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Chief Resident Engineer to Sir J.W.Barry & Partners
Chief Resident Engineer's Office
Kowloon
20th July 1908
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General Letter
No. 64
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AUTRAS STIs“ I
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In continuation of what I reported in the first
paragraph of my last feneral Letter I send you copies of some letters bearing on the subject (enclosure A and B)
I was greatly surprised at the method adopted
by His Excellency as shown by the "Terms of Reference".
thought that the select committee referred to in paragraph
I
5 General Letter No. 63 would include myself or in other
words, that a couple of engineers would be appointed to
consult with me in much the same way as one doctor might be
brought into consultation with another doctor in a diffi-
cult case.
From the wording of the latter you will see that
I am not in comunication with the committee, that the
committee is to act independently of me in the way of
taking borings etc or in other words that my statements of
facts are open to doubt.
I consider the procedure most objectionable, in
the first place it is contrary to the letter of instruc-
tions forwarded to me through you from the Crown Agents
at the commencement of the work where it clearly states
that for smooth working I should not be interfered with in
technical matters except through you.
I also consider that a slight has been put
upon me by having other Engineers sent on to the works to
gain information which I am quite capable of giving. In
other