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The following Table shows the Junk Trade of the Colony
for the years 1918 and 1919 :-
1918.
1919.
Tona. 1,501,757 Foreign Trade,... 11,698, Local Trade, 12,296 1,561,890
Junks.
Junks.
10,353 4,686
Tons.
1,248,389 206,326
Total, 23,989 2,063,647
15,039
1,454,715
Imported 558,309 tons as under :-
Cattle, 1,608 head,.
Swine, 8,460 heal,
General,
Earth and Stones,
Tons.
189
498
545,641 12,181
Tota............. 558,509
EXPORTS.
1918.
1919.
Juuks.
Tons.
Junka
Tons.
Foreign Trade,. *** 14,741 Local Trade,...... 13,027
1470,609
10,357
1,849,744
697,425
4,823
21183
Total,... 24,768
2,098,034
15,380
1,561,232
Exported 794,566 tons as under :-
Kerosine, 2,385,000 cases, .....
Rice and Padi,
Le Coal,.....
General,
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OPIUM.
The imports and exports of certificated opium during the year
are as follows:-
Malwa Patua. Chests. Chests.
Benares, Total.
Chests.
Chests.
Import,...... Export,
L
www.
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 (860) chests of uncertificated Indian opium were imported: 374 chosts for the Macao Opium Farmer, and the remaining 405 chests for the Government Opium Monopoly.
The table below shows the total imports and exports since 1911:-
Stock in hand on
1st January. Imported during
the year,
1910. 1015. 1917 1916., 1973. 1914 1913. 1012. 1011. Chests. Chest Chests Cheats. Chests. Chests. Chests Chests Chests.
2.53
7904 9774 1,9084 2,8604| 1,880|| 5,500 7,587 7,124
1,200 1,259 1,657 ||,706 1.873303939,184 12,361321,286
Total, 543 2,058) 2.6341 3,0094 4.1291|| 7.640 14,868419,9181 28,409
Boiled by Opium
Farmer,
Boiled by Govern-
tent Spurious
destroyed,
Opium
| |
36 667 1,113 761
377
539 352
365
840 113
1
15
17
19
2
!
4
2
9
Tons.
68,710
142,262
192,869
390,765
Missing or stolen,
Exported during
the year,
Totul.......
Stock remaining on.
31st December,..
887 1,265 1,469 | 1,667
2,469 4.911 9,419 (18,264†120,061
1,214 1.8051,635 2,082 2.826 5,383410,088 14,3881,20,822
320
253 799 977
1,508 2,236 4.390 5.560 7,587
Total,........... 794,566
Emigration and Immigration.
Fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine (59,069) 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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