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Admiralty

With regard

to the first-mentio

mentioned

I have to state that no

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the opinion op

vie

notice

ар

Admiral Sir James Rope, nor

memoranda as to this

under

that Officer; -

mstances

should desire that

any

have been

Contemplated

change,

handed to me

by

any

my

disapproval of

The proposed

objections

measures, and the

lions d'entertain to its

carried out, should be placed

is strong

to being

exclusive and uninterrupted

access to and co

munication

with the sea, so essential for

the proper and efficient work.

of this establishment,

working

With respect to the

observations of His Exce

of His Excellency

the Governor, as to the public

road

The sea front op

ap

the

on record, consa

neidering

as

I do,

that the efficiency of the naval

$

Depart

would be

very

materially diminished, and the

interesL3

of

the service merch

abstracted, were the Naval

Yard to be deprived of

the

free,

exclusive.

Naval coal Store at Kowloon,

I have also to remark that the proposition, if carried out,

appears to me to be one that will entail, not

only

considerable

inconvenience, but also be

found to be injurious

interesti

of

to the the Naval Service ;-

the operation of coaling ther Majesty's ships, is frequencty

required to be

performed with

dispatch

eil

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