CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 177

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Dear Mr. Downer,

Treasury Chambers,

24th. June, 1902,

Charles Davies, to whom you wrote about

the Shanghai Old Gaol Site, is away on leave.

I am, however, authorised to say that the

intention of the Treasury letter 5423/1902 of the 19th. instant

was to leave your hands free to make the best bargain you could

with the Agency.

It is apparently not anticipated here that

the Agency would be in a cosition to pay more than a nominal

rent, but if they do, so much the better.

You would, I suppose, require some sort

of proof from them that a nominal rent was all they could afford

to pay.

Yours faithfully,

(Sd.) G. L. Barstow.