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Sufficient to reduce so much the price of the cost of life in this Colony. In Macao, pork, vegetables, beef, fish, are all farmed or monopolised, only Government fixes the price that can be demanded for some of the Articles, so that the System followed in Hongkong seems to me more liberal than that in use at Macao, although the latter place is frequently quoted and held up as a pattern for imitation.
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144. What makes the provisions so dear in this island is the abundance of Pirates hovering about the entrances of the harbour and round the shores of the island. Not a week passes in which some of the Market boats are not taken by Pirates, and naturally enough people who bring produce to this Market will compensate themselves for the risk they sustain. I suppose the same effect would be felt as regards any other Market, if transport of the article was as unsafe as it is from the adjoining province to this place.
15. At present the prices of the necessaries of life in Hongkong, firewood being scarcer in Macao than here, and owing to the supply Hongkong has decidedly the advantage, as is known to every one who has gone over to Macao, either for his health or pleasure.
Many a family will go thither from Hongkong without securing a regular supply of meat from this place.
10. Only the Government Buildings remain which produce Rents, viz., the Post Office, £161 per annum, which is little, considering the extent of the ground.
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Sufficient to reduce so much the price of the cost of life in this Colony. In Macao, pork, vegetables, beef, fish, are all farmed or monopolised, only Government fixes the price that can be demanded for some of the Articles, so that the System followed in Hongkong seems to me more liberal than that in use at Macao, although the latter place is frequently quoted and held up as a pattern for imitation.
144. What makes the provisions so dear in this island is the abundance of Pirates hovering about the entrances of the harbour and round the shores of the island. Not a week passes in which some of the Market boats are not taken by Pirates, and naturally enough people who bring produce to this Market will compensate themselves for the risk they sustain. I suppose the same effect would be felt as regards any other Market, if transport of the article was as unsafe as it is from the adjoining province to this place.
15. At present the prices of the necessaries of life in Hongkong, firewood being scarcer in Macao than here, and owing to the supply Hongkong has decidedly the advantage, as is known to every one who has gone over to Macao, either for his health or pleasure, a family will go thither from Hongkong without securing a regular supply of meat from this place.
10. Only the Government Buildings remain which produce Rents, viz., the Post Office, £161 per annum, which is little, considering the extent of the ground.
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