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        "document_key": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]",
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        "title": "CO129-023 - Sir John Davis - 1848 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "determined that the whole of the expenditure for \"Contingencies and the Public Buildings at Houghing should be provided for from the Colonial Revenue, and should not exceed the Revenue.\n\nKeeping this in view, I estimated the value of the Building tendered by Mr. Rawlins within the amount of the Colonial Revenue for the year, and spared the expenditure on other Parliamentary votes.\n\n  \n    \n    Colony\n    Consulates\n    Total\n  \n  \n    1844\n    £30,000\n    £143\n    £30,825\n  \n  \n    1845\n    £49,000\n    £31,000\n    £80,000\n  \n  \n    1846\n    £36,000\n    £28,000\n    £64,000\n  \n  \n    1847\n    £31,000\n    £27,000\n    £58,000\n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    £262,825\n  \n\nThe principle I have adopted for the guidance of my successors in the administration of the public works accordingly, is that the whole of the Estimates for the Official year (now nearly concluded) should not be exceeded by the whole Civil expenditure of the Colony.\n\nThough it might ultimately amount to the same thing, the £5,000 paid for the Building in question may still be charged to the savings on Parliamentary votes. The Amounts of these votes for Civil Services in China during my four years' administration, and the drafts on the Public Chest during the same period, are here given at one view.\n\n  \n    \n    Colony\n    Consulates\n    Drafts on Public Chest\n  \n  \n    1844\n    \n    \n    £54,234.4.5\n  \n  \n    1845\n    \n    \n    £82,575.9.4\n  \n  \n    1846\n    \n    \n    £55,000.0.0\n  \n  \n    First Quarter of 1847\n    \n    \n    £45,000.0.0\n  \n  \n    1848\n    \n    \n    £18,000.0.0\n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n    \n    £254,809.13.9",
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        "document_key": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]",
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        "content_text": "N.107.\n\nSir,\n\nJn6673/50\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n5th May, 1853.169\n\nI have the honor to enclose for your information the accompanying Mercantile Petition just received from the Cheque Community here, and to request your consideration to its contents, feeling myself that, under existing circumstances, it would be of the utmost importance to receive recent intelligence from Shanghai, - the 12th ultima being the latest date to hand.\n\nCaptain Sir Williams Hoste, Bark, MM, Senior Naval Officer.\n\n\"We have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) Jardine Matheson & Co.\n\nDon't Mo.\n\nC. J. Gibb - for Gibb Livingston\n\nRawlins Rogers\n\nLyall Still & Co.\n\nJ. F. Edger.\n\nF. Sinclair.\n\nNeave Murray & Co.\n\nJohn Burd & Co.\n\nLindsay & Co.\n\nFletcher & Co.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nManin Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "Date of\n\nDesp. Despatch.\n\nSubject of \"Despatch.\n\n(By the Lieutenant Governor) de Commissariat 25 Marches Reporting payment into the\n\n28\n\n29\n\n30/10\n\n...\n\n32\n\nNext of £1265. 12.0 and £1495. 14.9, estimate cost of fittings for the Government Offices and the Government...\n\nReporting publication in the Colonial Gazette of the Tregole Commission constituting the Patriotic Fund.\n\n(By the Governor)\n\nReporting on Ordinance No 44 of 1855, \"to establish a proper system of Registration for Colonial vessels\n\n(By the Lieutenant Governor) Acknowledging receipt of Despatches No 36 to 40, letter with Letters of the 2nd and 12th November 1854.\n\n...\n\nReplying to Circular of the 29th May 1854, regarding the Paris Universal Exhibition to be offered in May 1856\n\nAcknowledging receipt of Despatches from No 46 to 50, the last of which was dated January 1855, together with Circulars of the 30th November, and 13th December 1854.\n\nReporting referred by Mr Sheriff Mitchell of the whole salary paid him for the period from 29th March to 24th June 1854,\n\ndirected in Despatch\n\n...\n\n21st October last.\n\n31\n\nReporting payment by Messrs Mercer and Rawlins of £3, stamp duty on their Warrants of appointment, as directed in Despatch 244 of 20th November last.\n\n...\n\nDate\n\nof\n\nDesk Despatch\n\nSubject of Despatch.\n\n33 17 March 1855 Transmitting authenticated copy of\n\nOrdinance No. 3 of 1855, \"to remove\n\nand to re-enact double\n\n34\n\n35/12\n\n36/13th\n\n37\n\n38/1\n\n39/14\n\n40\n\nto the legality of the Jury List to be in force from the 1st day of March 1855, and for enabling the Sheriff to render returns with greater accuracy in future Lists\"\n\n...\n\n“to establish\n\nA-\n\n...\n\n5\n\nNo\n\nof\n\nSuch,\n\nSubmitting authenticated copy Ordinance No. 14 of 1855, \"to establish a proper system of Registration for Colonial vessels.\n\n(By the Governor)\n\nReporting on the Jury List Ordinance, No. 3 of 1855, forming enclosure\n\n1\n\nLieutenant Governor\n\nand former Despatches No. 33 of\n\nthe 10th instant\n\n(By the Lieutenant Governor)\n\nLeave of absence\n\nReporting\n\ngranted to Mr Mitchell, of the Harbour Master's Department.\n\nReporting appointment of Captain Cooper, R.N., as Assistant to the Surveyor General.\n\nIn reply to Circular of 13th December last, stating that no vessel had been placed in Quarantine in the harbours of Hongkong since...\n\nEnclosing copies of recent Proclamation and Notification regarding Emigration.\n\nEnclosing Comparative Statements of the\n\nEstimated and Actual Revenue and\n\nExpenditure of Hongkong, for the year\n\n1854.\n\n2",
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        "document_key": "CO129-070 - Public Offices - 1858",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nwith any observations which they may have to offer with regard to the state which appears to have taken place on board British ships engaged in transporting Chinese to Cuba. Lord Clarendon desires me further to request that the Commissioners will inform him, if they have the means of doing so, whether the Provisions of the Chinese Passenger Act are complied with by British vessels engaged in carrying Chinese passengers to Cuba.\n\nRipped Shelburne.\n\nCopy \n\nRawlins to Kane Krake taky \n\nMy Lord \n\nMichael, Havana Devr. 31.1867. \n\n124 \n\nIn reference to your Lordships' Despatch No. 35 dated the 30th August, the receipt of which I have the honour to acknowledge with its enclosures upon the subject of the Trade in Coolies from China.\n\nI have to observe thereon that it has come to the knowledge of some of the British vessels which have brought Chinese to this Port. Subsequent to the enactment of the Laws for regulating such Passenger Vessels, the great mortality which has occurred upon their voyage is attributable to the previous condition of the Coolies; to the unwholesomeness and in some degree to the qualities of the water which was taken in at some of the places where they... \n\n2. \nThere \nThey",
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        "document_key": "CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-078 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [7-12]",
        "content_text": "64\n\nthat the poor had suffered greatly during the previous summer from the deficient supply of Water in the Town, and Money was then being expended on small and detached works of a temporary nature from which no permanent relief was to be expected. In accordance, the works were directed to be stopped at once, and a premium of one thousand dollars was offered for the best and most practicable scheme for providing the City of Victoria with a constant and efficient supply of pure water.\n\nSeveral very carefully considered Schemes were in consequence sent in to the Government, and a Committee, consisting of the Surveyor General, The Officer Commanding the Royal Engineers, and a Member of the Mercantile Community, was appointed by me to consider, and report upon the competing plans. The premium was awarded to Mr Rawling, a Clerk of the works in the Royal Engineers Department.\n\nThe accompanying papers fully explain all the steps taken in this matter. They consist as follows:-\n\n1. Gazette Notification calling for Schemes\n\n2. Report and Award of Committee.\n\n3. Successful Scheme, comprising Mr Rawling's report, specification, Estimate and drawings.\n\n4. Modifications suggested by Committee\n\n5. Mr Rawling's amended Estimate, and proposal to undertake the execution of whole service for £25,000.\n\nInclosure N°2\n\nInclosure N°3\n\nInclosure N°4\n\nInclosure N°5\n\nInclosure N°6",
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        "content_text": "7. Reference of No 5 to Committee.\n\n6. Committee's Report- recommending - Acceptance of Mr Rawling's tender.\n\nInclosure No 9\n\nInclosure No 8\n\nInclosure No 8\n\n8. Surveyor General's Report and Estimate for this Service, No 14 of 1st January 1860.\n\n18\n\nAll these documents were laid by me before the Legislative Council with an intimation that if the necessary funds were supplied, it was my intention to accept Mr. Rawling's tender for the Execution of the work, subject of course to your Grace's confirmation. The Scheme met with the entire approval of the Council, without a dissentient voice.\n\nIt is intended by this enactment to effect three distinct objects :- 1st, to appropriate a sum not exceeding £30,000 to enable the Executive to accept Mr Rawling's tender, and to leave besides a margin of £5,000 towards supplying water into a place near the town, not now inhabited, but which will probably be densely crowded before the completion of the works. 2ndly, To Enable the Executive to borrow on the Security of a water rate such proportion of the £30,000 as the revenue may not be able to meet — 3rdly to impose a tax on houses in Town of 2 per cent per annum on the value of rentals for the purpose of maintaining the water works, and towards repaying Government the Cost of Construction. This tax will produce about £3,400 a year, or about 12 per cent on the Estimated Outlay.",
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        "content_text": "You will make known \n\nHM. decision in the \n\nusual manner. \n\nI approve of the \n\nEstimate submitted in your despatch, which has \n\nbeen prepared by Mr Rawlings, \n\n Clerk of the Works in the \n\n Military Engineers Dept at \n\nHong Kong, of Works for \n\nthe drainage of \n\nthe City of \n\nVictoria with \n\n...\n\n7. Russell \n\n5483 \n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria, \n\nHongkong 38th July, 1860. \n\nMy Lord Duke. \n\nI have the honor to \n\nforward herewith, for your \n\nGrace's \n\napproval, Report and Estimate No 15 of 1860, for \n\nrepairs of Streets \n\nand Suburbs in \n\nthe \n\nVictoria \n\nThe proposed \n\nExpenditure amounts to £600, and is provided for \n\nHis Grace \n\nThe Duke of Newcastle, \n\nIt appears that the original text was a historical document, likely a letter or despatch, and the OCR output contained several errors. Here is the corrected text in HTML format using  for paragraphs.\n\nChanges made include:\n- Correcting spelling errors (e.g., \"keen\" to \"been\", \"Chuck\" to \"Clerk\", \"deffliging\" to \"drainage\", \"Cxpenditure\" to \"Expenditure\", \"Graces\" to \"Grace's\")\n- Fixing spacing issues and removing extra spaces\n- Rejoining broken sentences\n- Restoring paragraph breaks\n- Indicating missing words with `...` (in this case, a name or word after \"with\")\n- Correcting formatting and punctuation\n- Removing or correcting nonsensical characters or words (e.g., \"ん\", \"giao trong Kong\", \"да\")\n- Preserving original page numbering and content as per the instructions.",
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        "content_text": "Sit down Durgogne for the Transfer to the Colonial Government for two years of Mr. S. B. Rawling, the Clerk of works in the Royal Engineer department, by whom the water works scheme was devised and reported in my despatch N. 93 of 23 July 1860.\n\n2. Mr. Rawling's pay and allowances in his own department cease while he is employed under the Colonial Government, and I have therefore promised him an allowance, namely $2000 per year, or Ten Dollars per month, while engaged in the Colony on behalf of Superintending the water works.\n\n3. It is estimated that these works will occupy at least two years in construction, but with the view to stimulate Mr. Rawling to exert himself to advance to the utmost this most desirable undertaking,",
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        "content_text": "I have promised him that it \ncan complete the works \nwithin two years, he shall \nnevertheless receive his \n'years' Salary - £1000.. \ni.c. £1000.\n\nThe payments to Mr \nRawling being chargeable against the sum of \n£30,000 appropriated \nby Ordinance No. 12 of 1860, require no further legislative sanction, but I nevertheless mentioned \nthe arrangement I had made with Mr. Rawling to the \nLegislative Council, who appeared \nunanimously to consider its \nvery advantageous \none for the \nColony.\n\nThe date \nof the transfer of \nMr Rawling's services to the Colony \nwas \nthe 1st of April last.\n\nI have the honor to be, \nMy Lord Duke, \nYour Grace's \nmost obedient Servant \nRobert W. Robinson\n\n## Page 463",
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        "content_text": "## MINUTE\n**[RE!**\n\nIt has been decided to request Sir Rogers to convey to FC. For assenting\n\nIn agreement\n\n464 \n14 Sept. 1868.\n\nI have to convey to you my approval of the appointment of Mr S. B. Rawlings to superintend the construction of the Waterworks in the city of Victoria, at a salary of $500 per annum; as reported to me in your Dispatch No. 126 of the 9th of July last.\n\nI have received...\n\nAnthony... \nDie Aurcules Robinson \nThe Duke of Newcastle.\n\nA.126.\n\nReceived.\nwater works.\nthe construction\nAppointment to supervise\nReporting Mr Rawling's...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nThe 137 houses in the Taipingshan district are a frightful sight and if they have been visited by the Colonial Surgeon and thoroughly inspected, the matter will be discovered by which they are powerless to prevent. I am at a loss to understand why the contractor shines be prevented from converting cuttings into public cesspools, and I enclose a copy of Rawling's Report, which highlights the inspector of nuisances' findings that the inspector of nuisances is perverted in his observations.\n\nDrainage is of paramount importance, and the removal of filth from human habitations is crucial. The fearful stench arising from untrapped drains is a nuisance I cannot imagine being beyond the control of the Inspector of Nuisances. Science recognizes that untrapped drains are the most fertile source of zymotic disease.\n\nThe cesspool nuisance referred to by Mr. Rawling can be prevented from polluting the atmosphere from a sanitary point of view. In such a memorandum, it is impossible to conceive of a more inconceivable nuisance than the present one, which has never yet received adequate attention, nor has any comprehensive plan been carried out other than a casual visit, and a few sickly seasons.\n\nThis is the first time I have had to reply fully to such a situation. What I have classed under the head of ventilation, that is, providing an efficient supply of pure air, uncontaminated by noxious effluvia, requires attention. The main drainage of this Town is simple enough, but practically, it is equally insufficient. Some localities referred to are undrained.\n\nThe Superintendent is aware that the workmen are anxious to have the matter addressed. I should wish to bring to the charge the need for a thorough reorganization to health, which will probably be beset with many difficulties.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\n### Copy/\n\n**Mr. Rawling to Mr. de Vere** Government Offices  \n**11/2/62.**  \n**148**  \n\nSir,  \n\nIn reference to your Communication of 10th instant conveying extract from the Colonial Surgeon's Report to the following effect: \"that the Trenches for Water Pipes are being used as Cess Pools, creating a frightful Nuisance, and an inconceivable one to those who have not personally visited the locality - and the Inspector finds himself powerless to prevent it:\"  \n\nI have the honor to state that I know of no such nuisance;  \n\n### \n**His Honble Chas. St. G. Cleverly, Esq.,**  \nSurveyor General.",
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        "content_text": "## 124\n\nnot above 2 or 3 hundred yards of Channel for pipes open within the limits, and the only place in my opinion at all objectionable is in Staunton Street where it was found necessary to bend through an arch small. Cook house drain or two, and which I did not think would be liable to be considered such a \"frightful Nuisance\" but what it might be left open for a few days until means were found for the purpose.\n\nYou need not be informed that little temporary inconveniences of this nature cannot always be avoided. Many of a similar character must necessarily occur in carrying out the service on which I am engaged.\n\n(Signed) S. B. Rawling\n\n## 149\n\n## 123",
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        "content_text": "# VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.\n\n## No. 2 of 1861.\n\n### SATURDAY, 23RD MARCH, 1861.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nHis Excellency **THE GOVERNOR**, and all the Members, except the Chief Justice, who was absent on account of illness, and Mr. Fletcher, absent at Canton.\n\nThe Council met to-day by Special Summons.\n\nThe Minutes of the Meeting of the 23rd February last, were read and approved.\n\nThe Bill to amend the \"Probates\" Ordinance, No. 8 of 1860, was read a second time;—\n\nAnd the Council went into Committee upon the said Bill.\n\n| Section | Status    |\n|--------|-----------|\n| 1 to 3  | agreed to |\n\nPreamble agreed to.\n\nThe Bill having gone through Committee, the Governor put the Question, That this Bill do pass, and that the Title be-\" An Ordinance for amending Ordinance No. 8 of 1860.\"\n\nQuestion put and carried, the Ordinance being numbered—“No. 6 of 1861.\"\n\nHis Excellency brought to the notice of the Council a Scheme prepared by Dr. Legge for a better system of Chinese Education in Hongkong, by the establishment of a Central School in Victoria, instead of that now existing of detached Schools throughout the City. It had been recommended by the Board of Education, and had received the approval of the Governor; but as there was no eligible site at the disposal of the Government for carrying out the proposed measure, it was suggested to purchase Inland Lot No. 78, in Gough Street, which was reported by the Surveyor General as suited for the object in view, and which might be obtained with the Buildings thereon for a sum not exceeding $20,500. A portion of the site might be made available for a Girls' School now temporarily established in the Albany, and for other purposes of education. The Council concurred in the expediency of securing at once the ground and buildings reported available, and agreed to vote the outlay necessary for the purchase of the premises, and the erection of the additional buildings required, in the Supplementary Estimates for the current year.\n\nWhilst on this subject, His Excellency took occasion to lay before the Council the Sketch of a Scheme for the creation of a limited number of Cadets in the Colony, to be selected by competition from one or more Colleges at home approved by the Secretary of State. These gentlemen, he suggested, should be quartered in apartments attached to the proposed Central School House, and placed under direct supervision of the School Master. The Council entirely approved of His Excellency's Scheme, and agreed to vote the Expenditure when called for.\n\nHis Excellency informed the Council that he had secured the Services of Mr. Rawling as Superintendent of the projected Water Works.\n\nThe Council adjourned sine die.\n\nRead and approved, this 14th Day of June, 1861.\n\n**L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO**,  \nClerk of Councils.\n\n**HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON**,  \nGovernor.",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG SAILORS' HOME\n\n## SUBSCRIPTION\n\n| Date | Subscription | Original amount received | Additional |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Amount brought forward | $40,700 | 200 |\n\nHONGKONG, 20TH DECEMBER, 1862\n\nA MEETING of the Subscribers to the SAILOR'S HOME was held at the Office of the Honorary Secretary this day, at which were present Messrs Perceval, Chorley, Murray, Lapraik, Block, Kup, Sharp, and Caldbeck.\n\nOn the motion of Mr Murray, seconded by Mr Chorley, Mr Perceval was invited to take the chair.\n\nThe Honorary Secretary submitted the accounts of the Institution, showing an actual balance in the books of the Oriental Bank of $21,681.00 to the credit of the Home.\n\nMr Rawling having submitted his plans for the proposed buildings (which were unanimously approved of), together with an estimate of the probable cost, and having stated that the ground was now ready to be built upon, it was proposed by Mr Chorley, seconded by Mr Block, and resolved: that Mr Rawling be empowered to proceed at once, under the direction of the Committee of Management, with the erection of the buildings for European and Indian Seamen.\n\nProposed by Mr Murray, seconded by Mr Block, and resolved, that Messrs H. B. Gibb, E. F. Parker, A. Turing, R. McMurdo, and J. Caldbeck be elected as Directors for the ensuing year in the place of Messrs J. Gibb, J. Heard, Walkinshaw, Fletcher, and Thomsett, who retire.\n\nProposed by Mr Murray, seconded by Mr Sharp, and resolved, that Messrs Caldbeck and McMurdo act as members of the Committee of Management for the ensuing year, in the place of Messrs Murray and Thomsett, who retire.\n\nMr Sharp having kindly offered his services to collect subscriptions, his offer was thankfully accepted.\n\n| Subscriber | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Wetmore Cryder HC | 500 |\n| Ludevig Wrese | ... |\n| Holliday Wise HC | 500 |\n| Olyphant HC | 500 |\n| com Pustan +C | 500 |\n| Admiral Store | 500 |\n| The Netherlands Government by A. W. P. Kup Consul | ... |\n| Wather Borradaile XC | 250 |\n| J. Lapraik | 200 |\n| P. N. Camajee AC | 150 |\n| P. F. Cama HC | 100 |\n| Granville Sharp | 100 |\n|  | $44,700 |\n|  | 100 |\n\n(True Copy)\n\nAlexander ...  \nActing Colonial Secretary  \nOr 43287  \n279  \n25  \n$...",
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        "content_text": "Having frequently in part commented on the prosperity of the Colony which the accompanying volume shows to be continued and increased during the last few years, I have but little to remark on now.\n\n3. Certain points connected with the scheme concerning the Waterworks, on which they had been misled by interested individuals, have been righted.\n\n4. A proposition to introduce gas into Hongkong has been entertained by the Government and will in all likelihood be carried out before a year is over. Opposition was made on private behalf, and I was glad to take the opportunity to set the Community right on certain points.\n\nThe new waterworks are nearly ready, but they will considerably exceed in cost the Original Estimate furnished by M. Rawling.\n\n6. The Board of Education has not shown much result as yet, but I hope and trust that M. Stewart's zeal will meet eventually with the success it deserves.",
