CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3] — Page 609

}

COPY.

Enclosure 1.

No. 180/1907.-

to

The Honourable

The Colonial Secretary,

gir.

ECO

14258

605

Chief Resident Engineer's Office,

Kowloon,

Dated 15th. February, 1907.

Kowloon Station Yard.

I have the honour to lay before you certain

propositions in connection with the terminal arrangements of the

British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway.

2.

The provision of a suitable terminal Station

Building is difficult owing to the fact that the site proposed

at present is on land which will have to be reclained. The

approaches are bad, the only direct one being down lody Road

which is only 50 feet wide or else sideways along Des Voeux Road

round Signal Hill.

.

The Building will probably be a three

storied one so as to provide offices los, for the Railway

administration above the Waiting Roons &c., which will be on the

ground floor. The foundations for such a building would be very

costly on the proposed site.

The provision of suitable access to the

water front for those who come from Hongkong by ›launch will be

difficult as the goodsheds will be situated between the Station

Building and the sea froat. To get round these sheds the distance

would be too great for any degree of comfort when raining and would