CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4] — Page 296

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reserved as

quarters for

Married Soldiers.

lx.

It had recurred to me that

as the latter reserve cintain's 10 acres-

WAS

that sponce

sufficient for the erection of a levited Service Sbosfistat if not of low separate Hospitals - The enclosed calculation however by Colonel Sovell Convmanding Royal Engineers

would seem to destroy even

that chance

for the hav

hany and

therefore

nothing remains but to hope that in.

by Admiral Hope-

liew of the

preferable

le site

originally

asked for by

The position at N2. m.

may

even now¬

at the eleventh hour be concedid

IS

no 3

15.

J

was

293

myself so impressed

with the embarrassing position in

which the Naval Authorities are-

-placed by their claims having been

so

summarily put asido- that a ventured to suggest to Admiral King The alternative of selecting the site 4 or mount. Elgin if he really attached paramount importance to the erection of

an

W

Hospital at Kowloon - I stated that if he thought Mount Elgin

wold

completely sent him or at least suit him for

better than the sito at My 3

I should repusent his wish to you with a view to that concession being n to the Admually. I to minke that offer

a.o

Was

in a position

the intended n

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