CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6] — Page 602

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10.

The premium proposed varies from 80 cent to $5 per square foot according to the loencity. A building site situated on one of the princiful

beving

available for a shop manding a higher value than one

streets.

schrated on a

only available

coolie or

11.

Cerr

less important street and

For

the erection of a

A

ordinary dwelling house .

On the whole I am of opi- nion that a sum of not less than

$ 414,840 should be realised from

the sale

available.

of

the whole

of

the area.

for building, which, added

to the Crown rents capitalised at 5%

gives $666,640 wo

against

per

annuw

a total estimated expenditure of $956,000.

In some cases the higher

12.

rates

may

not be realised whilst

on the other hand the lower rates.

may

be advanced under the auchoncer's

hammer. Experience

ence cava

may

to what extent this

only

decide

be the case.

13.

13.

Though frous a financial

point of view this cannot be con-

sidered a

Cav

very satisfactory result, it hardly be effected the resumption

of this property, at a thine when pents had been increased by overcrowding and the annual expenditure

up keep reduced to a

a total dis,

dis regard

on its

minimum by

to sanitation, would

prove a financial

financial success.

This result must have been the more evident in the absence of

any special provision in the Resumption Ordinance protecting the Government

from the payment of compensation the resets received under.

baved

upon

such conditions.

14.

However supposing

that $414,840

is realised from the sule of this property, the Crown rents will pay approximately 22% the balance of the actionated

expenditure, and, the Sanitary impro-" verents effected in the district will

be

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