CO129-557-6 Tenure of lands held by War Department 16-1-1936 - 25-1-1937 — Page 12

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liaison with the civil Directors of Medical Services

the-civil-Director

and-of-Public-Works,

we may agree to the settlement

The second part of the agreement stipulates

that the Colonial Government waive their claim

amounting to $125,866, in respect of resumptions

and formation work arising from the transfer of the

pend a $60,000 ardening the Kai Tak Castone Pan Rd

Kau Lung Tsai area in return for which the War

Department agree to bear the total cost of the roads

constructed, widened or surfaced by them in the

area. The Colonial Government are to finance the

maintenance of these roads outside War Department

lands from the date of completion. The total cost

incuard to be meared by the W.D.

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of the roads proposed is estimated at some $1,000,000.

Again this is a generous concession on the

part of the Hong Kong Government, and Sir A. Caldecott

points out that it is a concession greater than any

contemplated prior to his arrival. The construction

of the roads in question is due solely to military

requirements, and though they will have some civil which wo

very vaque on the effects utility, (see paragraph 5 of the despatch the

military authorities can hardly claim that the Hong

Kong Government should bear any considerable part of

the cost of their construction.

This agreement represents yet another

squeezing of the Colonial Government by the War

Department.

These concessions are only the latest

in a long line granted to the War Department which

they only occasionally deign to acknowledge. In

view of the existing financial straits of the

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Colonial Government their concessions are substanțial,

nobably due to the desire to save immediate expenditure clear of Sines, however, they have been agreed to by the

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