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(4). $91,200 per mensem, from Seah Eng Loek, a
former Opium Farmer.
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The highest tender was thus
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$22,250 per menses lower than the present rental of the
Opium Farm, and therefore involved a loss of $267,000 per
though for next year, as the Farm will be held in
January and February by the present Farmer, the loss would
only have been $222,500.
On enquiry, however, it appeared
that none of the three persons, in whose name the highest
tender stood, had any experience of the Opium business. Mr.
Ka Yin-shan was a native of Macao, and only worth about
$50,000: Mr. Leung Kin-shang was formerly a domestie
servant and is now Assistant Compradore to Messrs. Ataka
and Company a firm of poor standing: while Mr. Ng Min-sau
is at present Seavenging Contractor, and has givən so
much trouble to the Sanitary Department in that capasity
that it did not seem advisable to entrust him with the
much more difficult work of the Opiɛm Farm,
On the other hand the next highest
tender, which differed from the highest by only $150 per
mensem stood in the name of Mr. Ho Shai-kit, who is the
son of Mr. Ho Kom-tong lately a member of the Sanitary
Board,