CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899 — Page 44

In any further communica-tion on this subject, please quote

-Wh. 158.6.

586/1659

and address letter to--

The Secretary,

Admiralty, Whitehall,

London, S.W.

15385 Reghing

REG16

15 June 1899.

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9505

Adony

23474

98

Sir,

I am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the

Admiralty to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th April 1899, No.9505/99, relating to the proposed Extension

of the Naval Yard at Hong Kong.

In reply thereto I am to point out that the

objections raised by the Governor of Hong Kong in his despatch

of 16th March 1899 as to the War Office Reclamation at the

Eastern Extension were replied to in Admiralty letter of 19th

October 1898, but in order to meet the views of the Local

Authorities in connection with the Extension of the Eastern

Praya, My Lords would have no objection to carrying out the

reclamation for the War Department on the lines indicated

on Plan No.2 attached herewith, provided that the Secretary

of State for War concurs.

My Lords note that the War Office have been

communicated with as to bearing the cost of any additional

reclamation which the Colony consider necessary in the event

of the Eastern Praya Scheme being carried out and a copy of

this letter has been forwarded to the Secretary of State for

War for his concurrence or remarks in the revised scheme for

the War Department Reclamation.

With reference to the remarks of H.E. the Governor

on the subject of the rights of the Colonial Government to the foreshore and land under the sea, My Lords are glad to

observe that the view that the Admiralty should be in any way

restricted

Under Secretary of State,

i.r.-X. 1

COLONIAL OFFICE,

Whitehall, S.W.