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The Hon: Colonial Secretary,
Hongkong,
6th January, 1930.
Sir,
HONGKONG.
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Your Ref: 5959/1929.
We have the honour to acknowledge receipt
of your letter dated 4th inst., being in reply to our last
letter dated 27th September, 1929, and we have no ted, with
pleasure, that after careful consideration the Government
is prepared to allow us to make a further test of "Colfix"
on a portion of New Territories road which has been freshly
laid with macadam. We are very pleased to note this
decision, and we are instructing our Manager, Mr. W.N. Flaning,
to communicate with the Roads Office of the Public Works
Department, with a view to arranging all details for the
execution of this further test.
16 must say that we
appreciate very much the assistancs which you have rendered
us in having arranged this test for us, which we note particularly
is on a light or medium traffic road, and which is now more
or less in conformity with the requests which we have made
intermittently during the last two to three years.
While we are very glad to have the test already
referred to arranged, we are, nevertheless, undecided in our
own minds that the future negotiatious with the local Public
Works Department Officials will have any fruitful result, and
for that reason we regret that we cannot reverse our previous
decision to refer the whole of these particulars to the
Secretary of State in London.
as a matter of fact, this
decision was confirmed at the last Meeting of Board of Directors
which we had in Hongkong, and we wish to advise you, therefore,
that we are sending a Memorial in triplicate to His Excellency