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562 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 13, 1909.

No. 505.-It is hereby notified that a meeting of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace. for the Colony will be held at the Magistracy, at 2.15 p.m., on Monday, the 23rd August, 1909, for the purpose of considering the following application under the Liquor Licences Ordinances, 8 of 1898 and 8 of 1908, viz.:-

From one NATHANIEL WONG for the transfer to him from one ARTHUR E. GAGNON of the publican's licence to sell by retail intoxicating liquors on premises numbered 2, Pak Shui Wan, under the sign of The Belle View Hotel ".

12th August, 1909.

F. A. HAZELAND,

Police Magistrate.

LAND REGISTRY OFFICE.

No. 506.-It is hereby notified that the. following Sale of Crown Laud by Public Auction will be held at the District Land Office, Tai Po, at 10 a.m., on Tuesday, the 24th day of August, 1909.

The Lots are sold for the term of Thirty years from the date of Sale as Agricultural Lots subject to the General Conditions of Sale published in Government Notification No. 365 of 1906, and to the special conditions hereunder specified.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.

Area contents

Registry No.

Locality.

in Acres.

Upset Price.

Annual Crown Rent.

Demarcation

District No. 123,

Lot No. 791.

Between Wang Chau and Tai Tsing.

7:13

Lot No. 792.

46.89

"7

$5 for the first 3 years and for the remaining 27 years the highest offered at the Auction not being less than the upset Annual Rent of $54 per annum.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

1. The purchaser shall immediately after the Sale deposit with the Treasury the sum of $100 as a guarantee that he will comply with the Conditions of Sale which sum will be returned to the purchaser on the Land Officer certifying that the purchaser has complied with all the said Conditions and in the event of the Land Officer certifying that the purchaser has failed to comply with the said conditions or any of them the said sum of $100 or such part thereof as the Governor may think fit shall be forfeited as liquidated damages.

2. The purchaser shall within six months from the date of sale construct a bund to the seaward side of Lot No. 792 to the satisfaction in every respect of the Land Officer and shall maintain the same in good order during the whole period for which the Lots are sold.

3. The purchaser shall within 3 years from the date of Sale reclaim and convert the land into Agricultural land to the satisfaction of the Land Officer.

4. After the expiration of the said 3 years the purchaser shall not during the remainder of the term for which the Lots are sold permit or allow the land to remain uncultivated according to the custom of the country for a continuous period of five consecutive years and a covenant to that effect shall be inserted in the Crown Lease of the Lots.

5. At the expiration of the term of 30 years the land with all improvements of what- ever kind shall revert to and become the absolute property of the Government and no com- pensation whatever shall be payable to the Lessee in respect of such improvements.

G. H. WAKEMAN, Land Officer.

10th August, 1909.