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subject of consider.

proposed and now

ation, was

puch forward.

on

sumption that the extension

the

ad.

of the

Praya Reclamation eastwards in front

of

the Naval and

mento and Marine Lots 20 and 21,

Military Establish.

had been

fiivally

abandoned by the

at once state.

Colonial Government.

J.

We

may

that this desirable reclamation

which has been the subject of much consideration and correspondence time past between the

for

(

lorig

Coronia's, Military and Naval Authori. ties, has, as far as we can ascertain, never been abandoned by the Colonial Government.

4.

The last scheme for the carrying out of this project, proposed

by

the Colonial Government, is set

report dated the 2nd of January 1889 signed by M. J.M. Price

forth

ui

then

5473/89

then Surveyor General, and was forwarded to the Secretary of State in a

covering - despatch by sir William Des Voeux, late Governor, dated the 10th of January 1889. From that despatch it appears that the scheme for the removal of the Naval Establishment to Kowloon had been definin by abandoned. It further appears from C.S.0. 16, Colonial Secretary's letter N.388 dated the 5th of March 1891, that the -

proposal to remove the

Military Establish. ments to Causeway Bay has also been definitely abandoned.

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The position of the proposal to

extend the reclamation cashvards in

front of the staval and Military Establish- ments, therefore, appears to be practically

the same as obtained when Sir William Des treux addressed the Secretary of State on the 10th January

to.

1869.

The approval of the secretary of and further proceeding

State to this project

in