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the shipping entries about amounted to two and a half millions (2,562,528) of tons; that is, for 1867.
and that in 1887, after some thirty years' service, it will be to the advantage of the public service that there should be an experienced Assistant Harbour Master, with full local knowledge to succeed him in his place.
3. I find that the post of Assistant Harbour Master was created in 1866, when the Chinese Junk Ordinance was passed; to about half the tonnage of 1882; while little more than four thousand (4283) Chinese emigrants left this Port in 1867 against the seventy-nine thousand (79,000) of 1882. Consequently, the office of Assistant Harbour Master, deemed necessary in 1866, is indispensable now,