As there is sure to be a very large demand for plots of land in this new district of Harbin, the cipal authorities arranged that such plots will be: drawn for. by those Who desire to build houses la nut in the first place has been decided to allot 2,000 plots to those who can prove that they have suffered through the floods that occurred last year. The [drawing for those plots will take place in Harbin in the Land Department _on the March 24, conditions of rental being as follows:
'The lease is 90 years, the rents of 500 sq. metres of land for this time amounting to local §1,407.04 of ws which $9,000 is rental to the Land Department, $492.04 is for street paving and' $25 for land planning.
Whole of this sum must be paid within 26° years. Thus the Tease holder will have the last four years of his lease entirely free land and he must pay $42.10. the first year, half of which must. be Paid in before the drawing takes doubt that building" operatics commence as soon ae the spring
pected that not less than 1,000 new pected that nat less than 1.000 neve Fouses will be added. to" Harbin during the coming summer season, The demand for and other building' materials should' be ery considerable and it is. more than likely that" prices for these will rise, The garden city will be Built tothe new railway line which {Snow being constructed from Lata on the Kirin Railway to Harbin and ill therefore have a. direct com-Teanication of its own with the Korean coast on the east and Ts tsthar on the west, as the new railway will join up' with the Hfuhal Railway, the trains running according to the new railway bridge which now being constructed by the South' Manchuria Railway" three! miles north of Harbin, Russian Population is expected that the Russi emigrant population of Harbin will take up many plots of land in the town while there are sure to!
many" Japanese who. will also be interested in the new part. Harbin, especially" as the "garden yoing laid out on the style fof many such towne at present seen in Japat From the plan of the new town issued by the Municipal Council it quite evident that. the Hussiaa ginigranz population has very much to do with the new proposals as the streets have the following "names Dnepr, Tzaritsin, Volga, Kamo, Ural, Kief, ete.
In' Harbin all the Russian names of streets have been entirely efface ed by the Chinese authorities some years ago and though plans of the town have only the former Russian names it is quite impossible for any person to find an address unless he meets with those who have in the city for many years and are therefore fully acquainted with the name of each street in the town.
The Chinese names and the Chi-' nese characters are known only to
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