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

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no doubt

will/be able to nominate a suitable

1/be

engineering expert, as their Consulting

Engineers have long experience of

harbour works in Hong Kong and elsewhere;

and

yase the specialists could, of course,

call on the local knowledge and experience

of the present Port and Harbour Officers

in Hong Kong.

The problem is however, primarily,

one of administration and general port

policy, and the question is whether the

qualified

ser on these

selection of a suitable/adviser

suitable/advise

aspects would present

insuperable difficulties

?

in present circumstances.

Unless an absolutely

first-class man could be obtained, we feel that

more harm than good might result and that rather

than make a

false start now Stanced

such circumsta

neccssay

to

ircumstances it might be desirabl

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un fort aut local interests involved,

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questionable. Indeed

Lan Cass