scarcely worth while to piddle with the crisis. Jakin duplicate type bespeaks
not gist much extra mantle
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C.R.175
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Mr Fowle
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I may seen Anm. In Wilson asking blet type.
M 3.1.
I have written to the may kum if be can arrange have duplicator fall matter (despatches of endorsements), except such things leave despatiles, reports of extensions to.
REL 17/9/09
Extract from a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies No.90 dated 6th April 1909
2.
With reference to your paragraph 3, the system of binding annually and retaining at Government House the originals of the despatches from the Secretary of State was the custom which I found to be in existence here, as I believe it is in most other Colonies. The duplicate copy is included with the file to which it belongs in the Secretariat. The existence of these volumes of despatches at Government House gives a good deal of reference to the Secretariat and the carrying backwards and forwards of bulky volumes.
I have etc.
(Sgd) P.D.Lugard
Governor