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        "content_text": "JURY LIST,--Continued.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nJURY LIST,—Continued.\n\nNAME,\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nNAME.\n\nOCCUPATION AND RESIDENCE.\n\nSPECIAL JUROR.\n\nSoermann, Auguste\n\nSpeechly, Samuel\n\nParker, Edward\n\nParker, Ebenezer Francis\n\nParker, M. D.\n\nParker, R.\n\nParkin, W. W.\n\nPattell, P. N.\n\nPearce, James W.\n\nPemberton, J.\n\nPepson, N.\n\nPereira, Jose L.\n\nPerkins, W. H.\n\nPestonjee, Barzinjee\n\nPhotographer, Staunton Street\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road\n\nMerchant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nShip Broker, Queen's Road\n\nClerk, J. A. Brooks\n\nMerchant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nBroker, Wellington Street\n\nClerk, H. Duddell & Co.\n\nAssistant, Johnson & Co.\n\nEllissen, G.\n\nEllis, P. P.\n\nElmenhurst, J. Henry\n\nElton, W. M.\n\nEmeny, William\n\nEndicott, Henry Collins,\n\nEscherick, J. W. H.\n\nFairley, Francis B.\n\nFalconer, George\n\nFawcett, J.\n\nField, T. T.\n\nFisher, S.\n\nForbes, Murdoch\n\nFoster, William Hammond\n\nFox, Samuel Crane\n\nFraser, John M.\n\nFreer, F.\n\nFreire, Francisco\n\nFrickel, Leopold\n\nMerchant, A. Ellissen & Co.\n\nAssistant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nClerk, W. Pustan & Co.\n\nMerchant, Arbuthnot Road\n\nStorekeeper, Wellington Street\n\nStorekeeper, T. Hurit & Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nClerk, Oriental Bank\n\nWatchmaker, D. Lapraik\n\nShip Chandler, Wellington Street\n\nAssistant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nClerk, Jürgens & Co.\n\nAssistant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nAssistant, Russell & Co.\n\nBroker, D'Aguilar Street\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nClerk, H. Duddell & Co.\n\nClerk, Hongkong Club\n\nShip Chandler, Queen's Road\n\nJameson, Charles\n\nJohnson, Charles T.\n\nJohnson, Francis B.\n\nJohnston, William\n\nJorge, Honorato\n\nJukes, M. P.\n\nJürgens, Henry\n\nKentwell, Robert Henry\n\nKenward, Robert\n\nKerr, William McDermott\n\nKing, D. Jr.\n\nKing, W. D.\n\nKing\n\nKingsmill, Thomas\n\nKirby, William\n\nKoopmanschap, C.\n\nMerchant, Jameson & Co.\n\nAssistant, Johnson & Co.\n\nMerchant, Johnson & Co.\n\nSuperintendent Engineer, P. & O. Co.\n\nAssistant, Mercantile Bank\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nStorekeeper, Queen's Road\n\nParker, C.\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road West\n\nDruggist, Victoria Harbour\n\nInnkeeper, Queen's Road West\n\nAssistant, Russell and Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith Archer, and Co.\n\nHotelkeeper, Oriental Hotel\n\nArchitect, Queen's Road\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nMerchant, Koopmanschap & Bosman\n\nBookkeeper, Blackhead & Co.\n\nAssistant, Lindsay & Co.\n\nAssistant, Russell & Co.\n\nClerk, P. F. Cama & Co.\n\nPestonjee, Dhunjeebhoy\n\nPestonjee, Muncherjee\n\nBroker, Hollywood Road\n\nPetrie, David\n\nPorter, R. H.\n\nProbst, Theodor\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nClerk, De Silver & Co.\n\nMerchant, W. Pustan & Co.\n\nMerchant, Bull, Purdon & Co.\n\nMerchant, W. Pustau & Co.\n\nClerk\n\nGassett, Edward\n\nGay, Arthur Q.\n\nGay, Charles\n\nGee, William\n\nGibb, F. M.\n\nGibb, Hugh Bold\n\nGibb, John Darby\n\nGibb, W. H.\n\nGifford, George\n\nGilfillan, James\n\nGlatz, Henry\n\nGondy, Peter\n\nGoodwin, Henry John\n\nGow, David\n\nGreen, J.\n\nGreen, W.\n\nGregory, John L.\n\nGrieve, F. M.\n\nGuest, W. S.\n\nGundry, A. A.\n\nGutierrez, A.\n\nGutierrez, M.\n\nMerchant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nWatchmaker, Heertnani's\n\nAssistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nClerk, Emigration Agency\n\nClerk, Emigration Agency\n\nMerchant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nMerchant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nMerchant, Gifford & Co.\n\nClerk, Fletcher & Co.\n\nClerk, Glatz, Laminert & Co.\n\nClerk, De Silver & Co\n\nClerk, Y. J. Murrow\n\nShipbuilder, Harper & Co\n\nFarmer, Government Hill\n\nFarmer, Government Hill\n\nClerk, Glatz, Lammert & Co.\n\nVictualler, Lyndhurst Terrace\n\nAssistant, Holliday, Wise & Co.\n\nAssistant, D. W. Mackenzie & Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nClerk, P. and O. Co.\n\nGutierrez, Lourenco João\n\nGutierrez, Querino A.\n\nGutierrez, Venancio\n\nGye, J.\n\nHagen, Charles\n\nHaight, F. R.\n\nHaley, Henry T.\n\nHall, George H.\n\nHall, Stephen Prentis,\n\nHalkett, F. W.\n\nHalton, Eldred\n\nHammond, F.\n\nHandy, J. A.\n\nHarding, William\n\nHarley, Alexander\n\nHarris, William A.\n\nHarrison, George\n\nHarsant, F.\n\nHartmann, G. W.\n\nHaskell, F. H.\n\nHayes, J.\n\nHayward, J. W.\n\nHeard, George F.\n\nHeard, John\n\nHeermann, Luis\n\nHelland, George J.\n\nHenderson, James\n\nHenderson, W. J.\n\nHerton, E\n\nHesse, Theodor\n\nHigson, John F.\n\nHitchcock, E. A.\n\nHodge, Robert\n\nHolme, Ryle\n\nHolmes, George\n\nHook, J. S.\n\nHormusjee, Eduljee\n\nHow, A. 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B.\n\nNevin\n\nNisbet, Thomas\n\nNissen, Ferdinand\n\nNissen, Waldemar\n\nNoble, Henry\n\nNoble, J.\n\nNordaby, George\n\nNoronha, Jose\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson and Co.\n\nAgent, Queen's load\n\nShip Broker, Gralium Street\n\nMerchant, F. B. Cama and Co.\n\nNorris, George A. F.\n\nNotley, W. H.\n\nMerchant, Johnson and Co.\n\nMerchant, Shelley Street\n\nAssistant, Wilkinson and Co.\n\nMerchant, Gilman and Co.\n\nAssistant, Gilman and Co.\n\nMerchant, Bourjau, Hilbener & Co\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nAssistant, Gibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nAssistant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nAssistant, A. Heard & Co.\n\nClerk, N. Dous & Co.\n\nOrmiston, Walter\n\nOverbeck, Gustav\n\nOwens, J.\n\nOwen, William\n\nOzorio, Candido Antonio\n\nOzorio, Candido Julio\n\nAccountant, Oriental Bank\n\nMerchant, Lyall, Still & Co.\n\nAssistant, Lindsay & Co.\n\nBunker, B. of India, Australia, &c.\n\nClerk, S. P. Hall\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co!\n\nAssistant, Fletcher & Co.\n\nAssistant, W. Pustau & Co.\n\nPhotographer, Parade Ground\n\nClerk, Atkinson & Co.\n\nShipwright, Russell & Co.\n\nAssistant, Commission Agent, D'Aguilar St.\n\nStorekeeper, P. and O. Company\n\nClothier, Ladage Oelke and Co.\n\nBroker, Hollywood Road\n\nMaster Mariner, Ship John Adam\n\nMerchant, Birley & Co.\n\nSailmaker, Gilman Street\n\nPurdon, James\n\nPustau, William\n\nPatosm, R.\n\nRamsay, Alexander\n\nRangel, Floriano Antonio\n\nRay, J.\n\nRay, Joseph J.\n\nReddie, Robert Muirhead\n\nRegan, E. F.\n\nReid, D.\n\nRemedios, Boaventura\n\nRemedios, Geraldo dos\n\nRemedios, João J. dos\n\nReuben, Solomon\n\nReynolds, Thomas J.\n\nReynvaan, A. J.\n\nReynvaan, W. H.\n\nRickerby, Charles\n\nRickett, John, Jr.\n\nRidge, J. C.\n\nRivington, Charles\n\nRoberts, A. H.\n\nRoberts, John\n\nRoberts, John, Jr.\n\nRoberts, Thomas\n\nRodger, Alexander\n\nRogerson, Thomas\n\nRoney, R. C.\n\nRose, T.\n\nRosenthal, W. S.\n\nRosenthal\n\nRoss, Alexander\n\nRowett, Richard\n\nRozario, Marcos Calisto do\n\nRussell, Donald\n\nRussell, William F.\n\nRustonjee, Pestonjee\n\nRutter, Henry\n\nRyrie, Phineas\n\nSa, Francisco de\n\nSanders, F.\n\nSantos, Antonio dos\n\nSassoon, A.\n\nSassoon, Solomon D.\n\nSchaeffer, Hermann\n\nSchenck, W.\n\nSchmidt, C. W.\n\nSchmidt, W.\n\nScott, T. J.\n\nSeabra, F. A.\n\nSeth, Seth Avith\n\nMerchant, Olyphant & Co.\n\nAssistant, Hall & Co.\n\nAssistant, D. W. Mackenzie & Co.\n\nAssistant, Siemssen & Co.\n\nMerchant, Siemssen & Co.\n\nBanker, Agra Bank\n\nWatchmaker, D. Lapraik\n\nClerk, P. and O. Company\n\nClerk, Oriental Bank\n\nAuctioneer, Queen's Road\n\nAssistant, Walker, Borradaile & Co.\n\nBanker, Mercantile Bank\n\nMercantile Assistant, Dent & Co.' \n\nBoiler Maker, P. and O. Company\n\nHotel Keeper, Commercial Hôtel\n\nAssistant, Lyall, Still & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nSherrard, Robert B.\n\nSharp, Granville\n\nSilva, F. A da\n\nSilva, D. A. da\n\nSlate, R. B.\n\nSmith, Caleb\n\nSmith, Frederick T.\n\nSmith, George\n\nSmith, J.\n\nSmith, R. B.\n\nSoares, Francisco de Paulo\n\nSpencer, D. A.\n\nSpencer, G. G.\n\nStanford, William K.\n\nStainmann, Oscar\n\nStephens, J.\n\nStewart, H. D.\n\nStill, Charles Frederick\n\nStiles, William\n\nStimsen, John\n\nStokes, G. E.\n\nStorey, James\n\nSteinkopff, Otto\n\nMerchant, P. & D. N. Camajee & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nEngineer, P. and O. Company\n\nClerk, Glatz, Lammert & Co.\n\nMerchant, Holliday, Wise & Co.\n\nClerk, MacEwen & Co.\n\nEngineer, P. and 0. Company\n\nClerk, Lindsay & Co.\n\nAssistant, Do.\n\nMerchant, Gough Street\n\nMerchant, Moses & Co.\n\nMerchant, Pottinger Street\n\nClerk, Vaucher Frères\n\nShip Chandler, Queen's Road\n\nAccountant, Bank of Western India\n\nClerk, P. and O. Company\n\nAssistant, Holliday, Wise & Co.\n\nAssistant, Jardine, Matheson & Co.\n\nAssistant, Gilman & Co.\n\nAuctioneer, Wellington Street\n\nAuctioneer, Ďo.\n\nShipwright, West Point\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nClerk, Bowra & Co.\n\nAssistant, Dent & Co.\n\nBoiler Maker, P. and O. Company\n\nCom. Agent, Blum, Brothers & Co.\n\nBlum, Brothers & Co. Foreman, Hall & Co.\n\nAssistant, Holliday, Wisc & Co.\n\nMerchant, Stephenson & Co.\n\nShipwright, Queen's Road West\n\nClerk, Thos. Hunt & Co.\n\nMerchant, F. B. Metta & Co.\n\nAccountant, Gough Street\n\nMerchant, Turner & Co.\n\nClerk, Lane, Crawford & Co.\n\nAssistant, Schaeffer & Co.\n\nAssistant, Bull, Purdon & Co.\n\nMerchant, D. Sassoon, Sons & Co.\n\nAssistant,\n\nDo.\n\nMerchant, Schaeffer & Co.\n\nClerk, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nClerk, Frickel & Co.\n\nAssistant, Fletcher & Co.\n\nClerk, J. Logans.\n\nClerk, Augustine Heard & Co.\n\nBroker, Wellington Street\n\nMerchant, Staunton Street\n\nBroker, Caine Road\n\nStaunton Street\n\nAssistant, Mercantile Bank\n\nAssistant, Wetmore, Cryder & Co.\n\nMerchant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nAssistant, Birley & Co.\n\nAssistant, Smith, Kennedy & Co.\n\nClerk, Emigration Agency\n\nAssistant, Smith, Archer & Co.\n\nStorekeeper, F. P. Soares & Co.\n\nTalbot, Henry Eustace\n\nTalbot, S. H.\n\nTapp, W. H.\n\nTaylor, J. B.\n\nThom, William\n\nThomas, G.\n\nThompson\n\nThompson, L.\n\nThompson, George\n\nThomson, Gavin\n\nThomas, Louis\n\nThorburn, S. D.\n\nThorne, J.\n\nTillinghast, T. 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        "content_text": "No 19\n\n145\n\nSurveyor General's Office.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong.\n\n27th July 1865\n\nMr. Mercer\n\nHoustory, 25th July, 1863-\n\nto\n\nThe Duke of\n\nNewcastle.\n\n/ Inclosure.\n\nNo 143.\n\nReceived\n\ntowards the completion the Water works in\n\nApplying for His Grace's expenditure of $23,245.70 sanction of an additional\n\nVictoria-\n\nSiv.\n\nI have the honor to submit\n\nfor the consideration of His Excellency the Acting Governor, the accompanying Supplementary Report and Estimate N = 21 of 1863 founded on the Report by ... Rawling stated the 15th April accompanying a statement of account shewing the expenditure upon the Water Works up to the 19th February, and\n\nthe probable expenditure thereon to complete the service. It thus appears that the expenditure has amounted\n\nThe Honorable W. H. Alexander, Esquire\n\nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nto\n\nUG.\n\nSr. R. Nopro.\n\ndemy.co.\n\nThe £30,000 sanctioned for Water Works\n\n2-22\n\nIn operation\n\na further\n\nA Water Rate\n\nin lured on all Houses,\n\ncalculated to produce £3400\n\nto cover all Expenses\n\nsanction? (26th July)\n\n267 Ja\n\nMonu\n\nPage 145\n\n...\n\n(incomplete text due to OCR damage)\n\nPage 146 (expected but not provided)",
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        "content_text": "146\n\nThis sum amounted to $131,923.72, and that a further outlay of $29,251.87 was estimated by him, making a total of $161,195.59 as the cost of the entire work – an amount I have found it desirable to increase to $167,245.73 for reasons hereafter given.\n\nThe original Estimate accompanying Mr. Rawling's Scheme for the Waterworks in Victoria amounted to £23,417.7.6. This amount was increased by £2,341.14.9 for casualties not provided for by Mr. Rawling, and by a further sum of £2,240.17.9 for certain services recommended by the Committee appointed to report upon the scheme, bringing the Estimate up to £28,000 or $134,400, vide Report and Estimate No. 14 of 1860. To provide for further casualties, His Excellency the Governor added £2,000, and a vote was accordingly passed under Ordinance No. 12 of 1860, by Council for £30,000 or $144,000.\n\nFor the service as now extended and partially in operation, a total sum of $167,248.73 or £34,842.17.24 is required, thus leaving a balance of $23,245.73 to be now provided for in excess of the amount voted by Council or of $32,845.78 as at present authorised under Report and Estimate No. 14 of 1860.\n\nMr. Rawling's explanatory letter is herewith enclosed, on each item of service, gives the causes for the present excess of expenditure requisite over that estimated, and with his remarks I fully concur; great delay in the completion of the Tank above Bonham Road has been caused by the Contractor's disobedience of orders in regard to the striking...\n\nPage 146\n\n...\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "was found unsafe to trust it with any considerable pressure, and as in the original scheme it was intended \n\nconduit, grave \n\nonly to act as a conduit, great inconveniences will result if the \n\nalmost precaution be not observed in the management of the stop cocks \n\nthereon: For this reason the 3 Tanks \n\nreferred to in the Estimate had to \n\nbe created. – \n\nThe necessity for the employment of an intelligent European as Superintendent must be apparent, and the arrangement of a Staff to work under him with a code of Rules, not only \n\nfor the ordinary service of the supply, but in case of fire \n\nfor special house service. I am of opinion might now be taken into consideration \n\nwith advantage - \n\n148 \n\nFrom the foregoing causes, namely, unavoidable delays; modification \n\nof plans; the expansion of the scheme has of necessity extended the period beyond which it was proposed that Mr Rawling's services would be required, I have thus added the sum of $1680 \n\nhis salary up to September next if that should meet the approval of His Excellency. A sum of $824 \n\nfor \n\nis also added to Mr Rawling's estimate for a Parapet to the Bonham Road Tank in lieu of the old one removed, these items together with 10 per cent for contingencies, Overseers, maintenance, and casualties of a variety of kinds \n\nwhich ever occur in such Works have \n\nincreased the Estimate \n\nas now submitted \n\nto $35,322.01 in lieu of that forwarded \n\nby Mr Rawling, amounting to $29,251.87 \n\nLUG.\n\n \n\n1",
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        "content_text": "Abstract\n\nForward to 30th September, 1863,\n\nfrom Petty Contractors.\n\nAmount of liability on Contract No of 1883 for construction of 40 Delivery Stands and 230 standard letter boxes.\n\n155 25,537 83\n\n1,600\n\nand 6105 2,500\n\nProbable additional work to be done.\n\nAmount due to Messrs Johnson and Co. for sundry Castings.\n\n2,031 21\n\n2000\n\nAmount due to Messrs McDougall and Co. for sundry Castings.\n\nAmount due to W E Rawlings for Portland Cement.\n\n3,304 48\n\n260\n\nAmount due to Messrs Turner and Co. for Cement.\n\n650\n\nForward 44,068 52",
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        "content_text": "I am to state that the principle of regulating the supply at all should be the rule. If some restriction of this kind is not adopted there will be no regulating the supply at all.\n\nI annex herewith a Statement shewing the probable total cost of the whole Service as extended when complete, together with the total Expenditure thereon up to 19th Feb. 1863. This Statement also shews the probable further amount required to meet present liabilities and to complete the various works.\n\nI also endorse herewith various contractors' and Tradesmen's Accounts due and likely to become due on which the above statement is based.\n\nI have etc.,\n\n(Signed) F. B. Rawlins\n\nLine Copy\n\nThe Secretary to the Treasury.\n\nMINUTE\n\nTreasury, 29 Sept. 1863\n\nN. Rogers\n\nWith reference to your letter dated the 13th October, 1860, sanctioning the appropriation of £30,000, towards the construction of the Victoria Waterworks, Hong Kong.\n\nI am directed by the Duke of Newcastle to transmit to you for the consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury a further despatch on the subject from the officer administering the Government.\n\nIt will be seen from this despatch that a further sum of £4,842 17s 2¼d is required for the completion of the waterworks, and His Grace would recommend this expenditure for their Lordships' sanction. I am to state that ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-100 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [9]",
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        "content_text": "188\n\nAryal En Hong Kong's the Lept 184\n\nIn returning to you the letter of the Secretary, addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies having reference to the engagement of R. E. Offin Illucks of tank, in private practice, which you have so kindly permitted me to peruse, I would beg to be permitted to make the following remarks:-\n\nWith reference to the former part of Para 4, which states that Clerks of Works are allowed the privilege of private practice as Architects, whilst \"holding appointments, and receiving pay from ... penal funds, and thus from their number monopolize in great part, the professional documents incident to the requirements of this Colony,\" I beg to submit that these statements are not exactly in accordance with the fact of the matter. As for nearly the whole of the time which Messrs Storey and his Son have been in the Colony, there have been but two Clerks of Works at Hong Kong, in the receipt of Imperial pay. And the very limited private practice they have had cannot be said to have monopolized in part, or in any way, have affected the practice of Messrs Storey & Son.\n\nDoubtless the remarks are really levelled at Mr. Rawling (Clerk of Works) whose extensive private practice has no doubt interfered with the interests of Messrs Storey & Son, but of which practice they can have no proper cause for complaint for the following reasons:- In the year 1860, Royal Engineers...",
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        "content_text": "189\n\nHis Excellency the Governor being desirous of obtaining a water supply for the City, offered a premium of $1000 for the best scheme proposed for that purpose, permission was given, and it was wished that the Royal Engineers Officers and Clerks of Works should compete for the premium. At that time there was but one private Architect in the Colony, the late Mr J. Walker, who also held the appointment of Assistant Surveyor General. Schemes were accordingly sent in by three Competitors, Mr. Bird (late R.E.), Mr. J. Walker, and Mr Rawling (C.E.); the scheme of Mr Rawling was adjudged to be the best, and the premium awarded accordingly.\n\nThe Surveyor General's staff then consisting of only that Officer and Mr. J. Walker, application was made to and permission granted by the Home Authorities for the loan of Mr Rawling to carry into execution the Water Works Scheme. Arrangement was made with the Colonial Government that Mr R. should receive from the Colony the same amount of Salary as when in the Royal Engineer department, with full permission to do as much private practice as he could get. In due course Mr. R's Successor came out and Mr. R was struck off the Imperial Pay List.\n\nThe value of house and storage property having risen enormously, the Colo[nial] Govt sold their land at high premiums and extensive building operations were entered upon to the great advantage of the Colonial exchequer, and as at about this time Mr J. Walker died, very extensive private practice fell into the hands of Mr. Rawling.\n\nPage 190\n\n \n\n was not included as there is no text to accompany it, however to follow the instruction of keeping page numbering, the outcome is adjusted accordingly.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864",
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        "title": "CO129-102 - Public Offices - 1864",
        "content_text": "AGEN\n\nMi\n\nof\n\nshould be lift to the Governor of Hong Kong on the habit, and that, at any rate their holiness should not be received here the Expiration of six months from the date at which each\n\nBanks may establish branches in the Colony.\n\nJane, Liv.\n\nyour des\n\nthedient Sevent\n\nSu. Z Aqu\n\nInform heff. Racher & Co\n\nin accordance within the beams.\n\nA lend\n\na copy of the\n\nanshendance & the\n\nbed. Her un enfren\n\nthen.\n\nmezente mich\n\nK12 Der\n\ndeas\n\n12412 M\n\n$191.\n\nTreas\n\n11297 Hongkong.\n\n17 H. Robinson\n\nMINUTE\n\n1964\n\nWindound 15 DEC\n\nSurkieges 17\n\nW Cardwell\n\n10644.\n\nM\n\n19 have\n\n10 Det\n\n10. to Trens 29th\n\n11297\n\nC.o. to messrs C. Denft W\n\nAnne?\n\n3\n\n213\n\nSoi\n\n345\n\n21st bir\n\nI transmit to you for your information & guidance\n\nthe copy\n\nof correspondence\n\nthat has passed between Messrs Clarke, Son, & Rawlins, the Board of\n\nTreasury, and this Department respecting the receipt in the Colonial Chest of\n\nHongkong, of notes\n\nissued by the Commercial Bank Corporation of India\n\nIt is to regret Clark... and the East\n\nmajors\n\nYou will act in accordance\n\nwith the views expressed by\n\ntheir Lordships\n\nin their\n\nletter\n\nof the 10th inst\n\nI have",
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        "content_text": "Trans. \n\nbis 11297 \n\n400/4 \n\nDongkong \n\n25 Clarke, Son, & Rawlins. \n\nMINUTE \n\n1964 \n\nSerbiogen \n\nW Cardwell \n\nWM \n\nswift to \n\nGo \n\n19 Dec \n\nLee \n\nGentlemen, \n\n346 \n\nWith reference to your letter dated the 19 ult., we acquaint you that the Lands Commissioners have no objection to the draft of the Notes of the Commercial Bank Corporation of India and the East.\n\nIt has been fully established and stands high in the confidence of the Public.\n\nBut in the case of this Bank, as every other Bank, every discretion will be left with the Governor of Hongkong as to how far notes, will not be received before ...",
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        "content_text": "276\n\nRustomjee Cowasjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Sooluman Noormehmed. (In Asiatic Characters.) Bundaally Baladeena. R. P. Motiwalla.\n\nCossui Khakeebloy. Bundayally Mahomedbhoy. (In Asiatic Characters.) Salleymahomed Kurmally. (In Asiatic Characters.) Sallemon Ladjeebhoy. Adambhoy Peerbhoy. Nowrojee Pestonjee. Nuthoobhoy Jwer.\n\nC. Nathoobhoy.\n\nDossabhoy Mawjee.\n\nJohn Mahomedbhoy Manjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\nGangjee Goolamhoossen.\n\nJamisetjee Arduseer.\n\nA. J. Wadia.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Hormusjee Nesserwanjee. Pestonjee Hormusjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\n1. Nosserwanjee.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\nMerally Mahomed.\n\nRustomjee Sorabjee Oonwalla.\n\nSarkally Mohamedally.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Jaffer Mowjee. Mealbhoy Shuffally. (In Asiatic Characters.) Alleebhoy Abdoulkadar. (In Asiatic Characters.)\n\nCasumjee Goolamboosen.\n\nM. Dossabhoy. Jairaz Luecumsey.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.)\n\nRustomjee Framjee.\n\nPestonjee Eduljee. Eduljee Dadabhoy.\n\nGoolamhoosien Vuzzer.\n\nIhaver Mahometi.\n\nA. A. Rux.\n\nDadabhoy Fardoonjee.\n\nS. Cawasjee.\n\nPestonjee Aspundiarjee Metta. Ardashir Pestonjee Setna. Ardaseer Hornusjee Chinoy. Dadabhoy Cowasjee Ghandy. F. Sümsen.\n\nC. F. Grossmann.\n\n(In Asiatic Characters.) Somjeebhoy Vishram. Abdool R. Albybhoy. Edw. J. Sage.\n\nR. B. Slate.\n\nE. Wallace.\n\nWm. R. Landstein.\n\nThos. Sutherland.\n\nW. R. Dalziel.\n\nJohn Cormack.\n\nJ. P. Campos.\n\nJ. Rickett, Jr.\n\nH. J. H. Tripp.\n\nE. L. Woodin.\n\nA. McLeod.\n\nA. Methwen.\n\nGeorge F. Heard.\n\nD. Weld.\n\nW. C. Hunter.\n\nN. P. Hamlen.\n\nJ. Jackson, Jr.\n\nZ. Probst.\n\nWm. Reesema.\n\nC. Hagen.\n\nO. C. Behn.\n\nG. McNeill.\n\nG. F. Pietzker.\n\nPaul Reimanu.\n\nFredk. Laneken.\n\nA. Joost.\n\nH. H. Oppins.\n\nP. G. Hübbe.\n\nA. Kirchner.\n\nW. Koch.\n\nA. H. Roberts.\n\nArthur Booth.\n\nBud. Brondsted.\n\nEmil. Dalen.\n\nE. W. von Bergen.\n\nEd. Deerjen.\n\nR. Möller.\n\nFred. Clauss.\n\nH. B. Lemann.\n\nW. N. Middleton.\n\nJuo. Costeker.\n\nA. Sassoon. J. P. Cook.\n\nJ. B. Endicott.\n\nJ. M. Armstrong.\n\nW. S. Cook.\n\nAdolph Meyer.\n\nL. Hauschild. Joseph Hayes. D. R. Crawford. Chas. H. Morgan. Talbot, Oates & Co. F. Freire.\n\nS. B. Rawling.\n\nH. Jurgens.\n\nJames Gardiner.\n\nN. Willaume.\n\nMaxn. Fischer.\n\nJ. S. Hook.\n\nJ. J. dos Remedios.\n\nM. C. do Rozario.\n\nP. Macvicar.\n\nWm. Kane.\n\nJohn Townsend.\n\nT. D. Tillinghast.\n\nC. A. DeSilver.\n\nC. H. DeSilvor.\n\nGeo. Holmes.\n\nA. C. Levysohn.\n\nF. Grobien.\n\nA. Bauermeister.\n\nLouis Mendel. W. Paulsen.\n\nR. Freerks.\n\nJoan Fraser. Robert Brand.\n\nN. Simões.\n\nH. Marçal. Log. Russell.\n\nGeo. Smith.\n\nC. M. Bosman.\n\nW. Coan Ordit.\n\nGifford F. Parker.\n\nT. G. Determan.\n\nJno. Lapraik.\n\nG. N. Minto.\n\nF. Fagg.\n\nG. Falconer.\n\nA. Harley.\n\nJ. Noble.\n\nFrank Potter, 99th Regt.\n\nDepres Dongkong the bentang to the In Polison 27 dans Millist 7 Жари Le Rage 29 owell 38.41857\n\n2. 31 May /65.\n\nI am directed by the Lords of the Treasury to transmit to you a copy of a Hongkong Ordinance de 19/1885, \"Ordinance for the Incorporation Regulation and winding up of Trading Companies and other associations.\" I am to state that the Ordinance has been referred for the consideration of the Board of Trade.",
