To be allowed to continue with options
of renewal with the footing the Government will not
be able to expect to have
increase of remuneration for further term.
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Government House,
Hongkong, 2nd September, 1901.
You 25363
Sir,
With reference to my Despatch No.221 of
the 12th of last June, I have the honour to inform you that
there are at present in this Colony no appliances for the
conduct of Bacteriological work or for the scheme of dealing
with outbreaks of rinderpest submitted in General Gascoigne's
Despatch No.148 of the 7th April, 1900.
I, therefore, recommend that the Bacteriologist, if appointed, should be authorized to expend a sum of
$7,500 for the equipment of the proposed Bacteriological
Laboratory, before he leaves England, where he will have the
selection of such instruments and apparatus as he may require.
I have further to request your sanction
for placing the sum of $7,500 in the Estimates for next year.
This estimate of expenditure has been based on the Estimate
of the Straits Settlements Government.
I have the honour to be,
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
Sir,
Your most obedient
Humble servant,
Henry Arthur Blake
Governor, &c..
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