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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL,
has been repaid by the Viceroy, and has been credited to a fund provided to defray the cost of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, now in course of construction.
II-TRADE AND SHIPPING, INDUSTRIES, FISHERIES, AGRICULTURE, AND LAND.
(A.) TRADE AND SHIPPING.
The total tonnage entering and clearing at ports of the Colony during the year 1906 amounted to 32,747,268 tons, being a decrease, compared with 1905, of 1,437,823 tons. This decrease is more than accounted for by the falling off in local and foreign junk trade and in local launch and river steamer trade, due mainly to the total loss or temporary disablement of a large number of small-sized vessels in the typhoon of the 18th September.
A comparison between the years 1905 and 1906 is given in the following table:-