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14th September, 1925,
Gentlemen,
In referense te your letter of the 29th ultimo,
with molosures, and to the final paragraph of our acknow-
ledgment thereof, dated the lat imtant, regarding the
character of the foundations which should be adopted for
the quay wall at North Point, Hong Kong Harbour, we beg to
submit these observations.
2.
Before proceeding to discuss the matter to which
specific referenes is made in His Excellency's despatch and
connected papers, we must first allude to the document e
forwarded to us with your letter E.254/11, of the la$
September, 1922, and our reply therets of the 7th October,
1922, on the subject of the reclamation walls then proposed
in this same neighbourhood.
3. It will be observed from our letter of the 7th
October, 1922, that we commented somewhat unfavourably on
the proposal for a reclamation between North Point and
Quarry Bay, but expressed the opinion that, if this work
were proceeded with - and it appeared that the Goverment
were practically comitted to that course - an ordinary
rubble bank, generally as shown on the drawings then
received from the Colony, should be adopted to retain the
filling. We recommended, however, that a pitched slope
The Crown Agente
for the Colonies,
4, Millbank, 6.V.1.