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necessary improvements have been made, the situation would be well suited for the permanent location of Troops in proper barracks.
I am of opinion, therefore, that if Her Majesty's Government have determined to move the Troops from Victoria—a decision which would involve, I believe, an outlay of about a quarter of a Million Sterling—it would be better to appoint a Committee to consider the question of their location generally, without limiting it to Kowloon.
I believe there are sites on the other side of the Island preferable in every respect to any that can be selected at Kowloon, and pending the report of the Commission, arrangements might be made for testing the sanitary properties of Kowloon.
To return, however, to the report of the Committee upon Kowloon, I agree with the Surveyor General that the situation proposed by him for