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        "content_text": "# EC \n9 FEB 1865 \n\nN97. Song song \n\n**Royal Mint** \n17th February 1865 \n122 \n\nagents \n\nI have the honour to request that instructions \nmay be given to the Crown Agents to discharge the accounts named in the margin \nRawlings 42.10.0 \nBailey 30.1.8 \nther 308.1.0 \nWA Node 125.12.3 \n#451.11.1 \nh alfour 105.1.0' \nhumbage.\n\nI have the hour to be obedient servant, \nYou or \nThe Muthunder, \nMastes of the Min \nof Beut \nto de Fuderic Rogers \n1920 Brony thing \nColonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "; \n\n1\n\n61\n\nYour Memorialists, in addition to objecting to the imposition of a Stamp tax as being in principle wrong, even for providing for a temporary deficit, do most solemnly and earnestly protest against the even more injurious policy, declared in Your Excellency's letter, of seizing the opportunity, of there being an alleged need of money, for a purely temporary and transitory purpose, to impose upon the Colony, and its trade, a yearly additional tax of $120,000, being equal to one seventh of the present annual Revenue.\n\nThe only argument Your Memorialists have heard in favour of taxation in this manner, is, that it is not politically expedient to derive all Revenue from one or more specific sources, but if this be true as an abstract proposition of political economy, surely the fact that, since the existence of the Colony, the Legislature have followed this course without even demur on the part of those taxed, is sufficient to shew, that Hongkong, in its circumstances, is in an exceptional position, and must be dealt with as the position requires, and not in the manner required by any abstract dogma or theory.\n\nThere are many other objections to the imposition of any Stamp tax, partly to the principle, and partly to the operation, of such a measure, on which Your Memorialists will not dilate, but they may point out, as instances, the severity and stringency of the provisions punishing breaches of the Ordinance, the difficulty and cost of collection, and almost certain evasion of it by such of the Chinese as retain here, its vexatious intricacy, and its inequality, in leaving untaxed a large body of Residents who, if not individually wealthy, are wealthy as classes or interests, and who ought to contribute to these local requirements.\n\nYour Memorialists in conclusion beg to express their conviction that though this is a Crown Colony, and they can be taxed by an Order in Council, or an express Order from the Government to the Governor here to levy a tax, or raise a subsidy, yet when, in compliance with the Standing Orders of the Legislative Council, and the whole previous course of practice here, the Council, as such, are asked to pass, or reject, a measure involving the mere mode of raising the requisite sums, Your Memorialists are then entitled to have their ideas on that subject received through the recognized medium, the Non-Official Members of the Council, and as their remonstrances were of no avail, they conceive themselves further entitled to bring before the Government the strong opinions they entertain on the matter, and firmly, though respectfully, to urge Your Excellency to a reconsideration of what is, at best, a mere question of expediency, affecting their interests only, and upon which they ought to be considered, if not the best judges, at least as the best exponents of the balance of benefit or prejudice that may result from the measure.\n\nYour Memorialists therefore humbly beg Your Excellency to reconsider the question, to defer such portion of the Expenditure as is not of immediate or vital import to the Colony to a more auspicious period; to raise any Sums that may be presently needed by some other, and less hurtful method, and to postpone indefinitely the further consideration of any Stamp Tax or at least until all other available and usual sources of taxation have been exhausted.\n\nAnd Your Memorialists will ever pray:\n\nB. 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Baltic.\n\nW. Kaye.\n\nW. T. Peda. Phillips,\n\nMoore & Co. Charles C. Cohen. M. Moore.\n\nB. Waller & Co.\n\nBhua Brothers & Co.\n\nE. Garetta.\n\nL. Lyon.\n\nFursatjee Nusserwanjee & Co.\n\nEugene Sequeira\n\nGibb, Livingston & Co.\n\nJohnson & Co.\n\nTurner & Co,\n\nA. Melwood.\n\nWm. C. Gomm.\n\nH. S. Innes.\n\nHobart Lambert\n\nT. B. Slatter.\n\nA. Einhorn. A Scott.\n\nThomas C. Russell\n\nJ. H. lton.\n\nJ. Smith\n\nJ. McEwen & Co.\n\nF. L. D. Sullivan.\n\nLane, Crawford & Co.\n\nT. Willardez.\n\nWidium Punchiappu,\n\nCharles Jameson,\n\nJ. B. Toppin,\n\nJ. Fairbairn.\n\nJohn L. Cox.\n\nR. Cathcart.\n\nM. G. de Souza.\n\nBonario & Co.\n\nWilliam T. Arney.\n\nH. Ralph.\n\nDwyer & Co.\n\nKaehner Roy & Co.\n\nFrancisco A. Gomes.\n\nDouglas Lapnik, & Co.\n\nJosiah E. Munger,\n\nJ. B. Abbott.\n\nE. Slate.\n\nWilliam H. Nolles.\n\nJ. Mantlehoy\n\nJ. D. Woodford.\n\nL. C. da Silva.\n\nRay & Co.\n\nA. Joinfo\n\nC. H. C. Lammerts,\n\nClare Latteiner. Otto Fridrich. George Whitehouse. A. 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Cama & Co\n\nM. Laljee\n\nDiorabhoy Poonjabhoy.\n\nJ. Hothboy.\n\nA. Sapoorjee,\n\nE. N. Usibio.\n\nA. Buliboi.\n\nC. P. Charter.\n\nWilliam Wetherall,\n\nH. F. Allymah.\n\nW. F. Dwijal.\n\nJ. Seare.\n\nE. Littlay.\n\nJ. Whistler\n\nC. A. Spring\n\nH. Nusserwanjee & Co.\n\nH. A. Shethjee & Co.\n\nFazal M. Dundy.\n\nT. D. Badabhoy & Co.\n\nH. M. Patel.\n\nNarmonjee & Co.\n\nB. Y. Guzder.\n\nB. Damodardas.\n\nJ. Nuthoo.\n\nL. Rissam.\n\nB. Ahadcolally:\n\nJairam Manjee & Co.\n\nP. Estanho\n\nM. M. Moren\n\nAbdoolally, Ebrahim & Co.\n\nA. Alexander.\n\nF. V. H. Eduljee & Co.\n\nN. Abdoolally.\n\nH. H. Oozeer.\n\nMohanbhai\n\nVaurynsey & Co.\n\nM. D. Handy & Co.\n\nM. Bomonji.\n\nD. Vursajee & Co.\n\nA. Teetuji.\n\nP. & A. C. Canjee & Co.\n\nCowasjee Pullan & Co.\n\nB. Rustomjee.\n\nJudah & Co.\n\nJeshna & Co.",
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        "content_text": "Mr Kydd \n\nto Mr. Rawlinson. \n\nCory. \n\nbe \n\naugmented \n\nI must ever \n\n205 \n\napprove here conditions, that \n\nthe \n\nsalary \n\ncommence leaving, and terminate with \n\nfrom my \n\narrival home. \n\nmy \n\nand that the \n\noutward and \n\nreturn passages. \n\nbe paid by my employers. \n\nI shall be \n\nglad \n\nto \n\nfurnish testimony \n\n422 \n\nto my \n\nability \n\ncharacter and general \n\nqualifications. I shall be prepared \n\nto enter \n\nupon the \n\nengagement \n\nalmost immediately \n\nLam te \n\n[...] E. Skaley. \n\nR. Rawlinsm Esyre \n\n7. Terjeanti Eun. \n\nFleer Sheet. \n\n17th December 1866. \n\nI herewith submit to \n\nyou my propositions relative to the appointment at Hong Kong, and \n\nenclose for your perusal testimonials from my \n\nemployers. \n\nI am \n\nquite willing \n\nto go \n\nout on \n\nthe following terms: - \n\nMy salary to be £400 \n\nper annum.",
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        "content_text": "arrangements for with the officer in charge Then Wangkong (as agreed upon by the Board of Management), for locking papers to that Chest against Regent to be mentioned by the pressing here; You will report fully & precisely\n\nEn\n\nof any much\n\nthe century\n\narrangement.\n\n\"I have\n\n152. Song Song\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following\n\nNumber should be quoted.\n\n93\n\n11831/66\n\nREC\n\nTreasury Chambers\n\nJULY 27 1866\n\n26th July 1866\n\n284\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to request that you will inform the Earl of Carnarvon that\n\nTheir Lordships have just received, from the War Department, the particulars relating to Mr Samuel J. Rawlings, a Clerk of Works in Her Royal Engineer Department with a view to his being granted a Retired allowance in consequence of bodily infirmity\n\nPage 16\n\n143\n\n9181/63\n\nafter\n\nIn Papers which have been forwarded to this Board it is stated that Mr Rawlings was employed by the War Department on Colonial Works in China for about 3½ years from\n\nfor the Colonies\n\nthe\n\nth\n\nPage 17\n\n \n(Three lines at the end are not available, as the original text does not provide the exact content for the remaining lines at the bottom of the page.)\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format as requested, here is the revised output in HTML:\n\narrangements for with the officer in charge Then Wangkong (as agreed upon by the Board of Management), for locking papers to that Chest against Regent to be mentioned by the pressing here; You will report fully & precisely\n\nEn\n\nof any much\n\nthe century\n\narrangement.\n\n\"I have\n\n152. Song Song\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following\n\nNumber should be quoted.\n\n93\n\n11831/66\n\nREC\n\nTreasury Chambers\n\nJULY 27 1866\n\n26th July 1866\n\n284\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to request that you will inform the Earl of Carnarvon that\n\nTheir Lordships have just received, from the War Department, the particulars relating to Mr Samuel J. Rawlings, a Clerk of Works in Her Royal Engineer Department with a view to his being granted a Retired allowance in consequence of bodily infirmity\n\n143\n\n9181/63\n\nafter\n\nIn Papers which have been forwarded to this Board it is stated that Mr Rawlings was employed by the War Department on Colonial Works in China for about 3½ years from\n\nfor the Colonies\n\nthe\n\nth\n\nPage 16\n\nPage 17\n\n is not directly available but the last three lines should be kept if they were \"the\", \"th\", and a potential next line or page numbering like \"Page 17\". Since the exact content isn't directly inferable, sticking strictly to the given output and the original scan description for page numbering:\nPage 16\n\n...\n\nPage 17\n\nRevised to fit the exact requested output without additional lines or inferring content not directly given:\narrangements for with the officer in charge Then Wangkong (as agreed upon by the Board of Management), for locking papers to that Chest against Regent to be mentioned by the pressing here; You will report fully & precisely\n\nEn\n\nof any much\n\nthe century\n\narrangement.\n\n\"I have\n\n152. Song Song\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following\n\nNumber should be quoted.\n\n93\n\n11831/66\n\nREC\n\nTreasury Chambers\n\nJULY 27 1866\n\n26th July 1866\n\n284\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to request that you will inform the Earl of Carnarvon that\n\nTheir Lordships have just received, from the War Department, the particulars relating to Mr Samuel J. Rawlings, a Clerk of Works in Her Royal Engineer Department with a view to his being granted a Retired allowance in consequence of bodily infirmity\n\nPage 16\n\n143\n\n9181/63\n\nafter\n\nIn Papers which have been forwarded to this Board it is stated that Mr Rawlings was employed by the War Department on Colonial Works in China for about 3½ years from\n\nfor the Colonies\n\nthe\n\nth\n\nPage 17",
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        "content_text": "I am directed by Carnarvon to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 26th ult., expecting the return of the service, off the Coast, of Mr. B. Rawlings, an exceptional...\n\n...officer who has been invalided home on account of ill health incurred in the service (near to/from with the concurrence of the Treasury).\n\nBut I am to state that His Lordship is not prepared to sanction the proposal to grant to Mr. Rawlings a pension for life of ￡... per annum.\n\nAs it appears to me that to bruise the work was finished & secure from the Along an excellent, namely, for a time, I washed there preposterous comments on the Minute & to add 5 years to his temporary 3 years.\n\nBut it appears to me that the work was finished & secure from the Along an excevalente namely tror a I washed ther preposterous Comme wonder the Renate at all.\n\nMINUTE\n\nM. M. Vaderler Lonitas carmen 9.\n\nThere is a little desitation about this Mawn & the heldical trims of that su Rawhigo'+ test bis.\n\nThe Earl of Carnarvon has plt a little desitation about this.\n\nIn 1861 St. Rawhups lent to the Colonial fort.\n\nPage 3981\n\nP2P(3-5S)\n\nDZ N could han doisid from Zach J Jean it worthiefs. best t Höller sein. Чесет Corner hein under the Minute.\n\nTo grant to bein in...\n\n...immate emply inthont been invalide anthon perete Yan on...\n\n...any...\n\nPage 3982\n\nA Hamilton En Hough ong 2 Mat 715 2\n\n286 11 Au bi\n\nVeterin sqular Pan to complete Jo of thi\n\nRawlings was known to Buy Sun & Ropper ston Clone Ski explogement.\n\nWiteler see what Pray.\n\nAs a temporary officii de a mat.\n\nthe Walin Worles\n\nAMIN AHMAD\n\nлir с мез",
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        "content_text": "The Lordships also approve the engagement of an Overseer for the Works on the terms specified in the letter from Despatch No. 116 of 18th January.\n\nJam. Die, Jonn, bedient want hope ward Stunt also send copy of letter to ask du Rawlines.\n\nNow instruct Agents to comply with he will oblige Cord Sameron in recommending qualified person for the post of Overseer.\n\nM. Ellist 17 Art Es of the Rece worr.\n\nWith reference to Governor sanctioning the work & the Expenditure incurred, stilling him what has been done with regard to the Overseer.\n\nW. R. mislaying, At nee. the Requis Mon to them 31. Thul.\n\nThe letter from Aquits, Mm Fors Foushong 10-9 2 3 tenterede Iraiz Aus: 12152 Trave 20 Nov/66.\n\nGentleman, In reply to your letter of the 30 Nov 70, I am directed to request you to comply with the requirements Enumerated by the Superintendant which relates to the Construction of the proposed Reservoir at Pokef colum Stoughtong.\n\nAgents Copy for: No. 19-2 Jeb/67 - 1915.\n\nI am also desired to transmit to you...\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and output only HTML using `` for paragraphs, here is the revised response:\n\nThe Lordships also approve the engagement of an Overseer for the Works on the terms specified in the letter from Despatch No. 116 of 18th January.\n\nJam. Die, Jonn, bedient want hope ward Stunt also send copy of letter to ask du Rawlines.\n\nNow instruct Agents to comply with he will oblige Cord Sameron in recommending qualified person for the post of Overseer.\n\nM. Ellist 17 Art Es of the Rece worr.\n\nWith reference to Governor sanctioning the work & the Expenditure incurred, stilling him what has been done with regard to the Overseer.\n\nW. R. mislaying, At nee. the Requis Mon to them 31. Thul.\n\nThe letter from Aquits, Mm Fors Foushong 10-9 2 3 tenterede Iraiz Aus: 12152 Trave 20 Nov/66.\n\nGentleman, In reply to your letter of the 30 Nov 70, I am directed to request you to comply with the requirements Enumerated by the Superintendant which relates to the Construction of the proposed Reservoir at Pokef colum Stoughtong.\n\nAgents Copy for: No. 19-2 Jeb/67 - 1915.\n\nI am also desired to transmit to you...",
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        "content_text": "5\n\nAnsu ? 29 bet\n\n10146 Honig Kising\n\nSir\n\nRECEIVED\n\nOCT 25 1866\n\n167 Coleman Street, London, E.C.\n\n24th October 1866\n\nReferring to your favor of the 17th inst., in reference to our application of the 10th inst., asking for a copy of the regulations affecting the receipt of presents by public functionaries, we beg to state that in accordance with your kind suggestion, we have applied to Messrs Harrisons and find that the Colonial Office list is now out of print and that the fresh volume will not be ready until the close of the present year.\n\nWe have also made enquiry elsewhere but are unable to find a copy. Under these circumstances, we trust we shall be allowed to attend at your Office for the purpose of making a copy or that you will permit a copy thereof to be supplied in accordance with our original request.\n\nWe have no occasion to observe that we have the circular whereby the Rule in question (the 3rd) was made applicable to Hong Kong.\n\nTrusting the favor of an early reply.\n\nYour Obed! Servts\n\nLeaker Son & Rawlins\n\nDowning Street\n\nFrederic Rogers Esq.\n\nColonial Office",
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        "content_text": "HAQ St\n\n... Lu Magen. Can their Gution I Jumish Mesorflarke. with the page old copy alerier W R out\n\nC.10746. Reaal lanke Rawlins to Entered Stullenen 168 29 Oct. 1860\n\nIn reply to your letter of the 24 inst, I am directed by the Earl of Elgin to transmit to you Extract from the General Order, which will furnish you with the Rules & Regulations regarding the recapture and disposal of presents before officers, for your guidance in the suit you have applied.\n\nFR.",
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        "content_text": "Governor\n\nHongkong...\n\nNo 348.\n\n10th August 1867.\n\nSir Richard Graves MacDonnell, C.B.\n\nto\n\nHis Grace,\n\nThe Duke of Buckingham and Chandos,\n\nWater Works.\n\nPokfulam Reservoir.\n\nIn answer to His Grace's Despatch No 13 of 6th June last, states reasons for not sending Drawings.\n\nMr Rawlinson was of opinion that before any metal work was ordered for the Pokfulam Reservoir, the Engineer - the Superintending Engineer should be required to furnish specifications & drawings (265378).\n\nTo whom the Superintending Engineer replied that Vital drawings, which should have been furnished from the Colony in 1871. The four reports that he did not call on Mr Wilson for drawings in the first instance because of the extra expense they entail and he suggests that after Mr Rawlins has perused Mr Wilson's reports and after communicating with the Assistant Surveyor who is now on his way home, he may be in a position to instruct the Agents to call for tenders.\n\nMr Rawlins has not already seen the report of the 23rd April 1871 (No 6258).\n\nHad the drawings been sent home when the work was just about to be commenced under contract, much time & correspondence would have been saved and expense also, for I conclude Mr Rawlins' charges for further consultations.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "title": "CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "## Copy \n\n2°5 \n\nche \n\n`Ju 1220/86` \n\n162 \n\nThe Mint, Mongkok - \n\n22nd November, 1867. \n\nI have the honor to acknowledge \nthe receipt of your \nletter #264s of \nyesterday's date enclosing the correspondence with Mr. Rawlins therein referred to, \nwhich is returned herewith. \n\nIn accordance with the request \nof His Excellency the Governor I beg to report \non: Rawlins as \nto the assertions of \nthe 2nd and 3rd \ncharges advanced in the \n\nThe Honorable, \nThe Acting Colonial Secretary:",
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        "document_key": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]",
        "page_number": 420,
        "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "24 of the 250 which Dr Munay's calculations would include.\n\n28. I have not thought it desirable to await any report of the commission now sitting before forwarding the information embodied in this despatch and its enclosures, because I think Your Grace should have the earliest means of reconsidering the expediency of ordering all women in Chinese Brothels to be included in the periodical examination which is admitted to be beneficial to the others. Some of the political and moral questions connected with that subject are of very great importance, and many discussions I fear may arise which I scarcely think it expedient to provoke - whilst, under any circumstances, it would appear more politic to introduce gradually than suddenly the proposed Medical examination. If experience under the New Ordinance demonstrates its necessity, its necessity merely to protect the Soldiers and sailors is a question of fact not of principle, and in two months I shall probably have collected such an amount of evidence as shall decide the point, which of course is unconnected with Your Grace's other object of protecting the women.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nYour Grace's\nmost obedient humble servant,\nRawlins Francis Mardoomal \nGovernor.\n\nPage 420\nPage 421",
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        "document_key": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]",
        "page_number": 350,
        "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]",
        "content_text": "The proprietor has always taken a part in opposing Emigrations and has got himself more than once into the Law Courts of this Colony for libel. I am not aware that either himself or the Editor have taken the trouble to make themselves acquainted with the method adopted here for the prevention of fraudulently obtained Coolies leaving this Port. They certainly never visited a Coolie shed nor have they asked me any questions on the subject; I therefore submit that the articles of this Paper should be accepted with caution.\n\nThe \"Daily Press\" has more generally advocated the system of emigration. I attach an Extract from that paper of the 14th September 1867 which goes a great way in refutation of the \"China Mail\" statements.\n\nIn conclusion, I beg leave to refer His Excellency to a correspondence in May and June 1865 on the subject of reports made to the Secretary of State through the Emigration Commissioners by Mr. Sampson, Agent at Canton.\n\nThis correspondence resulted in this Government being cleared of the stigma endeavoured to be put upon it by Mr. Sampson.\n\nI am quite prepared to submit the whole of my proceedings in Emigration Matters to the judgment of any competent, fair, and impartial person. You had a large experience in the despatch of Emigrants, and I shall be glad when the season again arrives, to show you that my action as Emigration Officer is the same now as when you had the charge of the British West Indian Emigration from this Port, and which at that time was conducted without complaint from any quarter.\n\nI attach a Copy of the Contract.\n\n## \n### LONDON BANKERS\n| Bankers |\n| --- |\n| Bank of England |\n| London Joint Stock Bank |\n\n### SOLICITORS\n| Solicitors |\n| --- |\n| S. Clarke, Sons, & Rawlins, Coleman St. |\n\n### AUDITORS\n| Auditors |\n| --- |\n| S. Coleman, Turquand, Younge & Co., Accountants |\n\n### References\n* 3 Joseph Mackenzie, Esq., late of Messrs. W. Nicol & Co., China.\n\n### Branches and Agencies\n| Location |\n| --- |\n| Bombay |\n\nPage 342 \n\nDonald Macnack, Esq.  \nGeorge May, Esq.  \nSir Frederick J. Halliday  \nJames M. Robertson, Esq.  \nEllis James Gilman, Esq.  \nJ Trail Robertson, Esq.--Chief-Manager.  \nGeorge Gardeu Nicol, Esq.—Undermen.",
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        "content_text": "# To H. E. Sir RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, \n\n**C.B., Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies**\n\nMay it please your Excellency,\n\nthe undersigned Barristers, Bankers, Physicians, Solicitors, Merchants, Shipowners, Traders, Shipwrights, Innkeepers, and others interested in the prosperity of Hongkong, beg to bring to your Excellency's notice certain proceedings on the part of the Chinese Authorities, which amount, we believe, to a direct and high-handed attack upon the commerce of the island, and which, if suffered to continue, will most prejudicially affect the well-being of the Colony.\n\nChinese Custom-house stations have been, or are in course of being, erected at the Cap-ring-moon, the Ly-e-moon, and Kowloon, for the purpose of levying exactions, under the denomination of “duties,” upon that portion of the trade of this colony which is carried on in Chinese bottoms. Such stations, if intended for the object alone of collecting duties upon merchandise passing into the interior at the points which this required, could not reasonably be objected to; but the establishments in question are supported by a force of steam gunboats and armed Government junks, by means of which they impudently threaten to levy tolls, on and after the 20th instant, from every native craft passing through the colonial waters, no matter whence it comes or whither its destination. The effect is as though we were at war with China, and the port blockaded. But the Chinese Authorities have gone further. Officers connected with the stations of which we complain are in the colony, and, it is understood, will be prepared to lend to the natives “Comprador Chope” upon payment within the island of the extortions which they falsely term \"duties!\" The natural results are not wanting; already excessive uncertainty and alarm prevail among our Chinese population, and the trade of the colony has been brought to almost a dead-lock.\n\nComment or remark from us upon the attitude which the Chinese Authorities have thus assumed towards Hongkong and your Excellency's Government appears to be supererogatory. Your Excellency does not need to have set forth to you the grave importance of the social, financial, commercial, and international consequences involved in such extraordinary action as that which we have just described. Your Excellency will feel as deeply as we do the insult offered to the Queen's dignity, and the blow aimed at the independence of the Colony under your charge. But our interests of every kind are so intimately bound up with the overthrow of the evil which we are now denouncing, that we cannot refrain from most urgently praying your Excellency to put in force without delay whatever measures may seem best calculated to achieve that object.\n\nWe have the honour to remain,\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient humble servants,\n\n| Name | Firm/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| Jowling, Matheson & Co. |  |\n| Gibbs, Livingston & Co. |  |\n| The Romick Co., Limited |  |\n| Augustine Heard & Co. |  |\n| David Sassoon, Son & Co. |  |\n| E. I. Scammon, & Co. |  |\n| A. Bailo |  |\n| Visto Krem | For the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Chief Manager |\n| W. Jackson |  |\n| Wm. Macandrew | Superintendent P. & O. Co. |\n| G. F. Bowen |  |\n| E. Delbanco | For the Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris, Hongkong Agency, Manager |\n| Tandstein & Co. |  |\n| Lane, Crawford & Co |  |\n| N. Molloy |  |\n| C. B. K. MacKenzie |  |\n| L. A. Molka |  |\n| Edward Selby, trust & Co. |  |\n| Hobert S. Walker & Co. |  |\n| Thos. Hunt & Co. |  |\n| D. Rattanjee & Co. |  |\n| MacEwen & Co. |  |\n| Muller & Claussen |  |\n| Connolly, Lapraik & Co. |  |\n| John S. Lapraik | For the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. Limited, Secretary |\n| Holliday, Wise & Co. |  |\n| Robt. Watson | Union Insurance Society |\n| Philippa, Moore & Co. |  |\n| Joha, Thorburn & Co. |  |\n| Remedios & Co. |  |\n| Alfred Wilkinson & Co. |  |\n| J.J. dos Remedios & Co. |  |\n| J. Willame |  |\n| Taljes Franjeos, Sons & Co. |  |\n| Rozzolo & Co. |  |\n| Byandas & Co. |  |\n| Norval & Sons |  |\n| V. P. Soars & Co. |  |\n| C. Braes & Co. |  |\n| De Souza & Co. |  |\n| M. J. Pâquico |  |\n| J. Ferreira |  |\n| Max. Fischer |  |\n| Kyn van Brothers & Co. |  |\n| Thos. C. Bayley |  |\n| Brown & Co. |  |\n| C. A. M. Nuwis |  |\n| Aunkholt, Krusborg & Co. |  |\n| D. R. Cahirwall |  |\n| F. L. Hazlehurst |  |\n| H. C. Caldwell |  |\n| A. B. Watson & Co. |  |\n| A. L. Garrod |  |\n| G. Fairbairn |  |\n| Sayle & Co |  |\n| S. W. Baker & Co |  |\n| G. Dods, M.D. |  |\n| Michfield & Zurich |  |\n| E. Holmes |  |\n| De Silver & Co. |  |\n| K. A. Prior |  |\n| Chas. Hivington |  |\n| Ray & Co. |  |\n| Vincent & Co. |  |\n| Dabost & Co. |  |\n| L. Frickel & Co. |  |\n| G. W. Swelling |  |\n| F. Blackhead & Co. |  |\n| John Jack |  |\n| Ven. tilasse |  |\n| Cavnague Pabanjen & Co. |  |\n| F. H. Edaljee & Co. |  |\n| Y. K. Bah |  |\n| P. & A. C. Camajee & Co. |  |\n| J.B. Colah |  |\n| D. C. Tata |  |\n| N. Habibhoy |  |\n| Niemissen & Co. |  |\n| Rawling, Medwin & Co. |  |\n| Beiss & Co. |  |\n| Melcher & Co. |  |\n| Birley & Co. |  |\n| A. Comal |  |\n| W. M. Morgan & Co. |  |\n| H. Kier |  |\n| A. Hancock |  |\n| J. Hochstetter |  |\n| Janjeebhoy Vimam |  |\n| Pazul Mahomed Dama |  |\n| Abrahimbhoy Pabaner |  |\n| Henry Prucker |  |\n| Lammert, Atkinson & Co. |  |\n| F. Black Donnel & Co. |  |\n| A. Boyer |  |\n| B. P. Ranger |  |\n| D. Vassonjee |  |\n| Budroodin Ardeshir |  |\n| Abdoolally Ebrahim & Co. |  |\n| Cowasjee Nowrojee |  |\n| Dhurmochur Poznik.bog |  |\n| D. Goolam Hoosein & Co. |  |\n| Jairajbhoy Ierbhoy |  |\n| Gen. F. Maclean |  |\n| F. Degener |  |\n| Deetjen & Von Borgen |  |\n| C. D. Bettonley |  |\n| J. M. Armstrong |  |\n| A. E. Vaucher |  |\n| Bourjan, Raisener & Co. |  |\n| Bell, Purdon & Co |  |\n| W. S. Adam, M.D. |  |\n\n397",
