CO129-503-1 Development of Hong Kong Harbour 6-12-1926 - 28-10-1927 — Page 42

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Memorandum

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Hongkong Harbour

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Last year we were asked by the Secretary of State for

the Colonies to advise in regard to the general policy to be

adopted in the development of Hong Kong Harbour. We have

had this question under consideration for some months and

have given the Secretary of State certain of our interim

conclusions.

In view of the present situation in China, we

have not as yet embodied our final conclusions in a formal

Report.

A point has now arisen as to the dredging of the harbour

on which we are asked to furnish our immediate advice. This

comes before us in telegrams dated 5th and 23rd March, 1927, (see Appendix I) from the Governor of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State in regard to the Kaitak Reclamation

Scheme. The time allowed to us has been short, but we

have had before us the answers of the Consulting Engineers

to the Hong Kong Government to certain questions which have been addressed to them at our suggestion by the Colonial

Office. We append the correspondence to this Report

(Appendix II).

We understand that it is proposed to place an aerodrome

on the land which is being reclaimed at Kaitak at the head

of Kowloon Bay. The scheme hitherto contemplated has been

to obtain the filling material for this reclamation from the neighbouring hills at a cost of $738,000 (£73,800) spread over a period of 3 years. The proposal put forward in the

Governor's telegram of 5th March is to obtain the necessary material from dredging in the harbour at a cost of $1,491,000 (£149,000) but in a period of only 13 years.

It is further

indicated that a firm of Dutch contractors has been at work

at the neighbouring Portuguese port of Macao, and that the foregoing price contemplates the removal of plant from Macao to Hong Kong, the firm in question becoming the contractors

for the dredging.

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