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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 8th. Lay, 1912.

sir,

I have the honour to trensuit a copy of a

letter addressed by Bishop Pozzoni to Sir F. D. Lugard applying for a piece of Crown Land at Shaukiven for the purpose of erecting a

chapel.

2.

As the result of enquiries made by the Registrar-General's Department it has been ascertained that the Roman Catholic Chinese Community at Shauki wan consists of about sixty persons. They are Hakkas and nearly all permanent residents of the poorer classes. The Roman Catholic Mission has been in existence in Shaukiwan for about twenty years and services are conducted in a small chapel which was built in 1895 at the ex- -pense of the Italian Convent in Victoria. The average attendance on Sunday is about twenty-five from the Chinese Commamity, but in addition Roman Catholic Soldiers from the Lyemman Barracks attend. The chapel is also used as a school for small girls and boys, end ita size is not sufficient either for the Sunday services or for

the educational classes.

3.

I visited the site with an officer of the

survey department on the 11th. April. I find that it lies a short distance beyond the dwellings erected for the accommodation of the employés of Hessrs. Butterfield and Swire, about a hundred yards back from the main road. The site is about fifty feet above the road and rocky. The enclosed plan shows the position with regard

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Enclosure 2.

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LEWIS HARCOURT, K.P.,

&c.,

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