7886.
25.)
No.25
Hongkong
UNITED FOR USE
7886 97
15 MAR 08
Government House,
Hongkong, (31st.January,
1908.
PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT Ca.4569 MAY
1909.
My Lord,
With reference to Your Lordship's
Circular Despatch of the 15th. of August, which I regret
has remained so long unanswered, on the subject of Mechanic-
-al Transport other than Railways for the conveyance of
passengers and goods, I have the honour to report that
with the exception of Electric and Funicular Tramways for
the conveyance of passengers only, no mechanical transport
has been tried on the Island of Hongkong..
The only practicable roads for
traction engines or motors in the Island are the metalled
roads from Victoria to Aberdeen and Shaukiwan and the two
latter places are so favourably situated for transport by
water that there is little likelihood of mechanical trans-
-port by land competing with transport by water. I should
like to see motor transport supersede the existing haulage
THE RIGHT HONQURABLE
THE EARI ÖS ELGIN, K.G.,
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