12,039 tons, or 0.3 per cent. These figures are not, however, reliable, there being no means of collecting accurate information, in the absence of any Customs Staff.
Emigration and Immigration.
One hundred and eleven thousand and fifty-eight (111,058) Emigrants left Hongkong for various places during the year 1910, (77,430 in 1909). Of these 79,851 were carried in British ships and 31,207 in Foreign ships. These figures show a large increase, compared with those for 1909, of 33,628 (or 43.4%), which is accounted for by the largely increased emigration to the Federated Malay States to provide labour for the Rubber Plantations.
Statement of Number of Emigrants to Straits Settlements 1906 to 1910 compared with Total Chinese Emigration 1906 to 1910.
No of Emigrants to Straits Settlements. Total No. of Emigrants. 1906 60,320 76,725 1907 83,048 105,967 1908 49,639 71,081 1909 48,016 77,430 1910 76,705 111,058One hundred and forty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-four (149,564) returning emigrants are reported to have been brought to Hongkong from the several places to which they had emigrated, either from this Colony or from Coast Ports, as against 144,821 in 1909. Of these 103,346 arrived in British ships, and 46,218 in Foreign ships.
(b.) INDUSTRIES.
(i.)--Under European Management.
Engineering and Shipbuilding.--This industry has improved during the year under review.
1910 1909 Taikoo Dockyard and Eng. Co., Ld. 8 vessels of 2,231 gross tons and 1,718 I.H.P. 10 vessels of 380 gross tons and 400 I.H.P. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ld. 7715
2,070 W. S. Bailey & Co. 4
121
200 3
1,554
58 Macdonald & Co. 3
169
160 Elderup and Schluter 11
317
150 17
146
200
1
19
1 Total 31 vessels of 3,553 gross tons and 4,298 I.H.P. 45 vessels of 2,138 gross tons and 1,410 I.H.P.