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to the syrial extent indicated

by Mr. Orange's results.

5. Imay remind

last

year

the

Surveyor

you

that General

of Hong Kong strongly advocated the purchase of cement locally, from the Agents of Freser White, his reasons for recommending. that course,

- carefully and

Litte

fully examined in our letter

of

the 7th September 1885 and

were shown to be,

in

Every

particular, unsound.

Statements on

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that occasion

remain unanswered and

| unchallenged, but the

Surveyor

General has now again

advocated

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advocated the use of White's

cement and compared the

that results obtained

from cement with those given by Merz? Probins' Cement. We had at the time of one Price's report shipped no twhite's cement for the water works, and the

this brand which material

of

the Surveyor General had in store must have been purchased locally, before, I presume, the Secretary of State's telegram of the 26th August 1885 forbidding. the local purchase of cement, was received. However this

may

b2

our experience in

connection

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