# Appendix J.
# REPORT ON NEW TERRITORIES FOR THE YEAR 1924.
## A. NORTHERN DISTRICT
### I. STAFF.
Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones was in charge until the end of the year. Mr. Lau Chi Wa, shroff, was promoted from 5th grade to 4th class on 1st May, and Mr. Chan Hei Wo, 5th grade clerk promoted to 4th class on 1st October. Mr. Lam Tin and Mr. Chan Ho Chi (probationers) were transferred from Treasury and Colonial Secretary's Office respectively on 1st February, for additional land registration work.
### II. MAGISTRACY.
Table A shows the number of cases heard by the District Officer sitting as Police Magistrate and as Judge of the Small Debts Court.
The continued increase in fines is due to the large number of opium cases, one fine being for $4,800.00.
### III. LAND OFFICE.
The number of sales and other transactions affecting land which took place are set out in Table B.
The number of memorials registered was 2846 as against 3625 in 1923, the registration fees being $4,546.70 as against $6,046.16. The decrease being due to the slackening of the land boom.
New conditions of sale were introduced and had the effect of stifling the outburst of wild speculation, which while bringing in greater revenue had no real effect on the development of the Territories.
The collapse of the land boom had the effect of most of the reclamation proposals put forward last year being dropped.
### IV. REVENUE.
The Revenue collected in this Office is set out under the various heads in Table C, the total being $213,651.88. Table D gives the revenue for each year since 1919.