234
6. The 344 British vessels carried 2,679 British Officers and 24 Foreign Officers as follows:-
British, Norwegian,
Dutch,...
German,
United States,..
..2,679
3
1
2
18
Total...........
2,703
Thus the proportion of Foreign Officers in British ships was 0.89% comprising four nationalities, an increase of 0.11% with a decrease of ships.
The 397 Foreign ships carried 2,882 Officers, of whom 267 were British, borne as follows:-
In Japanese
ships,
Chinese
99
"
United States
55
French
57
Dutch
"
**
;"
Belgian
Total,
139
97
16
7
4
4
..267
The proportion of British Officers in Foreign Ships was, therefore, 9.3% distributed among six nationalities; a decrease of 1.4% with an increase of ships.
Of the Crews of British Vessels
16.6% were British
Of the Crews of Foreign Vessels-
1.2% were British.
0.5% 82.9%
Other Europeans.
Asiatics.
95
о
22.3°
76.5%
Other Europeans. Asiatics.
•
This shows a slight increase of Asiatics in British and Foreign Vessels, with a slight falling off in the proportion of Europeans.
TRADE,
7. The returns under this heading is gathered from the Masters of Vessels, and, in some cases, from the Agents concerned, and must be looked upon as but approxi- mate and, it may be, misleading. It is much to be regretted that Masters and Agents do not render more accurate returns.
The principal features to be remarked in the reported Trade of the Port for 1903 are:-
In Imports reported:-
Increases in Coal of 14.0-
Decreases in Bulk Petroleum of 25.4.
Cotton of 80.8%•
Flour of 11.6%·
Liquid Fuel Rice
of 84.1%
of 27.1%.
19
""
Case Petroleum of 37.3%.
59
95
General of 7.7%
Sugar Timber
of 14.3%
of 14.1%-
The net increase under this head amounts to 21,847 tons. '•
In Exports, there is an increase reported of 24,252
In Transit Cargo
*
502,553