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stonecutter's Island,
a convict prison.
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on that Island
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Government House,
Hongkong, 27th. October, 1902.
sir,
Wo
In reply te paragraph 2 of your Despatch
No. 233 of the 1st. of last August, I have the honour to
inform you that the proposal to remove the Gunpowder Depêt
from Stonecutters' Island in 1891 emanated from the Military
Authorities who suggested that as the Colonial Government was
about to spend a considerable sum on repairing the Depêt,
might be as cheap to remove it altogether.
2.
it
The proposal to remove the Depot to Green
Island originated from a recommendation of the Committee,
which, as reported in my Despatch No. 76 of the 5th. of March,
1240 1901, I appointed to consider the question of increasing the
Gaol accommodation, to the effect that a Convict Prisen
should be built on the site of the old Gaol at Stonecutters
Enclosure
Island, at present used as the Gunpowder Depot. I enclose a
of the Report, and I consider that the site suggested by
the Committee is the best one for the purpose in the Colony.
You will observe that in 1901 the Director
3.
of Public Works estimated the cost of constructing a Gunpowder
Depôt en Green Island at $25,000 with a further sum of $10,000
for the cast of a pier. To this estimate an addition of at
least 25% would have to be made at the present time.
4.
BR-
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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