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and there is not a vacant house in the village. Money was always forthcoming for any laudable purpose: four theatrical performances were held during the year, $1,000 was spent on the temple, the villagers collected among themselves sufficient to buy a steam launch for ferry-service to Hongkong: and money was even spent upon the drainage and paving of the town.
Among the other villages, Hang Hau has shown signs of recovery from the re-action which followed the collapse of the Flour Mills, several new houses were built, and two strips of land were acquired for the erection of boat-building sheds.
The low price of salt, which was good for the fishing trade, had an adverse effect on the business of the salt pans.
Considerable areas of land on Lamma Island and on Fu Tau Chau were leased to Mr. Dizon for the segregation of cattle destined for Manila, and the scheme promised to be successful, until legislation by the Philippine Government put an end to the import trade from Hongkong.
The inhabitants of New Kowloon (by which is meant that strip of the New Territories which runs to the South of the Kowloon Hills from Lai Chi Kok to Lyeemun) are within easy reach of Hongkong, and therefore continue to use the Central Hongkong Courts, and are amenable to modified Building Regulations, prescribed by the Building Authority.
Cemeteries also are provided for New Kowloon (and for the island and village of Cheung Chau) at which all interments now take place from these districts, and slaughter-houses are appointed for the slaughter of all animals intended for human consumption.
In the urban districts of Kowloon City and Shamshuipo certain sanitary measures have been adopted. Refuse is removed by Government contractors and a house-cleansing takes place once a year in these districts also rates are paid of 9% or 7%, according as water is laid on or not.
25th February, 1911.
G. N. ORME, Assistant District Officer,
Southern District.
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and there is not a vacant house in the village. Money was always forthcoming for any laudable purpose: four theatrical performances were held during the year, $1,000 was spent on the temple, the villagers collected among themselves sufficient to buy a steam launch for ferry-service to Hongkong: and money was even spent upon the drainage and paving of the town.
Among the other villages, Hang Hau has shown signs of recovery from the re-action which followed the collapse of the Flour Mills, several new houses were built, and two strips of land were acquired for the erection of boat-building sheds.
The low price of salt, which was good for the fishing trade, had an adverse effect on the business of the salt pans.
Considerable areas of land on Lamma Island and on Fu Tau Chau were leased to Mr. Dizon for the segregation of cattle destined for Manila, and the scheme promised to be successful, until legis- lation by the Philippine Government put an end to the import trade from Hongkong.
The inhabitants of New Kowloon (by which is meant that strip of the New Territories which runs to the South of the Kowloon Hills from Lai Chi Kok to Lyeemun) are within easy reach of Hongkong, and therefore continue to use the Central Hongkong Courts, and are amenable to modified Building Regulations, prescribed by the Building Authority.
Cemeteries also are provided for New Kowloon (and for the island and village of Cheung Chau) at which all interments now take place from these districts, and slaughter-houses are appointed for the slaughter of all animals intended for human consumption.
In the urban districts of Kowloon City and Shamshuipo certain sanitary measures have been adopted. Refuse is removed by Gov- ernment contractors and a house-cleansing takes place once a year in these districts also rates are paid of 9% or 7%, according as water is laid on or not.
25th February, 1911.
G. N. ORME, Assistant District Officer,
Southern District.
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