CO129-453 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [1-3] — Page 524

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MAY 19

GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

HONGKONG. 26th. March, 1919.

My Lord,

I have the honour to report that I have

recently sanctioned a number of land sales in the Colony

without public auction, all of which have taken the form of

extensions to lots already purchased, and I now submit these

transactions for Your Lordship's covering authority.

(1.) Extension of 4,932 square feet to Inland Lot

2259, as shown red on the plan enclosed marked (1). This area

could not have been sold in conjunction with other adjoining

Crown Land as a building site.

(2.) Extension of 15,794 square feet to Inland Lot 2138, as show red on the plan enclosed marked (2).This area might possibly have been sold in conjunction with other adjacent Crown Land, but the provision of access thereto would have been a matter of extreme difficulty owing to the natural steepness of the land, and, in addition, any further sale of land to the South of Inland Lot 2138 might have interfered with the position and direction of a future road, and therefore with the development of the locality.

(3.)

Extension of 3690 square feet to Inland Lot 2206 as snom red on the plan enclosed marked (3). This extension would have been useless to anyone but the lessee of the Inland Lot referred to, and the transaction has relieved

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,

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