CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12] — Page 331

No.224.

Hongkong.

C. 0,

37729

REC

(R 23 OCT 05

Government House,

328

224 September,1905.

Hongkong,*

sir,

Admy 26199

I have the honour to acknowledge

the receipt of your Despatch No. 152 dated the 4th. August,

1905, in which you state that you will be glad if the fees

paid for junks employed in connection with the Admiralty

Extension Works in Hongkong could be refunded to the Con-

-tractor.

2.

The total amount involved, viz.:-

$439,is small, and I have carried out your instruction to

the extent of refunding the proportion of the fees, viz.:-

$351 not already credited to the Imperial Government as

Military Contribution.

3.

I desire to point out, however,

that the principle of this refund seems to me to bear some-

-what hardly on the Colony.

4.

The licensing of cargo boats is,

as you are aware, necessary to enable them to be regulated

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

&C.

800 • •

&c ...

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