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Statement of number of emigrants to Straits Settlements 1911 ``ra 1921, compared with total Chinese emigrasión.
Straits Settlemagad.
No. of Emigrante
to
Total No. of Emigrants.
Pomit
1911
100,906
135,565
1912
$4,024
122,657
1913
102,353
142,759
1914
44,974
76,296
1915
41,278
68,275
1916
82,797
117,653
1917
63,292
96,298
1918
8,019
43,830
1919
11,638
59,969
1920
43,935
105,258
1921
87,324
156,011
(b.) INDUSTRIES.
**1920.
? Omrit
(i)-Under European management.
Engineering and Shipbuilding. The figures are as follows for the year 1920
~~4K. & Whampoa Dock Co, Ld... vessels of 37,935 gross tons and 11,500 1.H.P. Talk Dockyard & Eng. Co.. Id. 5 W. 8. Bailey & tla, Lal..... Kwork Híp Long Do, bà
71
50
זי
13.860
9,700
.22
1,197
1,336
Kwong Fai & 00.......... med Kwong Sang Leong ............................ Hang Fat
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1
19
"
JT
14
356
30
p
1
1,974
85
11
11
2
7
48
A KingEn
77
276
"
11
Total
..62 vessels of 54,658 grow tons and 22,97% 1.4.P.
Taikon Dock & Eng. Co., Id..... 9 vessels of 7,725 gross tons and 6,900 I.B.P. H.K. & Whampoa Dock Co., Ld... 6 W. S. Bailey & Co. Lt......... Kwong Fook Cheong
Total
20
26.687
17.700
"
T
3.987
-
1
200
2,192 280
36 rewels of 37,949 groes tons and 27,072 I.H.P.
Sugar Refineries.-The year 1921 saw the gradual adjustment of prices to a normal level and although sellers were successful in maintaining prices until May, they eventually dropped to about Guilders 10. A period of adjustment was unavoidable after the very high prices ruling in 1920 and the dislocation of stocks resulting, but a more satisfactory state of affairs may be looked for on the return of normal production and consumption.
Yarn. The yarn trade during 1921 was not unsatisfactory and the few native dealers who survived the collapse of the previous year, closed the period profitably.
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The total quantity of Indian yarn imported into the colony during the year amounted to 110,000 bales and 25,000 bales were brought forward from the previous year.
bales.
Clearances totalled 121,000 bales leaving a carryover of 14,000
Cotton-Middling American cotton was quoted in Liverpool on 1st January at 865d. for spot. It advanced until the 17th idem, when 10-69d. was reached then slumped to its lowest point for the period under review, niz,, 6:38d. on 28th February.
A fairly even position was maintained between 7d. and 8d. for 4 mouths, until the end of August, when the U.S.A. Cotton Bureau estimates reported a shortage in crop which brought in heavy buyers with the result that on 29th September, 1570d, was registered. Later it became apparent that the bureau's figures were incorrect and the rate gradually sagged away until on 31st December, the quotation was 11:36d.
Rope Making-Trade during 1921 was very much the same as in 1920 Exchange ruled more favourably and bigger business should have resulted had it not been for increased competition with lower quality rope in some of the markets.
Cement Manufacture. The demand for cement continued unabated for the first 8 months of the year, but there was a material falling off in exports to India, Java, etc., during the last 4 months, due chiefly to the importation there of large quantities of cheap cement principally from Belgium, Germany and Italy. The total turnover, however, was almost exactly the same as that of the previous year.
(ii).—Under Chinese Management.
Tin-This line of business was not nearly as good as 1920, chiefly owing to the unsettled state of affairs in the interior of China, especially in the Kwangsi Province; also lack of demand from both Europe and America. Therefore, the local prices only varied from $5 to $7 per picul for the whole year round, in spite of a fair quantity having been seized by the Kwangtung military authorities from Fu-Roo of the Kwangsi Province after the civil war between the two provinces, and which were offered to be disposed of at a cheap rate. At the beginning of the year prices seemed to be very much stronger.
Importa and Exports for the year, in approximate figures,
were:-
From Straite,
J
EXPORTS.
To United Kingdom, 2,000 Tons.
IMPORTS.
700 Tons.
China, Yunnan,
50
"
21
United States,.... 1,000
8,000
...
*
China,
2,100
Kwangai,..
200
Japan,
1,000
12
8,950 Tons.
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6,100 Tons.
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