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Extract from the Minutes of
a meeting of Executive Council held on the 10th May 1937
His Excellency then draws the attention of the Council to the Registrar General's and Harbour Master's reports of the typhoon of 1892 showing that the loss of life on that occasion had been lamentably large and that Stone Cutters Island and Kowloon Bay to which the junks had been warned to resort for shelter had afforded no protection.
The Commodore, Captain Durnford, and Captain D'Almada Ribeiro were of the opinion that the construction of breakwaters, one at this side...