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REMARKS.
Amount of Rates.
No. of
Assess*.
1888-9.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS OF THE ASSESSMENTS FOR THE YEARS 1887-88 AND 1888-89.
1887-8.
Amount of Rates.
Rateable Value.
VICTORIA.
6,876
15
2,588,072 17,200 (g)
336,439
2,236
2,719,555
3,050 (g)
353,542
213
6,962
4
2,605,272
338,675
2,722,605
353,755
DISTRICT.
No. of
Assess1.
Rateable Value.
HONGKONG VILLAGES.
Existing Assessment adopted,
Village transferred from Victoria,
1,296
55,104 (a)
3,857
32,646 (b)
2,856
87,750
6,713
87,750
400 (h)
6,142
1,803
28
37
24
34,490 (c)
3,017
43,710 (c)
3,824
44
6,298 (d)
551
6,362 (d)
445
25
40,788
3,568
50,072
4,269
3,050,790
SUPPLEMENT TO THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE OF 21ST JULY, 1888. 773
377,490
9,537
KOWLOON VILLAGES.
Existing Assessment adopted,
1,128
120,928 (e)
8,464
120,928
8,464
1,128
Village re-assessed,.
52
48,195 (ƒ)
3,373
69,035
4,832
70
Villages re-assessed,
TOTALS,
9,435
2,902,933
(a) All the Hongkong Villages except Quarry Bay. (b) Quarry Bay formerly paid 83% now reduced to 7 j
(c) The Hill District formerly described as Victoria Peak.
(4) Tok-fu Lam formerly paid 83% on Rateable Value now reduced to 7 %. (C) All the Kowloon Villages except Kowloon Point.
(f) Kowloon Point,
(a) The Piers in Victoria formerly paid 13 now reduced to 7 %. Many Piers this year are not separately assessed but rated with their adjoining Godowns. Cvero
(h) So-kou Po Village formerly paid 13 °, now reduced to 7 %.
360,793
REFERENCE.