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Sir,
RECEIVED
21 DEC1939
C. O. REGY
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
11th December, 1939.
I have the honour to refer to correspondence
terminating with Sir A. Caldecott's despatch No. 99 of 12th
February, 1936, regarding the Geological Survey of the Colony
undertaken by officers of the University of British Columbia
in accordance with the arrangements reported in Sir R.E.
Stubb's despatch No. 32 of 13th January, 1923, and to inform
you that, after a long delay occasioned by a succession of
misfortunes, the report of the geological survey, with the
exception of the section on the metallic mineral deposits of
the Colony has now been completed and a typescript copy of the
report has been despatched under separate cover for your
information.
2.
Dr. Schofield of the University of British Columbia
informs me that the report is necessarily incomplete because
it is impossible for one geologist to work from the field
notes of another, and because the section on metallic mineral
deposits, of which Dr. Brock was in charge, was left unfinished
at his death, which was reported to you in Sir A. Caldecott's despatch under reference.
3.
It will therefore be necessary for another whole
season to be spent in the field before the omission of this
important section can be rectified and the report completed.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&C.
&C.,
&C.,