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compared with 1909, 30 more ships with a tonnage increased by 121,836 tons, entered 86 more times, and gave a collective tonnage greater by 316,609 tons.
Thus :-
Flag Steamers No. of Times entered Total Tonnage 1909 1910 1909 1910 1909 1910 British 360 331 2,054 2,124 3,854,571 4,041,557 Steamers...Sailing, 2
5 7
5 7
17,693 7
17,663 German, 108 113 735 722 Steamers,
Sailing, 98
1 101
1 493
138 507
1,176,322
1,206,757
1,341,083 Japanese 1,283,330 Norwegian, 43 34 212 223 227,341 236,334 Austrian,... 7 7 24 24 94,288 93,062 Chinese, 24 22 232 250 290,936 314,879 Corean, 1 796 + Danish, 5 16 20 31 31,425 33,165 Dutch,. 17 16 105 108 207,190 214,737 French, 32 148 144 252,459 262,670 Italian, ༥ 35 Portuguese,. 2 11 13 23,470 34,496 Russian, 94 66 35,927 29,478 Swedish, 9 10 19,584 28,803 5 35 27 53,726 45,398 U. S. A., 42 37 211,827 210,466 No Flag, 15 Total,..... 704 734 4,198 4,284 7,796,376 8,112,985
TRADE.
As pointed out in previous reports, the figures which used to appear under this heading were, as a whole, so inaccurate as to be in some cases, most misleading. They have therefore been omitted from this, as from my three previous annual reports. However, in certain items of the import trade, fairly accurate details are available, and, as to these, the following remarks may be of interest.
Coal.-1,115,120 tons were imported during the year. This quantity, compared with the imports for 1909, shows a decrease of 11,716 tons, or 1.04 per cent. This decrease is so small as to be negligible, but is explained by the dull tone of the market in the Colony throughout the year 1910, and the necessity of adjusting stocks after the somewhat largely increased imports of 1909. Of the various varieties of coal imported, Japanese heads the list. Next comes that from North China and Manchuria, which holds its own,
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