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accompanying copy of a despatch which the
Governor of Hong Kong addressed to the
Secretary of State last May
of a short note prepared in
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of and
but if you
Do the wronial Officer
will be good enough to glance through the
departmental note which I also enclose,
it will, I think give you a sufficiently
comprehensive picture of the existing situation.
position.
It is hardly necessary 6 say
You will doubtless appreciate that
the harbour, with its attendant developments,
is Hong Kong's supreme original asset, and
strategie & Commercial importance
the basis of its other assets, so that the
proper organisation and administration of the
port is a matter of vital and over-riding
importance to the Colony.
as soon as possibl
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