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5. Shaukeiwan.-The Shaukeiwan District i.e., from North Point to Lyeemoon, has increased by 6,442, and much building was in progress when the Census was taken. The population here largely relies for its livelihood on the Taikoo Dockyard and Sugar Refinery, which were fully employed. A large scheme of reclamation is now about to commence at North Point, and before long the City of Victoria will undoubtedly extend in an unbroken line from West Point to Lyeemoon Pass, a distance of 10 miles.

6. Aberdeen. The Aberdeen district has increased by 644; there is considerable building activity here, especially on the reclamation recently completed, while across the harbour at Aplichau a large scheme of reclamation is in hand. This district depends largely on junk building and the fishing industry which of recent years has not been very prosperous.

7. Pokfulam.-The Pokfulam district, i.e., that part of the South Side of the Island extending from Mount Davis to Aberdeen, has increased by 951; the population is largely dependent on the Dairy Farm, but an increasing number of European style houses are being erected in this district.

8. Kowloon Peninsula.-The Kowloon Peninsula shows an increase of 55,951 or 82.96 per cent, a phenomenal increase in a district which in 1881 only numbered 9,021 inhabitants:

(a.) Kowloon Point.-That part of the Kowloon Peninsula south of King's Park shows an increase in the non-Chinese population of 1,048, chiefly owing to the migration of Portuguese from Hongkong. A large number of European flats have been recently erected in the district. The Chinese population has increased by 4,642.

(b.) Hunghom.-The District of Hunghom has increased by 8,759; this is due chiefly to the fact that in 1911 work at the Kowloon Docks and Cement Works, on which the population chiefly relies, was exceptionally slack. The Dock Co. and the Electric Light Co. have erected new blocks of quarters for their staffs at Tai Wan, but apart from this there has been little building in the district. There is plenty of land available for building purposes along the Kowloon City Road, but while the abomin- able and largely preventable dust nuisance caused by the Cement Works is allowed to continue, residence in this district will be unpopular except for the lower classes of labour employed by the Cement Works and Dock Co., and the developement of a large part of the Peninsula will be effectually prevented.

(c.) Yaumati.-Yaumati i.e., the district between the Indian Barracks and the Police Station, has increased by 8,914. There were a very large number of houses in course of erection at the time of the Census, and I estimate that by the beginning of next year accommodation will have been pro- vided for 10,000 additional persons in this district. The reclamation in front of the Police Station completed a few years ago has not yet been built upon, and forms one of the few remaining vacant areas in this district.

(d.) Mongkok.—Mongkok i.e., the district extending from the Yaumati Police Station to Mongkok Village, has increased by 14,533. Great building activity has been apparent in recent years and all available land has now been occupied except in the immediate vicinity of Mongkok Village itself. A large amount of swampy ground has been filled in and is now being built upon; there will be room however for extension between Mongkok and Yaumati Railway Station as soon as the necessary work of filling in the low-lying ground has been taken in hand.

(e.) Taikoktsui and Shamshuipo.-Taikoktsui and Shamshuipo have increased by 6,372 in spite of the fact that a large number of matsheds and huts formerly occupied as dwellings at Sz Wo T'ong and Cheung Sha Wan have been removed. The old village of Shamshuipo composed of narrow winding alleyways and one-storied stone hovels has been completely swept away and in its place a modern suburb is rapidly rising with wide streets and three-storied houses, on land reclaimed from the sea; at the date of the Census a large number of houses were in course of erection. The whole area is being laid out on a systematic plan drawn up some years