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sides of the Kowloon Peninsula.
Your Lordship approved of these
proposals, provided that I concurred in them; and in my
Confidential Despatch of the 26th. of March, 1908, I concur-
-red in the acquisition of the Lots in question, but put
forward, for reasons fully stated in my Despatch, alter-
-native proposals for placing the Terminus either between
Macdonnell Road and Robinson Road (now called Nathan Road)
on Crown Land and the adjoining Kowloon Inland Lot 1140,
or between Robinson Road and Des Voeux Road on Kowloon
Inland Lots 1141, 443,442 and 618.
These proposals were submitted to
the Consulting Engineers who in a report dated the 20th. of
August, 1908, enclosed in Your Lordship's Confidential
Despatch of the 10th. of September, 1908, advised that this
Government should acquire the whole of the private property
involved in my alternative proposals; that the permanent
terminus should be located between Macdonnell Road and
Robinson Road; but that to avoid immediate expenditure a
temporary station might be built on the site recommended,
the whole of the land in private ownership referred to
being nevertheless acquired for future expansion.
In