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HONGKONG ESTIMATES

RENTS AND INTEREST.

CLASS III.

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

Approved Estimate, 1915.

Estimate, 1916.

Buildings,

40,000

34,300 (1)

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

*64,580

72,000 (2)

Laundries,

2,700

1,920 (3)

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

359,000

363,000 (4)

Leased Lands, New Territories, (Crown Rent),

121,330

120,000

Markets, Ordinance 1 of 1903,

160,000

161,000

Piers, Ordinance 11 of 1899,.

43,500

44,000

(2)

Pineapple Land Leases,

1,160

1,050

Slaughter-house, Ordinance 1 of 1903,.

86,500

84,000

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

14,000

15,000 J

Stone Quarries,

27,500

23,600 (5)

2. INTEREST,

TOTAL,....

TOTAL,

920,290

919,870

1,000

100 (6)

1,000

100

(1) Some tenancies given up, and some rents reduced. (2) Based on revised estimate for 1915. (3) Rent reduced.

(4) More land leased.

(5) Less demand for stone.

(6) Nominal item: no balances or deposits expected.