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MAY General.
Minute by Surveyor General.
Chief,
In the offer of land at Kowloon by the Acting Governor to the Vice Admiral and Commander-in-Chief, in exchange for the Naval Yard premises on Queen's Road, Hongkong, it was not meant to defray, at the charges of the Colonial Treasury, the cost of reclamations and re-erection of the new Naval buildings.
The excess of area of the large property to be given at Kowloon over that of the smaller property to be relinquished on this side represented a money-value already so large that it was not thought further sacrifice could be equitably imposed on the Colony.
The money value represented by the excess of area was deemed an ample inducement for the Government of the Colony to make the transfer to Kowloon, and if in addition, it were now required to defray the cost of...
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teadv.
Evalosur 3.-
150
C. 0.
10525
RECO
MAY General.
Minute by Surveyor Sevmal In the offer of land at Kowloon
Chief,
by the Cleting Governor to the Vice Admiral and Commander-in in exchange for the Naval Yard. premiere on Queen's Road, Hongkong, it was not meant to defray, at the charges of the Colonial Treasury the of reclamations and re-crection of the new Naval buildings.
The access of
of area
cost
of the large property to be given at Kowloon over that of the scvaller property to be relinquished on this side represented a money -value already so large that it was not thought furthen sacrifica
could be
equitably imposed on the Colony .
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the
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money value; represented by
of area,
was deemed an
sufficient inducement for the Gourd
the Colony
amply
1 for the treurofer of to Kowloon, and if in addition,
to defray
were how
the cost
of
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