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make that district, which is tevel ground
and which is now united with Victoria
by steam - ferries, a very eligible and valuable building suburb of the
of the City, and
will then for cast upon the Government o -the duty ofenaking proper provision for the construction of the necessary roads cudr streek, sanitary works, and the reet of the requirements of a modern European town, and will, in addition, euteil the..
recurrent expense of the yearly scpkeep
of these works.
9.
in our
Ander the ascessusent recommended
Report, the whole of the Howloon reut-
acering to the Colonial Treasury will
amount only to about thirteen thousand
dollars a
a sum which, upon enquiry
year,
we learn, will prove totally inadequate
to meet the cost
of the municipal.
requiremento
requirements of the lot owners and their
sub- lessees or tecnuts, once the new
ew township
will have begun to develope.
10.
On theee grounds
we conceived
that the Kowloon lok could not be classified
Do
Country lot, nor that their annual rents could be lowered to the standard of the rents of country lots which stand on a totally different footing, inasmuch as they
yearly disbursements on the Government, and having
this
entail no
cortce
to
obvious conclusion, and having borne in
mind also the desirability of recommending
a low standard of rent in order to promote :
the
epread of Europeau buildings at Howloon and thus supply a much felt want, we
come, after coreful deliberation, to the unanimous conclusion that the most-
moderate rent that could be imposed, in
jentice
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