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TSUN WAN.
36. Development according to the Lay-out continued, blocks of three and four houses and shops being put up near the market area. Private sites were also under development along the Castle Peak Road and the building trade did well.
37. The market did good business and a fairly high standard of cleanliness and order was maintained. To relieve the congestion on Chung On Street, the setting aside of an area of land to the south of the market as a pitch for licensed hawkers was approved.
38. Business generally did well. Prices improved in bean curd, Chinese wine and spirit, white lead, lime and soy trades. The Texaco and the Hong Kong Brewery had fairly good years, and the Ilume Pipe Company did good business, employing many local hands. The South China Iron Works built extensive workshops.
39. In September the rating area was extended to include the factories and some other buildings, and the increased yield is estimated at about $1,000.00.
40. Work on the extension of the Shing Mun Catchwater continued through the year.
41. Tsing I Island again had only a moderate pineapple crop, but developed industrially in a small way, a paper and hydrochloric acid factory being erected, and the lime kilns being fairly busy.
42. An area of Crown Land was appropriated to the kaifong for the erection of a village school.
HANG HAU.
43. This peninsula develops very slowly; unfortunately the war stopped some of the buildings begun at Hang Hau. However at Ha Yeung the Seventh Day Adventist Mission erected a large number of excellent school buildings and had about 200 pupils at the end of the year.
29th March, 1940.
H. CRUTTWELL, District Officer, South.