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        "content_text": "## \n610 \n\nThe property is worth about $30,000 and from the documents sent in by Messrs Rawling, Medlen & H all and M. Halland, it would appear that they value it at $35,000. Under the circumstances, as sole valuer appointed by the terms of the Leases, I fix the amount of compensation to be paid by the Government on resumption at $32,500.\n\n(Signed) W. Wilson  \n**CIP**  \nSurveyor General  \n\n(True Copy)  \n(Signed) W. Wilson  \nS.G.  \n**Acting Colonial Secretary**  \n\n(Copy) Whereas by an Indenture of Lease dated the twenty-eighth day of March A.D. 1846, Her Majesty The Queen did demise Inland Lot Number One hundred and ninety-one to Adolphus Edward Ebellery for a term of Seventy-five years upon the terms and subject to the reservations therein expressed, whereby power was reserved unto Her Britannic Majesty to resume and take like possession of the ground thereby demised if required for the improvement of the Colony of Hong Kong or for any other public purpose whatsoever, three calendar months' notice being given to the occupant thereof of its being required and a full and fair compensation for the said Land and...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]",
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        "content_text": "which has become vacant \n\n7 \n\nthrough the resignation of Mr. Alford. \n\nMr Natz has had many years' experience in the profession to which he belongs, three of which have been spent in Hongkong. \n\nHe has been Assistant to Messrs Rawling Medlen and S%, architects, Surveyors &c., and is well spoken of by all who know him, and Mr Price, Surveyor-General, has formed a very favourable opinion of his qualifications. \n\nI would beg to solicit your Excellency's approval of his temporary appointment; on the understanding, however, that should I be able to report satisfactorily after three months' probation, he may be confirmed in his appointment. \n\nPending the settlement of the Staff of the Survey Department, I do not propose to designate him Inspector of Buildings, but simply Assistant. The Salary of the office is £400 per annum, with £45 for Chair allowance, as will be seen from the enclosed `XCR(73)214`. \n\n2. Oct. 73 \n163",
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        "document_key": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873",
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        "title": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873",
        "content_text": "## Offices of the Crown Agents for the Colonies\nSpring Gardens London S.W.\n\nJanuary 1873\n\nWith reference to your letter of 21 instant respecting the queries raised by Mr. Rawlins on the subject of the Sookun Engineer's letter, I transmit, for the Earl of Kimberley's consideration, copy of a letter from Mr. Morrison, in which he enquires whether he is to be remunerated for the trouble he may have taken in this matter.\n\nI have the honor to be  \nSir,  \nYour most obedient servant,  \n[Signature]\n\n**CEIV 0.0. 23 JAN 1973**  \n22 \n\nCopy of letter from W. Morrison, late Sawyer of the General Office, Hong Kong, to Rawlins.\n\ndone by a retired Colonial Officer. In this case, I would only pay expenses, telling another, he may have been out of pocket. Having just arrived from the Colony, it is natural that he should be called upon to offer any explanations required by the Examining Engineers respecting matters lately under his charge which have been found to be defective.  \nUpon resignation last year, he received a gratuity of six months' full pay, which was sanctioned by the Secretary of State with some hesitation.\n\n**RM 24/1**  \nTo be addressed to The Crown Agents for the Colonies.  \n17 Jan 1873\n\nDr.  \n[Signature]  \nJan 25  \nI agree.  \nS.M. Herbert East  \nJan 25",
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        "content_text": "## \na population has necessitated a larger supply than that which was thus obtainable during the dry Season.\n\nIf I remember rightly - writing from memory only - it was in the year 1852 that this want began to make itself loudly felt, and a premium was then offered by the Government for the best scheme for supplying the City.\n\nIt was ultimately awarded to Mr. Rawlings, whose suggestions were, with few attracting alterations, carried out. They consisted of the construction of a Granite Masonry dam across a gorge in the Pokfoolum valley, from which a ten-inch cast iron conduit pipe conveyed the water to two service tanks in the City. This pipe was laid under and followed the line of the carriage road from Pokfoolum to Victoria, a distance of about 3 miles.\n\nThe dam at Pokfoolum - which was 150 feet long and 15 feet high - did not form a supply of water but merely served the purpose of forming a small pond from which the water flowed into the Conduit pipe.\n\n## \nIn 1865, the want of an Impounding Reservoir began to be perceived, and the Government then obtained the plans for making that at Pokfoolum, which was commenced in the latter part of the following year.\n\nI took charge of these works on my arrival in the Colony in June 1867, and found at that time the site of the Embankment prepared and a quantity of plant and materials ready for the work.\n\nIt was intended that the Reservoir, as designed, would contain One hundred million gallons (100,000,000), but I did not deem it advisable to excavate so much of the interior of the Reservoir as had been proposed. Consequently, when completed, it did not actually contain more than Sixty-seven million gallons (67,000,000).\n\nIt is owing to this cause that the idea has arisen that the work is defective, because the quantity of water is not so extensive as was originally expected it would be.\n\n## \nSome considerable alterations were made in the early part of 1870, which were sanctioned by the Government.",
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        "content_text": "sensibly short of the actual requirement,\n\nto, I believe in practice, scarcely amounting to, I believe in decor.\n\n500,000 (Two hundred thousand) gallons for if the water were drawn off at this rate only, making allowance for the inflow previously mentioned but without taking evaporation into consideration, it would last out for 190 days.\n\nIf again the full quantity could be delivered with the City from Pokfoolum, it would only last out about 414 days.\n\nI have before stated that the 10-inch cast Iron conduit pipe suggested by Mr. Rawlings was laid under the Carriage road from Pokfoolum to Victoria – This road is excessively tortuous and uneven. Its curvatures are only partly seen on the plan on account of the diminutive size of the larger plan; they would be more apparent on a larger scale.\n\nFrom the outlet of the Reservoir at Pokfoolum to the point marked A at the western end of the City being a distance of 2 miles 50 chains, it has a fall of 350 feet - distributed very unevenly over this distance.\n\nFrom this point A to N°1 Tank, a further length of 55 chains - it rises unevenly 100 feet - and this is its main point of delivery. Here however it is connected to a six-inch pipe - which, on the stopcock leading to N°1 Tank being closed, conveys a supply to the Albany Tank, a further distance of 65 chains and with an additional rise of 150 feet.\n\nThe total fall is thus 350 ft and the total rise 250 ft - The pipe leaves the Reservoir at Pokfoolum at an altitude of 500 feet above the sea - and the highest point of delivery is 400 feet, but it has descended between these points to a height of only 150 feet above the sea.\n\nThere is therefore great loss of pressure by the numerous bends and the inequalities of levels - and still the height at which the water is delivered is not sufficient, as there are even now four houses situated above the 400 feet level.",
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        "content_text": "# Skey \n\nThe 26th September last.\n\nare not prepared to advise \n\nthe Earl of Carmarvon to agree to \n\nany \n\n## Govern...\n\nloner \n\nTreasury \n\n6703 \n\nSir Arthur Kennedy \n\n**MINUTE.** \n\n148 \n\nIndexed \n\n717 \n\n20 June 1876. \n\nExtension of the 4th Clause \n\nof the Ordinance \n\nof 1866, nor if that ordinance were now \n\nfor \n\nthe first time before them, are they \n\nprepared to say that they would \n\nadvise his Lordship to approve of it. \n\nI am, \n\nSir, \n\nYour obedient servant, \n\nWilling Rawlins \n\nMor. Round 16th June \n\nMr. Meade. \n\n19 \n\nFor H. J. Holland. \n\nMer. Herbert. Mor, Lowther \n\nLord Carnarvon. \n\n| Section | Date | Ref |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| - | 20 April 1874 | (1356) |\n| - | 17 Jun | 2 |\n\nJasu \n\nCo. Morewith J.19- \n\ndraft to Bank. \n\nWith reference to your despatch no. 20 of the 30th of \n\nFebruary respecting the introduction \n\nof an Ordinance to amend the \n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank \n\nOrdinance of 1866, I have the honour to transmit to you for your information copies of correspondence that has passed on the subject between the Lombard Street Branch of the Corporation, the Treasury, and other departments.",
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        "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]",
        "content_text": "years from date of issue, would command better terms in London than those appeared by the Bank; and that the Commission charged by the Agts Dept. (including 8% brokerage) is, as laid down in Circular Desp: of 23 Jan: 1868, only 1⁄2 percent for superintending the preparation of the Debentures & disposing of them, as compared with 2 per Cent demanded by the Bank for selling them to themselves - while the charge for paying the interest & managing The Sinking fund would only amount\n\nstill in one operation, the issue of the Water Works and Praya Loans, could be authorised by one Ordinance be combined.\n\nto Mr Quire on such interest or the annual sum of £6.5.0 per Annum, as compared to an unknown sum to be paid to the Bank for such Services. Such a loan placed on this market would moreover pave the way to better terms for the Bank's next operation, swelling the amount as it would to quotable quantity in the Share Lists of the Stock Exchange, and thus give Hong Kong Securities a Marketable character.\n\nIf it be determined to borrow in London, something like a prospectus should be sent home, setting forth the financial Condition & prospects of the Colony, as shown by the Exports, imports, revenue, Expenditure, and Debts, during The last seven years, down to the latest possible period. P.G.J\n\n167 29/10/75\n\n1766) Hong Kong Water Supply\n\nW. Mende\n\nIn the papers.\n\nCre\n\n371\n\nthe valves have been out of order for some time (in 1874/5). I concur with Messrs. Price & Son in their general opinion that the original Works would have cost £302,147–\n\nMr. Rawlins, to whom the question was referred, proposed a more moderate estimate for construction from Victoria. Lee's deals £869./94 -\n\n1. Aqueduct from ... at a cost of £136400-\n\nde quation Laving been opened back...",
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        "page_number": 581,
        "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875",
        "content_text": "As to the Turmegor Gaud's proposals with the addendum suggested by Sir J. Pauncefote as to name\n\n01\n\nCheap and efficient type of wall as profitable. It is desirable & most soon to be adopted.\n\nSir A. Kennedy\n\nand War Office returns & Hong Kong were mouth and it would be unfair for him to see at there debt reporting their bearing\n\nthe proper premises the Imperial for portion of\n\nthe cost\n\nRe Water Works\n\nSeparated as some\n\nWhere founded on\n\nadministrations\n\nwill be dealt with\n\nthe harbour. dion? Rawlins...\n\nis meant for the Echong.\n\nMr. Herbert in\n\nof primary\n\nthat the gambling loan should be retained, and\n\nI could therefore propose\n\nloans\n\nfrom\n\nto lend\n\nthis fund as\n\nin\n\n$570\n\nmashe found necessary to jeet & a certain constitution of 2% for Sinking Fund & without making any claim for interest. This will be sufficient to invoke the top of some\n\nas at present\n\nthe\n\nsilent arising from the Jamthing paid into the lot. Treasury.\n\nRm 15/9\n\nFund\n\nYes. I agree. I am obliged\n\nSir J. Pauncefote\n\n17. Sep.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876",
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        "content_text": "DOMESTIC.\n\nshould be considered- on its own merits and I am to request that the Lords Commissioners of the treasury will favour his Lordship with their opinion as to the answer that should be returned.\n\nThe despatch from the Administrator of Hong Kong of 2nd October - No. 6753.\n\n(Subject.)\n\nreading Copy of Chartered Mercantile Bank of India.\n\nDate. 1876.\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nEncs.\n\nTreas.\n\n76-H & S (20)85 London & China for leave to issue One Dollar Notes.\n\nForwards 2 letters from Messrs Clacker Rawlins & Co. making application on behalf of the \"Bank\" and expressing great disaffection at the course in granting to the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank the privilege.\n\nMr Meade:\n\nI prepared the draft with A. Kennedy on Friday last week, I was away on Monday so that I did not see this letter until after that draft was passed, written and numbered.\n\nI am on the whole rather glad that we sent off to the Governor that despatch, which is comparatively mild in tone, before this letter was received. It is more severe in tone than 10491/13 & 19647/74, for the Governor.",
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        "content_text": "has had copies of both those letters\n\nI should have thought that he have been sufficiently rebuked for what he\n\ninexpedient. I think he ought to have a copy\n\ndid in 1872, now admits was\n\nof the latter sent to the Bank in this Country but I don't see that\n\nTe\n\nfood will be done by sending him\n\nthis letter.\n\nI submit a draft\n\nbh. Weasing specially on the dulged\n\n(I must apologize for Jan 9/6/76.\n\nnot having carried on the Minute on 13988 more promptly as that might have saved us from the shaft contained in this letter).\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following\n\nNumber should be quoted.\n\n8.739.76.\n\nletters\n\nInebrarlo.\n\nSer.\n\n1773\n\n76\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\n86\n\n3rd June, 18:60\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury to forward\n\nEnclosure\n\nto\n\nyou\n\ntwo letters which have been received\n\nfrom Messrs. Clarkes Rawkins\n\nor\n\nClarke Mercantile\n\non behalf of the Chartered\n\nBank of India London\n\nand China, and I am\n\nto request\n\nthe attention\n\nof the Secretary of State to the\n\nPrayer\n\nthat the\n\nBank\n\nmay be\n\nallowed to issue one dollar\n\nin Hong-Kong.\n\nMy Lords have always anticipated\n\nthat this result must, as\n\nof course,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nPage 90\n\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "90\n\nto this subject, and\n\nAlso of the answer which Lord Carmarion\n\nhas returned to those despatches,\n\nwhich was\n\nprepared\n\nin response to the receipt of\n\nyour letter how under\n\nreply\n\nFrom this correspondence\n\ntheir Lordships will\n\nperceive that the views of\n\nLord Carnarvon & the Governor\n\nof Hongkong concurring\n\nas to the\n\nundesirability of granting\n\n4:77-6 June\n\nAny further concessions of that nature to\n\nthe local Bank.\n\nare in accordance with those\n\nWith reference to Mr. F. Kennedy a copy\n\nof the letter of the above\n\nI June\n\nwhich was\n\naddressed\n\nto Mr. Clarke Rawling\n\nby their Lordship's\n\ndirections on the 2nd of June.\n\nletter, a separate Communication from their Lordship's\n\ndated in addressed to you\n\non the subject of the Currency of Hongkong.\n\nIt is\n\nexpressed\n\nin\n\nyour\n\nletter\n\n& his Lordship is of opinion\n\nthat no further action is\n\nrequired beyond communicating",
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        "content_text": "DOMESTIC.\n\nhave been paid before\n\nJon recave this despatch-\n\nཡིན་པ་\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\ntrong trong\n\nNo 12044\n\n(Subject.)\n\n122\n\nCentury, I sauce of One Dollar Notes by Chartered\n\nOch\n\nDáte.\n\nLast previous Paper\n\n12041\n\nof way any\n\nCity creeß ich hr 50 ho\n\n149\n\nJurcantile Bank of Duden London & Quin\n\nForwards Copy letter thereon from, Mess: Clackes\n\nof Treasury reply\n\n16 rms, 7 | 76~11 & S 1845)\n\nRawlins & Clacker and\n\nMr. Neade\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nевате\n\nFond Carnarvon will Spea\n\nExpress his concurrence in the answer of My Lords for. Nesse Clarke.\n\nmy\n\nThe mother point I think the\n\nTreasury might make, ing that the book was 1th in 1873 histracted & have the isme of the H. H. Bank withdrawn, it was only in receipt of the memorial Contained in 5555, 74, which this well as former memorial Banker signed, praying\n\nthat the notes in\n\nmight\n\nJ&LHC Keuk\n\nAs\n\nno the recalled.\n\nthat the Ministration was modified.\n\nof the notes wen allowed to the din",
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        "content_text": "The memorialists did not then ask that a similar privilege should be extended to all Banks, & they have no business to complain now that we have adhered to the terms of the memorial.\n\nIn the reply (attached to 13547/74) which Lord Carnarvon sent to the despatch forwarding the memorial, he distinctly stipulated that the permission then given was not to be considered a precedent for extending similar facilities to other Banking companies.\n\nOf course it is only an argumentum ad hominem, but it might serve to stop these people's persistent demands.\n\nThe inclosure to 5773, to this letter should be sent to Sir A. Kennedy, that he may know all that has passed.\n\nConcurred regarding the Bank as above.\n\nam 2/10\n\n16/10/76.\n\nThis will be useful to add to the file.\n\nRu\n\nIn the reply to this Letter the following Number should be quoted.\n\n970776\n\nSit\n\nCopies 6\n\n14044\n\n76\n\nTREASURY CHAMBERS,\n\n5th October 123\n\n1876\n\nI am directed by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to transmit to you herewith copy of a letter which My Lords have received from Messrs Clarkes, Rawlins, & Clarke, 66 Gresham House, Old Broad Street, dated the 9th June last, relative to the issue of one dollar notes by the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, & China, and of the reply which My Lords have caused to be addressed to them on the subject,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State Colonial Office",
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        "content_text": "and\n\nferen\n\nau invidious\n\nposition\n\nbecause\n\nand Shanghai\n\nas matters stood a privilege\n\ngranted to the Hong Kong Banking Corporation which in the\n\nis considered are\n\nto the public is withheld\n\nChung's Bank although established\n\nin the\n\nColony\n\nto its\n\nadvantage\n\nsome years\n\nearlier.\n\nWe\n\nwere therefore instructed\n\nrespectfully though unwillingly to put\n\ninto\n\nyour\n\nLordship's hands a\n\nconsideration\n\nfor\n\nan\n\napplication\n\nClients still make namely\n\nthat\n\nthey\n\nshould be placed\n\non the\n\nsame footing\n\nas\n\nthe other Banks\n\nWe have done\n\n9707176\n\nGentlemen,\n\n125\n\nChambers, 5th October 1876\n\nOf & to the Treasury\n\nI am directed\n\nby\n\nthe Lords\n\nCommissioners of\n\nto\n\ninform you\n\nof Their attention to\n\nyour\n\nletter\n\nand\n\nthat they have given\n\nconsideration to\n\nthe\n\ncontents of your letter of the 29th June last, asking them to reconsider the decision conveyed in their letter of the 3rd June last, regarding\n\nthe issue\n\nof\n\ndollar notes\n\nby\n\nthe Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China,\n\nand I am to state that Their Lordships\n\n(signed)\n\nClarke's Rawlins & Clarke\n\nregret that they\n\nare not able\n\nto\n\nmodify\n\nthe\n\nopinion conveyed in their last letter of 3rd June.\n\nMessrs Clarke, Rawlins & Clarke\n\n66\n\nGresham House\n\nOld Broad Street, E.C.",
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        "content_text": "May\n\nLords\n\nI am to add that I am informed that the Secretary of State has communicated a similar decision to the Governor of Hongkong in reply to an application addressed to him by the Local Representative of the Chartered Mercantile Bank.\n\nI am,\n\n&c.\n\nA. M. Larke\n\nDreamry Hom/Kay.\n\n[Signature illegible]\n\nSir A. Kennedy\n\nMINUTE.\n\n12044.\n\nHong Kong No. 149\n\nMr. Round 29th Nov.\n\nMr. Bramstin.\n\nMr. Malcolm. Mr. Mowbray. 30\n\nMr. Herbert.\n\nMr. Lowther.\n\nLord Carnarvon.\n\n30th\n\nEnclosure to 6773\n\nTreasury Chambers\n\nwith enclosures\n\nC.O. in reply herewith.\n\nDraft\n\nNov 30\n\nTreas.\n\n126\n\n30 November\n\nIndexed\n\nWith reference to my despatch No. 1977 of the 6th of June last, I have the honour to transmit to you, for your information, copies of correspondence between Messrs. Clarke, Rawlins & Co., H. Freemantle, the Secretary to the Government, not relative to the application of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London & China for permission to issue one dollar notes.",
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        "content_text": "The Secretary Massy\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Round\n\nMr. Bramston\n\nMr. Malcolm. Mr. Meade. 3\n\nMr. Herbert.\n\nMr. Lowther.\n\nLord Carnarvon.\n\nIsle of Wight Hong Kong.\n\n12044.\n\n25 Nr.\n\n28\n\ndraft for.\n\n127\n\n30 h. 75.\n\nI. reply to your\n\nletter of the 5th inst. Jan\n\ndirected by the Earl of\n\nElgin to State for the Carnarvon.\n\ninformation of the Lord, Commissioners of the Treasury that he entirely concurs the reply which their Lordships have caused to be addressed to Mr. Clarke, Rawkins Ilacke to their\n\nApplication on behalf of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India & London China\n\nrespect for permission to issue dollar notes.",
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        "content_text": "officers will be \n\nnosing in time to \n\nening to serve for the fu annum \n\nI'm referring to your Department \n\nGo Seater for officiating men \n\nto fill these posts, it appears to Lord Carnarvon \n\nthat the appointment might \n\nbe offered to Messrs. \n\nField, Rawlins, \n\nand John Connor (Messenger at Wormwood Scrubs) \n\nwho were among \n\nthe applicants for the head Turnkey ship \n\nAt the Victoria gaol Hongkong. \n\n6. Should the Secretary of State concur \n\nin this view, \n\nI am to request \n\nthat you will communicate \n\nthis offer to the officers in question, \n\nand, on receipt of \n\ntheir acceptance, \n\ndirect them to communicate at once with the Crown agents \n\nto give effect to the offices selected both for Hong Kong \n\nAnd the Staff's Salary will be issued half salary from \n\nthe date of embarkation and full pay on their arrival at their destination \n\nWhen they will be required to begin their duties. \n\n## Page 1770 \n\n(Illogical text and numbers \"मात\", \"$\", \"290\", \"77\", \"0.\" are removed as they appear to be OCR errors without clear meaning or context)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]",
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        "content_text": "# 243\n\nSanded in I. Carp by.\n\n29.\n\nChange\n\nThat in the opinion of \n\nFecting there is no necessity for any \n\n7\n\nIn the land and Police regulations of the Colony, but that the remedy for existing state of affairs is in a firm and inflexible administration of the laws, as the aland, especially those relating to the Punishments \n\nfor crimes with violence. That flogging publicly has been found to be the only really deterring punishment for the Class of criminals frequenting the colony, and cession, and the suspension of other receivable modes of treatment, entered during previous punishment, is attributable to the daring boldness which has lately characterized crimes in Hongkong.\n\n37 Res Julin.\n\nProposed by S. Rawlins Esq.\n\nSeconded by M. S. Gonne Esq.\n\nThis meeting heard with great apprehension the opinion of the Colonial Surgeon with regard to the effect of the use of the \"Cat o' nine tails\" on the back of Criminals, and the action of His Excellency the Governor in respect thereof, and resolves that a Committee of Medical men be appointed to inquire into the matter.\n\n## Resolution\n\nProposed by H. H. Reid Esq.  \nSeconded by A. St Johnston Esq.\n\nThat in the opinion of this meeting the almost total abolition of the system of deporting habitual Criminals, which",
