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HONGKONG ESTIMATES

CLASS III.

RENTS AND INTEREST.

1. RENT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, LAND AND HOUSES :-

Approved Estimate, 1913.

Estimate, 1914.

Buildings,

21,000

49,000 (1)

Lands not Leased, (Permits for Encroachments, &c.),

55,000

62,500

Land Revenue, New Territories, (Crown Rent),........

118,000

120,000

›(2)

Laundries,

3,000

2,700

Leased Lands, (Crown Rent exclusive of New Territories), .

347,000

352,000 J

Markets, Ordinance 1 of 1903,

140,000

150,000 (3)

Piers, Ordinance 11 of 1899,..

42,500

43,000

Pineapple Land Leases,

950

1,100 > (1)

Slaughter-house, Ordinance 1 of 1903,........

83,000

86,000

Slaughter House, Ma Tau Kok, Ordinance 1 of 1903,

14,000

14,000

Stone Quarries,

25,310

25,300

2. INTEREST,

TOTAL,...

TOTAL,...

849,760

905,600

5,000

2,000 (4)

5,000

2,000

(3) New markets opened.

(1) Lease of rooms in Government Offices and increased

rental of old Post Office.

(2) Based on revised estimates for 1913.

(4) Decrease anticipated owing to overdraft at Bank.