{ that's the present deat. wd, send home
but.
particulars as to sites, & further particulars possibly estimates, wh. wd help us in considering the matter; importunately this desh. does not carry us any further beyond showing (1) that the Gov's, scheme in 24435 was based on the expectation that the Admy could stop the existing works
their Naval Yard, saving of nearly
at
a
on
the
grass
thus involving
a.
million pound cost of the proposed schemes
but this the Ading, cannot consent to, (see 7189) (2) dy phows that there are
three sites why the bhatar
to suggest for
a
yard
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prepared
Naval Abate, presurably
the Quarry Bay site mentioned in 2435,
& two others not specified,
I have conferred with bol Raban
with bol. Ruck & with
of the Admy. of the WO
Y
at
some
idea of
bol Lake
view of arriving the practicability & the
Q..
cost of the proposed transfer, in accord- ance with the minutes
D
9189.
It appears that if the Naval Estalt. a large part Quarry Bay
was moved to
of the Mily. Satab, wh nowadjoins the Naval Yard. wd have to be moved also, to
battery wd have to be exected; and all this is
probably
04. -At
-roughly estimated
to cost £750,000 apart from sites,
return for wh of gain the differ
the sites
course the
the colony wd wa dence în value between
outtende ond V
givenim exchange
(s)-31215-4000-6-1900
39720-3000-2-01
I his largely in
642 the off rough
is
a
big addition to
my
minute
figure given in
aa
O
9189
the cost of moving the Naval Estab alone, viz £2,000,000.
621
The WO. & Admy cannot well give more approximate estimates of cost until the question of site is decided,
a site between
it being possible that a less Mily. expre, wd be involved if Quarry Bay & the existing
were selected for the
but on
mew
Naval
Naval
ул.
Jard
the other hand this wd be
probably
so much the less advantageous
to the bolony.
m
any case, whatever site is selected the whole scheme wd.
require to be considered from the point of view in Kongkong
of all Naval & Mily requirements
such as
Pidrance Stores, magazines,
LA
barracks, defensive, & might involve
recasting of the Defence schemes an
increase in the
garrison,
all these
points wd ultimately have to be consid ered by the home authorities, before
whom
data,
are
nearly all the nee
necessary
& the matter wat not be helped
by sending out a to the Colony.
Royal Commission
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