IV.
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REVENUE.
The revenue collected in this office is set out under the various heads in Table C, the total being $159,191.56. Table D gives the revenue collected each year since 1913. To the figures in Table C should be added the following amounts paid by the District, but not through this office.
Liquor Duties, Sai Kung 4,725.12 Harbour Dues No. 1 Launch, 2,179.75 No. 2 3,510.35 No. 4 1,657.23 19 Crown Rents paid to Treasury, 2,745.45 Tobacco Duties, 5,172.00 Licences, ... 144.00 Total, $31,776.04The total revenue from the Northern District during 1922 was therefore $190,967.60 as against $153,567.55 in 1921. The increase was chiefly due to the high premia for land at Tai Po Market mentioned above.
V.-GENERAL.
Crops. The first padi crop was fairly good, but the second was 30 to 40% below average, partly owing to lack of water and partly to the ravages of locusts. Tai Po, Kam Tin and Shap Pat Heung were chief sufferers from these pests.
The potato crop was exceptionally good, the plentiful supply sending the price down to 50 cents a picul as against $1.50 in 1921.
Crime. The record of serious crime for the year was exceptionally light-one murder, six armed robberies and one manslaughter. The murder was the outcome of a smugglers' quarrel among the boats that haunt the water frontier at Deep Bay. Two of the armed robberies were further piracies of the Sha Chung ferry launch. Of the other 4, only one was of a serious nature.
Afforestation. The scheme for the afforestation of denuded areas by the local villagers made little or no progress. In every case the undertaking has remained the enterprise of individuals, the community at large being at best apathetic. In several cases (Lin Au, U Kwai Sha, Tsai Kek) active hostility was shown, the plantations being wantonly destroyed by unknown persons. The reason for this vandalism lies mainly in the fact that ownership of trees involves a certain control by their owner over the land in which they are planted, and although the waste lands round villages are now technically the property of the Crown, the...
IV.
J 2
REVENUE.
The revenue collected in this office is set out under the various heads in Table C the total being $159,191.56. Table D gives the revenue collected each year since 1913. To the figures in Table C should be added the following amounts paid by the District, but not through this office.-
Liquor Duties, Sai Kung
Harbour Dues
No. 1 Launch,
>> No. 2
4.725.12
2.179.75
3,510.35
1,657.23
**
No. 4
19
Crown Rents paid to Treasury, Tobacco Duties,
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Licences,
...
...
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...
Total,
-..
2,745.45
2
5,172.00
...11.642.14
144.00
$31,776.04
The total revenue from the Northern District during 1922 was therefore $190,967.60 as against $153,567.55 in 1921. The increase was chiefly due to the high premia for land at Tai Po
Market mentioned above.
V.-GENERAL.
Crops. The first padi crop was fairly good, but the second was 30 to 40% below average, partly owing to lack of water and partly to the ravages of locusts. Tai Po, Kam Tin and Shap Pat Heung were chief sufferers from these pests.
The potato crop was exceptionally good, the plentiful supply sending the price down to 50 cents a picul as against $1.50
in 1921.
Crime. The record of serious crime for the year was excep- tionally light-one murder, six armed robberies and one man- slaughter. The murder was the outcome of a smugglers' quarrel among the boats that haunt the water frontier at Deep Bay. Two of the armed robberies were further piracies of the Sha Chung ferry launch. Of the other 4, only one was of a serious nature.
Afforestation. The scheme for the afforestation of denuded areas by the local villagers made little or no progress. In every case the undertaking has remained the enterprise of individuals, the community at large being at best apathetic. In several cases (Lin Au, U Kwai Sha, Tsai Kek) active hostility was shewn, the plantations being wantonly destroyed by unknown persons. reason for this vandalism lies mainly in the fact that ownership of trees involves a certain control by their owner over the land in which they are planted and although the waste lands round villages are now technically the property of the Crown the
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