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10 The Passenger trade and the numbers of Emigrants departing from and arriving at this port are shown in Tables XIX to XXV.
11. Details of Bunker Coal and Oil shipped will be found in Table XXVI. The figures show a large increase in coal consumption and a decrease of five thousand tons of Oil Fuel.
12. The nationality of crews in British and Foreign ships entered and cleared is shown in Table VII.
13. During the year twenty ships were registered under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts, and sixteen Certificates of Registry cancelled. Two hundred and eleven documents were dealt with in connection with the Acts and the fees collected amounted to $2,168 as compared with $1,526 in 1930. Details are shown in Table XVII.
14. 40,384 seamen were engaged and 39,432 discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office and on board ships during the year.
15. Forty distressed seamen were received and admitted to the Sailors' Home and Boarding Houses. Of these seven were sent to England, two to Vancouver B.C., three to Bombay, nine to Calcutta, two to Singapore, one to Iloilo, one to Foochow, two to Shanghai, one to Canton, eleven obtained employment and one died in hospital.
16. $956.14 was expended on behalf of the Board of Trade in the relief of these distressed seamen.
17. A statement of the surveys and examinations carried out by the Government Marine Surveyor and his staff is set out in Table XXVII. The vessels surveyed totalled 375,760 tons gross as compared with 366,310 tons during 1930.
18. Of the one hundred and twenty-seven Hong Kong Passenger Certificates issued during 1931, ninety-nine were issued to British ships and twenty-eight to Foreign ships.
19. The Passenger Certificates were issued for the following trades:-
Class 1A Foreign Going
Class 1 Foreign Going (Coasting and Far Eastern trade)
Class III River Trade
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20. Twenty-two vessels totalling 165,031 tons gross were surveyed and granted Bottom Certificates during the year.
21. Seven hundred and forty-three cases were heard in the Marine Magistrate's Court during 1931 as compared with seven hundred and ninety-two in 1930.