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(a) That as a result of the rise of price in lend after the
war (Instances of this can be seen in public auction
sales of Crown land at which bidders offered 8 to 10
times of the upset prices are of no rare occasions) the
owners with the small prices paid to them by the
Government for the reversion of their former properties
will find it impossible to obtain again eny lend either
for their building or farm.
(b) That the Government in using the lend of the people for
purposes of the Government's own is unfair in that it
does not give land for lend taken but instead gives
such small monetary prices whereas the joint object of
the dispossessed owners is a compensation by which the y
can get back the equivalent of what they have been
dispossessed. f.
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The t duri ng this acute stage of housing shortage the
Government should allot lend in exchange for that
reverted so that the dispossessed owners would be able
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to build more houses to coup with the situation and
the reby to help to put the Colony onto the high road
of prosperity.
That on the 27th January 1947 the Petitioning Association
submitted the facts as set out above to the Honourable Secretary
for Chinese Affairs for his submission to His Excellancy the
Governor-in-Council for consideration and at the meeting of the
28 Legislative Council held on the 29th January 1948 there were
strong oppositions to the proposed Ordinance and the debate on the
same was postponed but since then the Government has not made eny
further announcement or taken any further action.
8.
That Your Petitioner being the representative of the people
who have been deprived of their houses and crop-fields and since
the liberation of this Colony have been homeless and ithout
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