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without euch condition hough

it was

any

fully recognised that it

"might be both fair

and ne

necessary.

to affach much a condition in

save other cases.

Mr Mitchell – sus

says

were the village of Wong Ai Cheung

an isolated case I should not "besitate to recommend the issue

of ordinary leases, and he goes

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that to do so would underte

stay be

regarded

að ta

precedent. In

this last conclusion I submit that

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he is mistaken. Every clasin mus- bus decided separately upon the

evidence and are cose could not

"form

-te

precedent for another.

" unless the circumstances of

eccupation were the same. I _

suggest

that it would be

shold

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hardly fair

to

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leases on the

a restrictive

"condition to the Wrong Nei. Cheung

ground that such "condition

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condition might be fair andj

Lavorable in other caves.

The circumstances of

Wong Nei Cheung were peculiar. The inhabitants are called Squatters "but they

reacly

as mentioned

in the report of the Commission, "the descendants and representatives of a population that has lived there from time immemorial. In Hverdadeen there will I believe " ve

it the elainants many get squatters properly

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Be amon

so cacled, and

in such cases it would be quite

"fair to annex a condition such

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as is mentioned or indeed in

"some cases to provide for a notice

to

cer v quit without a

any

upervation at all. No general rule could fairly

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be adopted, but the Board must base its recommendations upon the facts disclosed in cach case.

ui "Where the,, ccupation has really

ben