To Matter,
To the credit of
Naval Services at
the Paymaster General's Office.
Javie
H M
Gov 6010/56
• with above 6018.
Copy to Treasury for comment 15 August '58. Copy to Gov. Enfold 5. Sept. /58. 106.2
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4th August
1856.
Your letter dated the 29th ulto
Inclosing Reports and Estimates for Police Stations in Hongkong
did not reach me
until yesterday, and I now hasten to afford thereon for the information of Mr. Secretary Labouchere.
I am of opinion that the Plan prepared by Captain Cauper for the Police Station at West Point is on the whole well suited to the locality, and will afford that protection to the district which it is essentially required to receive.
I should advise having that additional foot in height be given to the Ground Floor, and in lieu of the voussoirs being at the springing of the arches to substitute a plain course 10 inches high at the level of the verandah floor, similar to that shown on the Elevations of the Central Station. The first
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