CO129-557-6 Tenure of lands held by War Department 16-1-1936 - 25-1-1937 — Page 14

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C

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works, events may in due course show that a large

outlay above this figure will be necessary to complete

be left

any scheme and will have to be borne by the Colonial

Government under the terms of this agreement.

Accordingly, it would not be unreasonable for the

Colonial Government to require that any works of

which the cost is to be met by the Colonial Govern-

ment, after the War Department's liability of

$975,000 is exhausted, must be subject to the approval

of the Colonial Government and to any reasonable

conditions they might attach, e.g., possible

Departmental execution and supervision of the works

(which might be less expensive than a bill presented

by the military).

Finally, I think we should consider

whether it would not be proper for the Colonial

Government to stipulate that they will not be liable

for any cash outlay, either for the completion of

anti-malarial works or for the maintenance of the

the

road system in/Kau Lung Tsai area until the

completion of the transfer to them of the Sham Shui Po

site (on which they are clearly dependent for any

substantial cash benefit from the proposed agreement).

Pending the arrival of the map and plan,

and before communicating with the War Office, I

suggest that we should put these three points, A, B,

only

and C, above to the Governor for his conson.

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