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HONGKONG.
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TỐT GÌ Bằng SKT
Sir:-
Portuguese Housing Scheme.
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 1209/1912
dated 28th ultimo.
I gladly accept His Excellency's assurance that he is
in sympathy with the objects of the Boheme and that he is
prepared to recommend the Lease to the Secretary of State
for the Colonies subject to the modifications shown in the
revised draft regulations which are enclosed in your letter under reply. I have perused these regulations, and accept
same subject to an agreed limit being placed on the expendi-
ture of the lessees under the last paragraph of clause H and
also subject to the water which it is proposed to supply to
the Reserved Ares being filtered water. I feel sure that
His Excellency will not consider that the lessees are unrese-
onable in desiring to know what their expenditure may be
before works commence for connecting storm water drains, etc.
to the city sewerage, more especially as in the original condi-
tione submitted by the Government under K this expenditure was
estimated to amount to $88,000, and such a sum if added to
the enhanced price now agreed upon for the land would in the
opinion of the lessees form too great a burden on the scheme.
I note that the correspondence so far exchanged between
the Government and myself has not been submitted to the
Secretary of State, and I beg leave to express the hope that
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