CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902 — Page 334

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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farden would be to introduce such plants as are not already in Shina and which would be useful as minor products in replacing to some extent present crops and might afford the people of the New Territory and Hongkong a greater variety of pro- ductions. Amongst these would be vegetables for the supply of the tonghong markets.

It would be easy to teach such of the people as do not already understand it how to grow buropean vegetables, but it is questionable whether the people could successfully compete with the established growers in the Canton delta and other places such as in the neigbourhood of Macas where steam facilities for marketing good. Steam communications with The New Territory will improve with time as it has already done by steam launches to various places. When d first

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