CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 69

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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307/1907.

Enclosun I to Confidcestial Despatch of 12/4/07

To The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary,

Sir,

Hongkong.

C.OBB 17271

Rs 15 MAY 07

Chief Resident Engineer's Offies,

Kowloon,

Dated 28th. yarch, 1907.

Accounts.

His Excellency the Governor has handed me a

copy of Mr. Chatham's report on the Railway Accounts which

he has looked through and has asked me to say what I think

on the report.

2.

Mr. Chatham has pointed out what he thinks

as the disadvantages of the system and in order to show

that the departmental system is not so bad as he paints it,

I must point out some of the disadvantages of the system

under which work is done in the Colony. In doing so I hope

that it will not appear as if I want to make a personal

attack on any one, but only on a system. Mr. Chatham was

asked to report on the system on which I am carrying out

the work under orders from the Consulting Engineers and in

this

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