be Excessive, an opinion that appears to have received the hipproval of the Select Committee.
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Your Lordship's House whose was published in Blue Book
a
report
form in 1879.
18. On the very important question of
Government resumption of the Hong
Kong tramways, I would respectfully advise – with the adaptations requisite
to the Circumstances of the Colony - the Adoption of
Sections 41, 42 and 43,
of the Imperial tramways Act of 1870,
And I would also recomment, in order to facilitate the Calculation of the indemnity that the Government
may some day to have to pay for such resumption, that periodical statistics
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reports of its receipts, Expenditure and general
operations, duly Certified, be made by the Com
pany to the Government, in accordance with the
practice of tramway Companies in this country. 19. In conclusion, I would submit that in
giving facilities for rapist Communication to the public from
one sud of the town to the other,
a distance of three and a half miles, the Hong Kong tramway project bids fair to prove of great public utility, provided the fares are sufficiently
reduced to bring the use
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the masses, and that on these
the Application of the promoters is worthy of Lordship's favourable
ourable Consideration and that y
the Colonial Yovemment.
I have the honour to be
My Lord
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