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when a typhoon is coming on it requires to be supplemented

by another shelter more to the West. I have not made pro-

-vision for commencing this new shelter in the Estimates

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for 1907 which I am forwarding by this mail but I informed

the Legislative Council at their meeting of the 27th.

September that I should endeavour to start the work that

year and I shall address Your Lordship later on the pro-

-vision of the necessary funds for this purpose. In the

meantime I am having the question of site of shelter and

design of protecting breakwater considered by the com-

-petent authorities. Ma ots

ervices of depart-

ents and indi- riduals.

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I will conclude my Despatch on

the gloomy subject of the typhoon of the 18th. September

by reference to its two brighter aspects

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the services to

His Majesty's

ry and United

tates Navy.)

the Colony and to the sufferers which it evoked and the

sympathy with them that it elicited.

By the courtesy of Commodore

H. P. Williams, R.N., His Majesty's Ships "Astraea" and

"Prometheus", two Torpedo Boats and some of the Dockyard

Vessels scoured the waters of the Colony on the days

following the big storm to recover junks and their crews

and to remove derelicts. They were assisted in this work

by