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the violent Typhoons, which periodically occur here, and which have already greatly damaged the portion already constructed would probably render wholly useless all previous expenditure by its complete destruction during 1868.
4. It is, moreover, a building position that gives it a fair prospect of yielding good interest hereafter on the outlay in the shape of rent, whilst it has been undertaken with a view to rendering Kowloon a greater object of public attention than hitherto. The Colony may be said to have a very valuable estate at Kowloon, though much cut up by the large amount of land lying unimproved in the hands of the Military. I am therefore desirous of doing what I can to induce the Public to resort there, and build. For this reason, I have continued the planting of trees there as one of the most effectual, though most economical, improvements. The erection of one good building on a commanding site would, I believe, go far to bring the Colonial property there into greater favour than it at present enjoys with the Public.
It is necessary, however, to avoid risk, that the works there...