CO129-346 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [1-3] — Page 425

JONFIDENTIAL.

Hongkong.

My Lord,

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Government House,

Hongkong, 26th. March, 1908.

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My predecessor in his Confidential

Despatch of March 21st., 1907, set forth at length the

proposals which he recommended in regard to the site for

the Terminal Station of the Railway at Kowloon. Your Lord-

-ship in your Despatch of July 19th., 1907, forwarded for

my information the report of the Consulting Engineers upon

these proposals, and intimated that you were prepared to

approve of their recommendations if I also concurred in

them.

2.

They were in brief:-

(a)

the acquisition of Blackhead's Lots;

(b)

(c)

the extension of the Reclamation southwards till

it abutted on those Lots;

the setting back of the frontage line of the

Reclamation at its southern end about 200

feet in order to save the cost of the deep

sea-wall which would be involved by the

continuation of the frontage in a direct line

RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE BARL OF ELGIN, K.G..

800.

c

800....