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barracks are in the
the Colonial Government creating the necessary buildings, in place of those the Admiralty would
if the present Naval Yard exchanged for the land shown in
vacate
Avdo
the plan; now I would point out that
in the Hongkong
all the buildings Naval Yard
are
well built and in
excellent order, barracks, storehouses,
factory "outlay would be required.
A considerable portion of the portion in the plan is
coloured red.
under water, with a depth of from 20 feet sloping gradually to the beach. this is the bay in the chart North of the Kowloon Naval Yard, have to be reclaimed at considerable
expense.
5.
and would
I am not aware at what
price the Surveyor General values the land of the Naval Yard in Victoria,
but it is
as valuable a plot
really an
as there is in the City owing to its
central position, and
having
a
frontage its entire length to the North,
the South abutting
its whole length.
and on
that
an idea
would
about half a mile
on the Queen's Road; to give of the value of this property. I inform you, to the west of the Naval Yard, a plot of land containing
about an acre with
the praya,
frontage was purchased by the Colonial Government from the ... at $7 per square foot, a few days ago; therefore I expect that a very large sum would be realized if the present Naval Yard
was sold; and I doubt
much if the price of land on the Kowloon side, especially that lying east of
...
6.
Unquestionably the site proposed, marked A, is of much
very good for Naval purposes; there would be a good depth of water, about 20 feet alongside the
wall of
the