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No. 6.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE

at a Meeting held on the 10th August, 1903.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Director of Public Works (WILLIAM CHATHAM), Chairman.

the Colonial Treasurer (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON).

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Sir CATCHICK Paul Chater, Kt., C.M.G.

ABSENT:

The Honourable CHARLES Wedderburn DICKSON.

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ROBERT GORDON SHEWAN.

Disinfecting Station at Kowloon. (C.S.O. 1374).

The Chairman laid before the Committee a plan for a disinfecting station providing similar accom- modation to the existing one in the City of Victoria, with quarters for an Inspector attached, to be erected at Yaumati, and explained that the scheme was partly provided for in the current year's Estimates. The accommodation originally contemplated, however, was only a shed for the disinfector itself and quarters for an Inspector, but the Sanitary Board had since asked for an additional two- storied shed to contain stores and house the coolies employed at the station, besides offices and other accommodation. These additions brought the estimated cost of the scheme up to $27,000.

The Committee unanimously agreed to recommend that tenders be called for for the entire work and that, if necessary, a supplementary vote should be taken to meet this year's expenditure.

Convict Prison on Stonecutters' Island. (C.S.O. C.O.D.)

It was decided, in view of the absence of two members of the Committee, to defer the further consideration of the proposal to establish a Convict Prison on Stonecutters' Island.

The Committee then adjourned,

Laid before the Legislative Council this 1st day of October, 1903.

R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

25-0.10.03.

W. CHATHAM, Chairman.