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In any further communica-
on this subject, please quote
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address letter to-
The Secretary,
mimity, Whitehall, London, S.W. 1.
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27 May
Admiralty,
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REC REG 29 MAY 22
For with reference to your letter of the 9th March 38ef0/22 1922, No.3840/1921-22, relative to the Bast Praya
Reclamation Scheme at Hong Kong; I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to transmit, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a plan showing the area coloured yellow of the Naval Arsenal Yard which was to be exchanged with the Colonial Government for the aree coloured blue on certain conditions, one of these being that the Colonial Government were to reclaim for the Admiralty the area of the Camber coloured red.
2.
On the plan is also shewn the line of reclame- tion authorised by the Ordinance accompanying your letter and the line of the roadway to be constructed East of the Naval Arsenal Yard.
3. It will be seen from this that a larger area fronting the Arsenal Yard is proposed to be reclaimed, and also that the line of the projected roadway East of the Arsenel Yard is to be sited further East of the line originally proposed.
4. Obviously, the whole of the area to be reclaimed in front of the Arsenal Yard should pass to the Admiralty under the terms of the proposed exchange, and the new Eastem boundary of the Arsenal Yard should coincide with the line of the new road as now projected.
5. A draft Agreement to carry out the exchange of are as between the Admiralty and Colonial Govemment had been forwarded for My Lords'consideration, but on receipt of your letter under reply the Commodore, Hong Kong, was asked whether he agreed to the plan illustrating the Ordinance in question.
6. He has reported that the Ordinance plan was not referred to him, and that he had asked the Colonial
Government
The Under Secretary of State,
golonial office, S.W.I.