CO129-290 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [1-4] — Page 267

No. 7.

IN THE MATTER OF HONGKONG MARINE LOT No. 184

AND

THE PRAYA RECLAMATION ORDINANCE 1889.

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OBENT INNAWAY LEIGH of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong Civil Petition Land Surveyor and Valuator and JAMES ORANGE of the same place No. 36. vineer, Land Surveyor and Valuator do solemnly and sincerely nd say as follows that is to say.

d first I, the said ROBERT KENNAWAY LEIGH for myself say :-

a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London and I was three years an Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department Hongkong and since that time I have for the past 16 years been in ate practice in Hongkong as a Civil Engineer, Land Surveyor and ator, and have had during such last mentioned 16 years considerable erience in ascertaining and computing the value of lands and buildings arious parts of Hongkong and I believe myself well qualified to judge the value of Marine Lot No. 184, Hongkong, hereinafter mentioned

of like property in the vicinity thereof :---

1. the said JAMES ORANGE for myself say :-

na Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers London, also a mber of the American Society of Civil Engineers New York, also a aber of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, and a Member he Society of Architects and I was for six and a half years an Assistant ineer in the Public Works Department of Hongkong and resident gineer of the Tytam Water Works, Hongkong, and since that time I e for the past 9 years been in private practice in Hongkong as a Civil neer, Land Surveyor and Valuator, and have had during such last ationed 9 years considerable experience in ascertaining and computing value of lands and buildings in various parts of Hongkong and I eve myself well qualified to judge of the value of Marine Lot No. 184 gkong hereinafter mentioned and of like property in the vicinity

teof.

dwe the said Robert Kennaway LEIGH and JAMES ORANGE severally

have in pursuance of instructions received from Messrs. STEPHENS & WARD the Owners of the said Marine Lot 184 made a careful survey mates and Valuations of the said Marine Lot 184 and in so doing we e taken into consideration the tenure and situation of the said "Lot, nature of the business for which the buildings erected thereon had erected and used and what would be a fair price to be realised on a thereof both as a Marine Lot before the Praya Reclamation Ordinance was carried into effect and as an Inland Lot now that the works of

Praya Reclamation are proceeding in front of the said Lot and we e embodied our said Estimates and Valuations in our Report dated 28th day of December 1898 which Report is hereunto annexed ked A.

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