CO129-513-4 Land leases in the new territories 8-11-1928 - 29-7-1929 — Page 33

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Governor of Hong Kong, and that

Convention

the interpretation of the lease

there adopted by the Governor

and the course proposed to be

the matter of leasehold grants

followed by him are in fact the

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not other

only reasonable ones from the

l

and

practicable point of view.

2.M Ammery

Ne does not feel that the

Course

alternative/proposed in your

letter under acknowledgment would

be likely to reassure

offer anything of real value to a

prospective lessee and he would be

glad, therefore, if Secretary Sir

Austen Chamberlain would give

further consideration to the

possibility of agreeing to Sir C.

Clementi's proposals.

I am, etc.,

(Voll Walter D.Ellin

than