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HONGKONG.

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TỐT GÌ Bằng SKT

Sir:-

Portuguese Housing Scheme.

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 1209/1912

dated 28th ultimo.

I gladly accept His Excellency's assurance that he is

in sympathy with the objects of the Boheme and that he is

prepared to recommend the Lease to the Secretary of State

for the Colonies subject to the modifications shown in the

revised draft regulations which are enclosed in your letter under reply. I have perused these regulations, and accept

same subject to an agreed limit being placed on the expendi-

ture of the lessees under the last paragraph of clause H and

also subject to the water which it is proposed to supply to

the Reserved Ares being filtered water. I feel sure that

His Excellency will not consider that the lessees are unrese-

onable in desiring to know what their expenditure may be

before works commence for connecting storm water drains, etc.

to the city sewerage, more especially as in the original condi-

tione submitted by the Government under K this expenditure was

estimated to amount to $88,000, and such a sum if added to

the enhanced price now agreed upon for the land would in the

opinion of the lessees form too great a burden on the scheme.

I note that the correspondence so far exchanged between

the Government and myself has not been submitted to the

Secretary of State, and I beg leave to express the hope that

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