CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 739

No.

171.

Hongkong.

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731

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(64 31 JUL 05!

Government House,

Hongkong, 29th. June, 1905.

Sir,

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1903

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I have the honour to acknowledge

the receipt of your Despatch No. 112 of the 24th. ultimo,

enquiring whether I saw any objection to giving an assur-

-ance that the land round Long Harbour, shown on a plan

accompanying the Admiralty Letter (D.W.1446/3072) to the

Colonial Office dated the 15th. April, 1903, should not be

alienated without Admiralty concurrence being first obtained.

2.

I would point out in the first

instance that the boundary of the proposed Admiralty Re-

-serve comprises an area of approximately 10 Square Miles

of which about 4 Square Miles is land, and that it includes

the three Islands, viz.:- Tap Mun or Grass Island, Port

Island, and North Cau, and some 9 or 10 villages or hamlets

with the cultivated land belonging thereto. For the houses

in these villages and for the fields adjoining them I have

recently as required by law issued appropriate titles to

those

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

80-1

800.2

&c

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