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Au regard to sales in the present state of the Colony; almost all our available land has been disposed of, unless the district of Bowrington is extended and Causeway Bay developed but though the above case there may be much to be done. It is still in Victoria in surveying and keeping the various allotments in form; hardly a day passes by but some such work is demanded as operations by tenants under Chinese overseer excepted the building progress; it requires the supervision of preliminary work during the day but it afterwards requires the Surveyor General.
In Kowloon a wide range of Country has now to be arranged, the survey has been executed by Mr Bird (formerly of this Department as Assistant Surveyor) and I have examined the whole site with a view to its intersection by Roads and the Sale of Land; but the final determination of these questions must remain until Her Majesty's Government decide the boundaries of the Cantonments, in connection with such services in Kowloon. I may remark that the important matters of compensation for land to be taken over by Government has to be decided this detailed surveys of the cultivated land.