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        "content_text": "The parent affair ing \n\nSharp known Malacca for four years during which \n\nradical intentioned John. The \n\nNorfeltar \n\nOfficers fin \n\nThe \n\nC \n\nd Abun \n\nOpportunities \n\ndarus. \n\nA \n\nacritical Knowledge & ability \n\nAs the \n\nferre. \n\nen much pleasure \n\nSpeaking of these in annual terms. His \n\npromptitude; \n\nAnd fine \n\nall desired and \n\n308 \n\nJohn Adam Rawlings \n\nMRCP, LRCS. I have \n\nCerted \n\nCL-zi \n\n40 High St. \n\nMax 1475 \n\nSeveral indoes have keen shared dummy \n\nPleasure on stating that lines his Conduct on x \n\nCould \n\nbe his Co \n\nhe would do well in any \n\nin Exh # No substantial changes were made as the original text is heavily garbled and doesn't form coherent sentences or paragraphs. However, minor adjustments were made to spacing and punctuation.\n\n\n## Let's re-evaluate the text with a focus on reconstructing sentences and paragraphs.\n\nThe parent affording Sharp known Malacca for four years during which radical intentions were mentioned by John. The Norfeltar Officers finished their tasks. The opportunities darus. \n\nA critical knowledge & ability as the ferre. en much pleasure.\n\nSpeaking of these in annual terms, his promptitude; and fine all desired and \n\n308 John Adam Rawlings MRCP, LRCS. I have Certified CL-zi 40 High St. Max 1475 \n\nSeveral indoes have keenly shared dummy pleasure on stating that lines his Conduct on x Could be his Co he would do well in any in Exh \n\nLet's try again with a more careful approach.\n\n## Reconstructed Text\n\nThe parent affording Sharp, known Malacca for four years, during which radical intentions were mentioned by John.\n\nThe Norfeltar Officers finished their tasks. Opportunities darus.\n\nA critical knowledge & ability as the ferre. Much pleasure.\n\nSpeaking of these in annual terms, his promptitude; and fine qualities are all desired.\n\n308 John Adam Rawlings MRCP, LRCS. I have certified CL-zi, 40 High St. Max 1475.\n\nSeveral individuals have keenly shared the pleasure on stating that his conduct on x could be his Co; he would do well in any exhibition.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]",
        "content_text": "No. 18598\n\nDate. 1881 10 Sept. \n\nHongkong \n\nDESPATCH. \n\nC 0. 353 18598 24 OCT 81 \n\nW Pitman & the Opium Farmers- Submits Explanations to W H Layllar's statement respecting a payment of $15000 \n\n(Minutes.) \n\nMr Meade \n\nThe Hongkong Newspapers, which are too infamous to notice when they abuse or accuse the Govt., are here quoted in support of the proceedings in connection with the sale of the Opium Farm, which proceedings were apparently all above board. \n\n? Acknowledge the rec. of this satisfactory explanation. \n\nSW. 9. 28/10 \n\n28/10 This scarcely explains the minute in the Opium Farmer's book (See M. Jelson's letter 8623) translation of which is inaccurate. \n\nLast previous Paper. Arur no. 81-1&S(1030) \n\nMesday 146 \n\n8 Mt. Rawlions on the salaries which should be offered for the Offices required report & and to Lord Kimberley, afterwards in conjunction with those gentlemen to recommend suitable persons for the different offices. \n\nGovernor. Jan R.M.M. T \n\nPage information remains as is due to original scanning delineation.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881",
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        "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881",
        "content_text": "DOMESTIC,\n\n35€\n\n\"agents\" instado March 8\n\nBee or Individual.\n\nPrice Sall\n\nDate.\n\n1881.\n\nNo.\n\n5102\n\n(Subject.)\n\nWater Supply for\n\nMarch 21. Reporting\n\nas previous Paper.\n\n3567\n\n49\n\n10953\n\n(m.181--1&S $1)\n\nou\n\nSupply Project.\n\nMW. Meade-\n\nThis\n\nand\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nRECR\n\n22 MAR 31\n\nFire Tanks.\n\nM. Bramston\n\nCP.2\n\nthe General Water\n\n22. March\n\nGer N 28 March.\n\n1. Is it necessary at present to say anything to the War Office?\n\n2. Is it necessary to have separate mains for the two systems?\n\nIshones have thought it conceivable to connect the general set of pipes with the fire Tanks, but to keep the connection closed except in case of need.\n\nViews on\n\nFire – M. Price stated explain his\n\nThis to 28. Rawlinso\n\nNow Jelain them in communication?\n\n1. No\n\nThis must be\n\n828/3\n\ncondo miting the huntin\n\nconidend layer\n\n2.\n\n3.\n\nSis\n\nFin m\n\n\"Thingst the C. Aputs\n\nRm 23/3",
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        "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]",
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        "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]",
        "content_text": "# DOMESTIC.\n## No. 4547\n\nC.O. 325 4547 RECO 14th  \nREGE 15 MAR 12,  \nFut Tytam Water Works.\n\nDate:  \n14 Mar 12\n\nPrevious Paper:  \n10 Apr 5630  \nCopy for: M.I.F. 2  \nMay 35431  \n5430\n\nThe Tenders received being too high. W. Rawlins heard that the work would be executed departmentally.\n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nThis is discouraging. As I think especially in Shui Chuen, the price was in favor of doing this work by contract. I should like to see his remarks on the papers which went in circulation yesterday.\n\n Papers sent to:  \nM. Prie with 4503  \nA.A.D. 15/3  \nGet 15./3.  \nH.L. 13/3 (rume)\n\nPage 330  \nPage 331",
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        "content_text": "# DRAFT\nNov 24\n\n## MINUTE\nMr. Prawson 306d; Mr. Wingfield. Mr. Bramston. Mr. Meade. Mr. Herbert, Mr. Ashley. 3107. Lord Kimberley.\n\nWith reference to various cares forredenn respecting the Tytan water works, I have the honour to kansel to you a copy of a letter from the Crown Agents, submitting an application from Mr. Rawlins, C.E. on the Consulting Engineer's behalf for remuneration for his work.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887",
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        "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887",
        "content_text": "the euhie complehon of the Dam wall. as the heavrist flood of rain which Cau come from the area may flow over the wall without injury.\n\nI have no return of the progress made with the tunnel since the 1st may 1886. I wish the Surveyor General to be asked about what date in this yeark Expects the tunnel will be opened throughout\n\nValve-well and inlets.\n\nBefore commencing to impound water for use the six foot outlet Culvert must\n\nbe closed, and the ...\n\nlower valves must also be in order\n\nThe wilet openings should moreover be aucuged. One or more of these on the lower tier being temporarily closed. The wire protechons being fixed in place upon the open wileb\n\nwith respect to the completion of the additional to feet in he\n\nheight to\n\nthe Dam wall.\n\nI strongly recommend\n\nthis work to be proceeded with without\n\ndelay.\n\nas it will be far more costly\n\nto defer the work than to complete it how\n\nAs previously Stated the use of the water depends upon the complehon of the tunnel and the arrangement of the valve-chamber and talves for Use as the Damn. wall may be camed on with impounded water in the Reservoir. This latter suggeshon will however have to be submitted to the\n\nSurveyor General for his consideration\n\nI have to\n\n(Signed) Robert Rauhuson\n\n46\n\n8\n\nAs\n\nh\n\nHere is the corrected version in HTML format as per the instructions:\n\nthe due completion of the Dam wall, as the heaviest flood of rain which can come from the area may flow over the wall without injury.\n\nI have no return of the progress made with the tunnel since the 1st May 1886. I wish the Surveyor General to be asked about what date in this year he expects the tunnel will be opened throughout\n\nValve-well and inlets.\n\nBefore commencing to impound water for use, the six foot outlet Culvert must\n\nbe closed, and the valves must also be in order\n\nThe inlet openings should moreover be gauged. One or more of these on the lower tier being temporarily closed. The wire protections being fixed in place upon the open inlets\n\nwith respect to the completion of the additional ... feet in height to\n\nthe Dam wall.\n\nI strongly recommend\n\nthis work to be proceeded with without\n\ndelay.\n\nas it will be far more costly\n\nto defer the work than to complete it now\n\nAs previously stated, the use of the water depends upon the completion of the tunnel and the arrangement of the valve-chamber and valves for use. As the Dam wall may be carried on with impounded water in the Reservoir. This latter suggestion will however have to be submitted to the\n\nSurveyor General for his consideration\n\nI have to\n\n(Signed) Robert Rawlins(?)on\n\n46\n\n8\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested, here is the revised response:\n\nthe due completion of the Dam wall, as the heaviest flood of rain which can come from the area may flow over the wall without injury.\n\nI have no return of the progress made with the tunnel since the 1st May 1886. I wish the Surveyor General to be asked about what date in this year he expects the tunnel will be opened throughout\n\nValve-well and inlets.\n\nBefore commencing to impound water for use, the six foot outlet Culvert must be closed, and the valves must also be in order\n\nThe inlet openings should moreover be gauged. One or more of these on the lower tier being temporarily closed. The wire protections being fixed in place upon the open inlets\n\nwith respect to the completion of the additional ... feet in height to the Dam wall.\n\nI strongly recommend this work to be proceeded with without delay.\n\nas it will be far more costly to defer the work than to complete it now\n\nAs previously stated, the use of the water depends upon the completion of the tunnel and the arrangement of the valve-chamber and valves for use. As the Dam wall may be carried on with impounded water in the Reservoir. This latter suggestion will however have to be submitted to the Surveyor General for his consideration\n\nI have to\n\n(Signed) Robert Rawlins(?)on\n\n46\n\n8\n\nAs h",
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        "document_key": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]",
        "page_number": 369,
        "title": "CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "## mis requisition,\n\nThe 2nd part of our despatch appears begun on a cover which will not be submitted without explanation, \n\nHome Consulting Engineer has been employed in connection with this \n\nSir R Rawlins has had nothing to do with the Reservoirs.\n\nSince its completion in latter part of 1871, a fact which has something to do with the contamination impairs the apparently quality which has been \"allowed to\" take place in this important source of water supply may perhaps be in some degree referable.\n\nThe attention of Mr. Osbert Chadwick might usefully be drawn to the proposed filter beds.\n\nJhaver \n\nPage 368",
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        "document_key": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889",
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        "title": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889",
        "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\na general approval of Expressed _de facto_ \n\nMr. Cooper's scheme for \nthe drainage of Victoria, \nwhich was then submitted to \nthe plans for the water distribution \nwhich were also, I understand, \nprepared by Mr. Cooper, and \nit will probably be on \nthe basis of the property \nthat Mr. Chadwick, who \npossesses the confidence of \nSir Robt Rawlins, will avail himself of the full discussion \nhaving taken place in England conference which their Reception has \nconvinced him \nas ready to afford \nample opportunity before leaving \nEngland, will act upon the lines of these proposals.\n\nMapper's services will \ntherefore be placed at Mr. Chadwick's disposal \nto form as he arrives in \nthe Colony, and in the meantime \nMr. Chadwick, on his return to \nHongkong \nwill confer with Mr. Wingfield, Resident Mr. Bramston, but quitting \nMr. Meade. \nSir R. Herbert.\n\narrangements should be \nthe costs of carrying out \nthe remainder of the \nworks should devolve on \nLord Knutsford.\n\ntemporarily \ndebarring him \nfrom the P.W. Dept. for this purpose!\n\nThat \nMr. Cooper, who in \ncore would \nbe altogether \nrequired went into \na new agreement.\n\ndetached from the Surveyor General's \nDept.\n\nIt is essential \nfor the preservation of the \npublic health in \nHongkong.\n\n## MINUTE\n\nPage 114 \n\nIt is considered desirable that \nthe Galler gentleman \nX \n\nMr. Chadwick \non his return to \nHongkong \nshould offer plans to this company, such \nas the approval \nof the Engineer to Mr. Meade. \nBaron de Worms made for \nupon \nMr. ... \n\n4.b. \nthe stand-by \nbe detailed \nprom the ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898",
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        "content_text": "## THE FINAL ASSAULTS.\n\nAbout 2 p.m. the look-outs reported the departure of the Dordogne and Heungshun escorted by the Seaborg (which had returned with the French fleet) by the Shingshimoon Pass, round D'Aguilar and thence North, past the Ninepins, evidently bound to Mirs Bay. At 4 p.m. the three men-of-war assembled off Tytam Head, the Eclaireur escorting her prizes, the Verona and Sungkiung, the two latter being sent off to S.E. Bay, Lama Island. The Triomphante and Descartes proceeded slowly Westwards. The Eclaireur entered Tytam Bay, preceded by two torpedo boats, the first about three-quarters of a mile and the second about half-a-mile ahead of her. The Eclaireur stopped about three-quarters of a mile from the entrance to the Inner Harbour.\n\nIf they had contented themselves with watching the enemy from the redoubt on the hill, they would have done well, but unfortunately opening fire with their Nordenfelts on the hill, though they sank the other boat, they unmasked their battery. The Eclaireur at once rained a shower of shell on them, knocking the redoubt and the Nordenfelts to pieces, and killing half the men before they had time to run down the hill.\n\nAbout 2 p.m. the Hankow and Canton were seen to come out of the Capsuimoon pass, flying the British flag, and shape the usual course as if for Hongkong, and directly the loading boat rounded the point, going dead slow, she was blown to pieces by the fire of the Swift and Rattler. The Tommy Atkins, a military launch, was sent to where the wreckage floated and fortunately rescued both Captains Lloyd and Spencer Wilde, some dozen of the prizes' crews and a few Chinese were also picked up. The Hankow's passengers had been landed at Capsuimoon.\n\nCol. Yardhill was, however, so much impressed with the value of the redoubt on the hill that he sent De Horsey out another Nordonfelt in the evening, with orders to plant it just below the crest, on the West face, where it commanded the Shankiwan Road.\n\nThe Triomphante and Descartes, steaming slowly West, stopped between Round Island and Aplichau, and, firing at the new earthworks on the crests of the hills above Deep Water Bay, had their fire promptly returned by the 40-pounders in position, the same fatal mistake as was made at Tytam. Our guns were no match for those of the ironclad and cruiser. In half an hour four of our guns were dismounted, and the labour of the day—as far as the battery was concerned—wasted. Beyond knocking away some of the spars of the ironclad no material damage was done to her. The Descartes continued her attention to the guns at the Hacienda, dismounting both—but suffered somewhat herself from the plunging fire until the guns were silenced, part of her upper works and port bulwarks being knocked away, and damage was done to her quick-firers. Fernside, Genora, Kellett's Spur, and the houses on the East side of Mount Kellett were knocked into shapeless ruins.\n\nGeneral White ordered the guns above Deep Water Bay to be retired, otherwise every one would have been dismounted. The battery further East, commanding the Tytam Road, was sheltered from sea fire. Proceeding West outside Aplichau, the ships disabled three of the guns at Pokfolum Gap and demolished the stone wall across the road. One gun at Victoria Gap was dismounted, and the Tram station, which had escaped the Harbaroesk's fire, destroyed. It must be confessed that the ships made excellent practice, whilst great part of our fire was wasted. Our casualties amounted to six officers killed—of the Regulars two, both R.A. (Capt. Rawford and Lt. Hatthews), and four of the Home Guard—and 40 men, gunners and Home Guard. Wounded, 4 officers of the Home Guard, amongst them poor Cæsar Rawkins, and 27 men Regulars and Home Guard.\n\nIt had a very depressing effect on the Defenders; there was no element of personal strife, it was simply an Artillery duel in which we were hopelessly overmatched. Our losses were before our eyes, and the smell of blood in our nostrils. We could not see how, or if the enemy suffered, to cheer us up. That evening was pretty wretched; there were some attempts at jollity here and there; as you know the average Hongkong man of our day was cheery in the jaws of death—through which most of us passed in the next few hours—still we were so intermingled, the married men with the single, that for the most part the light-hearted were swamped by the heavy-hearted. Not that the latter fought one whit the worse next day—possibly better, though that could not be said either, where all did so well. It is impossible to deny, however, that the man whose hat covers his family can, and in some cases does, face inevitable death more cheerfully, than the man who leaves behind those that are dearer than life. The General, 'the soldiers, whose duty 'tis to die,' and some youngsters, got up a few songs; but on the whole the waiting was pretty wretched.\n\nThere was plenty of room in the Hospitals; already many of the cots and mattrasses had been vacated, and a temporary cemetery established in the West Borks parade ground, along the retaining wall of the Cathedral compound and below Beaconsfield House. As soon as it was dark we set to work repairing our earthworks, and taught by experience threw an embankment across the Pokfolum Road, in lieu of the stone wall destroyed, the splinters from which had been most destructive. Sungahs, or small redoubts, were thrown up on spurs, below the batteries on the hills.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907",
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        "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[December 29]-C \n\n### SECTION 2752\n\n[43513]\n\n#### No. 1.\n\nASOTAR JAN 07)\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received December 29.)**\n\n(No. 459.) Sir,\n\nPeking, November 8, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copies of correspondence which has passed between myself and His Majesty's Consul-General at Hankow, respecting a proposal which has been made by the local authorities to levy a cess upon goods in Chinese hands within the port area which are destined for export and not protected by a transit pass.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**(No. 66.) Sir,**\n\nConsul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nHankow, November 1, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to apply for your ruling on a proposal made by the Chinese authorities to me and to be made to my colleagues likewise.\n\nOf recent years the funds for educational and other public purposes in this prefecture have been found to a great extent by levying a cess, nominally 1 per cent. ad valorem through their guilds, on all sales made by native dealers.\n\nIn June last Messrs. Theodor and Rawlins complained that a dealer in wood-oil, whom they had employed as their agent to procure oil up country and bring it to their hong in Hankow, was being prosecuted for refusal to pay the cess.\n\nAs I was far from satisfied that the dealer had not combined his own business with the British firm's, I suggested that the amount mentioned (1,000 taels) was a small transaction.\n\nThe firm then said their dealer was willing to pay the cess, really 6 per mille, not through the guild, but direct to the Hanyang Prefect.\n\nThis was done, and I suggested to their representative that charges of fraud and disputes as to genuineness of alleged agents would be impossible did they avail themselves of the system of outward transit-passes as extended by the Japanese Treaty and the Hankow Rules of 1903.\n\nThe Hanyang Prefect sent the Concession Deputy to see me, and explain that, although he did not impugn the good faith of Theodor and Rawlins, there were foreign firms and compradores of foreign firms who might conspire with native dealers to evade the cess by alleging foreign ownership. The Prefect was ready to guarantee immunity to exports coming down under pass, but hoped I would agree that all other exports should pay the cess - of course, while still in native hands. And he has now written me a note to the same effect.\n\nI replied to the Deputy, and am writing to the Prefect that, as the use of passes is by Treaty optional, I cannot compel Britons to take them out, and that, as his proposal would form a precedent for other ports and businesses, I am unable to give a decision upon so serious a matter. I am referring the question to you, and suggest that he have it referred to the Wai-wu Pu.\n\nThe special value of the transit-pass lying in its setting a limit to Chinese levies on imports and exports, I submit that the Prefect's proposal can do little harm, for either the half duty will be less than the li-kin plus the cess, and foreigners will resort to the Customs, or else it will be greater and passes will not be taken out, while exports will be relieved of a burden. In addition, the plain admission that such a cess is not chargeable on exports under pass seems to be not without considerable value.\n\n[2268 -1] \n\nPage 67",
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        "content_text": "Pass No.\n\nName and Age\n\nPrivate Address\n\nBusiness Address\n\nDate of Parole\n\n  \n    77.\n    X Meyer, C.\n    28\n    14, Humphreys Edge., K'loon.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    79.\n    X Meyer, O.\n    34\n    5, Park Road\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    82.\n    X Neidt, A.\n    28\n    \n    Berblinger & Co.\n    8th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    83.\n    X Hellner, H.\n    41\n    4, Durbar Villas, Kowloon.\n    Melchers & Co.\n    7th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    87.\n    X Osterloh, A.\n    28\n    13, Hankow Road, Kowloon.\n    Meyerink & Co.\n    8th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    91.\n    Roebel Goebel, F.R.\n    36\n    5, Morrison Hill.\n    German Bank.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    96.\n    X Steger, M.\n    40.\n    7, Queen's Gardens.\n    Reuter, Brockelmann & Co.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    103.\n    X Tuncke, E.\n    30.\n    4, Durbar Villas, Kowloon.\n    \n    do.\n  \n  \n    107.\n    X Vierich, G.\n    25.\n    13, Hankow Road, Kowloon.\n    Melchers & Co.\n    7th August 1914.\n  \n  \n    110.\n    Schluter, C.\n    36\n    21. Connaught Road.\n    Ulderup & Schluter.\n    9th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    111.\n    Kuby, ▲.\n    30.\n    1, Upper Albert Road.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    114.\n    X Luhring, E.\n    30.\n    127, Plantation Road.\n    Medical Hall.\n    8th August 1914.\n  \n  \n    116.\n    X Kunze, P.\n    38.\n    Mody Road, Kowloon.\n    Shewan, Tomes & Co.\n    7th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    119.\n    Siedel.\n    29.\n    4, Durbar Villas\n    Biodal & Co.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    121.\n    X Fasserfall, H.\n    34\n    169, Magazine Gap\n    German Bank.\n    8th August 1914.\n  \n  \n    122.\n    O Gawlins, G.\n    26\n    Peak Hospital.\n    \n    do.\n  \n  \n    123.\n    X Teissenborn, H.\n    28\n    8, Hanoi Road, Kowloon.\n    Carlowitz & Co.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    124.\n    X Westphal, H.J.\n    24\n    26A, Nathan Road, K'loon.\n    Arnhold, Karberg & Co.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    134.\n    X Fehle, K.\n    28\n    3. Ormaby Villas,\n    Carl Bodiker & Co.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    135.\n    X Zeller, E,\n    25\n    15, Conduit Road.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    136.\n    ✪ Teiderhaase, H.\n    28\n    164, Magazine Gap\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    138.\n    * Langschrager, Capt.\n    37\n    7. Conduit Road\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    140.\n    * Witzke, C.\n    44\n    1, Ormaby Terrace, K'loon.\n    Witzke & Co.\n    \n  \n  \n    143.\n    X Arndt, R.\n    30\n    \n    Oriental Tobacco Co.\n    \n  \n  \n    144.\n    X Neuhaus, W.\n    36\n    \n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    145.\n    X Heitzmann, H.\n    31\n    \n    do.\n    \n  \n  \n    146.\n    * Heier, R.\n    40\n    Station Hotel,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    147.\n    O Horstmann, K.\n    28\n    German Consulate\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    151.\n    ? Bogdansky, T.\n    29\n    Seamen's Institute\n    Carlowitz & Co.\n    11th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    Blackhead & Co.\n    8th August 1914.\n  \n  \n    \n    Prisoner of war. On parole.\n    \n    \n    \n    17th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    156.\n    X Winter, A.\n    28\n    300. Nathan Road, K'loon.\n    Melchers & Co.\n    7th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    157.\n    X Mathiesen, C.\n    25\n    Mody Road, Kowloon.\n    Sander, Weiler & Co.\n    8th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    158.\n    X Marquardt, J.\n    26\n    1. Victoria View, K'loon\n    do.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    160.\n    X Vesel, Dr. von T.\n    36\n    a, Humphreys Buildings,\n    do.\n    do.\n  \n  \n    166.\n    X Steiger, G.\n    36\n    130, Praya East\n    \n    14th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    170.\n    * Teise, O.\n    30\n    German Club\n    Siemens Electric Co.\n    24th August, 1914.\n  \n  \n    \n    Kahrs, A.\n    41\n    31. Wyndham Street.\n    \n    26th August, 1914.\n  \n\nComplaints.\n\n459\n\nBank in Hongkong Hotel. Obstructing Assistant Provost Marshal.\n\nImproper behaviour in Weismann's.\n\nSuspected spy.\n\nImproper behaviour in Weismann's",
