CO129-523-1 Reclamation work at North Point- a general plan of port of Hong Kong showing extent... 27-12-1929 - 12-6-1930 — Page 18

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land. This land was at this time known as Lots A, B, and

C, and lir. Kwik desired to acquire Lots A and B at the same

price as he paid for the original Lots namely 75 cents a

foot and Lot C (presumably because its position made it more

valuable) at 1.50 a foot.

The Public Works Department suggested that he

should have Lots A and B only which gave him a front of

675 feet or one-half the original frontage, and that only

on condition that he added to his obligations in respect of

a certain nullah referred to in the Sale Conditions, which

was the eastern boundary of the proposed reclamation.

Against this proposal he protested in a letter dated the

14th November, 1922 which should be referred to. The

Director of Public Works' reply to this latter dated the

24th November, 1922 ought certainly to be perused also.

More particularly the statement therein that nothing had been

done which affected Mr. Kwik's development of his property.

Mr. Kwik's protests were however unavailing, and

on the 5th January 1923 he accepted the offer of the Lots

Է. and B made by the Director of Public Works on the 2nd of

that month.

This last letter stated that the Government was

not prepared to consider the disposal of the area coloured

blue (i.e., C.) at present. It is obvious from the

subsequent correspondence that Mr. Kwik did not consider

this closed the question of the area coloured blue, but

believed that the Government was merely considering it.

It appears from the later correspondence that

suggestions were made by the Government verbally, that the

rubble mound wall projected by Mr. Kwik should be altered

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