CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10] — Page 244

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the barracks, and, owing to its configuration, it is of consider- able value for training troops.

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This is the only area within two miles of the barracks where it would be possible to make a recreation ground. A great part of it is used as a golf course by the United Services Recreation Club, by permission of the Colonial Govern- ment.

The lower part of the area on which the Colonial Govern- ment now wishes to build, approximately from the 50' contour to Gascoigne Road, is a gentle slope which could easily be levelled for football, &c. and several grounds and tennis courte could be made in other parts.

5. This is also the only area in the southern part of Kowloon Peninsula which forms a good natural park. The land to the north is too tumbled and steep, too much enclosed, and for the most part quite barren, and covered with cement from the chimneys of the Cement Works.

This is not a military matter except in so far as the amenities of the barracks are affected. A few European houses with enclosed grounds on the upper levels of King'e Park would be unobjectionable from this point of view, but I feel sure that if once the principle that this is a public park is infringed, it will not be long before the whole is built over.

6. It should be remembered that the land shown on this

sheet comprises the whole of the ceded territory: what is north of it, is only lessed until 1997. By that time I presume all the rest of the ceded territory will be crowded with buildings,

and the presence of a park in the south may be a matter of very

great importance. The date for giving up the leased territory

is far distant, and the prospect of having to do so is never

taken into consideration locally: but I do not think it should

be entirely ignored.

7. I am aware that if I plead for the retention of

this land as a park I shall be accused of trying to "hamper the development of the colony": and it is true that the erection of many more European dwellings is an urgent necessity, and that

easily