90
in 1921) also 68 quantities of damaged cigarettes and tobacco from various firms (158 cases in 1921).
Under Government Notification No. 31 of 1910 the following fees were collected :-
214 large animals at $2.00 each
$428.00
1,436 small animals at 50 cents each
718.00
118 pienls bone ash at $2.50 per pienl and
3 piculs at $2.60
302.80
1 calf at $1.00
1.00
Quantity of dead fowls
1.00
Refund for fuel used for destroying
papers, etc....
252.50
$1,703.30
Amount of coal used was 42 tons 12 cwf 2 qrs.
SLAUGHTER HOUSES REVENUE.
91
-
Sai Wan Ho (contracted out) :—
1921. $
1922.
Swine
.9,895 -3.090,00
9,920 2,976.00
1921.
* C
1929.
*
1.
Aberdeen (contracted out):
Swine
4,600 - 1,248.00 4,319 = 1,440,00 The total revenue, including contracts, from the Animal Depôts and Slaughter Houses, is as follows:—
Kennedy Town, Fees
Ma Tan Kok. Fees
Kennedy Town Blood and Hair
Contract
Ma Tan Kok
Sai Wan Ho Slaughtering Contract Aberdeen
1921. $104,665.52
1999. $97,584.18 20,790.60 21.480.00
7,980.00
8,472,00
2.112.00 2.304.00
3,090.00
2.976.00
1,248,00
1,440,00
$139.885.52 $134,256.18
849.80 1921 1,005.20
889.00
1,778 10,245 1,024,50 39,446— 3,944,60
Kennedy Town :-
Slaughtered.
1921.
$
f.
1922.
$
Cattle @ 40 e.
Sheep @ 20 .
40,062 19,301-
16,024.80
3,860.20
Swine @30 c,
39,450= 15,780.00 16,362— 3,272.40 67,244.70 252,325—75,697.50 224,149.
-
Cattle and swine slaugh-
tered at Pokfulam
(Dairy Farm)
1920
Exported.
Cattle
50 c. each
Sheep 10 e.
3.945 11,671
1,972.50
1,167.10
.
Swine 10 c.
30,603=
3,060.30
་་
Motor vans, use of, cattle
@ 12 c. each
Special trips at $5..
Special trip at $2.50.....
16,861=
2,023.32
10.00
36,469=
G
4,370.28
T=
30.00 17.50
$104,665.52
$ 97,584.18
Mu Tau Kok :-
Slaughtered,
Cattle @ 40 e.
Sheep @ 20 c. Swine @@ 30 e. Gutstanding Tickets
sold...
+
*
1921.
9.303
1922.
3.721.20 670- 134.00 56,136=16,840.80
8,401-
Tw
7
60,199-
-
94.00
$20,790.00
$360.40
3,360.40
1.40
18,059.70
58.50
$21,480.00
The attached graphs show the number of animals slaughtered in all Slaughter Houses during the past ten years. The decrease in number of animals admitted to dépôts and slaughtered is due to the general strike in the early part of the year. The decrease in export of animals is due to the prohibition of import into the Philippines of cattle from Hongkong and China by the Govern- ment of the Philippine Islands.
GRASS SUPPLY FOR GOVERNMENT BULLOCKS,
The area under cultivation at Kennedy Town was reduced by about nere during the year in order to allow grass land for the goats of the Indian Police. The amount of grass cut at Kennedy Town was 279 tons 17 cwts against 254 tons 16 ewts, in 1921. A considerable amount of this was supplied to the Medical Department to feed ponies used for the production of anti- meningococcie serum and no charge was made for this.
cut.
From the new Fo Pang Valley area a crop of 79 tons was Several areas in this have subsided with the result that the grass roots died off. These areas are rapidly being filled in and will be replanted.
EXPORT OF LARD, DRIED MEATS, etc., to the Philippines AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND CANADA. The Factories at Ma Tau Kok and Kennedy Town approved for the export of lard and dried meats to the Philippines, and Canada, exported the following quantities under certificate :—
PHILIPPINES AND AMERICA.
1919.
1920.
1921. Lard...............................1×1,657,390 -1,719.175 3,882,0743 Dried Meats,.lbs 99,651 165,103 282,3115
1922. 3,532.909; 128,8111
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