Government House,
Hongkong, 18th April, 1907.
My Lord,
Referring to the 38th, 39th, and 40th paragraphs of my Despatches Nos. 238 and 262 dated the 5th and 22nd October, 1906, respectively, on the subject of the typhoon which passed over this Colony on the 18th September last, I have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's information a copy of the Report of the Committee appointed to collect funds and to deal with cases of distress caused by that storm.
2. The report shows that out of the sum of $281,390.26 received as subscriptions to the fund and as interest on them the sum of $246,134.84 has been expended in grants for the purchase, construction or repair of boats, on recovering and burying corpses, maintaining destitutes, relieving widows and orphans, repairing embankments and compensating for loss of crops in the New Territories, etc.
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Not so heavy ao breakwaters go. ? Approve proposal and distribute compliments all round. Hongkong has admirably met the disaster. We are committed to spending a sum equal to the subscriptions, which were about $200,000. This additional expenditure of $320,000 has justification.
RES 23/5. CPL. No. 244:5, 3427.5 & 1.6.
Hongkong, 19 MAY 07,
To
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&C., &C., &C.
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