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APPENDICES
Appendix VIII
(Chapter 10: Land and Housing)
Premia received on sales of Crown Land
from 1851 to 1960-1
The system of disposing of leasehold land by public auction for a premium began in 1851 in accordance with the Secretary of State's Despatch No. 222 of 2nd January 1851. Where premia are payable by instalments only the amounts actually received have been included in the annual totals.
Period
Total $
1851 - 1860
1861 -'1870
1871
- 1880.
1881 - 1890
1891
- 1900
:
1901
- 1910
1911
- 1920
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1921
1931
·
-
· 1930
- 1941 (25.12.41)..
1946-7-1955-6
1956-7-1960-1-..
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Grand Total
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262,839.00
477,908.14
125,097.53
856,160.12
+
2,501,053.65
Housing Provided in 1961
2,839,324.49
2,715,724.38
17,053,140.35
12,936,727.68
67,617,711.64
177,375,655,35
$284,761,342.33
Tenement floors..
8,419
Private, in categories of rated dwellings
Flats
8,739
Government
243 units
Co-operative societies
581 flats
Housing Society
1,024 flats
Housing Authority
Resettlement (42 new blocks)
1,759 flats
.. Domestic accommodation 14,270 units