CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 480

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No.124

Hongkong.

Copy

C. O.

20625

Red 16 JUN 05'

Government House,

472

Hongkong, 9th. May, 1905.

sir,

Admy

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I have the honour to acknowledge

the receipt of your Despatch No. 53 of the 30th. March

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last transmitting for my consideration a copy of a letter

from the Admiralty on the subject of the transfer to that

Department of certain lands at Wanchai.

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With regard to paragraph 4 of the

Admiralty letter, I am prepared to agree to their sugges-

-tion that Clause 3 of the Memorandum of Transfer should

be amended to the effect that in the event of the Colonial

Government resuming possession of the whole or any part

of the green area it shall refund the whole or proportion-

-ate part of the premium paid viz.:- $11,772, in addition

to paying compensation for any buildings thereon.

3.

I cannot agree with the conten-

-tion of the Admiralty in respect of Clause 5 of the Memo-

-randum that Mr. May, by raising no objection in his letter

of

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

ALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,

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