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(c) The reclamation of about 214 acres of land at Tsun Wan
should also be carried out. This land could be made available for building sites for residential, industrial and public purposes. The average depth of filling over this area would be small and the cost is roughly estimated at $4,750,000. This scheme would undoubtedly pay for itself.
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my notioe:
The following schemes of reclamation have been brought under
(a) Reclamation at Kun Tong and Ngau Tau Kok.
The southern
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portion, at Kun Tong, with an area of about 77 acres, is at present reserved as a site for dumping town rofuse, and a small area has already been reclaimed by by this means. This is a slow process and the reclamation will take many years to complete. adjacent northern portion, at Ngau Tau Kok, would provide an area of about 134 acres of land suitable for industrial and other purposes. This reclamation might be included in the programme of development, for carrying out at such time as circumstances indicate. Road, and probably rail, connexions would be required and could be provided without great cost.
(b) An extensive reclamation at Kai Tak solely for the air
services, with a small typhoon shelter primarily for craft used in connexion with those services. This is a large proposal which would involve a cost of anything up to $12,000,000. I understand that the Government is expected to bear the whole cost of this scheme, and the point naturally occurs as to whether it would not be more economical to remove the Air Port to some other place, say in the New Territories. Air Ports carmot always be placed close to large centres of population.
99. RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT. As already mentioned, the Railway undertaking has sufficient accommodation at the present time, but if and when things settle down in China, the question of more facilities for the Railway is bound to arise.
It has been suggested to me that the railway station is not in the best position and the plan attached shows an alternative site. If additional wharf accommodation is to be provided to the northward of the Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, as previously suggested, then it might be that the needs of the railway could be met without constructing any pier to the east of the Peninsula of Kowloon as proposed by Messrs. Coode & Company, but a berth is shown on the plan attached. The railway should, however, be connected with any new pier on the west and the necessary sidings provided, as also shown on the plan attached.
The reconstruction of the railway station might well be left over for consideration at some future time.
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100. FERRIES. Under the policy suggested in paragraph 83, sub- section (j), the piers of the Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Company would still be maintained by the Government, the ferry qompany paying suitable annual sum for the privilege of running their ferries, while the leases of the piers used by the Star Ferry Company would be renewed, subject to the payment of a suitable annual sum. The question as to the amount of that payment oan, no doubt, be settled by negotiation with the Company.