DESPATCH.
C.O.
152:
472
RECO
VEG 37P 68.
It is not so pleasant a thought to be wished to have the service stereotyped against all improvement, but our position would seem to be simply a ministerial one and there is nothing for it but to make the best of it, and not to wander from the allotted field;
relieved of our task there,
(Signed) A Lister
Postmaster General
No.
ven 165
Date.
6483.
26Je
st previous Paper,
10873
Hongkong.
No 15217
(Subject.)
Reduction in Light dues and other harbour charges.
copy corres.
with Chamber of Commerce. Exc.cil is:
of opinion that there should not be any reduction at present.
WMescle
The same
(Minutes.)
as existed in December 1881 for not reducing Harbour dues, &c., still holds good and with increasing force in consequence of the Public Works programme.
197
The referees have in a great measure carried out the recommendations of Sir E. Chadwick and Messrs. Tgettem and Watermaths;
since those days the Chadwick drainage scheme has been carried out and the Harbour Improvement and Land Reclamation Works are now in progress.
(Signed) ...