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It is requested that in any further communication on this subject the above letters and numbers may be quoted, and the Letter addressed as follows:--
"The Secretary of the Admiralty,
Whitehall,
London
Branch" 3991/31004
Admiralty, S.W.,
74
pt November 190】 -
38406
Sir,
In reply to your letter of 14th October 1901,
No.35270/1901, on the subject of the supply of Stone for
the Extension of the Naval Yard at Hong Kong, I am
commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to
acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State
for the Colonies, that the case as presented to Their
Lordships appears to be as follows:-
The right of quarrying stone on the Island of
Hong Kong and on the Main Land at Kowloon is in the hands of
the Colonial Government who put up these rights annually
to tender for a period of one year only.
The Admiralty Contractors, Messrs Punchard
Lowther & Co. did not tender on the last occasion for the
reason, as represented by them, that such a large amount
of stone is required for the Admiralty Works that the
limitation of the time of possession of any Quarry to one
year would prevent them from opening out the Quarries and
erecting Plant on such a scale as would be necessary to
enable them to secure the required supply; in fact that
their lease would expire just as they were beginning to
reap the benefit of their expenditure on Plant and the
preliminary operations necessary to maintain a large
and constant supply of stone.
Under Secretary of State,
COLONIAL OFFICE,
Under
No. 9
Whitehall, 8.V.
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