70
and
yet
than those attached to the
notion of love in thinking.
The applicants
1
term
less stringent
purchase
are residents
who
require
the
ground for garden
in which structures
more
durable than mat sheds would
be erected
are,
apparently,
Summer residences
however, little inclined
to lay out
money
on
the lots
such
as they proposed to occupy
on
uncertain tenure
Squatter's License, although they
are
prepared to do
so
in
receiving a guarantee from the Government that in the event
of the land being
taken
away
from them they should be recouped
the value of their improvements.
I am not willing, for
obvious reasons, to entertain
any
such proposal.
Nevertheless, it
seems desirable that I should have the power to lease land at low rentals for short terms, say for 7, 14 or
21
years.
My Instructions do not
tidily prohibit the granting of such
leases, but as
hitherto
no
land
either in Haughton
or Shaukingwan
or Shau Lung
has been leased except after
Public Auction and for periods
of 999 years
and 75
years (in
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