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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JUNE, 1881.
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in the Colony. Sail and rope makers have in- creased froms100 to 141, and sandal-wood dealers
and workers, from 74 to 76. Workers in sapan-
wood have declined from 96 to 20, and though
there is apparently a decline in the number of sauce manufacturers from 49 to 41, there has been
an increase in the quantity of sauce manufactured.
may mention, that a short time before the late
Mr. KWOK ACHEONG died, I went with him and
two or three other Chinese gentlemen interested in
the factory at Yau-má-ti, to examine the factory,
which was in a more or less rude state, the build-
ings not being then completed. I was glad to
see what they were doing. In addition to making
soy, they made ketchup for the European market,
and they had also a manufactory for preserving
fruits. Now, the ketchup is sent in hundreds of
barrels every year direct from Hongkong to a
well-known house in London,-that well-known
provision merchant whose good things most of
us have, from time to time, enjoyed. He sends out thousands of little bottles of his ketchup to Chinese as well as to European storekeepers here, so that, in short, the ketchup we consume as English ketchup is manufactured by Chinese in
Hongkong, sent to England, and this famous provision merchant in England returns it to us for retail. I am bound to add, that the latest advices are that the peculiar article which is pro- duced by the Chinese manufacturer at Yau-má-ti was regarded at the recent sales in London as the best in the market, and our little local manu- factory is very successful. I find immediately following this we come to the soap manufacturers; they do not appear in the last census, and they are now only 7 in number. There also appears, for the first time, one spectacle-maker. We have Chinese sugar refiners; they have declined from 25 to 15, and tanners from 7 to 1. Tobacco manufacturers have increased from 44 to 96. Tooth-powder makers appear also for the first time; they number. 57. Umbrella-makers have increased from-97 to-169, vermilion manufacturers and dealers from 111 to 123, and Weavers, who appear for the first time in our census, number 6. It is, therefore, clear that we have in this Colony numerous local manufactures which have every prospect of extending.
But apart from the question of such manufac- tures, there are in this Colony, as you all know, various industries employing Chinese artizans. Carpenters have increased from 2,510 to 2,923, blacksmiths from 690 to 708, pewter-smiths from 60 to 173, tinamiths from 88 to 172, and braziers from 488 to 864. Masons show a falling off from 845to.542. Rice-pounders have inoreased from 954 to 1,083, and in stone-cutters there is a large increase,-from 449 to 1,439. The number of tailors now in the Colony, who work with sewing machines mostly, amounts to 1,857. It is an interesting fact, that for these tailors drill is imported into the Colony from England; they make it up with their sewing machines, and the made clothes are then exported to New Zealand and Australia. In that way Chinese cheap labour, even without leaving the atmosphere of China, is,
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