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COMMISSIONER FOR RESETTLEMENT:-I beg to differ with Mr. BERNACCHI, Mr. Chairman. I have received no instruction that there is to be any change in policy on resettlement.

CHAIRMAN: -May I ask Members to leave this now. This is question time, and it should not be made the excuse for a debate.

MOTIONS.

MR. CHAN SHU-WOON, Chairman of the Cemeteries, Crematoria and Funeral Parlours Select Committee, moved the following motion:-

RESOLVED under By-law 10(1) of the Public Cemeteries By- laws, 1960, that the Director of Urban Services be empowered to exhume and remove the human remains of persons from the graves specified in the following public cemeteries and to dispose of the same by burial, cremation or otherwise as the Director may think fit.

Cemetery

(1) Wo Hop Shek

Cemetery, Fan- ling, New Territories.

(2) Sandy Ridge

Cemetery, Lo Wu, New Territories.

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The attention of the public will be drawn to the matter, since the terms of the resolution will be published in the Gazette and notices will be inserted in the Chinese press. Any person wishing to arrange for private exhumation may apply to do so before 20th March, 1964.

I beg to move.

DR. P. F. Woo:-Mr. Chairman, I beg to second the motion.

CHAIRMAN: -The motion has been proposed and seconded. Does any other Member wish to speak?

(No other Members wished to speak)

The question was put.

The motion was carried.

DR. R. H. S. LEE, Chairman of the Environmental Hygiene Select Committee, moved the following motion:

Citation.

Section

Year of Burial

All graves in Sections A

1957

and B and including those

in private lots.

(a) Section T

1957

(b) Roman Catholic

1957

Amendment

Private Lot.

of para-

(c) Little Sisters of the

1957

Poor Private Lot.

(3) Sandy Ridge

All graves in the

1961

(Urn) Cemetery,

Government Urn Section.

Lo Wu, New Territories.

(4) Prison Cemetery,

Stanley.

All graves in the coffin section.

1957.

He said: Mr. Chairman, as Chairman of the relevant Select Committee I rise to move the motion standing in my name.

To conserve space it is normal for remains in graves in the public cemeteries named in the resolution to be exhumed after burial, and for the remains to be cremated and reburied in the Sandy Ridge Urn Cemetery. The purpose of this motion is to empower the Director of Urban Services to do this in respect of certain coffin burials which took place in 1957 and urn burials in 1961.

graph 2. (G.N.A. 83/61).

THAT under By-law 4 of the Public Conveniences (Conduct and Behaviour) By-laws, 1961, the Council hereby makes the following Order : -

1. This Order may be cited as the Public Conveni- ences (Charges) (Amendment) Order, 1963.

2. The Public Conveniences (Charges) Order, 1961 is amended by the addition, at the end of paragraph 2, of the following new item-

"(7) Public Latrine in Beaconsfield House, Queen's

Road Central.”.

He said: Mr. Chairman, this is one of those routine motions which usually fall on the shoulders of the Chairman of the Select Committee concerned. I cannot claim any particular credit or discredit, except that it happens to be my particular duty as Chairman of the Environmental Hygiene Select Committee.

Mr. Chairman, the purpose of this resolution is to comply with the provisions of by-law 4(1) of the Public Conveniences (Conduct and Behaviour) By-laws, which requires that 10 cents should be charged for the use of any coin-operated compartments provided in public latrines managed by the Council. At present six public latrines have compartments so operated. This resolution will bring the total number to seven, compared with 134 public latrines for which no charge is made.