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No. 3.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE

at a Meeting held on the 19th July, 1904.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Director of Public Works (PATRICK NICHOLAS HILL JONES), Chairman.

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the Colonial Treasurer, (LEWIS Audley Marsh JOHNSTON).

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

GERSHOM STEWART.

WILLIAM JARDINE GRESSON.

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Extension to Sisters' Quarters. (C.S.O. 284 and 1901).

The Chairman said that, at Sir PAUL CHATER'S request, which was made at the last meeting of the Committee held on the 12th instant, he had asked for an explanation of the position from the Government, and the following statement, which he read out, made it quite clear

The Correspondence shews clearly that the Nursing Institute dissociated itself from the Government Nursing Establishment altogether, and shews that Government offered to build a four-roomed house for the Nurses of the Private Institution (Hongkong Nurs- ing Institution) but that no site was fixed on. Subsequently the Hongkong Nursing Institution obtained a grant of $12,000 in lieu of the provision of such quarters and there the matter rests. The Government has not promised any particular site to the Hongkong Nursing Institution.

Sir PAUL CHATER said it was as well to have this on record.

The Chairman then put to the Vote the matter of the extension of the present Government Civil Hospital Staff Quarters for the accommodation of the Sisters, at an estimated cost of $26,000, and it was unanimously agreed to.

The Committee then adjourned.

Laid before the Legislative Council this 15th day of September, 1904.

S. B. C. Ross,

Clerk of Councils.

P. N. H. JONES, Chairman.