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Colony. The net profi to have been handed over to the War
Charities, None of his predecessors so far as is known
published any verse in the Colony or became known as possessing
poetical proclivities.
It does not, so far as is seen, form any part of the Plaintiff's direct functions as Assistant District Land officer
to make suggestions or recommendations about communication
between the Islands and the Police Stations. such questions
form properly the function of the Captain Superintendent of
Police and are a matter for him and the Director of public
Works subject to the approval of the Government. The people
in the Territory have never in any shape or form suggested to
the Plaintiff that they desired communication with Hong Kong
ei tier for their om pro tection or otherwise and either by
linking up the Police Stations or otherwise,
About the end of 1917 the Sergeant in charge at Tai 0.
who was recently shot, did suggest to the Plaintiff that a Telephone would be very convenient for the purpose of ordering
stores but did not suggest it for any other purpose.
The question of communication between Hong Kong and the
Police Stations in the Plaintiff's District has, as a matter
of fact, been under consideration for some time although the
Plaintiff had nothing whatever to do with it. The following
resume of his duties has been officially supplied.
The question of communication with the Police stations at
Lamma, Cheung Chau and Tai-0, either by telephone or wireless
telephone was first proposed officially in August 1913 by the
AO ting Director of public works, AB a wireless expert was
expected in the Colony to erect the new station the matter was
held over for his advice,
Before the wireless expert arrived, war broke out and the
scheme was dropped for purposes of economy and under pressure
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