E.254/11.
FROM MESSRS.COODE, FITZMAURICE, WILSON AND MITCHELL
TO THE CROWN AGENTS.
Gentlemen,
9, Victoria Street,
S. W. 1.
26
Hong Kong Harbour.
We have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter,
dated the 13th May, with enclosed copy of a letter from the
Colonial Office and accompanying extract from a telegram from
the Governor of Hong Kong, on the subject of the proposed
dredging operations in Hong Kong Harbour.
We observe that the proposed dredging on the shallows
off Kowloon point and the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's
wharfage and on the Belcher's Ridge, Rambler, and Penguin
Shoals, as referred to in the Governor's telegram of the
5th March, have now been sanctioned, and that the material
available therefrom for reclamation purposes is now estimated
to exceed by an appreciable quantity the yield previously
anticipated.
It is proposed to obtain the balance of spoil
required at present indeterminate by dredging a channel
in a south-easterly direction southward of Stonecutters
Island lying near the Western Entrance to the Harbour.
A reference to the Admiralty Chart shows that the
new channel would be some 6500 feet in length between the
6-fathoms depths at either end and that the minimum existing
e
depth of water over the site is 25 to 26 feet. The Chart
confirms
the expectation, as expressed in the Governor's
telegram of the 4th May, that the material to be dredged is
chiefly silt and mud.
At present, deep-draught vessels must use the
Eastern Entrance to the Harbour and we can appreciate the
— 1 —