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ly above the city of Victoria.
As a natural result house rents at the Peak have greatly increased during the last three years and the value of property has risen proportionately. It is natural, therefore, that the loss of a residential Hotel where good accommodation and home life and comforts can be enjoyed should be regarded with considerable dismay, and not a little dissatisfaction by the Civil European community of this Colony, who view with, perhaps not unreasonable apprehension the gradual appropriation by the War Department of the most eligible sites in the Colony.
You may remind that the Military Authorities already possess a site for a hospital on the Bowen Road, and for a Magazine near Kennedy Road, and that a great portion of the Kowloon peninsula is either