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13: set.

15.

14 fact if nothing

mate

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to lack of funds)

the

if (owing was done for years,

circuit round the Island would be

a

of enormously improved. The driver carriages won. I have

good road from Victoria via Pokfulam and Aberdeen about 8 miles in length to Deep-water Bay

A folf links, and on the other side an equally good road from Victoria to Stanley Tuk, the centre of probably the most beautiful part of the Colony 10.2 miles in length, while to the average

of the circuit of the whole Island would be an

Advantage of the old road matter, is the

on a portion to be good to be negotiated would be that from Deep-water Bay to Stanley Tuk, quite half of which is tolerable.

I repeat that if the latter part of the above quoted resolution is rescinded and the Committee give the Government a free hand, this money in the bank will suffice to substitute for the worst and most inefficient existing track, six miles of well graded carriage road of the width:

money 10 feet in

How to look at the other side. Me in the bank will pay for the about 32 miles from Kennelly's making of

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