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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.
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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