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Any further communication should be addressed to-

The Secretary of the Admiralty,

London, S. W.1

quoting" C.E.in C."

4428/37/475a.

L.P.-No 8

Admiralty, S.W.1.

éd May, 1938.

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Sir,

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With reference to your letter of the 15th March,

253529/34 1937, No.53529/37, regarding the site of the proposed new

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Naval Hospital at Hong Kong, I am commanded by My Lords

Commissioners of the Admiralty to state for the information

of the Secretary of State for the Colonies that, as it was

found necessary to revise the plans for the Hospital, it was

not possible to commence work during the financial year 1937

as anticipated.

2. My Lords are still unable to say when it will be

possible to commence this work, and I am to request that, in

the meantime, the Admiralty option on the site in Stubbs

Road may be renewed by the Government of Hong Kong for a

further period of one year from the 1st April, 1938, in

accordance with the arrangement sanctioned by the Secretary

of State in Colonial Office letter of the 29th July, 1933,

12.0 No.10709/33.

13709/38

I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

ArA.

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office,

S.W.1.

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