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unsuited to the piers required for vehicles
ferried. This service will hardly permit
the use of larger boats than are now
employed, or of more frequent running.
(b) The Wharf and Godown Company
(allied with the "Star" Ferry Company) runs
a motor car service consisting of a lighter
with crane and cradles, each motor car
having to be separately put aboard and
lifted out at the other end. It carries
4 to 6 motor cars at a time and in its
present primitive form is not capable of
serious expansion. In 1929 it carried
approximately 6,000 cars, 350 trucks,
260 motor-cycles and 300 ponies.
2.
The Yaumati Ferry runs from two
points on the Island (Queen Victoria Street
Wharf and Western Market) to three points
on the Kowloon side. In 1928 its passengers
numbered over 22,000,000. The whole system
is described as "chronically crowded". This
also is a very profitable concern.
The