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business was nil. For the greater part of the year stocks of sugar in Hong Kong were very low due to the uncertainty of the trend of the market. Exports of Soy were 75% of those for 1929. With the continued fall in exchange, causing an increase in cost of Molasses; prices advanced, and demand from abroad subsided. The volume of business in wood oil was less than half that of 1929. The main cause for the inactivity was the civil war in Kwangsi Province. There was a keen demand for cement, but owing to the dumping of Japanese cement in large quantities, profitable business was difficult to obtain. From January to April merchants and dealers had a profitable period of trading in metals but from May to November, conditions were unfavourable. The quantity of tin exported was 6,400 tons as compared with 2,700 in 1929. Prices ruled the same as in 1929.
Public Works.-1. COMPLETED :~(a) Additional Transmitting Block at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station; Children's playground at Kowloon; market at Kowloon Tong; Site for Maternity Block, Kowloon Hospital; Kowloon City Market extension. (b) Road connecting Garden Road-Bowen Road with May Road widened to admit of motor traffic; lower portion of Garden Road adjoining Murray Barracks widened; kerbing and channelling Prince Edward Road; widening Nathan Road; path from Shek O to Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station, 1st section; widening of Gough Hill Road to "Lysholt"; Kowloon Tong, extension of roads. (c) North Point Service Reservoir; mains laid between Happy Valley Monument and Hennessy Road, in Yee Wo Street, in Shaukiwan Road, in Kowloon and New Kowloon; Shing Mun pipe line from Sheklaipui reservoir to railway sea wall; cross-harbour pipe line; connecting pipe from Queen's Pier to Queen's Road; Sheklaipui reservoir. (d) Area at Tsat Tsz Mui and Shaukiwan reclaimed. (e) New Sewers and storm drains in Praya East. Deep Water Bay, Kowloon and New Kowloon. (f) Underground Kowloon; intercommunication between Government and telephone cables in various sections of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Telephone Company's systems.