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Government House,
Hongkong, 23rd. March, 1905.
I have the honour to inform you that the
Director of Public Works has recently brought to my notice
that his Department has within the last few years accumulated
in connection with its Water and other Works a considerable
quantity of machinery requiring special supervision to prevent
undue depreciation. The Workshop of the Public Works Depart-
ment has also lately been fitted with superior plant which
enables it to turn out work formerly given to local Engineering
Firms at a saving to Government estimated at 38,360 during
the year 1904. It is now proposed to further add to the work
done in this way, which is of high quality, and to put the
Workshop Accounts on a commercial basis.
2.
During the past year the the shop has been
under the immediate charge of Mr. V. Watson who was appointed
locally early in the year to a vacancy among the Overseers of
the Second Class. He holds a First Class Certificate from the
Board of Trade as a Marine Engineer and has given ample proof
of the value of his skilled supervision. He is, however, un-
willing to remain on his present salary and in view of his
special
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
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ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,
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