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of return of the names in the Colony. I called for a list of the largest ratepayers, that is those whose house rates amount to over a thousand dollars a quarter. The following is the list extracted from the Government rate books showing the last quarterly returns of the current year.
Name Amount of house rates contributed 2nd Quarter 1881
Dollars cents. Dollars cents
Ng Sang 1406 80
Lo Thing 1295 55
Ching ding Yeong 1281 25
Ng Cheong 1261 15
Kwok Ying Shew Yung Mow Jang Luck Low Cheong 1242 95
Koo Moon Wa 1189 25
Ip Chung Chin 1184 35
Fung Wing Choy Chan 1149 34
1129 15
1118 20
1012 20
Not many years ago, a list of the eighteen largest ratepayers in Hong Kong would have consisted entirely of British, German and American houses. Now, in such a list, seventeen are Chinese, and
Wo Hang Yeong Shii Lun 3,878 13
Jardine, Matheson & Co 1,661 80
Lumn Sow 1,499 25
Woo Lai Shi 1,447 75
Kwok Yin Hai 1,437 566
Lo Thing 1,977 19
2,197 70
3,868 yay