CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902 — Page 643

१.

P.

Land at Hong Kong.

6.0.

22528

6 JUN 021

637

At a conference held at the Treasury on 14th May

1902, it was arranged that the land at Kowloon required

by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., for the purpose of

dock extension should be surrendered by the War Department

at once in exchange for the land below Bowen Road Hospital

site, on condition that the respective values of the lands

are ascertained and recorded in the Colonial Military

Lands Account. A letter containing the Secretary of

State's approval of this transaction has been already

despatched to the Colonial Office (Letter of 23rd May 1902,

Hong Kong 8/135, I. G. F. 1).

At a further conference held at the Treasury on

27th May, 1902, the War Office representatives agreed to

recommend to the Secretary of State for War

(1) that, in view of the general desire that the

opening ceremony of King's Park should take place on

Coronation day, the ceremony should be sanctioned, on

the understanding that the whole of the lend required

for the purpose could not be surrendered until the

new ranges at Devil's Peak had been provided.

(2)

that all the land referred to in War Office

letter to the Treasury No: 16 of Printed Correspondence

A. 707 (No: 1 in the Schedule A attached) which

includes