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7.
a temporary
measure
the services of
1 a
The
European Forester at a cost of $1200 per
ann umw.
engagement with this ~
forester having terminated on the 31st
of last December I have practically
retained this sum on
giving
the Estimates by
$600 additional to Mr. Ford, the
Superintendent of Gardens and Plantations,
$600 on
of chyust
and spending the remaining Chinese foresters, Clerk and Interpreter and General WAKO.
Mr. Price's report of the 29th of stay at 1877 which I published in the Government Gazette No 50 of 1897 undoubtedly reflected on the tree planting department.
painted however during Mr Ford's Jersey
England and when I was
It
was
absence in
not in a
position to test the ass
accuracy
Hear make
of all its details. Last October Mr. Ford transmitted to the Colonial Secretary.
I. Report.
14568.
A good dank
Thom
a
in
Report on Tree planting in Hongkong dub which he defends his department from "some of Mr. Trice's criticisms. Mr. Ford also asserts that seventy five per cent... perished of the young
trees planted
was in
during the time M Price temporary charge of the tree planting. No doubt the great majority
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of the seedlings planted on the hill sides in 1878 and early in 1879 have died and for the reasons given by Mr Ford. So - serious failure has marked the first stepe in my attempt at afforestation.
fax,
on a
a.
large scale
scale. On the other hand in
the minor work of planting along
the
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