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the "blue" area and to construct the vertical sea wall, but
objecting to the lay-out. I cannot help thinking that his
objection was reasonable and that the lay-out proposal was
unfortunate.
It would have made his refinery scheme impossible
Apparently
and it would have greatly reduced his building area.
a new lay-out was substituted in the Director of Public Works
letter of 410.23 though I have not seen the plan, and apparent ly
the Director of Public Works abandoned the lay-out altogether in
his letter of 17.10.23. A considerable amount of discussion took
place on the various subsidiary terms of the Director of Public
Works offer of 11.5.23, and no complete and definite agreement
seems ever to have been committed to writing, even in the form of
letters, but I think that it would be inferred that an agreement
was reached. Mr. Kwik seems to have substantially agreed to the
main points, including the vertical sea wall, at a meeting with the
Acting Colonial Secretary (Mr. Fletcher) in October, 1923. The
chief new terms was the agreement of the Government to lend Mr.Kwik
$600,000. With regard to the question as to whether an actual
agreement was reached it will be noted that lir. Davidson, in his
private letter of the 16th August, 1927, to Mr. Hallifax, assumes
that it was. In any case Mr. Kwik thereupon proceeded to let a
contract for the vertical sea wall.
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