of working orders of ships repairing/building from the Harbour office
and Public Works Department and intend to develope the said premises
to cope with his requirement for completion of the aforesaid working
orders.
8.
Your Petitioner regrets the non-payment but is now ready,
able and willing to pay up all the outstanding instalments of the
premium.
9.
Your Petitioner also understand that the said premises have
not yet been designated for any civil or municipal development
purposes, nor have any plans been made for their use.
10.
Your Petitioner wishes to emphasize to Your Excellency that
the non-payment of instalments of premium was unintentional and
involuntary.
11.
That Your Petitioner humbly suggests that the equitable
principles relating to relief against forfeiture for non-payment of
rent are applicable to the present case and suggest that it will be
equitable for Your Excellency to grant this his humble Petition.
If Your Excellency should allow Your Petitioner relief
against forfeiture, it would assist the ship-building industry of
the Colony.
12.
13.
In view of the matters aforesaid, Your Petitioner humbly
prays that the memorial Re-Entry No.82696 be cancelled upon such
terms as to costs, expenses, damages, compensation, penalty or
otherwise as Your Excellency shall in your discretion think fit.
Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that immediate
steps be taken to cancell the memorial of Re-Entry as aforesaid
so that Your Petitioner may take immediate steps to repossess the
premises and to develop the same.
14.
And Your Petitioner will humbly pray etc.
Hong Kong, 31st day of August, 1976.
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