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COMPARATIVE YEARLY STATEMENT OF THE REVENUE,-Continued.

Specify each separate Tax or Duty

according to the classifications

employed in the Estimates,

Amount collected in 1931.

Amount collected in 1932.

Increase.

Decrease.

Cause of Increase

or Decreuse.

71

Brought forward.......... 308,690.36)

7.-RENT OF GOVERNMENT

PROPERTY LAND AND

HOUSES, Continued.

Leased Laude, (Crown Rent Ex-

clusive of New Territories), Leased Lands, New Territories

(Crown Rent),

Markets,

C.

C.

368,488.29

C.

$

C.

61,889.37

2,091.44

548,236,28

546,533.86

1,702.42

Over estimatel.

199,529.12

529.12 200,942.65

7,413.53,

300,711.52 331,334.72

30,623.20

I

Piers,

Pineapple Land Leases,............

Stone Quarries,

41,493.37 49,863.53

1,127.70 1,078.33;

38,269.29 85,723,99

2,370.16;

More land sold.

New Markets opened at Sai Ying Pun and Lockhart Road.

More licences issued

49.37

2,545.30

Fower permits issued.

Total........

$1,432,057.64 1,527,965.37

102,296.26

6,888.53

8-INTEREST,

224,460.46 313,252.04,

98,791.58

Interest due in 1931 on Joint Colonial Fund was temporarily withheld and paid in 1932. Increased balancës.

9.—MISCELLANEOUS

RECEIPTS.

Condemned Stores, &c.,..........

Conservancy Contracts,...

Overpayments in previous years,

Other Miscellaneous Receipts,

Royalty Payable by the Hong

Kong Telephone Co., Ltd.,...,

Royalty payable by the Hong

Kong Tramway Co., Ltd

Appreciation of Sterling

Securities.

36,755.62 13,892.80

844.25 1,371.50

33,838.46 234,444.91

84,986.24 291,902.02 206,916.68

22,862.82

Fewer sales.

527.25

200.606.45

37,131.00, 42.068.00

4,937.00

Re-imbursement from loan account in respect of salaries of officers employed on loan works.

Variable, profit on exchange.

More lines installed.

38,402.83 45,274.35

6,872.02

A

Increased traffic.

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238,794.40 238,794.40

Appreciation in the market value of investments on account of surplus balances,

231,957.90

867,748.88 658.658.80

22,862.82

Total

10.—LAND SALES.

Premia on New Leases, Hongkong.

487,604.71,

Do.

Kowloon.

334,095.89

3,177,807.94

Do.

New Kowloon.

506,998.02

1,807,149.54

Decreased demand for Innd.

Do.

New Territories.

41,119.78

TOTAL$ 3,177,807.94 1,370,658.40

T

1,807,149.54