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year, which will not all be expended on the survey, can be devoted
to the purchase of properties South of the Kowloon Hills. If this
balance is insufficient we will take a further vote for preliminary
railway expenses to cover the additional amount required. Though
such further vote as well as the $25,000 already provided is
charged in the first instance against Public Works Extraordinary
it will eventually be repaid from the loan when raised.
With regard to (3) and (3) Mr. Chatham will
supply Mr. Bruce with the sheets of the Cadastral Survey showing
the Districts through which the line is to pass and Mr. Bruce
will mark on them the lots which his preliminary survey shows
require to be taken up. The sheets and the list of the lots will
then be sent to Mr. Clementi at Tai Po for an estimate of cost
of resumption. Payment will be made for them out of the vote of $50,000 for "Railway to Canton · Survey and Preliminary Work"
included in the Estimates for 1906. As far as we can see at pre-
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-seat none or very little of this sum will be wanted for survey as Mr. Bruce anticipates this will be completed by the end of November and it should certainly be so by the end of the year.
It is not necessary that the staring out of
the Centre line in (3) and (3) should await the completion of purchase of private property. The line does not pass over much of such property in (2) bile knowledge of the course of the line cannot greatly appreciate the agricultural lots in (3). Mr. Chatham thinks that the lots required should be purchased by agreement with the Crown Lessees as was done in the case of the Tai Po Road, and that a notice of compulsory acquisition should only be issued in the event of it becoming clear that lots are being bought up for speculative purposes.
It is proposed that the location of the Centre line of the Railway in (2) and (3) should be carried out
by two parties working in opposite directions from Tai Po under
the
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