No 99.
5 MAR
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG,
21st February, 1930.
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My Lord,
I have the honour to forward, in accordance
with Colonial Regulation 200, copies of a memorial with enclosures received from Messrs. Colfix (Far East) Ltd., regarding a complaint that their road-surfacing material 'Colfix' has not received from this Government the support which they claim it merits for use on the Colony's public
roads.
2.
The correspondence which accompanies the
memorial sufficiently indicates that every facility was afforded to the Company for a thorough trial of the material in question which on the admission of the Company has so far not proved to be satisfactory. The result of the experiments carried out by the Public Works Department and the Company's own representatives show definitely that 'Colfix' will not take the traffic peculiar to this Colony. It will be observed that the Colonial Secretary's letter of 4th January offers a further test the result of which
is still awaited.
3.
The original cost of Colfix compares un- favourably with that of the "straight" asphalt now used by the Roads Office and as the raw material in neither
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C-AG
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
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&c.,
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