of the Farm Lot into building lots.
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These negotiations proceeded for some time but the Petitioner would not meet the Director of Public Works in any way and persisted in requesting the Government to give her another piece of land as a farm lot in exchange for the portion resumed.
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As this Government does not consider it desirable to grant any further land in this neighbourhood upon farm leases, because such grants tend to obstruct the industrial development of Kowloon, the petitioner's application for land in exchange could not be granted, and, the negotiations for acquiring the land privately having failed it was decided to proceed to resume under the terms of the Crown Lease and the Crown Solicitor was accordingly instructed to give notice of the intended resumption, which he did on the 7th November, 1906.
After the service of the formal notice to resume the Crown Solicitor offered the petitioner a sum of $10,000 in full settlement of her claim for compensation, this offer being based upon a valuation made by Mr. James Orange, P.L.S.B., the senior member of one of the leading local firms of architects, engineers and surveyors who has had very considerable experience in valuing land in the Colony