Fenton, Foreman, resumed charge of the Company on December 23, March 7, 1906, and further, the fact that such schedule of surrender was, or should have been, known to both parties to the recent sale, the Commissioners decide that the Council's offer of compensation rated at the assessed value of Tls. 4,000 per mow plus 10 per cent. for compulsory surrender was reasonable and fair.
As regards betterment, the Commissioners cannot consider the Sinza Road as. parely Chinese neighbourhood and therefore tind for the Council, but for the reduced proportion of one-sixth, the peculiar situation of this property near the corner of Sinza and Carter Roads being, in their opinion, only improved by the road widening to that extent.
The amount payable is therefore Tis, 414.34, OMG Bes onto U. Rontws, Secretary,
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