CO129-546-11 Kowloon city- expropriation of Chinese owned land 9-1-1934 - 28-12-1934 — Page 38

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Hongkong Government, when the time appointed for

evacuation arrived, police were sent to demolish the

houses, and, on the grounds that the residents had re-

fused to comply with the prescribed procedure, no other

land was set aside for them after the demolition of

their houses, nor was the value of their houses refunded

a result, the said residents had no place

to them.

to lay their heads. We residents therefore, with the

object of avoiding falling into a similarly distressful

situation, were impelled to make representations as to

The New Territories District Office

our grievances.

(South District) has announced that there are now only

two alternative arrangements between which the people

are free to make their choice. The first is that new

houses will be built for the residents free of charge on

the new building land designated last year; the other

consists in the refunding of the value of the houses in

accordance with the Notification of 10th June 1933

assessing their value. Yo, coerced as we were by a dis-

play of authority, could not but give our oral consent

and express our willingness either to recover the value

of the houses or to accept the new houses built for us.

But sixty-four households within the City have maintained

an undisturbed residence there over several generations.

Moreover the Kou Shih Ling (

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land is an entire wilderness, and very distant from the

market, while the value fixed for the houses again is

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