Enclosure 1.
Dear Sir Henry,
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Hagkong, 27th. April,1918
Pre 28 OCT 191
Ra *Homestead"
With reference to the Colonial Secretary's
latter of 22nd. instant to me, as I informed Your Excellency at my subsequent interview with you, I have been advised that if the Government is determined to resume the site, I can have recourse to a petition to the Governor-in-Council, fail- ing which an appeal to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and that the inherent merits of my case are so strong that the latter course has every hope of success; still, as I also informed Your Excellency at the interview, I have decided, out of personal consideration to yourself, to surrender the property to the Government upon the following terms:
(1) Price $2.00 per square foot of the area in the
Crown Lease,
(2) The Government to take over at cost price
(plus interest and charges) all steel and iron and other material which I have prepared for
building on the lot. In the meantime I am
negotiating for the sale of the material pri-
vately.
(3) The Government to pay all expenses incurred
by me for architects' and solicitors' fees in
connection with the contemplated development
of the property since suspended through the
proposed resumption, including valuation fees
and cost of surrender.
(4) The Government to sell to me at a fair price
the property on which the Fire Brigade Station
now stands or, alternatively, the Old Harbour
Office site in Victoria.