CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12] — Page 34

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Hong Kong Dispensary cannot afford to supply the medicines at

cheap a rate as the

Government obtain them from home, the latter method being also attended with the advantage of their being

fresher

may

much

Under these

circumstances.

I have further the honour most respectfully to recommend that the proposal of the Colonial Surgeon, (being, as I think, calculated to benefit the public services, should be adopted

as a

experimental,

temporary measure, the

discontinuance of which would

of course rest with

Your Excellency

the expected decrease of expenditure, coupled with the hoped for advantage to the Public Service, be not realized.

I have, &c.

(Signed) B. Caine.

Auditor General.

(True Copy)

M. Macleod

Colonial Secretary.

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for paragraphs: The final output is as above.