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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.
37,500 seamen were shipped and 34,122 discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office and on board ships during the year, compared with 32,982 shipped and 30,929 discharged during 1926.
62 distressed seamen were received and admitted to Sailors' Home and Boarding Houses; of these 10 were sent Home, 1 to Melbourne, 4 to Shanghai, 4 to Singapore, 2 to Vancouver, 1 remained in Hospital, and 40 obtained employment.
$846.07 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 1927 was 128 vessels of 362,296 gross tons, 39 being surveyed at Kowloon Docks, 61 at Taikoo Dockyard, 6 at Cosmopolitan Docks, 1 at Aberdeen Dock and 20 on Chinese slipways, the remainder being surveyed in the Harbour on bottom Certificates.
The nationalities and tonnage of these vessels were as follows:-
British, 108 vessels of 328,077 tons (gross) Chinese, 9 7,287 Norwegian, 9 21,140 Danish, "" 2 5,7928 vessels of 68,801 gross tons were granted Bottom Certificates at Hong Kong during the year, all were of British Nationality.
Emigration surveys were held on 59 British and 78 Foreign Steamships, as compared with 60 British and 70 Foreign Steamships in the previous year.
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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.
37,500 seamen were shipped and 34,122 discharged at the Mercantile Marine Office and on board ships during the year, com- pared with 32,982 shipped and 30,929 discharged during 1926.
62 distressed seamen were received and admitted to Sailors' Home and Boarding Houses; of these 10 were sent Home, 1 to Melbourne, 4 to Shanghai, 4 to Singapore, 2 to Vancouver, 1 remain- ed in Hospital, and 40 obtained employment.
$846.07 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 1927 was 128 vessels of 362,296 gross tons, 39 being surveyed at Kowloon Docks, 61 at Taikoo Dockyard, 6 at Cosmopolitan Docks, 1 at Aberdeen Dock and 20 on Chinese slipways, the remainder being surveyed in the Harbour on bottom Certificates.
The nationalities and tonnage of these vessels were as follows:-
108 vessels of 328,077 tons (gross)
British,
Chinese,
9
7,287
Norwegian, Danish,
9
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21,140
""
2
5,792
#
27
8 vessels of 68,801 gross tons were granted Bottom Certifi- cates at Hong Kong during the year, all were of British Nationality.
Emigration surveys were held on 59 British and 78 Foreign Steamships, as compared with 60 British and 70 Foreign Steamships in the previous year.
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