CO129-582-1 Administration of the port of Hong Kong 25-7-1939 - 20-1-1940 — Page 23

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accompanying copy of a despatch which the

Governor of Hong Kong addressed to the

Secretary of State last May

of a short note prepared in

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of and

but if you

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will be good enough to glance through the

departmental note which I also enclose,

it will, I think give you a sufficiently

comprehensive picture of the existing situation.

position.

It is hardly necessary 6 say

You will doubtless appreciate that

the harbour, with its attendant developments,

is Hong Kong's supreme original asset, and

strategie & Commercial importance

the basis of its other assets, so that the

proper organisation and administration of the

port is a matter of vital and over-riding

importance to the Colony.

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