CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918 — Page 326

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

Gas, 7251/1918.

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Private Observaton,

Kowloon, Elaeis Rd, Sutton Surrey.

1st March 1918

The Under Secretam at State, Colonial Effice.

I have the honour to acknowledge the re-

-aists a

letter of the Toft ullius

in which you inform

Jaur

one that the Right

Honourable the Seeschary of State for the Coconies Resires one

Giv

furnish you with

observations on the matter referand to -minute excloud by His Excellency

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The Laveruar & Hongkong.

12. It is stated in the first saragrash of that minute that unfortunately,

unfortunately am

tables are buchterned in Britch Harits. But all the observations made by and by my in Honghong, and

saccepter

one

ale

the bulk all the meteorological chservations ever made in the world are given in Paritish Units, which by far the most convenient. I have al- -ways sublished magnetic observations in C.G.S. units, but have never used. and never shall use -tical melcaralagical work, although

aware that some people to use great inconven.

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them, and this

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such in prae

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