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No.438
Hongkong.
Goverment House,
C.O.
38577
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Red 22 001
169
Hongkong, 15th. September, 1903.
Верт
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sir,
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I have already informed you in the post-
script to my Despatch No. 434 of the 11th. instant that I have
given directions that your instructions contained in your
Despatch No. 302 of the 14th. August regarding the method of
construction of the permanent way of the Hongkong Electric Tramway should be complied with.
2.
You will have learned from my Despatch referred to that if the Company's Engineers had not deposited
a cross-section showing the whole surface between the two
tracks concreted, and had not the Director of Public Works
accepted such form of construction as set off against
certain concessions made by him, this Government would not
have insisted upon the concreting which on the representations
of Messrs. Dickinson and Company you have directed should not
be exacted.
3.
I have explained in my Despatch referred
to that the Director of Public Works has not gone beyond the
Board of Trade requirements as suggested in the third paragraph
of
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P..
&C...
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800.