CO129-523-7 Removal of Navy Armament Depot from Hong Kong to Stonecutters Island 6-2-1930 - 8-1-1931 — Page 7

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need clearing up:

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"The point at X ove No information is given

to how

the figure of $2000,000 has been arrived at.

It is anticipated that this sum will be re-

covered by the sale of the land vacated

within a few years, but no valuation based

is given.

on land sales ne

exict. It

is not even clear what land will be available

for sale. Clearly the present Arsenal

Yara will be available, but Kellett Island

will apparently be required by the Military

anu we do not know whether the new magazine

site will be for sale or not. The Governor

has not given us the area of any of the

mentioned about- demdition

ownership of inaterialst

Sheet A in (1) shows the position

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lands;

our only information is in Sheet

A attache to the Aumiralty papers at (1) in

this file.

(2). It is not stated on what terms the

Military occupy Stonecutters Island. The

Admiralty have arranged direct with the Military

to transfer their Arsenal to that Island, but

whether this simply means that they will have

thou

the use of Colonial lana without paying anything

for it, is not clear. In in 62799/29

the Aamiralty's suggestion was that the whole

cost incluuing the provision of land should be

met by the Hong Long Government. If

Stonecutters Island is der Colonial Government

land, then the sum of $2000,000 which was to

incluue the cost of the site as well as of the

para 2 of

building (see third enclosure to (1) in this

A

file) would seem to need re.uction.

I have tried, without success, to obtain

from

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