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best site for the temimis.
We fully appreciate, however, that there will be
an important saving in first sost in adopting the scheme
proposed by the Chief Resident Engineer especially as there
is reason to suppose that the land already remmed may
be a remunerative imestmont for the Colony.
There is also an undoubted advantage in being
able to get the ferry boats alongside the train, but it
is not clear from the correspondence how it is proposed
to work the ferry service.
Unless special boats are run
to serve the railway, it will be necessary for them to
sall and land passengers (not intending to continue their
Journey by railway) at the miinary ferry berth at the Star
Ferry Pier before proceeding to the railway jetty and this
will occasion delays.
Otherwise Independent means of
acess between DesVoeux (Chatham) Road and the railway
ferry berth would have to be provided from the railway
Jetty for passengers for the town of Kowloon and they would
Further, the
have to cross minerais railway lines.
Chief Resident Engimer's objection to running a special
ferry service with regard to dislocation of traffic appears
to us to apply with equal force to the berth alongside the
reclamation as to any other situation, unless the