The lot has a
street frontage of one
Bundred
And forty five feet, And a depth of sixty
fine feet, and will therefore form
Mirable Pile
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Air
ad.
for a Commodious public Hall
and museum. The present
The present market price
of this ground is about $70,000.
3. This site was not available when the
question of
A
Chinese m
meeting
hall was
first mooked . It has been formed Since 1877 hillside Secavations which by the gradual I caused to be begun in that.
year with a
Kew to the Eventual formation of building sity
in this locality.
the
The concession of the best,
the best portion of Recreation Ground to the
4.
Public Square
trustees
J
The Po-Leung-Ruk,
a money gift to these
Equivalent to
persons, of $165,000
the actual value.
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of the ground ; but this sacri
=fice of Capital was mimportant compared with
the Sanitary deprivation which the transaction
would have Entailed on the
poor of
the
very
thickly populated and squalid native district
- for the purposes of
of daypingshan to whom — for the, Rearth and Pecreation – Sie Arthur Kennedy had dedicated the ground after laying it out
And planting it with tread.
5. Therefore I
am not surprised to find
out.
Among the Enclosures Contained in Mr Meade's letter a minute dated 30th of March
1882 from the pen of
Mr. Russell the Regis
has Jeneral, deploring that Governor Hennepe;
Attention should apparently
Never
have been
Called to the necessity, as a matter of Public
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Health,
of maintaining the Pecreation