1. were compensated in money for the difference between the values of the land for European and for Chinese dwellings.
The difference is so large that the question of compensation could not be entertained by Government.
53. Mr. Ford's proposal to make a Public Park at Kowloon with the low hills forming its Northern boundary reserved for European dwellings, which led up to the question of the establishment of the King's Park as explained in my Despatch No.258 of the 18th ultimo, will, to a considerable extent, meet the want of more space in Kowloon where Europeans can live without the inconveniences and annoyances caused by the too close proximity of a Chinese population, but the area available is not sufficient.
5. Accordingly in April, 1901, a Sub-Committee (the present Colonial Secretary, the Medical Officer of Health and Mr. Edward Osborne) of the Sanitary Board appointed by the Board to formulate schemes of Sanitary Improvement, recommended, inter alia, "that a large European reservation be set apart partly on waste land (which it was thought would probably be found to be Crown Land), and partly on low lying land which would have to be acquired, in the vicinity of Kowloon City, and that the cultivation of padi be prohibited by legislation within a radius of half a mile of such reservation".
6. The principal object of the recommendation was to supply the urgently felt want of a European reservation where inexpensive dwellings could be erected for Europeans of the middle class.
Apart, therefore, from the question of safeguarding