ALL COMMUNICATIONS
TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE
CROM MO
ACENTS FOR THE COLONIES.
Sir,
C.O.
11075
RECO
9 APR 0152
DOWNING STREET, LONDON.
7th April,
Hong Kong
Reg: 26412.
1900
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter No. 9785 of the 30th ultime informing us that
1900 the Governor of Hong Kong has telegraphed that his opinion
remains unchanged respecting the proposed reversal of the
new Law Courts.
We conveyed this information to Messrs Webb &
Bell and they have now called upon us in order to explain
more fully the objections to this proposal which they indi-
cated in their letter of the 5th February. The building
has been very carefully designed for the position which it
was originally intended to occupy in order to afford the
greatest possible convenience to both the officers and the
members of the public who have to use it. The public who
will approach from the street side will be able to transact
all their business in offices carefully arranged for con-
venience of access and will be practically cut off from the
more private portions of the building which are on the oppo-
site side. In the opinion of the architects, to reverse
the plans will dislocate the whole of their carefully con-
sidered arrangements and will produce an inconvenient and
in some respects unsuitable arrangement of the building.
Under Secretary of State
&c. &c.
80.
Colonial Office.
In