MARINE DEPARTMENT LIBRAI
Permitted Use
No. of Lots
Total
Industrial
Industrial/Godown
Non-industrial
Private Residential
12
101,526 sq. ft.
11
108,231 sq. ft.
20
32,703 sq. ft.
1
25,660 sq. ft.
Scavenging Lane
1
30 sq. ft.
45
268,150 sq. ft.
57. As mentioned in last year's report Aberdeen Inland Lot No. 163 was re-entered upon by the Crown and a petition by the former lessees to the Governor in Council for relief was rejected but with the direction that ex gratia compensation of $160,000 should be paid to the former lessees. Subsequently one of the three former lessees forwarded through his solicitor to the Land Office a written authorization purporting to bear the signatures of himself and those of the other two lessees and requesting payment of the $160,000 to the solicitor. A check of the signatures against those on the original Conditions of Sale relating to this lot revealed an apparent discrepancy in the signatures of the latter two lessees. The case was referred to the police for investigation, and the ultimate result was that the applicant pleaded guilty to charges of having uttered a forged document with intent to defraud and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, though the sentence was sub- sequently reviewed and changed to a fine of $1,000. The ex gratia compensation of $160,000 was finally released to the three former lessees through their Solicitors.
Naval, Military and Air Force Lands
58. The Land Office maintains registers of all lands held by the Admiralty, War Department and Air Ministry, and is responsible for preparing all documents relating thereto. The Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 provided for the succession to all such lands by the Secretary of State for Defence, a corporation sole incorporated in the United Kingdom by virtue of that Act. The year's transactions included (a) the formal surrender by the Secretary of State for Defence of an area of approximately 21,925 square feet of the site occupied by the Lei Yue Mun Barracks in consideration of the sum of $87,700 credited to the Secretary of State for Defence in the Military Lands Account, (b) the appropriation of an area of approximately 7,350 sq. ft. situate at Lei Yue Mun Pass as an extension to the same site for military purposes, including the erection of a landing ramp and dolphins,
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