CO129-520-12 Development of Kowloon Tong Estate 11-12-1929 - 16-6-1930 — Page 7

CONFIDENTIAL.

My Lord,

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2 | JUL 1930

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG

16th June, 1930.

I have the honour to address Your Lordship in

connection with a local development company known as the "Kowloon Tong and New Territories Development Company

Limited". I find to my regret that no previous report

of the Company's activities has been sent to your predecessors although the Kowloon Tong development scheme

has been a matter of public interest for years past, and

large sums have been voted annually in the Estimates in

connection with the levelling of roads and drainage etc.,

involved therein.

The history of the scheme is set out in the

enclosed report of a Committee, appointed by my predecessor

to advise this Government as to the most expedient course to

be pursued.

As will be seen from this report, the scheme has

been subject to many vicissitudes, but has, in the main,

achieved its laudable object of providing houses in the only "Garden City" development area in the Colony.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE,

LORD PASSFIELD,

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