2544/9
I am afraid
we must
be doing
for
sanction the two extra clerk, recommended
in 2544
but in
Still
? Observe that although the receipts of the Portal Dept are apparently in excess of the expenditure of that Dept, the latter appears to be increasing at a faster rate than the former, so that great care must be exercised not to swell the expenditure unduly.
It is offered to me by one
Suggested
it would not be well to disallow the vote, but I should like to take the opportunity
367 of asking the Governor to consider whether, when funds permit, some Scheme of Road construction
between
round the island should
be entertained, especially for the villages. Weakly Brymbo has not been watched.
? Sanction the Appropriation
Remarks be necessary
to the sanitary despatch. Also referred to Whitch glected Order & approve the Estimates
in par- 9, remarking
we
recently had a telegram to suspend action
in this way.
hid
methods
to getting the extra work done, subject to above remarks, & subject
to the disposal of this disallowing subject to what
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a new Surveyor, pending arrival of another. I hope that the further despatch on the despatch will not provide further expenditure. As to the two items referred to in par 10-12
of the despatch, it will be seen from p. 451 of the Hongkong Weekly Press that M. May (the Superintendent of Police) thought
pressingly
that other Public Works were
needed more than both of these. "We cannot, I think, object to the Gardener's Cottages, which are said to be absolutely necessary on sanitary grounds; but as to the new Road, which is for the benefit of the people who can afford to live
in the hills, I am inclined to think that M. May is probably right in his view that it might have been postponed for other more useful objects. It would however probably
be generally
regarded
in light of the promise when the question arises; that on pp. 40-42 several offices ought to have been printed
in italics,
the holders thereof not being pensionable; and add that Enc. 5 being a Memorandum
to Explain alteration of purporting
of Revenue / in which the
Explanatory Remarks In Explanatory column (generally blank) appears
is a superfluous document & that
it would be more convenient that
any explanations that are required
should appear
as footnotes in the
book of the Estimates,
as is already
done in the case
of explanations of alterations of expenditure. And send to A.O. copy of then