12.
69
13.
ANNUCIN
cxtimated by the Surveyor - Teveral to reced ten thousand pounds (£10,000) por
It is, therefore, manifest that, if a definite plan were adopted, and if the lauds actually required for the carrying out of that plan
wade, were
were taken, while the remainder of the lands now reserved and kept - given back to the Civil Government for sale or lease, the Colonial Government and Legislature would be plaod in a position to consider favourably Goural Sargent's proposal that the
contribute a sun
shouldn
Colony of £100,00
100,0003
loveards the cost of the fortifications; -
that sun to be raised on loan
guaranteed by the Imperial
Government
Government:
I am further to observe that
the long delay of the Was Office in fixing
of the scary.
orv Borre one
sohences of defence before it, is alike
prejudicial to Imperial and to Colonial interests ; for it leaves Hongkong practically defenceless
of a
defereceless in the evout. formidable hostile attack; while at
the same time, it impedes the extension of building for commercial,
l purposes, and the general Sanitation of the Colony ; - so important for the health of both the Civil and the Military portions of the population.
I have re
(Signed) Frederick Stewart,
Aoting Colonial Secretary