CO129-568-6 Botanical and Forestry Department- proposed expansion and reorganisation 4-10-1938 - 14-7-1939 — Page 40

Telephone: WHITEHALL 9206–7. Telegrams: FORECON RAND,

LONDON.

In any reply please quote

Sir,

COLONIAL FOREST RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT,

GRAND BUILDINGS,

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8 NOV 1938

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TRAFALGAR SQUARE,

LONDON, W.C.2.

7th November, 1938.

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 4 (53666/38) of 3rd November, transmitting a copy of a despatch

from the Governor of Hong Kong forwarding a copy of a memorandum by the Superintendent, Botanical & Forestry Department, regarding the re-organisation and expansion of the forestry side of the department.

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I have also to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the report on the Botanical and Forest Department for the year 1937, together with a copy of the Hong Kong Forestry Ordinance, 1937. As requested, I return the Ordinance, herewith.

Ordinance herewith/17/")

The matters under review are mainly within the province of the Imperial Forestry Institute, and it is unlikely that there

will be anything that I can usefully add to that Institute's reply,

which, however, I should be glad to be allowed to see. I note that it is the intention to create potential reserves of firewood, and to experiment with the planting of certain timber and other

economic trees; at a later stage this Department might be able to assist in connexion with any questions concerned with the character or local utilization of these.

I am impressed by the width of angle over which the subject is being regarded by the Botanical and Forestry Department of Hong Kong.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

Zhi Optrans.

Forest Economist.

S.W.1.

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