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compared with 1909, 30 more ships with a tonnage increased by 121,836 tons, entered 86 more times, and gave a collective tonnage greater by 316,609 tons.
Thus :-
Flag Steamers No. of Times entered Total Tonnage 1909 1910 1909 1910 1909 1910 British 360 331 2,054 2,124 3,854,571 4,041,557 Steamers...TRADE.
As pointed out in previous reports, the figures which used to appear under this heading were, as a whole, so inaccurate as to be in some cases, most misleading. They have therefore been omitted from this, as from my three previous annual reports. However, in certain items of the import trade, fairly accurate details are available, and, as to these, the following remarks may be of interest.
Coal.-1,115,120 tons were imported during the year. This quantity, compared with the imports for 1909, shows a decrease of 11,716 tons, or 1.04 per cent. This decrease is so small as to be negligible, but is explained by the dull tone of the market in the Colony throughout the year 1910, and the necessity of adjusting stocks after the somewhat largely increased imports of 1909. Of the various varieties of coal imported, Japanese heads the list. Next comes that from North China and Manchuria, which holds its own,
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compared with 1909, 30 more ships with a tonnage increased by 121,836 tons, entered 86 more times, and gave a collective tonnage greater by 316,609 tons.
Thus :-
Flag.
Steamers.
No. of Times entered.
Total Tonnage.
1909. 1910. 1909 1910. 1909. 1910.
360 2,054 2,124 3,854,571 | 4,041,557
British
!
Steamers... 7 Sailing,
331
5
5
7 17,693 17,663
German,
108
113
735
722
Steamers,
98
101
493
507
1,176,322 | 1,206,757 1,283,330 1,341,083
Japanese Sailing,
1
1
138
Norwegian,
43
34
212
223
227,341
236,334
Austrian,...
7
7
24
24
94,288
93,062
Chinese,
24
22
232
250
•
290,936
314.879
Corean,
1
796
+
Danish,
5
16
20
31,425
33,165
Dutch,.
17
16
105
108
207,190
214,737
French,
32
Italian, .. Portuguese,. Russian, Swedish,
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35
148
144
252,459
262,670
2
11
13 23,470
34,496
94
66
35,927
29,478
9
10
19,584
28,803
5
35
27
53,726
45,398
U. S. A.,
No Flag,
Total,.....
704
15
42
37
211,827
210,466
299
734 | 4,198 4,284 7,796,376 | 8,112,985
TRADE.
As pointed out in previous reports, the figures which used to appear under this heading were, as a whole, so inaccurate as to be in some cases, most misleading. They have therefore been omitted from this, as from my three previous annual reports. However, in certain items of the import trade, fairly accurate details are available, and, as to these, the following remarks may be of interest.
Coal.-1,115,120 tons were imported during the year. This quantity, compared with the imports for 1909, shows a decrease of 11,716 tons, or 104 per cent. This decrease is so small as to be negligible, but is explained by the dull tone of the market in the Colony throughout the year 1910, and the necessity of adjusting stocks after the somewhat largely increased imports of 1909. Of the various varieties of coal imported, Japanese heads the list. Next comes that from North China and Manchuria, which holds its own,
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