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to the syrial extent indicated
by Mr. Orange's results.
5. I may remind you that last year the Surveyor General of Hong Kong strongly advocated the purchase of cement locally, from the Agents of Freser White, his reasons for recommending that course, carefully and fully examined in our letter of the 7th September 1885 and were shown to be, in every particular, unsound.
Statements on that occasion remain unanswered and unchallenged, but the Surveyor General has now again advocated the use of White's cement and compared the results obtained from cement with those given by Merz & Probins' Cement. We had at the time of Price's report shipped no White's cement for the water works, and the material of this brand which the Surveyor General had in store must have been purchased locally, before, I presume, the Secretary of State's telegram of the 26th August 1885 forbidding the local purchase of cement, was received. However this may be, our experience in connection
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