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Government House,
Hongkong, 25th. Larch, 1911.
Go. 311467/009 13202109
sir,
With reference to my Despatch No.
247 of 20th. August, 1909, and to Lord Crewe's reply No.226
of 1st. October, 1909, I have now the honour to address you
on the subject of the retention of Mr. R. Baker's services
on the permanent staff of the Railway.
2.
I shall communicate to you in a
later Despatch the final arrangements that I propose to make
for open line working but I may state in anticipation that
the general conclusions at which I have arrived after con-
-sultation with the Chief Resident Engineer and Director of
Public Works are that the Railway should be placed in charge
of a Traffic Manager with experience of a Railway running to
a large maritime port, that he should be assisted by an
Engineer in charge of ways and works and that the Director
of Public Works should be constituted Government Inspector
with
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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