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cantonments designed to house three battalions:

Kai Tak, the Royal Air Force Headquarters and aerodrome,

which is also in daily use for civil flying purposes:

The Standard Oil Company's installation and the prison

for females, both a Lai Chi Kok.

Expectable expansion.

Industrial expansion accompanied by residential

accommodation is rapidly taking place along the roads leading

from the north-westerly corner of the town and this process

is certain to continue, this being the most convenient

direction. No great growth is probable directly to the north

of the blue area, owing to the steepness of the hills in

that direction; but same extension, principally residential

in nature, is to be expected along a new road which leads

from the north-east corner of the town in the direction of

Clear Water Bay. Schemes already exist for reclamation and

development of the eastern side of the harbour. The

materialization of these during the next sixty years may be

regarded as highly probable.

At the present time continuous urban development

to the north west ends at Lai Chi Kok but further to the west

along the main road lie several highly important sites, e.g.

at Tsun Wan Bay, some four miles from Lai Chi Kok, there are

the Texaco Oil Company's installation on the southern and

the Asiatic Fetroleum Company's reclamation on the northern

shore, where there is also a large concrete pipe factory.

During the currency of the existing lease it may be regarded

as certain that the urban area of Kowloon will extend itself so as

to include these sites. The green area on the map indicates

what may become the urban and suburban area of Kowloon town

within that period: it will be observed that it stretches

to the catchment area of the Shing Mun reservoir on the west

and on the east to the lower slopes of the fortified area on