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work at the main centres and in some villages. Under the auspices of the St. John's Ambulance Association, a series of lectures on malaria prevention was arranged in Taipo, Shatin and Sheung Shui, but the difficulty of securing an attendance caused the course to be discontinued.
(b) Trade was fair. Fish were less plentiful than in the previous year. Brickworks are still idle, and the only considerable business done was at a brickworks at Castle Peak. Two new industries came to the District, by the erection of a fire cracker factory at Yuen Long, and the working of several kaolin deposits, in conjunction with a refining plant shortly to be erected in Kowloon.
(c) The Crown Rent collection was unusually good, $53.78 only of the total being uncollected.
(d) Racecourse. A series of race-meetings held on a piece of waste land at Kwanti near Fanling which has been levelled and prepared entirely by the "Fanling Hunt", was well attended. In the second year of its life, the "Hunt" has succeeded in creating a very pleasant open space, and providing a diversion which attracts numbers of people from Hong Kong; if continued it should have an important bearing on the development of this neighbourhood.
25th February, 1929.
J. A. FRASER,
District Officer.