C referred to "A sufficient extent of ground for Military exercises and more specially for Rifle and Field Gun practice, is considered to be a matter to which too much importance can hardly be attached, and for this purpose not only the ranges themselves but a considerable space of ground in their rear is essential."
614 Colonel Storer also attached to his memorandum a plan coloured yellow showing the extent of the land which he proposed should be reserved and he stated:- "There should be an understanding as to insertion of a clause in new leases of Garden Lots within the reserved area by which building could be prevented - this of course does not apply to Lots 51 and 52 on which it was recommended that building should be permitted."
To the above letter of Major Davies the Colonial Secretary replied as follows:-
"In reply to your letter No. 1275 of the 22nd instant on the subject of land to be reserved at Kowloon for defence purposes I am directed by H.E. the Acting Governor to inform you that the Surveyor General reports that however valuable the sites may be, it is absolutely necessary on Military grounds that no buildings should be erected on the areas specified in the plan and therefore the Government has nothing for it but to assent to the propositions contained in Colonel Storer's Memorandum,"
The above important arrangement was arrived at at