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My Lord,

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REC?

Ref 15 SEP 10

Government House,

Hongkong, 15th. August, 1910.

I have the honour to inform Your

Lordship that the Japanese Community recently asked per-

-mission to erect a Chapel and crematorium in that por-

-tion of the Cemetery referred to in Sir F. D. Lugard's

For

949/69.10

Despatch No. 343 of the 17th. of November last, which was

set apart for Non-Christian burials.

It appeared undesirable to

sacrifice the considerable area required, to the erection

of permanent buildings within the Cemetery, the area for

extension of which is limited, or to establish the pre-

-cedent of allowing one Sect to erect such buildings in a

Public Cemetery. An offer was, therefore, made to grant

a separate site for the Chapel and crematorium in the

neighbouring Sookumpoo Valley.

This site the Japanese

Consul, on behalf of the Japanese Community, accepted on

certain conditions set out in a letter copy of which is

enclosed.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CREWE,

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