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No. 173.
Hongkong.
for 40903/5
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RECO
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Red 30 JUL 06
Government House,
Hongkong, 26th. June, 1906.
My Lord,
In continuation of my despatch No.255 dated
the 16th. October, 1905, on the subject of the question of
re-surveying and dredging Victoria Harbour and with refer-
ence to the 5th. paragraph of that despatch in which I
stated that should an opportunity offer I would have test
sections taken on the lines referred to in paragraph 19 of
the report submitted with that despatch, I have the honour
to inform Your Lordship that by the courtesy of the Command-
er-in-Chief, China Station, Commander R. W. Glennie, R.N.
of H.M.S. "Waterwitch" was permitted to do this work in
February and March of the current year.
2.
I now transmit for Your Lordship's informa-
tion and for that of the Consulting Engineers copies of
Admiralty Charts Nos.1459 and 3280 on which are indicated
the lines on which the test sections were taken and a sheet
of these sections on which the difference in level of the
seabed according to the survey for the abovementioned
charts
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
&c.
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.
80.
80.