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2. The total import trade of the port for 1900 amounted to 23,205 vessels, of 8,626,614 tons, carrying 6,342,138 tons of cargo, of which 4,198,389 tons were discharged at Hongkong. This does not include the local junk trade. The nett increase in imports thus amounted to 422,717 tons.
3. In exports there was a decrease of 70,666 tons.
4. The chief articles of import are coal, rice, sugar, and flour. Tea, kerosine oil, rice and paddy, and general cargo are the principal exports.
5. There has been a great increase in the amount of sugar imported, amounting to no less than 76.6 per cent. Similarly the import of timber, flour, coal, and hemp shows increases of 66.1 per cent., 65.7 per cent., and 60.7 per cent. respectively. The trade in bulk oil is almost at a standstill as compared with last year; but case oil shows a decrease of 10,609 tons. The rice trade, which reached its culminating point last year, has diminished by 98,801 tons, and may now be said to be at its normal condition.
(b.) Mines, Manufactures, and Fisheries.
6. There are no mines in the Colony; but there are granite quarries situated at Shaukiwán and Kowloon, the output of which during the year under review was valued at $45,000 and $80,000 respectively.
7. The industries of the Colony include dock work, launch building, boat building, cement manufacture, paper making, sugar refining, brick and tile making, rope making, iron foundries, boiler making, glass manufacture, vermilion manufacture, and opium boiling. One hundred steam launches and other vessels, with a total burden of 3,755 tons, were built in the Colony during the year. The dock accommodation is to be largely increased in the near future.
8. The number of ships and boats employed in fishery during the year may be roughly estimated at 7,000; but it is impossible to ascertain the description and the quantity of fish caught, or the actual value of the fishing trade.
9. Two thousand nine hundred and three (2,903) rowing boats, 2,030 cargo boats and lighters, and 92 steam launches were licensed to ply for hire within the waters of the Colony during the year.
(c.) Agricultural Industries and Botanical Stations.
10. It is estimated that in 1900 the acreage of cultivated land in the island of Hongkong was 406 acres; in Kowloon 404 acres; and in the New Territory, including the islands, about 90,000 acres. Beyond the cultivation of rice and sugar, and of vegetable gardens, there is practically no agricultural industry in
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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
2. The total import trade of the port for 1900 amounted to 23,205 vessels, of 8,626,614 tons, carrying 6,342,138 tons of cargo, of which 4,198,389 tons were discharged at Hongkong. This does not include the local junk trade. The nett increase in imports thus amounted to 422,717 tons.
3. In exports there was a decrease of 70,666 tons.
4. The chief articles of import are coal, rice, sugar, and flour. Tea, kerosine oil, rice and paddy, and general cargo are the principal exports.
5. There has been a great increase in the amount of sugar imported, amounting to no less than 76.6 per cent. Similarly the import of timber, flour, coal, and hemp shows increases of 66.1 per cent., 65.7 per cent., and 60.7 per cent. respectively. The trade in bulk oil is almost at a standstill as compared with last year; but case oil shows a decrease of 10,609 tons. The rice trade, which reached its culminating point last year, has diminished by 98,801 tons, and may now be said to be at its normal condition.
(b.) Mines, Manufactures, and Fisheries.
6. There are no mines in the Colony; but there are granite quarries situated at Shaukiwán and Kowloon, the output of which during the year under review was valued at $45,000 and $80,000 respectively..
7. The industries of the Colony include dock work, launch building, boat building, cement manufacture, paper making, sugar refining, brick and tile maling, rope making, iron found- ries, boiler making, glass manufacture, vermilion manufacture, and opium boiling. One hundred steam launches and other vessels, with a total burden of 3,755 tons, were built in the Colony during the year. The dock accommodation is to be largely increased in the near future.
8. The number of ships and boats employed in fishery during the year may be roughly estimated at 7,000; but it is impossible to ascertain the description and the quantity of fish caught, or the actual value of the fishing trade.
9. Two thousand nine hundred and three (2,903) rowing boats, 2,030 cargo boats and lighters, and 92 steam launches were licensed to ply for hire within the waters of the Colony during the year.
(c.) Agricultural Industries and Botanical Stations.
10. It is estimated that in 1900 the acreage of cultivated land in the island of Hongkong was 406 acres; in Kowloon 404 acres ; and in the New Territory, including the islands, about 90,000 acres. Beyond the cultivation of rice and sugar, and of vege- table gardens, there is practically no agricultural industry in
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