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threatening legal proceedings with a view to heavy compensation if debarred from
the right of building under their leases, and Garden Road 58, besides absorbing the Rifle Range of the Civil Police; but
I observe that the proposed agreement reserves the rights over the latter. A
large piece of ground for a Hospital coloured yellow (A1) is also claimed.
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becoming of character owing to the growth A most valuable of business on the Kowloon Peninsula, and will be
more so, when the projected railway between Kowloon and Canton is constructed.
Moreover a recent geological survey has given reason for belief that the hills at the point B contain large deposits of tin, and I may add that I regard the reservation of such a large tract of land is yearly becoming.