Kaohsiung City Government is planning to establish a monument in memory of Scottish missionary James Laidlaw Maxwell, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) said yesterday.
Attending an event held by the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan, Chen said the city government is negotiating with Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to acquire a piece of land in the city’s Cijin District (旗津), where Maxwell first set foot in the city.
The city government plans to build a monument and park there to commemorate the contribution to religion and healthcare made by Maxwell, who arrived in the city 145 years ago.
Maxwell was born in Scotland in 1836, earned his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh and later trained in Berlin and Paris.
He arrived in Xiamen in 1864 and was sent to Taiwan after a year of language training. He began his medical missionary work in Tainan in June 1865 and moved to Kaohsiung three years later.
Chen said no decision had yet been made as to the exact location of the planned monument and park, but the city government hoped to offer the bureau another piece of land in exchange for the land in Cijin.
CARBON DIOXIDE MONITOR
Meanwhile, the city’s Environmental Protection Bureau said it had purchased a mobile carbon dioxide monitoring system to monitor carbon emissions in the city and Kaohsiung County, to better meet the mayor’s goal of cutting emissions by 30 percent by 2020.
TWO MONITORS
Bureau director-general Lee Mu-sheng (李穆生) said the bureau bought the system because the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) established only two carbon dioxide monitoring stations in southern Taiwan — in Tainan and Pingtung.
Cheng Shu-hui (鄭淑慧), a technician from the bureau, said the system would be able to detect subtle differences in carbon dioxide concentrations at different locations and times.
The bureau hopes to collect longitudinal carbon dioxide concentration data in different parts of the city and county so as to build a credible database, Lee said.
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