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Name

of the village of ~

Sham Shui po

on

the

boundary of British

Kowloon, as there is a Chinese Village of the

same name

opposite to

it on the other side of the

boundary.

The Registrar General

the

the name

has suggested Tuk Tsün Heung which bears

the meaning "territory" a ask Your Lordship to.

end of the

" and I have to

approve

(

approve

this change.

It has further been

name

of

suggested that the the British portion of the Kowloon peninsula should be changed from "Kowloon "

as it has been hitherto to some other

designated, -name, in view of the fact

that the Chinese authorities are in the habit of speaking and writing of Kowloon as if the whole of the peninsula were Chinese territory; and

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