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Majesty's Government and in the end an importa]

from that funds

a contribution of £100,000 was made, the total

cost of the scheme being estimated at about

£250,000.

U.K.

of the home foot of the b After the Imperial contribution had

ribution

been fixed there were two material changes in

the basis of computation of costs:-

(1)

It had originally been provided that the Colomal

Feeel Government should retain the proceeds

of the sale of any outlying unrequired

portions of the Kai Tak Reclamation area;

and it was anticipated that this concession

would be equivalent to the saving of about

£50,000. Owing to revised and increased

estimates of R.A.F. requirements no such

sales were actually found possible.

(2) The Hong Kong Government undertook to make

use of the presence of Dutch dredgers in

Macao to have parts of the Hong Kong

harbour dredged, and the material used to

form the reclaimed area. They were

prepared to bear the additional cost of

this themselves, although they would not

have undertaken the expense solely for

the

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