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One hundred and thirty-six thousand and twenty (136,020) returning emigrants were reported to have been brought to Hong Kong from the several places to which they had emigrated either from this Colony or from Coast Ports, as against 74,109 in 1918. Of these, 92,385 arrived in British ships, and 43,635 in Foreign ships.
Statement of Number of Emigrants to Straits Settlements, 1910 to 1919, compared with Total Chinese Emigration.
No. of Emigrants to Straits Settlements. Total No. of Emigrants. 1910... 76,705 100,906 1911.... 111,058 135,565 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 1917. 63,292 96,298 1918,. 8,019 43,830 1919,... 11,638 59,969(b.)-INDUSTRIES.
(i.)-Under European Management.
Engineering and Shipbuilding.-The figures are as follows for the years 1918 and 1919:-
1918 1919 Taikoo Dockyard and Eng. Co., Ld., 2 vessels of 3,456 gross tons and 1,700 I.H.P. 6 vessels of 22,311 gross tons and 14,450 I.H.P. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld., 6 9 W. S. Bailey & Co., 6 8 Kwong Tuck Cheong, 2 2 Lau Sum Kee,.. 1 5,489 150 1,723 1,030 17,415 700 948 5,810 99 21 200 11 900 7 13,975 1,750 800 31 480 Total,.. 17 vessels of 11,848 gross tons and 9,090 I.H.P. 25 vessels of 41,374 gross tons and 30,975 I.H.P.Sugar Refineries.-1919 was a good year. Demand from China was consistent, at steadily advancing prices, with the exception of a period of one to two months during the summer, when heavy speculation destroyed all confidence in the market. During the latter part of the year the incidence of the Japanese boycott threw an unusually heavy demand on all other sources of supply, thus adding a stimulus to an already brisk demand for Hongkong Refineds. As a matter of interest, prices of raw sugar in Java rose from f. 13 in January to f. 42 at the end of December.