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HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.

ments. Estimates will, therefore, be presented to you for certain additional works of reclamation; for the formation of new suburbs, and for the laying out of new streets in the districts of Belcher's Bay and Causeway Bay

13. As the hitherto existing system by which purchasers of Crown leaseholds have been able to evade their building obligations has led to a considerable area of land in and near the city remaining vacant, directions have been given that in the future no purchaser of a Crown allotment shall receive his lease until he shall have complied with the conditions of the sale, and expended the specified sum upon proper tenements. Moreover, in the villages of the Colony, the system of tenants-at-will (termed licensed squatters) whose tenures were terminable upon one month's notice, will be superseded by an improved system of small and inexpensive building leaseholds for 75 years. The inhabitants will thus gain that security for the investment of their money in suitable homes which was altogether wanting under their present squatter's license, by which they were liable to eviction upon one month's notice. These measures will, it is expected, tend to stimulate the further erection of proper dwellings, and to relieve the present overcrowded condition of several quarters of the city,

14. On sanitary and other grounds I have come to the conclusion that the drainage of the marshy lands situated within the racecourse in the Wong-nei Chung Valley is as much a work of necessity as the reclamation of Causeway Bay. A plan will, therefore, be laid before you for the drainage of these meadows and for their conversion into a public park.

15. Adverting to other important public undertakings, which have received legislative sanction, I am glad to inform you that the breakwater at Causeway Bay, intended to form a harbour of refuge for the boat population during typhoons, has been satisfactorily completed within the amount originally estimated; that the Taitam Waterworks are steadily progressing; as is also the extension of the Government Hospital, together with the new lunatic asylum; and that the erection of the new Central School will be commenced forthwith. The new Meteorological Observatory has been finished, and will, it is expected, prove of practical value to the maritime interests of commerce.

16. I have pressed on the Imperial Government the importance on sanitary and other grounds of that urgently needed improvement, the connexion of the eastern and western portions of Victoria, by means of a continuous marine embankment along the sea frontage of the military cantonments and the Royal Naval yard. I hope to be able ere long to announce a favourable decision.

17. With regard to the vital question of public instruction, the report of the Inspector of Schools for 1883 will be laid before you. I have myself visited on several occasions, among the other public establishments, the chief educational institutions in this Island. Their condition is generally satisfactory. The new

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676 Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841–1941 HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. ments. Estimates will, therefore, be presented to you for certain additional works of reclamation; for the formation of new suburbs, and for the laying out of new streets in the districts of Belcher's Bay and Causeway Bay 4 13. As the hitherto existing system by which purchasers of Crown leaseholds have been able to evade their building obligations has led to a considerable area of land in and near the city remaining vacant, directions have been given that in the future no purchaser of a Crown allotment shall receive his lease until he shall have complied with the conditions of the sale, and expended the specified sum upon proper tenements. Moreover, in the villages of the Colony, the system of tenants-at-will (termed licensed squatters) whose tenures were terminable upon one month's notice, will be superseded by an improved system of small and inexpensive building leaseholds for 75 years. The inhabitants will thus gain that security for the investment of their money in suitable homes which was altogether wanting under their present squatter's license, by which they were liable to eviction upon one month's notice. These measures will, it is expected, tend to stimulate the further erection of proper dwellings, and to relieve the present overcrowded condition of several quarters of the city, 14. On sanitary and other grounds I have come to the conclusion that the drainage of the marshy lands situated within the racecourse in the Wong-nei Chung Valley is as much a work of necessity as the reclamation of Causeway Bay. A plan will, therefore, be laid before you for the drainage of these meadows and for their conversion into a public park. 15. Adverting to other important public undertakings, which have received legislative sanction, I am glad to inform you that the breakwater at Causeway Bay, intended to form a harbour of refuge for the boat population during typhoons, has been satisfactorily completed within the amount originally estimated; that the Taitam Waterworks are steadily progressing; as is also the extension of the Government Hospital, together with the new lunatic asylum; and that the erection of the new Central School will be commenced forthwith. The new Meteorological Observatory has been finished, and will, it is expected, prove of practical value to the maritime interests of commerce. 16. I have pressed on the Imperial Government the importance on sanitary and other grounds of that urgently needed improvement, the connexion of the eastern and western portions of Victoria, by means of a continuous marine embankment along the sea frontage of the military cantonments and the Royal Naval yard. I hope to be able ere long to announce a favourable decision. 17. With regard to the vital question of public instruction, the report of the Inspector of Schools for 1883 will be laid before you. I have myself visited on several occasions, among the other public establishments, the chief educational institutions in this Island. Their condition is generally satisfactory. The new Page 695 Page 696

