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The date for
THE HONGKO
WEEKLY PRESS AND
(April 8, 1897.
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Her Maj Diamond Jubilee may be dismiss We hope the Government will take i work ing hand as soon as possible, and it would afford would also eet, or aim, at meeting, general satisfaction if Her Majesty's name were associated with it when completed, but the road could not be made to serve the pur- pose of a memorial voluntarily erected by the is
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road round the Island, round the south side. new Clock Tower and the Com- pletion of the Queen's Statue. Hospital for Women with a Train-
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Similar arguments apply to the Clock | the ing Institute for Nurses in connec-Tower scheme. The necessity for this work may be and a tion therewith.
has already been practically acknowledged schemes, the Nursi by the Government, the plans have been pital for Women-- prepared, and in course of time a new clock Medicine, seems to of tower will be erected as a matter of course. of bringing about If the community chose to expedite matters of from $80,000 to by subscribing half the cost as a memorial public subscription of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee no doubt combined institutions. the Government would make an effort toernment as its Bhare, proceed with the work at once. A clock the responsibility tower would, it must be admitted, make an keep. They would be excellent memorial in itself it would supporting, possess the element of permanency in almost as large a degree as a statue and might by adaptation in its design be made almost as characteristic. It does not, however, appeal to the spirit of the philanthropy, and Her Majesty is believed to desire that any funds raised for the commemoration of Her Diamond Jubilee should be applied to objects having for their aim the relief of the sick and suffering. Although the expression of that desire is perhaps not necessarily to be taken as universally binding it must be taken into consideration.
A Soldiers and Sailors' Institute. 5. — The establishment on a better basis of the College of Medicine for Chinese. we believe, are all the schemes laid before the Committee. Others have
suggested in newspaper correspond nce, including Public Baths for Eu ropeans and Chinese, Scholarships, and School for European Children at the Peak, but these, not having been placed formally before the Committee, nor, so far as is known, being specially favoured by any of the individual members of the Committee, may be dismissed from con- sideration. The formulated schemes aboye enumerated all possess merit and each is strongly advocated by its supporters. What, then, are the princi- ples by which the choice between them should be determined? We have first to consider the suitability of each scheme as a memorial and the practicability of carrying it out. In the forefront stands the financial question what would be the cost, what sup- port would be received from the Govern- ment, and what amount could be raised by public subscription? At present the public finances are in a straightened condition and the Government is hardly in a position to enter upon any very large expenditure of an extraordinary character.
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Since writing list of signatur road round the southern portion memorial. They' oun 192 would probably bad they been ac Amongst the signatures wer Messrs. H NMODY, HERBER JOHN THURburn, A Coxon GILLIES, who are members mittee five out of the twenty posing the Committee. The proposed Soldiers' and Sailors' In- if we may be allowed to stitute, excellent as the idea is in itself, exercised a swiser discretio strikes us as being too narrow in its scope deavoured to keep an to commend itself as suitable for the pre-all the schemes to be sent occasion. We have no doubt that placed before them. Wa if the Rev. G. R. VALLINGS could form however, the next step, a strong committee and made an appeal to should be to ascertain how the public at a favourable time funds could signatories and their friend be raised for this purpose without any special to subscribe towards the cost reference to the great historic event we are Assuming the average subscription, about to commemorate. At present a good large and small together, to be $20,that deal of spare cash has gone out of the give, in round figures, $4,000, which colony for the relief of the sufferers by the perhaps suffice to make half a mile of the Indian famine, and with the Diamond road. Jubilee subscription pending the present could not be considered a favourable moment for urging any other special object requiring large funds, but in the course of a year or two the community would probably be found willing to subscribe liberally towards such an institute as Mr. VALLINGs proposes. However that may be, we think the scheme must be dismissed from consideration in the present connection.
The proposed road round the island is a much needed work, but the general feeling seems to be that it is essentially a Govern- ment work, and we doubt very much whe ther a public subcription on its behalf would meet with any response worth speak; ing of It is of the essence of the idea of a memorial that the expenditure should be defrayed, to the extent of at least one half by subscription, thus giving it a character of spontaneity on the part of the community that would be lacking if the cost were defrayed entirely from com pulsory taxation. The proposed road would take some years to construct, many people who are in a position to subscribe fiberally would probably not be in the There remain, then, the Hospital for colony enjoy it when it was com- Women and Nursing Institute and the pleted, and the work is not one which would College of Medicine for Chinese. These are appeal to them on philanthropic grounds; put forward as separate schemes, but might under these circumstances such persons perhaps be amalgamated on the lines sug- ight not unreasonably elect to give ex- gested by our correspondent "School and ression to their patriotism and affection for Home" in yesterday's issue, namely, that ereign by subscribing to the home both should be worked in connection with placing the endowments of the the Government Civil Hospital. Both will Lospitals on a better basis. This
appeal to the charitable and philanthropic ose of the European community feelings of the community and in that m of residence is drawing to a respect
the adoption of either those who have to look both of them would comply with the. the heat and burden of desire believed to be entertained_by nite term, they would, Her Majesty that the funds should be probably not think it devoted to the relief of the sick and suffer. to relieve the Goving Furthermore, the general mun
necessary road- must, in a matter of this kind,
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NURSING FACILITIES IN | HONGKONG.
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of the will be the official
Those residents who advocate, a hospital for women and a nurses as a memorial sixtieth year of the Qu gratified by the pub papers on the nur which we reproduc An Association,
with a view to skilled private many of the Crow British
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