...
Tls. 5,358,450 | Paper
Rice Fibres
Beans
Skins
...
...
Bristles...
...
+4
...
SHANGHAI
..
5,010,767 Medicines 4,584,535 Straw Braid 4,293,988 Fans 3,938,138
729
Tls. 3,676,294 | Books, Printed Tls. 1,475,600
2,550,327 Grasscloth
...
1,970,144 Nutgalls
...
...
...
Beancake
...
...
1,457,721 1,317,143
1,518,568 | Pottery & E'ware. 1,068,520 1,516,852 | Sundries
...30,400,411
Total Hk. Tls. 323,752,376
The goods for export brought down under Transit Passes amounted to Tls.14,446,770. This was an increase of Tls. 2,887,365 as compared with that of 1915.
The total carrying trade, entrances and clearances, for the year 1915 was divided amongst the different flags as under:--
British Japanese Chinese... American French Danish
Dutch
...
Russian... Swedish...
Norwegian
Others
...
...
Steamers Tonnage Sailing Tonnage Total Tonnage Duties,
3,899 6,599,503
196 58,450
4,095
6,657,953 Tls. 5,086,298
3,373 5,230,706
4
400
3,377
""
4,990 3,259,252
7,050
220,516
12,040
""
5,231,106 3,879,290 3,179,768
1,499,417
523
287,568
59
1,300
582
288,868
216,146
""
92
...
423,866
92
423,866
""
137,982
83
110,048
+
83
110,048
122,646
""
58
112,094
55
59
112,149
""
80,031
210
...
284,349
210
284,349
78,353
""
20
...
59,240
20
59,240
68,588
95
169,071
95
169,071
56,315
""
19
...
2,677
19
2,677
12,137
""
13,362 16,538,374
...
وو
Totals
...
7,310 280,721 20,672 16,819,095 11,237,203
The Customs Revenue, Hk. Tls. 11,324,517 for the same year, consisted of :--
Import Duties ... Hk. Tls. 6,584,355
Export Duties
Opium Likin
}}
2,414,569
218,313
Tonnage Dues ... Coast Trade Duties Transit Dues
Hk. Tls.
19
726,064 1,000,863
380,353
The above tables show that more than half of the whole trade of China in foreign
vessels belongs to "the commercial metropolis of China."
DIRECTORY
*
·
記祥 Zeang-kee
ABDOOLALLY, EBRAHIM & Co., Merchants
and Commn. Agents-8, Kiangse Road
Ebrahim Noordin & Co., Bombay
A. G. Busrai, manager
D. E. Ebrahim
C. K. Yu
豐益 Yik-fong
ABRAHAM, D. E. J., Merchant and General
Commission Agent--3G, Peking Road;
Telephs. 269 and 1469; Tel. Ad: Pigeon
R. D. Abraham
M. H. Abraham
M. M. Cohen
S. M. Lee
時凱 Ka-sze
>
ABRAHAM, KATZ & Co., General Import
and Export Merchants and Commission
Agents-77, Szechuen Road; Teleph. 452; Tel. Ad: Abkatz
Lip-sin
ALLANSON, WILLIAM, Merchant and Com-
mission Agent-14, Haining Road
*
Aye-lay-han-pah-lee
ALLEN & HANBURYS, LTD., Wholesale
Chemists and Surgical Instrument
Makers-40, Canton Road
AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB-See Clubs
會經聖國美大
Ta-mei-kwoh-sing-ching-way
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY (China Agency)
-73, Szechuen Road; Tel. Ad: Bibles
Rev. J. R. Hykes, D.D., agent
Rev. W. M. Cameron
J. M. B. da Silva
Miss J. Taylor Miss R. S. Ferris