CO129-537-6 Foreshores and Sea Bed Amendment Ordinance 1932 18-8-1932 - 17-1-1933 — Page 46

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that the owner has only a right to the

property mentioned in his deeds. Both these

points, the second of which has been urged as

a justification for demanding that frontage

licences shall be taken out, have been strongly

and, on the whole, successfully opposed.

clearly there is a danger that the Chinese

Government may distort Hongkong action and use

it as a precedent for pressing their arguments,

But

thereby achieving ultimately the complete

exclusion of foreign merchants from the water-

front.