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PRIVATE BUOYS.
Permission was granted to various industrial concerns to maintain private buoys and moorings to the number of 26, and the total revenue derived from that source was $1,210.
15.—Mercantile Marine Office.
38,773 seamen were shipped and 38,221 discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office and on board ships during the year, compared with 37,500 shipped and 34,122 discharged during 1927.
43 distressed seamen were received and admitted to Sailors' Home and Boarding Houses; of these 17 were sent Home, 1 to Aden, 1 to Bombay, 2 to Calcutta, 1 to Kobe, 1 to Melbourne, 2 to Shanghai, 6 to Singapore, 1 to Vancouver, 1 remained in Gaol, and 10 obtained employment.
$729.70 was expended by the Harbour Master on behalf of the Board of Trade in the relief of these distressed seamen.
16—Marine Surveyor's Office.
The total number of vessels surveyed for Passenger Certificates in 1928 was 134 vessels of 389,967 gross tons, 45 being surveyed at Kowloon Docks, 60 at Taikoo Dockyard, 5 at Cosmopolitan Docks, and 22 on Chinese slipways, the remainder being surveyed in the Harbour on bottom Certificates.
The nationalities and tonnage of these vessels were as follows:—
British, 109 vessels of 343,210 tons (gross) Chinese, 10 9,785 Norwegian, 12 26,921 Danish, 2 4,291 Dutch, 1 5,7603 vessels of 30,558 gross tons were granted Bottom Certificates at Hong Kong during the year, all were of British Nationality.
Emigration surveys were held on 56 British and 63 Foreign Steamships, as compared with 59 British and 78 Foreign Steamships in the previous year.