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that the road communications

of the Colony should be insproved both on this

Island and in Kowloon, After much consideration I think that in the first place a good

all round

road could best be secured

by improving the carriage road from West Point

to Aberdeen and

and continuing it through little stongsling up the still to Wong neiching bap and thence either by of zigzags

a series

on the

western side or a new road-

on the eastern side of the valley (By this means carriages

to the race corirse;

could leave Victoria ab either

and

extremity of the city

a circuitions route of about 4/2 miles return

by

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to it at the opposite end); Item No 30. The sum e of $15,000 is provided to "defray the cast of Stores which will probably be required during the coming fil

I Se

be

add that-

the Estimates now submilled

include no

provision for

increased cost due to the

iistructions recently

received as re

on

regards the suspension of public work's Sundays. As explained in my letter of 25th ultime C80317 it is

it is extremely

arr

difficult if not impossible at present to give even

approximate estimate- of what the increase will be from this cause - but: I

frondlus

studying the

am now

question.

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