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of all departments of the

Public Service in

Hongkong,

I have the honour to

forward the enclosed

сору

Enclosu 15th June 11892 withou

of a report by the Director Engine of Public Works, and of the. list therein referred to

the expenditure of

shewing

all the departments with the exception of the Public

Works Departments,

in 1891.

on

stoves

Looking to the insignificant value of the

stoves

sub. Ene

stores consumed

by the

departments other than - that of Public Works, and still more to the urgent necessity that exists for retrenchment, I beg leave respectfully but strongly to deprecate the creation of

a

separate store establishment in this Colony, and to ~

express the hope that I not be required to

may propose

a

vote for that

purpose which personally