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HONGKONG. 7th. February, 1916.
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I have the honour to transmit for your consider- -ation the enclosed Petition from the Hongkong and Thampoa Dock Company, Limited, praying that the Crow Leases of Hunghom Inland Lots No. 256 and lio. 24 and of Hunghom Marine Lot No. 3 may be ex- -tended to terms of 999 years.
2.
The two Inland Lots are made up partly of small lots, as shown on the enclosed plan of the properties of the Company, which were sold during the period 1884-1887 on 75 years leases and partly of the streets which formerly surrounded such lots but which were no longer required after the disappearance of the small
lots.
3.
In Sir Henry Blake's Despatch No. 556 of the
4th. of December, 1903, it was recommended that the term of lease
of the portions of streets proposed to be leased to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, and which now form part of
Hunghon Inland Lot 256, should be 75 years with the usual option of
renewal for an equal period at a reassessed Crom Rent. As these
areas are disposed around 3 sides of the lot while the 4th. side
abuts against Kowloon Inland Lot No. 24 it is, I submit, desirable
that the lease of the central portion of the lot consisting of the
houses purchased privately by the Company should be on similar
conditions. Hunghom Inland Lot No. 24 is similarly composed of areas which were formerly streets surrounding Kowloon Inland Lots 24-43 which had been acquired by the Dock Company. I find that no
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E RIGHT HONOURABLE
ANDREY BONAR LAW, M.P.,
&c..