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12 ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE PUBLIC

RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

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adding a vast amount of siestness to the annual Return than would. otherwise be the

Case. The attention

of the Police and Tepos of the several districts has repeatedly been =. brought to these damages to Crown property and also to the constant daily depredations in the woods (if they may

be so called) in Causeway Bay and

the

Wongneichung;

it is perfectly apparent who are

people making these robberies,

cutters are the people who burn down the brush wood;

and the grass

but since the occupation of the Colony the evil has existed and has

formed an annual complaint from me in these Reports, as well upon other occasions, both.

Verbally

and otherwise.

I need hardly point out to this bxcellency how desirable it

would be to have the entire

Island covered with wood, a

variety of fine Kinds might be introduced here with advantage,

and would in en

would in course

form

of years a handsome revenue.

I effected the supply of water to

Government House in connexion.

with the Tanks and main laid towie some years since for the Government offices and Barracks, the service has been satisfactorily pressure is ample

executed and the

to cause its ascent to the Roof, where distributing tanks are places furnished with ball crests