CO129-598-1 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Project 19-12-1945 - 23-6-1948 — Page 96

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COPY OF LETTER FROM MR. H.J.F. GOURLEY

TO MR FOXLEE, CROWN AGENTS.

Binnie, Deacon & Gourley,

Artillery House,

Artillery Row,

Victoria Street,

PERSONAL.

Westminster, S.W.1.

19th December, 1945.

Dear Foxlee,

K

You and probably the Colonial Office will be interested in the following extract from a letter from a professional opposite number in New England

one

of our assistant Engineers who is a lieutenant in the Seabees of the Navy, and stayed in the Pacific, was sent to China recently to report on the condition of the Hong Kong Water Supply".

We hear so much about the undue

activities of American Engineers in British territory, that I suppose we should not be surprised at this further evidence, but it is getting very near to the bone when one finds Americans on ground with which we have had so much to do, and it may be worth while to ascertain how they come into this particular picture.

If such things are allowed to pass without protest, the outlook for British over-seas engineering will become grim, to say nothing of the loss of markets for British manufacturers.

Wishing you the Compliments of the

Season,

Yours, etc.,

(Sgd.) Harold J.F. Gourley.