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the approval of this recettinng the Governor
ested to him to remain in Hong-
suggested
Hongkong
for a little while and to accept,
provisionally, journey man's work in the Garden for the purpose of giving the native gardeners instruction in some of
important details of their
the more.
dutels.
2.
I
would not have ventured upon
So unusual a
Wolw
chure e
0.0
offering hemis
temporary deployment but for the
fact that no other alternative was
left
me but to allow him to
6 proceed
and so lose his valuable.
on his journey Services altogether.
3. The man
having consented to stay
behind has already, by his own personal
work
work done marked good to the Gardew,
and the native Garden Staff will derwe ruch benefit from his practical lessons. Staving been in China how somel
he is accustomed to the
yearo
ways of the natives and seems very successful in
dealing with them
4. But above all, what I have to
report in his favor, in addition to his intelligence and industry, is the fact that works all day
he personally.
in the Character of
a
with the Cooker
Foreman,
a
practical form of Supervision which
the fanden hers always sadly required
but which we have never been able to
Extend to it.
5. I therefore
how
beg to repeat buy