CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12] — Page 645

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was the form known as a

As this

the first and

"Rural Building Lease

only

intimation on

the subject not with clanding I was the lust Cotholder to I give evidence I will assume that I am to confine myself to the consideration of the price that should be paid by the Howloon Losholders for this form of lease.

best.

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I am well as

than

I have no formal authority to speat for anyone

my eeth

but - quainted with the views and wishes of "Lotholders having been one of three elected by them to represent them in deputation to hir Arthur Kennedy come years ago and in frequent

Converse with the oldest and most ever,

getie of them since I trust I may be able to state their case truthfully and without exaggeration

way

induce this Lordshipe

ins such a

cympathy on their behalf.

menced as

of a Settlement as

Squatters

I would point out how some of us com-

fur back as 1868 to form the ancleus

-atters side by side with the orignal Chinese &quatters, - how our in- -provemento gradually attracted the attention

Squatters Licenses

the Government and our

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were exchanged for Garden Lot Leases from 14 years,

how we

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improved to expect a better title in the future, how we worked with this hope and drained and planted a place that was for years such a hot. bed of fever as the Army Medical Report

shriving can best show until we had made a

and healthy bettlement of it and brought it by a cleam ferry service within a few minutes reach of Peddar's Whart Victoria

I would try and show that these are improvements which the Government has reapeds great benefit from both in reduced sickness in the Army and Police force stationed there and that they have moreover attracted the attention of "Capitalists to Howloon from which Circumstance the Colonial Treasury has already

from the micreased reaped much benefit and Value of adjoining Grown Lands the revenue

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from this cource will be further augmented in the future

I would then draw this Lordship's attention. of the fact that Grown Lessees at the Peak and Else -

Where in the Colony who have had far fewer clip- - ficulties & contend against than we, have been, and are bing most liberally treated and that it is now propobed to grant leases for 75 years to all the poor monthly licensed Chinese Squatters in the Colony

"on easy

terms And I hope Stio. Lordship will realize how difficult it is for even to understand why we alone should be so very differently treated und His Lordship's kind intentions towards his frustrated completely by the proposed

forbidding lease exactly similar to that most fruly granted in other parts of the Colony to all descrip. of inferior title from &quatters licenses up- wards either without charge assessment that would be most willingly paid by us - The Rural Building Lease is a good

assessment

rate for

tions

aver

Grown lands at a

for Suburban dwellings

or at a moderate

ad title Lessen houses either

Under et a

may build private bunglows,

to live in

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for investment but he

may

Or

conduct any kind of business or manufacturing industry iffe

auch property. It has Emperseded the old, so capped Farm Las Lease under which a Leskryf bined for his own occupation but

I refer

Noti

Christment to sublet

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to the ference between these two leases because theden Lot Holders in their petition dated only 1887 prayed for Farm or Rural Building Lenses

Sinclar terms provisoes for 4/5 years contain in

and Corenants as shove the leases. At the Peak

they

are not,

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f

Crown Lande

if the two forms were identient which distinction I Love

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pointed out shows the difference in their Value

as tenures.

There is or was another

of tenure in use at the Peat Callsh ar License

a

"Squatters

brutt

monthly tenure only but under it. and Farm leaves well-to-do Europes. substantial Summer residences trusting to get