squalor. These conditions are to a large extent caused by the influx of refugees from China. In the course of discussions held with the Secretary of State in the summer of 1950, the Governor of Hong Kong made clear that since he considered the provision of adequate housing, particularly for the lower-paid sections of the community, one of the most important development needs of the Colony, he intended to devote a large part of Hong Kong's Colonial Development and Welfare allocation of £1,000,000 to this aspect of development work. In his despatch No. 352 of 28th December, 1950, in which he discussed in some detail Hong Kong's housing problem and the possible lines of a solution, the Secretary of State welcomed the Governor's decision to use a large part of the available Colonial Development and Welfare assistance on housing development and undertook to consider sympathetically any schemes which might be put forward in this connection; he emphasised, however, that the available Colonial Development and Welfare money should not be looked upon simply as money available to build so many houses but rather as money available to set in motion some much larger development more consonant with the very great needs of the Colony.\n\n2.\n\nThe Governor has now replied to the Secretary of State's despatch No. 352 and in his despatch No. 14 of 10th February, 1951, has agreed in general terms with the proposals made for tackling Hong Kong's housing problem. Broadly, these proposals look to the eventual establishment of an Improvement Trust having considerable unofficial representation on it, although financially under Government control, which would be responsible for housing projects in the Colony; this Trust would aim at making its projects self-supporting over a period of years and it would raise money to meet its initial outlay by loan. This follows the lines which were adopted and have developed over a period of years with such success in Singapore, where the Singapore Improvement Trust has been responsible for a very considerable increase in the standards of accommodation enjoyed by many of Singapore's citizens.\n\n3. It is, however, clearly not possible for a major step like the establishment of an Improvement Trust to be undertaken all at once. For this reason, it was suggested to the Governor of Hong Kong that, in order to gain experience, a pilot scheme on a comparatively small scale should be undertaken. In his despatch No. 14 of 10th February, the Governor has given details of a pilot scheme involving the erection of 370 small flats in eight blocks on two sites conveniently situated for the large industrial areas of Shamshuipo and Lai Chi Kok, which they are intended to serve; 180 of the flats will be on one site and 190 on the other. The intention is to construct two groups of four blocks of five-storeyed flats containing varying numbers of tenements according to their size. These flats, which will be built for the lower-income groups, will not only provide improved living conditions for the actual tenants but will indirectly benefit others by relieving congestion elsewhere and may be expected to encourage employers to embark on similar schemes for their employees.\n\n140", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599370, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "4. The plans allow for one living room, a kitchen, w.c. and small balcony in each flat. This is considered to be the minimum standard of accommodation desirable on health and social grounds and is preferred to a cheaper form of barrack accommodation with communal kitchen, bathrooms and w.c.'s on each floor. The plan is designed to allow for the maximum through ventilation and is sufficiently strong to withstand typhoon conditions without being extravagant. Sketch plans of the flats and of the layout are available in the Colonial Office. The design of the flats has been made by the Acting Chief Architect, Hong Kong Government, assisted by advice from a Committee on which are representatives of the Public Works Department, Medical and Health Services, Labour and Social Welfare Departments, as well as a number of unofficial ladies and gentlemen who include among their number two leading Chinese property owners and Mr. S.E. Faber, a Consulting Engineer in private practice. The total cost of the group of 190 flats is estimated at $1,132,968, including $120,000 for site formation and 6% of the building costs only for architects' fees. The corresponding figure for the group of 180 flats is $1,076,500 including $96,000 for site formation and the same scale of architects' fees.\n\nThese figures do not include the value of the land which is $293,700 and $207,080 in each case and which it is proposed should be recovered over the duration of the lease in annual instalments with interest.\n\n5. In order to make a start with this scheme at the earliest possible date, it is proposed that the Public Works Department should undertake the site formation, construction of access roads, and installation of water and drainage, and that the sites, when formed, should be handed over to the Hong Kong Housing Society to supervise construction. A memorandum setting out the aims and objects of this Society is attached. If these proposals are approved, the Society will be required to become incorporated and, on formation of an Improvement Trust, to merge its functions into those of the Trust and make over the flats to it. The loan from Government required to meet construction costs will be made in the first instance to the Hong Kong Housing Society, but the Society's assets and liabilities will in due course be taken over by the Improvement Trust referred to above by whom repayment of the loan will be completed.