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buildings, a wharf, deep water and shelter are already

provided". Mr. Lindsey while preferring (as Sir Henry May

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Enclosure.

did) site No. 4 recommended that a 10 years' lease be

offered to the Company of a portion of the new Railway

Reclamation at Kowloon between the deep-sea wharf at Black-

-head's point and the new Ferry Pier (see plan). He urged

that as the rental would be $50,000 this would be more

profitable than any other use to which this newly reclaimed

area could be put and "if need arose for deep wharfage we

could make better ones by constructing part of the ulti-

-mate reclamation scheme shown in the plan dotted red". To

this yr. Chatham took strong exception on the ground that

the Government would thus dispose of a great portion of

its only deep sea wharfage, and the mistake of allowing

almost the whole deep-sea wharfage to fall into private

hands which was committed by Singapore and has now to be

rectified at enormous cost would be repeated here. He

opposed the grant of site 4 as being too valuable and

adhered to the option of sites 2 or 3.

3.

The matter was discussed at a

Railway meeting presided over by the Officer Administering

the Government and attended by the Acting Colonial Secretary

(Mr. A. M. Thomson), the Director of Public Works (Mr. V.

Chatham)