CO129-318 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [7-10] — Page 164

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Government House,

Hongkong, 6th. August, 1903.

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I have the honour to acknowledge the re-

ceipt of your telegram of the 30th. ultimo, informing me that

the question of the boundary between the Admiralty and War

Department Properties and the proposed Praya East Reclamation

is still under consideration, and reminding me that the

scheme cannot be approved by you pending receipt of full report

and estimates.

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In reply I beg to refer you to my Despatch

No. 481 of the 5th. of November last in the 3rd. paragraph of

which I informed that I was not yet in a position to lay the

scheme before you because the preliminary negotiations with

the Marine Lot holders had not been concluded owing to certain

difficulties in defining the boundaries of the Reclamation.

3.

The difficulties referred to were with the

owner of the lot at the extreme East end of the Reclamation,

and with the Admiralty and War Department at the West end.

An arrangement has been arrived at in the

former case involving inter alia a payment to Government of a

sum of $30,000. But until the Western boundary is settled the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

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