Any reply to this letter should be
addressed to the Director, Petroleum Dept.
Telephone: VICTORIA 9310.
Telegrams: MININDUST, PARL, LONDON.
rence No.:-P.D. 571/1.
Sir,
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14 DECJ52
(MINES DEPARTMENT,)
34 19
DEAN STANLEY STREET,
MILLBANK,
WESTMINSTER, LONDON, S.W.1.
13th December, 1932.
I am directed by the Secretary for Mines to acknowledge
19 the receipt of your letter 92791/32 of the 8th December,
transmitting a copy of a telegram from the Governor of
Hong-Kong to the effect that the site for the proposed
Russian Soviet oil installation is in the New Territory
outside the Harbour limit, and not at North Point.
With regard to the reported application of the Asiatic
Petroleum Company for room to expand their North Point
installation, I am to explain, for the information of
Secretary Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, that the Company now
state that their request was for permission to erect an
additional benzine tank for which there was room on their
otherwise much congested property at North Point. This
permission was refused, but on the Company undertaking to
instal additional fire-fighting appliances, they were allowed
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial office,
Downing Street, S.W. 1.