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and cottage and nine cottages. Of these buildings, the nine cottages (Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
9, and 10) were reported to you by the Medical Officer of Health as premises on which
nuisances exist in terms of the Act but as a result of the representations made at the hearing
of the owner’s legal representative they were declared not to be slums.

Estate N. Menigo (Tinted Orange on plan):
This four-roomed cottage in Hare Road was declared a slum.

Vercuil and van der Westhuizen (Tinted Blue on plan):
The premises consist of a single-storey dwelling at the corner of Hare Road and
Clairvaux Road comprising five rooms and a cobbler’s workshop. The property was not
reported as one on which nuisances exist.

P. Fernandez (Tinted Yellow on plan):
This property was declared a slum and plans have recently been submitted for the
erection of a new six-roomed dwelling house to replace the existing structure. Application
is made too for the demolition of the existing building in terms of the Housing Act. These
plans have not been submitted to the Health and Building Regulations Committee in view
of the possibility of your Committee considering the acquisition of the land.

False Bay Fishermen’s Union (Tinted Pink on plan):
The Trustees of this body own ten cottages in two terraces of five each. Six of the
dwellings were reported by the Medical Officer of Health as premises on which nuisances
exist and two (Nos. 1 and 10, constructed of wood and iron and attached to brick structures)
were eventually declared slums. Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 9 were declared not to be slums.

Mr. A. L. Wolfsohn (Tinted Mauve on plan):
On this property have been erected fourteen wood and iron cottages, a double-storey
building abutting Harbour Road comprising shop and ten dwelling rooms, and a single-
storey building at the rear of the property known as No. 15. This latter building was
declared a slum.

Mrs. A. M. Wolfsohn (Tinted Sienna on plan):
Two buildings “Die Rust” and No. 16 have been erected on this land, the latter
being declared a slum.

Malay Cemetery (Tinted Grey on plan):
At the top of Barton Road, this small area is registered in the name of Abdol Joseph.
It was acquired for the purpose of a Malay Cemetery and is not valued.

Land Coloured Dark Green on plan:
This land is registered in the name of George Smithers and has not changed
ownership since 1850. The property is not valued and appears in the Derelict Lands list.