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when a typhoon is coming on it requires to be supplemented by another shelter more to the West. I have not made provision for commencing this new shelter in the Estimates for 1907 which I am forwarding by this mail but I informed the Legislative Council at their meeting of the 27th September that I should endeavour to start the work that year and I shall address Your Lordship later on the provision of the necessary funds for this purpose. In the meantime I am having the question of site of shelter and design of protecting breakwater considered by the competent authorities.
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I will conclude my Despatch on the gloomy subject of the typhoon of the 18th September by reference to its two brighter aspects - the services to His Majesty's Navy and United States Navy, and the sympathy with the Colony and to the sufferers which it evoked and the sympathy with them that it elicited.
By the courtesy of Commodore H. P. Williams, R.N., His Majesty's Ships "Astraea" and "Prometheus", two Torpedo Boats and some of the Dockyard Vessels scoured the waters of the Colony on the days following the big storm to recover junks and their crews and to remove derelicts. They were assisted in this work by