In any further communica-tion on this subject, please quote
-Wh. 158.6.
586/1659
and address letter to--
The Secretary,
Admiralty, Whitehall,
London, S.W.
15385 Reghing
REG16
15 June 1899.
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9505
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98
Sir,
I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th April 1899, No.9505/99, relating to the proposed Extension
of the Naval Yard at Hong Kong.
In reply thereto I am to point out that the
objections raised by the Governor of Hong Kong in his despatch
of 16th March 1899 as to the War Office Reclamation at the
Eastern Extension were replied to in Admiralty letter of 19th
October 1898, but in order to meet the views of the Local
Authorities in connection with the Extension of the Eastern
Praya, My Lords would have no objection to carrying out the
reclamation for the War Department on the lines indicated
on Plan No.2 attached herewith, provided that the Secretary
of State for War concurs.
My Lords note that the War Office have been
communicated with as to bearing the cost of any additional
reclamation which the Colony consider necessary in the event
of the Eastern Praya Scheme being carried out and a copy of
this letter has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for
War for his concurrence or remarks in the revised scheme for
the War Department Reclamation.
With reference to the remarks of H.E. the Governor
on the subject of the rights of the Colonial Government to the foreshore and land under the sea, My Lords are glad to
observe that the view that the Admiralty should be in any way
restricted
Under Secretary of State,
i.r.-X. 1
COLONIAL OFFICE,
Whitehall, S.W.