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No 262
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
HONGKONG. 17th July, 1914.
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Enefosure !
I have the honour to address you on the subject
of the transfer from the War Department to the Colonial Govern- ment of the following areas of War Department land and Military
Reserve.
This Reserve is
(a). Ngau Tau Kok Military Reserve. described on page 13 of the Statements of Particulars by Colonel J. F. Lewis which accompanied what is known as the Lewis Agree- ment forwarded in Sir M. Nathan's confidential despatch of the 7th of March, 1905. The reservation of this land has already been found to interfere with the development of the Colony
and as the along the coast line between Kowloon City and Lyemun, area is seldom used for military exercises owing to other dis- tricts made accessible by the Railway being now preferred, I suggested to the Military Authorities that this reserve might be relinquished under conditions embodied in the draft Memoran-
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dum of Agreement to which illustrative plans are attached. These conditions are reasonable seeing that there are many strategical points on the hills in this area which dominate the Kowloon Peninsula. This transfer will involve the re-transfer of the Kowloon Peak Barrack sites and a credit to the War Department in the Military Lands Account of $180,350 (see page 8 of the Meno randum of Agreement).
I would explain here that the figures $160,350
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
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