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stated to the extent of two-thirds
" value of the Building "?"
of the
"It is important for Crown Lessers to
"understand that no ce
comperiation will
" be paid on resumption by Government "of any Lot the Loase of which has expired "through effluxion of ticue, but they may
"
nest assured that, unless the laud is
be
required for public improvements, the "Leaves which have been or "issued to them in the first &
+ may
instance will be
" revered for a further period of Fourteen "Years, under similar conditions."
By Command,
Sigued) & Gardivers Austin, Colonial Secretary
"olonial Secretary's Office, Hong Kong, 2.3.th February 1874.
Hi
We have personally inspected
uearly the whole of the garden properties
at Kowloon and we fired that, although
it was si
wch contemplated by soverument that the loud would be pect to any -other than the gardening. which it was sp
&
for.
and~
specially leased, arreda notwithstanding the restrictions to the undue inwestuent of capital intruded in the Garden leases and reiterated in the Govercoment Notification of 28.05. February 1874, many of the lot --
holders, have suck considerable
sums in permanent and substantial villa residences in the hope that the
Government would set aside es
covenants and souve
existing. day give
them permanent Rural Building
4. Me
leases
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