The Secretary on January 18 reported to the Council that, following the resignation of Mr, T. Kikuchi from the Board of Governors of the Country Hospital and his subsequent decease, the Japanese Consul-General had recommended Mr. T. Morioka as a suitable candidate to ill the'vacancy. Under Clause 7
The minutes of the Education Board meeting of January 11, confirmed by the Council at its meeting on January 18, included recommendations in regard to the 1932 Budget of the foreign schools in-the Settlement. In reference to. Ex: traordinary Expenditure on buildings, the Board recommended—the insertion in the Budget of an ai propriation of Tls. 160,000 for work: upon the construction of the Western District School for Boys. This appropriation was marked urgent, but it was recorded that the actual sum might be reduced after; réveipt of a revised estimate from the Public Works Department. An appropriation of Tls. 100,000, representing a portion of the cost of the new Public and Thorias Hanbury School for Girls building, was also inserted in the Budget and marked urgent, The estimates of ordinary expenditure for the Education Office and of the schools for foreign children were approved, subject to Jadjustments by the Acting Treasurer and Controller,
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