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arrangements with the people, both for dressed stone and material for concrete and foundation work.

To our dismay and astonishment we have just received a telegram from our Agent at Hong Kong to the effect that the Colonial Government have stopped all quarrying in the New Territory.

Doubtless our arrangements for procuring our supplies at Lyemoon outside the farm limits have been the cause of this action on the part of the Colonial Authorities.

We ask you as a matter of urgency to intervene in this matter.

We are perfectly willing, as we have all along represented, to pay any reasonable royalty to the Colonial Government, but we should have unrestricted rights to quarry ourselves from any site which we may buy, without being at the mercy of the quarry farmers, year by year, who have no resources for producing the quantities we require.

We append copies of a letter, dated 8th November 1900, written to the Colonial Secretary, and of a recent petition signed by the principal people interested in the building trades &c., from which you will further see how the matter stands.

We would suggest as possibly the quickest solution

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57 arrangements with the people, both for dressed stone and material for concrete and foundation work. To our dismay and astonishment we have just received a telegram from our Agent at Hong Kong to the effect that the Colonial Government have stopped all quarrying in the New Territory. Doubtless our arrangements for procuring our supplies at Lyemoon outside the farm limits have been the cause of this action on the part of the Colonial Authorities. We ask you as a matter of urgency to intervene in this matter. We are perfectly willing, as we have all along represented, to pay any reasonable royalty to the Colonial Government, but we should have unrestricted rights to quarry ourselves from any site which we may buy, without being at the mercy of the quarry farmers, year by year, who have no resources for producing the quantities we require. We append copies of a letter, dated 8th November 1900, written to the Colonial Secretary, and of a recent petition signed by the principal people interested in the building trades &c., from which you will further see how the matter stands. We would suggest as possibly the quickest solution

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57 } arrangements with the people, both for dressed stone and material for concrete and foundation work. To our dismay and astonishment we have just received a telegram from our Agent at Hong Kong to the affect that the Colonial Government have stopped all quarrying in the new territory. Doubtless Our arrangements for procuring our supplies at Lyemoon outside the farm limits have been the cause of this action on the part of the Colonial Authorities. We ask you as a matter of urgency to intervent in this matter. We are perfectly willing, as we have all along represented, to pay any reasonable royalty to the Colonial Government, but we should have unrestricted rights to quarry ourselves from any site which we may buy, without being at the mercy of the quarry farmers, year by year, who have no resources for producing the quantities we require. We append copies of a letter, dated 8th November 1900, written to the Colonial Secretary, and of a recent petition signed by the principal people interested in the building trades kc, from which you will further ase how the matter stands. We would suggest as possibly the quickest solution

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arrangements with the people, both for dressed stone and

material for concrete and foundation work.

To our dismay and astonishment we have just

received a telegram from our Agent at Hong Kong to the

affect that the Colonial Government have stopped all

quarrying in the new territory.

Doubtless Our arrangements for procuring our

supplies at Lyemoon outside the farm limits have been the

cause of this action on the part of the Colonial

Authorities.

We ask you as a matter of urgency to intervent

in this matter.

We are perfectly willing, as we have all along

represented, to pay any reasonable royalty to the Colonial

Government, but we should have unrestricted rights to

quarry ourselves from any site which we may buy, without

being at the mercy of the quarry farmers, year by year,

who have no resources for producing the quantities we

require.

We append copies of a letter, dated 8th November

1900, written to the Colonial Secretary, and of a recent

petition signed by the principal people interested in the

building trades kc, from which you will further ase how

the matter stands.

We would suggest as possibly the quickest

solution

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