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(A). The history of tris matshed appears to be as follows:-
In October, 1903, Sergeant Angus, a married man (with, at that time, one child but two later) was put in charge of the Police at Cheung Chau. During the winter of 1903-4, the summer of 1904 and the winter 1904-5 he and his family occupied the ordinary quarters in the Police Station. About May, 1905, (he says) he, having found during the previous summer that the conditions in the quarters were very unpleasant, sent in an application upon a form (copy attached marked 'B') to the Captain Superintendent of Police asking for permission to erect, at his own expense, a matshed on Crown Land, without fee, for his wife and family to live in during the hot summer months.
He received back this paper and in it his application was
granted. He is not able to recollect exactly what was on the
from through whose hands the form had passed but he thinks that
it had boon sent by the Captain Superintendent of Police to the Director of Public Works by whom it had been forwarded to the Colonial Secretary's Office: there were, he thinks, very terse minutes written on the form and initials
none of which he knew except those of the Captain Superintendent of Police.
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He kept this paper for a long time and believes he handed it on to his successor Inspector Gordon by whom he was relieved in December, 1907.
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Inspector Gordon also married, with two children, also rather vaguely recollected this paper: but it nas disappeared now. Gordon says that he understood Sergeant Angus had a permit to utilize this matshed and he further says that he both thought that this permit held by Angus would extend to his own family and that he told the Assistant District Officer
Mr. Tratman that he proposed to re-erect the shed (which
seems to have been annually more or less damaged or blown
down by the gales) so that it could be occupied by his wife
and family during the summer heat a suggestion which Mr.
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