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Chambers,
Rro 24 JUN 10
Supreme Court House, Hongkong,
14th September, 1909.
sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your
Excellency's letter No.5810/09 which I have circulated to the Members
and the Secretary of the Squatters Board.
I desire on behalf of my colleagues and myself to thank
Your Excellency for your very kind congratulations on the completion
of our work.
It has been proposed to me that I should bring to the
notice of Your Excellency the very zealous work done by Mr. Rees and
his staff during the last year. All of them must have given up a good
deal of their own time to the preparation of maps and schedules
without which the Board would have had no material to work on.
/
I venture moreover with the full concurrence of Messrs.
Jones & Wood. Mr. Irving the other recently sitting member of the
Board being now absent to suggest for the approval of Your Excellency
the grant to Mr. Rees, on whom the chief burden of the executive
work has fallen, of such honorarium as Your Excellency may think fit,
from any fund that may be available for the purpose.
His Excellency,
I have etc,
(sd) H.H.J.Gompertz.
Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G.,
Governor, &c.
&c.
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Chairman Squatters Board.