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" of stoject each in breadth within 300 feet from the Braga and further that the outermost opening should " be furnished with a draw-bridge -swing-bridge to be opened during
boisterous weather at the instance
of
the Harbour Master and at
" such other times as
in Council
the Governor
I may by order direct,.
" in lieu of this draw-bridge, "think that or
permanent or fixed opening should be so constructed " as to allow of a height of 10 feet from high water mark!"
That Report
was
signed
by all the Members of the Committee save our Mr Heswick, who having
disapproved of some portion of it, appended in a separate document
his reasons.
reasons
may.
for so
disenting. Those
be thus summarized. That the extent of the property owned by the Pier Company upon which they proposed to creat the Pier
was
insufficient for the purposes
of such a Company and inefficient
to warrant the Government in surrendering the public right of highway for boats along the Wanchai shore. That a draw-bridge though perhaps meeting the purposes of the public wants seriously interfere with the working of the Pier. That for
the
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