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ions, I have the honour to request your sanction to con-
tinue it.
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3.
A case in point has recently arisen.
The owners of a lot desire to acquire an adjoining piece of
land sufficient to provide for future developments.
They
have already acquired a large area of land on which they
are erecting buildings, &c., and they do not propose to
build at present upon the further area which they desire
to acquire. The usual Conditions of Sale of a lot situated
as this is, are that the purchasers shall erect buildings
not less in value than a specified sum. The Director of
Public Works submits that if the land is put up to auction
without such a stipulation it would probably be bought by
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some person for speculatier purposes, and that at the same
time it would hardly be reasonable to require the parties
who desire to purchase it for a legitimate purpose to
erect buildings on it seeing that they are already develop-
ing the area acquired by them.
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In these circumstances I have in this
case concurred in the adoption of the system which has
hitherto been in force, viz: to advertise the obligation to
build as one of the conditions of sale, but to waive it in
case
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