CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939 — Page 11

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10.7.39

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17.8.39

Col. Fool's. proposal

of

re abandonment

propose a road's

2 of the

of

The arrangements under which the Hong Kong

Government provide land for the military at Kau

Lung Tsai are set out in paragraph 4 of

Sir Andrew Caldecott's despatch at 16 on 53654/36.

Briefly the Colonial Government waived its claim

to $125,866 in cash from the War Department in

respect of the cost of resumptions and site

formation in transferring the Kau Lung Tsai area

to the military, and in return the War Department

agreed to construct in this area at their own

expense a series of roads of which the Colony

was to obtain the full possession and use so far

as these roads lay outside areas of actual

fortification vested in the War Department.

The War Office now reports that the

Colonial Government is prepared to agree to the

abandonment of two (but only two) of the proposed

roads, in which case the proportionate part of the

Colonial Government's claims which were set off

against road construction will naturally revive.

The