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The meaning of the words used by me is
the Company at their own cost.
Para. 5. VII.
that ascribed to them in your letter.
201
Para. b. XII.
His Excellency has no objection to the substitution of "six" for "three" subject to the following proviso:-
Provided that the said Company shall within 3 months
of the aforesaid date remove the buildings from such areas as the
Manager of the Railway may require and hand over such areas to the Government: and provided further that no portion of the building at
present used as a temporary terminal station shall be removed
without the consent of the manager of the Railway.
Para. 5. XIII.
-ment by Sir F. Lugard on this point or of any suggestion that the Government should pay rent for the Police Basin as proposed by you.
The Director of Public Works considers that the least time witnin
which the transfer of the Police Basin to Yaumati could be completed
is two years from the present time. In the meanwhile the Govern-
-ment cannot part with the existing Police Basin nor is His Excel-
-lency prepared to pay rent for it as you suggest. The Government
is, however, willing to surrender within six months of the date of
the preliminary payment in connection with the exchange a strip
of about 60 feet in depth on that portion of the area which faces
Canton Road, subject to satisfactory arrangement being made for
access to the Police Basin over the said strip of land from Canton
Road. The Government is also prepared to grant the Wharf and Go-
-down Company the temporary use of an area having a marine frontage
of 250 feet with an average depth of 60 feet in Kowloon Marine Lot 75 adjoining Kowloon Marine Lot od (Holt's Marf), until such time as the remaining portion of the Police Basin can be handed over.
I am etc.,
No record can be found of any pronounce-
(Sd.) C. Clementi,
Colonial Secretary.