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23 feet at extreme low water. The Company is about to construct a fourth pier, 650 feet long, which will have a depth alongside it of 30 feet at low water.
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4. In 1905, Kesers. Alfred Holt & Co. acquired an area
of land at Kowloon Point and constructed Holt'a Wharf. existing wharf is 470 feet in length and has a depth of 32 The construction feet of water alongside it at low water. of another wharf, 450 feet in length with a depth of water alongside it varying from 30 to 40 feet, is in contemplation.
5. Up to the present time (1915), the whole of the accommodation provided for shipping in the way of piers, wharves and warehouses has been the outcome of private enter- prise. The moorings in the harbour have also been laid dow
by the various steamship companies.
6.
The only harbour works hitherto undertaken by the Government comprise two harbours of refuge for the protection of small oraft during typhoons, which have been formed by enclosing the waters of two natural bays with breakwaters. The first was constructed in 1883 on the Hongkong side of the harbour at a cost of $96,400. The breakwater forming it encloses an area of about 57 acres, most of which is dry at extreme low water, the maximum depth available being 10 feet. The second has just been completed (August 1915) on the Kowloon side of the harbour at a cost of about $2,170,000. The breakwater in this case encloses an area of 169 acres, with a depth varying from 12 to 18 feet at extreme low water. 7. Until October 1911, when a railway connecting Canton with Kowloon Point was opened to traffic, no railway
The area of the facilities of any kind existed at Hongkong. Colony is much too small to justify the construction of a railway for Colonial purposes only and, until the Chinese Government could be persuaded to join in a scheme for con structing a railway from Kowloon to Canton, no facilit for conveying goods by rail could be provided.
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