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HONGKONG.

No. 1908

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CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE PROPOSED ERECTION OF A PUBLIC LATRINE ON THE SITE NOW OCCUPIED BY No. 1 CHUK HING LANE.

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, Jane 18th, 1908.

No. 999.

PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 26th November, 1906.

SIR,-I have to forward a minute from the Honourable the Principal Civil Medical Officer with reference to a proposed latrine in No. 4 Health District. The house in Chuk Hing Lane is valued by Mr. PERKINS at $2,842 and the three in Tung Tak Lane at $14,911.

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I suggest that the house in the first named lane be resumed at a cost not exceeding say $3,000 which could be paid from the vote for "Urinals and Latrines

in next year's estimate, but the matter should be referred to the Honourable the Principal Civil Medical Officer.

The Honourable,

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.

I have, &c.,

W. CHATHAM,

Director of Public Works.

HON. P. C. M. O.

I find that there is a great need for a public latrine in No. 4 Health District, but that unfortunately there is no vacant Crown Land available for its erection. I have visited the following narrow lanes, namely Tun Wah Lane, Ezra Lane, Sze Kan Lane, Lok Hing Lane, Tung Tak Lane, Chuk Hing Lane and Yim Fung Lane with a view to finding a suitable site for resumption, and I am of the opinion that either Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Tung Tak Laue should be resumed and a latrine built on the site of these houses, or failing this that No. 1 Chuk Hing Lane should be resumed for this purpose.

(Sd.) FRANCIS CLARK,

M. O, H.

Hon. D. P. W.

Can this be arranged?

(Sd.) J. M. A.

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