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307 temporary occupants had enclosed the areas so let to them with rough wooden fences.
No objections were raised or claims made by the lot owners to this interference with Marine access, a fact which shows that their present attitude and extraordinarily inflated clains are the artificial products of so called "expert" advice.
13.
The completion of the Harbour of Refuge Scheme involved the carrying out of the long delayed Reclamation of the "pocket" at Yaumati, which now constitutes a most insanitary nuisance at low tide, and is a disgrace to Victoria Harbour.
19.
As before stated the reclamation in its turn involved the raising of the Street levels.
20.
Under these circumstances the Harbour of Refuge Bill,1909, (now Ordinance 39 of 1909) was introduced; the Bill was read a first time, and was gazetted on 27th August, 1909.
Section 4 (as then published) defined the works authorized by the Ordinance, and sub-section 4 thereof specifies as part of such works:
"The levelling and reclaiming of the area of Crown Land "fore shore or sea bed bounded as follows" (the description in- dicates the "pocket" opposite Kowloon Marine Lots 29, 30 and 31 and Yaumati Police Station).
Section 5 of the Bill gave power to the Governor (inter alia) to raise x x x such streets, drains, sewers, vacant ground &c. as might in his discretion be necessary or desirable for the purpose of effecting the authorized works.
Section 7 validated the construction of the works (including any accessory works) in so far as they had already been constructed.
Section 8 extinguished all public rights in the land (sea bed or foreshore) occupied by the works.
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