\n\n6. Bearing in mind the type of person for whom the flats to be erected under this scheme are intended, it is important that the rents to be charged for the finished flats shall be kept as low as possible. If at the same time the rents of these and other similar flats to be constructed in the future are to be kept at an economic level (i.e. meeting over a specified period of years all charges on the properties) it is essential, so the Governor has stated in his despatch No. 14 of 10th February, 1951, that site formation and development should not be a charge on the properties. It is also important that the rents for different blocks of similar accommodation should be uniform: this would not be possible if site formation and development were to form a charge on the properties without the need for one group of flats carrying part of the over-heads of another, since such charges vary considerably. Although in the present scheme the cost of site formation is relatively low i.e., $216,000 (£13,500) in all, it is not expected that these charges will constitute such a small proportion of the capital outlay in future owing to the extreme shortage of building sites which are inexpensive to develop in localities where housing of this type is most needed.\n\n7. For these reasons the Governor has proposed that by meeting the initial cost of site formation Colonial Development and Welfare money can most conveniently contribute towards setting in motion much larger developments in the field of housing. With Colonial Development and Welfare money so used site formation would not form a charge on the properties and as a result it would be possible to let them at an economic rent. If site formation had to form a charge on the properties\n\n/they", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599371, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "29\n\nthey would have to be let at an uneconomic rent. The present proposal therefore is for a grant of £13,500 to cover the cost of site formation for a pilot scheme consisting of the erection of 370 flats; the contribution of the Hong Kong Government to this pilot scheme will be a loan of about £125,000 to the Hong Kong Housing Society to cover the cost of erection of the flats.\n\n8. It has been mentioned above that the present scheme is only a pilot scheme designed to enable experience to be gained before undertaking a large scale housing development programme which is needed. It is in fact intended to be one section of the first part, consisting of 2500 flats providing housing for 12,500 people, of the full-scale housing programme. In implementing this first part of the programme the Governor estimates that Colonial Development and Welfare assistance amounting to almost £250,000 will be required; the Hong Kong Government's contribution will be loans to the Hong Kong Housing Society and the Improvement Trust, from the recently established Development Fund, totalling almost £1,000,000.\n\n9. All necessary raw materials and labour for the pilot scheme are available locally. The expenditure of Colonial Development and Welfare money would be in the hands of the Public Works Department who would employ skilled local contractors supervised by the Department on the task of site formation. The actual construction of the flats in the pilot scheme would be for the Hong Kong Housing Society to arrange; ample qualified architects and contractors are available locally.\n\n10.\n\nThe usual financial summary is attached.\n\nColonial Office,\n\n5th May, 1951.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599372, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "30\n\n# FINANCIAL SUMMARY\n\n1.\n\nAdministrative Authority:\n\nGovernment of Hong Kong.\n\n2.\n\nAllocation:\n\n3.\n\nClassification:\n\nHong Kong.\n\nSocial: housing.\n\n4.\n\nDescription of Scheme:\n\nConstruction of 8 blocks comprising 370 flats.\n\n5.\n\nTotal Cost:\n\n£138,092 ($2,209,468) (see breakdown below)\n\n6. Colonial Development and Welfare Assistance required: Grant of £13,500 ($216,000)\n\n7.\n\nEstimate of assistance required by Colony.\n\n1951/1952\n\n \n Capital.......\n £13,500\n \n \n Recurrent.....\n Nil\n \n \n \n £13,500\n \n\n# DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF COST\n\n \n \n 190 Flats Four Blocks\n 180 Flats Four Blocks\n Total for two sites 370 Flats including Fees and Site Formation\n \n \n \n $\n $\n $\n \n \n Blocks\n 662,130\n 628,000\n \n \n \n Staircases\n 40,000\n 40,000\n \n \n \n Foundations\n 49,000\n 47,000\n \n \n \n Reinforcing Steel (Fixed)\n 110,000\n 105,000\n \n \n \n Drainage\n 27,000\n 40,000\n \n \n \n Electrical\n 67,500\n 65,000\n \n \n \n Total\n 955,630\n 925,000\n \n \n \n Fees 6%\n 57,338\n 55,500\n \n \n \n Site Formation\n 120,000\n 96,000\n \n \n \n \n 1,132,968\n 1,076,500\n 2,209,468", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599373, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY\n\n## AIMS OBJECTS, etc.\n\n## 1. ORIGIN\n\nIn 1948 a grant of £14,000 was made available to the Hong Kong Council of Social Service from the Lord Mayor of London's Empire Air Raid Distress Fund for the relief of distress among the poor in Hong Kong. The Council, believing that housing of the poor constituted a most important and probably the worst social problem in the Colony, resolved that the grant should be devoted to initiating a housing scheme for the poor.\n\nTo this end, a Housing Sub-Committee was set up which, with the encouragement of Government, joined forces with a number of non-members of the Council interested in the problem to constitute the Hong Kong Housing Society.\n\n## 2. OBJECTS\n\nThe objects of this Society are based on the Housing Act 1936 and are \"the acquiring, building, controlling, improving, managing or facilitating or encouraging the construction or improvement of housing and any associated amenities\" for the poorer sections of the community, on an economic but non-profit-making basis.\n\n## 3. CONSTITUTION\n\nThe Society at present is not an incorporated body but is an association governed by agreed rules. It is intended, however, that should the Society's proposals be approved, it would be incorporated either by the passing of an Ordinance on the lines which it is understood Government has had drafted for the purpose, or as a Company limited by guarantee. It is anticipated that provision would then be made for Government to participate in the administration and financial control of the Society by the appointment of trustees, directors, or members.