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efficiently managed and residence here would be even less agreeable than it i now, but, if it is necessary to satisfy the Chinese in order to trade with them, the local resident must presumably subordinate his comfort to the business interests of his principals at home.
14. The chairman of the British Municipal Council is absent from Shameen at the moment, but I have shown this despatch in confidence to Mr. R. Camidge, the manager of the Chartered Bank, who is the vice-chairman, and he concurs in the views I have expressed. Finally, I should like to say that I am no advocate of a policy of scuttle, but I feel that the instructions of the Foreign Office to defend the concession by force, without involving His Majesty's Government in hostilities with the Chinese forces, may be impossible of execution, and the attempt to carry them out may end in a serious tragedy.
I have, &c.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Shameen Municipal Council (British Concession).
British Concession only.
American
British
Danish
Dutch..
French
J. F. BRENAN.
Council Room, January 17, 1927.
Census: Estimated.
Nationality.
Number of Women and Children,
Men.
Total.
I
14
12
26
46
70
116
5
11
8
4
12
12
10
22
Italian
3
3
6
Japanese
53
73
126
Parsees and Indians
10
29
39
Portuguese
11
16
27
Russian
4
10
14
Swedish
1
7
*
12
7
9
173
249
427
126
677
803
304
926
1,280
Swiss..
Annamites
Chinese
Property Values on British Concession: Estimated.
Nationality of Land-renter.
Land Area.
Value.
Municipal Administration.
Article 4 of the Shameen Land Regulations states that not more than five persons, of whom the majority shall be British subjects, shall be elected each year to serve on the Municipal Council. At present the council consists of five members, of whom all are British subjects, a chairman, vice-chairman and three other councillors.
1 British doctor of medicine.
Medical officer of health D.P.W. and secretary... Secretariat
P.W. Department
Waterworks Nursing home.
Police
1 British.
Chinese clerk.
1 Chinese office boy.
1 Chinese road-mender.
1 Chinese assistaut road-mender.
8 Chinese road-sweepers.
8 Chinese scavengers.
1 Chinese sanitary inspector (part
time).
1 Chinese sexton at cemetery.
3 Chinese gardeners.
1 Chinese fire-brigade engineer.
5 Chinese engineers.
I Chinese nurge.
1 Chinese coolie.
1 Chinese laundress.
1 British superintendent.
19 Indian police.
1 Indian cook.
18 Chinese police.
1 Chinese cook.
I Chinese interpreter.
2 Chinese detectives.
Industries.
Only one on this concession-Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co.'s mineral water factory. This factory can produce 5,000 dozens per each eight-hour day.
Shameen Waterworks.
Storage capacity of tank, 50,000 imperial gallons. Average consumption on Shameen, about 100,000 per day. These works supply water to a large proportion of the residences on the Freuch concession as well. Estimated value of machinery, plant and mains (not buildings), 200,000 Haikwan dollars.
French Concession.
Ice-making and refrigerating factory. Output about 20 tons ice per day; water for ice-making supplied from Shameen British waterworks.
Value of Building(s).
Total.
Square feet.
British
698,037
Hk. dollars. 2,772,800
Hk. dollars. 6,980,870
Dollars. 9,753,170
British (C.M. customs, Salt Gabelle, Bank
of E.A.)..
117,445
478,245
1,174,450
1,652,695
Japanese
123,869
469,385
Portuguese
*12,645
42,993
1,238,690 Nil
1,708,075
42,993
(Vacant land)
Swiss
8,463
32,159
84,630
116,789
American
74,095
300,838
710,950
1,041,788
French
63,989
258,505
039,890
998,395
1,085,898
Roads, gardens, open spaces at 5 dollars
per square foot
864,500
4,354,925 10,858,980 4,322,500
15,213,905
4,322,500
*12,645
1,968,043
8,677,425
10,858,980
19,536,405
Cemetery at Nam Shik Tou-value, say, 10,000 Ilk. dollars.
Areas and values of land, with the exception of roads, gardens and open spaces, in accordance with His Majesty's Office of Works' valuation as per assessment list, 1927.
Values for buildings taken at an estimate of 10 Hk. dollars per square foot of land area on developed properties.
Only one lot, Portuguese-owned, remains undeveloped on this concession.
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