No: 1024/77.
Sir,
D.W. 941/04.
COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF,
CHINA STATION,
1st December 1903.
In continuation of my letter No: 765/77 of the 12th September last, and particularly with reference to paragraphs 2 and 5 of it, be pleased to inform the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that I have now received a letter from the Governor of Hong Kong in which he informs me that "provided the proposal meets with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, there is no objection to handing over to the Admiralty the whole of the Peninsula referred to, on the usual terms of possession of which a Statement is attached, in exchange for the rights possessed by them over the Naval Range at Kowloon and in full satisfaction of whatever property the Admiralty may possess on that Range in the shape of Pavilion, Butts, etc., in connection with it all of which will be taken over with the Range by the Colonial Government".
The Governor further states that the Colonial Government will bear the cost of resuming and paying compensation for private property on the Peninsula, and His Excellency asks whether the Admiralty have any objection to allowing a Temple and House on the Peninsula to remain; they would become Naval property on their purchase by the Colonial Government and could be leased by the Admiralty to their present Owners. I cannot foresee any objection to the Temple and House remaining.
I submit, if the offer is accepted as recommended.
The Secretary,
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In continuation of my letter No: 765/77 of the
12th September last, and particularly with reference to
paragraphs 2 and 5 of it, be pleased to inform the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty that have now received
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a letter from the Governor of Hong Kong in which he informs
me that "provided the proposal meets with the approval of
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, there is no ob-
Jection to handing over to the Admiralty the whole of the
Peninsula referred to, on the usual terms of possession
of which a Statement is attached, in exchange for the rights
possessed by them over the Naval Range at Kowloon and in
full satisfaction of whatever property the Admiralty may
possess on that Range in the shape of Pavilion, Butts, etc.,
in connection with it all of which will be taken over with
the Range by the Colonial Government",
The Governor further states that the Colonial
Government will bear the cost of resuming and paying com-
pensation for private property on the Peninsula, and His
Exeellendy asks whether the Admiralty have any objection to
allowing a Temple and House on the Peninsula to remain: they
would become Naval property on their purchase by the
Colonial Government and sould be leased by the Admiralty to
their present Owners, I cannot fore-see any objection to
the Temple and House remaining,
The Secretary,
3 I submit, if the offer is accepted as re-
ADMIRALTY, 8.7.
commended
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