CO129-498-17 Kowloon Peak Barrack sites- request for re-transfer of land from War Office to the Colonial... 21-4-1926 - 19-8-1926 — Page 8

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14 JUN 1926

NAM

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG. 14th May, 1926.

Sir,

I have the honour to address you with

reference to the question of "The Kowloon Peak Barrack Sites!

You 31/14 14 The matter was dealt with in Despatch No.262 of 17th July,

losure 1.

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1914, by the late Sir Henry May, who in paragraph 1 (a),

a copy of which I attach, recommended a retransfer of these sites to Government and a credit to the War Department in the Military Lends Account of $160,350.

A reply was received in the late Mr. Secretary Harcourt's despatch No.47 of 25th February, 1915, which stated that the matter must remain in abeyance until after

the war.

I am in

I have now received a suggestion from the Military Authorities that they should reopen the question with the War Office. With this I have concurred.

agreement with the views of the late Sir Henry May as expressed in the paragraph of his despatch, a copy of which is enclosed; and, subject to your approval, I propose to accept a retransfer of the land in question, and to credit the War Department in the Military Lands Account with $160,350. The proposal is, of course, contingent on the

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expression of agreement by the War Office.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,

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