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4. Arrangements for technical instruction.
In this respect coasilerable improvement seeus possible. At present the only lights with which practice can be ab- tainel are the lafence lights at Belchers and Stonefutters. To get to either place, the S Vessels leave the Sub-Yerine Pier at 5.30 P. V. call at Kowloon, Police Pier, then at Cosmopolitan Docks and finally reach Stonecutters about 8.30 anl Belchers at nearly 7, Lights are then started and run bill nearly 3 and the parties are back by 9 2.4. thus about 4 hours is spent in doing one drill and this after a lays work which lasts till 5 is too much to expect from any Volunteer except on a tea lays a year, that so many have qualified
under these coalitions spaka well for their keenness,
I therefore propose that a drill shed with oil engine dynamo and a projector should be constructed for the use of "g" Company and it was thought by Lieutenant Mitchell that as most of the men come from the Kowloon Docks, a site in Kowloon woul! be most suitable.
A suitable site could I believe be found ia
gr naar Kowloon Test Pattery and if this could be allotted for the Volunteers I woull propose that the Colony be asked to provile the builling aal the Bar Department the engine and fittings, the latter remaining the property of the Harete and therefore being available as a reserve to the leface lights.
As regarls the bailling the Jolany have
agreed by their Volanteer Regulations to provide and maintain suit- able precises for the use of the Corps, and I have therefore no hesita- tion in making the suggestion. If they will consent to this, a re- presentation to the War Office for the necessary stores would have much increased affect.
In submitting the above report I would again repeat my appreciation of the good work done by "" Oompany and of their value to the defence of Bongkong.
I am etc.,
(33.) . Baker Brown,
Major, R. 3.
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