CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12] — Page 704

No.573.

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Government Houbt.?

Mongkong, 12th. Decefer

20 M612.

I have the honour to acknowledge the

receipt of your Despatch No. 376 of 8th. Nevmber, enclosing

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a letter from Sir E. J. Ackroyd on the Sanitary Gendition of

Hongkong.

2.

Sir Edward Ackroyd's letter is interest-

ing as showing the very great difference of conditions exist- ing in Hongkong fourteen years age and now, Sir Edward Ackroyd is to be congratulated en having been instrumental in passing the Public Health Ordinance through the Council, but he underestimates the value of that measure in the assumption that its success depended upon the continuance in office of any particular man; and he fails to realize that the Sanitary Board has not alone very great powers, but has at its dispos.

al all the available revenue of the Colony,

B.

With the work of the Sanitary Beard I ma

entirely satisfied and,se far as I can judge,se is the public of Hongkong. The Chinese Members of the Beard are efficient,

and their presence is most useful.

I do not know that there is anything #lse

to add except that the statement as to the relations between Goverment and the Land Owners is founded upon incorrect in-

-formation

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

BC. ་

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