the cost of the future maintenance of these works.
(2). The Colonial Government waives its
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claim for $125,866 in cash from the War Department in
respect of the cost of resumptions and formations in
transferring the Kau Lung Tsai area to the military,
and in return the War Department in the Kau Lung Tsai
area will, at their own expense, construct a series
of roads of which the Colony will obtain the full
possession and user so far as these roads lie outside
areas of actual fortification vested now or in the
future in the War Department.
28 miles of road are affected.
We are told that some
From the date of
completion of the roads the Colonial Government, at
a cost of $10,000 to $15,000 per annum, will be
responsible for maintenance of such as are outside
War Department lands.
(3). The Colonial Government will double
the Kai Tak-Customs Pass Road at a cost of $60,000,
and the War Department will, at its own expense,
construct as a double road a length of about 4 miles
of the Customs Pass High Junk Road.
The Governor says that the roads and areas
concerned are marked on a map and plan which will be
delivered to the Colonial Office "by safe hand".
These have not so far been deposited here.
The Governor expressly recognises that a
settlement of outstanding questions on these lines
represents a greater concession by the Colonial
Government than anything contemplated prior to his
own arrival in Hong Kong. I don't think we need be
unduly disturbed over that, for it is undoubtedly
true that the burden of the cost of the garrison in Hong Kong has tended, and will tend further, to
increase substantially, and the increase will fall
to