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HONGKONG ESTIMATES

RENTS AND INTEREST.

CLASS III.

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

Buildings,

Approved Estimate, 1914.

Estimate, 1915,

49,000

40,000 (1)

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

62,500

64,580 (2)

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

120,000

121,350 (3)

2,700

2,700

Laundries,

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

352,000

359,000 (3)

Markets. Ordinance 1 of 1903,

150,000

160,000 )

Piers, Ordinance 11 of 1899......

43,000

43,500

(4)

Pineapple Land Leases,

1,100

1,160

Slaughter-house, Ordinance 1 of 1903,..

86,000

86,500 J

Slaughter-house, Ma Tau Kok, Ordinance 1 of 1903,

14,000

14,000

Stone Quarries,

25,300

27,500 (4)

2. INTEREST,

TOTAL,...

TOTAL,

.$

905,600

920 290

2,000

1,000 (5)

2,000

1,000

(1) Termination of lease of Lai Chi Kok Quarantine Station

by Military Authorities.

(2) Increase in number of permits expected.

(3) More land leased.

(4) Based on revised estimate for 1914.

(5) Decrease anticipated owing to overdraft at Bank.