10.349.
No.
Hongkong.
Sir,
Government House,
C.O. 569 36835 27 OCT 04
Hongkong, 26th September, 1904.
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Mr. May has, in accordance with the instructions contained in your Despatch No. 161 dated the 26th May last, placed before me the correspondence on the subject of a suggested Trust to carry out schemes for the resumption of Insanitary Areas and the Improvement of the City of Victoria.
I entirely concur with him that a considerable sum should be devoted each year to the resumption of Insanitary Property, and that this resumption should proceed on continuous lines.
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I do not think it would be desirable that it should be laid down either that a sum of $350,000 plus half the proceeds of land sales, as proposed by the Committee that reported on the 24th September, 1903, or that a sum of not less than $400,000, as recommended in Mr. May's Despatch No. 150 dated the 9th April, 1904, should be devoted to resumptions. With regard to the first of these proposals, I am averse to the introduction into the Estimates of the principle, which, if introduced, would admit of various logical extensions, of allocating a special source of receipts to a special object.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
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