1904-1919
HONG KONG, 1918.
Statement of Number of Emigrants to Straits Settlements, 1909 to 1918, compared with Total Chinese Emigration.
No. of Emigrants to Straits Settlements. 1909 411 1910 77 Total No. of Emigrants. 1909 48,016 1910 77,430 1911 76,705 1912 111,058 1913 100,906 1914 135,565 1915 84,024 1916 122,657 1917 102,353 1918 142,759 No. of Emigrants to Straits Settlements. 1911 ** 1912 * 1913 44,974 1914 76,296 1915 41,278 1916 68,275 1917 82,797 1918 117,653 Total No. of Emigrants. 1911 * 1912 63,292 1913 96,298 1914 39,196 1915 43,830(b)-INDUSTRIES.
(i)-Under European Management.
Engineering and Shipbuilding.-The figures are as follows for the years 1917 and 1918:-
1917 1918 Taikoo Dockyard & Eng. Co., Ltd. 4 vessels of 8,919 gross tons and 5,850 I.H.P. 2 vessels of 3,456 gross tons and 1,700 I.H.P. Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. 26 vessels of 24,092 gross tons and 15,507 I.H.P. 17 vessels of 11,848 gross tons and 9,090 I.H.P. Ah King 1933 Sum Kee 7 W. S. Bailey & Co. 14,954 5,489 Kwong Tuck Cheong 150 Lau Sum Kee 1,723 Total 112 200Sugar Refineries.-The year 1918 was remarkable for the unprecedented rise in the price of Java raw sugars-from less than £5.00 in July to about £12.50 in November. Demand in China was strong throughout the major portion of the year, but business was severely curtailed in the early summer through the tonnage restrictions imposed by the authorities in Java. Thereafter imports were on a heavy scale, and China readily absorbed all available supplies of Hong Kong Refineds, until the last two months of the year,