my statement in the matter -cordingly I now venture
- fully to submit the same.
had
very respects
As the past history of garden
3.
management
is
is a
subject upon
which
this
of
I cannot touch in the limits
litter, except in the briefest
I would beg Your Lordship's attention
only to a
for leading facts,
few
but
more
especially to the main one: that Mr. Ford was appointed to the Hong-
Kong Civil service as the independent separate Government Da-
head
off
A
his
the
partment and that therefore expone his arrival here, he simply took over garden and tree-planting duties as a branch of the Public Works Department under the general supervision of the Surveyor General of the Colony
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It happened however that ten month's after Mr Ford's appointment,
Governor Hennessy had a serious difference with Mr Moosom, the then Surveyor General, and in consequence the Governor detached Mr Ford from the Public Works office (vide Appendix A)
A) substituting for the authority of
the supervision of a
Mr Moosom
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Garden Committee of five gentlemen with Captain Hastings R.E. Resident Surveyor-General (vide Appendix B.) as their manager and Adviser. Shortly after, upon Mr Moosom's retirement from the service, Captain Hastings R.E. succeeded him as Surveyor-General and retained all his functions at the Garden Board.
5. In 1873, I arrived in the Colony
and succeeded Captain M. Hardy R.E. in his dual office
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