At the Public Works Committee' meeting the Commissioner of Public Works requests that preliminary sideration be given to the question of a new Town Hall with particular regard to the type of hall, its situation, and needs it should meet. office was under the direct control, or functioned with the approval of, the Central Government.
House Numeration On the subject of house numeral tion, the recommendations contained in the report submitted by che special committee appointed by the Council to advise it as to wheth a modified system of house numeration in respect of new roads and other roads as and when re-numeration becomes necessary, were un-linously approved.
Regarding film censors for the ensuing year it was decided to address indications to serve on the 8. board of film Censors for the current Municipal year to the following: Messrs, T. P. Givens, Gordon Lowder, and Kuan Chun, Mrs. W. B. Lunt and Mrs. V. Lyman.' A' Chinese lady will, it was announced, also be invited to serve on this board on nomination by Chinese members of Council.
In connection with a letter recei ed from the Chinese Ratepayers Association advocating that the Chinese language be adopted for the Council's official documents, the Director of Chinese Studies had reported that, with an increased staff, I the prep ry sion of the weekly Gazette ion of a Chinese ver.
Annual Report and Budget could be undertaken. After discussion, it was decided to issue a Chinese version of the Annual Report in 3 condensed form. With regard to the publication in Chinese and tke distribution of the—Municipal Gazette to the Chinese community, which it was anticipated might present some difficulty, the Chines D.T. Yiu, Mr. and Mra, L. C. Ta Red Cross Hospital and Nurses Trains ing School, Mrs, King, John Young, Miss K.¥, Eh jing, "Anti-Opium Hospital, Orphat chestra, Rev. MIN. C. Kiang, Bethel One member pointed out that all cities of importance regarded the provision of a town hall as a facility, and as there was no likel hood of a building of a size capable of accommodating large audiences being erected by private enterprise, he was strongly in favour of this being erected on the portion of the Administratic The Commissioner of Public Works recalled that within the last two years he had proposed that to accommodate gatherings such as the annual meeting of ratepayers a floor should be erected in the Drill Hall, under which scheme the round floor portion would continue to be utilized as a gun park and for the housing of vehicles belonging to. the Volunteer Corps. It would be possible to erect a hall on the administration compound and provide for large audiences by means of galleries; a room of this type might, however, be unsuitable for lesser occasions and for such functions as have teen held in the past the existing Town Hall.
Another member argued that a new Town Hall in which facilities for the holding of concerts were provided would result in @ considerable revenue to the Council, and that the increasing interest evinced by the Chinese community in the orchestral and other concerts made this provision most desirable. As cost would be entailed for the purchase of a site he strongly advocated that the building should be proceeded with as soon as the Proposed site became avai After further discussion,. the Committee recommended that a scheme be prepared for the erection of a new Town Hall on the site of the Municipal Compound, the plat of such building to include suitable accommodation for the holding" of orchestral and other concerts.
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