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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 oases correspondents advocated controlling bodies
of a different nature.
One of these two correspondents suggested that the duties
of the Port Trust should be extended to the control, maintenance
and operation of wharves and piers, leaving to private enterprise
the operation of godowns 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 Trustce 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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