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Sir,

Government House,

Hongkong, 21st. March, 1903,

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of Your Excellency's letter of 17th, instant, conveying the views put forward on behalf of the Admiralty with regard to the proposed East Praya Reclamation.

I quite agree with Your Excellency that it is essential that there should be no obstruction in the way of His Majesty's Ships of the larger classes going alongside and leaving the sea-front of the Naval Yard, and I am prepared to undertake

that no Junks will be permitted to use the Western front of the

proposed Reclamation when such use interferes with the movement of His Majesty's Ships as indicated by Your Excellency, also that

within Fifteen hundred feet of the Naval Yard sea-wall no wharf

exceeding 50 feet in length will be permitted to be constructed

until the Navzi Authorities have had an opportunity of raising

objections on the ground of their proving obstructions to the

Movement of His Majesty's Ships.

3.

our conference.

1 attach a copy of the plan submitted at

I have etc.,

(Sd.) Henry A. Blake,

Governor, &c..

His Excellency

Vice-Admiral Sir Cyprian A. 3. Bridge, k.C.B.

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