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Pan until the end of March of this year without any agreement
being arrived at. The matter was complicated by the fact that
Ho Lap Pun had sold to others whatever rights the judgment of
the Land Court conferred upon him.
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Goverment offered in the first instance a comparative-
ly small area of dry-land and a large area of seabed (as shewn
within blue lines on the plan) comprising 125 acres 600 mau,
it being understood that the assignees of Ho Lap Pun desired
to establish a shipyard.
This proved unacceptable, and Government was prepared
to make modified proposals; but Ho Lap Pun insisted on the
lease to him of the large area of foreshore, which is all un-
covered at low water, shewn within yellow lines on the plan.
This comprises a site which the Admiralty
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at one time desired to acquire for a Dock, and is in such a
position that the grant of it as one property would seriously
affect the development of what must in the future become an
industrial district.
I deemed it inexpedient in the public interest to
grant a lease for this area, and I therefore exercised the
discretionary powers conferred upon me by the Ordinance and
refused to grant a title in this case.
The original claimant will suffer no hardship by my
decision, for he has sold his rights for a sum as I understand,
of $50,000.
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closure 5.
#4 December.
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On the same date in 1901, the Land Court
delivered judgment (copy enclosed) in a second case, and allowed
a claim covering 44.59 acres of foreshore comprising practically
the whole sea frontage of Kowloon City a village in and
around
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