is only a short distance from
Taikoktsui and vessels with
petroleum on board can obtain permission to anchor
there.
As to the godown point I see no very serious objection to the storage of crude oil on the premises provided it is
properly stored under constructed sheds - now used to coal.
being discharged or shipped, at the wharf from or into vessels other than Junks, or about steamers having to take petroleum on board.
I would like to add that a very great change will have to take place in Hongkong before Messrs Samuels' prediction is fulfilled that "the whole of the business of the port (including Kerosine oil and petroleum I presume) will be done from Taikoktsui" very large shipments of case oil continue to arrive in Hongkong and it is case oil and not bulk petroleum which is used in the Colony for lighting purposes.
(signed) R. Murray Rumsey,
Harbour Master.
18th July, 1894.