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Note No. 3.
VERTICAL SEA WALL.
1.
The conditions of sale provided that the purchaser of the
lots .L.430 and 431 was "to construct.
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between the
As the
points A and C (the sea front) a sea wall of design and material
as may be approved by the Director of Public Works". Building Authority approved the plans for a rubble mound wall the
Director of Public Works must be taken to have approved formally
of the rubble mound wall design, and Mr. Kwik appears to have
actually let a contract to Lam Woo for the construction of a rubble
mound wall. Thereafter Mr Kwik could have refused to construct
a wall of any other design. In fact he eventually agreed to
construct a vertical sea wall.
2.
It was on 13.6.22 that the Director of Public Works first
This proposal was
raised the question of a vertical sea wall:
referred to the Consulting Engineers, and it appears to have been
disclosed to Mr. Kwik about January or February, 1923, because
Mr.Kwik refers to it in his letter of 26.3.23. and lays stress
on the increased cost and the longer time which the work would require. All through the negotiations Mr. Kwik harps on his main
road frontage grievance, speaking in his letter of 21.3.23. e.g.,
He was of his "inherent right"(!) to a main road frontage. evidently anxious to acquire the "blu area between M.L.430 and the proposed new 100 foot road, i.e., area "C" plus the land which
would have been occupied by the proposed 40 foot road between M.L.430 and area "C". Accordingly, the Director of Public Works
in his letter of 11.5.23. offered Mr. Kwik, inter alia, the
following terms:
(1)
Mr. Kwik to be given the "blue" area without auction at
at $1.50 a foot.
(2) Mr. Kwik to construct a vertical sea wall.
(3) The lay-out of the whole property to be in accordance
with the Director of Public Works plan.
Mr. Kwik replied on 14.5.23. indicating his willingness to accept
the
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