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Arxes in the shape of house rent,
which is burthened
by
the
payment of Crown rents and
high
Municipal rates, and is so
that they are compelled to crowd together in rooms in a manner
that a
appears startling to Europeans. Speaking of the Chinese, on
recent occasion in Council,
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the
Honourable William Keswick said
We have here
"
very poor population,"
a
poorer perhaps than in
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other
part of the World except in China
itself, and in order to
encourage
the
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"the growth and prosperity of Colony, it is desirable that taxation of a direct Kind should be as _ "light as possible"." If then the
fact be considered that in this
Colony
the
such v
very
poover.
er
classes
earn
small.
wages
I think
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that it will be admitted that
taxation in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, instead of
being light is already
than it is in England.
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heavier
I trust that the
foregoing remarks about taxation
will demonstrate that the Council
of
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