Dean Sin,—Referring to your Surveyor' letter of 5th May, (followed by. plan) and ow reply of Uth May, on the subject of the Fearon Road extension, we now beg to say that we have heard from Mr. Hanbury who points out that in 1883 he received the title deed of Lot. 1,528, together with a plan, and that on neither one or the other isa road shown to exist on the east of said lot, consequently the news that such a road measuring about 90 feet by 265 feet (as per your Surveyor's plan) is claimed, came as a surprise to him, and he says he has never been asked to transfer said land to the Municipality, but on the contrary, he has been required each year to pay the Municipal taxes on it.
further, Mr. Hanbury desires to point out that Lot 1,528 is bounded on the north by Hanbury Road und on the west by Nanzing Road, that he has never sought any com: pensation for the land necessary to. make those roads, and that it would be unreason-of cosmnall a lot by the making of a third able to expect him to sanction the cutting road free of cost, and he ventures to assert that the Municipal annals do not present a similar case in which a landowner has been aren of his lot of land for public use without asked to give up about 37 per cent. of the
payment, Hanbury is quite content with the two frontages he already possesses, but if public convenience demand the pushing though Lot of the Fearon Road he suggests a trans-for to the Municipality of the whole area required for it; he receiving the official valuation precisely as in a similar case next the Hongkew market.
We are, Door Sir, Your faithfully, p.pro. Ivesox & Ca.
THorncrs, Esq., Secretary, Municipal Council.
Gesruemes,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Mth inst., in-timoting that Mr. Hanbury will not surrender free of cost the strip of Lot 1,523 measuring 95x30 feet, required for the extension of the Fearon Road, but that he will sell it to the Council at the assessed value.
Your letter has been submitted to the Council who in reply direct me to request that you will inform Mr. Hanbury that all the other owners of land along the Hor Creek have surrendered the respective strips of their lots required for the extension of Fearon Road free of cost, on the understanding that the road would be carried through, realising that it would be a benefit to their properties as well as a public convenience. Tls. $000 have been expended in bunding the Hongkew Greek from the Seward to the Hanbury Koad and, as the Council is bound to keep faith with the various proprietors it is imperative that they should obtain possession of the strip of Lot 1,528 above referred to, they request therefore that you will on behalf of Mr. Hanbury transfer to them the strip of land in question and they undertake to pay the assessed value if Mr. Hanbury should insist upon it, after the explanation given above, and the fact that the land has been in use by the public as " road for many years, and 1893:—that the Couuel were under the B lie' that Your obedient servant, THoxse Secretar Messrs. Ivesoy & Ca.
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