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land is obtainable from every side. The Chief Resident
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Engineer supported this proposal strongly, and somewhat
prematurely communicated it to the Consulting Engineers in
his letter No. 49 of 21st. December, 1907.
12.
After careful consideration,
however, it appeared to me that a better site would be
found on Kowloon Inland Lots 1141, 443, 442 and 618 pro-
-vided that it was found possible to curve the line round
into this site without a prohibitive radius. The Chief
Resident Engineer reported to me that there was no dif-
-ficulty in this matter but it would involve on the one
hand taking up a corner of Blackhead's Lots for the
shoulder of the curve and on the other hand the network of
sidings would involve a breadth of some 90 feet over Des
Voeux Road in the immediate present, and an eventual
breadth of about 190 feet when all the Station Platforms
were built. The accompanying plan will illustrate my mean-
-ing.
13.
The new proposal (which I will
call scheme 3) had the following advantages over that of
the Director of Public Works (which I will call scheme 2):-
(a)
Scheme 2 involved the resumption of so large a
part of Lots 1141 - 618 both on account of
the widening of Middle Road on the North
and