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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG, 5th March, 1925.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No.14 of the 14th of January confirming
2.
your telegram of the 9th of January in which you informed me that the Estimates for 1925 were approved subject to certain suggestions regarding Public Works expenditure.
I fully appreciate the fact that the great increase of expenditure and the large estimated deficit on the working of the year appear rather alarming and in normal circumstances I should have shared the hesitation which you express.
I think, however, that a fuller explanation of the position will place matters in a different light.
3.
It is impossible through the medium of correspondence and reports to give any adequate idea of the extent to which this Colony is developing and the rapidity with which that development is taking place. My own personal acquaintance with Hongkong dates back to 1910,
when I spent some weeks in this house as the guest of Sir Frederick Lugard, and I almost find it difficult to believe that it is the same Colony. It has expanded in every way out of all knowledge, mainly owing to the greet number of Chinese who have taken refuge here as a result of the many
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.1.8. AMERY, K.P.,
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