Stn,—1 am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of June 30, on the subject of the compensation payable in respect of the widening of the North Fokien Road, ex Cadastral lot 212. In view of the wide difference between the amount of your claim, and that of the offer set forth in my letter of June 25. the Council is of ion that it would be well. under the cirenmstances, if the matter be referred to the Land Commission for settlement.
Notice of the date fixed by the Commissioners for the hearing of the ease will be conveyed to yon in due Muyburgh Roa, -A schedule of the probable cost of the section of this road between the Bubbling Well and Burkill Roads is submitted, from which it ay pears that, even were no betterment held to accrue to the inside lots, the total cost of the section is estimated to be under Tls. 19,000, which expenditure will be spread over a number of years, The Council by majority that this price ix by no means when the value of the con-public is taken into von sideration; it ix therefore decided to proceed with the scheme, calling for claims as nstal from the owners concerned. The in dissents from. this decision and considers the road unuevessary.
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