CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3] — Page 603

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but which will eventually be occupied by Warehouses. Of these Lot 88 now belongs to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire who have already approached the Chief Resident Engineer in the matter of Railway connection for it.

5. Without the proposed extension of the reclamation it is impossible to provide the required sidings. If the reclamation were extended as proposed but Blackhead's Lots not resumed either wholly or in part, then the sidings, which could not run alongside Des Voeux Road without being crossed by all the traffic to and from the Passenger Station, would have to be laid to the Eastward of this Station and to be curved in such a manner as to be clear of these Lots. The main objections to this are that a large area of land between the South end of the Passenger Station and Kowloon Marine Lot No. 81 would have to be sacrificed to enable the curves to be formed which are required to avoid the Lots and that the sidings would absorb a part of Des Voeux Road to the West of the Lots to the great inconvenience of traffic there. Even with the extension of the reclamation and the resumption of Blackhead's Lots the sidings in order to reach the Wharf and Godown Company's Premises without decreasing the width of Salisbury

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599 but which will eventually be occupied by Warehouses. Of these Lot 88 now belongs to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire who have already approached the Chief Resident Engineer in the matter of Railway connection for it. 5. Without the proposed extension of the reclamation it is impossible to provide the required sidings. If the reclamation were extended as proposed but Blackhead's Lots not resumed either wholly or in part, then the sidings, which could not run alongside Des Voeux Road without being crossed by all the traffic to and from the Passenger Station, would have to be laid to the Eastward of this Station and to be curved in such a manner as to be clear of these Lots. The main objections to this are that a large area of land between the South end of the Passenger Station and Kowloon Marine Lot No. 81 would have to be sacrificed to enable the curves to be formed which are required to avoid the Lots and that the sidings would absorb a part of Des Voeux Road to the West of the Lots to the great inconvenience of traffic there. Even with the extension of the reclamation and the resumption of Blackhead's Lots the sidings in order to reach the Wharf and Godown Company's Premises without decreasing the width of Salisbury

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599 but which will eventually be occupied by Warehouses. Of these Lot 88 now belongs to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire who have already approached the Chief Resident Engineer in the matter of Railway connection for it. 5. Without the proposed extension of the reclamation it is impossible to provide the required sidings. If the reclamation were extended as proposed but Blackhead's Lots not resumed either wholly or in part, then the sidings, which could not run alongside Des Voeux Road without being crossed by all the traffic to and from the Passenger Station, would have to be laid to the East- -ward of this Station and to be curved in such a manner as to be clear of these Lots. The main objections to this are that a large area of land between the South end of the Passenger Station and Kowloon Marine Lot No. 81 would have to be sacrificed to enable the curves to be formed which are required to avoid the Lots and that the sidings would absorb a part of Des Voeux Road to the West of the Lots to the great inconvenience of traffic there. Even with the extension of the reclamation and the resumption of Black- -head's Lots the sidings in order to reach the Wharf and Godown Company's Premises without decreasing the width of Salisbury

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but which will eventually be occupied by Warehouses. Of

these Lot 88 now belongs to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire

who have already approached the Chief Resident Engineer in

the matter of Railway connection for it.

Without the proposed extension

of the reclamation it is impossible to provide the required

sidings. If the reclamation were extended as proposed but

Blackhead's Lots not resumed either wholly or in part,

then the sidings, which could not run alongside Des Voeux

Road without being crossed by all the traffic to and from

the Passenger Station, would have to be laid to the East-

-ward of this Station and to be curved in such a manner as

to be clear of these Lots. The main objections to this are

that a large area of land between the South end of the

Passenger Station and Kowloon Marine Lot No. 81 would have

to be sacrificed to enable the curves to be formed which

are required to avoid the Lots and that the sidings would

absorb a part of Des Voeux Road to the West of the Lots

to the great inconvenience of traffic there. Even with the

extension of the reclamation and the resumption of Black-

-head's Lots the sidings in order to reach the Wharf and

Godown Company's Premises without decreasing the width of

Salisbury

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