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Sir,
Headquarters,
Hungkung.
21st April, 1926.
Kowloon Peak Barrack Sites.
I have the honour to call your attention to an entry of $160,350.00 debited to the War Departament in the Colonial Military Lands Account, in respect of Kowloon Peak
Barrack sites.
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It would appear that about the year 1905 a misunderstanding arose from an error in Colonel Lewis'
printed Statement of Particulars (page 13) in which he made an entry to the affect that these two barracks sites, totalling 227 acres, were freehold War Department Land. On page 6 of Colonel Lewis' Memorandum however it is stated that this area should be bought by the War Department, thus implying that in 1905 this land was still the property of the Colonial Government. No trace can be found of this
transaction ever having been completed. The land was originally intended to be a barrack site for Indian Infantry, but on further consideration it was not considered suitable,
and the new military cantonment was eventually built at Whitfield Camp and the sites on Kowloon Peak abandoned. This land has never been used by the War Department and would long ago have been dispensed with, had not the War intervened.
The exact area and lacation of the proposed sites for barracks at Kowloon Peak were apparently never accurately
fixed and it would now be an entire waste of time to define
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The Honourable
Colonial Secretary,
Hong Kong.
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