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The Under Secretary of State
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Hong Kong Tramways.
We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14th instant, No 9993/1902, for which we are obliged.
We are excedingly sorry that Mr Secretary Chamberlain, upon the advice of the Board of Trade, insists upon the method of laying the concrete which was indicated to us in the letter
This entails the from your Department of the 6th ulto.
additional expenditure of £8000 by our clients without, in our opinion, benefitting the Colony of Hong Kong in the slightest
degree.
We assume that we are still at liberty to discuss the matter with the Authorities in Hong Kong, at any rate so far as that portion of the line connecting Victoria and Sau-ki-wan is concemed, which is along practically a country lane.
All clauses having been agreed with your Department and in Hong Kong, we take it that it is not necessary to await the formal promulgation of the Ordinance in Hong Kong, and that we shall be quite safe and perfectly in order in completing the contract for carrying out the works.
Yours faithfully,
Alpessickines