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MR. BERNACCHI:-So I myself will vote for the amendment and against the amended motion.
CHAIRMAN:-The amendment has been proposed by the Commissioner for Resettlement and seconded by the Director of Public Works.
The question was put.
The amendment to the motion was carried.
CHAIRMAN:--I will now put the amended motion to the Council,
MR. SALES:-Mr. Chairman, I would like to mention that I have abstained from voting on the amendment for the reason I have stated, that is, that I do not consider that the White Paper goes far enough in solving the housing problem of Hong Kong for reasons which have been made known in the Working Party's Report; I am a minority of one in the Working Party! (Laughter).
CHAIRMAN:-I will now put the amended motion to the Council. It is: This Council supports Government's intention to enact as quickly as possible the legislation arising out of the recommendations of the White Paper on Squatter Control, Resettlement and Government Low-Cost Housing.
The question was put.
The amended motion was carried.
(3) MR. CHEUNG WING-IN, 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.
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He said: Mr. Chairman, as Chairman of the relevant Select Committee, I rise to move the motion standing in my name.
The purpose of the motion is to empower the Director of Urban Services to carry out a routine exhumation programme for 1964/65 in order to provide space for future burials in the cemeteries concerned. If the motion is passed, notice of the intended exhumation will be published in the usual way in the Government Gazette and also in the Chinese Press, so that any person who wishes to arrange for private exhumation may do so.
I beg to move.
DR. P. F. Woo seconded.
CHAIRMAN:--The motion has been proposed and seconded. Does any Member wish to speak on the motion?
(No other Members rose to speak)
The question was put.
The motion was carried.
(4) MR. K. A. WATSON moved the following motion under Standing Order 24:
That Standing Order 22(9) be suspended in so far as it relates to the Sub-Committees appointed by the Museum and Art Gallery Select Committee until 31st March, 1965.
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MR. BERNACCHI:-So I myself will vote for the amendment and against the amended motion.
CHAIRMAN:-The amendment has been proposed by the Commis- sioner for Resettlement and seconded by the Director of Public Works.
The question was put.
The amendment to the motion was carried.
CHAIRMAN: --I will now put the amended motion to the Council,
MR. SALES: -Mr. Chairman, I would like to mention that I have abstained from voting on the amendment for the reason I have stated, that is, that I do not consider that the White Paper goes far enough in solving the housing problem of Hong Kong for reasons which have been made known in the Working Party's Report; I am a minority of one in the Working Party! (Laughter).
CHAIRMAN:-I will now put the amended motion to the Council. It is: This Council supports Government's intention to enact as quickly as possible the legislation arising out of the recommendations of the White Paper on Squatter Control, Resettlement and Government Low-Cost Housing.
The question was put.
The amended motion was carried.
(3) MR. CHEUNG WING-IN, 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
Section
Year of Burial
(1) Wo Hop Shek
Cemetery, Fanling, New Territories.
All graves in Sec- tions A and B and including those in
1958
private lots.
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Cemetery
(2) Sandy Ridge Ceme- tery, Lo Wu, New Territories.
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Year of
Section
Burial
(a) Section T.
1958
(b) Roman Catholic
1958
Private Lot.
(c) Little Sisters of
1958
the Poor Private Lot.
All graves in the Government Urn Section.
1962
All graves in the coffin section.
1958
(3) Sandy Ridge (Urn) Cemetery, Lo Wu, New Territories.
(4) Prison Cemetery,
Stanley.
He said: Mr. Chairman, as Chairman of the relevant Select Com- mittee, I rise to move the motion standing in my name.
The purpose of the motion is to empower the Director of Urban Services to carry out a routine exhumation programme for 1964/65 in order to provide space for future burials in the cemeteries concerned. If the motion is passed, notice of the intended exhumation will be published in the usual way in the Government Gazette and also in the Chinese Press, so that any person who wishes to arrange for private exhumation may do so.
I beg to move.
DR. P. F. Woo seconded.
CHAIRMAN: --The motion has been proposed and seconded. Does any Member wish to speak on the motion?
(No other Members rose to speak)
The question was put.
The motion was carried.
(4) MR. K. A. WATSON moved the following motion under Standing Order 24:
That Standing Order 22(9) be suspended in so far as it relates to the Sub-Committees appointed by the Museum and Art Gallery Select Committee until 31st March, 1965.
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