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Enclosure
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Japanese Consulate,
Hongkong, 17th, June, 1910.
CO
20334
Rece R15 SEP 10
With reference to your communication under
the date of June 4th., 1910, No. 472, regarding the proposed
site for a Chapel and crematorium, I have visited with Mr.
Wright, your deputy, the place shown in the plan you sent me the
other day, and after consultation with the committee in
connection with this scheme, I am requested by them to state as
follows:-
1.
There is no objection to the site proposed, provided a proper path be opened from the main road up to the nearest poing to the site. The path must be wide enough to
admit of the passage of a hearse.
2.
We wish to have the site for a chapel and
crematorium, the area of which would be 60 feet by 120 feet,
levelled at the expense of the Colonial Government, while the
cost of the erection of the buildings will,
of course, be borne
by the Japanese Community.
3.
We hope also the Government will give the
Japanese Community some extra grounds immediately adjoining
the site mentioned above, for the purpose of laying out gardens
round the buildings, as we are anxious to make the whole as
artistic in appearance as possible.
4.
We also desire that the Colonial Government
vill bear the cost of the erection of a suitable boundary
fence round the whole area.
In conclusion I beg to point out that we are
not unaware that the preparation of the site will involve the
Government in some expense, but in this connection I have to
state that the death rate among the Japanese community reaches
an average of 25 per annum, and that it would be more ecomOMÍOR).
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