CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7] — Page 413

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Red 30 JUL 06

Government House,

Hongkong, 26th. June, 1906.

My Lord,

In continuation of my despatch No.255 dated

the 16th. October, 1905, on the subject of the question of

re-surveying and dredging Victoria Harbour and with refer-

ence to the 5th. paragraph of that despatch in which I

stated that should an opportunity offer I would have test

sections taken on the lines referred to in paragraph 19 of

the report submitted with that despatch, I have the honour

to inform Your Lordship that by the courtesy of the Command-

er-in-Chief, China Station, Commander R. W. Glennie, R.N.

of H.M.S. "Waterwitch" was permitted to do this work in

February and March of the current year.

2.

I now transmit for Your Lordship's informa-

tion and for that of the Consulting Engineers copies of

Admiralty Charts Nos.1459 and 3280 on which are indicated

the lines on which the test sections were taken and a sheet

of these sections on which the difference in level of the

seabed according to the survey for the abovementioned

charts

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

&c.

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.

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