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best district for experiments and the beginning of a newly organised forestry system, very suitable hell land existing sufficiently near to the proposed site of an Economic farden
.
The garden would not be of
nor ones
sufficient importance, at least for some time to come to justify the employment of an European, compared with a native,
high salary.
could one be expected to live contendedly in what at present would be an isolated position in the New Territory, but the garden might be formed and managed for sometime by a good Chinese. Such a man
would be the Chinese stead Forester in
the New Territory who could be respono ible for the work in conjunction with his other duties, and being a native he should find the surrounding congenial to him. He commenced as a boy in these fardens 25 years ago and he has passed chrough all branches of
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