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estimate of £50,000.
That Para-
My Lords would take this opportunity of correcting
Paragraph 10 of Their letter to the Colonial Office above
referred to, relating to Barracks at Hong Kong. graph speaks of the site of the new Barracks which will have to be erected if the North Barracks are sold to the
Colony, as estimated to cost £50,000.
But this is really Sir Lothian Nicholson's Estimate of the cost of building these New Barracks, apart from cost of site, the presumption being that the site will be provided free by the Colony. Again that Paragraph supposes that Sir A.Haliburton's Committee recommended that the Imperial Government should pay only 2/3rds of £72,000 whilst in fact that Committee recommend that the Imperial Government should pay 2/3rds of whatever the Barracks may cost after applying to them the proceeds of the land to be sold to the Colony, such excess cost being estimated at £122,000,
though it might prove to be more.
The following table shows the recommendations of the Committee more clearly, on the basis of Sir L.Nicholson's
confessedly very rough Estimate.
EXPENDITURE.
MODE OF PROVISION.
£
Cost of erecting additional Buildings.
212,000
Proceeds of sale of North Barracks.
£
140,000
Cost of replacing North Barracks.
50,000
Payment by Imperial Government (2/3) of
81,333
balance
Payment by Colony (1/3) of balance
£262,000
40,667
£282,000
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