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2.
The question referred to us was: what
ivoroæsed preuvium and increased Crown. rent should be required from the garden
fot. holders at Kowloon on their
their present
leawes being converted into building leases
with this
Or
of seventy-five years I br
dealing
question,
we did not think it necessary, that we were required to examine what Government had done in certain cases
o leases in Victoria or at the Peak; aein that
case we should have been obliged to m
examine into
every
land traneciation s
a
and see whether it corresponded to the in
cases at Kowloon, or whether Government
had done rightly or wrongly.
3.
building bases of scoruly five years,
and the
Government want to know what is the value
- these new leases. We have not appraised the.
new lease according
of value of the
improvements which some
have made, but according
to
any
of the
twants
to what.
really believe the loud to be worth. If the
present
Gardew lease0 were
building leases without
changed into
arry
extra premium
or Crown rent, we believe that the presection
leaseholders would at once realize
a
considerable profit, not on
accouuct
of
their
of the
improvemenk made, but on acconut
value
of the lound itself.
4.
that
In the case
of Kowloon, we ficed certain persons, having provisional leases for gardening purposes, are desirous of obtaining in lien there of permanent
building.
Mr Humphreys lays great stress on
the promises u
at
made that he should be allowed
- indeficits occupation of the ground. It is not this, however, that he now solicits, but
au
- entirty different thing,
i, e. a
definite
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