CO129-582-1 Administration of the port of Hong Kong 25-7-1939 - 20-1-1940 — Page 28

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Future Administration of the Port of

Hong Kong.

The development of the harbon of Hong Kong has largely been left to triviali enterprises

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The position at the Port of Hong Kong is that

umerous piers of ge varying design and utility

have been constructed from time to time to serve the

needs of particular trades. The get majority of the

these

in frwalt handy, being piers, etc. are privately owned, and are (either leased

as "permanent piers, in which case the rights are due to

expire on the 31st December, 1949, or else they are

leased on annual licenses as temporary piers.

The storage of merchandise for local consumption

export, or in transit, is carried out by a multitude of

private firms, each owning or leasing go-downs around the

Struter is water provats have been are curved by

harbour and what with Successive reclamation schemes for fourite on Triprise and funised develo mention modern Cues is building purposes, which have led, to an accumulation of for food the accumulation of "marie from lage rights" verilt"'" what are known as marine, frontage rights, the development from successive reclamation schemes. NP // 2. They the developement of the port to the best advantage has become a problem

of increasing difficulty, and the knowledge that heavy

compensation might have to be met has at times deterred

Government from proceeding with urgent works. The matter has been uncles connisterations for a number of years; but it has new cryuined a special urgency owing to the necessite for an

The problem of the future administration of the early decision un

bathing to port came to the notice of the Governor early in 1937,

when one of the derry Companies raised the question

will be

the

whether the Government we prepared to renew pier leases

in

which wene, due to expire on the 31st December, 1949. subsequently, In October, 1938, the Governor made an

announcement in the Legislative Council to the effect

that it was not the Government's present intention to

renew