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Messrs. Coode Matthews Fitzmaurice & Wilson

to Crown Agents.

MONAKOMITEUI

BREAKWATER.

306

9, Victorin Street,

17th. October, 1912.

Gentlemen

We have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, R.264/8 dated the 6th. instant, together with

copy of a despatch fro. the Governor of Hong Kong to

the Colonial office, covering : letter end sketch, dated

4t.. September last, from the Director of Public Works,

explanatory of a proposal submitted by him with respect

to a slight modification in the method of construction

to be adopted for the superstructure of the "onglotaud

Breakwater.

2.

We have examined the letter and sketch under

reference, and see no objection to the adoption of the

propusels referred to therein es pul forrd by the

irector of Public Works, which will probably, as he

points out, facilitate the formation of the superstructure

and the rectification of any displacement of rubble that

may be caused by storms.

3. The section which accompanied our Report of

3rd. October, 1906, showed a mound consisting of rubble

of