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The following are details of some of principal Land Sales

NUMRER OF LOT.

AREA IN SQUARE FEET,'

CROWN RENT

PER ANNUN.

PREMIA.

RATE PER SQUARE FOOT.

$ c.

Marine Lot

289

16,242

298

128,200

7.89

285

201,132

2,078

70,600

0.35

"

Inland Lot

97

1723

37,060

382

11,138

0.30

1711

40,347

278

10,106

0.25

Kowloon Marine Lot

83

129,750

1,192

39,025

0.30

85

29

19

140,000

804

21,050

0.15

86

21,223

122

10,662

0.50

+

Inland Lot

115T

Jy

73,080

672

21,944

0.30

1161

145,150

1,832

65,418

0.45

New Kowloon Marine Lot

2

345,928

2,978

16,550

0.047

One lot was put up to auction but the applicant failed to bid for it and his deposit of $100 was therefore forfeited to the Government.

Extensions. The extensions granted in Hongkong were not important. Messrs. BLACKHEAD & Co., the owners of Kowloon Marine Lot 34, were granted by the Secretary of State an area of 75,996 square feet, most of which was sea bed in front of and adjoining the lot; a small extension to Hung Hom Inland Lot 24 was also granted to the Dock Company.

Resumptions.-Arrangements were made with the owners of Kowloon Inland Lot 1011 to surrender a portion of the lot, required in carrying out the scheme for providing main thoroughfares in Kowloon, on payment of $25,000, and also with the owners of lots 69A, 79, 80 and 81 for a portion of these lots for a similar at a cost of $25,000,

purpose

A portion of Inland Lot 8 having an area of 26,702 square feet, including a number of houses, was resumed under the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900, in connection with the Kau Ü Fong Resumption Scheme, the total amount paid to owners being $224,551.47. This is dealt with in para. 74.

Rural Building Lot 83 having an area of 1,650 square feet was surrendered to the Government by the owner for the sum of $3.000, the area being required for the extension of the Chair Coolie Quarters at the Peak. Inland Lot 509 was pur- chased by the Government for waterworks purposes for the sum of $6,500.

Grants on Short Leases.-The grants on short leases included an area of 45,000 square feet which was leased to the Kowloon Bowling Green Club for a period of 3 years at an annual rental of $36; an area of 260,448 square feet at Lai Chi Kok in the New Territory, leased to the Transvaal Mine Owners Asso- ciation as an Emigration Camp for coolies bound for South Africa, for a period of 5 years at an annual rental of $2,392; a quarry at Tai Wan in the New Terri- tory having an area of 52,500 square feet, at an annual rental of $300; and a wharf on the Sham Chun River in the New Territory for a period of 5 years at an annual rental of $75.

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Grants on nominal terms include:-In Hongkong.-An area of 54,450 square feet at Mount Caroline for burying funeral urns containing disin- terred remains; an area of 48,382 square feet as an extension to the Jewish Cemetery; an area of 5,566 square feet for a District Watchmen's House at Wan- chai; an area of 20,000 square feet as an extension to the Alice Memorial Hospital; and an area of 373,900 square feet for a Naval Infectious Diseases Hospital at Mount Parish.

In Kowloon.-An area of 5,200 square feet to the Church Missionary Society as a garden, and an area of 21,000 square feet to the same Society for the erection of a Church and Minister's House. Both these grants are just within the old Boundary line South-west of Kowloon City.

In New Territory.—An area of 1·005 acres for a Christian Chinese Cemetery near Kowloon City, and an area of 4.75 acres at Sham Shui Po for a Chinese Cemetery.

Permits. The permits to occupy lands for short periods comprise areas let for storage, boatbuilding, breaming and other purposes, and a few quarrying per- mits for the more remote parts of the New Territory.