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24. The following Table gives approximate total figures for the principal catches during the year :-
Catch 1937 1938 Price per picul 1937 1938 Ma Yau 500 piculs 1,000 $20.00 $17.50 Herring 80 piculs 2,000 $15.00 $13.00 Wong Fa Shrimps 14,000 14,750 $14.00 $10.50 75 800 $7.00 $10.00 2,900J
The catches of herring and Wong Fa were particularly good, but prices were rather lower than in 1937.
25. All of the stalls in the market did fairly good business.
26. The most successful local industry was salt, the output increasing from 17,200 piculs in 1937 to 25,000 piculs in 1938, the price also improving.
LAMMA ISLAND.
27. A bad year for the poultry and egg business, disease causing considerable losses among the chickens.
Cattle did fairly well and there was some improvement in pig breeding, also in fishing and the shrimp trade.
28. CHEUNG CHAU.
A poor year compared with 1937. Fishing which is the key industry of Cheung Chau did badly; few junks ventured down from Kwangtung and local catches were poor. The salt fish and shrimp trades, however, did moderate business.
29. The market area was generally crowded but business was dull.
30. Small outbreaks of fire occurred at Tung Wan and Tai Choi Yuen, but no serious damage was done. By the end of the year a second fire engine had been allotted to Cheung Chau and both were in good order.
TSUN WAN.
31. A continuing poor level of health as the result of malaria spoiled a good year both for business and general development.
The new market did good business; in particular the rice shops increased by about 70% thanks to the influx of workmen engaged both on civil and military schemes. By the end of the year three blocks containing 27 houses and/or shops had been put up and further blocks were under construction.
32. Work on the Asiatic Petroleum Company's reclamation continued, while the Hong Kong Brewery at Sham Tseng and the Hume Pipe Company had quite good years.
Political conditions, which had an adverse effect on the business of the Texaco, brought new businesses to the district, namely the Mayar Silk Factory, Lun Sang water bottle factory and the South China Iron Works.
33. Pineapples were even worse than in 1937, but the beancurd, soy, and especially the firewood trades, did well.
H. J. CRUTTWELL,
District Officer, South.
30 March, 1939.
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24. The following Table gives approximate total figures for the principal catches during the year :-
Price per picul.
Ma Yau
Herring
Wong Fa Shrimps
Catch.
1937.
1938.
1937. 1938.
500 piculs. 1,000
80 piculs.
$20 00
$17.50
2,000
22
$15.00 $13.00
.14,000
14,750
$14.00
$10.50
75
800
2,900
$ 7.00 $10.00
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The catches of herring and Wong Fa were particularly good, but prices were rather lower than in 1937.
25. All of the stalls in the market did fairly good business.
26.
The most successful local industry was salt, the output increasing from 17,200 piculs in 1937 to 25,000 piculs in 1938, the price also improving.
LAMMA ISLAND.
27. A bad year for the poultry and egg business, disease causing considerable losses among the chickens.
Cattle did fairly well and there was some improvement in pig breeding, also in fishing and the shrimp trade.
28.
CHEUNG CHAU.
A poor year compared with 1937. Fishing which is the key industry of Cheung Chau did badly few junks ventured down from Kwangtung and local catches were poor. The salt fish and shrimp trades, however, did moderate
business.
29. The market area was generally crowded but business was dull.
30. Smail outbreaks of fire occurred at Tung Wan and Tai Choi Yuen, but no serious damage was done. By the end of the year a second fire engine had been allotted to Cheung Chau and both were in good order.
TSUN WAN.
31. A continuing poor level of health as the result of malaria spoiled a good year both for business and general development.
The new market did good business in particular the rice shops increased by about 70% thanks to the influx of workmen engaged both on civil and military schemes. By the end of the year three blocks containing 27 houses and/or shops had been put up and further blocks were under construction.
32. Work on the Asiatic Petroleum Company's reclamation continued, while the Hong Kong Brewery at Sham Tseng and the Hume Pipe Company had quite good years.
Political conditions, which had an adverse effect on the business of the Texaco, brought new businesses to the district, namely the Mayar Silk Factory, Lun Sang water bottle factory and the South China Iron Works.
33. Pineapples were even worse than in 1937, but the beancurd, soy, and especially the firewood trades, did well.
H. J. CRUTTWELL,
District Officer, South.
30 March, 1939.
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