for
of water
during
the
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up
purposes from thing and by closing of the entrance to a valley chas forming
the storage
raining Seasons. The site is a distance of six miles by land from the Observatory at Kowloon this being the centre of the European inhabited district of the Peninsula. The City of Victoria from Causeway Beef to West point is four miles and practically contains the whole of the population of the Colony suct a comparison makes the Rockef
Peak site ahpear.
on-
Q
very distant one,
but the
rapid growth of population and Commercial Industries. the Kowloon Peninsula would soon make this distance of little importance. The cost of reclamation
this site
will be cheap owing to the proximity of the
matorial required.
consideration one
Should this site receive favourable
of the conditions of handing it over would be that the quarries situated thereon should be under the control of the Admiralty.
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shown
h
-on-
Hongham Bay, within
the chart
an
art a
efficient naval
Dockyard could be constructed, including
a
Torpedo Boat Depot, the Torpedo Boat Dépôt at Kowloon being converted into a
Coaling Station.
The Liabilities to be met in the
event of H. M
a
Dockyard being transferred to
new site would be.
Compensation to contractor