CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6] — Page 305

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The Honourable

Colonial Secretary

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Marok,

1915

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January.

Referring to your letter Fo.1506/15 of 28 thi

regret to say we cannot consider the answers given

therein as satisfactory.

1. The aequisition of an area of Örew Land frm the

Government is like any other ordinary ammeroial transaction in that the purchaser wishes to know exactly what he is purchasing. à merchant who gave no mere information than that the material he proposed to import fer an intending buyer was thoroughly reliable and the price reasonable would have little skanes of selling that

material.

2.

The fast that the Government is in the position of holding a monopoly of land and that purchasers must there- fere buy on the Government terms or not at all would appear

to render it specially important that care should be taken

that these terms are reasonabile mos.

We do not doubt the desire of the Directer of Public Works to interpret reasonably zaszkokk and liberally the

we held conditions complained of, but that these conditions are in themselves unreasonable and do not therefore readily lend

thmselves to reasonable interpretation.

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