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as new habitations become available. This concentration would take place from the Sections or Districts (one by one, the most unsanitary to begin with) into which it is proposed to divide the city, and which divisions will be larger or smaller in proportion to the rate of progress in providing for the people elsewhere.
16. But if the city is to extend eastward, it is absolutely necessary to establish for the labouring classes a tramway connection between Belcher's Point and Causeway Bay, a distance of 4 miles. And this again is intimately associated with the Praya Extension scheme which has so long hung fire owing more to difficulties with the Admiralty than with the War Office. The latter, being perfectly prepared to acquiesce, I believe, if the terms for sharing
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