\n\nIn view of the magnitude of the problem, the members of the Society believe that action on a large scale to build more houses for the poorer sections of the community, either by Government or with its encouragement, is necessary and inevitable, and should an Improvement Authority or Housing Trust be set up for the purpose, the members would be willing to see the Society amalgamated with such Authority or Trust (provided grants made to it from other than Government sources were refunded).\n\n## 4. MANAGEMENT\n\nThe conditions which obtain in Hong Kong make it certain that the careful selection of tenants and trained management, which experience of similar schemes elsewhere has shown to be so important, will be essential if the maximum social benefit is to be derived from the housing provided. The members have in mind that investigations by competent case-workers, such as those employed by one of the constituent bodies of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, will be necessary. Experienced and trained management can obviate the abuse of facilities and economic loss arising from irrecoverable rent or deterioration of property, and can foster the growth of a community spirit.\n\nWhile the first \"pilot\" project is not large enough to justify the full-time employment of an expatriate trained manager, arrangements are being made for the Hong Kong Council of Social Service to retain £1,500 of the Lord Mayor's Fund grant (plus the interest earned on the grant) to enable an experienced (Octavia Hill-trained) housing manager to be recruited from England for 2-3 years.\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599374, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "32\n\nDuring this period the manager would train local personnel and would be employed part-time on repayment to supervise the management of this Society's flats. In view of the magnitude of the housing project now contemplated, it is proposed that the Hong Kong Council of Social Service should be advised to use the grant of £14,000 from the Lord Mayor of London's Empire Air Raid Distress Fund for other purposes, but the services of their trained Housing Manageress, who has since arrived in the Colony, are expected to be of great assistance.\n\nCO/2180/51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599375, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "1592 Wt18027/5526 100m 7/50 F A Gp58\n\nC. O.\n\n54403/16/51\n\nC. D.\n\nR. -3 RAY Recd D. 5\n\n33\n\n21\n\nM/Fairclough 18/44 Mr. Atkinson 24/4 Mr. Hall 27/4- Permt U.S. of S. Mr. Armitage Smith 2/5- Parly. U.S. S.\n\nplease ature. Minister of State 5.3072 20 copies CA. Parker Mr. Secretary of State Your Reference........\n\nDRAFT\n\nMEMORANDUM\n\n54403/16/51 C.D.W.(D) No.20 35 C.D.\n\nThese two may be Cyph Contarinonly\n\nEnclose Copies of Financial Summary (appendix A to (1)) of need not be on Separate thecis (appendix B to (1)) (Appendix E to (1)) all as amended in manuscript.\n\nFURTHER ACTION\n\n1. HONG KONG\n\nBuilding of flats for rent to poorly paid workers - pilot scheme Grant of £13,500\n\nA large proportion of the population of the Colony lives in conditions of appalling overcrowding and squalor. These conditions are to a large extent caused by the influx of refugees from China.\n\nIn the course of discussions with the Secretary of State in the United Kingdom last summer in 1950, the Governor of Hong Kong made clear that since he considered the provision of adequate housing, particularly for the lower paid sections of the community, one of the most important development needs of the Colony, he intended to devote a large part of Hong Kong's Colonial Development and Welfare allocation of £1,000,000 to this aspect of development work. He anticipated that about £600,000 would be so spent. In his despatch No. 352 of 28th December, 1950, in which he discussed in some detail Hong Kong's housing problem and the possible lines of a solution, the Secretary of State welcomed the Governor's decision to use a large part of the available Colonial Development and Welfare assistance on housing development and undertook to consider sympathetically any schemes", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "schemes which might be put forward in this connection; he emphasised, however, that the available C.D. and W. money should not be looked upon simply as money available to build so many houses but rather as money available to set in motion some much larger development more consonant with the very great needs of the Colony.\n\n2. The Governor has now replied to the Secretary of State's despatch No. 352 and in his despatch No. 14 of 10th February, 1951, has agreed in general terms with the proposals made for tackling Hong Kong's housing problem. Broadly these proposals look to the eventual establishment of an Improvement Trust having considerable unofficial representation on it, although financially under Government control, which would be responsible for housing projects in the Colony; this Trust would aim at making its projects self-supporting over a period of years and it would raise money to meet its initial outlay by loan. This follows the lines adopted and have developed over a period of years with such success in Singapore where the Singapore Improvement Trust has been responsible for a very considerable increase in the standards of accommodation enjoyed by many of Singapore's citizens.