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from the Petitioner's land is principally uncultivated waste land.
19. The Petitioner also complains of the fact that the Director of Public Works made use of a threat to resume the whole of the area comprised in the lease, in the event of the terms offered by him not being accepted, on the grounds that certain breaches of the terms of the lease had been committed by the Lessee in permitting the erection of dye-works, a soy factory and a feather-cleaning factory on her lots; and she states that she had official permission to proceed with these buildings and that rates were levied upon them. It is true that plans were submitted to the Building Authority for some of these buildings and approved by him as being in compliance with the provisions of the law relating to buildings in the Colony, but such approval was only given by the Building Authority in pursuance of his statutory duties and was not in any way an approval of the title or rights of the building owner to erect the buildings.
Similarly, the assessor of rates in pursuance of the Statutory Duty imposed by the Rating Ordinance assessed the tenements so erected to rates, but in this case again, no question of the title of the building owner was