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recognised as maintaining

a distinct part of it

I consider that the more generous policy indicated would also have been the wiser policy. Far from

being detrimental to the interests of the Hospital

I believe it would have enured to its ultimata

benefit.

The opposite view having prevailed, howeve? there will now be no opportunity of testing the value

of this belief.

7 understand from what General Henderson

said at the Keeting of the 3rd November that he holdr

de accountable for the delay which has occurred,

because he attributes it to my intervention to prevent

the realisation of the first idea of housing the

Hongkong Extension at No. 34 Bryanaton Square. When

at first Major Atkinson and syself agreed to that

proposal we did not know all that had passed between

Hongkong and the War Office prior to the 15th June

and although we could not regard the proposal as

satisfactory from the Colony's point of view, we

could not see our way to resist it. We regarded

it as an unsatisfactory proposal from the Colony'a

point of view because the cost of maintaining To. 37

Bryanston Square had baan stated to be something under

24,000 a year and the presumption was that No. 34

would cost about the same. Assuming that it would

have cost 22.500 to equip No. 34 Lae Hongkong funds

would have provided for the maintenance of both

houses