CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882 — Page 544

The lot has a

street frontage of one

Bundred

And forty five feet, And a depth of sixty

fine feet, and will therefore form

Mirable Pile

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Air

ad.

for a Commodious public Hall

and museum. The present

The present market price

of this ground is about $70,000.

3. This site was not available when the

question of

A

Chinese m

meeting

hall was

first mooked . It has been formed Since 1877 hillside Secavations which by the gradual I caused to be begun in that.

year with a

Kew to the Eventual formation of building sity

in this locality.

the

The concession of the best,

the best portion of Recreation Ground to the

4.

Public Square

trustees

J

The Po-Leung-Ruk,

a money gift to these

Equivalent to

persons, of $165,000

the actual value.

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of the ground ; but this sacri

=fice of Capital was mimportant compared with

the Sanitary deprivation which the transaction

would have Entailed on the

poor of

the

very

thickly populated and squalid native district

- for the purposes of

of daypingshan to whom — for the, Rearth and Pecreation – Sie Arthur Kennedy had dedicated the ground after laying it out

And planting it with tread.

5. Therefore I

am not surprised to find

out.

Among the Enclosures Contained in Mr Meade's letter a minute dated 30th of March

1882 from the pen of

Mr. Russell the Regis

has Jeneral, deploring that Governor Hennepe;

Attention should apparently

Never

have been

Called to the necessity, as a matter of Public

9

Health,

of maintaining the Pecreation