40
2
CROWN LANDS.
Was
4. Land Sales, Extensions, Grants, etc.-The total amount of premia paid into the Treasury during the year $2,257,996.67 of which $21,302.00 was derived from fees for survey and boundary stones. The estimates for the year were $1,300,000.00 for Premia on new leases and $30,000.00 for Boundary Stones and Survey Fees. Table A gives a comparative statement and Table B gives a graph of the revenue derived from Land sales, etc., for the years 1924-1933.
5. Sales without auction. These are included in Table A at the end of this Report. The principal one involved the sale of an area of 25,050 square feet to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank from which $1,250,000.00 as premium was derived.
6. Exchanges.-These are also included in Table A.
7. Grants on nominal terms.-Grants of areas were made to the Honourable the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Tung Wah Hospital, St. John Ambulance Brigade and the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Trust Association.
8. Grants on short leases. Two areas, totalling 47,500 square feet, were granted as New Kowloon Dairy Farm Lots, each for a term of ten years.
9. Extensions of short leases.-Kowloon Garden Lot No. 3 was extended for a further period of five years from 1st May, 1933.
10. Piers-(a) Permanent.-In Hong Kong, on preparation of lease plans for pier No. 5 premium $1,780.00 was charged for the excess area of 356 square feet over original area granted, and a temporary pier was converted to permanent pier No. 45. In Kowloon extensions were granted to Piers Nos. 9 and 35.
(b) Temporary.-Licenses to erect ten piers in the New Territories were issued during the year with fees amounting to $342.73 and premia to $14.16.
11. Re-entries.-Eighteen lots in Hong Kong (four of which were cancelled), thirteen lots in Kowloon (three of which were cancelled), twenty lots in New Kowloon (nine of which were can- celled), twenty seven lots in Southern District (New Territories) and one hundred and thirty six lots in the Northern District (New Territories) were re-entered during the year.
12. Permits to occupy land for short periods. These were of a very miscellaneous character and too numerous to admit of individual mention. (a) The total amount of fee collected during the year was $275,162.03, being $105,946.29 for Hong Kong, $111,100.87 for Kowloon and $58,114.87 for New Kowloon. New permits issued during the year totalled 616 and 304 were cancelled
3
for various reasons; the total number of permits in force being 4,630. (b) The total amount of fees collected during the year in the New Territories was $3,095.77, being $711.30 for permits in the Southern District and $1,202.37 for yearly, $1,088.30 for five yearly, $31.80 for ten yearly and $62.00 for twenty-one yearly permits in the Northern District.
13. Prospecting and Mining Licenses.-Two new mining and two new prospecting licenses were issued during the year.
DRAWING OFFICE.
14. A staff of one Chief Draughtsman and fifteen Chinese Draughtsmen was employed during the year, and 7,650 plans as detailed below were prepared in connection with 49 land sales, 869 leases and miscellaneous permits, exchanges, etc.
Land Sales Leases
Miscellaneous
Original Drawings. Tracings. Prints.
98
588
1,788
1,738
121
3,367
98
1,859
5,693
In addition plans were prepared and sold to the Public, the sum realized being $553.00. A large number was supplied free
to various Government Departments.
TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEYS.
15. No trigonometrical work was carried out during the year.
16. Beacons were inspected on the following stations and re- pairs were executed where necessary: Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Boa Vista, Shaukiwan, Tai Koo, Quarry Bay, North Point, Causeway Bay, Jardine's Look Out, Hill 800, Mount Nicholson, Violet Hill, Stanley Mound, Stanley, Wong Ma Kok, Stanley Gap, Overbays, Kai Lung Wan, Brick Hill, Pottinger Peak, Shek O, Mount Collinson, Shek O Gap, Collinson Base (North) Red Hill, Mount Gough, Mount Kellett, Victoria Peak, Brewin Path, Cha Kwo Ling, Quarry Hill, Partridge Hill, Kow- loon City, Diamond Hill, Tate's Cairn, Kowloon Peak, Beacon Hill, Ping Shan, Shek Po, Castle Peak, Au Tau Minor, Au Tau Major, Mong Tsing, Ma On Kong, Wang Toi Shan, Lin Fa Ti, Kai Kung Ling, Shek Kong, Un Kong, Kam Tin (I), Kam Tin (II), Kam Tsin, Fanling, Sui Hang, Kwan Ti, Tsoi Hang, "Joss" Trig., Sugar Loaf, Tolo Rocks, Un Tau Shan, Castle Peak (Pier), San Tin, Mai Po.
41
Page 40Page 41
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.