CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3] — Page 520

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Military premises situate to the North of Queen's Road East could be disposed of and the Barracks and other buildings be removed further from the Water, I have the honour to

enclose copy of a

communication

which I addressed to Vice- Enclosure

Admiral Hamilton, C.B.,

enquiring whether the Naval

Yard, which is situated in

Island in the

proximity

Barracks, could be exchanged

HongKong

immediate

5th March,

1887.

an are a

For adjoining the Naval Yard

of equivalent value

Kowloon.

Yard at

The Admiralty asked in 1885 that a portion of

this

ground should be given over,

but dir G.

Bowen

represented

that it was worth to the_

Colony £46,700, and he objected to its being

to its being handed

- over without compensation. Quite recently

, Admiral

Hamilton informed me that

to the

the Lords Commissioners

for

of the

Admiralty considered that

there