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I am also grateful to late Sir Lalgopal Mukerji, a Judge of the Allahabad High Court, for his ready assistance and invaluable suggestions. For some special facilities in converting the site of the Svastika Mansion out of a strip of waste land into a beauty spot, I am grateful to the District and Municipal officers and the engineers of the combined Public Works and Public Health Departments. I am indebted to the then City Magistrate, Mr. A. D. Pandit, I.C.S., and the District Magistrate, Mr. G. W. M. Whittle, I.C.S., for enabling me to give a proper shape to the site and beautify the whole locality by straightening the drains, etc., and encroaching on a few yards of waste land whereupon nuisance was committed, for which, however, the then Indian Divisional Commissioner, imposed a fine of Rs. 5 in order to put a check to such an endeavour. I shall ever remain grateful to Mr. W. G. P. Wall, once the Director of Public Instruction, Mr. A. D. Dixon, I.C.S., once the District Magistrate, and Mr. M. S. Singhal, Rai Bahadur, the then Divisional Commissioner, on whose combined recommendation the Governor of the United Provinces, Sir Maurice Garnier Hallett, was ‘pleased to sanction, as a special case, the sale of Nazul plot no. 44, Thornhill Road’ in my favour, which was originally held by me on lease for 30 years; the freehold right thus secured ‘for ever’ fulfils the requirements of a permanency of the costly demonstration of the Svastika Mansion built upon this plot.