CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10] — Page 369

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The Mission holds, on a 999 years lease and

at a nominal rent, an area of land known as Inland Lot 755, which was granted to it by the Government for use for religious purposes only, and it is prepared to arrange terms for the surrender, for purposes of the school, of some 46,000 square feet of this area, now occupied by a market garden and a small Church.

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Immediately to the south of Inland Lot 755 and on the other side of Bonham Road, which bounds it, there is situated Inland Lot 1924, which was granted in 1912 to the Rhenish Mission, on the terms approved in Lord Harcourt's despetch No.171 of the 14th June, 1912. The Rhenish Mission erected a small Chapel upon this lot, but its activities thereupon ceased owing to the outbreak of

war.

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Negotiations with the Catholic Mission have been carried on along the following lines:-

(a).

(b).

(c).

The Mission will surrender an area of 46,000 feet from Inland Lot 755, which at the market rate of $3 a foot is worth $138,000.

The Goverment will lease Inland Lot 1924 to the Catholic Mission on terms similar to the lease to the Rhenish Mission, The Catholic Church will take the Chapel upon the lot in exchange for the Church upon lot 755. The total area to be leased comprises 15,000 square feet which at $3 is worth $45,000.

The Government will lease to the Catholic Mission 35,000 square feet of land adjoining a large area of land which the Mission now holds on the eastern side of Happy Valley. The land will be leased at a nominal rent and without premium for use for religious purposes only, it being the intention to erect a Church upon the

site.

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