CO129-515-4 Proposals for site for Royal Naval canteen 30-1-1929 - 28-3-1929 — Page 10

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Any further communication should be addressed to-

The Secretary of the Admiralty,

London, S.W.1.

quoting

66

208a

62779

L.P.-N. 8.

Admiralty, S.W. 10

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February 192 9.

048/28/208a.

1000.

52889/25

Sir,

With reference to your letter of the 15th December, 1928, No.52889/28, relative to the provision of a site for the Royal Naval Canteen at Hong Kong, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that My Lords have considered the points raised by His Excellency The Governor at his visit in July last on the possibility of a site being found in the Naval Arsenal Yard, and they are prepared to consider the surrender of the Yard to the Colonial Government on the basis that an establishment similar to the existing Naval Armament Depot as a whole is provided on some other suitable site on the following conditions:-

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(a) The establishment to be constructed by the

Naval Authorities.

(b) The whole cost, including the provision of land,

to be met by the Hong Kong Government.

(c) The existing Depot to be surrendered as soon as the new one is available for occupation.

The value of the property given up would possibly assist in the provision of funds to meet the expenditure.

2.

My Lords have been in consultation with the War Office on the possibility of a site being found on Stone cutters Island for the proposed new Naval Magazine Establishment, constructed so as to provide for the joint accommodation of Navy and Army Explosives, and, as will be seen from the

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.

/accompanying..

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