CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873 — Page 87

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-light on Waglan could be made more

Cape 'Aquilar, and for

effective than me on

on

the navigation of the Channels by the south of Hong Kong a light. Fytam Head would also be more useful than one on the cape.

Without, therefore, offering ary opinion upon the communications which have passed between the Colomal and Chinese authorities

a

with regard to placing a light at Waylan the Board of Trade cannot but remark that, in the event of the erection of such Light, the expense of one at Cape B 'Aquilar only 23/4 miles distant would be superfluous. And this expense, according to the estimate enclosed in the Governor's Despatch, is 4700 expected to amount to Seven thousand Seven hundred pounds, or within Three hundred pounds of the whole cost of the proposed

$300

system

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