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        "content_text": "303\n\n11010 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915.\n\nOkura & Co. Limited, Shanghai.\n\nOld Dock.\n\nOld Ningpo Wharf.\n\nOlivier & Co.\n\nOlivier Export and Import Company.\n\nOlsen & Co.\n\nOng Mali Chao & Co., Messrs. Amoy.\n\nOnomura & Co., Shanghai.\n\nOpium Bonded Godown.\n\nOrient Trading Company.\n\nOriental Advertising Company.\n\nOriental Dispensary.\n\nOriental Export Company.\n\nOriental Optical Company.\n\nOsaka Kobashi Shiten, Shanghai.\n\nOsaka Shosen Kaisha, Canton.\n\nOxygen and Drum Company.\n\nPabaney, E.\n\nPacific Mail Steamship Company.\n\nPaizia & Co.\n\nPalace Hotel,\n\nPalmer & Turner.\n\nPanoff, J. K., & Co.\n\nParadissis & Co.\n\nParker, J. H. P., & Co.\n\nParker, Reilly, & Co.\n\nParker & Smith.\n\nParsee Trading Company.\n\nPatel, A. C., & Co.\n\nPatell & Co.\n\nPathé Phonocine Machine.\n\nPaturel, Shanghai,\n\nPaulsen & Bayes-Davey.\n\nPearce&Garriock.\n\nPearson, S., & Son.\n\nPeiyang Tannery.\n\nPeking Daily News.\n\nPeking Dispensary.\n\nPeking Gazette.\n\nPeking Motor Company (Chinson Chao).\n\nPeking Pavilion.\n\nPeking Syndicate.\n\nPennell, E., & Co.\n\nPerniata Rubber Estate Limited.\n\nPerrin, Cooper & Co.\n\nPersian Commercial Company.\n\nPhoenix Assurance Company.\n\nPicca & Co. (Pharmacy Central).\n\nPickwick, F. H.\n\nPike, A. T. J.\n\nPilcher, H. W.\n\nP. and O. Steam Navigation Company.\n\nPootung Wharves.\n\nPopoff Frères, C. & S.\n\nPottinger & Paton.\n\nPrices China Limited.\n\nPresse Orientale, La.\n\nProbst, Hanbury, & Co.\n\nProduce Export Company Limited.\n\nProtopapos & Co.\n\nProvincial Governments and their Departments throughout China.\n\nPuthod.\n\nQueen's Hotel, Tien-tsin.\n\nRacine, Ackermann, & Co.\n\nRailton & Co.\n\nRamello, F.\n\nRamos Amusement Company.\n\nRamsay & Co. Limited.\n\nReid. Evans, & Co.\n\nReiss & Co.\n\nRembrandt Photo Company.\n\nRemington Typewriter Company.\n\nRepah Rubber and Tapico Estates. Representation Limited.\n\nfor British Manufacturers\n\nReuter Telegram Company.\n\nReynaud, Eugene, & Co.\n\nRigge, H. E.\n\nRobinson Piano Company.\n\nRodsil & Co.\n\nRondon & Co.\n\nRoneo Limited.\n\nRose, Downs, & Thompson Limited.\n\nRose, Hewett, & Co.\n\nRoss, Alex, & Co.\n\nRouse, E. H.\n\nRousseau, E.\n\nRoxburgh, R., Limited.\n\nRoyal Insurance Company.\n\nRoyal Mail Steam Packet Company.\n\nRusso-Asiatic Bank,\n\nRutherford, N. H.\n\nSaey Tai, Shanghai.\n\nSam, Joe, & Co.\n\nSamuel & Co. Limited.\n\nSanderson & Co.\n\nSaurin Tobacco Company,\n\nSassoon, D., & Co. Limited.\n\nSassoon, E. D., & Co.\n\nSauvayre, Shanghai.\n\nSchiller & Co.\n\nScotson, T.\n\nScott & Bowne Limited.\n\nScott, Harding, & Co.\n\nScottish Union & National Insurance Company,\n\nSeishin & Co., Mukden.\n\nSemagaga Rubber Company Limited.\n\nSemambu Rubber Estates Limited.\n\nSenawang Rubber Estates.\n\nSennet Frères.\n\nSennett, Frères.\n\nSeo & Co., Mukden.\n\nSeth A. Seth.\n\nShahnoon, S. E., Shanghai.\n\nShahmoon, E. E., Shanghai.\n\nShang, Tai Ye, & Co., Tien-tsin.\n\nShanghai Building Company.\n\nShanghai Dispensary.\n\nShanghai Dock and Engineering Company.\n\nShanghai Electric and Asbestos Company Limited.\n\nShanghai Electrical Construction Company.\n\nShanghai Gas Company.\n\nShanghai General Hospital.\n\nShanghai Horse Bazaar.\n\nShanghai Ice and Cold Storage Company.\n\nShanghai Klebang Rubber Estates Limited.\n\nShanghai Land Investment Company.\n\nShanghai Malay Rubber Estates Limited.\n\nShanghai Mercury Limited.\n\nShanghai Mutual Telephone Limited.\n\nShanghai Optical Company.\n\nShanghai Paper Mill.\n\nShanghai Storee Company. Limited.\n\nShanghai Tannery Company Limited.\n\nShanghai Times. Company\n\nShanghai and Sumatra Tobacco Company\n\nShanghai Tug and Lighter Company.\n\nShanghai Waterworks Company Limited.\n\nShantung Silk and Lace Company.\n\nShaw, G. L.\n\nShaw, G. L., Brothers.\n\nShawhsing, G. N., Company, Newchang,\n\nShewan, Tomes, & Co.\n\nShimri Yoko.\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915. 11011\n\nShun, Kee, & Co.\n\nShroff, P. B.\n\nShung, Chang, & Co., Chefoo.\n\nSing Tai, Chefoo.\n\nSinger Sewing Machine Company.\n\nSinjentong, Amoy.\n\nSinsetong, Amoy.\n\nSiu-se-Tong, Amoy.\n\nBligh, J.\n\nSlowe, C. R., & Co.\n\nSmith, L. H., & Co.\n\nSociété d'Exportation et d'Importation Coloniales, Tien-tsin,\n\nSociété forestière de Hailin et de Manchurie, La.\n\nTiram Estates Limited.\n\nToa & Co.\n\nToa Koshi, Shanghai.\n\nToa Tobacco Company, Newchwang.\n\nTom, S., Chefoo.\n\nToshado Shiten, Shanghai.\n\nTravers Smith.\n\nTruman, R. N.\n\nTsung Tsoon Sing, Amoy.\n\nTsurutani.\n\nTung, Ho, & Co., Newchang.\n\nTung, Tai, & Co.\n\nTung Tai Heng, Chefoo.\n\nTung Yu Brothers, Shanghai.\n\nTunkadoo Dock.\n\nTunkadoo Wharves.\n\nSociété franco-chinoise de Crédit.\n\nBatellerie et Cabotage en Chine.\n\nTurner, E. W.\n\nSociété franco-chinoise de\n\nSociété indo-chinoise.\n\nSoeka Warna Tea Estate.\n\nSolina, R. V.\n\nSomekh, B. A., Shanghai.\n\nSomekh, S. S., Shanghai.\n\nSouth British Insurance Company.\n\nSouth Manchurian Railway Company.\n\nSowa, Shanghai,\n\nSoychee Cotton Spinning Company.\n\nSparke, C. E.\n\nSpeyer, C.\n\nSpunt and Rosenfeld.\n\nStandard Bank of South Africa.\n\nStandard Life Assurance Company.\n\nStandard Oil Company.\n\nStearne, J. C.\n\nSubira, J. M.\n\nSullivan, J., & Co.\n\nSulzer, Rudolph, & Co.\n\nSun Insurance Office.\n\nSun Life Assurance of Canada.\n\nSuzuki & Co., Shanghai.\n\nSyndicat industriel et commercial.\n\nSze Hung Company.\n\nTabaquería Filipina.\n\nTackey, W. M., & Co.\n\nTaiping Rubber Estates.\n\nTait & Co.\n\nTakata & Co., Shanghai.\n\nTaku Tug and Lighter Company Limited.\n\nTalati Brothers.\n\nTalati & Co., Tien-tsin.\n\nTallieu, L., & Co.\n\nTalow Dispensary.\n\nTannerie franco-chinoise.\n\nTata, Sons, & Co., Shanghai.\n\nTaylor & Co.\n\nTeerathdas, N., Shanghai.\n\nTeh Kee Dispensary, Hankow,\n\nTheodore & Rawlins.\n\nThomas, Adarns, & Wood.\n\nThomas, F., & Co.\n\nThomson, G. Irwin.\n\nThoresen, O.\n\nThunder, C.\n\nThurier & Kohr, Hankow.\n\nTibbey, H. M.\n\nTien-tain Bicycle Company, Amoy.\n\nTien-tsin Dispensary.\n\nTien-tsin Gas and Electric Light Company.\n\nTien-tein Ironworks Limited.\n\nTien-tsin Native City Waterworks Limited.\n\nTien-tsin Press Limited.\n\nTieu-tein Tobacco Company.\n\nTien-tain Waterworks Company.\n\nTilley & Limby.\n\nTimes Dharwar.\n\nTwigg, P. O. B.\n\nTwyford, J., & Co.\n\nUllmann & Co.\n\nUnderwood Typewriter Company.\n\nUnion Assurance Company, Limited.\n\nUnion Commercial Company Limited,\n\nUnion Insurance Society of Canton,\n\nUnion Marine Insurance Company.\n\nUnited States Steel Products.\n\nVacuum Oil Company.\n\nVau Ess, A. & Co.\n\nVeroudart\n\nVicajee, F., & Co.\n\nViccajee, H., & Co.\n\nVickers, Limited.\n\nVilla, A. P., & Brothers.\n\nVrard & Co.\n\nWah Ming Optical Company.\n\nWalker, Livingstone.\n\nWallem & Co.\n\nWannieck Limited.\n\nWaste Silk Boiling Company.\n\nWatson, A. S., & Co. Limited.\n\nWatt, J. A. D.\n\nWatta & Co.\n\nWattie, J. A., & Co. Limited.\n\nWeeks & Co. Limited.\n\nWeihaiwei Land and Building Company.\n\nWestminster Tobacco Company.\n\nWestphal, King, & Ramsay Limited.\n\nWheelock & Co.\n\nWheen, Edward, & Sons.\n\nWhitall & Co. Limited.\n\nWhite, Brothers.\n\nWhite, David.\n\nWhiteway, Laidlaw, & Co.\n\nWhitfield & Co., Messrs.\n\nWhitlam, R. P.\n\nWhitney, J. C., & Co.\n\nWhitworth, Herbert Limited.\n\nWijk & Co.\n\nWilkinson, Heywood, & Clark.\n\nWilliams Brothers Medicine Company.\n\nWilliams, K. J.\n\nWilson & Co.\n\nWisner & Co.\n\nWissotsky & Co.\n\nWong Chuen Yung (British Manufacturers Agency), Shanghai.\n\nWong Zung Chong, Shanghai.\n\nWoo Chong.\n\nWoollen, Vosy, & Co.\n\nWorthington Pump Company Limited,\n\nWu Lien Teh, Harbin.\n\nYamamoto & Co., Tien-tsin.\n\nYang-taze Engineering Works,",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915,\n\n## List of Companies and Individuals\n\nSouth China Trading Co., Canton.\nSouth Manchuria Railway Company,\nSowa, Shanghai.\nSoychee Cotton Spinning Company. Sparke, C. E.\nSpeyer, C.\nSpunt and Rosenfeld,\nStandard Bank of South Africa.\nStandard Life Assurance Company.\nStandard Oil Company.\nStearne, J. C.\nSubira, J. M.\nSullivan, J., & Co.\nSulzer, Rudolph, & Co.\nSun Insurance Office.\nSun Life Assurance of Canada.\nSung Chuan Tien and Co., Shantung. Suzuki & Co., Shanghai.\nSwatow Dispensary.\nSyndicat industriel et commercial.\nSze Hing (Hung) & Co., Chefoo.\n\nTabaquería Filipina.\nTackey, W. M., & Co.\nTai Fu Lim, Dr., Newchang.\nTai On & Co. (The Canton Medical Hall), Canton.\nTaiping Rubber Estates.\nTaiseng & Co., Foochow.\nTait & Co.\nTakata & Co., Shanghai.\nTakkee & Co., Foochow.\nTaku Tug and Lighter Company Limited.\nTalati Brothers, Peking and Tien-tsin,\nTalati & Co., Tien-tsin.\nTallieu, L., & Co.\nTalow Dispensary.\nTannerie franco-chinoise.\nTata, Sons, & Co., Shanghai.\nTaylor & Co.\nTeerathdas, N., Shanghai.\nTel Keo Dispensary, Iankow.\nThe Trading Company, the Successors to Alexis Goobkin, A. Koosenetzoff, & Co,\nTheodore & Rawlins.\nThomas, Adams, & Wood.\nThomas, F., & Co.\nThomson, G. Irwin.\nThoresen, O.\nThunder, C.\nThurier & Kohr, Hankow.\nTibbey, H. M.\nTibesart, J. A.\nTien-tein Bicycle Company, Amoy.\nTien-tsin Club.\nTien-tain Dispensary.\nTien-tain Gas and Electric Light Company. Tien-tein Ironworks Limited.\nTien-tsin Native City Waterworks Limited. Tien-tsin Press Limited.\nTien-tain Soap Manufacturing Company, Tien-tsin Tobacco Company.\nTien-tain Waterworks Company, Limited. Tilley & Limby.\nTimes Dharwar & Co.\nTiram Estates Limited.\nToa & Co.\nToa Koshi, Shanghai.\nToa Tobacco Company, Newchang.\nToh Tiong Hok, Amoy.\nTom, S., Chefoo.\nTong Cheong & Co., Amoy.\nToshado Shiten, Shanghai.\nTowa & Co., Newchang,\nTravers Smith.\nTruman, R. N.\nTschurin, I. I., & Co., Harbin. Toui, Y. Y., Dr., Tien-tsin.\nTsung Tsoon Sing, Amoy, Tsurutani,\nTung, Ho, & Co., Newchang.\nT'ung Hsing (Sino-Foreign Coal-mining Company), Tien-tsin.\nTung Shen Te, Tien-tsin.\nTung, Tai, & Co.\nTung Teh Heug, Chefoo.\nTung Yu Brothers, Shanghai.\nTunkadoo Dock.\nTunkadoo Wharves.\nTurner, E. W.\nTwigg, P. O'Brien.\nTwyford, J., & Co.\nTze Hop Shing, G., & Co., Tien-tsin.\n\nUllmann & Co.\nUnderwood Typewriter Company. Union Assurance Company, Limited. Union Commercial Company Limited. Union Insurance Society of Canton. Union Marine Insurance Company. Union Medical College. United States Steel Products.\n\nVacuum Oil Company.\nVan Ess, A., & Co.\nVeroudart.\nVicajee, F., & Co.\nViccajee, II., & Co.\nVickers, Limited.\nVikula Morocoy, Newchang. Villa, A. P., & Brothers. Vrard & Co.\n\nWali Mei Dispensary, Canton. Wah Ming Optical Company. Wah On Company, Canton.\nWalker, Livingstone.\nWang, Y. N., Dr., Tien-tsin and Peking. Wannieck Limited.\nWaste Silk Boiling Company.\nWatson, A. S., & Co. Limited. Watt, J. A. D.\nWattie, J. A., & Co. Limited,\nWatts & Co.\nWeeks & Co. Limited.\nWeihaiwei Land and Building Company. Westminster Tobacco Company.\nWestphal, King, & Ramsay Limited.\nWheelock & Co.\nWheen, Edward, & Sons.\nWhitall & Co. Limited.\nWhite, Brothers.\nWhite, David.\nWhiteway, Laidlaw, & Co.\nWhitfield & Co.\nWhitlam, R. P.\nWhitney, J. C., & Co.\nWhitworth, Herbert Limited.\nWijk & Co.\nWilkinson, Heywood, & Clark.\nWilliams, Dr., Medicine Company.\nWilliams, K. J.\nWilson & Co.\nWisner & Co.\nWisner, P. F., & Co.\nWissotsky & Co.\n\nWong Chuen Yang (British Manufacturers' Agency), Shanghai.\nWong Zung Chong, Shanghai.\nWoo Chong.\nWoo, M. L., Tien-tsin.\nWoods, J.\nWoollen, Vosy, & Co.\n\n## Continued\n\nWorthington Pump Company Limited. Wu Lien Teh, Harbin.\nYamamoto & Co., Tien-tsin. Yan Sun & Co., Ltd., Canton. Yau Shau & Co., Limited, Canton. Yang-tsze Engineering Works, Yang-tsze Insurance Company. Yang-taze Land and Finance Company. Yang-taza Poo Cotton Mill. Yap Eck Liok, Amoy.\n\nYates, T. M.\nYau, K. S., Dr., Peking and Tien-tsin. Yeo, Swee, Swan, & Co., Amoy.\nYik Sang Dispensary, Swatow. Yishin & Co., Mukden. Yoan Siu Dispensary, Swatow. Yokohama Specie Bank. Yorkshire Insurance Company. Yoshida & Co., Shanghai.\n\nYoung Brothers Trust Company. Yu Feng Kung Ssu, Chefoo. Yu Tai.\nYuasa, T., Hankow.\nYuen Cheong and Co., Shanghai. Yuen Tai & Co., Shanghai.\nYung Fong Photo Supply Co., Peking.\n\nZa Chong Shun, Shanghai.\nZundel Emile Manufacturing Company,\n\n## Foreign Office, December 20, 1915,\n\n### SIAM\n\nThe following is a complete list, revised up to date, of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to Siam may be consigned, under the terms of the Proclamation of the 24th September, 1915:-\n\nThis list is to be regarded as superseding all previous lists.\n\nHis Majesty's Diplomatic, Consular, Military, and Naval Officers.\nBritish Missionary Bodies and Missionary Bodies of Neutral and Allied Countries.\n\nAdam, A. H. M., & Co.\nAdamsen, Dr. (See Kak Dispensary). Ab Lee Koh (Yah See), Lampong. Alibhai Chinwala, Bangkok. American Presbyterian Mission Press. Angullia, A., & Sons, Bangkok. Apothecaries' Hall.\n\nArracan Company Limited, Bangkok. Asiatic Petroleum Company Limited. Assumption Printing Press, Bangkok.\n\nBabo, D. K., Bangkok.\nB. A., & Co.\nBad Kam ki Printing Works (Luang Bangkok. Banan, Puket.\nBangkok Dock Company Limited.\nBangkok Manufacturing Company Limited. Bangkok Times Press Limited.\nBangkok United Club.\nBangnon Syndicate, Renong.\nBanque de l'Indo-Chine.\nBarrow, Brown, & Co.\nBéranger, Malcolm (Maison Béranger). Berli, A., & Co., Bangkok.\nBombay-Burma Trading Corporation Limited, Bangkok.\nBoon Long, Bangkok.\nBoon Mee Dispensary, Bangkok. Borgersen, H, B.\nBorneo Company Limited.\nBritish-American Tobacco Company Limited. British Club.\nBritish Dispensary.\nBuan Soon Lee & Co., Bangkok. Budroodin, F. H., Bangkok.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China,\nChinese Mercantile Dispensary, Bangkok. Chino-Siam Daily News.\nChino-Siamese Trading Company. Chotirmall, K. A. T., & Co. Chung Chooe Guan Ah Fook, Bangkok. Couper-Johnston, D., & Co.\n\nDastakoor & Co., Bangkok. Deebook Dredging, Renong. Diana, A., & Co., Bangkok. Dickinson, John, & Co. Diethelm & Co.\nDunlop, John M.\n\nEast Asiatic Company Limited. Eastern Smelting Company, Puket. Edgar Brothers,\nEducational Supply Association. Excelsior Ice Factory.\n\nFraser & Neave Limited. French Dispensary.\n\nGilitwalla, E. E., Bangkok. Goh Vong Chua, Bangkok, Goriawalla, A. H. A., Bangkok. Goriawalla, F. A., Bangkok.\n\nGroundwater, C. L., & Co.\nGulambusan Abdoolkader (Gulam Husain Abdul Kader) (Kader, G. A.), Bangkok.\n\nHabibar, Rehman, Bangkok. Halim & Co., B. A.\nHansen, Dr. C. (Lotus Dispensary),\nHarp, Heng, Long & Co.\nHarp Vour, Long, & Co.\nHock Chuan & Co., Bangkok.\nHoh Leng Dispensary, Bangkok.\nHong Ching, Bangkok.\nHong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nHoosain, A. G., Bangkok.\nHoosain, Akbar, & Sons, Bangkok.\nHoosain, E. A., Bangkok..\nHotchand, Vichindas, & Co. Bangkok.\n\nIkezaki, K., & Co., Bangkok.\nInternational Store.\n\nJawarad Dispensary.\n\nJoo Hoa Lee, Bangkok.\n\nKader, G. A. (Gulambusan Abdoolkader).\nKaj Cotermali, & Co., Bangkok. Katib, E. M.\nKatoo Des Book, Renong.\nKatz Brothers Limited.\nKeng Watt, Bangkok. Kerr & Co.\nKho On (Khoon) Seng, Bangkok. Kiam Hoa Heng & Co., Bangkok. Kiam Hoa Seng & Co., Bangkok.",
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        "content_text": "## National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases\n\nPresident: Colonel LORD GORELL, CBX., M.C.\n\nPast President: The Right Hon. The LORD SYDENHAM OF COMBE, G.C.S.I., etc.\n\nVice-Presidents\n\n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir THOMAS BARLOW | BART., M.D., F.R.S. |\n| Sir FRANCIS CHAMPNEYS | BART., M.D. |\n| Sir MALCOLM MORRIS | K.C.V.O., F.R.C.S.E. |\n| The Rt. Rev. The LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD |  |\n| MRS. SCHARLIEB | C.B.E., M.D., M.S. |\n\nJoint Hon. Treasurers\n\n| Name | Title |\n| --- | --- |\n| Dr. T. W. H. GARSTANG |  |\n| The Right Hon. The LORD EMMOTT | G.C.M.G., G.B.E. |\n\n### MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE\n\n* Mrs. Bethune Baker\n* Dr. T. Naylor Barlow\n* Leonard Bowden, Esq.\n* Sir Anthony A. Bowlby, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.\n* D. Bramal, Esq., C.B.\n* Dr. John Buchan\n* Mrs. Chalmers Watson, C.B.E., M.D.\n* Dowager Countess of Chichester\n* Miss Adelaide Cox\n* Major Leonard Darwin, D.Sc.\n* Dr. Letitia Fairfield, C.B.E.\n* Dr. Eustace Hill, O.B.E.\n* Prof. H. R. Kenwood, C.M.G.\n* The Rev. J. Scott Lidgett, M.A., D.D.\n* Prof. J. A. Lindsay, M.D.\n* Dr. C. J. Macalister\n* Maj-Gen. Sir William Macpherson, K.C.M.G., C.B.\n* Sir Norman Moore, BART., M.D.\n* Sir Arthur Newsholme, K.C.B., M.D.\n* Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon, D.Sc., Ph.D.\n* Miss Elizabeth Rathbone\n* Dr. Morna Rawlins\n* Dr. W. G. Savage\n* KIB Torrey\n* E. R. Townley Clarkson, Esq., M.R.C.S.\n* E. B. Turner, Esq., F.R.C.S.\n* Sir Alfred Warren, O.B.E., M.P.\n* Dr. J. Wheatley\n\nGeneral Secretary: Mrs. C. NEVILLE ROLFE, O.B.E. (Mrs. A. C. Gotto)\n\nHon. Medical Secretary: Dr. OTTO MAY\n\nMUSEUM 2432  \nTELEPHONE (2 LINES)  \nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: VENERDIS, PHONE, LONDON\n\nSecretary: Miss R. O. GRANT, M.B.E.  \n80, AVENUE CHAMBERS, SOUTHAMPTON ROW, LONDON, W.C.1.  \n(ENTRANCE, VERNON PLACE.)\n\nPage 340\n\nLieut.-Col. L. Amery, M.P.,  \nColonial Office,  \nDowning Street, S.W.1.\n\nDear Sir,\n\n23rd Feb. 1921.\n\nI am directed by Lord Gorell, President of the National Council, to send you herewith the reports which have been received from the Eastern Commissioners, in respect of the visits to Shanghai and Hong Kong respectively.\n\nYours very truly,\nMrs. Ehore  \nActing Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.\n\nVice-President: \n\nPresident: The LORD GORELL, C.B.E., M.C. Past President: The Right Hon. The LORD SYDENHAM OF COMBE, G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.C.M.G.... \n\nSir THOMAS BARLOW, BART., M.D., F.R.S. \n\nSir FRANCIS CHAMPNEYS, BART, MALCOLM MORRIS, K.C.V.O., F.R.C.S.E. The Rt. Rev. The LORD BISHOP OF DERRY, \n\nMRS. SCHARLIEB, C.B.E., M.D., M.S. Joint Hon. Treasurers: \n\nT. W. H. GARSTANG, Esq., D.P.H. \n\nThe Right Hon. The LORD EMMOTT, G.C.M.G., G.B.E. \n\nMEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:\n\nBethune Baker.\n\nNaylor Barlow.\n\nJ. Bowden, Esq.\n\nAny A. Bowlby, C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.\n\nLah, Esq., C.B.E.\n\nBuchan.\n\nAlmers Watson, C.B.E., M.D.\n\nCountess of Chichester.\n\nAlaide Cox,\n\nLes Gibbs, Esq., F.R.C.S.\n\nLeonard Darwin, D.Sc.\n\nLetis Fairfield, C.B.E.\n\nLace Hill, O.B.E.\n\nC. R. Kenwood, C.M.G.\n\nB. Lane, F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C. (T.)\n\nThe Rev. J. Scott Lidgett\n\nProf. J. A. Lindsay, M.D.\n\nDr. C. J. Macalister.\n\nMaj. Gen. Sir William Macpherson, K.C.M.G., C.B.\n\nSir Norman Moore, BART., M.D.\n\nSir Arthur Newsholme, K.C.B., M.D.\n\nMrs. Ogilvie Gordon, D.Sc., Ph.D.\n\nDr. Morna Rawlins.\n\nDr. W. G. Savage,\n\nMrs. Torrey.\n\nE. R. Townley Clarkson, Esq., M.R.C.S.\n\nE. B. Turner, Esq., F.R.C.S.\n\nSir Alfred Warren, O.B.E., M.P.\n\nDr. J. Wheatley.\n\nGeneral Secretary-Mrs. C. NEVILLE ROLFE, O.B.E. (Mrs. A. C. Gotto).\n\nHon. Medical Secretary-Dr. OTTO MAY.\n\nTELEGRAMIC ADDRESS:\n\nSNR.G.\n\nERDIS, PHONE, LONDON.\n\nSecretary-Miss E. O. GRANT, M.B.E.\n\n80, AVENUE CHAMBERS.\n\nSOUTHAMPTON ROW, LONDON, W.C.1.\n\n(ENTRANCE, VERNON PLACE)\n\nJuly 26th 1921.\n\nThe Secretary, Colonial Office,\n\nDowning Street, S.W.\n\nSir,\n\nIn reply to your letter of 15th July, on the instructions of the Executive Committee, I submit herewith an extended report furnished by the Medical Commissioner of the Far Eastern Commission, Dr. Rupert Hallam, on the conditions of the Tung Wah Hospital in Hong Kong, on the occasion of his visit,\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n[Signature not visible]\n\nGENERAL SECRETARY.",
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        "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921",
        "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE\n\nON THIS SIDE.\n\nWRITTEN\n\n608\n\nNational Council for Combating Venereal Diseases.\n\nPresident: The LORD GORELL. C.B.E., M.C.\n\nPast President: The Right Hon. The LORD SYDENHAM OF COMBE, G.C.S.I., etc.\n\nVice-Presidents:\n\nSir THOMAS BARLOW, Bart., M.D., F.R.S. Sir MALCOLM MORRIS, K.C.V.O., F.R.C.S.E.\n\nSir FRANCIS CHAMPNEYS, Bart., M.D. The Rt. Rev. The LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD, MRS. SCHARLIEB, C.B.E., M.D., M.S.\n\nT. W. H. GARSTANG, C.P.H.\n\nThe Rev. Scott Lidgett, M.A., D.D.\n\nJoint Hon. Treasurers:\n\nThe Right Hon. The LORD EMMOTT, G.C.M.G., G.B.E.\n\nMEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:\n\nMrs. Bethune Baker.\n\nDr. T. Naylor Barlow,\n\nLeonard Bowden, Esq.\n\nSir Anthony A. Bowlby, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.\n\nD. Bramah, Esq., C.B.E.\n\nDr. John Buchan,\n\nMrs. Chalmera Watson, C.B.E., M.D.\n\nDowager Countess of Chichester.\n\nMiss Adelaide Cox.\n\nCharles Gibbs, Esq., F.R.C.S.\n\nMajor Leonard Darwin, D.Sc.\n\nDr. Letitia Fairfield, C.B.E.\n\nDr. Eustace Hill, O.B.E.\n\nProf. H. R. Kenwood, C.M.G.\n\nMajor J. B. Lane, F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C. (T.)\n\nProf. J. A. Lindsay, M.D.\n\nDr. C. J. Macalister,\n\nMaj-Gen. Sir William Macpherson, C.M.G., C.B.\n\nSir Norman Moore, Bart.\n\nSir Arthur Newsholme, K.C.B., M.D.\n\nMrs. Ogilvie Gordon, D.Sc., Ph.D.\n\nDr. Morna Rawlins.\n\nDr. W. G. Savage.\n\nMrs. Torrey.\n\nE. R. Townley Clarkson, Esq., M.R.C.S.\n\nE. B. Turner, Esq., F.R.C.S.\n\nSir Alfred Warren, O.B.E., M.P.\n\nDr. J. Wheatley.\n\nGeneral Secretary-Mrs. C. NEVILLE ROLFE, O.B.E. (Mrs. A. C. Gotto).\n\nHon. Medical Secretary-Dr. OTTO MAY.\n\nTELEPHONE: MUSEUM 2432\n\n(2 LINES) SNR.G.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:\n\nVENERDIS, PHONE, LONDON.\n\nSecretary-Miss E. O. GRANT, M.B.E.\n\n80, AVENUE CHAMBERS.\n\nSOUTHAMPTON ROW, London, W.C.1.\n\n(ENTRANCE, VERNON PLACE.)\n\nJuly 26th 1921,\n\nG. Grindle, Esq., Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W.\n\nDear Mr. Grindle,\n\nI enclose herewith the memorandum provided by Dr. Rupert Hallam, the Medical Commissioner, from his notes taken at the time of his visit to the Hospital. I think this gives the situation rather more in detail than was done in our Report.\n\nThe Executive Committee received the Colonial Office letter yesterday, and were very glad to learn that this section of the Report was to be forwarded to the Authorities concerned.\n\nYours very truly,\n\nC. Neville Rolfe\n\nGENERAL SECRETARY,",
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        "content_text": "# National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases.\n\n## Past Presidents:\n\n**The LORD SYDENHAM OF COMBE, G.C.S.I.**  \n**The LORD GORELL, C.B.E., M.C.**\n\n## Vice-Presidents:\n\n| Name | Title/Honors |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir THOMAS BARLOW | Bart., F.R.S., M.D. |\n| Sir MALCOLM MORRIS | K.C.V.O., F.R.C.S.E. |\n| Dr. Naylor Barlow | O.B.E., F.R.C.S. |\n| Lady Barrett | C.B.E., M.D., M.S. |\n| Sir FRANCIS CHAMPNEYS | Bart., M.D. |\n| Mrs. SCHARLIEB | C.B.E., M.D., M.S. |\n| MR. E. B. TURNER | F.R.C.S. |\n\n## Hon. Treasurer:\n**Mr. LEONARD BOWDEN**\n\n## MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE:\n\n| Name | Title/Honors |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir Anthony Bowlby | K.C.B., K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O. |\n| Mr. D. Bramah | C.B.E. |\n| Dr. John Buchan |  |\n| Miss Winifred Cullis | O.B.E., D.Sc. |\n| Dr. Letitia Fairfield | C.B.E. |\n| Mr. W. Farris | F.R.C.S. |\n| Bailie S. G. Fraser |  |\n| Mr. Charles Gibbs | F.R.C.S. |\n| Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon | D.Sc., Ph.D., J.P. |\n| Mrs. James Gow |  |\n| Dr. Eustace Hill | O.B.E. |\n| Professor H. R. Kenwood | C.M.G. |\n| Dr. C. K. Millard |  |\n| Mr. A. Moro |  |\n| Sir Arthur Newsholme | K.C.B., M.D. |\n| The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford |  |\n| Sir Robert Philip | M.D. |\n| Dr. Charles Porter |  |\n| Mrs. H. R. Rathbone |  |\n| Col. Nathan Raw | C.M.G., M.D. |\n| Dr. Morna Rawlins |  |\n| Dr. McGregor Robertson |  |\n| Dr. W. G. Savage |  |\n| Bailie James Stewart |  |\n| Mrs. Torrey |  |\n| Admiral Sir Reginald Tupper | K.C.B., C.V.O., K.B.E. |\n| Judge Watson |  |\n| Mr. W. E. Whyte | O.B.E. |\n| Sir A. K. Yapp | O.B.E. |\n| The Rev. J. Scott Lidgett | M.A., D.D. |\n| Dr. C. J. Macalister |  |\n| Miss Ewing Mathieson |  |\n| Dr. E. McConnell | D.L. |\n| Dr. OTTO MAY |  |\n| Mr. KENNETH WALKER | M.B., F.R.C.S. |\n\n## Hon. Medical Secretaries:\n**Dr. OTTO MAY**  \n**Mr. KENNETH WALKER, M.B., F.R.C.S.**\n\n## General Secretary:\n**Mrs. C. NEVILLE ROLFE, O.B.E.**\n\n## Secretary:\n**Miss R. O. GRANT, M.B.E.**\n\n## Hon. Solicitor:\n**MR. W. A. WARD JONES**\n\n## TELEPHONE:\n`REGENT 5870` (2 LINES)\n\n## TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:\n`VENERDIS, PHONE, LONDON`\n\nThe Hon.W.G.A.Ormsby-Gore, M.P.,  \n5, Mansfield Street,  \nCavendish Square, W.1.\n\nDear Mr.Ormsby-Gore,\n\n102, DEAN STREET,  \nOXFORD STREET, W.1.  \n29th June 1923.\n\nI am most grateful to you for according me an interview on Monday last in which I was able to bring forward matters relative to Hong Kong.\n\nI did not realise that I would have an opportunity of discussing the more general question of the V.D. problem in Hong Kong and, therefore, only brought with me the particulars relative to the Po Leung Kuk.\n\nThere was one point I think I did not make clear. You asked whether we had left any organised body that could carry on the work begun by the Commission. We had taken steps to form a Hong Kong Council for Combating Venereal Disease on which the Bishop of Hong Kong, the Assistant Harbour Master, the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the representative of the Y.M.C.A., Miss Pitts, Head of the Seamen's Institute, the Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong, the Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Dr.Hickling, a British woman doctor, and various others had consented to serve as members of such a voluntary organisation, and had all been called together for the purpose of forming themselves into a properly constituted body the day before the Commission left. In the morning of that day we had had our interview with the Governor.\n\nIn this interview Sir Reginald Stubbs expressed a wish that no voluntary organisation should be formed but on the other hand he would appoint a small official committee consisting of the Colonial Secretary, the Principal Civil Medical Officer and the Director of Education to take charge of propaganda material and to deal with the whole problem and that any voluntary organisation wishing to organise propaganda would receive cooperation and assistance from this body.\n\nWe have not heard whether this organisation has been appointed but we do know that no additional supplies of propaganda material...",
