CO129-449 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [7-9] — Page 164

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RF 30 G 19

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 16th. July, 1918.

I have the honour to inform you that in

December last the General Managers of the China Light and Power Company approached the Government with a view to acquiring a new site for their generating station in Kowloon

the main object being to obtain a water frontage in order to

obviate the cost of transporting coal over a considerable

distance.

2.

I enclose a copy of the terms which have

been accepted by the Company and if you approve of an ex- -change of land being effected on these terms I should be obliged if you would inform me by telegraph.

3.

I may add that the present site of the generating station which adjoins the Railway Yard would in course of time seriously interfere with Railway developments, so that the proposed exchange of sites will be mutually advantageous to the Company and to the Government,

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient,

humble servant,

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

WALTER LONG, M.P.,

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Governor,kc..