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No 365
N°
442
60
39167 RECR
BFG 13 NOV 13
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 21st. October, 1913.
sir,
I have the honour to inform you that some time
before the departure of Sir F. D. Lugard a scheme for reclaiming a
large area of land in Wanchai Bay was put forward by Sir Paul
Chater, and his intention was that the work should be carried out in
co-operation with the Marine Lot Owners in the same way as the
large reclamation in front of the central and western portions of
Victoria was made in the years 1889 to 1903.
2.
Such a scheme is rapidly becoming an absolute necessity on sanitary grounds as a large expanse of foul mud is exposed at every low tide and complaints are frequent as to the offensive smells arising from it. Its unsavoury condition is being
intensified daily as the whole of the sewage of the eastern portion of the City, including that from the Military Cantonments, where many water-closets exist, is discharged into the bay. I may add that, on the 26th. August last, the Sanitary Board passed the
following resolution:-
*That, in view of the recent outbreak of cholera, the
Government be requested to expedite and encourage the
reclamation of the foreshore at Wanchai Bay."
3.
The Director of Public Works took some exception
to Sir Paul Chater's design on the round that
(a). It could not be regarded as a final scheme. (b). Any further extension of the reclamation would be attended with serious difficulty owing to the
conveyance
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEIS HARCOURT, M.P..
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