CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6] — Page 335

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in this case had been engaged for a considerable period in
endeavouring to unravel a number of conflicting, overlapping
claims to land in this district, and I think in their anxiety
to disentangle the rights of the numerous claimants inter se
they over-looked the question of the rights of the claimants
as against the Crown.

I consider that their finding was more in
the nature of a decision that these claimants had a better right
to claim the area in dispute than any of the other claimants
before the Land Court.

The subsequent investigations into the
nature of Chinese rights of property over foreshore and the bed
of the sea show that the Land Court took an erroneous view of
the nature and extent of those rights which have been more
clearly defined and settled by the judgment of the Full Court
in the Cheung Sha Wan case.

The records of the appeal are on the file
in the Supreme Court and include affidavits by myself and Mr.
Clementi and Lau Chiu Ping in addition to the affidavit of the
Sun On Magistrate which set out the facts and rights of the
parties very clearly.

21st. March, 1907.
(sd.) F. B. L. Bowley,
Crown Solicitor.

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in this case had been engaged for a considerable period in endeavouring to unravel a number of conflicting, overlapping claims to land in this district, and I think in their anxiety to disentangle the rights of the numerous claimants inter se they over-looked the question of the rights of the claimants as against the Crown.

I consider that their finding was more in the nature of a decision that these claimants had a better right to claim the area in dispute than any of the other claimants before the Land Court.

The subsequent investigations into the nature of Chinese rights of property over foreshore and the bed of the sea show that the Land Court took an erroneous view of the nature and extent of those rights which have been more clearly defined and settled by the judgment of the Full Court in the Cheung Sha Wan case.

The records of the appeal are on the file in the Supreme Court and include affidavits by myself and Mr. Clementi and Lau Chiu Ping in addition to the affidavit of the Sun On Magistrate which set out the facts and rights of the parties very clearly.

21st March, 1907.

(sd.) F. B. L. Bowley,
Crown Solicitor.

To output this in HTML as requested:

in this case had been engaged for a considerable period in endeavouring to unravel a number of conflicting, overlapping claims to land in this district, and I think in their anxiety to disentangle the rights of the numerous claimants inter se they over-looked the question of the rights of the claimants as against the Crown.

I consider that their finding was more in the nature of a decision that these claimants had a better right to claim the area in dispute than any of the other claimants before the Land Court.

The subsequent investigations into the nature of Chinese rights of property over foreshore and the bed of the sea show that the Land Court took an erroneous view of the nature and extent of those rights which have been more clearly defined and settled by the judgment of the Full Court in the Cheung Sha Wan case.

The records of the appeal are on the file in the Supreme Court and include affidavits by myself and Mr. Clementi and Lau Chiu Ping in addition to the affidavit of the Sun On Magistrate which set out the facts and rights of the parties very clearly.

21st March, 1907.
(sd.) F. B. L. Bowley,
Crown Solicitor.