\n\n3. It is, however, clearly not possible for a major step like the establishment of an Improvement Trust to be undertaken all at once. For this reason it was suggested to the Governor of Hong Kong that in order to gain experience a pilot scheme on a comparatively small scale should be undertaken. In his despatch No. 14 of 10th February the Governor has given details of a pilot scheme involving the erection of 370 small flats in eight blocks on two sites conveniently situated for the large industrial areas of Shamshuipo and Lai Chi Kok which they are intended to serve; 180 of the flats will be on one site and 190 on the other. The intention is to construct two groups of four blocks of five-storeyed flats containing varying numbers of tenements according to their size. These flats, which will be built for the lower-income groups, will not only provide improved living conditions for the actual tenants, but will indirectly benefit others by relieving congestion elsewhere and may be expected to encourage employers to embark on similar schemes for their employees.\n\n4. The\n\nPage 34", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599377, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "4. The plans allow for one living room, a kitchen, w.c. and small balcony in each flat. This is considered desirable to be the minimum on health and social grounds and is preferred to a cheaper standard of accommodation in the form of barrack accommodation with communal kitchen, bathrooms and w.c.'s on each floor. The plan is designed to allow for maximum through ventilation and is sufficiently strong to withstand typhoon conditions without being extravagant. Sketch plans of the flats and the layout are available at the Colonial Office. The design of the flats has been made by the Acting Chief Architect, Hong Kong Government, assisted by advice from a Committee on which are representatives of the Public Works Department, Medical and Health Services, Labour and Social Welfare Departments, as well as a number of unofficial ladies and gentlemen who include among their number two leading Chinese property owners and R. S. E. Faber, a Consulting Engineer in private practice. The total cost of the group of 190 flats is estimated at $1,132,968, including $120,000 for site formation and 6% of the building costs only for architects' fees. The corresponding figure for the group of 180 flats is $1,076,500 including $96,000 for site formation and the same scale of architect fees. These figures do not include the value of the land which is $293,700 and $207,080 in each case and which it is proposed should be recovered over the duration of the lease in annual instalments with interest.\n\n5. In order to make a start with this scheme at the earliest possible date, it is proposed that the Public Works Department should undertake the site formation, construction of access roads, and installation of water and drainage, and that the sites, when formed, should be handed over to the Hong Kong Housing Society to supervise construction. A memorandum setting out the aims and objects of this Society is attached. If these proposals are approved,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599378, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "36\n\nthe Society will be required to become incorporated and, on formation of an Improvement Trust, to merge its functions into those of the Trust and make over the flats to it. The loan from Government required to meet construction costs will be made in the first instance to the Hong Kong Housing Society, but the Society's assets and liabilities will in due course be taken over by the Improvement Trust referred to above by whom repayment of the loan will be completed.\n\n6.\n\nBearing in mind the type of person for whom the flats to be erected under this scheme are intended, it is important that the rents to be charged for the finished flats shall be kept as low as possible. If at the same time the rents of these and other similar flats to be constructed in the future are to be kept at an economic level (i.e. meeting over a specified period of years all charges on the properties) it is essential, so the Governor has stated in his despatch No. 14 of 10th February, 1951, that site formation and development should not be a charge on the properties. It is also important that the rents for different blocks of similar accommodation should be uniform; this would not be possible if site formation and development were to form a charge on the properties without the need for one group of flats carrying part of the overheads of another, since such charges vary considerably. Although in the present scheme the cost of site formation is relatively low i.e., $216,000 (£13,500) in all, it is not expected that these charges will constitute such a small proportion of the capital outlay in future owing to the extreme shortage of building sites which are inexpensive to develop in localities where housing of this type is most needed.\n\n7. For these reasons the Governor has proposed that by meeting the initial cost of site formation C.D. and W. money can most conveniently contribute towards setting\n\n/in...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599379, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "37\n\nNew\n\n8. It has been mentioned earlier that the present scheme is only a pilot scheme designed to enable experience to be gained before undertaking the large-scale housing development programme which is needed. It is in fact intended to be one section of the first part, consisting of 2500 flats providing housing for 12,500 people, of the full-scale housing programme.\n\nThe present pilot scheme is in motion much larger developments in the field of housing. With C.D. and W. money so used, site formation would not form a charge on the properties and as a result, it would be possible to let them at an economic rent. If site formation had to form a charge on the properties, they would have to be let at an uneconomic rent.\n\nThe application is therefore for a grant of £13,500 to cover the cost of site formation for a pilot scheme consisting of the erection of 370 flats; the contribution of the Hong Kong Government to this pilot scheme will be a loan of about £125,000 to the Hong Kong Housing Society to cover the cost of erection of the flats. In implementing this first part of the housing programme, the Governor estimates that C.D. and W. assistance amounting to almost £250,000 will be required; the Hong Kong Government's contribution will be loans to the Hong Kong Housing Society and the Improvement Trust, from the recently established Development Fund, totalling almost £1,000,000.