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84.
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18095
48
(Br19 APF 15)
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG. 10th. March, 1915.
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With reference to your Despatch No. 98 of the 30th. of April last in which you approved a scheme for the paving of main ronds in Victoria, and to my Despatch Ho. 60 of the 19th. February, 1915, in which I have proposed that the expenditure of 860,000 authorised for the work during the current year should be reduced to £30,000, I have the honour to transmit for your con- -sideration the enclosed copy of a minute, with enclosures, by Mr. A. F. Churchill, First Assistant Director of Public Works, in which Mr. W. Chatham concurs, recommending the substitution of asphaltic macadam surfacing for the compressed asphalte surfacing previously recommended and approved by you, and the making of a contract with the Standard Oil Company in accordance with the draft contract and specification attached to lir. Churchill's
minute.
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The adoption of Ir. Churchill's proposals would entail the purchase of a mixer and a motor or steam waggon in England and I enclose requisition/for both these articles.
I understand that the method of surfacing
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now recommended has been adopted on the Thames Embankment in London, and that it is well known to English Engineers. If, there- -fore, you approve it and are prepared to sanction an expenditure
of
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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