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and provides considerable accommodation. On the other side of the island a hotel at Repulse Bay was opened on New Year's Day, 1920, by the H.E. Sir Reginald Stubbs. In Kowloon there are the Station Hotel, the Palace Hotel, and the Kowloon Hotel, while the erection on Salisbury Road, by the Hongkong-Shanghai Hotels Co., Ltd., of a hotel on the most up-to- date lines and containing extensive a ccommodation, called the Peninsula Hotel, gives Hongkong the honour of having the largest hotel in the Orient. The Peninsula Hotel was opened in December, 1928, by the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, at that time the acting governor.
INDUSTRIES
The Colony possesses a large sugar refinery, shipbuilding yards (described below), a cement works, a rope works, many Chinese knitting factories, a soap and perfumery factory, glass blowing establishments, cigar and cigarette fac tories of modern type, native factories for the preparation for export of vermil- lion, soy, baskets and rattan ware, numerous native boat building yards and granite quarries, etc. A Dairy Farm Company, under European supervision, also controls an extensive ice factory. The Colonial Government owns the British section of a single line railway to Canton.
The works of the Hongkong and China Gas Company are situated at West Point and at Yaumati, and those of the Hongkong Electric Company at North Point. A new power-station for the Electric Company was built on a site reclaimed from the sea for this purpose. The city is illuminated by electric light, which was introduced at the end of 1890. Electricity is supplied in Kowloon by the China Light and Power Co., Ltd.
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DOCKS, AND SHIPBUILDING YARDS
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Excellent dock accommodation and shipbuilding facilities exist in the Colony. The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., a British Company, in- corporated under the Hongkong Companies Ordinance 1865, on the 11th Octo- ber, 1866, has three extensive establishments. The principal establishment and Head Office is situated at Kowloon Docks, Hung Hom, one known as Cosmopo- litan Dock at Tai Kok Tsui, and two Dry Docks at Aberdeen, on the south side of Hongkong Island. The establishments of this Company are fitted with all the best and latest appliances for engineering and shipbuilding work. No. 1 Dock at Kowloon can accommodate the largest vessel in H.M. Navy on the China Station, and also the largest merchant vessel calling at Hongkong. The Docks and Slips are of the following dimensions:-
KOWLOON DOCKS, HUNG HOM-
No. 1 (Admiralty) Dock-700 feet in length, 95 feet in breadth at entrance at top and 88 feet at bottom, and 30 feet depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides.
No. 2 Dock-Length on keel blocks, 371 feet; breadth at entrance, 74 feet; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 14 feet.
Patent Siips, No. 1-Length on keel blocks 240 feet; breadth at entrance 60 feet; depth on the blocks 14 feet.
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No. 2-Length on keel blocks 230 feet; breadth at entrance 60 feet; depth of water on the blocks at ordinary spring tides, 12 feet.
TAI KOK TSUI
Cosmopolitan Dock-Length on keel blocks, 466 feet; breadth at en- trance 85 feet 6 inches; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 20 feet.
ABERDEEN
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Hope Dock-Length on keel; blocks, 430 feet; breadth at entrance, 84 feet; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 23 feet,
Lamont Dock-Length on keel blocks, 333 feet; breadth at entrance, 64 feet; depth of water over sill at ordinary spring tides, 16 feet.