Ausd. tel. 1573/27
do 1. S.C.
Origina registered 2002.
4
77
Telegram from the Governor of Hong Kong to the secretary of
State for the Colonies.
Dated 5th Karch.
(Received Colonial Office 9.36 «.m., 5th March,1927)
Secret. Ky despatch of 18th January Paragraph 3
The Man Oun t
and subsequent telegrams. Kaitak reclamation.
estimated to complete the reclamation Dollars 738,00
provides for depositing of 2,000,000 cubic yards of filling
material from land cutting, time required to complete is 34
years. The reclamation in question can be completed in 1
years at an estimated cost of Dollars 1,491,000 by utilising
material which may be dredged in the harbour.
(2) For many years various complaints have been rvasive
from shipping companies regarding the inadequate depth of
water in the harbour also ships have grounded occasionally.
Kowloon Point and the shallows off The shoals off the wharfage provided by the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company cause difficulty to moderate draught
vessels and make it impossible for deep draught vessels te
take advantage of this berthing. The deepening of this
portion of the harbour to satisfactory depth would yield
1,000,000, subic yards of filling material.
(3) Belchers Ridge Penguin and Rambler heals cause
great inconvenience to sarigation. The removal of these
shoals to a depth of 36 feet below low water would yield
30,000 aubic yards of filling material.
(4) There is a daswad for very much larger area of deep
draught anchorage in the western portion of the harbour.
Survey indicates
that it is to the Deat
dvantage to
the fullest use of the ebb tide in maintaining the depth in
the harbour. About 700 yards south of the south west of
Stonecutter island a passage 650 feet wide coulủ be dredged in south westerly direction to obtain benefit to the harbour
from