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Rrd 29 SEP 03
Government House,
Hongkong, 28th. August, 1903.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your Despatch No. 260 of 16th. July enquiring whether
any scheme is under consideration for carrying out the project
of a bridge between Victoria and Kowloon.
2.
No scheme has been formulated as the
extensive Public Works at present proposed will tax the re-
sources of the Colony for four or five years. But if the ex-
pansion of the City goes on at its present rate the question
of a bridge, or of an improved ferry system will ere long be-
come pressing.
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3.
On the 4th. September, 1901, I addressed
a letter to Vice-Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge on the subject,
a copy of which with his reply I enclose.
4.
The bridge will, according to the rough
estimate of the Harbour Master cost Nine Millions of Dollars.
When the scheme comes to be formulated the question may fairly
be considered whether a contribution might not be given by
the Imperial Goverment equal to the value of the Colonial
and Military Land taken by the Imperial Goverment for Naval, purposes in
1896 without compensation to the Colony, which pays in addition
20% of its gross revenue as a Military Contribution. The area
handed THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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