Telephone: WHITEHALL 9206–7. Telegrams: FORECON RAND,
LONDON.
In any reply please quote
Sir,
COLONIAL FOREST RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT,
GRAND BUILDINGS,
6.
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RECE
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8 NOV 1938
0.0.
TRAFALGAR SQUARE,
LONDON, W.C.2.
7th November, 1938.
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 4 (53666/38) of 3rd November, transmitting a copy of a despatch
from the Governor of Hong Kong forwarding a copy of a memorandum by the Superintendent, Botanical & Forestry Department, regarding the re-organisation and expansion of the forestry side of the department.
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I have also to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the report on the Botanical and Forest Department for the year 1937, together with a copy of the Hong Kong Forestry Ordinance, 1937. As requested, I return the Ordinance, herewith.
Ordinance herewith/17/")
The matters under review are mainly within the province of the Imperial Forestry Institute, and it is unlikely that there
will be anything that I can usefully add to that Institute's reply,
which, however, I should be glad to be allowed to see. I note that it is the intention to create potential reserves of firewood, and to experiment with the planting of certain timber and other
economic trees; at a later stage this Department might be able to assist in connexion with any questions concerned with the character or local utilization of these.
I am impressed by the width of angle over which the subject is being regarded by the Botanical and Forestry Department of Hong Kong.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
Zhi Optrans.
Forest Economist.
S.W.1.
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