, 1912-02-21

lul no other risk than having to do them,
over.
Sub Item * The Department of Public
Instruction.
Considering the number of children in
Est. Croix Hoiere Skole'' the yearly subsidy
is too large. 1t does not look well, that the
Chairman and the Head Master of the
School, that receives a subsidy Of 49, 900 D.. a.
have to go around begging parents to send
Their children to the school, as is the case in
Christiausted; this would seem to imply, that
the interest in the school is not sufficiently
great to warrant the public expenditure. If
1T be necessary to go begging for pupils,
Offering to take them for same or less fee
than private schools, it shows that the want
OF the school IS not greatly needed ana Tue
pupils are sent TO the school IN order more
to help keep up the School for the sake of
the teachers than because the large public
feels the want of it. A preparatory school
which was made away with q year ago is now
going to be started again although it~did
not pay to keep it alive. The time will come
and ought to come, when the Public takes
over the School.
Sub Item y. The SANITARY Department.
He considered it bard for us to pull along
with the b g amount for the Leper asylum;
for the sake of humanity we have, however,
to do it, but III calling the attention to the
filling condition Of the Leper Asylum, he
would ask ii the at entiou of this could not
be drawn to the giyer to take over the re
paIrs, as there was q klnd OF contract b
tween the giver aud the Receiver, in this
way namely, that when the giver prest nted
this Gift, he made certain conditions as to.
the running of the establishment conditions
which cost the community large sums of
money yearly, and which we are Obliged to-
defray, bat on the olher h nd the CDnmu-
nifty eXpec ell to receive Il su ~,stant.al aud
we'll built structure, on which IT Would not
be necessary to spend large amounts for re-
pairs, and when now it p.oyes, that we have
to use u lditional IN ans 70 repairs, we will
have to reduce running expenses. +. inst. be
satisfied with one trained nurse etc.
He would recommend the increase of sala-
ries for the Sickuurses.
Sub Item XI. Ih6 Poor Department.
The demands under this item must be met
with. He himself was in the Poor Commas
sion and conld assure that the amount must
be increased, too many we're shown away,
that ought strictly speaking to be helped,
but the commission had to sift because the
amount could not else stretch, but this.
ought aot to continue, we could not let the
Old and infrm poor die from starvation. OF
course the only proper way was to have a
L OOl lOtISt
Sub Item XIV, The Blu ld.n5 Expenses.
The Building Expenses are enormous
for the few buildings we have, aud which,
moreover are i'll poor condition. DIffe-
rent things could be remedied what is
wrong is, that the estimate laid before the
Council was not followed f.. j. the Estimate
for the lunatic asylum laid before the Couu-
Gil on the grant for this building called for
an iron roof, but the Building Inspector had
without permission laid a cement roof, which
now was leaking before the building even is
taken i'll use.
AS u member of the Municipal Committee
he thanked the Government for its Liberal
and courteous meeting of every wish from
the Municipal Committee without the Gov
ernment's support the Committee would
have been unable to do the work, which had
been done.
The octg. Vice Governor thanked for the
kind words; wherever there is any wish, the
Government will be found ready to meet it
as far as possible.
With regard to the labour question, and
the works in ST. Thomas, for which last he
shared the hon. Speakers pride in the Moth
Ell Country, he would say, that it seemed
to him. that the hon. memOer ShOWad him.