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SIR JOHN WOLFE BARRY & PARTNERS..

SIR JOHN WOLFE SARRY, KAB

C.A.BARRETON.

E.CRUTTWELL

KAWOLFE CARRY,

Gentlemen,

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER,

CONSILIUM, LONDON

24 WESTMINSTER.

21.

1. Delahay Streets

7.0.8.

Westminster, S.W. 223

21st June

190

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21310

Rece

REG928 JUN 09

CANTON RAILWAY - BRITISH AUCTION.

Kowloon Temainus.

With further reference to your letter of April

26th. 8.261/3, enclosing copy of a letter and despatch

from His Excelleney the Governor of Hong Kong, we have now

sarefully considered the new proposal for the terminal

station at Kowloon.

In our letter to you of 20th. August

last we advised that the station should be constructed on

the site of Soheme 2-A and that the land on both sites of

Sohemes 2-A and 3-B should be resumed by the Government,

This proposal was thoroughly discussed during Mr. A.J.

Barry's visit to Hong Kong and it was unanimously agreed

that the site proposed would ultimately be the best one to

adenb.

It was, however, considered that for some time,

until the traffic developes, a temporary atation with one

platform would be sufficient to meet the requirements and

it was anggested that this temporary station should be

placed on the site of Scheme 3-B, but that the disposition

of the rails at the aurve and erossing of Des Voeux Road

1.