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Mount Scar,
Swanage,
Ccember 4th 1921.
To the UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE.
Colonial Office.
60462
REG
London, 5.Rect 6 JEC 21.
sir.
1
I have the honour to acknowledge with thanks receipt of
your letter NO 54513/21 dated the 1st December 1921 £nquiring
whether I would be prepared to visit Hong Kong in order to promote experiments in growing timber in the New Territory.
As you are aware, I an at present engaged to the Ceylon Governmeat
to make an enquiry and report on the impregnation of Timbers
of the sort woods for sleepere, I anticipate that this enquiry
will engage my attention up to the end of January. If this offer of the Hong Kong government can remain open up to that time, I would like to consider it after obtaining information as to the
conditions of life, climate, Etc, in that Colony. At present I am
unaware as to what is meant by the New Territory and of what trees can be suitably grown there, and I would ask you if you would be good enough to furnish me with papers which would show the constitution of the Forest Department in the Colony of Hong Kong, Salaries paid to ite Officers, Ets. I would suggest also that I may be supplied with the latest Forest Administration Report available. After studying these and any other information I may be able to collect from other sources, I would be in a
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