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(e.)-LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF LAND.
The net amount of premium received from sales of Crown land and pier rights for the year 1918 was $243,530, an increase of $95,444 on the preceding year and $59,538 more than the average for the past five years.
The principal items were $42,980 in respect of an extension of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 27 and Hunghom Inland Lot No. 218, $25,800 in respect of Aberdeen Inland Lots Nos. 81 to 88, $23,174 in respect of Hunghom Inland Lots Nos. 257 and 258, and $19,116 in respect of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1357.
In the New Territories the net amount received for premium on sales of land was $54,052 being an increase of $42,430 on the preceding year.
The number of deeds registered in the Land Office was 2,922 or 98 more than the preceding year, the total consideration being $47,726,785 as against $42,666,837 in 1917.
The Government resumed several large areas during the year, including Kowloon Marine Lot No. 83, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1178, and section A of Farm Lot No. 22.
The total area of land granted during the year was 890 acres of which 664 acres were situated in the New Territories; the total area of land resumed was 48 acres.
In the Northern District of the New Territories there was rather less demand for house sites and agricultural land but this was more than made up for by increased demand for land for growing fruit and other trees. Applicants have in several cases been allowed to purchase grave sites on the more remote hillsides on condition of planting the neighbourhood with trees, a condition which they are quite ready to accept.
In the Southern District the demand for land has been about the same as in previous years.
III. LEGISLATION.
Fifteen Ordinances were passed during 1918 of which six were amendments of previous Ordinances.
The most important matters with which these Ordinances dealt were the Indecent Exhibitions (No. 3), Bills of Exchange (Time of Noting) (No. 4), Claims against Enemies (No. 5), Peak District (Residence) (No. 8), General Military Service (No. 9), Copyright (No. 11), and Opium (No. 13).
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(e.)-LAND GRANTS AND GENERAL VALUE OF LAND.
The net amount of premium received from sales of Crown land and pier rights for the year 1918 was $243,530, an increase of $95,444 on the preceding year and $59,538 more than the average for the past five years.
The principal items were $42,980 in respect of an extension of Kowloon Marine Lot No. 27 and Hunghom Inland Lot No. 218, $25,800 in respect of Aberdeen Inland Lots Nos. 81 to 88, $23,174 in respect of Hunghom Inland Lots Nos. 257 and 258, and $19,116 in respect of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1357.
In the New Territories the net amount received for premium on sales of land was $54,052 being an increase of $42,430 on the preceding year.
The number of deeds registered in the Land Office was 2,922 or 98 more than the preceding year, the total consideration being $47,726,785 as against $42,666,837 in 1917.
The Government resumed several large areas during the year, including Kowloon Marine Lot No. 83, Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1178, and section A of Farm Lot No. 22.
The total area of land granted during the year was 890 acres of which 664 acres were situated in the New Territories; the total area of land resumed was 48 acres.
In the Northern District of the New Territories there was rather less demand for house sites and agricultural land but this was more than made up for by increased demand for land for growing fruit and other trees. Applicants have in several cases been allowed to purchase grave sites on the more remote hillsides on condition of planting the neighbourhood with trees, a condition which they are quite ready to accept.
In the Southern District the demand for land has been about the same as in previous years.
III. LEGISLATION.
Fifteen Ordinances were passed during 1918 of which six were amendments of previous Ordinances.
The most important matters with which these Ordinances dealt were the Indecent Exhibitions (No. 3), Bills of Exchange (Time of Noting) (No. 4), Claims against Enemies (No. 5), Peak District (Residence) (No. 8), General Military Service (No. 9), Copyright (No. 11), and Opium (No. 13).
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