232
2. The actual expenditure under each of these heads is shewn opposite each item.
3. The comparatively small expenditure under Public Works Extraordinary is due to the that orders were given to postpone certain works for a time, and also to the great demand made the Departinent by the Works undertaken in the New Territory after it was taken over.
4. It is not unusual to hear the Public Works Department spoken of as the "The Great Spend- ing Department"; the following figures prove that this Department does something towards collecting revenue also:---
a. Premiums realised through the Sales of Land, Extensions, Ad-
justment of Boundaries, &c., in the year 1899,.....
b. Government Stores sold in 1899,
c. Fees for Allotments in the Cemetery,
d. Permits for erecting Piers,
·
e. Fees for Sheds in Happy Valley during Races,... f. Loan of Government Dredger,
$ 572,991.24
6,616.92
236.50
782.50 10,390.00
557.77
A.
g. Miscellaneous items,
Total,..
4,318.27
$595,893.20
Annual Crown Rent secured by the Sale of Land,
$26,464.73
5. The following is from the Report of the Acting Superintendent of Crown Lands :-
LAND SALE AND SURVEY BRANCH.
Land Sales, Extensions and Grants.
The following table gives particulars of these :-
SALES BY AUCTION:
Island of Hongkong, Kowloon Peninsula, New Territory,
EXTENSIONS GRANTED-
Island of Hongkong,
No. of Lots.
Area in sq. ft.
Annual Crown Rent.
Premium.
C.
C.
C.
C.
43 40
90
10 000
15
}
640,863
83
1,353,475 1,994,338
4,458.00 12,123.00
192,651.00
16,581.00 361,711,00 | 554,362.00
10,870
105.10
2,913.24
23
32,353 43,223
417.00
522.10
15,716.00 18,629.24
0
Kowloon Peninsula,
New Territory,..
GRANTS ON SHORT LEASES, &c.
Island of Hongkong,
54
Kowloon Peninsula,
New Territory,......
112 2
168
104,649 68,420
173,069
not stated.
489.00 236,00 1,300.00
2,025.00
19,128.10
572,991,24
B. The principal item under extensions is a grant of some streets at Hunghom to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock
Company, who had become the owners of the adjoining houses and wished to add the whole to their establishment. C. The "short leases, &c. are mostly comprised of grauts to former holders of squatters' licences. In the New Territory
two Marine Lots near Lautao Island were leased for the purpose of coral fishing.
In addition to the above, a free grant of land has been made in Taipingshan (Inland Lot 1440) to the Directors of the Tung Wa Hospital for an extension of that Institution, and a lot has also been granted at Sandy Bay (Inland Lot 1572) to the same body for purposes of a Mortuary. A small lot (Inland Lot 1565) at Wanchai was granted to the Military Authorities for the erection of a Slaughter House for the use of Sikhs.
D. Facilities were given for the entry by the owners to lots on the Praya Reclamation amounting to 107,014 square feet,
bringing in an annual rent of $1,965.00.
E. The Sales of Crown Land were greatly in excess of the estimate ($200,000.00). The main feature was the sale of a
large amount of foreshore at Yau-Ma-Ti and Mong-Kok-Tsui for reclamation as Marine Lots. of the year's sales were : --
HONGKONG ISLAND—
Inland Lot 15336,................
Inland Lot 1542,.
KOWLOON PENINSULA -
Kowloon Marine Lot 43,
Kowloon Inland Lots 887-897 and Kowloon
Marine Lots 44-46,.
Kowloon Inland Lot 898,
Kowloon Marine Lot 47,
Kowloon Marine Lot 49,
Kowloon Marine Lot 50, Kowloon Marine Lot 52-53,
The principal items
Premium per Square Foot.
Annual Rent. $ 118
47
Premiudi. $ 31,990 47,200
$ 3.00
18.39
933
40,000
0.44
}
2,917
21,800
0.06
368
35,600
1.13
980
28,710
0.30
1,894
70,000
0.42
1,630
59,000
0.37
1,300
22,600
0.10