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MR. SALES—Anyway, Mr. Chairman, the Appointed Members think that Henry Hu has done a wonderful job in Aberdeen and I think that should be recorded.
MR. C. K. CHAN:—Mr. Chairman, I think Mr. Henry Hu can exchange Aberdeen for Kwun Tong any time.
(16) MR. HENRY H. L. HU asked the following question:
Could the Chairman please inform me whether it is the intention of the Council to provide only one public library in the South West of Hong Kong Island? When was such intention formed and whether the Library Select Committee was consulted? In my opinion, Aberdeen with its ever growing population deserves one public library. Can a request be made for a separate public library in Aberdeen?
MRS. E. ELLIOTT, CHAIRMAN OF THE LIBRARY SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows:
In 1962, the Advisory Committee on Library Services, appointed by Government to review library facilities in Hong Kong, made recommendations on the development of library services in various parts of Hong Kong. Following its acceptance of the responsibility for carrying out these recommendations, the Library Select Committee proposed in 1967 an expansion programme for the period 1967-73 which included a library for the Southwest of Hong Kong Island at Wah Fu Estate. While this programme did not include a library at Aberdeen and the Wah Fu Library was in fact intended to serve residents of Aberdeen as well, the Library Select Committee did not at any stage declare that the Wah Fu Library would be the only public library in the Southwest of Hong Kong Island.
The question of whether a second library should eventually be set up at Aberdeen is, as already stated earlier by the Chairman, due to be discussed at the next meeting of the Library Select Committee, and may I add that Mr. Hu will be present I hope.
MR. HU: Mr. Chairman, since Mrs. ELLIOTT said very clearly, this question would be discussed in Select Committee, I have no supplementary. (Laughter).
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MOTION.
MR. SOLOMON RAFEEK, 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 made under the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance (Cap. 132) that the Director of Urban Services be empowered to exhume and remove the human remains of persons from the graves in the Colonial Cemetery, Happy Valley, as listed in the Appendix to Committee Paper CEM/8/69, and to dispose of the same in such manner as the Director may think fit."
He said:
Mr. Chairman, I rise to move the resolution standing in my name. The number of graves involved in this exercise is 470 of which all are prewar graves and do not seem to have been visited in many years. All the remains exhumed will be placed inside an ossarium to be constructed by the Public Works Department, the design of which will be similar to the columbarium in the Cape Collinson Crematorium.
The purpose of the proposed exhumation is to prolong the life of the Colonial Secretary (Laughter), I mean the Colonial Cemetery by another 33 years or so by re-using the grave spaces thus made available.
Sir, I beg to move.
MR. PETER P. F. CHAN:—Mr. Chairman, I beg to second the Motion.
MR. SALES: May we heartily endorse the Motion to prolong the life of the Colonial Secretary. (Laughter).
The question was put.
The Motion was carried.
ADJOURNMENT
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CHAIRMAN:—That concludes the business of this meeting. Council stands adjourned until the 4th November, 1969 at 4 p.m.
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MR. SALES-Anyway, Mr. Chairman, the Appointed Members think that Henry Hu has done a wonderful job in Aberdeen and I think that should be recorded.
MR. C. K, CHAN:--Mr. Chairman, I think Mr. Henry Hu can exchange Aberdeen for Kwun Tong any time.
(16) MR. HENRY H. L. HU asked the following question:
Could the Chairman please inform me whether it is the intention of the Council to provide only one public library in the South West of Hong Kong Island? When was such intention formed and whether the Library Select Committee was consulted? In my opinion, Aberdeen with its ever growing population deserves one public library. Can a request be made for a separate public library in Aberdeen?
MRS. E. ELLIOTT, CHAIRMAN OF THE LIBRARY SELECT COMMITTEE, replied as follows:
In 1962, the Advisory Committee on Library Services, appointed by Government to review library facilities in Hong Kong, made recommendations on the development of library services in various parts of Hong Kong. Following its acceptance of the responsibility for carrying out these recommendations, the Library Select Committee proposed in 1967 an expansion programme for the period 1967-73 which included a library for the Southwest of Hong Kong Island at Wah Fu Estate. While this programme did not include a library at Aberdeen and the Wah Fu Library was in fact intended to serve residents of Aberdeen as well, the Library Select Com- mittee did not at any stage declare that the Wah Fu Library would be the only public library in the Southwest of Hong Kong Island.
The question of whether a second library should eventually be set up at Aberdeen is, as already stated earlier by the Chairman, due to be discussed at the next meeting of the Library Select Committee, and may I add that Mr. Hu will be present I hope.
MR. HU: Mr. Chairman, since Mrs. ELLIOTT said very clearly, this question would be discussed in Select Committee, I have no supplementary. (Laughter).
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MR. SOLOMON RAFEEK, 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 made under the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance (Cap. 132) that the Director of Urban Services be empowered to exhume and remove the human remains of persons from the graves in the Colonial Cemetery, Happy Valley, as listed in the Appendix to Committee Paper CEM/8/69, and to dispose of the same in such manner as the Director may think fit."
He said:
Mr. Chairman, I rise to move the resolution standing in my name. The number of graves involved in this exercise is 470 of which all are prewar graves and do not seem to have been visited in many years. All the remains exhumed will be placed inside an ossarium to be constructed by the Public Works Department, the design of which will be similar to the columbarium in the Cape Collinson Crematorium.
The purpose of the proposed exhumation is to prolong the life of the Colonial Secretary (Laughter), I mean the Colonial Cemetery by another 33 years or so by re-using the grave spaces thus made available.
Sir, I beg to move.
MR. PETER P. F. CHAN:-Mr. Chairman, I beg to second the Motion.
MR. SALES: May we heartily endorse the Motion to prolong the life of the Colonial Secretary. (Laughter).
The question was put.
The Motion was carried.
ADJOURNMENT
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CHAIRMAN:-That concludes the business of this meeting. Council stands adjourned until the 4th November, 1969 at 4 p.m.
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