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include the maintenance of the numbering of the Tenements, the Monthly Inspection of rachistion of Public
Houses and Restaurants for Licensing purposes, and upon other property for the purposes of the Water Authority, also misellaneous Reports as may may be required.
Increase in Revenue from Assessed Taxes
The Rateable Value of the Colony 1889 was $3,283, 279, it is now $5,128,943 an increase of $1,845,664.
In 1889 the Revenue from Assessed
Taxes was $ 385,576.14 in 1889 it amounted to $612,828.57 an inreased collection of $227,252.45 and I anticipate a further substantial increase this year.
4.
Work still increasing As the
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erection of new buildings proceeds on the Praya Reclamation
the Tai Ping Shan resumed area, and the improvements at
Yau Ma-ti, Hung Hom, Mong Kok Tsui, Tai Kok Tsui, Fuk Tsun
Heung etc. and on the line of the new Road to the New Territory
the work of the Assessor is being and will be still further
augmented.
5.
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Early last year the house in which
I was living was sold, and the new owner gave notice of
his intention to reside there himself upon the expiration
Children. Since my arrival here the cost of food, house
rent, srevant's wages, clothing etc. has gone up by leaps
and bounds, as will be seen by reference to the Memorial
presented by the Members of the Civil Service- dated 12th.
July, 1899, which formed an enclosure to His Excellency the
Governor's Despatch No. 199 of 27th.July 1899.
Increased cost of living Education of
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of my Lease, which had only a few months to run. The time
having arrived when the Education of my Children aged 11, 10
and