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HONGKONG.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
5th August, 1925.
7
6340
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Sir,
I have the honour to transmit the enclosed
memorial on the subject of land resumption in the New
Territories, which has been addressed to you by certain persons describing themselves as landholders of New Kowloon.
The memorial has been prepared by the
2.
Solicitors for the plaintiffs in the action which is referred to in correspondence ending with my despatch No.
386 of the 11th October, 1924. It will be seen from the attached copy of the judgment in that action that the Court
has upheld this Government's contention as to the validity of the law under which it has acted, and the petitioners
now ask that the law may be amended, so as to give then the redress to which they consider themselves to be in equity entitled.
3.
The petitioners argue, firstly, that the resumption of land for town extension is not resumption for an official purpose within the meaning of the Convention of 1898 for the lease of the New Territories. This contention cannot, I submit, be upheld. The parties whose land is resumed receive either its value in cash, or land of equivalent value elsewhere if such land can by any means be made available, and there is no question of expropriation
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, H.P.,
&C.,
&C..
&c.
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