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amalgamation.
Naval Yard were commenced the Club had the use of a slip near
the old Victoria Recreation Club Building and Yachts were moored
to the West of Murray Pier. Ah King who has been connected with
the Club from its foundation had the management of that slip and
when it was done away he obtained a temporary lease of the only
piece of available foreshore in Wanchai near the Sanitary Board
Flague Matshed, and the Club has made use of the slips he has
built there and the Yachts have been moored opposite.
11.
The lease obtained by Ah King is only tempo-
rary and the land may be resumed by the Crown at any time and in
any event as soon as the Wanchai Reclamation Works are commenced,
the Club must find a new site for the slip which is necessary
for its existence.
12.
On HongKong itself there does not appear to
be any available site, out in Kowloon the Crown still retains
the site now occupied by the temporary premises of the Victoria
Recreation Club.
13.
The HongKong Boat Club are, I understand,
anxious to obtain a permanent site for their Boat-house and they and the Yacht Club are willing to amalgamate, but neither will join the Victoria becreation Club, the class.of Members which
.now.compose the majority of the Members of that Club precluding
any such arrangement.
14.
In view of the above facts I would respect-
fully ask that Ah King may be permitted to continue in occupa- tion of his present site until some other site can be obtained by the Yacht Club, either the one I have suggested at Kowloon, or some other site near which a safe anchorage may be found.
I have etc.,
(Sd.). Marcus A.Slade.