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Excess (+) or Deficiency (-) over 1939
Remarks
1947/48 1939 Excess (+) or Deficiency (-) Frontage lines checked 110 231 - 121 No arrears in 1948 Surveys for renewal of Leases 10 0 +10 Surrender Plans 9 12 - 3 Lease Plans 18 564 -546 An abnormal total for 1939.* Boundary Posts Posts and Boundary Stones fixed 121 2372 -2251*The normal number of lease plans surveyed in one year should lie between 80 and 250 with boundary stones accordingly from 400 to 1,000.
A large number of small tenement lots in blocks were surveyed for Lease Plans on Government re-entry, which with a certain number of Lease Plans carried over from the previous year, accounts for the abnormally high total of 564 Lease Plans and 2372 boundary stones in 1939.
The present deficiency in output of Lease Plans though undesirable is not so serious as at first appears as Sale Plans and Memorials registered at the Land Office give valid title.
A list of new buildings as completed is recorded in the Survey Office which will provide a basis for systematic surveys for Lease Plans and Revision Surveys as soon as an increase of staff permits.
At present Lease Plans are prepared only on lessee's request as priority must be given to work connected with sales, renewal of leases, town planning, building and re-building.
TABLE A
Land Sales 1946/1947-1947/1948.
(i) Sales by Auction
1946/1947 1947/1948 Hong Kong $430,600.00 $4,362,400.00 Kowloon 14,220.00 3,477,600.00 New Kowloon 159,000.00 New Territories 2,070.00 14,729.00