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HONGKONG.

No. 1908

24

CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING THE TYPHOON SHELTER AT MONGKOKTSUI AND THE PROPOSED TEMPORARY INCREASE IN LIGHT DUES.

Laid before the Legistative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, Anyust 6th, 1908.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

HONGKONG, 15th June, 1904.

SIR,-I am directed to inform you that the question of additional shelter for cargo boats and sampans during the Typhoon Season has been lately engaging the attention of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government and I am now to forward to you for the consideration of your Chamber a tracing on which a proposed breakwater and harbour of refuge at Mong Kok Tsui is shewn in red. If this scheme were carried out a breakwater 4,000 feet in length would be constructed which would give a well sheltered area of 166 acres at a cost roughly estimated at $600,000.

I am to ask you to be good enough to furnish me with any comments on the above scheme which your Committee may desire to make, and I may add that other schemes have been considered, but the one now suggested appears to be least open to objection.

I have, &c.,

The Secretary, HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.

HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, HONGKONG, 16th July, 1904.

SIR, I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th ultimo informing this Chamber that the Government have under consideration the question of additional shelter for cargo boats and sampans during the typhoon season and inquiring whether the Committee would furnish any comments regarding the particular scheme referred to in your letter by which a harbour of refuge 166 acres in area could be constructed at Mong Kok Tsui ar à cost of about $600,000.