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Rotoloon Supplement FUTURE OF KOWLOON

Hong Kora, March 9, 1900 BUILDING SITES AND POSSIBILITIES.

ON GARDENS

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So far we have traced, by incans vast a scale as to justify the reck- of a cursory survey of the loading less purchase of land. The investor industries and institutions, the brief who decided to put up a blok of but aetive history of Kowloon and fiats in Yaumati or Mongkok would have suggested in conservative be taking a risk, and at present term its tendencies of development. building in these districts has bren

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there, however, and the bold spirits who are taking the lead may soon | find others, less adventurous, close upon their heeks.

́ ́ A garden is a lovesome thing, wrote the post Brown, but judging from sonie of the miserable plots we have seen in Kowloon's so-called garden city, most residents do not agree with him. It seems unfair. It is a recognised fact that build-alow and cautious. The demand is to Nature that we should buying growth, in whatever country, large piece of ground, build inclines towards the West. In house in the middle of it, and then Kowloon this axion can hardly hold make no attempt to cultivate the good, for the Feninsular is confined soil. In Kowloon Tong and in' on both sides by the sea, and at its j

The quickest development is likely Prince's Road one sees nent little base by antamable hills.. It is not to take place in the two main houses of which their owners may unlikely that, in the near future thoroughfares which run parallel to justly be proud; but in front ona building operations will extend, on each other-Nathan Road and the one hand, along the narrow Chatham Road. In the former, behind there are many strips or

strip adjoining the Castle Penk building so far has only occurred in grass, quite uncared for-and no Rond, and on the other, beyond the vicinity of Austin Road, if one dowers. It may be that in this Homuntin as far as Kowloon City, excopts the Peninsula Hotel and the Colony we have no time for garden-

area presently consisting of block of shops at the end of Middle native streets, several hundred Road, but the amazing growth of ing, or that our eyes have forgot acres of low and removable hillsides Claremont, Catharine lansions and ten the herbacious borders and and considerable stretches of fat the flats adjoining St. Andrew's land under cultivation. But before Church seem to be the augury of sweet-smelling wallflower beds which we consider the possibilities of this an unprecedented housing boom. make the tiniest hamlet in England rich and promising area; the deve-Ons side of Nathan Road, from seem like a paradise. The sterile.lopment of which is certain to be Austin Road to Jordan Road, has granite earth of China is not undertaken within the next ten given way to an entire block of new years, let us turn to the tongue offlats and shops and it will be friendly to foreign or delicate land which forms the Harbour of interesting to see whether the vacant plants and the effort needed to over Hong Kong and examine the scope plot of land adjoining the Duro come such obstacles may not seem which it offers to the land investor Garage will share a similar fate, or,

and the building speculator, worth a good deal to look out of

porhaps we should have said, The Peninsular presents two fortune. In addition, there are one's window before breakfast and

varieties of land suitable for deve several ramshackle properties in the glimpse beds of roses, violets and lopment, that which is alrendy vicinity of Wing Lok buildings chrysanthemums, lacking, perhaps, occupied by the dilapidated tone which are likely to be demolished in the crystal gleam of dew, but glad.ments, and narrow thoroughfares of the near future and it may reason- the Chinese quartam of Yaumatiably be anticipated that new build- dening to the most liverish eyes1 and Mongkok, and that which is ings will arise in their place within It does not require à dissertation still lying waste ar is hilly and the next two years. on the art of horticulture to con- therefore costly to remove. It may of the fate of the old but still vince us that all those flowers and be taken for granted that Chinese serviceable buildings at present land-owners will my sell their forming Nathan Road's principle more can, by the exercise of some properties in the above neighbourshoping area it is difficult to pro trouble and perseverance, be grown hoods at fabulous prices, and, phecy. The majority of them have under the very jaws of the Lion though, there is very real evidence, served their time and their purpose, to believe that the demand for and a few are ripe for demolition.. Rock. The soil, gritty and obstre housing accommodation in Kowloon It all depends upon the seriousness perous though it may be, need not is increasing, it is not as yet on so of the existing demand for residen- break our hearts. The fah wong

tial and commercial properties in or, if we are not ashamed of the

Kowloon, upon the willingness of dignity of such labour, ourselves, by the most barren patch of land the owners to sell and of the can soon break-in its unfertile ele in the Colony. It seems such a builders to pay their prices. The pity that people should spend publie has displayed a sudden pre- ments by the enrichening properties thousands of dollars in buying land ference for Kowloon as a residential of mould, manure and Canton mud. and building houses thereon and yes, and this has resulted in a Assisted by these products we can, neglect the opportunities to make building boon, but the economic fnelors governing such a pheno the most of their good fortune aenor should not be overlooked. It by much digging and delving, at As a suburb Kowloon Tong is com- length produce a soil fertile enough parable to Welwyn City, but there pression were to set in, influenced a swift and unexpected trade de for the fairest flower that ever the difference ends. The residents by conditions abroad, building of the latter have made their gar- graced a florist's window. In some dens with blooms, and all we operations might be brought to e

pretenee-to-achieve horticultural sun-dried grass. There is no reason hands. This is no pessimistic warn- with empty properties on their splendours, we have seen roses of why the residents of Kowloon shoulding against the rapid growth of a tint and fragrance of which not get together in neighbourly Kowloon, for we believe present spirit and form 1 Horticultural developments to be fully justified by. Covent Garden itself might well be Society of their own, for the crea existing and possible démands, but proud. The Vicar of St. Andrew's tion, preservation and blessing-of if we are to build a city we should troduce the suggestion, at the next habited. In any case, it is safe to gardens. Let some bold spirit in first be assured that it will be in meeting of the K.B.A. Let us prophecy that within the next few invest our all-too-short lives with years Nathan Road will be one of under trellises of honeysuckle, vines thoroughfares in the Colony. colour and pass our leisure hours, the most modern and imposing and rambler roses. It is at least worth trying.

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