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owing to
Expiration of his contract Iconomical reductions of personnel by the French foreign office.
2. As it rarely happens in this part of the world that one hears of a professional person of This kind possessing the attamments of a chief Gardener and at the same time sufficiently, devoid of pretension to be able to train garden cookies in their practical duties by the example of his
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w personal labour. I deem it desirable
to bring to the knowledge of the Government in the event of
ito being
able to avail itself of it, the opportunity, how offering of securing the real class
of u
man to
long required for the gardens
here
here, and whose w
wages
would not be much
more than those of an ordinary Overseer
of works in this Department.
3. With regard to the Office of Superintendent of Gardens and Plantations I would desire briefly to pouch out that as the unfavourable geology
and abrupt
mountainous character of the Island
eclude it's &conomic cultivation Either
preclude
for food purposes or for export trade
of any
hind, and as there are no
agricultural or pastoral interests to promote there is not the same necessity;
in thongkong. that wrists with the reighbouring people of the Straits and Australia
for a special botanical horticulturist of high professional
asperations