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Fonclosure.!.
sir,
Bong Bart.
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Government House
6th. December, 1910.
Un my return to the Colony I
learnt that the Japanese Firm of Mitsui Bussan Kaisha had
approached the Government of this Colony with a view to
acquiring a permanent site for a coaling depôt which should
include an area of not less than 5 acres of foreshore and
seabed with a frontage of not less than 1,500 feet having
a depth of 26 to 28 feet at low water.
2.
The sites which fulfilled the
required conditions without involving reclamation to an
impracticable extent are shown on the attached plan, and
for reasons which he explained Mr. W. Chatham recommended
that either site 2 or 3 should be offered. The Harbour
Master when consulted preferred site 2, but recommended the
site of the late Hongkong Flour Milling Company "where
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&C...
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buildings,
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