States (24·1 per cent. in numbers and 22·2 per cent. in tonnage), Danish (20 per cent. in numbers and 11·1 per cent. in tonnage), French shipping remains constant in numbers but decreases by 25·1 per cent. in tonnage, Swedish, while increasing by 20 per cent. in numbers, declines by 38·9 per cent. in tonnage, and Italian shipping disappears altogether.
The average tonnage of Foreign ships entering has decreased to 1,977.
In the Junk Trade, it will be noticed that there is shown the enormous increase of 3,552 vessels of 355,349 tons, or 54·2 per cent. in numbers and 46·1 per cent. in tonnage. It is obvious that no such phenomenal alteration can have taken place in the trade since the outbreak of war, but the explanation is simple. Since war commenced, no vessel can enter or leave the harbour without reporting herself, by reason of the Examination service, so that, of the Junks trading with Victoria Harbour, which means about 90 per cent. of those trading with the Colony, we are now able to account for all, which was very obviously not the case before.
The actual numbers of individual Ocean-going vessels of European construction entering during 1914 was 825, of which 385 were British and 440 were Foreign. In 1913 the corresponding figures were 791, 361 British and 430 Foreign.
These 825 ships measured 2,155,018 tons. They entered 4,226 times, and gave a collective tonnage of 8,468,609 tons. Thus, 34 more ships entered 221 less times, and gave a collective tonnage reduced by 405,197 tons, an average of 1,833·4 tons per entry.
Flag Steamers No. of Times entered Total Tonnage 1913 1914 1913 1914 1913 1914 British Sailing,Steamers,.. 359 383 2 2 740 2,099 2,130 4,209,950 4,168,538 Japanese, 164 188 3 5 419 7,249 826 1,907,307 2,114,494 German, 106 96 597 350 1,107,453 691,852 Norwegian, 29 29 189 205 182,633 218,721 Austrian,.. 12 11 51 30 168,063 98,693 Chinese, 26 23 233 224 272,166 271,727 Danish, 6 8 13 16 34,433 46,906 Dutch,. 15 19 128 124 242,928 252,700 French, 22 22 155 154 284,628 248,280 Italian, 2 7 18,312 Portuguese,. 5 7 114 Russian, 21 15 34 Swedish, 7 8 12 32,968 U.S.A. { Steamers,.. 15 13 22 71 52,009 54,721 { Sailing,... 1 1 20 86,021 Total, 791 825 4,447 4,226 8,873,806 8,468,609 24,093 236,624 1,043