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Sweet potatoes, Peanuts, Onions, Beans, and Turnips were well up to the average. Onions are a noticeable vegetable in Tung Chung and other parts of Lantao, and command a ready sale in Hongkong. Pumeloes and Pineapples were both good. The latter are only grown by the Hakkas of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan Islands.
The shrimp fishery of Cheung Chau district was excellent, but the season of the "Yellow Flower" fish, so important to Tai O, was a comparative failure. The market-gardens of New Kowloon were, if anything, above the average.
The Hongkong rice trouble of September had no marked effect on the district, beyond causing an inevitable grumble at high prices.
X-PUBLIC WORKS.
Reclamation and improvement at Ap Liu village, Sham Shui Po, was put in hand, and involved the destruction of many insanitary dwellings, and the resumption of a considerable amount of land.
The hospital at the infectious diseases settlement, Lai Chi Kok, was built during the year.
No public works were undertaken outside New Kowloon.
XI-GENERAL.
The district as a whole maintained a comfortable level of prosperity. Cheung Chau, where the island committee of business men are building a new market on up-to-date principles, is a notable centre of progress.
The islands were not behindhand in loyalty at the time of the Coronation. Embroidered addresses to the King were reverently presented by the elders of Cheung Chau and Tai O, where the people kept high holiday.
At Cheung Chau, H.M.S. Taku fired a royal salute, which was taken up by the miscellaneous ordnance of massed junks, and followed by festivity and a lantern procession.
Salt Pans and Quarries both had a poor year, owing on the one hand to the cheapness of salt, and on the other to the dullness of the stone-market in Canton.
New Kowloon saw considerable investment in land, by persons other than Chinese, near Kau Lung Tong and Kau Lung Tsai.
The economy of Sham Shui Po and Kowloon City is stable, and 1911 was a normal year.
Hang Hau continued to be popular as a fishing centre, and held out signs of renewed activity. Boat-building received an impetus there, and additional facilities were provided for watering the junks that come in to bream.
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Sweet potatoes, Peanuts, Onions, Beans, and Turnips were. well up to the average. Onions are a noticeable vegetable in Tung Chung and other parts of Lantao, and command a ready sale in Hongkong. Pumeloes and Pineapples were both good. The latter are only grown by the Hakkas of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan Islands.
The shrimp fishery of Cheung Chau district was excellent, but the season of the "Yellow Flower" fish, so important to Tai 0, was a comparative failure. The market-gardens of New Kowloon were, if anything, above the average.
The Hongkong rice trouble of September had no marked effect on the district, beyond causing an inevitable grumble at high prices.
X-PUBLIC WORKS.
Reclamation and improvement at Ap Liu village, Sham Shui Po, was put in hand, and involved the destruction of many insaui- tary dwellings, and the resumption of a considerable amount of land.
The hospital at the infectious diseases settlement, Lai Chi Kok, was built during the
year.
No public works were undertaken outside New Kowloon.
XI-GENERAL.
The district as a whole maintained a comfortable level of pros- perity. Cheung Chau, where the island committee of business men are building a new market on up-to-date principles, is a notable centre of progress.
The islands were not behindhand in loyalty at the time of the Coronation. Embroidered addresses to the King were reverently presented by the elders of Cheung Chau and Tai O, where the people kept high holiday.
At Cheung Chau, H.M.S. Taku fired a royal salute, which was taken up by the miscellaneous ordnance of massed junks, and followed by festivity and a lantern procession.
Salt Pans and Quarries both had a poor year, owing on the one hand to the cheapness of salt, and on the other to the dullness of the stone-market in Canton.
New Kowloon saw considerable investment in land, by persons other than Chinese, near Kau Lung Tong and Kau Lung Tsai.
The economy of Sham Shui Po and Kowloon City is stable, and 1911 was a normal year.
Hang Hau continued to be popular as a fishing centre, and held out signs of renewed activity. Boat-building received an impetus there, and additional facilities were provided for watering the junks that come in to bream.
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