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Enclosure R.
Copy of a Minute by the Officer Aministering the Govern-
ent.
Refer for the report of the Surveyor
General as to whether in his opinion the resumption of
Lots 20 and 21 for the purpose of carrying out the proposea
scheme would be in the interest of the public.
The scheme as first proposed embraceu
not only the abolition of the awkwaru uotole turning in
Queen's Road near the Victoria Barracks out the widening
of that Road by an extra 30 feet from the Cricket Ground
to Orcnance Roac
That scheme being considered by Sir
G. W. Des Voeux to entail too great expenditure on the part
of the Colonial Government, the second scheme which left
the Roau untouched was put forward,
Ti e avantage of which to the Colony
is that without any cost to the Government the Naval Lepart-
ments would be concentrated in Victoria, and thus the large
tract of land at Kowloon with deep water frontage which
would otherwise have to be handed over to the Navy/will be
set free as well as probably some of the property there
already held by the Aqmiralty.
The third scheme which is a slight
modification of the second is that by which as shewn by
the dotted lines on the plan in C. S.0.1072, the Queen's
Road would be straightened and the awkward turning remediea
as proposed in the first scene the Military being required
to take enodaka over from Le Government that por-10 of
the