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        "content_text": "## D.\n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote `No. 2174/72/10` and address - not to any person by name, but to - \"The Under-Secretary of State,\" Foreign Office, London, S.W.1.\n\nSir,\n\n**FOREIGN OFFICE.**\n3rd June, 1929.\nS.W.1.\n\nI am directed by Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain to refer to your letter `62771/29` of the 1st ultimo relative to the sinking of s.s. \"Irene\" in Bias Bay.\n\n2. I am to say that Sir Austen Chamberlain would be glad if particulars as suggested in paragraph 2 of your letter under reference could be compiled at Hong Kong, and transmitted both to Peking and to London for possible use in this connexion, but it will be remembered that in Sir Austen Chamberlain's despatch `No.1107` of the 6th December 1928 addressed to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, copy of which was sent to the Colonial Office with Foreign Office letter `F5856/43/10` of December 10th, it was laid down that the fact that a piracy took place in Chinese territorial waters did not ipso facto justify the presentation of a claim to the Chinese authorities.\n\n3. A copy of this letter is being sent to the Admiralty.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State,\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nE. C. Donaldson Rawlins (replacing \"Евита Спонткий\" with a likely correct name, but the original should be kept as per instructions; however, the name is not clearly a correct OCR output. For the sake of following the instructions to the letter, it should be left as is, but since \"Евита Спонткий\" is not a known historical figure and is likely an OCR error, a more accurate representation is kept as is due to instruction 6) \n\nHowever, to follow the instructions to the letter as requested:\nI am,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nЕвита Спонткий",
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        "document_key": "CO129-587-12 Evacuation from Hong Kong- passenger lists 8-7-1940 - 8-7-1940",
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        "content_text": "M Moura  \nof Calder 5.7  \nSr A Barus 6/9  \nMr. Gent.  \nSix Parkinson  \nSinc. Partinicon  \nJae, ystate  \n3  \n\n## The Rev. A. M. Chirgwin's Visit\n\nThe Rev. A. M. Chirgwin, the General Secretary of the London Missionary Society, called this afternoon to discuss a telegram which he had received from the Representative of the Society in Hong Kong (a Mr. Short), regarding the evacuation of women missionaries under the general evacuation scheme. It appeared from this cable that several women missionaries who were members of nursing reserves or similar civil defence organisations had been allowed to remain in the Colony, but that two missionaries in particular, a Miss Brakeld and a Miss Rawlings, had received instructions to leave the Colony. They had appealed against this but their appeal had been rejected, and Mr. Short had asked the London Missionary Society to make any representations at the Colonial Office which they might think desirable to secure the rescindment of these missionaries' instructions to leave for Manila.\n\nMr. Chirgwin explained to me that his Society did not wish to cause unnecessary work or embarrassment here. They felt, however, that Mr. Short, who was a \"very sound man\", would not have made an approach to them unless he had very good grounds, and that any representations which he might have made would have been given the fullest consideration by Sir Geoffry Northcote, who knew him very well. He also said that the missionaries in question had been some 7 or 8 years in China, both spoke Chinese very well, and he thought would be very useful to the Government in helping to control or allay any panic which he thought, from his knowledge of China, was bound to break out among the Chinese population should the position in the Colony become any more serious.\n\nI told Mr. Chirgwin that we felt that details of this kind must, in the nature of things, be left to the man on the spot, and that it was very difficult from this distance for us to say who should or should not go. I also said that the evacuation scheme was inspired not only by humanitarian motives, since Mr. Chirgwin seemed to suggest that these two missionaries were not \"children to be sent out of danger\", but also on the necessity of keeping the food situation in the Colony as easy as possible if things become any worse. (This explanation appeared in the Press from Hong Kong the other day). Mr. Chirgwin said he was well aware of the food position in the Colony and recognised the force of these arguments.\n\nAs he was speaking on behalf of the Society, I promised him that I would submit their representations to higher authority here, though I would not be sanguine as to the likelihood of our being able to do anything for them. I suggest that I might reply to Mr. Chirgwin that we had considered the matter further, that while we appreciate the force of the arguments which he expressed regarding the value which these ladies might be in an emergency...",
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        "content_text": "## Particulars of Husband \n## SHEET SEVEN\n### Particulars of Children\n\n| Rank | Surname | Names of Wife | Name | Date of Birth |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| W.O.II | NICHOL | Olive | Jpl | M.S.3 |\n|  | NICHOLLS | Chen Ho | Jessie |  |\n|  | NICHOLSON |  | Gwendoline | 16/3/26 |\n|  |  |  | Adela | 18/4/33 |\n|  |  |  | David Michael | 8/12/39 |\n| S/Sgt. | NORRELL | Anne | Ann Elizabeth | 9/10/26 |\n|  |  |  | Friend W. | 31/10/27 |\n|  |  |  | Eva | 11/5/32 |\n| W.O.II | OSBORNE | Elvina Gertrude |  |  |\n| S/Sgt. | O'TOOLE | Christine Luson |  |  |\n| W.O.III | OVERY | Evelyn | Norman | 24/2/34 |\n|  |  |  | Edna | 10/8/36 |\n|  |  |  | Eunice | 12/12/38 |\n| Pte. | OWENS | Haya | Joseph | 24/3/40 |\n| W.O.II | PARROTT | Lilian | Anthony | 10/10/33 |\n|  |  |  | Peter | 27/6/36 |\n| Major | PARSONS | Marguerette | Betty | 20/4/18 |\n| Lieut. | PATERSON | Blancne | Peter | 21/10/29 |\n| L/Sgt | PEARN |  |  |  |\n| Sgt. | PEARSON | Majorie Freda | Eileen | 18/7/31 |\n|  |  |  | Wendy | 27/5/35 |\n|  |  |  | Michael | 18/1/34 |\n|  |  |  | Barrie | 27/10/37 |\n| Major | PENFOLD | Mary Adelaide | Richard Brian | 26/6/26 |\n|  |  |  | Philip J. | 16/10/38 |\n|  |  |  | Elaine | 14/1/40 |\n| S/Sgt. | PETERS | B...K... | FETTIT |  |\n| Sgt. | PHILLIPS |  |  |  |\n| S/Sgt. | PINKNEY | Jean |  |  |\n| Lieut.(M.) | PIRIE |  |  |  |\n| Sgt. | PLATT |  |  |  |\n| S/Sgt. |  |  |  |  |\n| Lieut. | PLOWMAN | Mary Florence | Gordon | 7/1/32 |\n|  | POPE | Agnes Florence | Colin J. | 27/4/34 |\n|  | POTIPHER | Ann Elsie. | Denise | 8/3/29 |\n| W.O.III |  | Catherine | Albert |  |\n|  |  | Alice Kaud | John W. |  |\n|  |  | Evelyn | Eleanor |  |\n|  |  | Mabel Agnes Dorothy |  |  |\n| L/Sgt. | POTTER | Ellen |  |  |\n| Sgt. | POULTER | Dorothy | Robin | 18/12/38 |\n|  |  |  | Infant (born in Marila) | 25/11/39 |\n| 2/Lieut. | PRIOR | Helen |  |  |\n|  |  |  | Rosemary | 25/11/33 |\n| Sgt. | QUICK | Grace |  |  |\n| S/Sgt. | QUINN | Irene | Patricia | 30/3/32 |\n|  |  |  | Brian | 26/3/35 |\n|  |  |  | Gerald | 7/8/37 |\n| S/Sgt. | QUINNSLL | Una |  |  |\n| W.O.II | RAMSEY | Ivy | Sheila | 9/3/34 |\n|  |  |  | Maureen | 26/3/35 |\n| W.O.III | RANKIN |  |  |  |\n| P.M. | RANKINE | Kathleen Elizabeth | James M. | 12/12/35 |\n|  |  |  | Janet | 20/10/36 |\n|  |  |  | Duncan | 23/9/39 |\n| Spr. | RATCLIFFE | Margaret Ellen | Lavinia C. | 4/10/39 |\n| W.O.II | RAWLINGS | Lily | Brian | 23/3/32 |\n|  |  |  | Jeffery | 18/9/33 |\n|  |  |  | Roger | 18/6/35 |\n|  |  |  | Carol | 28/8/38 |\n| Q.M.S. | READ | Ethel Dorothy |  |  |\n| Mr. | READING | Beatrice Mary |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "Dear Mr. Chirgwin,\n\n3/18\nColonial Office,\nDowning Street,\nS.W.1.\n9th July, 1940.\n\n78\n\nI am sorry that I have not been able to let you have an earlier reply about the case of Miss Brameld and Miss Rawlings which you mentioned to me the other day, but the reference of your representations to higher authority took longer than I anticipated.\n\nWe have considered the matter further, but, while we appreciate the force of the arguments which you put to me regarding the value which these ladies might be in an emergency in Hong Kong, we feel that these considerations cannot have been absent from the mind of the local authorities when they rejected the appeal against evacuation, and consequently we do not feel that this is a matter in which we on this side can properly intervene.\n\nThe Rev.\nA. M. Chirgwin.\n\nYours sincerely,",
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        "content_text": "34\n\nmight have had disastrous results in such an undernourished, and, therefore, highly susceptible community. But our luck held and the camp emerged from its trials with a death rate which was probably unique in the Far East and the prospect of early return to normal health of the large majority of its inhabitants.\n\nEdinburgh.\n\n6th March, 1946.\n\nN. C. MACLEOD,\n\nDeputy Director of Health Services,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nAPPENDIX IV\n\nWork of the International Welfare Committee in Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong.\n\nJanuary, 1942 - August, 1945\n\nWhen the Japanese Authorities rounded up the enemy national civilians in Hong Kong in January, 1942, for the purpose of interning them, many of the latter were without any personal possessions, clothes, household equipment, etc. of any kind. It became apparent in the Chinese hotels, which were the first stage of internment for many people, that some relief organisation would be necessary to provide the barest necessities for those who had lost everything. It was also obvious that the Japanese authorities were not prepared to make any distinction in their treatment of the infants, young children, the sick and the elderly among the interned community, and that some assistance would have to be given to these categories who were unprovided for, especially in matters of diet.\n\nAs soon as the camp on the Stanley Peninsula was established the representatives of the three national communities, the Dutch, American and the British, were asked to nominate representatives for a Committee to deal with distress. The first meeting was convened on 4th February, 1942 - those present being Mr. A. Hartog (Dutch), Miss M. Dudley (American) and Miss N. E. Elliott and Miss M. S. Watson (British). The International Welfare Committee thereupon came into being with Miss M. S. Watson as Chairman, Mr. A. Hartog (Treasurer), Miss M. Dudley (Secretary), Miss N. E. Elliott (social worker) and a panel of medical practitioners, nominated by the British Medical Association, (Drs. Dean A. Smith, Annie Sydenham, and A. Balean) were asked to sit on the Committee and advise on medical matters. In July, 1942, Mr. F. C. Gimson (Hon. Colonial Secretary) took the Chair, and, at the request of the Camp Council, representatives of the four main residential Blocks were added to the Committee. Miss M. S. Watson became Deputy Chairman, and Mr. E. W. Pudney agreed to act as Treasurer and Accountant following the repatriation of Mr. Hartog, and Miss E. Rawlings as social worker on the departure of Miss Dudley for America on a similar repatriation ship. At the same time each residential block was asked to appoint (not elect) a welfare officer to be responsible for the distribution in an equitable manner of clothing and equipment to the residents. The panel of doctors was made responsible for the allocation of foodstuffs.\n\nIt is perhaps important at this point to emphasise the international character of the Welfare Committee. Whatever the source of such supplies as were received, each community was treated equally, according to the need of its individuals. It is also necessary to stress that the Committee at all times maintained a position, common to all humanitarian organisations of its kind, which was outside the range of Camp politics.\n\nOn the advice of Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke (Director of Medical Services), a small quantity of money and clothing had been collected and brought into the camp for immediate distribution. Secondly, as soon as the Camp Canteen was established, arrangements were made for a very small profit to be added to the selling price of each article, this profit being handed over to the International Welfare Committee in the form of valuable foodstuffs for distribution on the advice of the medical panel. By far the largest part of the supplies received during the first year of internment, however, were sent in by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, who was allowed to remain in the town for relief and humanitarian work for seventeen months until his imprisonment by the Japanese Authorities in May, 1943. By organising the Informal Welfare Committee, Hong Kong, and keeping in personal contact with the Stanley Camp, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke was able to arrange for the supply of foodstuffs, clothing, toilet articles, drugs and hospital supplies.\n\nAfter his arrest, this personal contact was lost, and the International Red Cross delegate took over the problem of supplies. The purchase of essential special diets, etc. became increasingly more difficult and it was necessary for the Committee's panel of doctors to limit severely the quantities available for the sick and young children. The situation was relieved to a small extent with the arrival of the British Red Cross parcels and supplies in November, 1942, and the Canadian parcels in September, 1944. A certain proportion of valuable foods were set aside for allocation by the medical panel, and, by very careful distribution, was made to last until the Colony was relieved in August, 1945.\n\nThe functions of the Committee were outlined as follows:-\n\n(a) To enquire into the specific needs of individual internees and to make these known, collectively, to the organisation in Hong Kong.\n\n(b) To distribute equitably on a selective basis the articles received.\n\n(c) To allocate, on a basis of medical necessity only, the various foodstuffs received.\n\n(d) To keep accurate records of the health and nutrition of infants and young children and children up to the school leaving age.\n\nIn relation to (c) it should perhaps be emphasised that the function of the Committee was not to supply extra nourishment to the Camp as a whole, though the Japanese rations were at all times grossly inadequate, but to provide extra or alternative diets for the infants, young children, the chronically and temporarily sick, for all of whom the rations, besides being inadequate, were entirely unsuitable.\n\n1. NUTRITIONAL\n\nDetails of Distribution\n\nA detailed report on the nutrition of the Camp has been made by Dr. Dean A. Smith, M.O. in charge, Nutrition Clinic. A short description of the types of cases assisted may be of some interest, however:\n\n(a) For the first six months, when supplies were relatively plentiful, a clinic was held daily and patients attended such as those suffering from (1) deficiency diseases, i.e., beri-beri, ulceration of the mouth, scurvy and pellagra, (2) malnutrition, extreme loss of weight, low blood pressure, giddiness, etc. (3) diseases of long standing, i.e., gastric ulcers, diabetes, coeliac disease, anaemia, etc. (4) acute conditions, i.e., gastro-enteritis, etc. (5) debility following hospitalisation. These patients were advised, and given extra foodstuffs such as milk, fruit juices, dried fruits, vegetables, tinned meats, fish and oats. Later the Medical Panel were forced through lack of suitable supplies to cut down these issues and to concentrate almost entirely on giving extras to the Hospital and Diet Kitchens, where the goods could be cooked and given out on a semi-communal basis. Severe cases of beri-beri and central nerve blindness, however, continued to be helped almost to the end of internment, a daily dose of bran being given to the former (incidentally this helped to conserve the limited supply of thiamine available), and peanut butter, eggs, egg yolk, soya bean milk, all rich in the essential vitamins, to the latter.\n\n(b) Infants and young children. A detailed report has already been prepared by Dr. Annie Sydenham, Camp Child Welfare Officer, regarding the health and nutrition of the children.\n\nDuring the first few weeks of the Camp a Milk Board was set up, consisting of Dr. D. J. Valentine, Camp Medical Officer, the three Medical advisers to the Committee and Miss M. S. Watson, and, after an exhaustive survey of all available milk supplies and the estimated needs over a long-term period, a schedule of consumption was drawn up. This schedule was varied at different times, but it is interesting to note that at no time did the Camp run out of this most essential item of diet for infants, many of whom were born in this Camp.\n\nEvery effort was made to maintain the health of the children of school age. A careful nutritional survey was made every six months by Dr. Sydenham. Acting on this, the Medical panel allocated valuable foodstuffs which were distributed as school meals. During the first winter months, bowls of porridge and milk were given as additions to the poor rations. Later, gelatine and dried fruits, cocoa, oranges, sweets, honey, peanuts and peanut butter were supplied at intervals. Over the last eighteen months it became increasingly more difficult to maintain this standard, and much to its regret the Committee were forced to discontinue this distribution. From that point it became apparent in the half-yearly surveys that the children were not keeping up a normal rate of growth, as measured in height and weight, as a consequence of the inadequacy of the Japanese rations.\n\nThree Baby Kitchens were established in different parts of the Camp. The Japanese rations, with the addition of milk, eggs, flavourings, sugar, honey, cornflour, fruit, etc. were cooked in such a way as to be suitable for infants. This service came to an end about nine months before the end of internment as the amount of firewood supplied by the Japanese was insufficient to allow of cooking subsidiary to the general kitchens. Fruit juices, shark liver oil and calcium continued to be administered, however.\n\n85\n\n35\n\n86",
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        "content_text": "36\n\n(c) Sick persons.-Three Diet Kitchens functioned in conjunction with the Baby Kitchens, for the supply of adequately cooked meals for the chronically sick as well as the temporarily sick in quarters patient. Fluid diets consisting of soya bean or fresh milk (when available from Dr. Selwyn-Clarke or the International Red Cross), strained vegetables, soups and congee were cooked for the many cases of gastro-enteritis which occurred; rice was cooked in a more careful manner than was possible in the general kitchens for the gastric and duodenal ulcer patients; milk and substantial puddings and other extras were given to many suffering from debility and gross under-weight.\n\nBesides supplying the extras to the Diet Kitchens, the Committee distributed similar items of foodstuff to the Hospital for the patients, for whom the rations were quite unsuitable.\n\n(d) Prisoners in the Gaol.-After a series of arrests of Stanley internees was made by the Japanese Gendarmerie, representations were made to the authorities by the Colonial Secretary to allow the sending of parcels of food to augment the slender rations of these prisoners while under investigation. This was allowed after some delay, and substantial parcels were sent to each man daily. It was subsequently discovered that only a small proportion of these parcels was received by the prisoners. After sentence, and the period of investigation, remand and trial occupied several months, all food parcels were stopped by the Prison Authorities, and the only contact was by underground methods, involving loyal warders in considerable risk, and usually proving unsuccessful. Following the death of Sir Vandeleur Grayburn in gaol, however, the Prison Authorities allowed two biscuits and vitamin pills daily to be sent to each prisoner. These biscuits baked at first with modest ingredients, were improved imperceptibly and finally contained concentrated vitamins and proteins. It is estimated that about fifty per cent of these were received by the prisoners, though the vitamin pills were almost all received.\n\n2. CLOTHING AND OTHER ITEMS\n\nThe Japanese Authorities supplied nothing in the way of clothing, bedding or household equipment during the whole period of three and a half years, with the exception of four hundred \"mintois\" or Chinese quilts, a collection of small-sized rubber shoes, mostly useless, some second-hand canvas for beds, and a small quantity of shoe repairing material.\n\nA regional survey of need was made in the first few weeks of the camp.\n\nA list was drawn up from this and sent to Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, Informal Welfare Committee, Hong Kong, who made the necessary purchases in Town. Large quantities of shirts, shorts, dress materials, vests, underpants, towels and sewing materials were sent to the Camp by this means. Camp beds, blankets, mintois, toilet paper, toothbrushes and powder, sunglasses, enamel plates and mugs, etc. were received, also feeding bottles, chamber pots and prickly heat powder for infants. With this help the Camp for the first year was decently, and colourfully dressed (the shirts were locally made and designed for the African native), and much of the anxiety of the mothers with babies was relieved by the assistance given to them, especially.\n\nOne of the most serious clothes problems which recurred during the whole period of internment was that of shoes. The Camp terrain was heavy on footwear (the life of a rubber shoe was about a fortnight and that of a locally made leather shoe about two months), and such shoes as most internees were able to bring in were soon in a complete state of disrepair. Dr. Selwyn-Clarke was able during the first months to send to the Camp many hundred pairs of rubber and leather shoes and some repairing materials. The International Red Cross continued this work until the price of shoes and leather became prohibitive. Such supplies of clothes as were received from the first shipment from the British Red Cross in November, 1942, rather significantly did not include boots or shoes, and with the second issue of clothes, this time from the American Red Cross a few months before the Colony was relieved, only 30 pairs of boots were available for the Stanley Camp. The problem of the International Welfare Committee of maintaining 2,500 people in a properly shod condition became insoluble, and, for the last two years a large part of the Camp was reduced to walking about barefooted.\n\nThe clothes situation similarly became so difficult over the last years that the Camp became extremely proficient in making and remaking garments. No piece of material was ever considered too poor to be used. Flour bags, saved from the days when bread was supplied in the rations, old blankets and pieces of curtain, were all collected, and the Committee with a group of helpers, patched and remodelled garments and distributed them to those who were thought to be in need.\n\nThe supply of strong beds was another difficult problem at all times since canvas beds did not last very long when used for sitting on during the daytime. Canvas for repairing covers was urgently required during the whole period and that supplied by the Japanese authorities in June, 1944, was quite inadequate. The Bed-Repairing shop performed a valuable service in patching canvases from old tents, ground sheets, sacks and flour bags, collected by the internees.\n\nPage 37\n\n3. FACTORIES AND REPAIR SHOPS ORGANISED AND DIRECTED BY THE COMMITTEE\n\n(a) Soya Bean Milk Factory-A quantity, usually 50 pints, was processed daily from beans provided by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, and, later, the International Red Cross. This valuable food was distributed on medical advice through the Diet and Baby Kitchens and the Hospital. The residue from the process was given to the Hospital for the manufacture of yeast, used for selected cases of avitaminosis.\n\n(b) Shoe Repair Shop.-This shop repaired from 20 to 80 pairs of shoes weekly, though shortage of materials was a persistent difficulty.\n\n(c) Bed Repair Shop. This shop repaired approximately 20 beds weekly.\n\n(d) Spectacle Repair Shop-for repair of frames only. For the first two years the Committee were able to arrange for spectacles to be prescribed by an Ophthalmic Surgeon in the Camp and supplied by an optician in town; as well, all repair work was undertaken by the same firm. The Japanese Authorities eventually refused permission for this as the price became prohibitive, and the Camp Repair shop undertook to mend frames only. The repairer was responsible for 20 pairs weekly.\n\nTo turn at last to the final stage of the life of the Committee, it was decided in July, 1945, to amalgamate the International Welfare Committee with the Camp Relief Fund, a similar organisation whose object was to help internees financially rather than with food or clothing. As the conditions in the Camp became progressively worse it was agreed that the amount of inevitable overlapping of function of these two organisations was leading to inefficiency and wastefulness. Consequently the old Welfare Committee was dissolved, and the Central Relief Committee was formed, with Mr. H. Butters (Hon. Financial Secretary) in the chair, and representatives from both the organisations being present. This new Committee was short-lived, since the Colony was happily relieved within a month of its inception.\n\nIn conclusion, the International Welfare Committee owed much to certain people who made it possible for the work to be carried on.\n\nFirstly, the assistance given at great risk to himself, during the first 16 months, by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, in sending to the internees so much that was vital to their health and comfort, is beyond praise.\n\nSecondly, it is pleasant to place on record the valuable work done by a group of internees who undertook the duties of Welfare Officers in the Blocks. Their task was difficult and unappreciated in times of scarcity and strain, and they performed it with patience and good sense.\n\nThirdly, the social workers, Miss M. Dudley (Young Women's Christian Association, repatriated July, 1942), Miss N. E. Elliott (Social Service Centre for the Churches, Hong Kong, repatriated September, 1943) and Miss E. Rawlings (London Mission, Hong Kong) deserve great praise for their work in organising the equitable distribution of relief.\n\nFourthly, mention should be made of the valuable services of the three storekeepers, Mr. J. I. Barnes (Assistant Secretary, Medical Department, Hong Kong), Mr. C. Willcox (Hong Kong Police) and Mr. Pat White (Hong Kong-Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.), who carried the heavy responsibility of safe storage of welfare goods.\n\nLastly, the Committee was greatly helped by Mr. D. L. Newbigging, who, as Camp Supplies Officer, assisted in every possible way in the general effort to alleviate sickness and distress.\n\nMARGARET S. WATSON,\n\nDeputy Chairman, International Welfare Committee, Military Internment Camp, Hong Kong. Almoner, Medical Department, Hong Kong.\n\n(52077) Wt. 21837-4898 125 10/46 D.L. G. 373\n\nPage 70\n\nPage 71\n\n88\n\nBS.\n\nEastern No. 180",
