CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6] — Page 345

would sell

Aire

any

land to the

Eastward of my

Lot. He said that

shiey would not, - and this decided me to reclaim.

" also think that the formation

of the Praya at the present time will be injurious to other property besides Marine Lots, more especially

to such as lies to the southward

ed closely

of the Queen's Rood, and adjoins it, as, frouss the opening of another thoroughfare facing the

sea, the holders and residents

will be deprived. great

deprived of part of the advantage itoy at present they possess of being siturated on the Queen's Roos. Any one landing

would have immediate access,

for general purposes of business,

to the stores on the North side

of the Queen's Road, which would

be a

to the holders

-great injury of property on the south side

of

the Road. At present any

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one

landing at a public wharf must

down the Queen's Road in order. go

the buildings

to gain

of

AACESs evett

on the North side of it. This would

course be

seo be injurious to general: business on the south side of the Road, and teed to depreciate a

rents there.

I have no further

At mwake.

observations

6. Andrew Shortrede, by %, being

exarruined, said:

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I am the Proprietor

a

and

Editor of "The Chine Mail . I have been resident in this bolong from eleven to twelve

years. I hold an Inland Set, I believe

Lot,

it is No. 116. I am not a

Lot Holder. I was not pr

Marine

& present at either of the Meetings of the

Marine Lot Holders, convened

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