At the last meeting of the Sanitary Board, the plans for an Annexe to the Hongkong Hotel, to be erected on the reclamation in front of the existing building, were submitted and approved, including a flying bridge to connect the two blocks. It is not, however, intended to proceed with this building at present, The plans have been prepared in view of possible needs, but the idea is to allow the land to remain idle for some time longer. Meantime it is rather unsightly, being covered from end to end by building materials,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.