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Gre 265
1902
June.
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DESPATCH,
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(Subject.)
Dredging of harbour
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corres.
420
respecting the
Jap
Johnson Mr. Loccas
(Minutes.)
I do not think that the
that
Official God can be asked to
Ga contribute to the cost of dredging the harbour. It is admitted
that the size of merchant steamers visiting
the harbour has been
increasing greatly, and that the harbour will ultimately have to be deepened. The operation is one
that is expected to benefit directly the trade of the Colony,
On the other hand, unless the Admiralty press for it, there is no great hurry about the work.
Nor does a tax on shipping
altogether
seem
fair. Hong Kong
is not a manufacturing centre.
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