CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4] — Page 288

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& 15 APR 1

sir,

"Victor Emanuel" at Hong-Kong.

15th, June, 1

1897.

I have the honour to bring to the notice of

Your Excellency a proposal which will perhaps not only give a

good site for the new R. N. Seamen's Club, but may also finally

solve the difficulty as to the future of the Victoria Recrea-

tion Club.

The foreshore of the North Barracks, which is

shortly to be turned over to the Navy, extends to the West as

far as the Eastern Boundary Wall of the New Praya, but if the

proposed extension of the Naval Yard were taken thus far, it

would so congest the traffic at the new Murray Pier as to se-

riously affect the usefulness of that structure, it would also

shut out the present Victoria Recreation Club from the water

even if the Club was permitted to retain the position it now

holds. Partly in deference to the inconvenience which would be

caused to traffic, and partly in respect to the Club, which has

made more than one appeal to be favourably considered, the

Western Wall of the new R.N.Yard Extension will run from the

His Excellency

SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON,K.C.M.G.

Eastern

Hong-Kong.