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Annexe A.
MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE.
Twenty-one thousand six hundred and twenty-three (21,623) seamen were shipped and 19,247 discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office and on board ships during the year, compared with 28,980 shipped and 28,157 discharged during 1917.
Three hundred and eighty (380) discharged seamen were received and admitted to Sailors' Home and Boarding Houses; of these 2 were sent Home, 1 to Sydney, 3 to Vancouver, 1 passenger Home, 35 to Canton, 1 to Foochow, 2 to Shanghai, 1 died in hospital, 3 remained in Sailors' Home, and 331 obtained employment.
$11,891.25 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 1918 was 108 vessels of 263,851 gross tons, 40 being surveyed at Kowloon Docks, 28 at Taikoo Dockyard, 15 at Cosmopolitan Docks, and 8 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:
British, 66 vessels of 157,837 tons. Norwegian, 3 5,174 Chinese, 21 35,510 French, 1 vessel of 598 American, 1 523 Japanese, ... ... German, 22 27,777 Danish, 7 7,432 La ... ...Emigration Surveys were held on 16 British and 66 Foreign Steamships, as compared with 27 British and 74 Foreign Steamships in the previous year.