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TRANSFER OF MILITARY ESTABLISHMENTS.
The CHAIEMAN then submitted Resolu- tion b, as follows:--
That this Public Meeting desires to urge upon the Right Hon. the Secretary of the State for the Colonies the absolute necessity, in the interests of the com- mercial and residential expansion of this Colony, of the present Military Establishments being transferred from their present sites to other sites.
The CHAIRMAN remarked that it was not necessary to say much to commend the resolution. Everyone could see that the military establishments occupied important central positious both in the city of Victoria and in Kowloon Peninsula. Murray Barracks, and the parts of Queen's Road adjacent there to might have been very suitable sites from a military point of view in the early days of the Colony, but he thought it would be admitted that it was not in the least necessary in these days for barracks to take up such A central position. Indeed it was almost an, anachronian for them to keep the most valuable sites in this Colony, almost as much an anachronism as the loop-holes in Murray Barracks for a musket to be fired through. The removal of the - military would be of the greatest possible benefit, not only from the residential point of view, but from the point of view of people who wished to build offices. He included in the area from which the military would be moved the piece of ground known as the Murray Parade ground. That piece of ground and the adjoining barracks would form & very suitable site for offices, and would very much relieve the strain of office accommodation, And going further East, there would be a large area of flat land available for the building of shops and houses for the Chinese and "others trading in the Colony, to live in. It would be of benefit to all classes and races in this community. And then, over at Kowloon, right in the very hub and centre of the Tsim-tsai-tsui Peninsula, there
were the barracks cccupied by Indian troops, and the stables for their mules. Kowloon was in need of building
sites, and they urged most strongly upon the Secretary of State for the Coffins to use every influence he could possibly bring to bear to remove the troops and the mules further away from the central portion of the Kowloon Peninsula, as well as from the Murray Barracks, and the Murray Parade ground, and
the adjoining buildings occupied by the military in Queen's Road. The question! was one that had been constantly raised ing(Council during the last three years. for it had been felt that it was imperative in the interests of the community that there should be this transference of the military to positions further out. He could assure them that the Hongkong Government had been working away at the matter. But they wanted as well to impress upon the Secretary of State for the Colonies the importance of the matter, and that was why 4 was specifically mentioned in the terms of this resolution. He thought that the removal of the military land would tend generally to solve the housing problem by giving large tracts of land on both sides of the Harbour for commercial and residential building, and land which was already fat for building DR. At the recent meeting of the
Bank Hongkong and Shanghai
the Chairman (Mr. Lang) very forcibly expressed his views on the subject,—views which were no doubt the views also of his Directors, and they were synonymous with those of this meeting. In fact one might say they were the unanimous views of the Colony generally.
The commercial community of the Colony was doing its best to bring about the removal of the military, and the Hongkong Government was urging the transference. They wanted to strengthen the hands of the Government, and the leaders of the commercial world, and all these who had the question at heart. They wanted to enlist all the support possible in favour of the resolution, so as to convince the Secretary of State for the Colonies that people of all classes, and of all races in this Colony are unanimous in pressing forward this much needed reforta.
Mr. A. R. Lown seconded.
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