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Messrs Aston Webb and E. Ingress Bell to Crown Agents.

19 Queen Anne's Gate

Westminster, S.W.

21st September 1900.

Hong Kong New Law Courts

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Reqn.26,412.

Gentlemen,

If

We beg to acknowledge yours of the 17th instant forwarding copy of a letter addressed to the Colonial Office on the subject of the proposed reversal of the New Law Courts together with a copy of a telegram received in reply from the Colonial Government in reference thereto. there is to be a road on the western or garden side, we do not consider the reversal of the building of so much impor- tance, although the plan would still interfere with the

As however, this does not roadway on the eastern side. appear to be an objection to the Local authority, it appears to us that the best settlement would be to accept the reversal of the building without any other alteration

in the plan.

We are &c

(Sd) Aston Webb and E. Ingress Bell.