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Pett, with a paid departmental engineer, and a staff of 187 native assistants, and was pronounced to be one of the most efficient volunteer brigades in the world. In 1919, however, owing to a misunderstanding, the volunteer members tendered their resigna- tions, which were accepted, and as from April the Brigade became a purely professional organisation. Owing to the increased number of fires an independent brigade for the French Settlement was formed in April, 1908. Stimulated by these examples, no doubt,. the Shanghai native city fire-brigade was reorganised in 1920. The Settlements are well provided with hospitals.
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TRADE AND COMMERCE
Shanghai is the great emporium for the trade of the Yangtsze and Northern and Corean ports, and to some extent for Japan. The total import and export trade of 1868 amounted to sixty-five million taels. It steadily increased each year until 1881, when it reached Hk. Tls. 141,921,357, but afterwards showed a great decline, the total for 1884 having been twenty per cent. less than that for 1881. There was, however, a rapid recovery up to 1905. The gross trade, import and export, for the last ten years, as returned by the Customs Statistical Department, is given below:-
1915... Hk. Tls. 549,379,765 at Ex. 1:41 Mex. $774,625,468 at Ex. 2s. 7d., £ 71,247,688
1916...
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571,245,672
1.54
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580,232,838
1.63
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1918...
627,094,382
1.61
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1919...
768,006,155
1.68
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1920...
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840,969,438
1.58
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1921...
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927,477,660
1.50
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$879,718,335 $945,779,526 $1,009,621,955 $1,290,250,340 $1,328,731,712 $1,391,216,490
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1922... 1923... 1924...
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989,715,490
1.49
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1,105,117,246
1.51
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1,183,543,359
1.53
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$1,668,727,041 $1,810,821,339
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The Import trade in Foreign Goods for 1925 was as follows:- From Foreign Countries and Hongkong
From Chinese Ports
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3s. 31 d., £ 94,761,326
4s. 318d., £125,263,808 5s. 3d., £165,755,416 6s. 4d., £243,201,949 6s. 9 d., £285,579,205 3s. 117., £183,321,756 3s. 9d., £185,571,654 3s. 5 d., £192,244,354 3s. 71d., £331,512,344
Hk. Tls. 431,887,836 4,781,875
Hk. Tls. 436,669,711
The gross value of the trade of the port in 1925 was Hk. Tls. 1,181,077,647. Shanghai is not only the largest trade emporium but also the most important manufacturing centre in China. The port contributed 37.16 per cent. of the total Customs revenue collected in 1925, as compared with 39.58 per cent. in 1924.
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