CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7] — Page 547

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that there is not the remotest prospect that the Scheme of Wharves at the Western side of the Southern end of the Kowloon Peninsula will ever be proceeded with. The Scheme was prepared in deference to proposals put for- ward by certain Master Mariners through the Chamber of

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Commerce, and Mr.Duncan did not himself take it seriously

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I have suggested in telegram of the 28th April that it is not necessary to refer Mr.Duncan's Scheme as a whole to the Consulting Engineers, first because it includes a large quantity of more or less routine reclamation of shallow waters of a type which is being continually carried on in various parts of the harbour, and also because it covers projects such as thatreferred to in paragraph 11 above, which it is not proposed to carry out. The reclamation at Kennedy Town, referred to in paragraph 10, is similar to many other reclamations, such as that at Praya. East, and the Port Engineer's Department is fully competent to deal with

any questions that may arise. The provision of wharf accommodation at Hung Hom Falls within a different category, and I propose that the question of undertaking any major work of this type should be referred to the

Consulting Engineers in the first instance.

13. As regards the question of the fee due to the Consulting Engineers, I concur in the proposal made in their letter of the 4th September, which was forwarded with your despatch No.296 of the 23rd September, 1924, that the sum of £2,860 should be merged in any further work which they may undertake in connection with the harbour scheme. I may mention that a question has arisen with regard to the type of foundation for the sea-wall

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