\n\n9. All necessary raw materials and labour are available locally. The expenditure of C.D. and W. money would be in the hands of the Public Works Department who would employ skilled local contractors supervised by the Department on the task of site formation. The actual construction of the flats in the pilot scheme would be for the Hong Kong Housing Society to arrange; ample qualified architects and contractors are available locally.\n\n10. The usual financial summary is attached.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599380, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "Colonial Office Ref. No: CO12318/17/50.\n\nSecretariat Ref. No: 31/736/49.\n\nNo. 14\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG.\n\n10th February, 1951.\n\nL12818/17/50 54466/1/51 16 FEB 1951\n\nI have the honour to refer to my telegram No. 1393 of the 23rd December, 1950, in which I undertook to inform you of my proposals with regard to subsidised housing and the utilisation of part of Hong Kong's Colonial Development & Welfare allocation for this purpose, and to your despatch No. 352 of the 28th December, 1950. The proposals which I now put forward were formulated prior to the receipt of your despatch No. 352, but I do not think that they conflict with your advice. Indeed, we seem to have arrived at broadly similar conclusions. I wish however to make an early start with the Pilot Scheme, which is the subject of an accompanying memorandum for an immediate grant from Colonial Development & Welfare funds. It is important politically and psychologically to produce results as soon as possible, and it will also be advantageous to have the experience gained by a Pilot Scheme before embarking on developments on a larger scale. While this Pilot Scheme is in progress, urgent consideration will be given to the formation of an Improvement Trust and to your suggestion that this should combine the functions of a town planning and a housing authority.\n\n2. The influx of refugees from China has resulted in a considerable overcrowding in the urban areas, and although there is reason to hope that, when the situation in China settles down, a large number of these refugees will return to their homes, the need for more and better accommodation than is at present available will remain.\n\n3. In my despatch No. 8 of 27th January, 1951 I have recommended the setting up of a Development Fund and, subject to your approval, I propose that, say 15 million of this fund should be set aside for financing housing over the next two years. It is anticipated that this sum would be sufficient to rehouse approximately 12,500 persons (or about 2,500 families) as a first stage, exclusive of the cost of site formation, access, etc., to which I refer in paragraphs 6 and 7 below.\n\n4. My intention is that the position would be reviewed when this first objective had been reached. I propose that a Housing Authority or Improvement Trust should be set up which would have considerable unofficial representation although being subject to strict financial control and supervision by Government. The experience gained by the Singapore Improvement Trust should provide many useful lessons and I propose to consult the authorities there at an early date.\n\n5. The availability of land for housing of this type has been examined and I am satisfied that, having regard to the class of persons whom it is desired to rehouse, their mode of employment, and the wage levels which they can attain, it is essential that they should live within easy reach of the main industrial and commercial areas. The intense development of Victoria and Kowloon which has already taken place, and the naturally steep and rocky configuration of the greater part of the Colony including the present urban areas and their fringes, make it extremely difficult to provide the necessarily large", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599381, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "Encl.\n\n2\n\n34\n\nsites without incurring expenditure on site formation, access, etc., amounting to as much as 25% of the total cost of housing schemes which would be considered quite out of proportion in most other countries. The prevailing land hunger in Hong Kong compels private development of better class housing to accept these costs but, if they were to be included in the capital outlay on which the rents payable by the low wage strata of the population are calculated, these rents would rise beyond their means. The same considerations preclude the possibility of embarking on a programme of temporary housing since both the cost of site development and the shortage of land make it essential that we concentrate on multi-storeyed blocks of small flats.\n\n6.\n\nWhile, therefore, I agree in other respects with your view that such housing should be self-supporting, it is my intention as an essential ingredient of the scheme outlined above, to apply in due course for a grant from Colonial Development & Welfare funds to meet the cost of site formation, access roads and the installation of water and drainage, which would be undertaken by the Public Works Department, while Government would make interest-bearing loans to an Improvement Trust to finance, as the first stage, the construction of some 2,500 small flats on the developed sites. The grant required from Colonial Development & Welfare funds for this purpose is expected to be in the region of $3 million, Government's contribution by way of a loan being approximately $15 million. These figures are only tentative and the former one will naturally be dependent to a large extent on the sites selected, but I have already instructed the Director of Public Works to suggest four sites and to prepare estimates of the cost of developing them, including levelling and the provision of access roads, water and drainage connections. Care will be taken in selecting sites to ensure that they do not conflict with the recommendation of Sir Patrick Abercrombie on zoning. The two sites chosen for the Pilot Scheme referred to below fall within a light industrial zone, but section 5 of Part II of Sir Patrick's report does not preclude housing therein.