Mä CONFIDENTIAL (3)
AIR HAIL
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONG KONG.
11th July, 1938.
Sir,
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I have the honour to refer to Sir P.
Cunliffe-Lister's confidential telegram No.78 dated
No.6.on 92600/32 the 28th of June, 1932, in which this Government was
No.1.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
authorized to proceed with the first stage of a
scheme to rebuild Government House and resume certain lands with a view to providing ultimately a new City Hall and other buildings. The first stage of this scheme was explained in detail in the seventh paragraph of Sir W. Peel's confidential despatch dated the 17th of December, 1931, the whole scheme as envisaged at that time being described in the enclosure to that despatch. The proposed site of the new Government House near Magazine Gap did not however meet with unqualified approval from the unofficial members of council, and during Sir Andrew Caldecott's term of office further consideration was given to the scheme as a whole.
2.
Sir Andrew Caldecott took the opposite view to that of Sir William Peel: he wished to retain the existing house together with Mountain Lodge, apart from which he objected to the Magazine Gap site on the grounds of distance from Government offices and the centre of the town. Further he
MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,
&C.,
&C.,
&C.
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