CO129-220 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [1-3] — Page 382

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justice to the Covernment and to laud -

owners on this side of the harbour, was ton

ponide per quarter atres

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M. Humphreys has quoted several

isolated instinos in country districts, mostly at the Peak, where the Government

on but

them.

has conceded to individuals, free of charge ; a small extra charge, better teuers than those previously

held by Although we are of opinion that we are not called upon to pass any judgment on these concessions, it appears to us that if at the Peak or in any country district, where the consequences would not recoil on the Colonial Treasury, the Govercmount, in the

of a judicious liberality, granted indulgences of the kind without detriment to public interests, it does not follow that the precedent can be availed

laercise

has

of

of for the wholesale succasure proposed by Mr. Humphreys in respect of the pocinsula of: Kowloon, because there, - unlike the Peak,

the Government, in consequence of the boon it proproses to extend to the lot-holdere in grauling permanent building rights, is, ipso facto, improving on itself dreary pecuniary duties and obligations attendant. on the laying out of a European township,

towards which the Crown route to be ca

contributed by the Prown leucuk siders

our proposed uu accesuruh will represent but an inadequate re-imbuweureut.

Although

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form

we can at the oukol o

sout estimate

exti of the prospective market price of building sites at Kowloom. under the proposed

the

AACAO

lease, we found

during course of our investigations into

the matter of the lease actensions at the

Peak