Messrs. Atkinson & Dallas is submitted asking, in return for the free surrender of a small strip of Iand required for this road, that the Council will sanction its reduction to a width of thirty feet between the!Seward Road and the Sing Kei-'This application is approved.
Bubbling Well Cemetery.—An arrangoment is reported with Mr. J. R. Twentyman whereby the boundary between the cemetery and his property on the east side will be adjusted in terms of the following letter Council Room, Shanghai, 2st July, 1904.
Sm,—I am directed to write in confirmation of an arrangement made by yourself and the Municipal Engineer in regard to the boundary line between your property and the Bubbling Well Cemetery.
The terms of this arrangement are understood by the Council to be as follows j three pieces of land shown in green'on the accompanying plan and measuring in the aggregate Mow 4.085.
'2.—You will transfer to the Council the equal area consisting of the two plots coloured pink.
3.—The Council will raise the southern green lot to the existing height of B. C. Jot 3568 and will re-orectyour green-house in the new position shown.
4.—"The cost of re-arrangement of fences, etc., will be borne equally by the Council and yourself, and each party will defray their own registration expenses.
Tam directed to request that you may be good enough to confirm in writing the above detailed statement.
I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, W. E. Leveson, Assistant Secretary. J. R. Twentyaay, Esq., Portland Cement.—The tender Messers. Shewan, Tomes & Ca., for the supply of cement during the year ending Bist August, 1905, is accepted. Price Tls. 3.75 per cask.
Victoria Nursing Home—Upon the recommendation of the Health Offiver it is decided to engage in London three additional nurses, provided suitable candidates present themselves, In regard to probationers at the Home, who, upon completion of their period of training, may wish to establish themselves as professional nurses in Shanghai, the Council is unanimously in favour of putting no obstacle in the way of such a course. The Chairman observes that the result would be generally considered satisfactory and be in conformity with the ideas which actuated the promoters of the original scheme for a Nursing Home.
The meeting then adjourns.
The following are forwarded for publication with the foregoing minutes
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