NO CONFIDENTIAL (4).
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG, 8th April, 1932.
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Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your Confidential despatch of the 15th February,
1932, on the subject of the City Hall and other sites.
I read the despatch to my Executive Council which,
after discussion, was unanimously of the opinion that
the first stage of the scheme, see paragraphs 7 to 10 (1) of my Confidential despatch of the 17th December, 1931,
could be carried out without financial risk.
2.
As pointed out in that despatch the general
scheme is so devised as to permit of the calling of a
temporary halt, should circumstances arise rendering
this desirable, on the completion of the first stage.
This stage taken by itself is estimated to yield to Government a net profit of over eight lakhs on the
very conservative figure taken for the value of the
land to be sold. Recent private sales of land in
the same part of the city give reason to hope that a
considerably higher figure may be realized. It is
therefore a sound proposition and appears to involve
no financial risk. Moreover the deterioration of
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
SIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.F.
&C.,
&C.,
&C.
the
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