CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898 — Page 442

it

but which are

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nevertheles

great of importance.

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A considerable portion of Mr.

( moth interesting & valvetle

Lockhart's report,

ms, is devoted

I A

I Here again

clo not want Mopose to enter to much into detail but

It appears to me that future difficulties thi he oblated

this counse

taking

and that it will be found to be at once

more effective

and

more economical then

treating the leased district a & Leparate entity from,

colony

the old

to the question of the

future adminis-

tration of the new territory, and this

difficult question has for some weeks

past occupied my anxious attention. I

should wish you th *g* in#ban ce

to understand that Her-Haje:

in my

Bent are of opinion that the new terri-

tory should from the fry outset be re-

garded as an integral part of the Colo-

ny of Hong Kong, and, as such, should

be brought under the general adminis-

tration of the Colony at as early a

date as possible. While therefore they

1

I

thoroughly appreciate the value of Mr.

Cisn Lockhart's report, and ara prepared to

concur in many of his recommendations,

I um

thegmake not prepared to accept, as a

general principle, his conclusions

that