CO129-332 - Public Offices & Others - 1905 — Page 394

three mails which might have brought-

of live on

A

Letter

"Form May.

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been sent.

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but too answer It and I known that my letter had been

received and acted

I should not have considered

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it necessaryti write to you at all. My letter was due to arrive in Hongkong 11 weeks before them deskatch of the Severnin's letter in the Colerical Office.

If I may presume to lay

Iregard it very satisfactory result of the correspondence

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to M. May and later to yourself that the casting

wwo at once

stopped and that

on

ains to b

entrmitted to the Indian Forest Wekantment-

for

opinion, that opinion, however, with recesssidy

the case is stated in

the way

dekend greatly

Monstory, but I hope that the correct solution will be found and that the deforestation of the Antony will not be further advanced as I am quite satisfied the plantations can be maintained for future generations without making the land hideous by wholesale clearances of trees.

Itongkong is only

swot request.

One

small island with

a vast and rapidly increasing population that does Revenue-producing Feresting Deft, but- that does heed the carful amnservation fito plan- tations for aesthetic and hygienic prapones, considerations somewhat different from those which regulati

to the working of the vast areas controlled by the Indian Imest Dept. Circumstances in Hongkong have greatly changed from what they

fotogaler

20 years aps.

The forestry of the new Zinitory, if it is

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be ever taken seriously in hand, should, unlike that- in the island of Honphong, be treated, almost entirely from the revenue point of view, in which the opinion of the Indian Forest Wept would seem to be especially baluable at this time. if I maybe allowed to maker the suggestion.

I have the honom & be.

Sir,

Zone obedient Sewart-

Charles Good.