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Annexe A.
MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE.
Twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty (28,980) seamen were shipped and 28,157 discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office and on board ships during the year, compared with 27,731 shipped and 26,200 discharged during 1916.
Two hundred and fourteen (214) discharged seamen were received and admitted to Sailors' Home, etc.; of these, 5 were sent Home, 1 to Calcutta, 2 to Colombo, 1 to New York, 2 to Singapore, 2 to Suez, 1 to Sydney, 2 to Vancouver, 1 to Yokohama, 24 passengers to Canton, 10 to Colombo, 1 to Foochow, 9 to Shanghai, 5 to Singapore, 2 disappeared, 1 joined Chinese Customs, 1 taken in charge by American Consul, 1 died in hospital, and 143 obtained employment.
$4,993.09 was expended by the Harbour Master on behalf of the Board of Trade in the relief of these distressed seamen.
Annexe B.
MARINE SURVEYOR'S OFFICE.
The total number of vessels surveyed for Passenger Certificate and Bottom Inspection in 1917 was 141 vessels of 329,263 gross tons, 65 being surveyed at Kowloon Docks, 41 at Taikoo Dockyard, 8 at Cosmopolitan, 2 at Aberdeen Docks, and 12 on Chinese slipways; the remainder being surveyed in the harbour on bottom certificate previously granted at Hongkong or Shanghai.
The nationalities and tonnage of these vessels were as follows:-
... 108 vessels of 257,945 tons. British, 8 " 13,342 Norwegian, 10 " 19,490 Chinese, 1 " 1,847 Japanese,Emigration Surveys were held on 27 British and 74 Foreign Steamships, as compared with 46 British and 61 Foreign Steamships in the previous year.