CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6] — Page 11

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ار اد ممبر و امان اور بار امام نيات والم

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ever very densely peopled with chinese, might interfere with

the professed objects of -

one

of

removing

the Soldiers to Kowloon,

namely the placing of

the harbour

between them and the demoralizing

influences of a

Chinese Town. And

whether it might not be well An the War Department to purchase and Keep waste the villages and lands which would otherwise be regranted to the present proprietors.

8.

My

own

be

against

a course,

opinion would the adoption of such

I consider the

as

Military

Nawal and

Reserve

prospect of

inconvenience to the

military from leaving the Chinese

in the back

7

the Peninenta

undisturbed, would be doubtful

and remote, while their removal those dispossessed

would entail on

projecting into the

the Harbour, as

much certain and immediate

misery.

The whole

7

the tongue

of

land

centre

of

shown

in the

margin,

about

two third

F

which it is

Fo..

Kowloon

proposed to reserve.

Naval and Military

purposes, would probably be redeemned by either the Imperial Government, or the Colony

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