CO129-619-6 Kai Tak Airfield- petition regarding compensation for loss of property 15-4-1948 - 3-6-1948 — Page 12

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7.

(a) That as a result of the rise of price in lend after the

war (Instances of this can be seen in public auction

sales of Crown land at which bidders offered 8 to 10

times of the upset prices are of no rare occasions) the

owners with the small prices paid to them by the

Government for the reversion of their former properties

will find it impossible to obtain again eny lend either

for their building or farm.

(b) That the Government in using the lend of the people for

purposes of the Government's own is unfair in that it

does not give land for lend taken but instead gives

such small monetary prices whereas the joint object of

the dispossessed owners is a compensation by which the y

can get back the equivalent of what they have been

dispossessed. f.

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The t duri ng this acute stage of housing shortage the

Government should allot lend in exchange for that

reverted so that the dispossessed owners would be able

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to build more houses to coup with the situation and

the reby to help to put the Colony onto the high road

of prosperity.

That on the 27th January 1947 the Petitioning Association

submitted the facts as set out above to the Honourable Secretary

for Chinese Affairs for his submission to His Excellancy the

Governor-in-Council for consideration and at the meeting of the

28 Legislative Council held on the 29th January 1948 there were

strong oppositions to the proposed Ordinance and the debate on the

same was postponed but since then the Government has not made eny

further announcement or taken any further action.

8.

That Your Petitioner being the representative of the people

who have been deprived of their houses and crop-fields and since

the liberation of this Colony have been homeless and ithout

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