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HONG KONG.
WEEKLY AIR MAIL REPORT ON LOCAL SITUATION (SECRETARY OF STATE'S TELEGRAM No. 233 OF 20TH NOVEMBER, 1938).
1.
Cost of Living and Supplies.
2.
Population and Refugees.
Report for the week ending Friday, 16. 6. 39.
No. of persons of all kinds entering Colony during week ended
Fresh Vegetables,
Supplies
Freshwater Fish
and prices
Saltwater Fish
Foultry
Keat
Firewood
approximately
normal.
By
railway.
By other
routes
(if known
No.
of
refugees
in Kam Tin Camp
on ..
15.-6. 39.
No. of refugees in border
camps on
and
other 15.6.39.
∙13.6, 39,
Trend of population. Net rise (+) or fall (−) for week ended
13. 6. 39. 15.6.20
By
steamer.
39282 Nil
Nil
•
4199
2666
3959
3.
Remarks on State of Industrial and Shipping Activity.
See report appended.
4.
Remarks on Revenue Position and Prospects.
week ended 17. 6. 39.
Approximate revenue for last four weeks was $2,499,000, equal to 95% of average revenue of correspond- ing periods of three previous quarters. Approximate revenue for the first 24 weeks of 1939 was $18,227,000, equal to 109% of revenue for the first 24 weeks of 1938.
Pine (chopped)
Average number of
cattles
per dollar
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61
Pine (unchopped)
66
Singapore (chopped)
69
Singapore (unchopped) 74
Sandakan (chopped)
68
Sandakan (unchopped) 75
kisc. (unchopped)
73
73
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