Hongkong.
March, 1904.
C. C.
729
21000
Goverment House,
Hongkong, 20th May, 1904.
JUN 04!
Sir,
You 8449
In reply to your Despatch No. 90 of 31st March, I have the honour to transmit for your information a copy of a minute by the Director of Public Works in which Mr. Chatham explains the reasons for which he declined to sign the usual Certificate on Mr. King's pension paper.
2.
I would like to give you the following example of how Mr. King did his work. The Acting Director of Public Works, the Acting Colonial Secretary, and I recently visited the site of some considerable training work of nullahs for the prevention of mosquitoes. We found one of the trained nullahs blocked in order that water might be got for extensive cultivation in the vicinity. A hut was noticed and on my questioning the occupant, a Chinese, he informed me that he had no lease or licence for the hut or land and that he formerly squatted on land taken up some years ago for commercial purposes and when turned off had been informed by Mr. King that he might squat further afield. He had accordingly been squatting where he was ever since.
3.
Mr. King had left the Colony so that I was
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
Sec...