CO129-578-4 Haw Par Brothers Ltd- petition against property assessment 19-4-1939 - 12-7-1939 — Page 2

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1. Gov.

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19.4.39

(Deo. petition from Haw la Bess. Atcomery)

Even if this appeal

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Lad been made to

The Supreme Cont

it would have

been out of time.

NYSA.

These documents should be read in the

following order: First the enclosures to the

petition, then enclosure 3 to the despatch, then

enclosure 1 to the despatch (i.e. the petition), then

enclosure 4 to the despatch.

The history of the case is briefly as

follows: the rateable value of the premises in

question for the period 1.7.38 to 30.6.39 was at

first fixed at $4,800 because the factory was being

used as a go-down to house the idle machinery of a

Company which had previously gone into liquidation.

In November an interim assessment was made and the

rateable value for the same period was raised to

pist $21,800, with effect from November 1st, because

of the change to a normal usage of the buildings,

second, because of improvements that had been carried

out and thirdly because of the higher rents obtaining

following the outbreak of hostilities in South China.

By not returning the Government form within the

prescribed time Messrs. Haw Par Bros. forfeited the right to appeal against the assessment, consequently

Mr. Ip appealed to the Governor in Council.

informed that the matter was not one in which an

He was

appeal lay to the Governor and that the correct

machinery for the redress of any legitimate grievance was to appeal to the Supreme Court in its Summary

Jurisdiction