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676 Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841–1941 HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. ments. Estimates will, therefore, be presented to you for certain additional works of reclamation; for the formation of new suburbs, and for the laying out of new streets in the districts of Belcher's Bay and Causeway Bay 4 13. As the hitherto existing system by which purchasers of Crown leaseholds have been able to evade their building obliga- tions has led to a considerable area of land in and near the city remaining vacant, directions have been given that in the future no purchaser of a Crown allotment shall receive his lease until he shall have complied with the conditions of the sale, and expended the specified sum upon proper tenements. Moreover, in the villages of the Colony, the system of tenants-at-will (terined licensed squatters) whose tenures were terminable upon one month's notice, will be superseded by an improved system of small and inexpensive building leaseholds for 75 years. The inhabitants will thus gain that security for the investment of their money in suitable homes which was altogether wanting under their present squatter's license, by which they were liable to eviction upon one month's notice. These measures will, it is expected, tend to stimulate the further erection of proper dwellings, and to relieve the present overcrowded condition of several quarters of the city, 14. On sanitary and other grounds I have come to the con- clusion that the drainage of the marshy lands situated within the racecourse in the Wong-nei Chung Valley is as much a work of necessity as the reclamation of Causeway Bay. Bay. A plan will, therefore, be laid before you for the drainage of these meadows and for their conversion into a public park. 15. Adverting to other important public undertakings, which have received legislative sanction, I am glad to inform you that the breakwater at Causeway Bay, intended to form a harbour of refuge for the boat population during typhoons, has been satisfac- torily completed within the amount originally estimated; that the Taitam Waterworks are steadily progressing; as is also the extension of the Government Hospital, together with the new lunatic asylum; and that the erection of the new Central School will be commenced forthwith. The new Meteorological Obser- vatory has been finished, and will it is expected prove of practical value to the maritime interests of commerce. 16. I have pressed on the Imperial Government the importance on sanitary and other grounds of that urgently needed improve ment, the connexion of the eastern and western portions of Victoria, by means of a continuous marine embankinent alore the sea frontage of the military cantonments and the Royal Naval yard. I hope to be able ere long to announce a favourable decision. 17. With regard to the vital question of public instruction, the report of the Inspector of Schools for 1883 will be laid before you. I have myself visited on several occasions, among the other public establishments, the chief educational institutions in this Island. Their condition is generally satisfactory. The new + Page 695Page 696

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HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.

13. As the hitherto existing system by which purchasers of Crown leaseholds have been able to evade their building obliga- tions has led to a considerable area of land in and near the city remaining vacant, directions have been given that in the future no purchaser of a Crown allotment shall receive his lease until he shall have complied with the conditions of the sale, and expended the specified sum upon proper tenements. Moreover, in the villages of the Colony, the system of tenants-at-will (terined licensed squatters) whose tenures were terminable upon one month's notice, will be superseded by an improved system of small and inexpensive building leaseholds for 75 years. The inhabitants will thus gain that security for the investment of their money in suitable homes which was altogether wanting under their present squatter's license, by which they were liable to eviction upon one month's notice. These measures will, it is expected, tend to stimulate the further erection of proper dwellings, and to relieve the present overcrowded condition of several quarters of the city,

14. On sanitary and other grounds I have come to the con- clusion that the drainage of the marshy lands situated within the racecourse in the Wong-nei Chung Valley is as much a work of necessity as the reclamation of Causeway Bay.

Bay. A plan will, therefore, be laid before you for the drainage of these meadows and for their conversion into a public park.

15. Adverting to other important public undertakings, which have received legislative sanction, I am glad to inform you that the breakwater at Causeway Bay, intended to form a harbour of refuge for the boat population during typhoons, has been satisfac- torily completed within the amount originally estimated; that the Taitam Waterworks are steadily progressing; as is also the extension of the Government Hospital, together with the new lunatic asylum; and that the erection of the new Central School will be commenced forthwith. The new Meteorological Obser- vatory has been finished, and will it is expected prove of practical value to the maritime interests of commerce.

16. I have pressed on the Imperial Government the importance on sanitary and other grounds of that urgently needed improve ment, the connexion of the eastern and western portions of Victoria, by means of a continuous marine embankinent alore the sea frontage of the military cantonments and the Royal Naval yard. I hope to be able ere long to announce a favourable decision.

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