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we venture to solicit, in the present instance, the use of the Cricket Ground and the racecourse which are held by the gentler portions of the Community for the same purposes as those on which we aspire to found this Application.
If His Excellency the Administrator admitting the truth of our representations, would be pleased to grant us a piece of land, the same would be planted by us with shade trees, and laid out in lawn tennis courts and the means of recreations suitable to ladies, and the ladies of Hong Kong would undertake to maintain the ground for the purpose and object granted, entirely at their own expense and subject to such conditions as the Government might deem it necessary to impose.
Aware of the high value that attaches to level sites in this Colony, we do not presume to ask for anything but a small plot of ground on the hill side, and we trust that His Excellency may not be indisposed to
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we venture to folicit, in the present timures of the fricket Ground and the racecourse which are held by the gentleium portions of the Community for the same purposes as those ou which we aspire to found this Application.
If His Excellency the
Administrator admitting the truth
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our representations, would be
pleased to grant
Grant us a piece of land, the same would be planted
by us with shade trees, and laid
out in lennis courts and the meaus
of
recreations suitable to ladies, and the
ladies of Hong Kong would undertake to maritani the ground for the purpose! and object granted, lutirely at their own expense and subject to such
condition as the Government might deem it necessary
to unpore.
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the high value that attaches to level sites in this Colony,
we do
not preseime to ask for any thing but a small plot of ground on the hill side, and we trust that
His Excellency may not be indisposed
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