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No encouragement of any kind has been given to this project by the Civil Goverment, and at the moment the risk to shipping ron fire, were an oil installation at Yau Tong to be exploded by air raid or artillery fire, is being explored by the Harbour and Fire Brigade authorities. A pertinent point is that the anchorage for dangerous goods lies close to Yau Tong, vide plan enclosed.
4.
With regard to the points raised by the Company in the first enclosure, I am unable to form any estimate whatever of the cost of reclamation and building at Yau Tong.
5.
The Company's second point, viz., construction by Government of road communication between Kowloon and Yau Tong should not, in my view, create an insurerable difficulty.
A portion of the shore line known as Kun Tong between Kowloon and Yau Tong is subject to a long-term reclamation scheme, which eventually would require to be served by road. Although no such road is in contemplation in the near future, it would be reasonable in my view, for Government in anticipation of the completion of its Kun Tong reclamation scheme, to provide road communication up to the North West end of that reclamation, should the Company be willing to put up their installation at Yau Tong at the instance of the Military Authorities: the connecting road between the North West end of the Kun Tong reclamation and Yau Tong would presumably be the affair
of the Company.
The area
6. The third point relates to land costs. that would be required by the Company at Yau Tong is not definitely known, but it is believed by the Director of Public Works that it would be somewhat smaller than that at Tsun an; at the same time the cost per square foot of land within the harbour would be considerably hi her.
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