56. Aberdeen Inland Lot No. 163 This lot was sold by public auction in December 1957 for $110,000, the Conditions of Sale prohibiting the use of the lot for any purpose other than the processing of marine life and ancillary purposes in connexion therewith, and requiring a Building Covenant of $200,000 to be fulfilled before June 1959. In spite of the fact that four extensions of time were granted, the last one up to December 1962, the purchasers failed to develop the lot and conse- quently the Crown re-entered upon the lot in January 1963. A petition by the former lessees to the Governor in Council for relief against the forfeiture was rejected but with the direction that ex gratia compensation of $160,000 should be paid to the former lessees. They then petitioned to Her Majesty the Queen, but this petition was also rejected, as was an offer by the former lessees to re-purchase the lot for the sum of $400,000. The lot, renamed Aberdeen Inland Lot No. 292, was finally sold by Government in October 1964 for $1,890,000.
57. New Kowloon Marine Lots Nos. 9-12 These lots were sold by public auction in October 1962 for use as boatyards. The Conditions of Sale required the purchasers to bring the slipways and yards into use within eighteen months of the date of sale, i.e. by April 1964. In spite of repeated warnings, including a general warning contained in a press release in December 1963, that Government intended to re-enter in the event of the purchasers' failing to fulfil the sale conditions, there was little or no progress on the lots upon expiry of the stipulated building covenant period. The lots were therefore re-entered upon in April 1964. Petitions for relief were submitted by the purchasers to the Governor in Council, who decided that the re-entry should stand, without payment of any compensation.
58. Kowloon Inland Lots Nos. 8734 and 8736-These lots were sold by public auction in July 1963 for $1,510,000 and $1,150,000 respectively. Subsequently the purchasers made statutory declarations that they had purchased their shares in trust for themselves and a number of other persons. The Collector of Stamp Revenue took the view that these in- struments were to be stemped as conveyances on sale. It followed, if this view was correct, that the purchasers were in breach of a special condition of the Conditions of Sale prohibiting the disposal of any interest in the lots prior to the fulfilment of the building covenant without the Registrar General's permission. The lots were accordingly re-entered upon by the Crown in January 1964. In July 1964 the purchasers and their associates instituted (a) a petition to the Supreme Court under
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