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“...manufacture are now favouring the native weed. The output has
increased 30 per cent, on the previous year and business has been
profitably carried on.
Tinned Goods.The volume of exports increased and local
factories report a very good year.
Scimshu.The Superintendent of Imports and Exports reports
that the trade has been steady during the year, an increase being
shewn in Samshu (a) distilled localty, (b) imported, (c) exported and
(d) consumed locally. New distilleries have been opened in Hong-
kong and the New Territories.
* Vinegar.The output shews a slight falling off as compared
with the previous year and business generally has not been profit-
able.
Knitted, Vests and Socks.Notwithstanding the keen competi-
tion of the Japanese who imported largely in the early part of the
year, business cannot be said to have been bad, and prospects for
the coming year are good.
Leather and Hides.Local tanneries have almost died out, but
the export of raw hides to Penang has greatly increased...”
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unnecessary schools, an appeal lying to the Governor-in-Couucil.
This Ordinance has brought 620 schools with 11,909 pupils under
control. The total numbers of pupils at school in the Colony are:
1 English Schools. Vernacular Schools. j Total. i
Government, - i 2,155 107 1 | 2,262
Naval, Military and ex- cluded, Grant Schools, - 675 2,029 2,169 675 4,198
Private Schools, Hong- kong, Private Schools, New Territories,- - 1,196 7,490 3,223 8,686 3,223
i j 6,055 12,989 19,044
The most important schools, apart from the excluded schools
(of which the Department has no knoAvledge) are Queen's College
for Chinese and three District Schools its feeders, and the Belilios
Public School for Chinese girls. There is an Indian School of
growing importance. Kowloon School and Victoria School for
children of British parentage have an average attendance of about
120. The Diocesan School and Orphanage, St. Joseph's College
and the Ellis Kadoorie School are important boys' schools. The
Italian, French...”
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Page 47
“...Replacing Assessments of.......... 81,155 48,895
-- 15,656 -- 3/>9
818,906 ! 97,928
Assessments cancelled, tene- i
ments pulled clown or being * 128 98,105 58 86,918
in other respects not rateable, \
No. and Increase............. 412 220,801 181 $ 1 i 61,010
15. The following Table gives a comparison of the Assessments
for 1913-1914 and 1914-1915:-
District. Valuation 1913-14. Valuation 1914-15. | Increase. i i Per cent.
The City of Victoria, ... liill District, and Hong- kong Villages,...... Kowloon Point and Kow- loon Villages, ...... Total,.........$ $ 10,236,737 802,318 1,396,757 $ 11,945,570 864,511 1,600,022 $ 1,708,833 62,193 203,265 % 16-69 7*75 14-55
12,435,812 114,410,103 1,974,291 15-87...”
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Page 194
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5,Crown Rent Roll.
The total Crown Rent due in respect o£ leased lands in Hong-
kong and Kowloon (excluding certain Villages in Hongkong and
Kowloon entered in the Village Rent Roll) amounted for the year
ending 25th December to $399,296 a decrease of $10,077 on the
previous year which was due to the expiration of quarry leases
and to the reductions in rent granted to a number of lessees of
quarries who had suffered considerably by the closing down of their
quarries owing to the Revolution in' China. The total amount
due in respect of leased lands in the Villages in Hongkong and
Kowloon appearing in the Village Rent Roll for the year ending
30th September was $3,547 a decrease of $2 due to the resumption
and re-entry of a few small lots. The total number of lots of
Crown land appearing in the Rent Rolls with the total Rents is
shown in Table V.
6.Naval and Military Lands.
A new agreement was made with the War Department with
reference to Kowloon City Rifle Range. Kowloon Inland...”
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Page 387
“...spite of prejudice and
ignorance, I can feel no doubt that a few years' steady effort will
produce good results.
84. The subsidy system is justified as a temporary measure. It
is undesirable to engage a number of men on salaries until more
experience is acquired on both sides, and it is already clear that
however much the Government pays is more likely to go into the
pockets of the parents than of the teachers, until a point is reached
when school fees disappear. But judging by experience iu Hong-
kong a supply of good education produces a demand. Before long-
it may be hoped that parents in the New Territories will gladly pay
according to their means for the education, the efficient education,
of their children.
Technical Institute.
(Tables VIII and IX.)
85. The nett cost was $6,527 (an average of $6,209 for the pre-
vious 5 years). The increase is due to the withdrawal of the Li
Shing and College of Medicine Grants which now go to the Univer-
sity....”
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