No.
Hongkong.
C.
4444 INFOR
Rec 7 FEE 06
Government House,
Hongkong, 6th. January, 1906.
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Sir,
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In continuation of Mr. May's Des-
-patch No. 163 dated the 18th. April, 1904, on the subject
of Cotton Cultivation in this Colony, I have the honour to
transmit for your information a copy of a report by the
Superintendent, Botanical and Afforestation Department,
giving the results of experiments carried out last year.
2.
These results were very unsatis-
-factory due, according to Mr. Dunn, partly to unfavourable
weather, partly to bad selection of typical rather than
specially favourable sites for the experiments and partly
to insufficient supervision. I see no reason why the ex-
-periments were not watched either by the Superintendent
or his Assistant sufficiently closely to ensure their
being properly carried out, and I am informing Mr. Dunn to
this effect.
3.
Further experiments will be made
this
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES.
b.