means of supplementing assistance from the Colonial
and Welfare Vote Development.
I shall be addressing you
separately on this question.
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In the meantime I
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should not like to be taken as subscribing to
the view that expenditure on development and welfare in the New Territories, atder than for medical and
must necessarily be limited
educational purposes,
Yong $500!
to $500,000.
4.
Turning to the proposals submitted
in your despatch, the only general comment I
have to offer is that some of them seem to be of
an economic nature and should more properly be
Gutainly should financed by loan than by grant It does not
of a
Commercial natur necessarily follow that because a projecthis to be
bun by Government it should not make a profit.
5. The proposals for the improvement of landing
facilities at the Kennedy Town market, referred
to in paragraph 13 of your despatch, and for
reclamation at Aberdeen, referred to in paragraph 14 of your despatch, have already been approved as Schemes nos. I 925 and 1924 respectively
(vide my telegram No. 385).
6.
survey
The recommendation for a pond fisheries
referred to in paragraph 16 of your
despatch, is also accepted in principle.
I
understand that there may be difficulty in securing
required
tams
in which
ane
can be
the scion expert and I suggest that when the
prospect of secured him becomes
known
arer a formal
I aque that
application for a C. D. & W. grant should
be made to me.
In the meanhina
and that it would be puferable to confouis
Cow Anistance to thos proprals which might properly be financed by hee grants
incumes if Expenditu may be Lean dry in antapani of the applicatrin. 7. I enclose a memorandum commenting on the
remainder of the proposals. I shall be prepared to
give