CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12] — Page 68

No. 534.

Hongkong.

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Enclosure!

78th 71ovem Buetoure

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Goverment House,

Hongkong, 23rd. November, 1903.

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I have the honour to inform you that the

Director of Public Works has for some time been in negotiation

with the owners of Kowloon Marine Lots 44 46 and Kowloon

Inland Lots 887 897, regarding a readjustment of these lots

with a view to improving the laying out of the locality, and

I submit for favourable consideration the details of the

scheme, as set forth in the enclosed extract of a letter from

the Director of Public Works and accompanying plans, and re-

commend that it be approved.

2.

The question of re-adjustment arose princi-

pally in consequence of the failure of the sea-wall which had

been constructed to protect the reclamation for the lots

originally sold, and when this failure took place the Director

of Public Works raised the question as he observed that an

improvement could be effected which would be advantageous

both to the Government and to the owners of the lots. The

scheme is set forth so fully in the enclosed letter and ac-

companying plans that it requires no further explanation from

me.

3.

It involves, however, the expenditure on

request

the part of the Goverment of a sum of $34,700 and I have to

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, M.P.,

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