CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 639

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garden lot lessees being unwilling to give the "Crown Rent and premium which he thinks "they ought to pay," that the whole of their leases should be allowed to expere by effluxion of time and their land be then reserved by the Government without compensation and the peninsula relaid out into pheets and lots and put up to Public Auction." But Jam

willing to give evidence of you worsh as I feet assured that there is a great deal of misconception which ought to be set right. as the quee hon

which not. lot holder and the Government are concerned- But it is a question in nobich the General Public is interested, for it is fact that score = if not hundreds of respectable European residents. Government employees. ulitary people and Civilians have at this

houses alto,

moment to live m

is but in

not only the

a well known

unsuited

altogether for European residence here or any where : there being pracheally no houses in the Colony fit for them to live in obtainable by Europeans on salaries of $200 a m

month and less

ror thin their means - Such houses might be built at Kowloon under the necessary conditions of Crown rent and premium - Horses are building on this

on this site I know but nonepuited

to this Class-

le

I should be prepared to be heard at any convenience after Wednerday

time to pust

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