CO129-525-5 Colfix road surfacing materials 21-2-1930 - 26-5-1930 — Page 79

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The Hon: Colonial Secretary,

Hongkong,

6th January, 1930.

Sir,

HONGKONG.

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Your Ref: 5959/1929.

We have the honour to acknowledge receipt

of your letter dated 4th inst., being in reply to our last

letter dated 27th September, 1929, and we have no ted, with

pleasure, that after careful consideration the Government

is prepared to allow us to make a further test of "Colfix"

on a portion of New Territories road which has been freshly

laid with macadam. We are very pleased to note this

decision, and we are instructing our Manager, Mr. W.N. Flaning,

to communicate with the Roads Office of the Public Works

Department, with a view to arranging all details for the

execution of this further test.

16 must say that we

appreciate very much the assistancs which you have rendered

us in having arranged this test for us, which we note particularly

is on a light or medium traffic road, and which is now more

or less in conformity with the requests which we have made

intermittently during the last two to three years.

While we are very glad to have the test already

referred to arranged, we are, nevertheless, undecided in our

own minds that the future negotiatious with the local Public

Works Department Officials will have any fruitful result, and

for that reason we regret that we cannot reverse our previous

decision to refer the whole of these particulars to the

Secretary of State in London.

as a matter of fact, this

decision was confirmed at the last Meeting of Board of Directors

which we had in Hongkong, and we wish to advise you, therefore,

that we are sending a Memorial in triplicate to His Excellency