COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL.
being used for civil and military works of all descriptions and by local engineers, architects, and contractors, and is extensively exported to Japan, Manila, Straits Settlements, Australia, and Pacific Coast Ports. The works were originally situated at Macao, but a large extension has now been made in the Colony and the output more than doubled. The price per barrel of 375 lbs. net weight is from $4.00 to $4.50 (silver). Bricks and pipes are largely used in the Colony and exported.
A cotton mill, which so far, however, has hardly realised expectations.
Engineering and shipbuilding firms to the number of eight, which between them constructed 116 vessels of various descriptions (principally steam vessels) of an aggregate tonnage of 5,965 tons.
The principal of these firms is the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., which, besides constructing 21 vessels, docked 330 vessels of an average of 2,336 tons each during 1899, the largest vessel docked being H.M.S. Powerful. This firm employed a daily average of 4,510 workmen, and spent $1,225,280 in wages.
The boat building industry is also a very large one, and is carried on by numerous Chinese yards, boats being largely exported from here.
A paper factory. The paper made is for Chinese use and is largely exported to China.
The manufacture of preserved ginger, which was formerly confined to Canton, has assumed large dimensions in the Colony, the principal market being Great Britain. Some large factories have removed from Canton to this Colony.
There are three factories, on a very small scale, for the manufacture of Chinese fireworks. This is a large industry in Canton and neighbourhood, which the absence here of a duty on saltpetre and sulphur ought soon to attract to this Colony. Soy is another article the manufacture of which has been attracted to this Colony. There are five soap factories, the latest addition being under the management of a German firm; while for the manufacture of vermilion, which is exported to Bombay, Japan, and North China, there are seven small factories. With the acquisition of the New Territory, which affords room for expansion, manufactures in this Colony are likely to increase to a considerable extent in the near future.
Salt is manufactured at four places in the New Territory, the yearly output being about 4,466 tons, worth some $16,000, which in part supplies the local demands of the population, the fishing junks which keep the fish they catch while at sea in brine, and the various fishing stations where fish is salted and dried. A much larger quantity is, however, imported at certain places for the use of the fleets of fishing junks. The imported salt is
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being used for civil and military works of all descriptions and by local engineers, architects, and contractors, and is extensively exported to Japan, Manila, Straits Settlements, Australia, and Pacific Coast Ports. The works were originally situated at Macao, but a large extension has now been made in the Colony and the output more than doubled. The price per barrel of 375 lbs. net weight is from $4.00 to $450 (silver). Bricks and pipes are largely used in the Colony and exported.
A cotton mill, which so far, however, has hardly realised expectations.
Engineering and shipbuilding firius to the number of eight, which between them constructed 116 vessels of various descrip- tions (principally steam vessels) of an aggregate tonnage of 5,9651 tons.
The principal of these firms is the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., which, besides constructing 21 vessels, docked 330 vessels of an average of 2,336 tons each during 1899, the largest vessel docked being H.M.S. Powerful. This firm employed a daily average of 4,510 workmen, and spent $1,225,280 in wages.
The boat building industry is also a very large one, and is carried on by numerous Chinese yards, boats being largely exported from here.
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A paper factory. The paper made is for Chinese use and is largely exported to China.
The manufacture of preserved ginger, which was formerly confined to Canton, has assumed large dimensions in the Colony, the principal market being Great Britain. Some large factories have removed from Canton to this Colony.
There are three factories, on a very small scale, for the manu- facture of Chinese fireworks. This is a large industry in Canton and neighbourhood, which the absence here of a duty on saltpetre and sulphur ought soon to attract to this Colony. Soy is another article the manufacture of which has been attracted to this Colony. There are five soap factories, the latest addition being under the management of a German firm; while for the manufacture of vermilion, which is exported to Bombay, Japan, and North China, there are seven small factories. With the acquisition of the New Territory, which affords room for ex- pansion, manufactures in this Colony are likely to increase to a considerable extent in the near future.
Salt is manufactured at four places in the New Territory, the yearly output being about 4,466 tons, worth some $16,000, which in part supplies the local demands of the population, the fishing junks which keep the fish they catch while at sea in brine, and the various fishing stations where tish is salted and dried. A much larger quantity is, however, imported at certain places for the use of the fleets of fishing junks. The imported salt is
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