CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11] — Page 447

0.486.

No.

Hongkong.

43080443

is 23 NOV 03

Government House,

Hongkong, 23rd. October, 1903.

Gor

26972

sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge the re-

ceipt of your telegram of the 14th. instant enquiring the

acreage and Colonial Secretary's Valuation of three sections

of the area proposed to be devoted to the King's Park.

In view of the fact that the divisions

2.

implied in your telegram have never been defined and have no

existence on any plan or otherwise it was difficult to under-

stand what the precise boundaries of the respective sections

should be.

I preferred therefore not to hazard any

information as to acreage which might only have proved mis-

leading and could in no case be definite.

I therefore telegraphed a valuation by the

Colonial Secretary covering the whole area of the Park leaving

the sub-divisions to be defined by you.

3.

I added to my telegram that if the area

proposed for the Park be valued as building land, this Govern-

ment, relinquishing the idea of a Park,must sell the land for

building Chinese houses.

The Colony is not in such a financial

position

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE

COLONIES.