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CONFIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

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Government House,

Hongkong, 20th. July, 1906.

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My Lord,

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With reference to the 2nd. paragraph of Your

Lordship's Confidential despatch of the 8th. June with re-

gard to the reclamation required for the Kowloon terminus

of the Canton-Kowloon Railway, I have the honour to state

that the survey of Hung Hom Bay embodied in the plans which

accompanied my despatch of January 12th. has not been

plotted locally on a larger scale than on those plans, and

that I have ascertained from the Commodore that there are

no records here from which this could now be done. It is

possible however that data for replotting the survey could

be obtained from the Admiralty. If reference is made to

that department in the matter it would be well to state

that the survey was carried out by the Commander of H.M.S.

"Albion" in February, 1905.

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Referring to (2) and (3) of the Consulting

Engineers' letter of the 25th. May, 1906, which formed the

RIGHT HONOURABLE

&C.

THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,

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