CO129-406 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 208

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was sent out for a floating Barrack, which will show

Your Lordship that for anything above one Pegiment with

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a proportion of artillery there is practically no Bar-

rack accommodation in Hongkong.

3rd. On the west side of Cowloon Point, during

the Typhoon months, the whole of the shipping lie

the anchorage as densely crowded as the "ersey, the

wind blowing in strong breezes from that direction.

The village is the resort to and receptacle of every

and property

vagabond who escapes from Hongkong

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afloat to an incalculable amount lies under it at their

mercy a temptation to any party who may wish to des-

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troy it, for a simple boat full of combustible matter

set adrift before the wind would fall on board some

vessel and if the others cut or slipped their cables

from their proximity collisions would take place and loss

ensue. (This time last year there were two "erchant

Ships lashed alongside each other with one ship keeper

to take care of them both). To obviate this the Dock

and Victualling Yards, aval Hospital, Pesidence and

Offices for the Commander in chief should be built

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broil to beqoida ed

there.

Granite is on the spot - Labour abundant and

cheap.

This would release the ground on which the Dock

Yard