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liaison with the civil Directors of Medical Services
the-civil-Director
and-of-Public-Works,
we may agree to the settlement
The second part of the agreement stipulates
that the Colonial Government waive their claim
amounting to $125,866, in respect of resumptions
and formation work arising from the transfer of the
pend a $60,000 ardening the Kai Tak Castone Pan Rd
Kau Lung Tsai area in return for which the War
Department agree to bear the total cost of the roads
constructed, widened or surfaced by them in the
area. The Colonial Government are to finance the
maintenance of these roads outside War Department
lands from the date of completion. The total cost
incuard to be meared by the W.D.
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at once.
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of the roads proposed is estimated at some $1,000,000.
Again this is a generous concession on the
part of the Hong Kong Government, and Sir A. Caldecott
points out that it is a concession greater than any
contemplated prior to his arrival. The construction
of the roads in question is due solely to military
requirements, and though they will have some civil which wo
very vaque on the effects utility, (see paragraph 5 of the despatch the
military authorities can hardly claim that the Hong
Kong Government should bear any considerable part of
the cost of their construction.
This agreement represents yet another
squeezing of the Colonial Government by the War
Department.
These concessions are only the latest
in a long line granted to the War Department which
they only occasionally deign to acknowledge. In
view of the existing financial straits of the
-
Colonial Government their concessions are substanțial,
nobably due to the desire to save immediate expenditure clear of Sines, however, they have been agreed to by the
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