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The following amounts were collected from the district by other departments :-
Liquor Duties, Sai Kung,
Harbour Dues
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19
97
No. 1 Launch
No. 2 Launch
"
23-
No. 4 Launch
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Crown Rents paid in Land Office,
Mining Licences paid in Treasury, Prospecting Licences,
$ cts.
3,970.96
3,119.75
3,889.15
...
2,549.25
2,123.90
2,648.00
500.00
Total...
..$18,807.01
Tobacco duties and tobacco licence fees collected by the Imports and Exports Department are not included.
V.--GENERAL.
Crops. The first crops were fair in most districts, but the second owing to an almost complete drought suffered heavily, large quantities having to be abandoned.
Boycott. The boycott affected this district scarcely at all, the inhabitants remaining loyal and unperturbed. The cessation of supplies of vegetables, pigs and cattle from the up-river districts gave the New Territories a chance of which they were not slow to avail themselves and the fillip thereby given to market gardening will, it is hoped, have a lasting effect.
Conditions on the frontier however gave rise to considerable trouble and anxiety, the undisciplined and licentious conduct of the armed strikers' pickets extending to acts of violence and robbery committed even within our Territories, British Sha Tau Kok suffered especially in this respect, so much so that on two occasions at least, armed forces had to be summoned to assist in the first case in August when H.M.S. "Foxglove" was despatched to recover two junks, laden with merchandise which had been seized by the "strikers," and later in November when troops of the Punjabi Regiment were stationed at Sha Tau Kok in order to discourage the armed pickets who were terrorizing the inhabitants of British Territory.
The close of the year brought more peaceful conditions, under which the pickets contented themselves with extracting "squeeze" from the local trade over the border.
Both the natives of the district and Police responsible for their protection are to be congratulated on the remarkable courage and restraint displayed by them under these trying conditions.
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The following amounts were collected from the district by other departments :-
Liquor Duties, Sai Kung,
Harbour Dues
}
19
97
No. 1 Launch
No. 2 Launch
"
23-
No. 4 Launch
J
Crown Rents paid in Land Office,
Mining Licences paid in Treasury, Prospecting Licences,
$ cts.
3,970.96
3,119.75
3.889.15
...
2,549.25
2,123.90
2,648.00
500.00
Total...
..$18,807.01
Tobacco duties and tobacco licence fees collected by the Imports and Exports Department are not included.
V.--GENERAL.
Crops. The first crops were fair in most districts, but the second owing to an almost complete drought suffered heavily, large quantities having to be abandoned.
Boycott. The boycott affected this district scarcely at all, the inhabitants remaining loyal and unperturbed. The cessation of supplies of vegetables, pigs and cattle from the up-river districts gave the New Territories a chance of which they were not slow to avail themselves and the fillip thereby given to market gardening will, it is hoped, have a lasting effect.
Conditions on the frontier however gave rise to considerable trouble and anxiety, the undisciplined and licentious conduct of the armed strikers' pickets extending to acts of violence aud robbery cominitted even within our Territories, British Sha Tau Kok suffered especially in this respect, so much so that on two occasions at least, armed forces had to be summoned to assist in the first case in August when H. M. S. "Foxglove" was despatched to recover two junks, laden with merchandise which had been seized by the "strikers," and later in November when troops of the Punjabi Regiment were stationed at Sha Tau Kok in order to discourage the armed pickets who were terrorizing the inhabitants of British Territory.
The close of the year brought more peaceful conditions, under which the pickets contented themselves with extracting "squeeze from the local trade over the border.
Both the natives of the district and Police responsible for their protection are to be congratulated on the remarkable courage and restraint displayed by them under these trying conditions.
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