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SIR,

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH MAY, 1895.

SUPREME COURT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 27th April, 1895.

In reply to your letter No. 517 of the 18th March, I have the honour to inform you that the Retrenchment Committee agrees with Mr. COOPER's views concerning the reduction of the salary of the Chinese draftsman when opportunity offers.

2. As regards the evidence upon which the concluding paragraph of the supple- mentary report on the Public Works Department was based, I have to report that no written evidence was recorded, and that the oral evidence of Mr. ACKROYD and Mr. JACKSON was that upon which the Committee founded its remarks.

3. Mr. ACKROYD made special reference to smells by Seymour Terrace and on the level of that block, whilst Mr. JACKSON drew attention to the odours arising from spots close to his residence, and has since the last meeting favoured me with a note which contained the following:-"as to wanting evidence for the concluding portion of the "report, let anyone wishing to satisfy himself upon the point take a walk along Bonham "Strand. If he is not satisfied with the quality and quantity of the smells he will get, "he will be very hard to convince. I have recently taken several walks through the town, east and west, and am sorry to say that in all my time here I have never "experienced such stenches."

4. Mr. JACKSON has authorised the insertion in this letter of the above extract.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

The Honourable

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,

$c.,

&c.,

fc.

T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Secretary, Retrenchment Committee.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 231.

The following Report of the Medical Committee, which was laid before the Legislative Council on the 23rd instant, is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th May, 1895.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

MEDICAL COMMITTEE.

REPORT.

We, the undersigned, were appointed by His Excellency the Governor to be Mem- bers of a Committee of Inquiry into the Medical Department of the Colony and other relative matters embodied in a list of subjects which accompanied our letters of appoint-

ment.

2. We have accordingly proceeded on the lines laid done by the Government and have conducted our inquiry with special reference to the subjects upon which we were asked to report. In the course of that inquiry with a view to making ourselves thoroughly acquainted with the working of the Medical Department generally, we have had occasion to pay a personal visit of inspection to the Government Civil Hospital, and have examined several servants of the Government, to whom we are indebted for much valuable information and many useful suggestions, which we have adopted and embodied in our recommendations.