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No. 4.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE

At a Meeting held on the 8th August, 1900.

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PRESENT:

The Honourable the Director of Public Works (ROBERT DALY ORMSBY), Chairman.

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the Colonial Treasurer (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).

CATCHICK PAUL CHATER, C.M.G.

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Dr. Ho KAI,

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RODERICK MACKENZIE GRAY.

The Committee considered two schemes for the erection of a New Western Market which have been submitted to His Excellency the Governor, in one of which the site for the New Harbour Office is also involved. (C.S.O. 7.)

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It was unanimously agreed that scheme No. 2, namely, to build the New Market on the site hitherto reserved for the New Harbour Office, with a subsidiary market on the site of the existing Harbour Office, is the better one.

The Committee strongly recommend its adoption, and further that the work be provided for in the Estimates for 1901, and a vote taken on account for such a sum as could be spent in that year.

The Committee then adjourned.

Laid before the Legislative Conncil this 1st day of October, 1900.

R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

R. D. ORMSBY, Chairman.