In Lung's view, the importance the Hong Kong Government attached to public buildings at that time was indicative of Hong Kong's rapid advance in the 20th century "It was no longer a barren place which cost more than it earned, as it had been seen by Queen Victoria, and still less the insignificant speck of land it had been in the mind of the Empress Dowager Cixi," he writes.
龍炳頤認為，香港政府當年對其所處公共建築的重視，代表香港在二十世紀初飛躍的進步，「已非維多利亞女王眼中得不償失的不毛之地，更非慈禧太后手中的彈丸之地」，他說。