\n\n7.\n\nI now seek your approval to proceed generally on the basis outlined above, and your approval in principle of a grant from Colonial Development & Welfare funds to meet the cost of developing sites and providing road access, water and drainage connections for approximately 2,500 small flats.\n\n8.\n\nAs a first instalment of this programme I enclose a memorandum requesting that an immediate grant of £13,500 be made from the Colonial Development & Welfare Fund for the purpose of developing two sites for blocks of workers' flats, and providing road access, water and drainage connections thereto. The usual financial summary and full estimates of cost are submitted in Appendices A and B to the memorandum. In this instance it has been possible to find two sites which are relatively easy and cheap to develop, but I see little prospect of this being repeated and I anticipate that for further instalments of the programme the proportion of the Colonial Development & Welfare grant to the total cost will require to be considerably greater.\n\n9.\n\nAs indicated in the attached memorandum, advantage will accrue from the fact that the Hong Kong Housing Society is prepared to start at once with the erection of these flats, and to merge its organisation with that of the Improvement Trust when constituted, and I seek your approval to make a loan on terms consistent with those proposed for the Authority.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599382, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "- 3 -\n\nto the Society of $2,000,000 approximately, to meet the cost of erection of the flats.\n\n10.\n\n40\n\nI have not attempted at this stage to discuss all the valuable suggestions made in your despatch under reply. You will, however, observe from paragraph (a) of the accompanying memorandum, that the Hong Kong Housing Society, to which I propose to entrust the initial Pilot Scheme, is conscious of the need for proper housing management referred to in paragraph 6 of your despatch, and has already provided for it. With regard to paragraph 8 of your despatch, a barrack type of accommodation with communal kitchens, sanitation and washing facilities has been considered in some detail, but ruled out as socially unacceptable in Hong Kong. I am satisfied that to build accommodation of this kind would be a retrograde step to be avoided even at considerable extra cost. The high incidence of tuberculosis in the Colony is a further argument against this type of construction, and there is the economic consideration that, in the event of a significant drop in the population by emigration, a barrack type of dwelling would rapidly become unlettable.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nMacDougall\n\nGOVERNOR.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nJAMES GRIFFITHS, M.P.\n\nEncl: Memorandum", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599383, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "MEMORANDUM\n\n(a) Objects of the scheme and the advantages that are expected to be derived from it.\n\nA large proportion of the population of the Colony lives in conditions of appalling overcrowding and squalor. These conditions are to a large extent caused by the influx of refugees from China.\n\nThe intention is to construct two groups of four blocks of five-storeyed flats, the two groups being located on adjacent pieces of land in the SHEUNG LI UK area of New Kowloon to the south west of the Tai Po Road. The location has been selected largely because it is in close proximity to the large industrial areas of Shamshuipo and Lai Chi Kok, and is therefore conveniently placed for the type of persons whom it is particularly desired to benefit.\n\nThe blocks of flats will contain a varying number of tenements according to their size, and the total number of flats will be 370, of which 190 will be on one site and 180 on the other. Sketch plans of the flats and of the layouts are enclosed as Appendices C and D.\n\nThe total cost of the 190 flats is estimated at $1,132,968, including $120,000 for site formation and 6% of the building costs only for architects' fees. The corresponding figure for the 180 flats is $1,076,500 including $96,000 for site formation and the same scale of architects' fees. These figures do not include the value of the land which is $293,700 and $207,080 in each case and which it is proposed should be recovered over the duration of the lease in annual instalments with interest.\n\nIt will be noted that the plans allow for one living room, a kitchen, w.c. and small balcony in each flat. This is considered to be the minimum possible standard of accommodation on health and social grounds and is preferred to a cheaper form of barrack accommodation with communal kitchen, bathrooms and w.c.'s on each floor. The plan is designed to allow for the maximum through ventilation and is sufficiently strong to withstand typhoon conditions without being extravagant.\n\nIn order to make a start with this scheme at the earliest possible date, it is proposed that the Public Works Department should undertake the site formation, construction of access roads, and installation of water and drainage for which assistance from Colonial Development & Welfare funds is now sought, and that the sites, when formed, should be handed over to the Hong Kong Housing Society. I enclose as Appendix E a memorandum setting out the aims and objects of this Society. If these proposals are approved, the Society will be required to become incorporated and, on formation of an Improvement Trust on the lines indicated in the covering despatch, to merge its functions into those of the Trust and make over the flats to it.