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rents. The Board also recommends that in the Leases for 21 years there should be reserved to the claimants the option of purchasing for a term of 999 years on payment of a small premium to be fixed by the Director of Public Works according to the position of the site at a reduced annual rent. And in the cases of recent squatters the Board recommends leases without compensation to the Tenant on the determination of the Tenancy.
With reference to claims 40, 41, 42, and 43 the Board recommends that these houses when pulled down should be re-erected in line with the Main Street instead of obliquely to it as at present.
As regards the Village of Kau Kan, the access to it has been sold with Shankiwan Lots nos. 6 and 7 and the Board recommends that the Director of Public Works should arrange with the Crown Lessee of these Lots either for a revision of the boundaries of the leased lots or for a new access being formed for the Villagers over Crown Land.
With regard to the claims nos. 236, 237, 238 and 239 for cultivated land the Board recommends a yearly lease at the rate adopted in other localities (95 cents for every half mau) with a clause for the payment of 20 years' rent by way of compensation in case the Government should require the land.
The particulars of the recommendations of the Board with the names of the claimants and numbers of the houses are stated in the Schedule annexed hereto.
Dated this fourth day of March, 1894.
(signed) F. Clarke, Chairman.
A. Stewart Lockhart.
W. Chatham.