CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 537

apprehend I shall have to subruit any proposal

le meriase either the number at

"He sutaries of the permanent staff. the commcxion with the land question at

Hong King I ray machin that I have long teen of opinion that it would be of epeat adrankage to the Coolerup if the intricate labour of disentangling land boundaries which are in serious confusion in every direction, were expedited byf the complepent of a land survefor to be set out to the Cedous from this country for a term of two years.

Such a proposal twwever, if advanced bif

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ofer melf to a provisional apponituunt, the beldur of which would not be in the regulat government serve, and I unhentatinglif affirin that the expense of the salary of land surveyer for two years and the cost of tis passage out and how, toould be reimbursed

by the ricreased pearly rentals which troued be paid into the Colomit Jarury during the first two or three fears, as the result of his work.. be very large proportion of land -

in Hong Kong have suice the earliest doups of the lectouf contined to occupy areas considerably in excer of those specified in Their Crown Leaves, and as the Local Government charges them for He gerund at a spearty rental

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of so much per for the mumber their Leases

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core (

531

for square foot, cuty

of square feet set forth in

the lot-holder encrcachments

go unpaid for year after year. A new set

there of land surveys would being to light all Micje Everrachments, and the ectification of the

to accord with the areas

land rentals

actual occupatio would very neateriallef increas the Government pontroll. Abriady

adailing Nue laud revenuy verf considerable

of the Government have accrued from the encroachments reveated in the surreeps of

bruilding = lots in bietòria which I have been able to effect during the past seven years. But

as Huse Surveys mivolie tedious and delicate questions with individuals, and asse

in sene cars wast nunch care and attachón ún the sifting of evidence as to the ouguial positions

The of boundary marks longer scistent,

progren made is very slow, and would couhina to be so, unless the work evere septematically unantaken by officer coliose attention would

never

be called

au

away

to other works and

whe could therefore devite the where of his tive to this very important service. Festival that under these conditions, it would take a

competent Land Surveyor five years to bring under scruting every leaveheld in the Stand,