APPENDIX II.
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Copy.
E. 254/11.
THE CROWN AGENTS TO
MESSRS. COODE, FITZMAURICE, WILSON AND MITCHELL
23rd March, 1927.
Gentlemen,
I enclose a copy of a telegram dated 5th
March addressed by the Governor of Hong Kong to the
Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding certain
proposals for dredging the bed of the harbour in that
Colony.
2. From the information in your possession or
available for reference (e.g. Admiralty charts) we shall
be glad if you will advise on the following points: -
(a) Thether the deepening of the harbour bed which it is proposed to effect, is likely to remain, without excessive maintenance dredging.
(b) Whether the channel which it is proposed to dredge in a south westerly direction from a point 700 yards south of the south-west of Stone cutters Island is likely to achieve its obiect of increasing the scouring action of the ebb tide.
(c) Whether there is any danger that the dredging
operations proposed may influence the tidal currents in the Harbour to the detriment of any of the facilities provided by the Harbour.
(d) Whether the sum proposed to be expended on
the dredging could be more advantageously expended on the harbour in some other direction
3.
You will note from the accompanying telegram
that if the proposed work is to be entrusted to the
Netherlands Harbour Works Company it is necessary for a
contract