CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5] — Page 66

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

LOCAL GOOD S

Continued.

FISH:

About thirty piculs (about two tons) per day from Mirs Bay are now carried over Shatin Gap to

Kowloon at a rate of 35 cents a picul which is

really coolie hire per load. Assuming only

half is carried say a ton a day average for

this we would get about 310 tons a year

We could charge $2 per ton for a distance of

13 miles.

POULTRY & GENERAL GOODS from the Districts of

Sha U Chung and Tip Fook 50 loads daily now

charged at $6 per ton. This would be in a

20 by 310 tons

50

year of 310 days

From Sha Tau Kok, etc.,

100 pels by 310 days

17.

TON NILES

4,030.

11,505.

by

13 milos

23,707.

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