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MAGISTRACY.

No. S. 151.-It is hereby notified that a meeting of the Licensing Board will be held in the Council Chamber at 2.15 p.m., on Friday, the 30th day of May, 1913, for the purpose of considering the following application under the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, viz.:-

From one AU KA Poo for an Adjunct Licence to sell by retail intoxicating

liquors on premises Nos. 104 and 105, Connaught Road Central; 1st 2nd and 3rd floors of No. 106, Connaught Road Central; 3rd floors of Nos. 107 and 108, Connaught Road Central; and 2nd and 3rd floors of No. 207, Des Voeux Road Central, under the sign of "Hotel China ".

23rd May, 1913,

R. H. KOTEWALL, Secretary to the Licensing Board.

LAND REGISTRY OFFICE.

No. S. 152.-It is hereby notified that the following Letting of Crown Land by Public Auction will be held at the Police Station, Au Tau, at 11 a.m., on Thursday, the 29th day of May, 1913.

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The Lot is let for the term of Five years from the 1st day of June, 1913, as an Agricultural Lot, 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 LOT.

Upset

Registry No.

Locality,

Boundary Measurements. Contents in

Acres.

Upset Price.

Annual Crown Rent.

N.

8.

E.

W.

feet. feet. feet. feet.

Survey District 132. Lot No. 420A.

Castle Peak.

As per plan deposited in 3·00 Acres.

the District Land Office, Tai Po.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS.

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1. The lessee may not mortgage or sub-let the land.

(N.B. This is not to prevent a lessee from the Crown from letting out a portion of the land for cultivation reserving to himself a part of the crops in return.)

2. Lease to be determinable at any time on six calendar months' notice being given.

3. If the lessee has, in the opinion of the Land Officer, improved the land he is, recognised as having a claim to renewal up to 10 years from the date of the commencement of his lease when he is to have two options, namely :—

(a.) To buy the land by auction on a 75 years' lease from 1st July, 1898, in the

usual way.

(b.) To renew his 5 years' lease at a re-assessed Crown Rent.

4. If the lease is determined by notice from the Crown before the expiration of the 10 years' period the lessee is, if he has made improvements and it is recommended by the Land Officer, to be entitled to compensation, such compensation to depend :—

(".) On the improvements,effected on the land.

(b.) On the period the land has been held by the lessee.

The maximum compensation to be limited to twice the value of a crop taken off the land resumed and maximum only to be awarded in cases where the improvements effected have converted the land into first class.

23rd May, 1913.

P. JACKS,

Land Officer.