اه پراید
No. 408
Hongkong.
410
sir,
Government House,
Hongkong, 10th. September, 1902.
C. 0.
12334
[Red 13 OCT 021
In reply to your Despatch No. 228 of the
lov 29938 31st. July last, I have the honour to inform you that I have
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ascertained that the Military Authorities only contemplate
making a confidential map, for Military purposes, of a portion
of the New Territory.
2.
In further reference to paragraph 2 of Sir
William Gascoigne's Despatch No. 259 of the 18th. of June, I
have to state that Mr. Newland who is in charge of the Cadastral
Survey of the New Territory proposes on the completion of that
survey, to compile from it and from the topographical survey
made by Mr. Tate, a general map of the New Territories on a
scale of 2 to the mile.
3.
This map will not include the island of
Hongkong, while the portions of the New Territories which have
not been surveyed by Mr. Tate, namely, Lamma Island, the Po Toi
Group of Islands, the North shore of Mirs Bay and some of the
unimportant outlying islands will be added to it from the
Admiralty Chart.
4.
The preparation of this map was taken into
consideration
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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