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Annexe A.
MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE.
Eighteen thousand three hundred and forty-nine (18,349) seamen were shipped and 17,395 discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office and on board ships during the year (20,990 and 19,529 in 1908).
One hundred and nineteen distressed seamen were received and admitted to Sailors' Home, &c., of these 18 were sent Home, 11 to Calcutta, 1 to Colombo, 2 to Port Said, 3 to Sydney, 3 to Singapore, 14 passengers to Canton, 1 to Calcutta, 1 to New York, 1 taken charge of by Superintendent, Sailors' Home, 1 joined Chinese Customs, 1 joined Harmston's Circus, 1 employed locally, 2 disappeared, 1 remained at Sailors' Home and 58 obtained employment.
Two thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty-two cents ($2,956.52) were expended by the Harbour Master on behalf of the Board of Trade in the relief of these distressed seamen.
Annexe B.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE.
Liquor Traffic for the period from the 17th September to the 31st December, 1909.
Ordinance No. 27 of 1909 to provide for the collection of duties upon Intoxicating Liquors was passed on the 17th September at 7 p.m. and steps were immediately taken to make provision for the immediate collection of such revenue.
2. A Preventive Service was at once instituted and began operation on the same evening that the Ordinance was passed by boarding and searching all incoming River Steamers, a West River boat being the first to be boarded.
The Preventive Service under the Superintendent's control is composed of:
5 European Officers and 20 Chinese Searchers;
and the Imports and Exports Opium and Sugar Office was organized as a Revenue Office—coping with the traffic in the three commodities—Liquors, Opium and Sugar.
These premises having proved too congested an additional office adjoining the Harbour Office is now under construction and will be ready for occupation during the current month.