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it was communicated by the Coronation Committee, and the

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feeling was also widely expressed that the name of the 'King's

Park' would be the most appropriate that could be bestowed.

As General Officer Commanding I was most

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anxious that the deliberately expressed hope of the whole

British community of Hongkong expressed not only through

the medium of the public press but also by the Unofficial

Members of Council in person should be furthered as far as

possible by the Military Authorities, provided that some fair

and amicable arrangement could be arrived at by which the

Colonial Government would give the Military Authorities an

equitable exchange for the rights surrendered. I was satisfied,

before telegraphing to you on the 28th. April, that the Colo-

nial Government was proposed to treat the matter in a suffici-

ently liberal spirit, and I was therefore ready, both as

General Officer Commanding and Officer Administering the

Government to recommend that the inauguration of the large

park should be proceeded with and should fom part of the

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the scheme in your telegram of the 7th. instant, and I have

noted its provisional terms both as regards the limitation of

expenditure and the provision of new Ranges before the old

ones are given up.

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I am not yet in a position to furnish you

with exact details and plans of the area to be devoted to the

park. So much of the Kowloon Military Reserve as is not taken

up by Rifle Ranges, together with the eleven acre area to

which I have referred, may, however, be taken to roughly re-

-present

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