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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 1, 1907.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 140.-It is hereby notified that information has been received from H.B.M.'s Consul at Bangkok to the effect that vessels arriving from Hongkong will, in consequence of bubonic plague, be required to complete 10 days before arrival at a Siamese port.
1st March, 1907.
F. H. MAY, Colonial Secretary.
HARBOUR MASTER'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 141.-Shipping and Trade Returns of Hongkong, for the year 1906.
Trade of the Port of Hongkong for the Year 1906.
TONS.
Passengers.
Emi-
No. of Ships.
British Ocean-going. Foreign Ocean-going. British River Steamers. Foreign River Steamers....
Total...
15.519 1.029.177
Dis-
Itt charged.
Transit.
3.697 1.893.231 1.092.842 1.668.276
847.432 4,287 1.851,053
1.210.084 6.464! 222,250 173.483 1.071 62,631 40,587
2163314 2,878,360
Shipped.
Bunker Coal shipped.
Total.
Registered Tonnage.
grants.
Arrived. Departed,
248.5814,902.933
387.030 4.295.500 43.850 139.989 9.806 122,027
G88.767 9.750,648
7. 99,171 7.003.195
4.612,591
607.917
19,798,384
167,889 102,738 L12.8B 88.522
1.553.992
100.701
63,830
100,811 12.895
1.195,514
84.991
1.182,119
76 725
Steam-ships under 60
tons Foreign Trade,
Junks Foreign Trade.
878 23,219 8,253
28,153 141.319 606,844
1.922
33.391
10.282
5.889
6,241
1,048,163 2,619.411
38.725
36.482
Total Foreign Trade,
44,550 4,493,715 2,778,441 2,878.360
690,689 10.841,205 | 22,453,077
1.598.606 1,524,842 76,725
Steam-Launches Local
Trade.
......
Junks, Local Trade,...
Total Local Trade.
*333,560
51,616 315.623
385,176 315.623 73,672
73.672
Grand Total....
429,726 | 4,809,338 || 2,852,113 | 2,878,360
*23.023 *23,023 *8.251.536
389,295 2,042,655
23,023 412.318 10.294.191
713.712 11,253,523 | 32,747,268
56.119
*3.792,605 | *3.076,294
61,004
3.848.724 3,137,298
5.447,330
1,662,140 76,725
*Not including "Star" Ferry Company's Craft.
Comparative Shipping return for the Years 1905 and 1906.
1905.
1906.
Increase.
Decrcase.
British Occan-
going. Foreign Ocean-
going,
British River
Steamers, Foreign River Steamers,. S'ships under 60
Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tounage. Ships. Tonnage. Ships. Tonnage.
3,995 7,672,324 8,697 | 7,189,471
3,845 5,820,785 4,287 7,093,495
7,488 5,554,022 6,464 4,842,501
298 182,853
442 1,272,710!
1,024 711.521
975
659,597 1,071 667,917 96 8,320
tons (Foreign Trade).
1,800
71,448 878 40,292
922 31,166
Total..
!
Junks in Foreign 33,475 2,875,440 |28,153 | 2,619,411
Trade,
Steam launches
5,322 256,029
51,578 22,653,616 14,550 22,453,077
538 1,281,030 7,566 1,481,569
plying in the Colony,
337,913
| 9,169,312 333,560 8,251,536
4,353 917,776
Junks in Local
==
63,267 2.362,16351,616|| 2,042,655
11.651 319,508
Trade,
Grand Total.... 452,758 | 34,185,091 | 429,726 | 32,747,268
538 1,281,030,23,570 2,718,853
NETT,
23,032 1,137,823
* Including 32,421 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 1,176,625 tons. Including 23,130 Conservancy and Dust Boats of 858,746 tons.