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The following Table shows the Junk Trade of the Colony for the
years 1918 and 1919-
Imported 558,509 tons as under :—
Cattle, 1,608 head
Tons.
189
Swine, 8,460 head
498
General
545,641
Earth and Stones
12,181
Total
558,509
Exported 794,566 tons as under :-
Tons.
Kerosine, 2,385,000 cases
68,710
'Rice and Padi
Coal
142,262
+
192,869
General
390,765
794,566
Total
OPIUM
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Emigration and Immigration.
Fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine (59,9691 emigrants left Hongkong for various places during the year 1919, (43,830 in 1918). Of these, 25,303 were carried in British ships. and 34,666 in Foreign ships.
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One hundred and thirty-six thousand and twenty (136,020) returning 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 Ports, as against 74,109 in 1918. Of these 92,385 arrived in British ships, and 43,635 in Foreign ships.
(b.) INDUSTRIES.
(1.)-Under European Management.
Engineering and Shipbuilding -The figures are as follows for the
year 1919-
Talkoo Dockyard and Eng. Co.. Eid... ITungkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. W. S. Balky & Co. Kwong Tuck Cheng
B
1
6 vessels of 22,311 gross föret and 14,450 L.M.P
17,414
1
700
948
13,975 1.750
80
The imports and exports of certificated opium during the year are as follows:-
Import Export
Malwa. Pama. Benares. Total. Chests. Chests. Chests. Chests.
L
10
10
Ten chests of certificated opium were exported to Kwong Chow Wan
Three hundred and seventy-one (371) chests of Persian opium were imported during the year, and 8 chests were exported to London, 13 chests to Singapore, and 350 chests to Formosa.
Eight hundred and sixty-nine (869) chests of uncertificated Indian opium were imported: 374 chests for the Macao Opium Farmer, and the remaining 495 chests for the Government Opium Monopoly.
The Table below shows the total imports and exports since 1911-
Total
Srock in hand on 1st January Imported during
the year.
253 7904
1,290 1,259
1.543 2,058
2.634) 3,0093 4,129)
Borled by Opium
Farmer
1910. 1018. เลเว 1916. 1915. 1914. 10:13. 1912. IBLI. Chests. Chests. Chests. Chests. Chests. Chests Chesls. Chests. Chests.
977) 1,3081 2,2561
3,500 4.5801
7,587
1,657 1,70G 1,873 3,050 0.1083 12.041):
|14,008] [18,948) 28,106
E47 1.113
7,123
21,230
7,640
24
761
Boiled by GovETI
377
5.32
352
385
340
413
1
13
17
19
2
--
1
+
9
837
the year
Total
L
1,205
1.214 1,805)
1,469 1.007 2,468
4,911)
9,419
13,2841
20,061
1,995
Stock remaining on
31st December
329
253
9771 7991
1,3034 2,2587
4,5804
6.560
7,587
MAIL.
Spurious Opium
destroyed.
Mining or stolen
Exported during
2,032 2,52€ 5,388 10,088 14.3882 20,827
Total
25 vessels of 41,374 gross tons and 30,975 1.H.P.
Sugar Refineries.--1919 was a good year. Demand from China was consistent, at steadily advancing prices, with the exception of a period of one two months during the summer, when heavy speculation destroyed all confidence in the market. During the latter part of the year the incidence of the Japanese boycott threw an unusually heavy demand on all other sources of supply, thus adding a stimulus to an already brisk demand for Hongkong Refiners. As a matter of interest, prices of raw sugar in Java rose from f. 13 in January to f. 42 at the end of December.
India and the Persian Gulf, in common with the markets the world over, have felt the pinch of a general shortage of supply, and there were demands from all sources for Refineds, much in excess of Hong- kong's capacity for export.
Yarn. The quantity of Yarn imported into the Colony during 1919 was greater than during any of the war years, and the market on the whole kept very steady.
Yarn prices dropped slightly at the commencement of the year and reached their lowest in April/May, when 10s. Yarn was sold at $190 per bale. The price then advanced, and at the end of the year business was done at over $260. Yarn of higher counts, say 20s., rose from $260 to $365.
The total quantity of Indian Yarn imported during the year amounted to 142,000 bales, and 22,000 bales were brought forward from the previous year.
Clearances were very good and totalled 147,000 bales, leaving a carry over of 17,000 bales.
Speaking generally, the year has been a profitable one for both merchants and dealers.
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