N°22.4.
RECE
29 MAY 1928
OOL.UFFIOS
52877
6
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 23rd April, 1928.
Sir,
I have the honour to address you on the
subject of a proposed sale by private treaty of an area
known as Kowloon Inland Lot No.652 to Messrs. H. Ruttonjee
and Son for the purpose of storing molasses, and to request
your approval.
2.
The area in question was demised by the Crown in the year 1895 to the Trustees of the Kowloon Institute
for Seamen and Soldiers for the period of 75 years, on
condition that the premises should only be used for religious
and charitable purposes.
3.
Subsequently the Institute appears to have
undergone some vicissitudes, and by the year 1910 a portion of the building became unoccupied and was sublet. Under the arrangement then made the trustees were required to pay as
Crown Rent a sum equal to 7 or 8 per cent of the rent of the
portion sublet.
4.
In 1919 the Ordinance for the Incorporation
of Missions to Seamen in Hong Kong, Ordinance No.10 of 1919, was passed. A licence was then issued to the Mission to occupy the building for religious and charitable purposes
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M. S. AMERY, H.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&c.
for