14. Interim Valuations.-Between 1st July, 1917, and 1st May, 1918, 668 Interim Valuations were made as follows:
City of Victoria, Rest of Colony.
No. Rateable Value. No. Rateable Value. New or rebuilt tenements and tenements structurally altered, 260 $208,395 217 $127,110 Assessments cancelled, tenements resumed, pulled down or being in other respects not rateable, 129 $111,915 62 $13,798 Number and Increase,... 389 $96,480 279 $113,31215. The following Table gives a comparison of the Assessments for 1917-1918 and 1918-1919 :-
District. Valuation 1917-1918. Valuation 1918-1919. Increase. Per cent. The City of Victoria, Hill District and Hongkong Villages, $11,766,775 $12,745,655 $978,880 8.31% Kowloon Peninsula, Kowloon District and New Kowloon $931,320 $969,994 $38,674 4.15% Kowloon Point and Kowloon Villages with New Kowloon, $1,712,058 $1,923,087 $211,029 12.33% Total, $14,410,153 $15,638,736 $1,228,583 8.52%