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No. 28-A, Des Voeux Road, Hongkong, 20th. November, 1914. O
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Re Kowloon Bay Reclamation Scheme.
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With reference to your letter of the 19th. May Tast numbered 2075/1913 addressed to the late Sir Kai Ho Kai and his reply thereto I am instructed by Messrs. Au Tack and Cheong Sun Woo, promoters of the above scheme, to forward you herewith plan of a site at Kowloon Bay proposed to be reclaimed and submit the following proposals for the
favourable consideration of the Government.
This Scheme was initiated at the suggestion of the late Sir Kai Ho Kai with the following objects in view namely:-
(a). to provide a settlement for the better class of Chinese in
order to relief the over crowding at Hongkong caused by the
influx of Chinese from Canton on account of the unsettled
stata of the Kwangtung Province of China.
(b). to accommodate the wealthy Chinese who came from Canton with
better residences, so that they may make their home here and
invest their capital in the Colony.
A rough survey of the site was made at the beginning of the year but as it was uncertain that it would be made available for the
purposes of the above Scheme no further step was taken until the receipt of your letter now under reply. Since then a detail survey of
the site has been made and a careful estimate obtained of the costs of
works to be done and my clients therefore instruct me to lay before the
Government the following particulars of their Scheme.
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That the Government be requested to grant to the promoters the foreshores at Kowloon Bay, between the Kowloon City pier and Tai
Tan Glass Works, as delineated on the accompanying plan for the purposes of reclaiming and laying out the same in building lots. The whole area of land reclaimed will amount to approximately 210 acres including Nullahs, Roads, building land sea wall etc., etc.. while the area available for development purposes exclusive of Road
etc.