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ENCLOSURE 5.
Trade and Industries.
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Throughout the New Territory the agricultural produce is
chiefly rice, sugar, sweet-potatoes and ground nuts. A fair business
is also done in fire-wool, especially in fsun Aan, Sai Kung and the
district round Tai Fo. On the eastern side of the territory the vil-
lages along the coast line live to a great extent by fishing. Fine
apples are grown at Tsun Man.
The rice grown in the New Territory is either used by the
growers or sold to the shops at the different markets for export.
Hongkong rice being imported for consumption. The reason for this is
that the local grown rice sells at a higher orice than Hongkong import-
ed rice.
The sugar rade in the New Territory is mostly exported to
Star Chun and Hongkong. Sweet-potatoes and ground nuts are used local-
ly.
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There is only one brick works in the New Territory, namely
that at Castle Feak, which exports crioxs £f/inferior quality to Hong
kong; there seems to be an opening for a good brick factory. Lime
burning (coral) is also carried on, but mostly at carts of the Rea
Territory served by neither of the two proposed routes.
There is only, one establishment in the New Territory doing
a considerable export trade, viz:- the San ming Lung firm at Un Long
which started business after the taking over of the New Territory and
now employs from 80 to 140 hands according to the tire of year. It
manufactures firecrackers, Chinese wines and ground nut o11, exports
bean curd and pigs, and deais locally in the above commodities.
No minerals are at present worked, with the exception of
clay for the pottery works at un iu near Tai Fo which manufacture very
coarse ware for export to Kong Pun and 10081 use. The trade done is
quite small.
Silver and lead exist, and there have been rices, above
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