No. 1898.
SIR,
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(Colonial Secretary to Mr. Chater.)
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 8th December, 1887.
With reference to your letter of the 29th ultimo respecting the proposed Praya Reclamation Scheme, I am directed by the Governor to inform you that His Ex- cellency is pleased to acquiesce in the wishes of the marine lot-owners, and that the Surveyor General has been instructed to have the necessary surveys made forthwith.
The Honourable C. P. CHATER.
I have, &c.,
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
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(Surveyor General to Colonial Secretary.)
SIB,
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT,
1st June, 1888.
I have the honour to report the completion of the detailed surveys of the Praya foreshore in front of the Central and Western Districts of the city of Victoria, and to transmit you the accompanying plans in connexion with the Reclamation Project. Annexed will also be found marked Appendix A sheets of particulars and costs including the areas and dimensions of the extensions seawards of the present line of marine lots, and the share of the cost of reclamation which will fall to each marine lot-owner.
2. The Reclamation Project comprises the erection of a new ashlar masonry breast-wall 3,400 yards long running almost uniformly parallel with the present coast line at a distance out of 250 feet from the shore along 20 feet of water, and the conversion into dry land of the strip of sea left enclosed between the new masonry breasting and the present old Praya. The land thus formed will be par- celled out into building allotments 160 feet wide, divided into blocks by cross streets placed at intervals, and by two wide and continuous main thoroughfares running East and West longitudinally with the water frontage of the town. The inner of these two thoroughfares, ie., the present Praya will be widened out to 75 feet to admit of double lines of tramway, and the new embankment will be 65 feet wide. When finished, the new land will be allotted to the different marine fron- tagers along the present Praya who have expressed themselves willing to defray the cost of the sea-wall and reclamation opposite their lots.
3. The General Plan shows tinted red the reclamations which will be carried out at the cost and charges of the marine lot-owners, and tinted yellow those which the Colonial Government will pay for from public funds. The Government being the owner of several valuable frontages along the line, proposes to take its place as a marine lot-owner along with the rest of the marine proprietors.