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has been reclaimed
Messrs. George Fenwick & Co. for
their Engineering Works. The Royal Dutch and Asiatic Petro-
leum Company's Works are on reclaimed land (Marine Lot No.
277) somewhat to the East from which a long pier to reach
deep water has been built out. I have just received from
Messrs. A. Watson & Co. an application for 50,000 square
feet of seabed between the above-mentioned two lots and I
have also under consideration an application from Messrs.
Butterfield & Swire for an area aggregating 350,000 square
feet in the vicinity of Quarry Bay. Fortunately these
areas are just outside the arc of fire of the guns at North
Point Battery.
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But within that arc is an area which I pro-
pose to offer to an important firm of coal merchants,
Messrs. Blackhead & Co., in the following circumstances.
The Company own Kowloon Marine Lots Nos.38 and 84 and Kow-
loon Inland Lot No.210.
These were purchased from Govern-
ment several years ago before the question of the Kowloon-
Canton Railway terminus came under consideration, have
since been reclaimed and are now used for storage of coal
and for coaling vessels which owing the depth of water to
seaward of the lots can lie alongside- a favourable condi-
tion somewhat rare in this harbour. The Chief Resident
Engineer for the Railway is of the opinion, in which after
discussing