CO129-402 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [7-8] — Page 418

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Referring to your letter No. A/7866/18 of the 18th.

instant, I am directed to state that no land has been sold to

private persons in the vicinity of Kount Davis and that the value

of the area required by the Military Authorities is based upon sales of land similarly isolated elsewhere, of which the following

are #xamples:-

i. Practice Battery site, Mount Davis. The price to be

given for this area was made the subject of arbitration in 1901 and the arbitrator valued it at 6 cents per foot premium and $100 per

acre Crown Rent.

ii.

R.B.L. No. 63, Mount Parker, sold in 1888 at 1 cent

per foot premium and 880 per acre Crown Rent. This lot is far more

in accessible than Mount Davis.

iii. lir. Bunbury's lot, Shatin Pass, sold in 1903 at 2 cents per foot premium and 100 per acre Crown Rent: also very

much more inaccessible than Mount Davis.

iv. R.B.L. No. 94, Deep Water Bay, sold in 1899 at

5 cents per foot and $100 per acre Crown Rent: also very much more

inaccessible than Mount Davis.

2. Luch of the land at Mount Davis required by the Military Authorities consists of more favourable building sites

than many of those sold in the Hill District at 10 cents to 12

cents per foot and $250 per acre Crow Rent. Your remarks as to the Water Supply apply equally to the cases above quoted. There is no road near R.B.L. No. 94 and Mr. Bunbury's lot is accessible

only by a steep native path.

I have etc..

(sd.) F. H. May,

Colonial Secretary.

Chief Engineer,

South China Command.