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boardock with a patent slip to hard up steam launches (vide tracing
B
2) I should submit to His Excellency the Administrator, the risk involved
in not proceeding with the boat dock reclamations on Government
on
account at the same time as those
of Messrs: Jardine and Matheson.
2. So long as the gap exists
there will be the danger of the
typhoon seas
undermining and annihilating
the new seawall and marine
embankment adjoining.
It is only when there is a continuous or unbroken
front of masonry presented to the
waves that safety is to be found, it would appear to be only
an act of
ordinary
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ordinary precaution to set the boat dock wall in hand now, with
a view to getting it sufficiently advanced to form already
some sort
of protection by September, the month
most to be feared.
3. I have consulted Mr. Zeani as to Police requirements and beg to propose a boat dock or basin 200 feet
by 100 feet to form a safe
sheltered access to the patent slip, which is intended to haul the police
Steam launches out of danger in the approach of a typhoon.
4. The cost of the patent slip and basin will be $35,000 including
a swing bridge over the Kowloon
Praya