year.
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An increase of 50 per cent, in the revenue from Money Changers' Licences is due no doubt to the great discount at which the silver subsidiary coinage stood for a part of the The inclusion of the Kowloon Peninsula in that part of the Colony to which Part III of Ordinance No. 3 of 1888, providing for the Registration of Householders, applies, accounts for the comparatively large sum received under the heading Householders' Regis- tration. The increase in the revenue from Markets is a little over one per cent. and is fairly evenly distributed.
It is satisfactory to find that the rents for the stalls in the Mongkoktsui Market are maintained at the level at which they stood twelve months ago; the market evidently meets a want. The Des Voeux Road Market has not been hitherto a great success but for some reason the market people turned their attention to it in November and all the market is now fully let at the rate of $1,306 a year, a low rent it is true, but an increase of 30 per cent. on the rent received in 1906. As I stated in last year's report the accommodation for the poultry dealers in the New Western Market was found insufficient and two dealers have been given permission to move into premises outside the market. The Old Western Market has been opened out by the removal of unnecessary stalls and the remainder of the premises has been divided between the butchers and vegetable and fruit dealers. The arrangements were completed on the 15th October.
Of the total revenue collected by the Registrar General's Department in 1907, 67 per cent. came from the rent of market premises, and 18 per cent. from fees for hawkers' licences.
The total expenditure during the year was $35,630.88 compared with $36,947.46- in 1906. The expenditure in 1906 was increased by the Census. The actual expenditure fell short of the estimated expenditure by $2,701.12. The principal items in which the expenditure was below the estimate were Personal Emoluments, Census and Kent of Quarters for student-interpreters.
2.-Protection of Women and Girls.
(See Tables II a to II ƒ.)
(i.)—Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, No. 4 of 1897.
The number of women detained under warrant was 139 compared with 160 in 1906.. The subjoined Table enables a comparison to be made between the last seven years.
Women detained by the Registrar General.
Released after Percentage of
enquiry..
ō to 4.
Year.
At the Registrar General's Office.
At the Emigration
Total.
Office.
1
2
3
4
5
6
1901
1902
82
335
113
34
139
587
310
53
:
1903
144
826
.407
50
1904
289
135
424
237
56
1905
191
71
262
91
36
1906
110
50
160
49
31
1907
90
49
139
39
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