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assistance from the Colonial Development Fund. If any such application is intended, it will, no doubt, be mentioned in the further despatch which the Governor has promised (in paragraph 4 of (13)) regarding the method of financing the undertaking.

? After despatch, recirculate for Confidential despatch to Hong Kong, enclosing

a copy of the telegram, and embodying the

substance of paragraphs 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the Crown Agents' letter (21). And

the

for

letter to Mr Binne informing him that

engineering aspects of the scheme hour been afferaved (388 30 J. Shusthurgh's mumente

nimute of 31/12)

(see

Hoe gemeron

6.1.31

Impoce

that we should telegraph is in

draft or follow up by despatch. The whole

thing

turns on finance

- finance & we cannot get

assume that it will be forcible to

push on this

on this year. If there

there is

formal contract

with the C.E., the CA. will fremmably

in the letter to the C.F. most of

embody

the conditions uppested by the H.K. D.P.W.

in enclos. to (13), at a later date.

but we can

take that up

J. A. Calder

7.1.32

225 7/1/32 + once

at