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in connection with it were no doubt

postponed owing to the questions involved in the proposed removal of the Naval Causeway Bay, and of the Military Establishment

Establishment to Kowloon or

to Causeway Bay.

7.

We attach a small scale

plan, explanatory of Mr Price's report above referred to, from which it will

be seen the connection

of

the Central

· and Eastern portions of the City of Victoria

the

proposed

new

by

Praya furnishes an alternative route to that via Queen's Road, and will complete the dual means of communication throughout the whole City.

8.

The importance of this

ad

a

improvement means of facilitating traffic and ter

Lending to reduce the

impediment to the development of the Eastern part of the City, caused by the existence of the Straval and

Military

property

on the Eastern Edge of

the

Central

Centra, district, is so obvious as to

need no

9.

further remark from us.

The carrying

carrying out of this

project would do

away

with the

prevent objectionable foreshore which has been the cause of constant com. plaint

on the part of the M

Authorities.

10.

now

The

Military.

rccupation of the land

being reclaimed, in the Central

and Western districts will render still

meaus

greater

the necessity for insproved

of communication eastwards, which

can be best accomplished by the - proposed extension of the Praya.

17.

mough

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It appears to us that -

exists at present

necessity

to secure there

we are

hopeful that

calling for a large expenditure à the part of the Colony advantages, yet the future of

the carrying

sitate the

the

Colony

out of

will

Į reces -

this project

and

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