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the working of the Hongkong
more
particularly
Observatory, in regard to those points
to which special reference
was made.
2.
I have lately laid
a copy of the Report before the Legislative Council, and I submitted
it for the consideration of the Executive Council, the members of which approved of the recommendations
contained in it.
3.
There
seems little
doubt that the present
staff is not sufficient to efficiently carry
out
the
work of the Observatory, and Your Lordship will see that
the Commission recommends
that it be increased.
Dr Doberck proposes
that there should be a
chief assistant at a salary of $2,000,
an assistant
meteorologist at $1,680;
that the second assistants'
pay