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Salisbury Road, along which much traffic is anticipated,
will require this road to be shifted 15 feet to the North.
This will involve the resumption of a strip of private
property on the North of the road.
6.
Apart from the question of
facilitating the laying of sidings to the South and West
of the Kowloon Peninsula the acquisition of Blackhead's
Lots will provide solid ground on which to erect the
Station Building, at a site to which the approaches are
better than could be obtained elsewhere. Wharfage accommoda-
-tion, alongside which an Ocean Steamer can lie, and much
valuable space for storage purposes would also be acquired
with the Lots.
Ens losure 4.
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Their history is given in annexed
extract from a report by the Director of Public Works to
which is appended an explanatory plan. Your Lordship will
observe that Mr. Chatham values the property with buildings
and pier at $612,000.
7.
My original idea as reported to
Your Lordship in the 6th. paragraph of my Confidential
2980 Despatch of the 13th. July, 1906, was to acquire the Lots
ob
by the exchange for them of part of the area of the pro-
-posed
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