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CHINESE RECREATION GROUND.
(Table XXIII.)
70. The income from the stalls has again decreased, $3,205 as against $3,223 in 1920, the balance has increased from $4,179 to $5,607. There are increases in expenditure in the water account and in repairs.
PASSAGE MONEY FUND,
(Table XXIV.)
71. The net income of the Fund was $707, and the total expenditure $531 as compared with $477 and $916 last year.
NEW ORDINANCES.
72. The following Ordinances passed during the year have special reference to the Chinese:
No. 13 of 1921 Rent Ordinance. This ordinance brought great numbers of tenants and landlords to this office for advice and assistance.
One feature of the year in this connection was the formation of a Tenants' Defence League. The Chinese petition in support of this Ordinance was signed by a greater number of people than any previously presented to the Government of the Colony.
No. 25 of 1921 amends No. 13 of 1921, and makes it a criminal offence to attempt to extort excess rent.
No. 30 of 1921, further amends No. 13 of 1921 in several details.
GENERAL.
73. Under the terms of the Deportation Ordinance (No.25 of 1917) reports were furnished on 249 suspects arrested by the Police under warrants of detention. Of these suspects 100 were released and 149 banished. The number of reports furnished in 1920 was 274.
74. The allocation of the Annual Grant of $25,000 to Local Chinese Charities was the same as last year, viz:
Kwong Wa Hospital, $20,000
Sham Shui Po Chinese Public Dispensary, $3,000
Kowloon City Chinese Public Dispensary, $2,000
$25,000
75. An unfortunate accident occurred in the old Smallpox Hospital in Kowloon which not having been used as such for a...