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518,000 bags. The demand for Canadian flour continued to increase. The new crops of Rice were quite up to expectations and the prospects for 1914 were good. The Indian Opium trade was at an absolute standstill. In accordance with the British Government's agreement with China no further importations of opium were permissible until existing stocks were exhausted. Prices were-Patna $5,650-5,875, Benares $5,475-5,700, Malwa $4,900-5,000. Persian, (the trade in which is restricted to Japan), was $1,150. The total Shipping entered and cleared at the Port amounted to 490,228 vessels of 37,742,982 tons which compared with the figures for 1912 shows an increase of 1,609 vessels of 1,007,933 tons.
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Public Works.-The following new buildings were completed during the year:-Sanitary Inspectors' Office and Quarters, Wantsai District, in Queen's Road East; New 2-storeyed south block of the Western Market at junction of Bonham Strand and Morrison Street; New Operating Theatre to the Government Civil Hospital: Extension to the Government Slaughter House, Kennedy Town; Extension of the Belilios Public School in Hollywood Road; Western District Sanitary Office and Quarters, Pokfulam Road; Stables for Sanitary Department at Leighton Hill Road; Vegetable and Fruit Market at Yaumati; Extensions to Royal Observatory; Police Station at Cheung Chau in the New Territories. Improvements and extensions were carried out to the following roads :- Wong-nei-chong Road, Belchers Street, Hau Fung Lane, Reclamation Street, Argyle Street, Canton Road, and Mody Road. In the New Territories, the San Tin-Au Tau and the Kam Tin-Au Tau Roads were completed and also some short lengths of roads in the neighbourhood of Fan Ling and Sheung Shui. Close on 6,000 lineal feet of nullahs were trained in the neighbourhood of Shaukiwan, Wongneichong, Pokfulam, as well as in the City, Hill District and Kowloon. Considerable extensions of the existing drainage system in Hong Kong and Kowloon were carried out.