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on their application may be conveyed by telegraph, and that it may also be communi cated direct to their principal, Mr. J.B. Aug. Kessler,

managing Director, Koninklijke Nederlandsche Matschappij

tot exploitatie

van

Petroleum Brownen in Nederlandsch

The Hague

Indie

Holland.

I shall be glad if both these requests can be complied with.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your Most Obedient

Humble Servant,

Williams Robinson

Enclosure.

20933 IRES?

Rcc 25. 'NOV 95

Messrs Meyer & Co.to Colonial Secretary.

Sir,

Hongkong 15th October, 1895.

In connection with previous correspondence regarding a

site at North Point for the storage of Petroleum in bulk, we Dow

beg to forward you a copy of our Engineers' report to-gether

with an amended plan on which is shewn a new site for the Tanks

marked H. K. L..

Should the Colonial Government have no objection to grant-

-ing this site for the purpose, we trust you will use your best

endeavours to obtain the sanction of the Military Authorities

in London to allowing the erection of overground tanks on this

site.

We may mention that in order to save time our Engineers

have been in communication with the Local Military Authorities

and have ascertained from them that this matter cannot be decided

locally but must go to London and as with the former application

To the Honourable,

J. H. Stewart Lockhart

Colonial Secretary.

We