CO129-526-7 Proposed vehicle & passenger ferry for Hong Kong Harbour- plans of the development of the... 22-4-1930 - 22-4-1930 — Page 34

NO RESERVED.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG

22nd April, 1930.

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Enclo No.1

Sot, h.p.m. ©

My Lord,

I have the honour to address your lordship

on the subject of the provision of a proposed combined

Vehicles and Passenger Ferry service for Hong Kong

harbour.

2. The suggestion has been much discussed in the

Colony for a number of years and the Government in 1926

caused to be drawn up and printed a Sessional Paper on

the subject, of which I enclose a copy.

3. The most careful consideration has been given

to the desirability of establishing a Vehicles Ferry at

all, and while there are dissentients in the Colony and in

the Executive Council, the balance of opinion is strongly

in favour of the ferry. There is in any case no hesit-

ation at all in believing that a combined Vehicles and Passenger Ferry with smaller boats, carrying passengers

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only, running between the larger boats carrying vehicles

and passengers, the balance to be adjusted as experience may dictate

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would be definitely a paying proposition,

and that a scheme of this nature would be a proper

beginning for the provision of that greater transport

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD PASSFIELD,

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