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subject of consider.
proposed and now
ation, was
puch forward.
on
sumption that the extension
the
ad.
of the
Praya Reclamation eastwards in front
of
the Naval and
mento and Marine Lots 20 and 21,
Military Establish.
had been
fiivally
abandoned by the
at once state.
Colonial Government.
J.
We
may
that this desirable reclamation
which has been the subject of much consideration and correspondence time past between the
for
(
lorig
Coronia's, Military and Naval Authori. ties, has, as far as we can ascertain, never been abandoned by the Colonial Government.
4.
The last scheme for the carrying out of this project, proposed
by
the Colonial Government, is set
report dated the 2nd of January 1889 signed by M. J.M. Price
forth
ui
then
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then Surveyor General, and was forwarded to the Secretary of State in a
covering - despatch by sir William Des Voeux, late Governor, dated the 10th of January 1889. From that despatch it appears that the scheme for the removal of the Naval Establishment to Kowloon had been definin by abandoned. It further appears from C.S.0. 16, Colonial Secretary's letter N.388 dated the 5th of March 1891, that the -
proposal to remove the
Military Establish. ments to Causeway Bay has also been definitely abandoned.
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The position of the proposal to
extend the reclamation cashvards in
front of the staval and Military Establish- ments, therefore, appears to be practically
the same as obtained when Sir William Des treux addressed the Secretary of State on the 10th January
to.
1869.
The approval of the secretary of and further proceeding
State to this project
in