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from typhoons; the Colonial Government, agreeing in consideration of the greater value of the land now existing in Victoria and Kowloon acquired, to make the Excovary Establishments.
It would have been much more satisfactory if this project had been adopted in lieu of all the reclamation to provide a new boat refuge elsewhere and conco hawr Crest. Accommodatis Jor He Regiment which was to be added to the Garrison entirety, but unfortunately Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon, after giving consideration to the subject, Kas found ar Objection to the Scheme as regardo Department, in the fact that in the neighbombon hood of Causeway Bay the anchorage for ships is not satisfactory.
In the contemplated area there would be space sufficient not only for the War Department but for all the requirements of the Navy; the scheme at first put forward, included the provision iw the Naval Establishments. He P ships could rma their present S anchorage W