B & S (26,859%) 609-87
Office or Individual,
Admiralty
Date.
1887
21 Dec
Last previous Paper.
No. 25611/
C DOMESTIC.
25611
RECO
REGE DEC 87,
(Subject.)
Extension of
the Praya Wall
32
Adheres to views expressed
in latter
45 Nov.
Unless Col fort.
are
prepared to pay
the whole
Expenses, Sees no advantage in the matter & accordingly dissents from proposal to appoint a Departmental
Committee
pur 21/12
(Minutes.)
M. Bramston
The Admiralty don't care if the Colony is put to the
greatest inconvenience so
long as they can keep their Naval Yard where it is & retain their frontage - which they would lose if the Praya is Extended along the harbour
Reply That Sir W. Holland quite understands that their Lordships decline to adhere to the removal of the Naval Yard to Kowloon, and that the Committee was proposed with the view of ascertaining whether the extension of the Praya
can not be effected without removing the Naval Yard : and as it is understood that the Admiralty