CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3] — Page 5

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2.

The advice and.

assistance the Hongkong Government continue to receive from Six Josephe Stooker, and Mr Byer, have been of very great value not only promoting Imperial objects, but

furthering local interests in connexion with Botanical

in

13.

in

research and tree planting.

As regards tree- planting in this part of the

world, some crês it is due to the natives and to the enlightenes action of the Chinese authorities in the neighbouring province for the good example they have shown to the Goremment of

Songkong.

:

Stongstang.

4.

Last

year

ستند

visiting Fat. t'au chau and other adjacent islands with flonel Gordon (now forwarding Royal Engineer at Mauritius) he

коже expressed to me his surprize at

seeing young plantations of the Pinus Sinensis rising from the Waters-edge to the sky line on

hills as

high

as

any

- سند

Hongsong, and he was much

hearing from

interested on

the Chinese farmers the conviction

which the native

authorities enables them to

plant what otherwise would.

have

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