CO129-577-3 Proposed transfer of military barracks to alternative site 30-1-1939 - 14-12-1939 — Page 7

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will be included in the total Colonial Government

Furthermore, the lands in question

expenditure.

will be available within two to three years,

instead of five to ten, so that the Colonial

Government will not have to wait very long before

receiving some return for its outlay; and the

Governor repeats that the difference in the site

value of the land given up and the lands to be taken

in exchange will more than repay the Colonial

Government for their proposed expenditure on re-building

for the war department.

The possible future surrender of these

new lands by the war department would be dealt with

through the Military Lands Account, unless other

arrangements similar to those proposed at present

were made by mutual consent.

All in all the proposal seems to be a

good bargain from Hong Kong's point of view.

? We may now give general approval to

the proposals in principle and to the continuance of

negotiations on these lines with the Military

authorities.

M'Calder

A.N. Galsworthy

2nd June, 1939.

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