To
HONG KONG,
24 February, 1941.
His Excellency Sir Geoffry A. S.Northcote, K.C.M.G.
Governor,
Hong Kong.
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Your Excellency,
(1) In accordance with your invitation to me to visit Hong Kong for the purpose of investigating the Port facilities, etc.,
there, and making recommendations for the future control and
development of the Port, I beg to report that I arrived in the Colony on the 10th January, 1941.
(2)
I was accompanied by Mr. Duncan Kennedy, M.Inst.C.E., who was appointed by you to advise me on any engineering matters that might arise in the course of the Inquiry.
(3)
(4)
The exact terms of reference given to me were:-
"To investigate the whole question of Harbour
facilities, organisation and administration at
Hong Kong, having regard to the existing system of pier leases which are due to expire in ten years' time; and, in the light of physical, economic and political conditions, to make
recommendations for measures by which the Port could in future be developed and controlled to
the best advantage of all persons and interests
dependent on its services."
During the period of my stay in Hong Kong, with Mr.
Kennedy I carefully inspected the whole of the Port and listened
to representations from the various interests connected with its
trade, apart from receiving a considerable amount of information
from Government officials.
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