Show LAND I. r AN X ACRE ACHE i London Count County Council Pays lays Bi Big Uis Price for Cur Small Properly Lon London on June 1 A G.-A A total expenditure expendi ture of or exclusive of or legal and an other costs has been made b by the London count county council counci in acquiring seventeenth one-seventeenth of an acre of land I la connection with the Improvement ment oT of Fulham Palace road and ant High street Fulham This works out at the rate of per pel acre The land lami occupied about one-fourth one of or the site of the Kings King's Road Head Public House owned by Co When hen the bill bi sanctioning the Improvement was passing through the thc house of lords Charrington se- se cured curll the thc I insertion of or a clause to which the parliamentary committee of the thc London count county council counci agreed re requiring requiring re- re quiring the council counci to purchase only so much of the thc property as was needed neede for widening the thoroughfare The clause also stated slated that If the thc council counci acquired the leasehold Interest Interest interest Inter Inter- est In the he premises anti and nul the benefit of or orthe the license they must convey con such norton porIon portion por nor Ion tion ton of the tile leasehold interest as the they hey I Idid did not require and also the thc benefit of or the license to When the lie council came caine to 0 negotiate counci with wih lIi the lessees of the Kings King's Head headlie the thc lessees refused to part with wih merely that hat thaI portion porton o of tho the properly that was needed for fO or the Improvement Consequently Conse Cause tho the council counci had to purchase the thc entire leasehold Interest including the lie the license which was done for rOI O- O By Dy the thc terms of oC the bill bi OW lie they had then lien to convey the portion porton of or the lie leasehold Interest not required for the Improvement and also the benefit of ot the he license to a Charrington and also in consideration of this agreed to part with wih their freehold interest In the one- one l of au an acre jf if f which the thc council counci actual actually required for tor The Thc finance committee of or the lie roun- roun cil el In commenting on tho the extraordinary l- l nary transaction says 88 that hat the lie net I result resul is that lint the he coUncIl has paid than rtH for about more 10 or one se one sev of an au acre of oC land which considering tho ho loco l anti amI the fact that the license has not been extinguished extin exin- appears a ver very expensive c transaction |