\n\nIn view of the magnitude of the housing project now contemplated, it is proposed that the Hong Kong Council of Social Service should be advised to use the grant of £14,000 from the Lord Mayor of London's Empire Air Raid Distress Fund for other purposes, but the services of their trained Housing Manageress, who has since arrived in the Colony, are expected to be of great assistance.\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599384, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 41, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "- 2 -\n\nPage 42\n\nThe loan from Government required to meet construction costs will be made in the first instance to this Society, but the Society's assets and liabilities will in due course be taken over by the Improvement Trust referred to above, by whom repayment of the loan will be completed.\n\nThis project is intended as a \"Pilot Scheme\" which will enable any flaws that may come to light to be corrected before proceeding with the full scheme outlined in the despatch accompanying this memorandum.\n\nThe housing which will be built for the lower-income groups will not only provide improved living conditions for the actual tenants, but will indirectly benefit others by relieving congestion elsewhere and may be expected to encourage employers to embark on similar schemes for their employees.\n\n(b) Relation of the Scheme to the Colony's Ten-Year Development Plan.\n\nDue to constantly changing conditions since the war, no Ten-Year Development Plan has been drawn up for Hong Kong, but the relation of this scheme to Government's proposals for a housing programme are explained in paragraph (a) above, and in the covering despatch.\n\n(c) Reasons for financing the scheme in part from the Colonial Development & Welfare Vote.\n\nAlthough in this particular instance the cost of site formation is relatively low, only $216,000 in all, it is not expected that these charges will constitute such a small proportion of the capital outlay in future owing to the extreme shortage of building sites which are inexpensive to develop in localities where housing of this type is most needed. If the rents of these and similar flats constructed in the future are to be kept at an economic level, it is essential that site formation and development should not be a charge on the properties. It is also important that the rents for different blocks of similar accommodation should be uniform. This can be achieved without the need for one group of flats carrying part of the overheads of another if the initial expenditure on site development does not enter into the capital outlay to be met by a loan from this Government.\n\n(d) The basis for the division of cost between local funds and the Colonial Development & Welfare Vote is as indicated in paragraph (c) above: site formation, access roads, and the installation of water and drainage to be charged to a Colonial Development & Welfare grant, other costs to be borne initially by the Housing Society and in due course by the Improvement Trust, from funds loaned by Government.\n\n(e) Staff, materials, and labour are all available locally.\n\n(f) Arrangements for the execution and supervision of work. Expenditure of the Colonial Development and Welfare grant will be in the hands of the Public Works Department employing\n\nPage -\n\n-\n\n-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599385, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "skilled local contractors, supervised by the Department. Construction of the flats will be for the Housing Society to arrange. There are ample qualified architects and contractors available locally for this purpose.\n\n(g) The design of the flats has been made by the Acting Chief Architect, Hong Kong Government, assisted by advice from a Committee on which are representatives of the Public Works Department, Medical & Health Services, Labour and Social Welfare Departments, as well as a number of unofficial ladies and gentlemen who include among their number two leading Chinese property owners and Mr. S.E. Faber, a Consulting Engineer in private practice.\n\nPage 43\n\nPage 43\n\nPage 43", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599386, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "APPENDIX A.\n\nFINANCIAL SUMMARY.\n\n1. Administrative Authority\n\n2. Allocation\n\n3. Classification\n\n4. Description of Scheme\n\n5. Total cost\n\n6. Colonial Development & Welfare Assistance required\n\n7.\n\n8.\n\n44\n\nGovernment of Hong Kong.\n\nKo\n\nif\n\nGeneral Reserve of £1,000,000.\n\nSocial:\n\nTelfarer housing for lower-income\n\nConstruction of 8 blocks comprising 370 flats.\n\n£138,092 ($2,209,468) (see explanation Below)\n\nGrant of £13,500 ($216,000)\n\nEstimate of assistance required by Colony.\n\nCapital Recurrent\n\n1951/1952 £13,500 Nil £13,500\n\nEstimate of total capital expenditure required to be made outside the Colony:\n\n(a) Iron and Steel £13,125 ($210,000) based on price ex Government Stores. Sufficient steel is available in the Colony.\n\n(b) Cement - local cement will be used.\n\n(c) All equipment needed is available in the Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599387, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "# APPENDIX B:\n\nDetailed breakdown of cost\n\n190 Flats - Four Blocks\n\n \n Staircases\n 45\n 8662,130\n \n \n Foundations\n 49,000\n \n \n \n Reinforcing Steel (Fixed)\n 110,000\n \n \n \n Drainage\n 27,000\n \n \n \n Electrical\n 67,500\n \n \n \n Total\n \n 2955,630\n \n \n Fees\n -\n 6% 57,338\n \n \n Site Formation\n \n 120,000\n \n \n \n \n $1,132,968\n \n\n180 Flats - Four Blocks\n\n \n \n $628,000\n \n \n \n Staircases\n 40,000\n \n \n \n Foundations\n 47,000\n \n \n \n Reinforcing Steel (Fixed)\n 105,000\n \n \n \n Drainage\n 40,000\n \n \n \n Electrical\n 65,000\n \n \n \n Total\n $925,000\n \n \n \n Fees\n 6%\n 55,500\n \n \n Site Formation\n _96,000\n \n \n \n \n \n $1,076,500\n \n\nTotal for two sites\n\n370 Flats\n\nincluding Fees and Site Formation $2,209,468", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599388, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "APPENDIX E.