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The following Table shows the Junk Trade of the Colony for the years 1917 and 1918:-
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Statement of Number of Emigrants to Straits Settlements, 1909 to 1918, compared with Total Chinese Emigration.
No. of Emigrants
IMPORTS.
1917.
to
1018.
Straits Settlements.
Total No, of Emigrants.
Junks. Tons.
Junka. Tons.
1909,
48,010
77,430
1910,
Foreign Trade, Local Trade,
76,705 1
111,058
13,020 1,611,009 12,124 430,111
11,698 1,501,757
1011,
100,000
135,565
12,290 1,561,890
1912,
84,024
122,057
1913,
102,353
142,759
Total,
25,144 2,041,120. 23,988 3,083,047
1914,
44,974
76,296
1915,
41,278
68,275
1916,
82,797
117,653
Imported 771,636 tons as under :--
Tons.
1917,
63,292
96,298
Cattle, 4,185 head,
490
1918,
39,196
43,830
Swine, 19,415
1,139
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General,
770,007
(6.)—INDUSTRIES.
Total,
771,636
EXPORTS.
1917.
19 18.
Junke. Tone.
Junks.
Tona.
Foreign Trade,
Local Trade,
.13,047 1,596,260 .12,404
426,359
11,741 13,027
1,470,000
627,425
Total,......
,25,451 2,022,628
24,768 2,098,034
(1.)-Under European Management.
Engineering and Shipbuilding. The âgures are as follows for
the years 1917 and 1918-
1917
Taikoo Dockyard and Eng. Co., Ld..... 4 vessels of 8,010 gross tous and 5,950 1.H.P. Hongkong ốc Whampoo Dock Co., Ltd., 7 A King,
Sum Kee,
W. 8. Bailey & Co.,
Total..
14,934
13
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9,400
9
112
DG
+
3
42
56
+
J!
Ba
105
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26 vessels of 24,092 gross tons and 15,507 L.R.P.
1918.
Exported 961,213 tons as under :—
Kerosine, 504,680 cases,
Rice and Padi,
Coal,.
General,
Total,
Emigration and Immigration.
Tons.
14,555
392.205
129,274
425,179
061,213
Forty-three thonsand eight hundred and thirty (43,830) emigrants left Hongkong for various places during the year 1918, (90,298 in 1917). Of these, 18,193 were carried in British ships, and 25,637 in Foreign ships,
Seventy-four thousand one hundred and nine (74,109) return- ing emigrants were reported to have been brought to Hongkong from the several places to which they had emigrated either from this Colony or from Coast Purts, as against 98,232 in 1917. Of these 35,100 arrived in British ships and 39,000 in Foreign ships,
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Taikoo Dockyard and Eug! Co., Ld., ... 2 vessels of 3,456 gross tons and 1,700 I,HP. Hongkong Whampoa Dock Co., Id., 6 W. S. Bailey & Co., Kwong Tuck Cheong, Lau Sam Kes...
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5,489
5,810
10
6
150
200
.1,723
900
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1
D
1:030
480
+
ri
ד
Total,
.17 vessels of 11,848 gross tons and 9,090 LH.P.
Sugar Refineries.-The year 1918 was remarkable for the un- precedented rise in the price of Java raw sugars from less than f. 5.00 in July to about f. 12.50 in November. Demand in China was strong throughout the major portion of the year, but business was severely curtailed in the early summer through the tonnage restrictions imposed by the Authorities in Java. Thereafter imports were on a heavy scale, and China readily absorbed all available sup plies of Hongkong Refineds, until the last two months of the year. when the increasing tightness of money, coupled with advances in rates, checked business very considerably. Demand from the Per- sian Gulf continued strong, but business bulked much less than in 1917 owing to the very restricted tonnage available, the greater part of the carrying being done by Japanese bottoms.
Cotton Yarn. The influence of the war upon the Yarn trade (as upon all business) has been more acutely felt than ever during
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