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whereas the Battery in its present
position has
a mass &
houses on its
immediate right and is thus prevented
employing its fire direction; however this is a
matter
in that
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and the whole of this space is occupied
by
a
single house, a Police Station,
by the removal of the hill
accommodation might be provided
on a
subject
for upward ...
for the consideration of the Government.
Should this
area not be
devoted to the extension of the City,
my
attention has been turned to the
necessity of concentrating it; and with this view I think it desirable
to make a further addition by reclamation of the ground from sea in front of the Borough strand, and to cut down the hill called Possession Point; this hill stands on a base of about 300 feet square
and contains
hundred houses,
and with the extension of the land
additional frontage
seawards
of 1800 feet is obtained, which would
give room for a
double row of 240 houses
on 340 houses in all; giving accommodation to at least 3,000 Chinese. The hill would be cut
down for nothing
as the former
area
would be sold by auction and assessment would be made for the rate of ...
permission to the tenants to extend
their
frontages
and occupy
the reclaimed land.