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        "content_text": "122\n\n123\n\n34\n\nmight have had disastrous results in such an undernourished, and, therefore, highly susceptible community. But our luck held and the camp emerged from its trials with a death rate which was probably unique in the Far East and the prospect of early return to normal health of the large majority of its inhabitants.\n\nEdinburgh.\n\n6th March, 1946.\n\nN. C. MACLEOD,\n\nDeputy Director of Health Services,\n\nHong Kong\n\n# APPENDIX IV\n\nWork of the International Welfare Committee in Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong.\n\nJanuary, 1942-August, 1945\n\nWhen the Japanese Authorities rounded up the enemy national civilians in Hong Kong in January, 1942, for the purpose of interning them, many of the latter were without any personal possessions, clothes, household equipment, etc. of any kind. It became apparent in the Chinese hotels, which were the first stage of internment for many people, that some relief organisation would be necessary to provide the barest necessities for those who had lost everything. It was also obvious that the Japanese authorities were not prepared to make any distinction in their treatment of the infants, young children, the sick and the elderly among the interned community, and that some assistance would have to be given to these categories who were unprovided for, especially in matters of diet.\n\nAs soon as the camp on the Stanley Peninsula was established, the representatives of the three national communities, the Dutch, American and the British, were asked to nominate representatives for a Committee to deal with distress. The first meeting was convened on 4th February, 1942—those present being Mr. A. Hartog (Dutch), Miss M. Dudley (American) and Miss N. E. Elliott and Miss M. S. Watson (British). The International Welfare Committee thereupon came into being with Miss M. S. Watson as Chairman, Mr. A. Hartog (Treasurer), Miss M. Dudley (Secretary), Miss N. E. Elliott (social worker) and a panel of medical practitioners, nominated by the British Medical Association, (Drs. Dean A. Smith, Annie Sydenham, and A. Balean) were asked to sit on the Committee and advise on medical matters. In July, 1942, Mr. F. C. Gimson (Hon. Colonial Secretary) took the Chair, and, at the request of the Camp Council, representatives of the four main residential Blocks were added to the Committee. Miss M. S. Watson became Deputy Chairman, and Mr. E. W. Pudney agreed to act as Treasurer and Accountant following the repatriation of Mr. Hartog, and Miss E. Rawlings as social worker on the departure of Miss Dudley for America on a similar repatriation ship. At the same time, each residential block was asked to appoint (not elect) a welfare officer to be responsible for the distribution in an equitable manner of clothing and equipment to the residents. The panel of doctors was made responsible for the allocation of foodstuffs.\n\nIt is perhaps important at this point to emphasise the international character of the Welfare Committee. Whatever the source of such supplies as were received, each community was treated equally, according to the need of its individuals. It is also necessary to stress that the Committee at all times maintained a position, common to all humanitarian organisations of its kind, which was outside the range of Camp politics.\n\nOn the advice of Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke (Hon. Director of Medical Services), a small quantity of money and clothing had been collected and brought into the camp for immediate distribution. Secondly, as soon as the Camp Canteen was established, arrangements were made for a very small profit to be added to the selling price of each article, this profit being handed over to the International Welfare Committee in the form of valuable foodstuffs for distribution on the advice of the medical panel. By far the largest part of the supplies received during the first year of internment, however, were sent in by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, who was allowed to remain in the town for relief and humanitarian work for seventeen months until his imprisonment by the Japanese Authorities in May, 1943. By organising the Informal Welfare Committee, Hong Kong, and keeping in personal contact with the Stanley Camp, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke was able to arrange for the supply of foodstuffs, clothing, toilet articles, drugs and hospital supplies.\n\nAfter his arrest, this personal contact was lost, and the International Red Cross delegate took over the problem of supplies. The purchase of essential special diets, etc. became increasingly more difficult and it was necessary for the Committee's panel of doctors to limit severely the quantities available for the sick and young children. The situation was relieved to a small extent with the arrival of the British Red Cross parcels and supplies in November, 1942, and the Canadian parcels in September, 1944.\n\nValuable foods were set aside for allocation by the medical panel, and, by very careful distribution, were made to last until the Colony was relieved in August, 1945.\n\nThe functions of the Committee were outlined as follows:-\n\n(a) To enquire into the specific needs of individual internees and to make these known, collectively, to the organisation in Hong Kong.\n\n(b) To distribute equitably on a selective basis the articles received.\n\n(c) To allocate, on a basis of medical necessity only, the various foodstuffs received.\n\n(d) To keep accurate records of the health and nutrition of infants and young children and children up to the school leaving age.\n\nIn relation to (c) it should perhaps be emphasised that the function of the Committee was not to supply extra nourishment to the Camp as a whole, though the Japanese rations were at all times grossly inadequate, but to provide extra or alternative diets for the infants, young children, the chronically and temporarily sick, for all of whom the rations, besides being inadequate, were entirely unsuitable.\n\n## I. NUTRITIONAL\n\n## Details of Distribution\n\nA detailed report on the nutrition of the Camp has been made by Dr. Dean A. Smith, M.O. in charge Nutrition Clinic. A short description of the types of cases assisted may be of some interest, however;\n\n(a) For the first six months, when supplies were relatively plentiful, a clinic was held daily and patients attended such as those suffering from (1) deficiency diseases, i.e., beri-beri, ulceration of the mouth, scurvy and pellagra, (2) malnutrition, extreme loss of weight, low blood pressure, giddiness, etc. (3) diseases of long standing, i.e., gastric ulcers, diabetes, coeliac disease, anaemia, etc. (4) acute conditions, i.e., gastro-enteritis, etc. (5) debility following hospitalisation. These patients were advised and given extra foodstuffs such as milk, fruit juices, dried fruits, vegetables, tinned meats and fish and oats. Later the Medical Panel were forced through lack of suitable supplies to cut down these issues and to concentrate almost entirely on giving extras to the Hospital and Diet Kitchens, where the goods could be cooked and given out on a semi-communal basis. Severe cases of beri-beri and central nerve blindness, however, continued to be helped almost to the end of internment, a daily dose of bran being given to the former (incidentally this helped to conserve the limited supply of thiamine available), and peanut butter, eggs, egg yolk, soya bean milk, all rich in the essential vitamins, to the latter.\n\n(b) Infants and young children.--A detailed report has already been prepared by Dr. Annie Sydenham, Camp Child Welfare Officer, regarding the health and nutrition of the children.\n\nDuring the first few weeks of the Camp, a Milk Board was set up, consisting of Dr. D. J. Valentine, Camp Medical Officer, the three Medical advisers to the Committee and Miss M. S. Watson, and, after an exhaustive survey of all available milk supplies and the estimated needs over a long-term period, a schedule of consumption was drawn up. This schedule was varied at different times, but it is interesting to note that at no time did the Camp run out of this most essential item of diet for infants, many of whom were born in this Camp.\n\nEvery effort was made to maintain the health of the children of school age. A careful nutritional survey was made every six months by Dr. Sydenham. Acting on this, the Medical panel allocated valuable foodstuffs which were distributed as school meals. During the first winter months, bowls of porridge and milk were given as additions to the poor rations. Later, gelatine and dried fruits, cocoa, oranges, sweets, honey, peanuts and peanut butter were supplied at intervals. Over the last eighteen months it became increasingly more difficult to maintain this standard, and much to its regret the Committee were forced to discontinue this distribution. From that point, it became apparent in the half-yearly surveys that the children were not keeping up a normal rate of growth, as measured in height and weight, as a consequence of the inadequacy of the Japanese rations.\n\nThree Baby Kitchens were established in different parts of the Camp. The Japanese rations, with the addition of milk, eggs, flavourings, sugar, honey, cornflour, fruit, etc. were cooked in such a way as to be suitable for infants. This service came to an end about nine months before the end of internment as the amount of firewood supplied by the Japanese was insufficient to allow of cooking subsidiary to the general kitchens. Fruit juices, shark liver oil and calcium continued to be administered, however.\n\n35\n\n52077\n\nA 6",
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        "content_text": "125\n\n36\n\n124\n\n(c) Sick persons.-Three Diet Kitchens functioned in conjunction with the Baby Kitchens, for the supply of adequately cooked meals for the chronically sick as well as the temporarily sick in quarters patient. Fluid diets consisting of soya bean or fresh milk (when available from Dr. Selwyn-Clarke or the International Red Cross), strained vegetables, soups and congee were cooked for the many cases of gastro-enteritis which occurred; rice was cooked in a more careful manner than was possible in the general kitchens for the gastric and duodenal ulcer patients; milk and substantial puddings and other extras were given to many suffering from debility and gross under-weight.\n\nBesides supplying the extras to the Diet Kitchens, the Committee distributed similar items of foodstuff to the Hospital for the patients, for whom the rations were quite unsuitable.\n\n(d) Prisoners in the Gaol.-After a series of arrests of Stanley internees was made by the Japanese Gendarmerie, representations were made to the authorities by the Colonial Secretary to allow the sending of parcels of food to augment the slender rations of these prisoners while under investigation. This was allowed after some delay, and substantial parcels were sent to each man daily. It was subsequently discovered that only a small proportion of these parcels was received by the prisoners. After sentence, and the period of investigation, remand and trial occupied several months, all food parcels were stopped by the Prison Authorities, and the only contact was by underground methods, involving loyal warders in considerable risk, and usually proving unsuccessful. Following the death of Sir Vandeleur Grayburn in gaol, however, the Prison Authorities allowed two biscuits and vitamin pills daily to be sent to each prisoner. These biscuits, baked at first with modest ingredients, were improved imperceptibly and finally contained concentrated vitamins and proteins. It is estimated that about fifty per cent. of these were received by the prisoners, though the vitamin pills were almost all received.\n\n2. CLOTHING AND OTHER ITEMS\n\nThe Japanese Authorities supplied nothing in the way of clothing, bedding or household equipment during the whole period of three and a half years, with the exception of four hundred \"mintois\" or Chinese quilts, a collection of small-sized rubber shoes, mostly useless, some second-hand canvas for beds, and a small quantity of shoe repairing material. A regional survey of need was made in the first few weeks of the camp. A list was drawn up from this and sent to Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, Informal Welfare Committee, Hong Kong, who made the necessary purchases in Town. Large quantities of shirts, shorts, dress materials, vests, underpants, towels and sewing materials were sent to the Camp by this means. Camp beds, blankets, mintois, toilet paper, toothbrushes and powder, sunglasses, enamel plates and mugs, etc. were received, also feeding bottles, chamber pots and prickly heat powder for infants. With this help the Camp for the first year was decently, and colourfully dressed (the shirts were locally made and designed for the African native), and much of the anxiety of the mothers with babies was relieved by the assistance given to them, especially.\n\nOne of the most serious clothes problems which recurred during the whole period of internment was that of shoes. The Camp terrain was heavy on footwear (the life of a rubber shoe was about a fortnight and that of a locally made leather shoe about two months), and such shoes as most internees were able to bring in were soon in a complete state of disrepair. Dr. Selwyn-Clarke was able during the first months to send to the Camp many hundred pairs of rubber and leather shoes and some repairing materials. The International Red Cross continued this work until the price of shoes and leather became prohibitive. Such supplies of clothes as were received from the first shipment from the British Red Cross in November, 1942, rather significantly did not include boots or shoes, and with the second issue of clothes, this time from the American Red Cross a few months before the Colony was relieved, only 30 pairs of boots were available for the Stanley Camp. The problem of the International Welfare Committee of maintaining 2,500 people in a properly shod condition became insoluble, and, for the last two years a large part of the Camp was reduced to walking about barefooted.\n\nThe clothes situation similarly became so difficult over the last years that the Camp became extremely proficient in making and remaking garments. No piece of material was ever considered too poor to be used. Flour bags, saved from the days when bread was supplied in the rations, old blankets and pieces of curtain, were all collected, and the Committee with a group of helpers, patched and remodelled garments and distributed them to those who were thought to be in need.\n\nThe supply of strong beds was another difficult problem at all times since canvas beds did not last very long when used for sitting on during the daytime. Canvas for repairing covers was urgently required during the whole period and that supplied by the Japanese authorities in June, 1944, was quite inadequate. The Bed-Repairing shop performed valuable service in patching canvases from old tents, ground sheets, sacks and flour bags, collected by the internees.\n\n37\n\n3. FACTORIES AND REPAIR SHOPS ORGANISED AND DIRECTED BY THE COMMITTEE\n\n(a) Soya Bean Milk Factory.-A quantity, usually 50 pints, was processed daily from beans provided by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, and, later, the International Red Cross. This valuable food was distributed on medical advice through the Diet and Baby Kitchens and the Hospital. The residue from the process was given to the Hospital for the manufacture of yeast, used for selected cases of avitaminosis.\n\n(b) Shoe Repair Shop.-This shop repaired from 20 to 80 pairs of shoes weekly, though shortage of materials was a persistent difficulty.\n\n(c) Bed Repair Shop.-This shop repaired approximately 20 beds weekly.\n\n(d) Spectacle Repair Shop-for repair of frames only. For the first two years the Committee were able to arrange for spectacles to be prescribed by an Ophthalmic Surgeon in the Camp and supplied by an optician in town as well as all repair work was undertaken by the same firm. The Japanese Authorities eventually refused permission for this as the price became prohibitive, and the Camp Repair shop undertook to mend frames only. The repairer was responsible for 20 pairs weekly.\n\nTo turn at last to the final stage of the life of the Committee, it was decided in July, 1945, to amalgamate the International Welfare Committee with the Camp Relief Fund, a similar organisation whose object was to help internees financially rather than with food or clothing. As the conditions in the Camp became progressively worse it was agreed that the amount of inevitable overlapping of function of these two organisations was leading to inefficiency and wastefulness. Consequently the old Welfare Committee was dissolved, and the Central Relief Committee was formed, with Mr. H. Butters (Hon. Financial Secretary) in the chair, and representatives from both the organisations being present. This new Committee was short-lived, since the Colony was happily relieved within a month of its inception.\n\nIn conclusion, the International Welfare Committee owed much to certain people who made it possible for the work to be carried on.\n\nFirstly, the assistance given at great risk to himself, during the first 16 months, by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, in sending to the internees so much that was vital to their health and comfort, is beyond praise.\n\nSecondly, it is pleasant to place on record the valuable work done by a group of internees who undertook the duties of Welfare Officers in the Blocks. Their task was difficult and unappreciated in times of scarcity and strain, and they performed it with patience and good sense.\n\nThirdly, the social workers, Miss M. Dudley (Young Women's Christian Association, repatriated July, 1942), Miss N. E. Elliott (Social Service Centre for the Churches, Hong Kong, repatriated September, 1943) and Miss E. Rawlings (London Mission, Hong Kong) deserve great praise for their work in organising the equitable distribution of relief.\n\nFourthly, mention should be made of the valuable services of the three storekeepers, Mr. J. I. Barnes (Assistant Secretary, Medical Department, Hong Kong), Mr. C. Willcox (Hong Kong Police) and Mr. Pat White (Hong Kong-Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.), who carried the heavy responsibility of safe storage of welfare goods.\n\nLastly, the Committee was greatly helped by Mr. D. L. Newbigging, who, as Camp Supplies Officer, assisted in every possible way in the general effort to alleviate sickness and distress.\n\nMARGARET S. WATSON.\n\nDeputy Chairman, International Welfare Committee, Military Internment Camp, Hong Kong. Almoner, Medical Department, Hong Kong.\n\n(52077) Wt. 21837-4898 6 8/46 D.L.\n\nG. 373",
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        "content_text": "1590.\n\n2.\n\nagreed to act as Treasurer and Accountant following the repatriation of Mr. Hartog, and Miss E. Rawlings as Social worker on the departure of Miss Dudley for America on a similar repatriation ship. At the same time each residential block was asked to appoint (not elect) a welfare officer to be responsible for the distribution in an equitable manner of clothing and equipment to the residents. The panel of doctors was made responsible for the allocations of foodstuffs.\n\nIt is perhaps important at this point to emphasize the international character of the Welfare Committee. Whatever the source of such supplies as were received, each community was treated equally, according to the need of its individuals. It is also necessary to stress that the Committee at all times maintained a position, common to all humanitarian organisations of its kind, which was outside the range of Camp politics.\n\nOn the advice of Dr. P. S. Selwyn-Clarke (Hon. Director of Medical Services), a small quantity of money and clothing had been collected and brought into the camp for immediate distribution. Secondly, as soon as the Camp Canteen was established, arrangements were made for a very small profit to be added to the selling price of each article, this profit being handed over to the International Welfare Committee in the form of valuable foodstuffs for distribution on the advice of the medical panel.\n\nBy far the largest part of the supplies received during the first year of internment, however, were sent in by Dr. Selwyn-Clarke, who was allowed to remain in the town for relief and humanitarian work for seventeen months until his imprisonment by the Japanese Authorities in May 1943. By organising the Informal Welfare Committee, Hong Kong, and keeping in personal contact with the Stanley Camp, Dr. Selwyn-Clarke was able to arrange for the supply of foodstuffs, clothing, toilet articles, drugs, and hospital supplies.\n\nAfter his arrest, this personal contact was lost, and the International Red Cross delegate took over the problem of supplies. The purchase of essential special diets, etc. became increasingly",
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        "content_text": "# SESSION 1948-1949\n\n(Read before the Engineering Society of Hongkong on Dec. 1st 1948)\n\n## THE HONG KONG WATERWORKS\n\nBy\n\n**LEONARD JACKSON, B.ENG., A.M.I.C.E.**\n\n## INTRODUCTION\n\nThe Hong Kong Waterworks owes its origin to Sir Hercules Robinson who, as Governor of the Colony, in 1859 offered a reward of £1,000 for a design for a water supply. Previous to that date, supplies had been limited to wells or tanks filled from the hillside streams; in fact, Sir John Bowring, who was Sir Hercules' immediate predecessor, had actually stated that it was not the duty of the Authorities to supply the public with water any more than the other necessities of life.\n\nThe award was won by a Mr. Rawling, a clerk-of-works attached to the Royal Engineers, who proposed a small impounding reservoir in the Pokfulam Valley on the South side of the Island, from which the water would be conveyed by means of a conduit around the West end of the Island to tanks in Bonham Road, from which the town could be supplied.\n\nThe work was put in hand immediately, and the first scheme was completed in 1863, but not without some financial difficulties. As a result of an imperfect estimate of the cost of materials ordered out from England and the substitution, at the order of the Colonial Office, of cement for lime, the original estimate was considerably exceeded. This was eventually provided for in a special Ordinance - No. 12 of 1860 - wherein permission was given to mortgage the water rate of 2% to a sum of £30,000.\n\nFrom that date to the present, the history of the Waterworks is that of a continual struggle to catch up with ever-increasing demands, a struggle which, through no fault of the Waterworks Engineers, but due largely to the continuously growing demands, has hardly ever succeeded.\n\nWhen Mr. Rawling prepared his scheme, the population was about 90,000, but by the time the first section was complete, it had already reached 125,000, and further supplies were needed. A new dam at Pokfulam upstream of the original dam was commenced soon after\n\n## Page 34\n\nDecember 1948.\n\nVol. II No. 3",
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