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sxpression of your opinion as to whether your surveyors would be able to place the information they may obtain
in such a shape before the Governor as would enable him
to arrive at a correct decision as to the route to be
adopted without referring the papers home to you.
I am,&c.,
s
E. E. Blake
Fuchs 4 mi no.
Sir John Wolfe Barry & Partners to Crown Agents
15 April 1905
Gentlemen }
We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter E/261/1 of the 12th April and regret that we have somewhat misapprehended the wishes of the Government with reward to the proposed surveys of the British section of the railway between Kowloon and Canton.
In reply to that letter we beg to say that the engineer whom we propose to appoint to undertake the reconnaissance surveys required is fully competent to place if necessary at the disposal of the Governor in Hong Kong all the information necessary to enable & definite decision to be arrived at as to the route to he adopted for the railway although in ordinary course we should have preferred to have had the opportunity of considering the information ourselves and of reporting on the subject before such cefinite decision were come to.
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