STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
CORRESPONDENCE
RESPECTING THE
EXPROPRIATION OF THE TANJONG PAGAR.
DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
PUBLIC RECORD
OFFICE
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C.O. 882
8 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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(No. 495.)
No. 1.
ACTING GOVERNOR TAYLOR to MR. LYTTELTON.
(Received December 14, 1903.)
[Answered by No. 2.]
SIR,
Government House, Singapore, November 18, 1903. WITH reference to your despatch, No. 32, of the 28th January, 1902,* on the subject of the terms of a lease for 999 years of certain land to the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, and the consequent amendment of Foreshore and Sea Bed Ordinance, 1901, I have the honour to inform you that the arrangement arrived at with the Company has been suspended for the present. The Company take exception to the terms of the Ordinance as amended, more particularly to Section 5, and are not in any case as yet in a position to proceed with the proposed works in question.
2. The Company have recently, however, approached this Government with respect to another scheme of improvement of the first importance to the Company and of very great value to the shipping that make use of the Company's wharves. The Company desire to obtain from Government such rights as will enable them to straighten their wharves, which, in that event, would be replaced by substantial steel-concrete wharves, a great improvement on the existing timber wharves, and would have erected on them various labour-saving appliances to facilitate the loading and discharge of ships. The warehouse accommodation of the Company would also be re-arranged and much improved. The depth of water at the wharves would be increased so that at any time ocean-going ships and the larger ships of His Majesty's navy, now frequently using these wharves, may obtain berthage at any part.
3. To enable this scheme to be carried out it is necessary for the Company to obtain from Government a rectification of their frontage and the right of extending their wharves, where necessary, into the fairway, but in no case to a greater extent than was recommended by Messrs. Coode, Son, and Matthews, in paragraph 96 of their letter of 10th December, 1901, published in Council Paper No. 9 of 1902,† copy of which is enclosed for convenience of reference.
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† Not reprinted.