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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL.
But Chinese show an increasing tendency to settle in the Colony. The richer Chinese have during the year purchased many residences in Victoria hitherto occupied by Europeans, while the villages in the Kowloon Peninsula have been rapidly extended to give accommodation for an increasing industrial population.
The future prospects of trade are good and there are promising openings for the investment of capital in manufactures and industries. There are no openings for white labour except in limited numbers for supervision in connection with any new industries.
There has been no important change in the establishment except in the large increase made to the Police Force.
The general condition of the Colony is most flourishing, and, with the command of cheap labour, it gives promise of developing into a great manufacturing centre.
I have, &c.,
HENRY A. BLAKE,
Governor.
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