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364.04
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there is not the remotest prospect that the Scheme of Wharves at the Western side of the Southern end of the Kowloon Peninsula will ever be proceeded with. The Scheme was prepared in deference to proposals put forward by certain Master Mariners through the Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Duncan did not himself take it seriously.
12.
I have suggested in telegram of the 28th April that it is not necessary to refer Mr. Duncan's Scheme as a whole to the Consulting Engineers, first because it includes a large quantity of more or less routine reclamation of shallow waters of a type which is being continually carried on in various parts of the harbour, and also because it covers projects such as that referred to in paragraph 11 above, which it is not proposed to carry out. The reclamation at Kennedy Town, referred to in paragraph 10, is similar to many other reclamations, such as that at Praya East, and the Port Engineers Department is fully competent to deal with any questions that may arise. The provision of wharf accommodation at Hung Hom falls within a different category, and I propose that the question of undertaking any major work of this type should be referred to the Consulting Engineers in the first
instance.
13.
As regards the question of the fee due to the Consulting Engineers, I concur in the proposal made
in their letter of the 4th September, which was forwarded with your despatch No.296 of the 23rd September, 1924, that
the sum of £2,860 should be merged in any further work which they may undertake in connection with the barbour
scheme.
I may mention that a question has arisen with regard to the type of foundation for the sea-wall at North
Point