CO129-534-8 Sale of site in Kowloon to Hong Kong and China Gas Company 4-5-1931 - 17-11-1931 — Page 7

No. 386.

Sir,

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

10th September, 1931.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of Lord Passfield's despatch No. 199 dated 13th July, 1931, on the subject of the sale by private treaty to the Hong Kong and China Gas Company of a site in Kowloon, and in reply to inform you that the conditions of sale proposed in the present case, of which a copy is now enclosed, are the same as those proposed for the same site in Sir C. Clementi's

4472/ despatch No.152 of the 1st April, 1926, with the following

exceptions:-

2.

(a) Crown rent will be at the rate of $4,000 per

annum instead of $1,500,

(b) general condition 6, building covenant of $100,000

instead of $200,000,

(c) special condition (f) in present case is new,

(d) special condition (a) (4) in former case has been

omitted.

I have today in my despatch No. 385 replied to Lord Passfield's despatch No. 189 of 3rd July.

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3. You will observe from the second paragraph of my despatch No. 215 of 4th May that the option to the

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

J. H. THOMAS, M.P.,

Company

&c.,

&C.,

&c.