CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7] — Page 522

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discussing the matter with him and with the Director of

Public Works I concur, that a site on these lots which are

situate at the East end of the 100 foot Salisbury Road is

the proper one for the passenger station at Kowloon and

further that the carrying of a line of railway across these

lots would greatly facilitate the provision of private

aidings to the various godown and other companies that lie

to the West of them. It would probably involve a large

expenditure than would be justified to resume the property

while it is possible that if an equally good site for the

present lessee's business could be exchanged for it,

arrangements far less costly to the Government could be

made while at the same time an important business would not

be stopped or checked.

The only suitable site is part of

the area of the proposed reclamation at North Point which

I propose to offer to Messrs. Blackhead & Co.

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I would now direct Your Lordship's attention

to the copy of the Admiralty Chart No.3279, "Hongkong

Waters East" to which I have transferred the position of

the two 6 inch quick-firing guns and their extreme arcs of

fire from the larger scale tracing furnished by the General

Officer Commanding. I have also enfaced on the chart the

outer limit of the proposed reclamation and on the assump-

tion