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Vehicles Ferry proposition and addressed to the Government
a letter dated the 19th of March, 1929, of which a copy is
attached. It will be noted that the Company proposes a
lease of fifty years' duration if they are to undertake
the establishment of a Vehicles Ferry.
8.
The second ferry is the Yaumati Ferry at present run under lease by the Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Company Limited. The service runs from Queen Victoria Street (immediately to the East of Jubilee Street) and Western Market to piers in the Yaumati Harbour of Refuge, Mongkok and Shanshuipo. The majority of the passengers carried travel between Queen Victoria Street and Yaumati, but the total number of passengers carried by the whole system is given as 22,157,552 for 1928, divided as follows:-
Queen Victoria Street Pier.6,773,025 Passengers.
Yaumati Pier...
.6,926,029
Western Larket Pier......
.4,235,299
Mongkoktsui Pier..
2,234,266
..1,988,722
Shanshuipo Pier..
What was known as the "Yaumati Ferry", operating
the three lines to which reference has been made, was first
let by Government tender for three years from 1919 at the rent of $9,900 a month.
There were two extensions of this
At the end of 1923 a fresh
licence each for one year. tender was called for and the present Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Company Limited secured the lease for a term of two years renewable for a third at a monthly rental of $22,300, Government providing and maintaining the terminal piers and the Company providing its own ferry boats. Since the expiry of the first two years the licence has been regularly extended for a further twelve months at a time at the same
that a reduction of $4,000 per month was made
rate except
during the boycott in 1926.
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