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before

the extensive proposals which unr He secutary of State, because I am of ofesion it may suffice for present purposes

engage

additional Clock of works at

and peequapter Salary of £330 per aute Copprintuant Devold unge

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an

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w au unquestionable eccepity which has arisen out of the greattif increased ruumber of public building and

twork's that have

to be waristarrived and

of the errattif eftruded scale and cucumber of the duties of the public work's Department- attendant on the increased prosperity and development of the Cotriuf.

If my recommendation nuts the approval of the Earl of Kimberley, I venture to hope the apporichment of a suitable black of

leorks

may

dilaut dak

be accelerated

so as to cuable the

an and at me

public Works office to put

to the present block in its вир tusnup, and to keep pace from thence with the heart demands upon its time. the duties of the new Click of Work's conced be identical with the particiilan furnished to the Crown Aepenter at the time that they Engaged the present Clerk Mr. J.E. Howays. Vets The Land office I can

regards readily indesstand that the duties of the

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Aced Krepstry block will have been currmresty increased by the land fever of last par. Itis land fever

vas

found

strangely held up index of greater native than Enripian prosperity in Hong Kong, but it is now to leave perined the small proportion of the leading Chrivse some of whom have becous

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resolvent, while other have absconded or Committed suicide. But the pressure.

The staff of the Land office during the laud. bubble of 1881 was fortuitous, and would

out by likely to recur if in the futine thee

be local anthrines pricked the bubble, bef

discouraging land gambling or the part of

the leading Chinese. Wisture that belind this abrormal condition of things, Heere has cainderalle túcrease in the number

been a

of bona fide real-estate transactions which in combuiation with the extraordinary pressure, must have severelyf tuced the frorvers of the Land Office, but with the penumin of the Lecutary of Hate I will abstain from in

making on the inodificating that may be amy report nexepary in the organizations of the Lands coffier until after my arrival in the felony when I may

closely took uito it

but

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way

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at once state that I do us

working,

apprehend/