CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5] — Page 231

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as a convenience is ordered to be

closed for 24 hours on the day when the Annual Perambulation

"War Department boundaries is of made_ and a registry of this is to

be made in order that the War

Department rights may be preserved - this of course is a source of in.

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convenience but it is presumed

- more so in Hong Kong-

not

then

at stations in England while -- thoroughfares of considerable

import

la

new are also closed for

24 hours - the road in question

however is of little,

noe to the

War Department- and ous Queen's

Road at present separates part

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of the War Department property I see no objection to Your Excellenay's recommending to the Searitury of State of War to allow the road to be transferred to the Colanial Government. The road has been kept in repair by the Colony- opartly probably because they

that this piece of road

not aware

of their own was not

jaining two of their.

their property. It is however to this day swept and cleansed by Coolies of the Control Department ._ In the event of this concession

being made to the Colonial Government. Ithink in return the right to the foreshare adjoining