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(a wing of which it had been determined
the 4.4. Regiments)
to remove from Hougthong to Kowloon for the Summer.
Upon my observing
that
sanction had not been
obtained on
even
asked for
any of
Mann
Mann had
gone over
to
these arrangements
I learnt that when Colonel
fix upon sites, Colonel
Muter had suggested to
him the propriety of
obtaining my
sanction
before appropriating the ground
in question and erecting Barracks
upon
it. Colonel
Muter said: "I asked
him what cause
how it had been
"Colonel Mann - have
the Governor's leave
you
leave for this?
He replied no. I
remarked well there is
a
right and a
wrong way
of doing every thing and had better take the proper course of obtaining the
necessary authority. To which "Colonel Mann replied "I
suppose it will be all right" and that the