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Admiralty dispatch, - and it is reasonable to presume that such work could not at all times be conducted with the necessary expedition, so delays, the inevitable, had to be encountered, which would be entailed by crossing the public road, with its attendant obstructions.

I consider, therefore, that at The Coal Store at Kowloon, as well as at this Naval Yard at Hongkong, the direct communication with the sea, should be uninterrupted and exclusive.

(Signed) Augustus Kuper, Vice Admiral and Commander in Chief.

To Captain Nollock, Senior Officer, Hongkong.


Hongkong, 12 July 1864.

Foreign Office.

I have to thank you for a copy of His Excellency Sir A. Kuper's memorandum on the proposed Praya Road, in front of Kowloon. Concessions have been made as a general measure, there can be no doubt as to the benefit on Sanatory, Commercial, police, and social grounds, to maintain...

...

To Land Board.

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Admiralty dispatch, - and it is reasonable to presume that such work could not at all times be conducted with the necessary expedition, so delays, the inevitable, had to be encountered, which would be entailed by crossing the public road, with its attendant obstructions. I consider, therefore, that at The Coal Store at Kowloon, as well as at this Naval Yard at Hongkong, the direct communication with the sea, should be uninterrupted and exclusive. (Signed) Augustus Kuper, Vice Admiral and Commander in Chief. To Captain Nollock, Senior Officer, Hongkong. Hongkong, 12 July 1864. Foreign Office. I have to thank you for a copy of His Excellency Sir A. Kuper's memorandum on the proposed Praya Road, in front of Kowloon. Concessions have been made as a general measure, there can be no doubt as to the benefit on Sanatory, Commercial, police, and social grounds, to maintain... ... To Land Board. [Some unreadable characters and words, likely OCR errors: "ダ", "M10b4blu", "kome", "677 kin", "Ou", "Agned", "i chip", "Влада", "Каше", "ar", "Law Fficers", "Ela", "Offices", "ዕን", "holloch Rn."] are ignored or corrected according to context. Page information, if any, will be kept as is. To be properly formatted, the text is re-organised. The last part of the letter is addressed to Captain Nollock and mentions the Senior Naval Officer.
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