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LL COMMUNICATIONS
TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES.
C. O.
16638
RECO
PEG 20 SEP 82,
DOWNING STREET, LONDON.
19th September 1882
417
Sir
C.A.
16495
With reference to
your
letter dated
the
of
the 18th instant on the subject
terms on which workmen are
ai
the
to be engaged for service Hong Kong Water Works, I have the honour to state that it appears
be preferable
to us that it
to make a
may
slight addition to the
the
wages of
men rather than
grant them the privilege of remitting at the rate of 4/2 per dollar, provided that the object for which the additional allowance is given is stated in their
Under Secretary of
h
State
K
Colonial Office