C.O.
REGISTERED No.
DRAFT AND RECORD COPY
53687/46.
LETTER SENT
70
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office
Downing Street,
9.W.1.
16th August, 1946.
DRAFT
MR.
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ENCLOSURES
FURTHER ACTION
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Dear Mr. James,
Would you please refer to my letter, referance as above, of the 5th August, about authority for an expenditure of 5000 in connection with the Tai Lam Shung Scheme, in Hong Kong.
it is essential that the preliminary investigation work necessary for this scheme should be done during the dry season, which commences in
eptember, and you will appreciate, therefore, that nless authority can be obtained very soon for e firm of boring experts to be engaged - a whole year will be lost.
Further, a telegr has now come from the overnor saying that the .
ter Works Engineer, r. woodward, is urgently wanted in "ong Kong and sking for his return by air. e had expected that r. oodward woul be avṛilable to advise the Crown gents and essrs. Le Grand, outcliffe and Gell bout details of this project, and it would be most unfortunate if he had to leave before the Governor's request for authority to proceed with this scheme had been approved.
R.L JAMES, ES.
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