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I have before stated, to go out these Zerry various service the detail and labour of doing which I have but briefly alluded to Ji an efficient manner, it will be necessary on my departure to have a qualified Assistant Engineer ready to give his whole time to office work as a general rule.
Before commencing I work at Kowloon, a Resident Engineer should be appointed, and a Clerk of Works is required at Stone Cutters Island. He might perhaps be under the immediate orders of the Resident Engineer at Kowloon, under instructions from the Surveyor General.
With these arrangements the work of the Surveyor General's Office may be carried on rapidly and with economy, rather than when the details of work have to be left, in consequence of the smallness of the Department, almost entirely without proper supervision.
I trust His Excellency may, under the circumstances enumerated, be pleased to rescind the decision in regard to Mr. Storcy's services until the arrival of His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, when the whole question as regards the Department, and the contemplated ...