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REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
The gross revenue for the year, including $1,675.00 from Private Buoys, was $79,889.00. The loss of revenue due to (ii) above amounted to $120, and the expenditure for upkeep was $19,430.64. In addition to this, $16,779.90 was expended in providing chain for new moorings, $4,300.00 for two reversible A Class mooring buoys, and $98,599.82 in connection with the re-conversion scheme of Harbour moorings.
PRIVATE BUOYS.
Permission was granted for the maintenance of private buoys and moorings to the number of 37, and the total revenue derived from that source was $1,675.00.
15.—Mercantile Marine Office.
37,764 seamen were shipped and 36,802 discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office and on board ships during the year, compared with 36,657 shipped and 34,604 discharged during 1929.
43 distressed seamen were received and admitted to Sailors' Home and Boarding Houses; of these, 22 were sent to England, 1 to Aden, 4 to Calcutta, 1 to Colombo, 2 to Shanghai, 1 remained in Boarding House, and 12 obtained employment.
$1,196.80 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.
PASSENGER CERTIFICATES.
125 vessels of 366,310 tons, gross, were surveyed for Passenger Certificates during the year, as compared with 126 vessels of 363,960 tons, gross, in 1929; 41 being surveyed at Kowloon Docks, 61 at Taikoo Dockyard, 7 at Cosmopolitan Docks, 15 at Chinese Slipways, and one on a Bottom Certificate issued by the Board of Trade.
The following is a comparison of tonnages and nationalities of the various vessels granted Hong Kong Passenger Certificates during 1930:
British, 103 vessels of 324,730 tons (gross) Norwegian, 10 23,567 Chinese, 7 6,638 Danish, 5 11,375The following is a comparison of the numbers of certificates issued for the various passenger trades during the year:
Class IA Foreign Going ... ... 10 Class I Foreign Going (Coasting and Far Eastern Trade) ... 81 Class III River Trade ... ... 34