\n\nTHE HONG KONG HOUSING SOCIETY.\n\nAIMS, OBJECTS, etc.\n\n46\n\n1. ORIGIN.\n\nIn 1948 a grant of £14,000 was made available to the Hong Kong Council of Social Service from the Lord Mayor of London's Empire Air Raid Distress Fund for the relief of distress among the poor in Hong Kong. The Council, believing that housing of the poor constituted a most important and probably the worst social problem in the Colony, resolved that the grant should be devoted to initiating a housing scheme for the poor. To this end, a Housing Sub-Committee was set up which, with the encouragement of Government, joined forces with a number of non-members of the Council interested in the problem to constitute the Hong Kong Housing Society.\n\n2. OBJECTS.\n\nThe objects of this Society are based on the Housing Act 1936 and are \"the acquiring, building, controlling, improving, managing or facilitating or encouraging the construction or improvement of housing and any associated amenities\" for the poorer sections of the community, on an economic but non-profit-making basis.\n\n3. CONSTITUTION.\n\nThe Society at present is not an incorporated body but is an association governed by agreed rules. It is intended, however, that should the Society's proposals be approved, it would be incorporated either by the passing of an Ordinance on the lines which it is understood Government has had drafted for the purpose, or as a Company limited by guarantee. It is anticipated that provision would then be made for Government to participate in the administration and financial control of the Society by the appointment of trustees, directors or members.\n\nIn view of the magnitude of the problem, the members of the Society believe that action on a large scale to build more houses for the poorer sections of the community, either by Government or with its encouragement, is necessary and inevitable, and should an Improvement Authority or Housing Trust be set up for the purpose, the members would be willing to see the Society amalgamated with such Authority or Trust (provided grants made to it from other than Government sources were refunded).\n\n4. MANAGEMENT.\n\nThe conditions which obtain in Hong Kong make it certain that the careful selection of tenants and trained management, which experience of similar schemes elsewhere has shown to be so important, will be essential if the maximum social benefit is to be derived from the housing provided. The members have in mind that investigations by competent case-workers, such as those employed by one of the constituent bodies of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, will be necessary. Experienced and trained management can obviate the abuse of facilities and economic loss arising from irrecoverable rent or deterioration of property, and can foster the growth of a community spirit. While the first \"pilot\" project is not large enough to justify the full-time employment of an expatriate trained manager,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599389, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "arrangements are being made for the Hong Kong Council of Social Service to retain £1,500 of the Lord Mayor's Fund grant (plus the interest earned on the grant) to enable an experienced (Octavia Hill trained) housing manager to be recruited from England for 2-3 years. During this period the manager would train local personnel and would be employed part-time on repayment to supervise the management of this Society's flats.\n\nenclosed in (1)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599390, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE\n\nP.W.D. HONG KONG\n\n \n 7\n 1\n \n 14\n Jal\n IG\n 25\n 10\n 24\n 33\n \n \n \n 20\n 28\n 34\n n\n 2\n 35\n 11\n 22\n 30\n \n \n \n 30\n 12\n 25\n 37\n 13\n 32\n 38\n M\n 0\n \n \n \n H\n U\n N\n \n \n CHILDREN PLAYGROUND\n \n \n \n \n\nWORKERS FLATS AT SHEUNG\n\nBLOCK PLAN\n\n \n GO:0\n 18\n \n \n SECTION\n 12\n 13\n 20\n \n \n GO:0\n A-A\n 23\n † 20\n 3\n 16\n 24\n 17\n 25\n \n \n 7\n 18\n 20\n 32\n 27\n \n CHILDREN\n 28\n „PLAYGROUND\n \n \n 20\n #\n 35\n 29\n 20\n 10\n 30\n LI UK\n \n \n KOWLOON\n \n KIU\n KIANG\n LOW LOON\n TOAD\n \n \n \n\nAPPENDIX D.\n\n48\n\nDRAWING NO.: A 203\n\nSCALE: 1 INCH = 50 FEET\n\nDATE: 23RD, NOVEMBER, 1950", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599391, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "WEI HOLL\n\nARCHITECT\n\nARCHITECTURAL OFFICE\n\nW. D.\n\nHONG KONG\n\n十\n\nINSTAL\n\nTANLIGHT\n\nCOAT PLASTER,\n\nLIME 1 CENT RENDER, FLOOR.\n\nI SKIRTING\n\nWASL TO CON BLOCKS\n\nLIVE WASH TO\n\nDON. BACKO\n\nSHELVES\n\nFURD\n\nCUP\n\n**BRIZTINGS\n\nSECTION A-A\n\nSINK\n\nO DADO\n\nNO PLASTRE ABOVE\n\nKITCHEN\n\nI'LEMT LINDI REDUCING TO SE\n\ns'ab\n\nW.C\n\nLIVING ROOM\n\nLGHT IMPER\n\nESDUCING to 3%\n\nin's 5:0 STANDARD METAL WINDOW\n\nCENT ZENDEK, WINDOW BOARD\n\nCONCEITE\n\n10! o\n\nONE UNIT\n\nA\n\nEPTHS\n\nSHOWER\n\nBALUSTRADE,F-a' Hien\n\nMPIA AT «*%2 ZAI 2*, KA FLAT\n\nSCALE\n\nWASTE\n\nKITCHEN\n\n52\n\nLIVING ROOM\n\nCONCERTE PARTITION\n\nPLAN\n\nI INCH - 2 FEET\n\nA\n\nCONCRETE WORKERS FLATS AT SHEUNG LI UK\n\nKOWLOON\n\nWETION OMITTED\n\nNINg\n\nLOAD\n\nSITE\n\nSCALE\n\nPLAN\n\nINCH = 300 FT.\n\n*******\n\nW.C\n\nSCHEDULE Ov OPENING EACH UNIT\n\nINO\n\nWINDOW\n\nSTANDARD METAL\n\nING.\n\n3:4′′ 12°\n\nIN\n\nLOUVER\n\nWeb\n\nW.C. INO\n\nA\n\n13' 20'\n\nDook\n\n4′′ × 2/2′′ FAMI\n\nDOOR SIZE 2'5¾× 6'8\"\n\nDooz\n\n4′ = 3½′′ FRAME\n\nDOGE SIZE: 2'6\"\n\n49\n\nEnd\n\nDELWING NO A\n\nP 172\n\nSCALE: FINCH- 2 FT.\n\nDATE: 23rd NOVEMBER, 1950", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599392, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951", "content_text": "1951\n\n54403/16\n\n03/16", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-3 Housing project- contains drawings 1-2-1951 - 31-10-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]