of the Farm Lot into building lots.
5.
243
These negotiations proceeded for some time but the Petitioner would not meet the Director of Public Works in any way and persisted in requesting the Government to give her another piece of land as a farm lot in exchange for the portion resumed.
6.
As this Government does not consider it desirable to grant any further land in this neighbourhood upon farm leases, because such grants tend to obstruct the industrial development of Kowloon, the petitioner's application for land in exchange could not be granted, and, the negotiations for acquiring the land privately having failed it was decided to proceed to resume under the terms of the Crown Lease and the Crown Solicitor was accordingly instructed to give notice of the intended resumption, which he did on the 7th November, 1906.
After the service of the formal notice to resume the Crown Solicitor offered the petitioner a sum of $10,000 in full settlement of her claim for compensation, this offer being based upon a valuation made by Mr. James Orange, P.L.S.B., the senior member of one of the leading local firms of architects, engineers and surveyors who has had very considerable experience in valuing land in the Colony
of the Farm Lot into building lots.
5.
243
These negotiations proceeded for some time
but the Petitioner would not meet the Director of Public
Werks in any way and persisted in requesting the Goverment
to give her another piece of land as a farm lot in exchange
for the portion resumed.
6.
As this Goverment does not consider it
desirable to grant any further land in this neighbourhood
upon farm leases, because such grants tend to obstruct
the industrial development of Kowloon, the petitioner's
application for land in exchange could not be granted, and,
the negotiations for acquiring the land privately having
failed it was decided to proceed to resume under the terms
of the Crown Lease and the Crown Solicitor was accordingly
instructed to give notice of the intended resumption,
which he did on the 7th. November,1906.
After the service of the formal notice to
resume the Crown Solicitor offered the petitioner a sum of
$10,000 in full settlement of her claim for compensation,
this offer being based upon a valuation made by Mr. James
Orange, P.I.C.B., the senior member of one of the leading
local firms of architects, engineers and surveyors who has
had very considerable experience in valuing land in the
Colony
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