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CLASS III.
HONGKONG ESTIMATES
RENTS AND INTEREST.
1. RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND, AND HOUSES:—
Approved Estimate, 1917.
Estimate, 1918.
$
Buildings,
42,000
40,260 (1)
Lands not Leased, (Permits for Encroachments, &c.),
80,000
81,300 (2)
Laundries,
1,920
1,960 (3)
Leased Lands, (Crown Rent exclusive of New Territories),.
363,000
368,000
(4)
Leased Lands, New Territories, (Crown Rent),
125,000
125,500
Markets, Ordinance 1 of 1903,...
163,000
164,850 (3)
Piers, Ordinance 11 of 1899,
46,500
48,500 }
Pineapple Land Leases,.
1,130
1,140 f
(5)
Slaughter-houses, Ordinance 1 of 1903,
104,000
98,850 (6)
Slaughter-house, Ma Tau Kok, Ordinance 1 of 1903,
17,250
17,800
(3)
Stone Quarries,
16,200
22,640
2. INTEREST....
TOTAL,..
TOTAL,
960,000
970,600
2,000
48,000 (7)
2,000
48,000
(1) Less rents.
(2) More permits,
(3) Based on revised estimate for 1917. (4) More lands expected to be leased.
(5) More rents,
(6) Fewer animals slaughtered. (7) Credit balance attained.