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Sir,
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COLONIAL
RECO
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REC 19 AUN4
HONGKONG.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
15th July,
1914.
22
With reference to your circular despatch of *
the 29th of May, I have the honour to inform you that I
have no comments to make on the proposal to hold a Con-
ference of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology in 1915 since
the questions proposed for discussion, with the exception
of suggestions for the compulsory destruction of house
flies and mosquitoes in towns, do not concern this Colony
which has practically no interests in agriculture.
The compulsory elimination of the breeding
places of mosquitoes is already provided for in the
Sanitary Laws of this Colony. The question of dealing in
like manner with the breeding places of house flies which
are not numerous here, has not yet arisen, but attention
will be directed to it.
te
I have the honour to be,
sip,
Your most obedient,
humble servant,
A
Governor,&c.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&C.
&C
&C. 1
I ret
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* No 17914