CO129-576-3 Geological Survey of Hong Kong by officers of the University of British Columbia 11-12-1939 - 9-2-1940 — Page 2

Cl

S.

1

Gov

Hate's report of the

759

geological movey

been completed a a Gypescript copy

2

11·12·39

Las

has been

desalized under reperate cover

by surface transport.

This

survey

was

timed to start

in Sept 1923(wide 10683/23 - flagged in Vol. below), and it

Ars

originally estimated to occupy a herval of 3

years, the airgt. being that a

geologist should go

out each year from Br. bolumbia to carry out the necessung field work.

Hong Kong, in it's turn, agreed to provide a local assistant, and to meet the cost of 1st-dars return passages for the grologist between the Colony and Dr. folumbra, besides paying him at the rate of 160 p.m. during voyages, and $120p.m. during

the 6-8 months each year when he was in the

feld.

On the above basis H. Kong's liability, while the angl. was in activi operation, must have been at the rate of at least flo00pa., but short of tracing the expend. back through the

Blue Books, we cam

for

no estimate

of

the

total cost involved.

The present position is that the main

body of the report a the grological

survey

has been

completed. The section on metallic mineral deposits

which was

as

left unfinished when Dr. Brock died

the result of

an accident in 1935, is still