SAVINGRAM
To the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
From the Governor, Hong Kong.
Date 17th March, 1947.
No. 128
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28 MAR 1947
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Hong Kong Island.
Site for a new American Consulate Building on
The U.S. Consul General approached this Government
last year regarding the purchase by Private Treaty of a suitable site
for the building of a Consulate General in Hong Kong, and was ultim-
ately offered a well situated lot of land of area approximately
47,000 square feet on a 75 year lease at a premium of $1,410,000
with an annual rental of $1,078.
2.
The Consul General has now replied that he has
been instructed that his Government "would be interested in acquiring
this site" if payment can be made under the Lend Lease Settlement
Statement of December 6th, 1945. They also desire that the rentals
for the full term of the lease be paid now, and request that a
figure for the commuted value be furnished, together with an ex-
planation of how such figure has been reached..
3.
The reference presumably is to paragraph 6 of the
Joint Statement on Lend Lease and as the same question has no doubt