which would seem to be free from some of the objections which have been urged against previous suggestions
and which deserves the most serious attention, if indeed it has not already been brought directly to the notice of
The War Office, The Admiralty. If the General Officer Commanding here,
2. It is suggested that the War Office should surrender to the Colonial Government all the lands at present held by the military authorities in Hong Kong,
of the area lying in front of it, as any road is in its present situation,
the plan of carrying the Bragg's Road in front of it must be abandoned owing to the steepness of the gradient at that part where it has zoned the land into the proposed Royal Botanical Gardens; and it is suggested that the War Office should be invited to give up their control over the area at Kowloon and in the immediate neighbourhood of forts, and should receive in exchange a large area of land on Causeway Bay and on the slopes above it, together with a reclamation from the harbour extending beyond the recent reclamation in the bay in question to the breakwater, which forms the present boat refuge from Typhoons.
Further, the Colonial Government should agree, in consideration of the greater value of the land acquired, to make the reclamation necessary.
which would seems to be free from some of the objections which have been inged against presions suggestions
and which deserves the
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