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I have the honour to acknowledge

the receipt of your Despatch No. 147 dated the 28th. July,

1905, forwarding a copy of a report by Messrs. Coode, Son

and Matthews on the subject of Victoria Harbour and also

certain plans furnished by the Admiralty in accordance with

the request contained in my Despatch No. 380 of October

26th., 1904.

2.

The serious view I took in that

Despatch with regard to the silting up of the harbour is,

I am glad to say, no longer justified now that the Consult-

-ing Engineers have satisfied themselves by conferences at

the Admiralty that it is impracticable to utilize as a

reliable basis of comparison the soundings taken before

1886 as shown on the earlier Charts.

3.

In the further report by Mr. J. F.

Boulton,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

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