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C.O.
16557
NECD
Rec'd 27 JUN 09
513
Taipo, 3rd May 1899.
Your Excellency.
Since writing my minute today regarding the erection of Police Stations at Taipo, Un Long and Ping Shan it has occurred to me that it would be better to build Stations at Taipo, Un Long or Ping Shan and Pati Au on the first instance. The sites selected for the Un Long and Ping Shan Stations are not far from each other, about 2.4 miles, so that if a station is erected at one of those places to begin with, the Police will be able to patrol the neighbourhood of both Un Long and Ping Shan, and the D.F.W. will be able to proceed at once with the station at Fu Tan near the frontier, a district which should be attended to as soon as possible. Of course if it were possible to erect 4 stations simultaneously, so much the better, but if only 3 can be so erected, I recommend that they be the stations at Taipo, Un Long, or Ping Shan, and Pu-ti-au, a recommendation in which I trust the C. S. P. will concur.
(Sd.) J. H. Stewart Lockhart.
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