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the present Imperial reserves and the Colony could not afford
large
an unproductive outlay merely for the convenience of an additional thoroughfare..
5.
As regards Kowloon the case is very different, because there Praya has been contemplated
from the first, and if it were now forbidden opposite the Naval Coal Depot, great, serious inconvenience would be caused not only to the Colonial Government and the public generally, but also to the Imperial departments located on the adjoining as will be seen
by a reference to the plan of the proposed roads which accompanied my despatch No. 67 of the 10th May 1864. I may mention also that Sir James Staveley is in error
that the site supposing
in
for the new Naval Coal Depot at Kowloon. was reserved at least a couple of
years before the Colony took possession of the ceded Territory of Kowloon was ceded under terms of the Convention of Peking for the express purpose of being added to the Colony of Hongkong with which it was at once incorporated by Ordinance in Council,
for the Admiralty and the site
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