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EXPORTS.
Export show an increase of 140,869 tons.
Transit Cargo.-An increase of 158,313 tons is shewn under this head.
Emigration and Immigration.
One hundred and seventeen thousand six hundred and fifty-three (117,653) emigrants left Hongkong for various places during the year 1916, (68,275) in 1915. Of these, 86,739 were carried in British ships, and 30,914 in foreign ships.
Seventy-two thousand four hundred and five (72,405) returning emigrants were 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 109,753 in 1915. Of these, 45,623 arrived in British ships and 26,782 in foreign ships.
Statement of Number of Emigrants to Straits Settlements, 1909 to 1916, compared with Total Chinese Emigration.
No. of Emigrants to Straits Settlements. Total No. of Emigrants. 1909, 48,016 77,430 1910, 76,705 111,058 1911, 100,906 135,565 1912, 84,024 122,657 1913, 102,353 142,759 1914, 44,974 76,296 1915, 41,278 68,275 1916, 82,797 117,653(b.)-INDUSTRIES.
(i.)-Under European Management.
Engineering and Shipbuilding.--The figures are as follows for the years 1915 and 1916:-
1915 1916 Taikoo Dockyard and Eng. Co., Ld...... 3 vessels of 2,780 gross tons and 1,400 I.H.P. Macdonald & Co................. 1 vessel of 23 gross tons and 80 I.H.P. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ld., 5 vessels of 2,488 gross tons and 33 I.H.P. Taikoo Dockyard and Eng. Co., Ld.,... 6 vessels of 8,814 gross tons and 6,800 I.H.P. Kwong Fook Cheong, 3 vessels of 11 gross tons Total, 8 vessels of 5,268 gross tons and 1,433 I.H.P. Kwong Hip Lung Co., Ld., 4 vessels of 641 gross tons and 521 I.H.P. Kwong Sing Loong, 1 vessel of 36 gross tons and 45 I.H.P. W. S. Bailey & Co., 7 vessels of 449 gross tons and 620 I.H.P. Hop On.... 2 vessels of 43 gross tons and 56 I.H.P. Kwong Lee, 1 vessel of 16 gross tons and 24 I.H.P. Kwong Man Sang, 2 vessels of 136 gross tons Tung Shing, 3 vessels of 178 gross tons and 92 I.H.P. Kwong Hop Loong, 2 vessels of 32 gross tons and 44 I.H.P. Ah King, 3 vessels of 56 gross tons and 54 I.H.P. Sum Kee; 1 vessel of 28 gross tons and 50 I.H.P. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ld., 2 vessels of 54 gross tons Total, 54 vessels of 10,902 gross tons and 9,377 I.H.P.