CO129-351 - Public Offices - 1908 — Page 195

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If there is to be one Consulting Engineer for the Hongkong section and another for the Chinese, differences of opinion are certain to arise and there will have to be constant references to Peking. It is most desirable to avoid this.

I shall await a report from you on the question and meanwhile you are authorized, should you think it advisable, to make energetic representations at once for the substitution of Sir J. Wolfe Barry for the Chinese engineer, whose appointment should be cancelled.

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192 If there is to be one Consulting Engineer for the Hongkong section and another for the Chinese, differences of opinion are certain to arise and there will have to be constant references to Peking. It is most desirable to avoid this. I shall await a report from you on the question and meanwhile you are authorized, should you think it advisable, to make energetic representations at once for the substitution of Sir J. Wolfe Barry for the Chinese engineer, whose appointment should be cancelled.

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192 If there is to be one Consulting Engineer for the Hongkong section and another for the Chinese, differ- ences of opinion are certain to arise and there will have to be constant references to Paking. desirable to avoid this. It is most I shall await a report from you on the question and meanwhile you are authorized, should you think it advisable, to make energetic representations at once for the substitution of Sir J. Wolfe Barry for the Chinese engineer, whose appointment should be cancell- ed.

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If there is to be one Consulting Engineer for the

Hongkong section and another for the Chinese,

differ-

ences of opinion are certain to arise and there will

have to be constant references to Paking.

desirable to avoid this.

It is most

I shall await a report from you on the question

and meanwhile you are authorized, should you think it

advisable, to make energetic representations at once

for the substitution of Sir J. Wolfe Barry for the

Chinese engineer, whose appointment should be cancell-

ed.

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