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Public Works (under orders of course) was guilty of a breach of etiquette in the method adopted.
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I have never been asked to make a statement with regard to these bridges, nor to say whether in ay opinion the crack is serious or no. His Excellency seems to have jumped to the conclusion that the matter is serious and his anxiety has in no way been lessened by the extraordin- ary advice of the Honourable Director of Public Works to dismantle bridge No. 4 to the bottom of the foun is. I do not think that Mr. Willians will concur in that proposal.
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Urgency cannot in my opinion be pleaded as an excuse for this procedure, I consider there was plenty of time to have informed you on the subject. It will take some time before anything definite can be done, as the weighting of Brilge 4 forinstance has to be done slowly, and no advice of any value can be given till the result of putting the full weight is on the bridge is known.
8. The Executive Engineer mentioned in paragraph 2 of the Honourable Colonial Secretary's letter (enclosure 1A), instead of coming to me or my assistant and asking for coolies to work the boring tools, went direct to the sub-contractor of Messrs Leigh & Orange, thereby ignoring both the Engineers and the head contractors. This has had a very bad effect on my authority on the works and that of my Assistant Engineer. A China man
is very quick to notice any thing of this sort, and it is ruzoured pretty freely on the works in Kowloon that I and my assistant are to be lis- missed for incoupetence on account of Sridge 4.
3. Such reports (unfounded though they may be) spread about very quickly and make it very difficult to get orders obeyed as there is no way of contradicting thes.
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It is very difficult for me to work smoothly with the Government under these conditions. I do my best to rect the wishes of the Government in every way, but I consider in this case, that the Government has gone
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