CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913 — Page 320

Communications on this subject should be addressed to-

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,

COLONIAL OFFICE,

LONDON, S.W.

and the following

Number quoted. 41189/1913.

298

Downing Street,

5 December, 191

Sir,

I wn directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to

No.386: 5 Nov.1913. transmit to you, in original to be returned,

a despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong with regard to an application received from a Mr. G.F.Ober for an area of land for the purpose of building amelting works.

2. Mr. Harcourt would be glad to learn whether you have any observations to make upon Mr. Severn's proposals for disposing of the lot in question.

Mr.

3. The reference to sale by auction at the be- ginning of paragraph 3 of the despatch is not clear as the terms given in that paragraph apparently provide for fixed rates of premium and Crown rent. Harcourt assumes, however, that the rates mentioned in conditions (b) and (c) represent the reserve to be placed upon the property.

I am,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

Hury Rambert

for the Under Cecretary of State

IR F.H. MAY, K.C.M.G.,