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to maximize the benefit which
the Colony
derives from the
shipping frequenting its port.
If it can
hardly
be
necessary for
me to dwell on the self-evident
fact that the Colony must be, and ever benefit by its
neat
shipping.
The
amount received
by way of light dues supplies
no adequate
measure
of that
benefit, but as a matter of fact they have in 1892 brought
in the sum
of $92,309, or nearly as much as in 1891.
Subparagraph 1971-
points out that the revenue
derived from opium has
diminished. This is so, but the variations in the
amount
realized by the opium farm, depend on
a number of considerations which do not, as
regards many of them,
necessarily connote a corresponding
condition of prosperity
or the reverse
amongst
the community at large, or
even amongst
the Chinese portion...