50
APPENDIX TO REPORT FROM THE LAND COMMISSION OF 1886-87.
Appendix, No. 9,-(Continued.)
Your Excellency is aware how constantly I have urged the War Office to contribute towards the expense of the Praya extension and I think, as previously intimated verbally, that if a strong case were made out to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and he conferred with the War Office on the subject a satisfactory solution might be arrived at.
His Excellency
The Honourable W. H. MARSH, C.M.G.,
Administering the Government,
Hongkong.
I have &c.,
(Signed),
W. G. CAMERON, Major-General,
Commanding in China and Straits Settlements.
Memorandum of the Colonel Commanding Royal Engineers.
A. M. S.
No. 64.
About 337 acres is held by the Military Authorities; a portion of this (as at Stone Cutters' Island and at the Peak) is undefined.
There are restrictions on land being occupied for building purposes; the chief of these are at the Peak, Town Gun, Belcher's Point, Kowloon Peninsula, Lyemun and Stone Cutters' Island. The amount is undefined, it being the practice to ask the consent of the Military Authorities before permitting building rights to be acquired where they may interfere with
the defences.
No. 96. By the Military about 84 acres. The Establishments could not be removed as it is necessary to concentrate the bulk of the Forces in the city, and to maintain the Military Establishments there also.
No. 97. There is land available at the Peak, Stone Cutters' Island, Kowloon Peuipsula, and elsewhere for a portion of the Garrison, if it were considered desirable to dispose of them in that way, but see preceeding answer.
17th February, 1887.
(Signed),
A. T. STORER,
Col. C.R.E.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.