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quarters. I even doubt if it will be possible to get one for that sum, and it will be safer to enter $200 in the estimates.

11. The capital expenditure for works has already been given as £9,000. The monthly estimate of expenditure will be somewhat as follows:-

Grant to officer acting as Cantonment Magistrate Interpreter and Assistant

Messenger

Gardener

Police Establishment

Lighting streets

Sanitary expenses

Street and town repairs and engineering expenses generally Office expenses and contingencies

$100 200

7

10

400

80

150

100

53

Total expenditure

$1,100,

12. The probable revenue would be as follows:--

Sampan and bumboat licences

$130

House rents

450

Wharfage dues

40,

Fines

50

Petty taxes, licences, &c.

50

$720

Total revenue

The monthly expenditure will therefore probably exceed the revenue by $380, so that an annual grant-in-aid of £450 will have to be made from Colonial Funds towards the Island expenses, after a capital expenditure of £9,000 has been incurred. This shows a saving of £550 per annum on the present grant of £1,000, or of £100, if five per cent. on the capital expenditure of £9,000 be allowed for.

13. The present system will have to be continued until the new town is built but I am strongly of opinion that the Municipal Funds (estimated at £240 per annum) ought to be augmented by a contribution of at least 25 per cent. of the value of the rents collected from tenants of houses on Admiralty and War Office property. It is only just, considering the improvements to wharves, streets, and drainage on their property, that they should make some grant-in-aid of the civil expenditure. present a military officer is giving his services free of charge as Cantonment Magis. trate, and municipal engineering work is also supervised free of charge by the Commanding Royal Engineer, but, except in these two ways, the Army and Navy contribute nothing directly towards the municipal revenue.

I have, &c.,

A. R. F. DORWARD,

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ments.

2. As the site for the main native village hereafter proposed is at some distance Naval from the dockyard it is recommended that a certain amount of accommodation should require- be provided by the Admiralty close to the dockyard for the following Chinese in- habitants (nearly all of whom will be permanent residents, as distinguished from the coolies), viz., a few storekeepers, tailors, shoemakers, contractors, and a native eating-house; also boats' crews, stokers, head coolies, native draughtsmen, and in- terpreters and office messengers.

The exact site for the small native quarter on Naval property to accommodate the above cannot be defined until the Admiralty requirements in connection with the Naval Establishment and dockyard are known.

In addition to the above it is estimated that 1,000 coolies will be required for Naval services, such as coaling, and the works to be carried out by contract. These men should be housed in the main native village.

3. It is estimated that 500 coolies will suffice for military requirements, includ- Military ing those in permanent employ for Conservancy, Army Service Corps duties, boatmen, require- &c., and some contractors' workmen.

ments.

4. There will therefore be 1,500 coolies to accommodate in the native village, Joint and it is estimated that about 500 more people, including women and children, will require- have to be provided for, for the shops, laundries, dairies, eating-houses, market, &c., ments. and also to allow of a proportion of the permanently employed Chinese in military and civil employ being married.

5. It is recommended that the native village should be laid out to meet these Village. requirements, ie, there should be ordinary Chinese houses for the 500 married population, and simple airy coolie barracks for the 1,500 coolies (single men).

The village should include the following public buildings and offices:- Gaol and Police quarters, latrines, bath-house, market, slaughter-house, Chinese hospital, and some good wells should be sunk, and a jetty constructed in front of the village.

6. The site coloured yellow on the accompanying map* (about 22 acres) is Bite. recommended. A certain number of fair Chinese houses already exist, which could be made available for the married portion of the community.

C. PENROSE,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Engineers,

Commanding Royal Engineers,

Wei-hai-wei.

Commander-in-Charge.

J. D. WAINTREE,

H. S. R. SPARROW,

Fleet Surgeon.

T. GUYER,

Chief Engineer.

Major-General,

Commissioner.

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Enclosure in No. 46.

REPORT of Advisory Committee on sites, &c., at Luikungtao, assembled by direction of the Commissioner to consider and report on a site or sites for a native village in which the Chinese inhabitants on the Island of Luikung should be accommodated.

The Committee met on the 12th June, 1901, and has the honour to submit the following report :—

REPORT.

1. The requirements are as follows:-

-:

(A) A considerable number of permanently employed Chinese will be required

by the Naval and Military Departments, and a smaller number by the Civil Govern-

ment.

(B) A large number of coolies will be required on the island for coaling ships and as contractors' workmen.

COMMISSIONER SIR A. F. DORWARD to MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (Received 11.26 a.m., September 6, 1901.)

TELEGRAM.

[Answered by Nos. 48 and 50.]

WITH reference to paragraph eight in your confidential despatch of 2 August,†

I concur in appointment of Hare, Magistrate for Mainland District.

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No. 48.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN to COMMISSIONER SIR A. F. DORWARD. (Sent 5.55 p.m., September 6, 1901.)

TELEGRAM.

September 6. In reply to your telegram of to-day's date, I appoint Hare Magistrate Mainland District, from to-day.

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