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means of supplementing assistance from the Colonial

and Welfare Vote Development.

I shall be addressing you

separately on this question.

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In the meantime I

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should not like to be taken as subscribing to

the view that expenditure on development and welfare in the New Territories, atder than for medical and

must necessarily be limited

educational purposes,

Yong $500!

to $500,000.

4.

Turning to the proposals submitted

in your despatch, the only general comment I

have to offer is that some of them seem to be of

an economic nature and should more properly be

Gutainly should financed by loan than by grant It does not

of a

Commercial natur necessarily follow that because a projecthis to be

bun by Government it should not make a profit.

5. The proposals for the improvement of landing

facilities at the Kennedy Town market, referred

to in paragraph 13 of your despatch, and for

reclamation at Aberdeen, referred to in paragraph 14 of your despatch, have already been approved as Schemes nos. I 925 and 1924 respectively

(vide my telegram No. 385).

6.

survey

The recommendation for a pond fisheries

referred to in paragraph 16 of your

despatch, is also accepted in principle.

I

understand that there may be difficulty in securing

required

tams

in which

ane

can be

the scion expert and I suggest that when the

prospect of secured him becomes

known

arer a formal

I aque that

application for a C. D. & W. grant should

be made to me.

In the meanhina

and that it would be puferable to confouis

Cow Anistance to thos proprals which might properly be financed by hee grants

incumes if Expenditu may be Lean dry in antapani of the applicatrin. 7. I enclose a memorandum commenting on the

remainder of the proposals. I shall be prepared to

give