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of the Government to encourage contemplated reforms; for I think

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on as such. The in

be looked on as su

intended piers cannot obstruct the

navigation of so large a harbour

as this, on the contrary they will Facilitate the trade?

"I do not see that any private or

public

"The harbour of Hongkong comprises about ten (10) square miles of water. It will be recollected, moreover, that the tonnage of the shipping which entered this Port in 1883 execeded five millions three hundred thousand tons; that is, it exceeded the tonnage of the shipping which entered any

Port of the United Kingdom in 1883 except London and Liverpool.

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are

public interests interfered with, and such being the ease, I do not "think that anyone here is likely to

object to such great improvements

as the promoters of the schemes before the Council intend to

introduce."

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"It might, perhaps, be advanced.

with some reason that the Vier and

Godown Company authorized by-

"Ordinance // of 1871 was a 1 failure. "The site at Wanchai (at the East of

"the City

even

was

- badly chosen, as --

after the pier

was built the

sitting