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Nos.1,2,4, 7,9,11,13, 16,22,24.
Nos.16,22.
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Representations supporting the establishment of a Port Trust.
The Committee received ten letters from various persons
and concerns supporting the establishment of a "controlling" Port Trust on the lines suggested by Sir David Owen, some without comment, two referring to the need for acquisition of the Naval Yard at Kowloon and for the filling in of the Yaumati Typhoon Refuge, and one suggesting that immigration facilities and pilotage arrangements called for improvement and that
enquiries be made into the feasibility of constructing a oross-
harbour tunnel.
In two cases correspondents advocated controlling bodies.
of a different nature.
One of these two correspondents suggested that the duties
maintenance of the Port Trust should be extended to the control,
and operation of wharves and piers, leaving to private enterprise
the operation of godovms and shore facilities.
The other suggested the substitution of a controlling authority (not necessarily a Trust) and this was coupled with the proposal that the body should be more fully representative than the Trust proposed by Sir David and should have full operational powers where the interests of the community would be served. He also advocated the limitation of profits arising
from the operation of the natural resources of the Harbour and
its public utilities.
These qualifications constitute a departure from the simple
"controlling" Trust envisaged by Sir David Owen.
Two interesting suggestions were made with regard to the composition of the Port Trust, the first that a representative of interests other than British and Chinese should be nominated
as a Trustee in view of the international nature of activities
carried on in the Port, and the second, that the Trustees appointed on the nomination of the Chambers of Commerce should
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