CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 47

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the Government for

ble the prices of

more

Funland

than

dow

and on

20.

Aud

event

to

as the purchasers have been

- pelled by the Conditions of sale-

to defray the entire cost

of

the ori

in

ginal

Aia

wall and embankment

tion

opposite their respective properties they have acquired thereby culain equitables rights to

Without their co

Co o

the water frontage:

operation therefore re- clamations would be difficult for although the Crown is doubtless the legal posorvaer of all foreshores, it questionable, whether after the obliga tions it has contracted in respect of the Marine

properly holders Government would have the

the

/

power

to leave them inlands by pecovering

a

new

prontage independently,

fr

its own

their

ount,

The

of inability

co-operate.

or refusal

: diatily after the great Typhoon thought that the Chinese por-

of

their

the marine hot holders would.

interest be desirous to

reclamations, but

embark in new peela.

the Taya Commission of 1875 ofter

much patient hearing elicited the

fact there was

them

no peal una

a nimity

a mong

this point and it reported to Government accordingly.

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for

was however at this time, deemed more then likely that in

years The demand for additional building sites would not only make.

a.

fresh

imbankment possible but extremely

probable and accordingly it was recom

and

-mended

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