CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12] — Page 5

No.

520.

Hongkong.

C.0.

45107

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Goverment House,

Hongkong, 14th. November, 1903.

35730

sir,

I have the honour to inform you that

serious difficulties have arisen in the matter of finding

mooring accommodation for the Merchant Steamers using the

portion of the Harbour immediately to the West of the Man-of-

War Anchorage, owing to the increased size of the vessels.

Some of these are now so large that there is only room for

four buoys where five are at present situated, and unless

more room can be found one buoy must be removed. Messrs.Butter-

field and Swire are one of the Fims affected, and if the re-

adjustment of the boundaries of the Man-of-War Anchorage sug-

gested by me in paragraph 6 of my Despatch No. 410 of the 27th.

August last could be effected, the necessary relief for the

present congestion would be found, and some of the Steamers

of that Fimm could he moored opposite the Firm's Go downs.

The steady increase in the Shipping of the

Port and especially the increase in the size of the Steamers

is tending to make the question of moorings an acute one.

I hope therefore that my suggestion made

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, M.P.

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