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Enclosure S.

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31 AUG 39

Purveyor General to Colonial Secreting

StongKong 6th July, 1889

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Sir.

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my arrival in the

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* May, His Excelency

the Governor was pleased to inform

that owing to the circumstanc attending the retirement of my predecessor, the absence on leave of two Enquireers, and other causes, I should find the work in arrear, and: the Department undermanned,

taking into consideration the large

and in portant works, either sauchoud or contemplated, which it would be nec

necessary to carry out. The great storm of the 29-30 May, unprecedented I believe, in the history of the Colors, both as regards the amount of rainfal

and