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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 16th April, 1907,
SIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the report dated the 12th April of the Committee appointed to collect funds and to deal with cases of distress caused by the storm of the 18th September last.
2. I have to express to you and to the members of the General Committee, of the Sub- Committee, and of the Investigating Committee my thanks for your labours in collecting funds and distributing relief, labours which I am sure greatly lessened the period during which the evil effects of the catastrophe were felt in the Colony. I fully appreciate the heavy amount of work that must have fallen on all the Committees but probably most of all on the Investigating Committee who had to deal with equal promptness and care with a very large number of individual applications for assistance.
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cept on behalf of the Government of the Colony the charge of the unexpended the fund which will be held in trust to be used as the Governor may from time to t in assisting people resident in the Colony who may on future occasions suffer
rnis.
With regard to the unanimous suggestion of your Committee that the Government Jution of an amount equal to private subscriptions, promised by me to the fund, should pended for commencing at the earliest possible date the new typhoon shelter which Committee as well as the Public Works Committee have recommended should be at ag-kok-tsui, I have to inform you that a number of borings have been taken to ascertain . nature of the bed of the harbour at this site and that as soon as the plans and particulars sed on them have been prepared, tenders, for the construction of the. detached breakwater hich is to extend from near Tai-kok-tsui to opposite the South end of Yaumati will be called for and a vote taken in the Legislative Council for the amount that it is estimated will be expended during the current year.
The Honourable
Sir PAUL CHATER, Kt., C.M.Ġ.,
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Chairman, Typhoon Relief Fund Committee.
M. NATHAN, Governor.