At the meeting of this body held on the 21st inst. an important. resolution was proposed by the Meical Oficer of Health, was to the effect that the Government ha asked to extend the provisions of The European District Reservation Ordinance of 1888 to that portion of Kowloon which lies to the south of Austin Road. He urged that unless this were done at once the Europeans would soon have no district in which they can live without being crowded round by Chinese tenements, and said the area proposed was not more than 200 seres. Colonel Ryan seconded. Messrs. Osborne and Fang Wa-chuen opposed the resolution on economic grounds, wud urged that the portion of the peninsula mentioned would be doomed from a business point of view, but they did not propose any amendment. The President foresaw great difficulties in the way of carrying out the meneure and he wished the proposer had restricted the area a little more. On put to the vote the resolution was carried.
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