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another large dock at Hunghor be taken in hand immediately and

completed with all possible despatch the docking rescurces of

the Company will be found very inadequate to meet the increasing

demands."

On the 10th July 1900 the General Officer Commanding

forwards a letter from the War Office dated the 2nd June 1900

approving of his proposal to make a portion of the hill at Kow-

loon East to ce given at once to the Dock Company and adding

"should it become evident during the progress of the work that

the construction of the new dock will be unduly hampered by the

delay in handing over Kowloon Dock Battery a report to that

effect may be submitted."

On the 27th August 1900 the Governor inquired of

the General Officer Commaniing whether a portion of the War

Department land at the Dock Battery could be handed over

immediately and General Gascoigne replied on the 15th September

in the affirmative.

Meanwhile on the 8th September the Acting Director

of Public Works submitted an amended plan received from

Mr.Gillies showing a slight alteration in the configuration of

the land required of the Company and reported that Wr.Sillis

desired to know "on what terms the Government would be willing

to put up to public auction in one lot, the whole of the line of

foreshore between the Company's proposed boundary and the Green

Island Cement Company's land at Hok Un," this land being

undoubtedly Military Reserve and fronting Kowloon East Battery.

The Acting Director of Fublic Works also pointed out in a

minute dated the 19th September that the military cables, the

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