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property, instead of a close pressure of Chinese and other tenements, is in itself a valuable consideration. As a matter of fact, the park will be used by the troops more than by any other section of the community.
10. In regard to Gun Club Hill. The Colonial authorities being desirous of constructing a road connecting Yau Ma Tei and Hung Hom along the line indicated in accompanying plan No.2, it is recommended that the boundary of the War Department property at Gun Club Hill be brought up to this line, giving up as compensation the strip of land on the south-west side of the property which will be thrown into the King's Park. The piece of level ground, when properly drained, will make a good parade and recreation ground, and will prevent other proprietors obtaining the ground adjacent to the barracks.
11. As to the restoration of sites at Mount Cochrane for the use of Indian families is a very unlikely requirement, I do not intend to press that question further.
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12. As to the stipulations regarding water supply at Kowloon Pok (Ngau Tau Kok), I attach the usual form of Crown lease, or indenture, in which some of the stipulations noted are maintained. I also attach a plan showing the catchment area referred to. This cannot be utilized for the general water supply of Kowloon for many years to come; naturally in the construction of barracks the drainage and
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